And Then There Were Four

"Can I help you?" I said flatly as I opened my soda and proceeded to drink from it. I only had ten minutes until my next class, and the last thing I wanted to do was entertain her.This is property © NôvelDrama.Org.

With long blonde hair and makeup plastered onto her face, she was the spitting image of Barbie, simply missing her Malibu beach doll house. She may have been dating my brother and had been for years, but I knew that was only because she suckered him in. The girl was a nobody, and then over the summer in seventh grade, she blossomed or did something because she came back to school in eighth grade with boobs, a tiny waist, and all sorts of other enhancements.

Then her attention was on my brother.

She stared at me for a moment, crossing her arms over her shoulders as she looked at her perfectly manicured nails. "I just wanted to remind you not to be an embarrassment this weekend. It may be your birthday too, but it's about Lux and I. We will be announced as the New Luna and Alpha of the pack."

Laughter erupted from my throat as I looked over at Melissa, who was laughing her ass off, too. I had to give it to Ashley, she was pretty damn confident and yet didn't realize how ridiculous she sounded.

"You do realize that's not how that works, right? Lux has to go into training for a year without you because you're not allowed to go and even if he didn't have to do that, my parents aren't stepping down anytime soon. He could be in his thirties before he actually becomes the Alpha and I don't even know why you think you're going to be Luna. You're not even his mate."

"You don't know that!" she snapped, stomping her foot on the ground. "I am his!"

Her frustration was entertaining, and as I looked at her friends, I could see how confused they were over what I said. "Y'all didn't actually believe she was going to be Luna, did you? My brother can barely stand to be around her anymore."

I couldn't quite understand why she was delusional enough to think she was going to be the woman he spent his life with.

My brother and I fought like cats and

dogs, but I knew my brother well enough to know he would never spend his life with a woman like Ashley. He wanted someone who would support and challenge him at times. Not some idiot who thought herself a pampered princess.

Gasping with a faint heart expression, she stared at me with wide eyes. "How dare you speak to me like that? You have no right. My position with Lux gives me authority over you"

"I'm going to stop you right there," I sighed with a smile as I cut her off mid-speech. You have no authority over me, and you need to learn that very quickly. If you can't see how uninterested my brother has been in you lately, that's your problem. I don't blame him for sleeping with you. Why go searching for

I

something when you can easily pick up the phone and have it delivered..."

A look of utter shock and disbelief crossed her face as I pushed past her with Melissa. She was as speechless as the girls with her, but as I continued walking, she let out a scream of anger. "You will regret this!"

I didn't bother to turn around and

look at her. Instead, I waved my hand in the air before giving her the middle finger as I kept walking away. "Whatever you have to tell yourself to make yourself feel better, Ashley. Keep up the good work. Maybe being easy will pay off for you someday."

Melissa grabbed my arm, laughing as we continued walking down the hall, leaving Ashley behind us to stew over my words of wisdom. I didn't care if she cried and complained to anyone or even plotted against me. She wasn't my problem, and if she pissed me off enough, she would simply meet a side of me that would haunt her dreams for the rest of her life.