Chapter 3

"Home, I forgot my phone, and I need to tell Lily not to get out of the house because of the rogue," I said, but Peter put a hand on my shoulder.der "I already need to get something from the house. I’ll stop by yours, tell Lily, and get you your phone. Where did you put it?" "On the counter in the ki, thanks," he nodded and was out the door in a second. I knew it wouldn’t take long, considering he was probably running at wolf speed, and it was dark, so no one would see him. I noticed Ethan was quiet throughout the whole conversation, which was unlike him. "What’s wrong?" I asked him, and he had been my best friend for a long time. We practically grew up together. "Nothing, just thinking," he admitted and then forced a smile. "U,m Keith," Peter came into the room with my phone in one hand and a piece of paper in the other. "We have a problem." Immediately, y'all, we were all on high alert, our thoughts instantly going to the rogues. "Not that kind of problem," he said, "It’s your sist. Er," My heart dropped. Was she okay? I noticed Ethan was at my side. "What’s wrong?" he asked, worry clear on his face, which confused me a bit. "Read this," he shoved a paper in front of me, and I noticed Lily’s handwriting almost instantly., I read it out loud. "It says ’Leaving for good. I can tell when I’m not wanted. Don’t worry, none of you will ever see my face again. And rest assured that means I’m leaving the pack as well. Bye! Lily’" I lowered the paper and looked at the guys. They were all shocked, as I was, especially Ethan. "No way she left the pack," Alan said. "She can’t just leave--just like that." Lily, s, can you hear me? I said using the mind link, and I could hear the others call to her, too. "lly left," I said as it finally hit me. "My sister’s gone." I had to sit down. "It’s okay, calm down," I heard Alan say, but it wasn’t to me. I looked up and saw Ethan shaking, and I knew he had to be extremely pissed. "Her phone," I suddenly jumped up and took my phone from Peter and dialed her number. She answered after a few rings. "Hello," she said. I put it on speaker so the guys could hear. "Lily, where the hell are you?" I asked angrily. She sighed "That’s none of your business I explained everything I needed to explain in the note. You shouldn’t have called" "What the hell do you mean? Lily, come back!" "no" "NOW," I yelled, " She yelled, and I shut u. Lily never yelled, even when people yelled at he; she was always ca. "I AM TIRED OF THIS." I looked at the guys to see them just as shocked as I was. I heard her take a deep breath, I’m tired of this," she whispered.d "Why should I go back to a pack that hates me and doesn’t want me there? To people who don’t care about me. "I’ve stayed with you guys for so long and never answered you when you yelled or made fun of me. I stayed because I thought that maybe you guys care deep down. No matter what happened, I always thought you were family and made excuses for you. All of you. Because you were my pack, and packs have each other's backs. But today I realized that even though I would do anything for you guys, you wouldn’t do the same. I’m just a waste of air for you guys." "Lily, I--" , "No, don’t say anything, Keith. I’m throwing away my phone, so don’t bother calling. And tell the others that I said I love you all. Even though you don’t. You were my family." "Lily, please." "Bye, Keith," and just like that, the line went dead, and everyone was silent. My vision was blurry as tears came down my cheek. All the guys just stared at the phone in disbelief, with guilt written on their faces. Ethan was on the ground with his head in his hands, whispering ’no’ over and over again. "Since when do you care about Lily?" I asked angrily, "You’re the one who gave her hell about everything. All of you did", I yelled. Ethan’s eyes were pitch black now... "Shut,y you're no better." he stood up and walked towards me. "It’s all your fault she left after the humiliation in the parking lot of the school," I screamed. I never saw you helping her, er," He growled, and I didn’t answer as a thousand memories came back to me. "It’s all of us," said, "We treated her like shit. It’s all our fault," I looked at the guys and saw their guilty expressions. I never intended to hurt Lily, but I just got carried away. Trying to be popular. That night we had a pack meeting about the rogues that were sighted near our territory,y anI I couldn’t help but glance at the empty seat where Lily used to sit. I saw everyone glance at it, especially Ethan, who seemed angrier by the second. I started thinking that maybe Lily didn’t lie, but I shook the thought away because Ethan would never reject his mate, even for popularity. No one would do that.t I just glared the whole meeting and didn’t say a word, eventually Alan came up to me. "Come on, calm down," he said sadly. "We’ve all been jerks when she comes back, we’ll just be nicer. Thimr," I looked at him with a ’seriously?’ look. SHE SHE’S NOT COMING BACK", I yelled, a nd the whole room heard. "I’m outtahere".I got up and went to my car.