ALEXIA Humming softly under my breath, I walked slowly down the stairs to join my parents downstairs and my Mom questioning look made me realize I had unconsciously put extra effort in my outfit choice. I looked down at myself as I approached them, convinced it was something I would wear on a normal day and it’s not like I was trying to impress anyone, right? “Good to see you in a better mood, I’ll take it as your first day was a pleasant one huh?” Dad teased, picking up an apple from the fruit bowl and biting into it. “She’s already making friends and from the look of things, I think there’s a boy in the picture.” Mom added, causing him to pause and look at me, as if I just walked into the room. He cleared his throat, pinning me a stern parental look that had my Mom placing a hand over his shoulder. She whispered something into his ear which caused his shoulders to visibly relax. “Well, look at that, I’m almost late for work.” He said, leaning over to kiss his wife goodbye. “Wha
ALEXIAI hate, hate, hate, hate and hate Killian! Words couldn’t express how much I hated him and the fact that I didn’t hate him as much as I would want to, makes me hate him more if that makes any sense. Raven was silent beside me as we made our way to a table, my eyes hurt from the effort it’s taking me to hold back my tears. “He usually keeps to himself.” I looked up when she finally spoke. “Now he’s going out of his way to be mean, that’s uncalled for and not fair at all!” She finished, holding my stare. “I really don’t care.” I replied, trying to shrug it off. “He’s just being the way everyone is to me, no big deal.” At this point, I wasn’t quite sure if I was trying to convince her or myself…maybe both. “Another thing you don’t know about werewolves is that we can tell when someone is lying. He kissed you and he’s now going out of his way to get rid of you, that’s a very confusing emotion to stir up inside someone. I feel like he’s punishing you for something, I heard your D
ALEXIA I cleared my throat, because the last thing I wanted was to be his partner so what better way to get out of it by pretending not to have heard him? I casually look around the class, my gaze resting on the girl sitting a few seats away from me. I stood up to approach her when firm fingers crawled around my wrist, stopping me from leaving. As if knowing my intention and without even looking at me, he jerked me down to my seat. “I wasn’t asking.” He stated, letting go off my wrist while glaring at me. “I don’t want to be your partner.” I blurted out, meeting his glare with one of my own. “This project will be covering half of my semester’s grades, I want someone who will put as much effort as it takes.” His lips stretched into a smirk that had me staring at him, feeling hot and flustered by his presence, I squirmed in my seat. “Too bad, what you think doesn’t matter Jackson.” “Sorry, am I interrupting?” I jerked backward, startled when the teacher’s sharp voice cut into our
ALEXIA “Isn’t there supposed to be an egg in there?” Raven’s confused voice broke into my shocked state. Her eyes widened as I slowly nodded at her question. “What? Someone stole your project!” Wow, thanks for stating the obvious Raven, I thought sarcastically before deciding I had misplaced anger. “I don’t understand, no one knows the combination to my locker and the emergency key is always with me.” I ran my fingers tiredly into my curls, causing my fingers to get stuck in the tangle web. “The culprit must have picked the locks, we need to report this!” She hissed, anger evidence in her voice. I nodded, carrying my backpack along as we went to the principal office to report the missing egg. Again, I tried thinking of anyone who could have done this and I couldn’t come up with anyone specific. It's no news that I’m hated here but who hates me enough to go out of their way to hurt me? My mind drifted off to Killian as I recalled the conversation I overheard the other day with th
ALEXIA Being the only human in a werewolf city had to be the scariest thing ever but my family had nowhere else to go after the war broke out between humans and werewolves, apparently some over-bearing scientist who thought they could just have an experiment on every creature they encountered.After capturing a werewolf they decided to carry out their so-called experiment which became the beginning of a raging war. Fortunately for my family, my father happened to be an old friend of a Beta whose life he saved and the only reason the Alpha let us stay here on his land.So far, it hasn't been easy. I had to ignore every snarl and growl hauled at me each time I went out on the streets, they don't trust us. We knew that but since we had nowhere else to go, we just had to earn their complete impossible trust!"Lex, have you thought about what I told you last night?" My mom asked, adjusting the pair of glasses she had on.I pretended to be engrossed in the novel I was reading just to avoi
ALEXIA You will be fine, I muttered under my breath looking at the tall majestic building in front of me, several heads turned in my direction, a look of displeasure settling over their face. Just like everywhere else, it was clear that I wasn’t welcome here. Reminding myself to ignore them as usual, I walked into the building with my head held high. There were students standing around, chatting, laughing and moving about like they belong here—which they do unlike me. Fortunately the principal had been kind enough to inform my Dad to let me download the school map because gosh! The building was huge! it has this majestic ancient aura even though it was designed as a modern day castle that speaks of wealth, I instantly fell in love with the architecture. I gaped open mouthed at the people in front of me, is everyone a model or something? The guys were so good looking and let’s not talk about the girls! The fact that they weren’t paying much attention to me, allowed my gaze to freel
ALEXIA I couldn’t help but hesitate at her outstretched hand. However, she took my hand and helped me back up, I still couldn’t respond to what she had said. She also helped me secure my backpack on my back so I had enough room to look at the map and my class schedule at the same time without dropping anything. "Am I really that scary? You've been staring at me like I’m some kind of predator, I promise I won't bite." She remarked, slapping her open palm on her forehead, an action that indicates her frustration. "I apologise, let’s just say I’m used to people being nice to me here." I finally responded. She looked taken aback by my statement for a second. "That should be a fucking crime, I see why anyone would want to be anything but nice to you, you’re adorable!” I blushed at the compliment. "Could you help me take out my glasses? It’s in my bag." I asked, swiftly turning around, deciding maybe I just couldn't see what I read earlier.She shook her head, gesturing towards the si
ALEXIA Raven ensured that I had settled down in my first class of the day before she left. The minute she left my side, the sneering continued like it never stopped. I was tempered twice to pack up my stuff and leave but since Alpha Killian’s Dad guaranteed my safety, I kept a bold face, pretending they weren’t directed at me. Despite my parents trusting the Alpha in question, I didn’t, especially after meeting his son. Thinking about him has now become an intrusive thought, a brush creeped up my face as I recalled the way he had stared at my lips, the way his face darkened into a storm, making him look impossibly hotter, I shook my head shaking off the imagine and mentally scold myself. An abrupt sound of a fist connecting to my desk snapped me out of my thoughts, startled I looked at the girl in front of me, who looked like I wronged her in more ways than one. Her long blonde hair definitely gave me Barbie vibes and with the way she was glaring down at me, I could immediately te
ALEXIA “Isn’t there supposed to be an egg in there?” Raven’s confused voice broke into my shocked state. Her eyes widened as I slowly nodded at her question. “What? Someone stole your project!” Wow, thanks for stating the obvious Raven, I thought sarcastically before deciding I had misplaced anger. “I don’t understand, no one knows the combination to my locker and the emergency key is always with me.” I ran my fingers tiredly into my curls, causing my fingers to get stuck in the tangle web. “The culprit must have picked the locks, we need to report this!” She hissed, anger evidence in her voice. I nodded, carrying my backpack along as we went to the principal office to report the missing egg. Again, I tried thinking of anyone who could have done this and I couldn’t come up with anyone specific. It's no news that I’m hated here but who hates me enough to go out of their way to hurt me? My mind drifted off to Killian as I recalled the conversation I overheard the other day with th
ALEXIA I cleared my throat, because the last thing I wanted was to be his partner so what better way to get out of it by pretending not to have heard him? I casually look around the class, my gaze resting on the girl sitting a few seats away from me. I stood up to approach her when firm fingers crawled around my wrist, stopping me from leaving. As if knowing my intention and without even looking at me, he jerked me down to my seat. “I wasn’t asking.” He stated, letting go off my wrist while glaring at me. “I don’t want to be your partner.” I blurted out, meeting his glare with one of my own. “This project will be covering half of my semester’s grades, I want someone who will put as much effort as it takes.” His lips stretched into a smirk that had me staring at him, feeling hot and flustered by his presence, I squirmed in my seat. “Too bad, what you think doesn’t matter Jackson.” “Sorry, am I interrupting?” I jerked backward, startled when the teacher’s sharp voice cut into our
ALEXIAI hate, hate, hate, hate and hate Killian! Words couldn’t express how much I hated him and the fact that I didn’t hate him as much as I would want to, makes me hate him more if that makes any sense. Raven was silent beside me as we made our way to a table, my eyes hurt from the effort it’s taking me to hold back my tears. “He usually keeps to himself.” I looked up when she finally spoke. “Now he’s going out of his way to be mean, that’s uncalled for and not fair at all!” She finished, holding my stare. “I really don’t care.” I replied, trying to shrug it off. “He’s just being the way everyone is to me, no big deal.” At this point, I wasn’t quite sure if I was trying to convince her or myself…maybe both. “Another thing you don’t know about werewolves is that we can tell when someone is lying. He kissed you and he’s now going out of his way to get rid of you, that’s a very confusing emotion to stir up inside someone. I feel like he’s punishing you for something, I heard your D
ALEXIA Humming softly under my breath, I walked slowly down the stairs to join my parents downstairs and my Mom questioning look made me realize I had unconsciously put extra effort in my outfit choice. I looked down at myself as I approached them, convinced it was something I would wear on a normal day and it’s not like I was trying to impress anyone, right? “Good to see you in a better mood, I’ll take it as your first day was a pleasant one huh?” Dad teased, picking up an apple from the fruit bowl and biting into it. “She’s already making friends and from the look of things, I think there’s a boy in the picture.” Mom added, causing him to pause and look at me, as if I just walked into the room. He cleared his throat, pinning me a stern parental look that had my Mom placing a hand over his shoulder. She whispered something into his ear which caused his shoulders to visibly relax. “Well, look at that, I’m almost late for work.” He said, leaning over to kiss his wife goodbye. “Wha
ALEXIA I was physically exhausted and mentally as well by the time I arrived home. Today has been one of the weirdest days I’ve had in a long time and frankly speaking, I don’t remember having any weird day except now. A month or so ago, if someone had told me my life would drastically change, I would have laughed and called them crazy! “I’m home!” I announced, heading for the stairs, while also waiting for any sign of my Mom. She came out of the kitchen a while later, a glass of juice in one hand and a plate filled with cookies in the other hand. “I’ll be in my room.” I added, knowing definitely she was going to come after me. Once I was in my room, I threw my backpack on my queen size bed before dropping down on it. My fingers tangled in my curls as I absently looked at the ceiling, my mind still very much occupied with what happened between Killian and I at the boys bathroom. It was weird right? And yet my stupid mind would stop having a fixation on it, the way he had grabbed
ALEXIA Fortunately, my next class has no Alpha Killian in it! and I was positive that my day will get better from here on, so I took my seat and like the rest, waited for the teacher to show up. I pulled out my note journal because this was the only class that held my interest so far , the history of werewolves…who wouldn’t want to know that? Actually it just history but it has to be history about werewolves right? “Is this seat taken?” I looked up at the sound, blushing when the voice turned out to be Leo’s, if that’s truly his name because Raven didn’t sound so sure. He was staring down at me with a playful smile on his face. “I don’t know…” I trailed off, feeling embarrassed for whatever reason. He didn’t seem to mind because he pulled out the chair and took his seat , his eyes still on me. “What were the odds of us having the same class after just meeting like a few minutes ago.” He glanced at the entrance, temporarily distracted by the teacher that walked in. “Given that we
ALEXIA I was aware of his eyes on me the minute he sat down but I pretended not to notice, why was he staring at me? Making sure I suddenly didn’t get up in front of the whole class and announce that he kissed me or he just got pleasure from the fear that comes with his intimidation. The sudden silence that fell upon the classroom brought me out of my thoughts and I looked around to see a teacher walking in. And her eyes were immediately drawn to where I was sitting like a magnet. I swallowed hard, bracing myself for whatever snarky remark she was definitely going to have about me being human, “You don’t belong in my class.” I felt myself instantly relaxed, out of all the worst things I imagined her saying, this doesn’t even come close. The class broke into a murmur at her question. I stood up with the intention of introducing myself to clear whatever confusion she might have. “I’m Alexia Jackson, I have this class ma’am—“ My words broke off by the sudden laughter that erupted and
ALEXIA Probably sensing it was getting difficult for me to keep up with his pace, the urgent and hungry way he kissed me slowed, allowing me to breath for a couple of seconds before he picked up the pace once more. My hands left his shoulders to grip his biceps instead, digging my nails into his arms as pleasures consumed me. Oh my God! I’m kissing Alpha Killian, who has made it clear that he didn’t want me here! The implication of what that meant slammed into me like a force of nature. Despite not wanting him to stop, I didn’t know where I mustered enough self-control to push him off me, wrenching my lips from his before things got further than it has already. Panting heavily, he blinked making me blush. Lowering my gaze, after what just happened I didn’t know what to say or do except that things had gotten way out of control! Why did he kiss me? I shoved the question out of my mind before it caused me to leap into any conclusion. “Damnit!” He hissed under his breath, turning his
ALEXIA Fortunately Raven found me after searching for a while, according to her and after scolding me like an elder sister would to her younger one, she led me down the hallway, the same direction everyone seemed to be going as well. I assumed it was our next class even though I didn’t hear the bell that indicates the next period was about to start. "I was just bored of sitting in class alone." I told her, my mind occupied with how I was going to tell her about what happened between Alpha Killian and I earlier. “So, something totally crazy happened in class today." "I'm famished, tell me about it while we eat." She replied just as we entered the cafeteria and joined the long line at the waiting table. My culture shock was finding out that lunch didn’t start for them by noon but instead about eleven am in the morning, after like having one period. “It’s only eleven in the morning!” I couldn’t keep the bewilderment out of my voice, but the good news is, the line was moving pretty fa