Owned By Her Triplet Bullies
Chapter 124

Hailey's POV

Flashback to sixteen years ago.

I squatted on the floor tracing the muddy floor with a wooden stick. I glanced around and the children were busy running and playing around. They were squealing and laughing playfully but for me, I was far from being happy. I didn't have any friends to run around and play with. I was a loner in school. It has been like this since I arrived months ago.

"There she is. Mother, look she's over there," a girl in my class said. I immediately recognized her voice. I sprang up to my feet ready to run away but someone held onto my backpack stopping me from moving any further.

"Where do you think you are running off to?" the woman asked.

"I wasn't running. I was only trying to stretch my legs," I replied.

"She's lying. She was trying to run away because she saw us coming towards her," the girl responded pointing her fingers accusingly at me.

"Why are you holding onto my backpack? Is there something you want to say to me?" I inquired with a straight face.

"You little brat. What did you do to my child?" the woman spat.

"Your child? Who's your child? I've never met you nor your child," I replied sounding ignorant.

"Trying to play smart huh? I was told you would do that. Why did you tell the other children that my daughter stinks? You also placed cockroaches on her desk," she said, placing her arm on the girl's shoulder. I glanced around. The other children were starting to gather around and surround us. Running away right now was not an option else I would definitely get caught. I turned my attention back to the angry-looking duo.

"So, she's your daughter?" I asked, acting like I didn't know. The woman glared at me. Most kids my age would tremble at her harsh glare but I was no normal kid. I was only eight years old but I had been in this type of situation more than I could count. It didn't faze me anymore.

"If she's really your daughter, then she would have told you why I did what I did. It's because she's a bully and she started it," I muttered. The woman scoffed.

"You rude little brat! Who do you think you are calling a bully?" she retorted furiously.

"What do you call someone who keeps cockroaches in a kids backpack and lie to others about her? A mean bully, that's what she is," I responded. "W..what?" the woman stuttered.

"She should be lucky I only placed a cockroach on her table. I didn't even do half of what she did to me," I said.

"Who is the mother of this little wench, she needs to be taught a lesson," the woman said.

"You didn't know. She has no mummy. Her mummy died," the girl said to her mother. I clutched the muddy stick tightly in my arms, anger visible in my expression. Some of the students chortled. I could feel tears brimming in the corner of my eyes. I never did anything wrong but why does this always happen to me? I get accused of something that wasn't my fault because I was defending myself. All because I didn't have a mother.

"I never did anything wrong, I was only defending myself! You should be scolding your daughter instead of me," I muttered furiously, throwing the muddy stick on her white dress. She gasped looking down at her ruined dress. To say I was satisfied with her appearance was an understatement. I was glad.

"You ill-mannered little brat!" she shrieked, raising her hand to slap me. I closed my eyes expecting the pain from her slap but it never came. I slowly opened my eyes to be met with the woman's hands being held tightly by none other than the Luna. The woman struggled against her grasp.

"I would stop here if I were you. Is that any way to treat a child?" the Luna scolded with a frown.

The woman scoffed. "And who do you think you are to teach me how I should or should not treat a child? Listen to me girl, you don't want to get into my bad books. Scurry away while I'm still being nice," the woman said rudely. I gawked at her, didn't she know who she was speaking to? I thought.

The Luna's bodyguards suddenly arrived. "Luna, is this woman causing you any trouble?" they asked, bowing their heads a little bit. The woman's eyes widened in realization. She hurriedly knelt on the muddy floor in her white dress folding her arms in front of her. "I'm so sorry for the disrespect Luna. I never knew who you were," she pleaded, shivering from fright. She must not have recognized Luna because she rarely went out. I only recognized her because my father was the beta.

"Come with me child, I will drop you home," Luna said with a warm smile. A genuine smile reached her eyes. A smile nobody has ever shown me. And at that moment, the sun cast a soft glow on her making her shine brightly. I slipped my little hands into hers and she led us to the car.

"Please forgive me for my insolence Luna," the woman pleaded loudly but we paid no heed to the wailing woman. The fear of not knowing what Luna might do to her made her plead desperately.

"What's your name child?" the Luna asked softly.

"Hailey," I muttered. She narrowed her eyes.

"Hailey Smith? The beta's daughter?" she inquired. I nodded.

"It's so good to finally meet you. I've heard a lot about you from your father," she said with a wide smile. I scoffed inwardly. I highly doubted that. Before my mother passed away, I lived happily with both of my parents but suddenly one day, everything changed. They both had a huge fight and the father moved out of the house. I didn't know what the cause of the fight was but I heard Mother accusing him of replaceing his mate and having another family behind her back. He came back to see me often but I didn't spend time with him like I used to.

After father moved out, mother became very sick till she eventually passed away. Father came back and took me along with him to live with his family but his new wife never liked me. Her children tried to bully me but I wasn't having it. I fought back and Father had to eventually bring me to the New dawn pack because I was causing trouble for them. He was the beta of the New dawn pack but he was rarely around. He was always out taking care of the pack business which made us live around the globe. I never had the time to make any friends.

The Luna and I both got out of the car. She left me in the living room while she went inside.

"Spider, spider! Someone get it off me," a boy around my age screamed running around the living room. I went towards the spider that was crawling on the wall and killed it with my shoe.

"Hailey," I heard my father calling. He knelt in front of me.

"Dear, I have to leave now for important pack business but I hired a nanny to take care of you. I will be back soon but I will write to you every day. Be a good girl okay?" he kissed my forehead before carrying his suitcase out. I stared at his retreating back with tears in my eyes. Liar, he was abandoning me for his other family. I wiped the tears rolling down my cheeks furiously. "Why are you crying?" the boy I had saved asked. I shook my head.

"Thank you for saving me. I'm Julian, will you be my friend? I like you then you can save me from spiders every day. In return, I won't ever let you cry. This is Philip and that is Alexander," he introduced with a smile. I glanced at the three of them, they were all so good-looking that a blush tinted my cheeks.

"She's pretty. I guess we can let her into our group. What's your name?" Philip asked.

"Hailey," I muttered. And from that day, we became inseparable. We went everywhere together and they protected me like true friends. I was sad by the fact that my father left me but as time went by, I forgot all about it and I didn't even read his letters anymore. The Luna treated me like her daughter and she allowed me to call her mother. I had never felt so happy.

"They all look so cute together. They might turn out to be mates," I heard someone saying while the triplets and I played.

Mates? That would mean I would become Luna, the second most powerful person in the pack. I would be feared and no one would be able to step all over me again. Power and money do make the world go round and I realized that watching the Luna. I stared at the mansion with a new goal set in mind. I would become the Luna come what may and the triplets would help me in achieving that.