Arriving at school in the morning was basically a tradition for me. I was always the last of my friends to arrive, and they were always waiting for me out the front. Aria, Ella, Wyatt, Miles, Landon and Adam. All of them, sitting against the brick sides of the stairs as they were waiting for me. The sight of them standing there every morning made me smile. I couldn’t help it. And as soon as I walked up to them, they all greeted me the same way. Everyday. With a hug or a fist pump or anything of that nature. They really were the best friends that I could ever ask for. And when we went into school, it was almost like we ran in our own little pack. And I guess we did. It was rare that we would let anyone else in our little friend group, but that doesn’t mean that we were bullies to everyone else. I was the opposite. I hated bullies and I tried to be friendly to everyone. At least, everyone that deserved it. “Hey Meadow. Are we still on for that party this weekend? At the aban
I then took a step back and waited for him to regain his composure with everyone else in the room stopping what they were doing and staring straight at us. “What the fuck?” He yelled. “It’s not nice being jumped. Is it?” I asked. “Is this about that boy this morning?” He asked, holding his hand over his nose. “No. This is about the girl this morning.” I said. And his face dropped. Now realizing that I knew who else he had attacked. All of his friends had jumped back from the table, knowing that they couldn’t get into a fight with me unless they were willing to suffer the consequences. But I didn’t give a shit about that. I didn’t care that I was the next Alpha. If they wanted to try and gang up on me then I didn’t care in the least. But they weren’t game enough to do that. So Jordan stood there knowing that he was on his own and he looked back at me, trying to find a way out of this and he started laughing. “We were just messing around with that girl.” He said. And I star
As soon as I hear the word vampires I can feel my heart beating in my chest. I could feel my palms getting all sweaty and clammy and I knew that this was more than just one town being wiped out. Vampires have never launched an attack like this, and I had a feeling that this was just the beginning. And I think everyone in this room had the same feeling. They were all looking very stoic and not their usual casual selves. We weren’t the biggest pack in the country, but we definitely weren’t the smallest. So dad knew that it was our responsibility to do something. We were in a position to do something. Not like the smaller packs. And we weren’t like the smaller packs. They didn’t want anything to do with this sort of thing, but protecting humans was what we did. Mostly, protecting them against vampires. That was what we considered to be our main cause for being here. To protect humans against the one thing that was out there wanting to kill them. Just for food. “Dad. That doesn’
Benjamin stared at me the same way that he always did. Like he knew that he shouldn’t be here, but he couldn’t stay away. “I know. That’s why I got you to meet me out here. Did you get out easy enough?” He asked. “I do the patrol rosters? I know where everyone is and at what time they are going to be there. It’s always easy for me to sneak out.” I said. “Good.” “I’m guessing this has something to do with the attack on that human town?” I asked. “Yeah. Your pack isn’t the only ones that are going to kill me if they see me here.” He said. “What’s going on Benjamin? Why did they do it?” I asked. “That’s just the first of many. I don’t know where the next attack will be. But a war is coming. It’s inevitable now. Vampires have decided that they want to rule the world and they are going to stop at nothing. They’re starting with small towns before they hit the bigger cities.” He explained. “And why not? Why are they doing this now? Vampires have been around for thousands of y
I got no sleep that night, working in the office all night trying to help dad find any sort of information on this supposed war that is coming. But when it was time I went to go and get changed and I went outside to the training field and the head warrior was already waiting there as the rest of the warriors were arriving. The ones that were scheduled to train this morning. But I noticed that a lot more showed up than expected. So the head warrior, Arlo, got started with our lesson and he wasn’t holding back this morning. He said that we all knew what was going on and we needed to be ready. When it comes down to it, we are going to be the only things standing in the way of the vampires and the rest of civilization. So, we need to be ready for everything. To survive and protect the people that we love. As soon as training was over I headed upstairs of the packhouse to get ready for school. But I saw something strange in the upstairs sitting area, so I walked over towards the back
I got on the computer and I started looking at these towns and started researching them to see if they have anything in common. But all I can see is that they have small sheriff’s stations with only a few officers in charge of the whole town. And they are only small towns. Something that a small army of vampires wouldn’t be able to handle. Especially if they have been compelled to do what the vampires tell them to. Humans don’t even know that vampires exist. Which means they don’t know how to protect themselves against being compelled and all other ways that vampires can control them. They can get inside their heads if they want to. And that’s what was bugging me the most. That these humans have absolutely no idea how to protect themselves because we aren’t allowed to tell them that vampires exist. Even though the government knows. And they are the ones that I was really pissed at. They should be warning people. Instead, they’re sitting on their asses doing nothing. I finally fo
I needed to make sure that everyone here knew what Benjamin had told me, but I couldn’t tell them about Benjamin. So I needed to create a couple of fake profiles on the dark web and I started a conversation talking about everything that Benjamin had told me. It was something that I could print out and I could show to my father when I saw him again. It was the best way to give them the information without them asking too many questions. This way, they would just think that it was a couple of vampires having a conversation amongst themselves. Once I printed out that fake conversation, I went to the kitchen where I made a really strong coffee and the clock said that it was only 1am in the morning. I went back to the office and I saw dad standing next to his office. “Sorry. I must have fallen asleep.” He said. “That’s alright. I’m glad you got some rest. Is she asleep?” I asked. “Yeah. She’s pretty pissed about you putting her in a cold shower.” He said. “She’s lucky it wasn
It felt like a Mexican standoff between the vampires and werewolves. Some of the patrols were in wolf form and some weren’t. “Have they tried anything?” Dad asked. “No. They’ve just been watching.” Arlo says. “They’re trying to figure out how big our pack is.” I said. “They should know by the size of the territory.” Arlo said. “That doesn’t mean anything. I’ve seen tiny packs with a lot of land.” “But they would know us. We are a large pack.” Dad said. And he was right. We are a large pack. But we aren’t the largest in the country and not the scariest. But we were larger than most. So, I guess that put us on their radar. That’s why they were here. To watch us. “Well, they can only stay out there for so long. Until they burst into flames.” I said. “Yeah. Thank fuck for sunlight.” Dad said. “I couldn’t have said it better myself.” I smirked. “Sunlight isn’t for hours yet.” Arlo reminded us. “Why aren’t they attacking? This doesn’t make sense.” A warrior said. “The