CHAPTER 1

Standing outside of the massive high school in the middle of a city was not something I ever expected I would be doing in my life. I had been living in the woods, in a small log cabin with my mother, who homeschooled me, until recently. When my father showed up and declared that I was coming to live with him, I moved to a big city. 

As I looked around at everyone going in and out of the high school, I looked down at myself and knew that I didn’t belong. 

All the girls were dressed to the nines, with beautiful clothes, a lot of makeup and high heels. Like they were about to attend a fashion show or something like that. But I looked down at myself wearing sweatpants, sneakers, a baggy shirt and a hoodie over the top of it. 

I noticed that everyone was staring at me as I was staring at the building and I decided to bite the bullet and go inside. I knew that I couldn’t put it off for much longer and I knew that they were going to be staring at me, whether I was inside or outside. So I walked up the stairs and into the building. 

I had to find my way to the office and all of the kids were standing near their lockers, they were staring and some were whispering and giggling while they were looking at me. 

The intense smell of the high school was insane on my senses the second I walked in. 

I had lived virtually alone for most of my life and now I was being thrust into a high school that was full of werewolves and all of their scents along with it. 

I finally got to the office and the lady behind the desk was a plumish woman in her 40’s and she looked over at me while I was standing there.

“Can I help you?” She asked, coming over to the counter. Almost acting like it was too much of an effort for her to walk four feet to where I was. 

“My name is Ava Johnson. I was told to come to the office when I first got here.” I said.

“Oh right. You’re the Alpha’s daughter.” She said, changing her attitude immediately. 

“That’s right.” I said. So she pulled up a file that was right in front of her and handed it to me. 

“Your class schedule, locker number and combination are in there and there is a list of extracurricular activities in there if you chose to get involved in any of that sort of stuff.” She said. 

“Thank you.” I said, taking the folder with me out into the hall. 

I looked around until I found my locker and then I used the combination to open it and I started putting all of my books in it. 

I could hear snickering behind my back so I looked behind me and there was a group of girls standing there staring at me and making no attempt at all to let me know that they were laughing at me. 

They were soon joined by some guys, who joined in with them but I just turned around and tried to ignore them. 

I looked at my first class and I needed to look at the map to see where the classroom was. But I made sure that I stayed in my locker while I was looking at it so no one saw me. 

But once I figured it out, it was easy for me to find my way. 

I started walking towards my first class with my books in hand and I wasn’t really paying attention to many people around me because I was trying to ignore all of the staring and giggling from everyone who looked so much better dressed than me. 

There was no secret that I was the odd one out of the entire school, and honestly, I didn’t even know how many students were at this school and if they all belonged to the same wolfpack. 

I felt my books fall out of my hands and I turned to see a girl standing in front of me. 

“Oops. It slipped.” She said, and she walked away with a couple of girls walking behind her giggling. 

“That’s one.” I muttered to myself. 

I bent over to pick up my books and just as I was getting to my feet again I felt someone throw their shoulder into me and I fell into the lockers on the side wall. 

This time it was a guy and some of his friends that did it. 

“That’s two.” I muttered to myself.

When I finally got to class I saw people standing around their desks everywhere and I slowly walked in and found one desk, right at the back of the room that didn’t have anyone near it. 

So I walked to that desk slowly and I recognised one of the boys that was standing over the other side of the room. But as soon as he saw me, he rolled his eyes and looked away.

“Leo! Is that your sister?” One of the guys asked, looking at me.

“Oh my god. You’re related to that thing? How the hell did that happen?” A girl asked. 

“Does that mean we can start expecting you to look like that soon enough?” The same girl asked.

“Damn Leo. And I thought you were actually worth my time.” Another girl said, while others started laughing. 

Leo then smashed his hands on his desk with a growl. 

“She’s not my fucking sister.” He roared, shutting everyone in the classroom up. 

But I just looked over at him and he was looking pissed. Like he was ready to kill me or something, just for being here. 

“Why the hell would I be related to trash like that?” Leo asked. 

“Alright man. Calm down. We were kidding. We know that it’s not your fault that you have to live in the same house as that thing.” His friend said, patting him on the back. 

The teacher then came into the room and everyone sat down and shut up, for the time being. 

When class was over, he asked me to stay back.

He said that he knew I had been homeschooled until now and he needed to make sure that I was able to keep up with the rest of the class. So he gave me extra homework to do. To catch up with what the class had already done this semester.

When I walked out of class I saw a girl standing out there and I recognised her as one of the girls that was giggling along with the one that knocked the books out of my hand earlier. 

I tried to walk past her but she stood in my way. 

“Hi. I’m Sarah.” She said.

“Okay.” I said. 

“I wanted to apologize for the way that I treated you this morning and for what Skylar did to you. She didn’t have a right to do that.” She said.

“Okay.” I said again. 

“Hey, why don’t we have lunch together. I can let you know who to hang with and who to steer clear of.” 

“Is Skylar one of them that I should steer clear of?” I asked. 

“She can be a really nice person, when she wants to be.” Sarah said. “What do you say?” She asked, looking at me with a little hope in her eyes. 

“Alright. I guess so.” I said, giving in.  

So at lunch time Sarah had found me and she took me to the cafeteria and we sat at a table, just the two of us and I saw Skylar sitting at another table with the rest of her friends. 

Sarah said that she was just going to go and get something to eat and asked if I wanted something. But I said no.

So she walked over to where the lunch lady was and I saw her looking back towards Skylar and then at me. 

I was keeping my head down, with my hoodie pulled down over my hair and face while I was fiddling with a scratching that had been etched on the table when suddenly I felt something wet fall on my head and down the back of my jumper. 

I turned around and saw Skylar standing there laughing with her friends, and Sarah. I guess this was all a set up. 

The whole cafeteria erupted into laughter, at my expense. 

“And that’s three.” I said as I stood up. 

I took my hoodie off to reveal my ass length snow blonde hair and my piercing blue eyes that were now changing color as my wolf was moving forward as we joined as one and Skylar gasped and took a step back. 

“Big fucking mistake.” I growled.