2 1: What is your race?
At age 10, everyone in primary school had to undergo an examination that would determine their second gender. The end result would leave some people happy whilst the other sad. Why you ask??
The second gender were categorized as alpha (πΆ), beta (Γ) and omega (Ξ©).
As everyone had said,
Alpha were the superior race, which consisted of only 15% of the population, the top of the tops.
Beta was the mediocre race, consisting of the 40% of the population and then there were the omegas, the bottom of the pyramid, also consisting of the 15% of the population. The other 30% consisted of the children who were yet to be diagnosed.
Everyone wanted to be diagnosed as an alpha, they had an easy life. They would be privileges and had access to multiple things without much effort. Omega on the other hand were not preferred, neither in work nor as friends.
People categorized Omegas as burdensome people, because once a month they would go into heat. Unlike alphas who had control over it the omegas didn't and they needed inhibitor or suppressant for it. These medicines did not come easily.
Being an omega in school meant that you were prone to bullying, so when asked, the students would say they were usually beta, so that they wouldn't get bullied.
The result came in for the examination and Gulf was called in to the office.
"You are an omega" these words were enough for Gulf to know that his life is not going to be easy
He contemplated on telling his friends about is second gender, but there was the preceding fear of how they would perceive him....
"Gulfieeeee" Team came running from the corridor to the playground where Gulf was sitting with Aom and Champ
"The results were announced, I am an Omega" Team said, shocking the group of friends sitting in a circle
"Beta, here" Aom and Champ said in unison and then looked at each other and gave high-fives
"If you don't want to tell, its fine, what ever the result, we will alway be your friend" Champ said putting a hand to his chest
"I am an Omega" Gulf said after taking a deep breaths.
The friends swore that the result would stay between them only. Only the alphas in the school showed off their status with pride.
Gulf couldn't understand why a second gender even existed and how a race could change a persons destiny. For him man or woman, alpha, beta or omega were all equal. You don't choose what to become, it was a natural process, no one had rights to dominate the other.
Gulf and his friends had successfully graduated from high school and ventured on to higher studies. The cost of the inhibitors put a strain on the Kanawut family. After graduating, Gulf took on part-time jobs to pay for his education and medicines. His partial scholarship covered for some of his education but he still had to cover a lot. His siblings (2 omegas and 2 betas) also needed support, so he hoped this extra work would help his family even a little bit.
First semester in college was relatively light. Morning 8:00 am-3:00 pm he attended classes and then after, 4:00 pm till 11:00 pm, he took up different part-time jobs. These jobs didn't have strains on his studies at all. He did better than the average students and never got into trouble. He made a lot of friends other than his high school friends who had been going to the same college. His friend circle grew slowly but gradually. He didn't hate alphas but he tried to stay clear of them as much as possible.
"Soulmate" a word he had heard Champ say once. Gulf researched about it. Soulmates were bound by fate, an alpha for an omega and vice-versa. The bond between the soulmate was stronger than normal, among the 30% of alpha and omega bonds. Only 5% of the total population were soulmates. No one could deny their soulmate, no matter what.
Destiny alway played a joke on soulmates.
Gulf wanted to fall in love and experience all the romantic things in life but his fear of alphas was always in the way. Betas always stayed clear of omegas, whenever any girl would know that Gulf was omega, she wouldn't contact him ever again. Betas only wanted to mate with alphas to raise their prestiges.
Omegas on the other hand were accepted by alphas only because they could give birth. Unlike other races, male omegas could give birth like any other female and the rate of alphas born from omegas was higher than that of an alpha-alpha, alpha-beta or beta-beta parents. There were even shops that would sell omegas due to this, kind of like surrogacy parent.
Gulf's hate started a particular day. Gulf recalled the day, it was 1:00 am in the morning and his phone rang, as he lifted the phone and saw the caller ID, he was confused, his best friend Team had called him, crying...
"Gulf !!!!! Help me...please" Team was crying
"Team, where are you? What happened?" Gulf got off from his bed and rushed out the house almost waking his siblings in the process.
"Team calm down and tell me where you are?" Gulf asked hurriedly
"Gulf....... the Sunshine Club" Team said in broken sobs and the phone went shut
"Team... stay with me.... shit" Gulf said the moment he saw the screen go blank
Gulf called Champ and Aom and they all gathered in front of the club. They entered and looked around like crazy unable to find Team at all... where can he be at???
"He was such an easy catch" a group of people passed by Gulf and his friends and the stench they eluded was disgusting.
"His heat came at the right time.....hahahahahaahahaha" another guy with them said and then the group went and sat at the sofa near the stage...
Gulf picked up the phone and called Team multiple times till he picked up the phone
"H....ee....lll...oooo" Teams voice cracked
"Where are you?" Gulf screamed on top of the music that was playing in the club
"The toilet" was all Team said and the boys rushed to the backside of the club where the toilets were
The sight once they opened the door was one that none would forget....and the smell in the toilet was driving everyone crazy. They rushed in and locked the main toilet blocking other peoples entry.....
Team was laying on the floor with his pants no where in sight. He was covered in white substance all over. His left hand had an inhibitor injection that he had injected into his thigh, with wire marks on his wrists. His shirt was torn in pieces and he had red marks all over. His neck was bitten all over..........
Gulf and his friends got to work, Aom found Team's pants and helped Team put it on, luckily Gulf was wearing a jacket, which he removed and gave to Team to wear. His friends helped Team clean up and they opened the doors and headed out of the club........ Team was unconscious throughout the process
As the boys paved the path out of the club....
"That bitch got his friends over" the same boy as before said pointed at Gulf and his friends
Gulf ignored it initially
"It was his fault, who told him to swing his ass in front of the alphas, omegas deserve this" his laughter followed with his friends sneering at them
Gulf have had enough, he left his friend to go towards these guys.......
"If you can't keep your desires in your pants, don't blame others for it" Gulf almost spit on his face
"Bitch you are asking for it" he sneered "I can do you anytime omega bitch" he whispered into Gulf's ears and that was it
Gulf curled his fist and punched on that guys face almost knocking his teeth out.
"You bitch" he lifted his hand and drove a punch to Gulf face that Gulf blocked easily, Gulf was trained, weaklings were easy for him
Another punch landed on that guy's face "stay away from Team, if I ever see you near him again, I'll kill you" Gulf spit on the guy and left with his friends.
Outside Gulf called for a taxi to transport Team to the hospital, on the side note he also called Kom, Team's brother to get his documents for the hospitals paper work. Kom arrived at the same time as the taxi did luckily.
Since the Taxi could hold only 4 people at a time, Gulf decided to take the next one that was coming. He helped the boys put Team in the backseat and closed the door when Kom sat in.
"Keep me updated" Gulf said to Aom as the taxi rolled out towards the hospital.....
Gulf waited in the dead of the night for the taxi to come in. The application showed it would take another 8 minutes till it reached. He could wait, anything for his friends.
Bang, a solid stick made contact with Gulf's head. Had it been anyone else he would have fainted on spot, but for Gulf he stumbled backwards.
He put his hand on his head and turned around to see who the hell on earth had the audacity to do this...
Those men he had altercation with in the club now stood in a row with the middle one having a metal bat in his hand. At this point, Gulf was visibly bleeding as he felt a warm liquid slowly seeping down his neck behind
"Are you serious right now?" Gulf asked sarcastically
The men smirked "you started it". They started walking towards Gulf in slow but hurried steps as Gulf took a step backwards. He tried to analyze the situation, how can he leave unscathed after taking on 5 guys. Nope, there was no way. He knew he was in serious trouble, he didn't even have his friends at this point and there was no one other than the 6 people right now...
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[Unknown POV]
Looking through the CCTV, something interesting was going on. How will he deal with 5 people alone. He started the fight and left it hanging, now he has to finish it. One of the either side is going to win.
"Mild, come here, something interesting is going down" Bosser, the person in charge of the CCTV called the other
"Aren't you going to stop them" Mild retorted
"It's outside the club, that's none of my concern" Bosser laughed
While the boys laughed, minutes later their eyes widened as they saw who the person on the screen was
"Shit, thats' our Boss....." Mild and Bosser ran at the speed of the lightening to the area where the fight was going on
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The men charged at Gulf like there was no tomorrow and the physical fight started, Gulf played defensive because offense would injure him more. Shit, the head injury was making him dizzy quickly and he was gradually losing consciousness.
Gulf eventually fell to the ground, his eyes barely open and he could see the men stomping and hitting his abdomen severely.
Even though it was hurting, Gulf could barely feel the pain as he was losing consciousness. Then all of the sudden the beating stopped. He didn't feel any impact. He tried to open his eyes and all he could see was a tall figure taking on the men followed by another two men joining him. There was a scent of comfort surrounded him and then Gulf blacked out completely.
Gulf woke up in the hospital surrounded by his parents
"Gulf are you alright?" Mom was worried
"Mom, I am fine" he reassured her
"Why the hell were you even near the club, you know that's an alpha club" Dad questioned
"Dad, you know that I never go to clubs and bars, I went to help a friend" Gulf reassured his dad
Gulf despised alcohol and hated bars and clubs, the one place where people lose their sanity and would involve in affairs, he would never step into it. He only did it the last time for his friend
"Friend? " his dad was not buying it
"Can we talk about that later" Gulf was in no mood to talk about Team with his family, if Team didn't say about it, then Gulf would also not talk about it.
"Sure, now you, young boy sleep" his dad tucked him in and kissed his forehead. His family was close knit and he wished that they stay that way for the rest of his life.
A day later, Gulf was discharged. His first step was to visit Team, lucky they were both in the same hospital, so he visited him.
Knock,knock
"Come in" Kom said from inside
"Hi" Gulf all bandaged up went it
"What the hell happened?" Kom was shocked and he almost screamed at Gulf, amidst the scream Team woke up
"Gulf, don't tell me you fought with them" Team, with his blank eyes spoke
"I am fine" Gulf said patting Team in the back and smiled
Kom left the room to give the boys room to talk
Gulf sat on the chair beside the bed and held Teams' hand. Team was one of the cheerful and bubbly boys everyone knew, seeing him empty, hurt Gulf the most. He wanted to kill those men a million times over and over, if he could.
"Team..." Gulf started, that was enough for Team to start crying "I'll always be there for you"
"Gulf, I can't do anything, I, was it my fault....... I just went there for fun... I kept saying no, they just wouldn't listen " Team was sobbing mid words. Team continued
"Funny story...... guess who my doctor is..."
"No way, seriously" Gulf shook his head in disbelief
"He is.... And I can't even look at him in the eye.... he wouldn't even touch me, he stayed as far as he could" Team continued "Why didn't I meet him before.... Where was he, when I needed him..... guess its a retribution for my mistakes" Team was crying profusely, he broke down in Gulfs' arms.
Minutes later, Team started shaking like crazy, and then Gulf smelled alpha pheromones leaking in to the room.
There was a knock on the door and a nurse followed by the doctor came in. Gulf immediately understood what was going on.
The nurse came forward and held on to Team to inject the medicine to calm him down... alpha scents caused Team's PTSD to trigger, he needed an anti-depressant to calm him down.
Once Team calmed down, the doctor left the room. Gulf tucked down a sleepy Team and ran behind the doctor.
"Doctor, are you alright?" Gulf asked
"I have no words....he hates to even have my scent around him"
"Give him time, he will come around" Gulf could only sympathize but not empathize with him "He is strong and cheerful, just don't force him"
"Doctor, you are on call" a nurse called the doctor and he bid his bye and left
Gulf went back to the room which now had a sleeping Team in the hospital bed with Kom on the sofa-bed.
"Kom, keep me updated and if you need anything tell me " Gulf told Kom and headed to his room where his parents were waiting. He send his parents to the car whilst he went to fill the discharge papers.
"I came here to finalize my discharge" Gulf told the nurse
"Room number"
"#2102" she typed in
"It's been finalized and processed" confusing Gulf
"But I just came here to finalize it, what if there is a mistake" Gulf said
"No, its done, take care of yourself" the nurse said bidding her byes to Gulf
A confused Gulf left the hospital unknown to him that he was watched three cars down. As Gulf reached the road, he stopped and looked left and right, a car whizzed by, for a brief second he made eye contact with the back passenger, like he knew him. Gulf pushed the thought out of his mind and walked towards the car
"Let's go home, the kids have a surprise for you" his dad announced
"That was a surprise " his mom hit his dad on his hand
"Whoops!!!! Let's rewind and imagine if I didn't say anything" his dad laughed
All the way home, there were jokes and laughter.
As much as Gulf knew he was hot-headed and straightforward, he as knew he was never ungrateful. He knew he had to thank his benefactor, but he had no idea where to start.
The club.... He could start there and then the idea hit him....
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