Chapter 1 Turn to You

[Now or never, Seth! She's your mate]

[Oh...just shut up! I'm working on it!]

He stepped confidently to approach the girl after the voice inside him told him to. His heart was turbulent, like there was an invisible thread binding him with this girl. The symptoms appeared exactly a month ago when he was set to be the future Alpha on the Red Crescent Moon pack. 

He felt a magic that attracted him like gravity when he saw the girl's green eye beads. His heartbeat was thumping with excitement because he wanted the girl so badly. Already, he was moving slowly in her direction.

Her shoulder-length blonde hair flowed beautifully as she walked. Instead of staring at her way, the girl was glued to the phone screen that was in her hand. She was watching the polling for the election of the school committee chairman at Abberforth High School in Surrey.

He cleared his throat and greeted the girl, “Hi, Edith!”

She immediately became scattered because of a whisper heard by her ears. The whisper. She didn't want to hear that whispering voice. A voice in which she became weak and courageous at the same time. 

The girl said as she gave him a frown, "What do you want?"

"Still trying to avoid me, dear!"

Even at this moment, that voice still makes her dim like the night almost a year ago. The girl tried to ignore the guy's voice who had possessed her, but her actions were contrary to a block of hands holding on her step.

"If you ignoring me like that, it makes me even more curious, because I'm sure your feelings say otherwise."

The guy began to erode the distance between them. Edith looked at the same brown eyes as that night. Such passionate eyes made herself overwhelmed. Edith's heartbeat began to race quickly. The waves in her brain sent a signal to make an evasive gesture, but her heart resisted. She remained standing in place like a statue.

The rejection signal won the inner upheaval in her heart. Edith said, "Get out of the way, Seth! I have nothing to do with you anymore. Move over!" 

Seth removed his hand from Edith and watched the girl pass from before him. Seth pulled out his big grin and retorted, "You'll have something to do with me in a while, Edith and you won't be able to refuse it anymore. I was imprinted by you!"

She swore, "You asshole, I hate you so much!"

Seth left the corridor and returned to the classroom, which was about to start in ten minutes. Although his feet stepped towards the classroom, his mind could not be separated from Edith, the girl who had tied him up. The string tie made the whole universe turn to her who almost a year ago he accidentally violated with.

*

Edith ordered two portions of half-cooked steak. She was very hungry after today's literacy class. In this month, her appetite has increased uncharacteristically. Edith was not used to eating undercooked meat as chewed in her mouth at this time, but the taste of the steak she ordered became very delicious and was able to solve her hunger.

“I wonder why I'm eating so much these days, just like everyone in here?”

During this break, the cafeteria was crowded with students who were struggling with tableware and dishes whose entire menu was processed meat. The huge appetite that those students have sometimes makes Edith feel disgusted, but now it’s different.

She thought that the students in this school are too much when it comes to eating. This place also feels strange to her, because there is not any vegetable menu served.

While Edith was cutting meat, she was shocked again by Seth's presence. He was already sitting next to her at this time. His hand held the tray containing 4 servings of steak exactly as Edith was eating.

"Your presence makes my appetite disappear, Seth!" Edith put her knife and fork roughly on her dinner plate. She was just about to get up, but her hand was already held back by Seth.

"Please Edith, don't go! And please finish your meal! I promise to just shut up and eat quietly." Seth uttered it pleading instead of commanding.

Edith continue her meal. She felt that this time Seth would not make trouble like he usually did during break. He is  like disturbing the other students by sliding their steps to fall, so that their trays become spilled and the food is splattered on the floor. For Seth and his friends it was an interesting show. She don't know why, none of the students who were the subject of Seth and his friends' pranks dared to resist. They seem to be resigned to the situation.

But that didn't apply to Edith. She ran to be the student committee chairman so that such an incident would not happen again. She was fed up with the behavior of Seth and his friends. Her conscience felt called to make things right. One step closer then she will be the chairman. Polls will close at 00:00 in the morning and the results will be announced two days later. Edith is very confident in her ratings, because the difference in numbers is quite far from her rivals.

Edith had finished her lunch followed by Seth who didn't want to be left behind by Edith. Seth's strange behavior made Edith a little uncomfortable, but she didn't want to talk too much or expend much energy arguing with the guy.

Edith wiped her mouth with a tissue after downing her strawberry juice. Just as she was about to get up from her chair, she suddenly felt sick. Her stomach seemed to be shaken. Edith rushed to the girls' toilet. She entered the toilet cubicle at the very end so that her voice would not be heard. All the food she had eaten just now came out. Leaves a bitter sensation in her throat.

"Edith, are you okay?"

Unbeknownst to Edith, Seth followed her all the way to the toilet from the cafeteria. The guy waited outside the women's toilet with a look full of anxiety. His figure standing waiting was noticed by several female students who passed in front of the girls' toilet, but he paid no heed to it. He just thought about how Edith was doing at the moment.

Edith raised her volume and shouted, "Why do you follow me? I just vomited. Just go, Seth, there is no need to be pretentious to me!"

Edith was still vomiting all the contents of her stomach. Her sweat ran all over her face and neck. Her body became hot and cold. Her right hand gripped the side of the toilet sitting in front of her and her left hand grabbed as much tissue as possible to wipe away the sweat that was already flowing.

The nausea has stopped, there is already nothing to remove from her stomach. Her throat became very painful from the pressure as she expelled the unpleasantly smelling liquid. She pressed the flush button and saw that the liquid inside had changed to clear again.

Edith came out of the toilet cubicle to the sink to wash her hands. She looked at herself in the mirror, her face looked pale exactly like the milky white shirt she was wearing at the moment. After washing her hands, Edith washed her face to make it fresher.

Edith walked out of the girls' toilet. In the doorway, she saw Seth staring back at her. Edith was tired of dealing with the guy this time, but why did Seth stay around her?

"Feel better, Edith? Please answer my question!" 

A look of despair appeared on Seth's face. Edith wondered why he cared about her so much. Is this one strategy to play her again? After all, Seth is a badboy who is known to play with girl's feelings and make fun of other who look weak in front of himself and his friends.

Edith didn't want to care about his question. She must not have to answer him, so Edith retracted her gaze and left Seth behind. She wants to head towards her current class with the intention of avoiding Seth once again.

As he walked past Seth, her gaze suddenly became out of focus, her head felt dizzy and swirling. Edith saw at first glance that her vision became closer to the floor and eventually became completely dark. 

*

Edith opened her eyes slowly, trying to adjust the light that entered her vision. She looked up at the room ceiling, it felt like she was lying down at this moment. Not on the hard floor as she stepped on just before she closed her eyes, but the soft bed typical of the infirmary at school. She looked to her right side and saw Seth sitting on a bench right beside the bed. She was focusing on typing on the screen of his mobile phone.

“What are you doing in here, Seth?”

Seth raised his face and looked at Edith. He breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "I brought you here. I waited for you as long as you fainted, I was worried about you."

With her hoarse voice Edith asked again, "For what? I don't want to deal with you anymore Seth! So go and leave me alone then just assume that nothing has ever happened between us!"

Edith had to affirm the current position of both of them. For her, the situation of that night must be forgotten. She didn't want to remember it anymore.

"I have to do it. I don't want anything bad happen to both of you." The sentence that came out of him became a question in her mind.

"Both?"