“Big fucking mistake.” I growled, glaring at Skylar and her friends behind her.
I reached forward and grabbed Skylar by the hair, pulling her head down as I kneed her in the face and then I elbowed her on her back and she fell to the ground. I spun around and kicked Sarah in the stomach and she flew through the air and straight through the floor to ceiling wall and landed on the pavement outside.
I then looked at the third girl that was standing there, eyes really wide with shock and fear and I punched her in the throat and while she was gasping for air I kneed her in the stomach and as she bent over I punched her across the face and she fell to the ground as well.
I turned around to look at everyone else that was staring at me in shock around the cafeteria and I stood over Skylar who was still on the ground and I walked towards the door of the cafeteria.
I looked over to see that same guy who pushed me into the locker standing at a table with his friends, all of them looking really shocked as well, but the one that was standing at the back is the one that caught my attention.
I had seen him earlier in the day, and no matter how many times his friends would hurt me or say something to me, he wouldn’t laugh or join in. He just ignored them as much as I tried.
It wasn’t long after that when the Principal came to find me while I was sitting outside and he told me that I needed to follow him to his office.
When I got there, I sat in his office and he wanted to know what happened in the cafeteria. But I didn’t say much. I didn’t tell him about the bullying. There was no need to. I could take care of myself. They could throw whatever they wanted at me and I could throw it right back at them. There was absolutely no reason why I should tell him what happened.
At least, that’s what I thought.
It wasn’t long after that when I saw the woman in the office get off of her chair really quickly and I looked over to see a man in a three-piece suit walking into the office.
He walked straight past the office lady and slammed open the Principal’s office door. Mr. Bennett jumped up from his seat immediately and came around his desk and bared his neck to my father immediately.
“Alpha John. I am so sorry that I had to call you in here like this.” Mr. Bennett said. But dad just stood there staring at him before he turned his softer gaze on me.
“What happened?” Dad asked.
“I got jumped so I defended myself.” I said simply. And my dad looked back at Mr. Bennett with his Alpha aura pushing forward slightly. I could tell that my father was pissed off but he wasn’t saying much. And Mr. Bennett was feeling the aura wash over him as he slowly lowered to the ground.
“Who were the girls?” Dad asked, his face was now void of any real emotion at all.
“Skylar, Sarah and Stella.” I said.
“You do know that those three are known around the entire pack as the three S’s for a reason. Sluts, skanks and stoners.” Dad said, and I had to stifle a laugh as he said that.
“I know that Alpha John. But I need to show that I am not playing favorites and I need to punish Ava for what she did.” Mr. Bennett said.
“No you don’t. My daughter will not be punished for defending herself.” Dad stated, matter of factly before he looked at me.
“Yes, sir. She won’t get any sort of punishment at all.” Mr. Bennett said, sweat dripping from his face while my dad’s aura was still pouring out of him.
“Let’s go Ava. You have classes to get to.” Dad said as he opened the door and I walked out, with him right behind me.
“Wow.” I said as we walked into the hall.
“On your first day of school.” Dad said, looking at me. But I just shrugged my shoulders.
“They really did deserve it.”
“I don’t doubt that. I just didn’t think anything like this would happen on the first day. I have to get back to work. Can you just tell me one thing first?” He asked.
“Okay.” I said.
“Where the hell did you learn to fight like that?” He asked. And I just smiled at him as I turned and walked away towards my next class.
When school was over I walked out of the building and I couldn’t wear my hoodie, which felt like a security blanket, because it was all wet. But I started walking down the streets of the city as I was heading towards the suburbs. Watching all of the human’s going about their daily lives, completely unaware of what surrounded them at my school.
I saw Leo pass me in his car with a few friends, but they were going in the opposite direction. So I guess they weren’t going straight home.
It took me about an hour to finally walk there, but when I got home, I used the keypad to get into the side gate and I walked onto the sprawling landscaped yard and I looked up at the three story old stone style mansion that was in front of me.
It actually had more than one house on the property, which was 20 acres, but this was the main house.
I walked up to the front door and I saw my stepmother Sandra, standing in the massive living room with really high ceilings and floor to ceiling walls.
She was tapping her high heel on the hardwood floor and she was staring straight at me as I was walking through the door.
“Who the hell do you think you are?” She growled at me.
“Excuse me.” I said, confused by her anger.
“You got into a fight today. With three girls from school.”
“Yeah. Dad already sorted that out.” I said.
“Well, I am friends with their mothers.” She said, and I rolled my eyes.
“Why am I not surprised? Are you the one that taught the tramps how to dress? Because I knew there was a resemblance.” I said. And she walked over and slapped me across the face.
“That’s one.” I muttered to myself.
“What?” She asked.
“You’ll know when you get to three.” I glared at her. And she didn’t know what to think when I said that, or how to interpret the look on my face. So she just turned around in a huff and went to the other room.
I turned towards the stairs and I went up to the third floor and I went into my bedroom and I hung my bag on the hook on the wall.
I got all of my books out of it and I placed them on the desk that was looking out the large window of my bedroom.
I opened my laptop first and I logged into my account and I opened my emails to see if I had any new ones. But unfortunately, there wasn’t anything new there for me.
Hey Noah,
I know that we haven’t spoken in a while and you were giving me some space while I moved into my dad’s house. But I’m all moved in now and I would really like to talk to you again. See what’s happening in your life and everything that’s going on back at your place. I look forward to hearing from you.
Ava
As soon as I finished that email I went to my ensuite bathroom and I got in the shower, but it wasn’t as peaceful as I had hoped.
I was startled when the door slammed open, while I was in the shower and Leo was standing at the door glaring at me.
“Leo. What the fuck are you doing? Get out of here.” I yelled. “You are my fucking problem.” He yelled. “What are you talking about?” I asked. “The Alpha promised to leave this pack to me. That was before you came back into the picture. You’re his true heir and now you’re going to take it away from me.” He said, stumbling closer to me. “You are fucking drunk. Get out of my room before I kick your ass like I did to Skylar.” I yelled. “You are a gold digging bitch. You didn’t want anything to do with your father until now. Because as soon as you turn 18, you will be old enough to take over the pack.”He walked closer to the shower but I just stood there, staring him in the eyes to let him know that I was not intimidated by him. “You just showed up out of nowhere and embarrassed the hell out of me at school for what? Just to ruin my fucking life?” He growled. “No. I will be old enough to find my mate at 18. Who the fuck wants to lead a pack at the age of 18? You’re delusional.”
When I finally climbed into bed that night I read a book for a little while before I finally fell asleep. When I woke up the following morning I dragged myself out of bed and I headed downstairs to get a coffee that I made myself, and I sat in the kitchen drinking it. Even when the breakfast staff came in to start cooking. They weren't used to seeing a member of the family there, but they were going to get used to the fact that I'm not like the others. When breakfast was served I ate in silence while Sandra made small talk with dad and Leo, deliberately not talking to me which I was completely fine with. And as soon as I was finished eating, I got up and went back to my room. I got changed into baggy torn jeans, a loose fitting t-shirt and a hoodie with sand shoes on. I put all of the books in my bag and I headed downstairs and straight out the front door without saying goodbye to anyone. I left the property and started walking towards the city. I always left early because it wa
I glanced up at everyone to see if there was anyone staring at me or playing with their phones. And a lot of them had their phones out, but they didn’t look suspicious to me. Not like they were sending cryptic messages to me or anything like that. But I wouldn’t know for sure who was sending me these messages. They could be pretending that it’s not them. I wasn’t sure if it was too much of a coincidence or not and I made sure that I kept my eye on everyone that was around me. My mother had always taught me to watch my surroundings. I didn’t think I would have to do so much of it here. But I guess I needed to watch my back more than ever now. By lunch time that day I went to my locker and I put my books in it and then I headed out the front of the school. I definitely wasn’t going to the cafeteria and I wanted to go somewhere where I knew that I could be alone. And I sat at the table out the front of the school. But I wasn’t alone for long. “Ava.” Someone said from beside me.
I started looking around frantically and I heard something in the distance. Footsteps that were slowly approaching us. I got a glimpse of the gun in a man’s hand who was walking directly towards us and I started to panic. My first thought was to run off and save myself, but then I saw Wesley laying there unconscious and I knew that I couldn’t leave him. I managed to pick him up and get him onto my back very awkwardly and I started trying to run through the woods. It was harder than I thought it would be with Wesley on my back and I knew that I wouldn’t be able to make it back to our clothes and the car like this. So I decided that I needed to find somewhere to hide. I started running in different directions and even backtrailed a couple of times, running around in circles so that man couldn’t catch up with us. I came to a rock formation and I got Wesley up on the rocks while I covered my tracks and got back to the rocks without leaving tracks in the dirt. A trick that my moth
When I arrived at school the next day, I saw that everything was back to normal. Well, my kind of normal. Everyone was staring at me and whispering about me while they were covering their mouths and whispering to their friends so that I couldn’t hear them. I just rolled my eyes, thinking that maybe they had learnt their lesson about pissing me off, but I guess not. Or I guess they just had something else to talk about today. It seemed to be going around though. I saw Leo walking past with a few of his friends, who seemed to have grown in size overnight. He didn’t have that many friends yesterday. But he was showing them something on his phone and when he saw me he made sure that they hushed their voices. I knew that he was behind this. He was doing something to make everyone hate me again. And I wish I could say that I was surprised. But I’m really not. I did think that people were going to start leaving me alone though. So, I put my things in my locker and I walked off towards the ba
As soon as the teacher arrived Wesley let go of me and he winked at me before he walked off to his class and I made it to my desk. During the whole lesson I was sitting there with my hood up, not looking around, although I could feel people looking at me. But I was too preoccupied by Wesley and that kiss and how he just grabbed me like that. The feel of his warm breath on my face and how soft his lips were. How gentle he was, considering how big he was, I wouldn’t have thought that werewolves would be that gentle while kissing someone. It took my breath away and now I couldn’t think of anything but what happened. I didn’t really want my first kiss to be like that, but I can’t say that I’m really disappointed. I really liked it, but it wasn’t how I imagined my first kiss would go. I tried to get it out of my head and I looked up towards the teacher and he was rattling on with stuff that just sounded like a blur to me. I couldn’t make out anything that he was saying at the momen
I ran out the side gate of the house and I kept running until I was far enough away from the house that I knew they weren’t following me. But even then, I didn’t slow my pace. I kept running at a steady speed until I hit the highway and I was running along the highway. It was getting later in the afternoon and the chill in the air was getting more prominent. But I still had my big hoodie on and my boots. Plus I was running, so I wasn’t too concerned about the weather. The cold didn’t bother werewolves as much as it bothered humans. We had a hotter body temperature to them on any given day. So we were pretty fortunate like that. But when I decided that it was going to take me hours to get back to the cabin like this, I ran until I got to the woods. I got deep enough into the woods and I took my clothes off and I put my phone and wallet in my pocket and I shifted into my wolf. I then picked my clothes up in my mouth and I kept running through the woods. A lot faster than I would
When we got back to dad’s house I got Wesley to park the truck down the road, so no one saw him with me and I got out and started walking towards the house. But I heard his car door open and close as well. “Ava. Can we talk?” Wesley asked. “What about?” I asked, turning around to look at him. “About what happened today. I know that you’ve got a lot on your mind with your mother and everything. I just need to say what I have to say.” He said. “Alright.” I said. “I’m sorry about everything that I did today. I know that I shouldn’t have grabbed you like that, I shouldn’t have kissed you. I shouldn’t have done anything like that...” He explained, and I started looking down at my feet. “But I don’t regret it.” He added, and I quickly looked up at him. “You don’t?” I asked. “No. I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t want to. I just know that I shouldn’t have done it in front of the entire class. And I’m sorry for that.” He said. “Why do you like me?” I asked. “Because I know