Surviving Rejection

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Aria Montgomery is a good girl. She never breaks the rules. She gets good grades. She is polite. She's also a werewolf. She's a quiet girl that would rather curl up at home with a good book than go out partying. Because of this she's been an outcast since middle school. But just like any other girl she waits for her mate to come find her and sweep her off her feet.

Damien Sanders is the future alpha and annoying ass of the pack. When he's eighteen he finds his mate, Aria. He rejects her. Aria is heartbroken, but manages to survive. Or she tries to. Soon the pain is too much to bear. No, she doesn't run away. She commits suicide.

She doesn't go to heaven though; she meets the Moon Goddess and gets sent back to her body. She's supposed to make a difference somehow. She gets a second chance. Damien gets a second chance, or so he thought when he saw her eyes open.

The problem is she doesn't want her second chance. She has lost her will to live and hates Damien. She's broken. Will Damien be able to win her back? Or will they give up on each other. Can Aria learn to forgive Damien and trust him? Will Aria find a reason to go on, because life doesn't wait for you. Life goes on, and Aria must learn to survive rejection.

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"Aria, you don't know how sorry I am. Please. Please. Please. Give me another chance. You don't know how much you mean to me. I was so scared when I thought that you were gone forever. I hate myself for what I did to you. I am so sorry. Please just say something." Damien rambled. He told me the same kind of thing every day. I just sat there in the chair that faced the window that showed me the forest that I used to love. I didn't look at him, and he may have thought that I didn't hear what he said to me, but I heard every word.

It had been a month since I "woke" up. I hadn't said a word in that month. The Moon Goddess shouldn't have let me come back. I should have died when I swallowed all of those pills. I shouldn't have to go through all of this pain again. Those pills made everything numb. They made the pain go away.

When I've been left alone, which is rare since I'm on suicide watch, for good reason, I've tried to make it all go away again. I don't even care how this time goes. I'll go through a couple minutes of physical pain to get away from this emotional pain that will last me a lifetime. But I can't physically harm myself. Whatever I find, I can't make myself pick it up. I'm just frozen in place. It's like the Moon Goddess put a curse on me. This second chance wasn't a blessing. It was a curse.

Damien kept on rambling on when he said those three words. Three words that made me fall apart even more.

"Aria, please say something. I can't bear to see you like this. Say something. Aria, please. I care about you so much. I- I love you. I've always loved you."

Those three words were a lie. They couldn't be true. A monster like Damien wasn't capable of love. He wasn't capable of loving me. He would have never caused me so much pain if he ever loved me.

Then I spoke for the first time in a month. Three words I had never said to anyone, because I had never truly felt that way.

"I hate you." I whispered in a barely audible voice, but he heard me.

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