300 Days With The Alpha Beta Triplets
HER FUNERAL

Bella:

When I stirred from my sleep, I found myself lying on a familiar bed. I could tell where I was even before I opened my eyes. I was at home-in Alpha Fred's house.

"Guys!" I heard Hazel's voice as I tried to open my eyes. "She is awake," she added, and I pulled my eyes open to see their blurred figures.

My sight fought hard until clarity seeped in, and then I saw the triplets and Hazel standing face-to-face with me.

"Bella," Finn called out, reaching for my hand, and I attempted to sit up at once, but a sharp headache slapped me in the face, causing me to yelp.

"Are you okay?" Ryder asked in panic, fear crossing his eyes.

I just stared at them without a word because I was still a bit confused. Then suddenly, it hit me. The memories flooded in-my mother was dead, and there was a vampire.

"My mother is dead, isn't she?" I croaked, and they glanced at each other.

My eyes became hot at once, and tears rolled down my cheeks, burning through my skin and clawing deep at my heart. She just had to die when I needed her the most.

"It is not your fault, Bella. So, please do not beat yourself up for it," Kai said as he attempted to reach my hand, but I withdrew my fingers from Finn's reach, repelling their touch.

"Why would she do that to

One moment she was fun, mum, and the next moment she is dead." My tears flowed out freely while they watched with their faces drawn down.

At this point, I couldn't even choose who I wanted to be. We all had our traumas to process, but mine seemed to be worse with each passing second.

Hazel sat close to me on the bed, reaching to hold my hand.

"We are really sorry, Bella, and Principal Evelyn would never want to see you like this. She took you to that island so you could have a good time."

"But the universe decided I wasn't worthy enough to be happy, right?" I asked, looking at her, and she opened her mouth to speak, but no words came out.

My cry became full-blown. I buried my face in my palms, trying to drown out my emotions in the tears, but it didn't seem enough. A part of me wanted to die. The pain was too much, and I wanted it to end. I didn't choose this life, so why was it happening to me?

The triplets sat by the foot of the bed, each of them reaching for a part of my body, stroking it to console me.

"Why does the Moon Goddess hate me?" I questioned, as my cries turned into sniffles. "She never wants me to be happy, and I am like, what is next? Who will she kill next?" I questioned, but they all kept mute as Hazel continued to stroke my back in circles. It did little to nothing to quench the pain in my chest.

Suddenly, I thought of Alpha Fred and my father. How would they cope when they knew what they had both fought was gone?

"How is your father?" The words left my mouth, and he let out a sigh, hanging his head.

"He hasn't been himself for the past few days. His emotions are all over the place, and it has gone from raging mad to sadness and everything in between." More tears fell from my eyes when he said this, and I wiped my face slightly with the back of my palm.

"How long have I been in a coma?" I questioned, glancing at all three of them.

"Three days," they echoed, and my mouth fell ajar.

I withdrew my legs from their touch, then I pulled away from Hazel.

"I need to replace Alpha Fred," I said as I got to my feet.

"He is in your mother's room. He has been sleeping there for the past three days," Kai said, and I tried hard to hold the tears in my eyes, but they fell regardless.

I steadied myself, placing a hand on my aching head as I made my way out of the room and down the hall. The pain he must have lived through these past few days must have been unbearable. At least I was in a coma, but he had been living through it.

The moment I got to my mother's room, I reached for the handle with my shaky hands. As the door opened, I caught Alpha Fred's face, which was a mess. His eyes were red, and I could tell he had been crying for days.

"Bella," he called out, rushing towards me.

He pulled me into a warm hug, and I remained there, crammed in his embrace as I let out more of my heart- wrenching cries.

"I'm really sorry I let you and your mother down," he apologized, but his words did nothing to console me. I did not want to push blame because it was my mother's decision to go without guards. Plus, I doubted the guards would have been able to handle a vampire like Sue, but then my mum might still have been alive.

Shortly, I pulled away from him and made my way to her bed, sitting on it. I tried to take in the sight of the last thing that reminded me of her.

"I just can't believe she is gone," I said in a low tone, glancing at the Alpha, who just stood in the room.

I knew he wanted to cry, but he was either not crying at the moment because I was in his presence or because he had no tears left in him.

"I have a feeling that I am still in a coma and that I will wake up to see that I am still at Soluna Island with my mother. With my fun mum."

**

Well, I never got out of the coma I wished for, and worse, today was my mother's burial. This was two days after I got out of the coma. Alpha Fred let me rest for one day before he decided to bury her.

The Luna's burial was supposed to be a grand one, but Alpha Fred didn't throw such. He got my mother an expensive casket, but the people around were just family members-close relatives, to be precise-and the Beta's family. The crowd was a handful, so it was easy to spot my father.

He looked sad-like he had been doing some crying, but his face wasn't half as bad as Alpha Fred's.

We watched as my mother's body was lowered into the ground, a sight that tore every single piece of me, leaving me vulnerable to the world. I clung hard to Kai's body, bawling real hard until I stained the fabric of his suit.

When the burial rites were over, my father approached me. He held me close to his chest, muttering words of apology that I couldn't process at the moment. I had just lost my mum, and reality was threatening to sink in deeper and faster than I imagined.

"I will be fine," I said to him as he pulled away from me, but that was a lie.

Nothing would make me feel fine. You know when they say you do not know what you have until you lose it? That was starting to make sense to me.

All those times I fought with my mother flooded in, and I cursed myself for not seeing her pain. For making her struggle for my love. She deprived herself of a lot of things just for me to have a life-especially having a relationship with me.

"Please excuse me," I said to my father, walking away to replace a quiet spot to cry.

I found myself in my room, and I threw myself on the floor, burying my head in my palms, trying to exhaust what was left of my tears. I kept crying until my chest threatened to suffocate me, and that was when Hazel walked in, replaceing me in a pool of my own tears.

"Bella!" she screamed, then she grabbed my hand, pulling me off the floor. "I will not let you kill yourself," she said, with tears forming in her eyes.

"Come on, let's get you out of here."

I didn't want to move, but the words out of here made my legs move. I wanted to leave this place as soon as possible,

so I got moving, and we reached the bottom of the stairs successfully. But the sight of my father and Alpha Fred arguing about me didn't help the situation.

"Evelyn would want her to stay here, so she wouldn't be leaving." Those were Alpha Fred's last words before they both noticed me.

Dad attempted to reach me, but I pulled my hands away from him. The last thing I wanted at the moment was to separate from my mates.

"Dad, you know I cannot come with..." I began, but the words didn't fully come out as my stomach buckled up.

Before I could say another word, everything in my belly fell through my throat, staining the perfect marble floor of the living area, and then my vision blurred once more.

The last thing I could recall was my father screaming out my name.