"My silence is not weakness but the beginning of my revenge."
I sat there, staring with disbelieving eyes at the fallen bodies of my parents.
Blood pooled around me like a lake, and all I could feel were the tears streaming down my bloody face.
I heard rattling and the crunching of leaves behind me, but I was too shocked and scared to move. Suddenly, I heard a loud gasp, followed by numerous others.
"What have you done?" someone whispered in disbelief.
I was confused about who she was talking to, but my face wouldn't contort into a look of confusion. It was expressionless at the moment.
"You murderer!" someone yelled before I felt a force push me to the side. However, I was still unable to move a muscle to protect myself from hitting the ground.
I watched as people gathered around my parents' bodies, sobbing and wailing. Some of them even howled sadly into the night sky.
It was understandable—their reactions, that is. Their alpha and luna were dead. My parents were dead.
"You brat." I felt a hand connect with my cheek. I looked up to find it was none other than Uncle Adam, my father's best friend and beta.
"I knew you would do something like this one day. I knew it!" he yelled, and again, I was too confused and shocked to utter a word.
"What have they ever done to you?" a voice I recognized as Valerie, my best friend, whispered with a sob.
What the hell were they saying? Couldn't they see what really happened?
I looked at Valerie with teary eyes.
"I didn't do anything," I said, my voice cracking at the end.
"Don't lie!" Uncle Adam yelled as he backhanded me. The impact knocked me back to reality, not completely, but enough to be aware of what they were accusing me of.
"I didn't do anything," I repeated weakly. "I didn't kill them."
Why would I kill my own parents? Why would anyone do that?
"Shut up!" he yelled angrily. "Take her to the cells until I decide what to do with her," he ordered.
I looked at him in disbelief. The cells?
"Why would you take me to the cells? I didn't do anything!" I yelled as two well-built pack members took hold of my arms and brought me to my feet roughly.
Uncle Adam didn't bat an eyelash as I continued screaming and yelling for them to let me go. I called for Valerie, but she too ignored my pleas.
My eyes searched for Hugh, my other best friend, but he wasn't there. That didn't stop my loud pleas from filling the night air. But no one listened. No one cared. They didn't notice how broken I was, how badly I needed a shoulder to cry on and someone to save me from my fears, from this nightmare.
I was shunned and became the least favorite pack member. No, I wasn't even worth that ranking.
That was the night I lost my parents, family, and friends. That was the night that a new April was born. An April that would avenge her parents' deaths, no matter what or how long it took.
And that was the night that April met Rose.