20 Drowning

The following three days going through the weekend passed by much quicker than Apryl had expected them to. She had been able to spend them at home since she had gotten no alert that the college was needing anything extra from her or that there was a problem with her application. She was just stuck in limbo with that waiting until her acceptance was confirmed.

She took the time to spend her with her mother and the rest of the pack. She helped her mom do stuff around the house when she felt like she was too tired or doing too much. She wanted her mom to rest more as she knew she was getting further along in the pregnancy. Exercise was good for, but too much and she could end up inducing labor too soon.

She didn't mind taking over some of the work that her mom was learning how to do from Lydia. Apryl knew that it would only benefit her when the opportunity came for her to move into her own place. She would rather learn as many new skills as she could now while waiting than have to learn them at the last minute when she had a bunch of other stuff she needed to do piling up around her.

When Brian wasn't around at work, she spent extra time working with Oreo on getting comfortable being in his human from. He still wasn't willing to leave the room with the pups during the day out of concern that if he got startled, he might shift back. The risk of him being spotted by anyone out of side of the pack was slim, but he didn't want to take the risk because of the impact it would have on anyone else.

Thankfully during this time the pups had gotten used to him so there was no longer any rough biting or growling at him when he shifted. Instead they were more interested in climbing all over him and trying to get him to play with them. He did his best to oblige them, but not too much as he knew they would end up thinking it was okay to be rough and he still had to convince Timid that she would be safe to shift as well without getting hurt.

Even with her friend shifting into human, she still felt uncertain about the matter. She wanted to do it, but she was afraid of what being in such a vulnerable position would mean for her. Being a male omega was different than a female omega. There were more risks involved, even a human that didn't change much.

Apryl didn't get involved with this though as he didn't want to make her feel pressured to do anything out of an obligation to respect a higher authority. Doing so she felt would make Timid resent shifting into a human and cause her to not want to do it at all. The only thing that was different between her and Apryl's other siblings was that she wasn't flat out refusing to shift, she was still just scared by it.

Around this Apryl had also been practicing getting more comfortable using her phone and navigating it. Until she could get ahold of another computer somehow, she was going to have to rely on her phone when Brian was home and using the one computer for work.

Words and writing were something else that she had been practicing as well. Her hand writing wasn't horrible despite the fact that she had hardly tried before to write before the last week, but she wanted to make sure that it was legible and she knew how to properly spell basic words so that people wouldn't think her English writing abilities were below average.

Word familiarity was more of a challenge for her simply because there was so many more things in the human world that she didn't know the word for than there was that she did. The ones that she had seen when going to college were easy to memorize because she would be seeing them most days when she went to college. Other words related to the college weren't that hard to memorize and learn either. Although she did create a list of things she figured she would need to pick up once she was in classes.

Money was the sticking point with this though. Lydia had told her there were a few notebooks, pens, and pencils she had stored away after her pups had grown up, graduated and left just in case she needed them, which was great as a starting point for her. But Apryl knew that there would probably be more expensive things that she would have to get for the semester.

Even though she had little experience in dealing with it, she had already come to the conclusion that money was stressful and whatever she needed for college was going to be far more than she or her aunt had on hand to help her with.

She had a feeling that Keith would be able to help her with somethings being a werewolf in college himself, but she wasn't sure what to ask him about or how to go about it. She could probably wait until she was accepted, but the moment that she was, she knew right away she needed to enroll in classes and getting started as next week was the beginning of the eight-week class block.

Rolling over on her bed, she stared up at the ceiling. It was later in the day and she had decided to take some time to breath as she had been helping her Aunt with a lot of the chores around the house and keeping the pups company so that her mom could get some extra sleep.

She was trying not worry about it too much, but she couldn't put off the fact that she needed money. No matter how many days went by and other things around her changed or improved, the one looming thing that was bothering her was money.

Brian had a job but she already knew from the way that he talked about it that he had gotten by going through college and gaining experience that was needed for the job. He worked some way other in the business sector dealing with business analysis. Stuff that sounded too complicated for Apryl to understand.

Pulling out her phone she looked at Keith's number. She hadn't actually messaged him since he had put in for her. She had kept the practicing of how to correctly type and send message between her mom and aunt that way if she messed anything up, she wouldn't be making a fool of herself to anyone outside of the family.

Now though, she wanted to message someone outside of family about what was bothering her in hopes that maybe there was a solution. Staring upside down at her phone with her head hanging off the bed was making her feel a little woozy. Wolves weren't made to lay in such strange positions for long periods of time, Apryl however found the position to be comforting as the shift in blood to her head helped her to not be able to think so hard about the things that were bothering her. Her mom would've probably told her that was a bad thing, but she didn't really care much about that at this point in time.

'I feel like I'm drowning in stuff to do.' It took her probably two minutes longer than necessary to type the text out to him, but she felt it was enough to get a reply from him.

'What's wrong?' was the text that came back after a few minutes of nothing. She had begun to think that Keith wasn't going to reply to her.

'I dont know too much and I feel so much I need to learn and figure out quick.' was what she sent back. She knew some of the words were probably not spelled correctly or missing, but she didn't have the patience to go through the workbook again to deal with writing sentences.

'Don't worry, you still have got plenty of time to figure stuff out. I can help where need be, but only during the weekdays. You need to explain what exactly you don't know though.' Apryl frowned when she read this. She didn't want to have to explain it to him in text, she didn't know exactly how to and felt like he would think she's stupid for knowing so little.

'never mind' was what she decided to send back. She couldn't deal with explaining everything now or Monday. sighing, she put her phone down further away from her as she curled up on the bed. She would figure something out, she had to.

Apryl jumped at the unexpected sound of her phone ringtone going off behind her. She had never heard that noise before and because of completely unexpected it was, she almost fell off the bed because of how startled she was.

Picking up the phone warily, not wanting to press any wrong button lest the noise continue or get louder, she looked at her screen to see what the cause of it was. Keith's name was flashing on the screen with two phone icons, a red one on the right and a green on the left. She had never seen this screen before as she had always texted her mom and they had never called before. This was a very awkward position to be in.