2 School Drama, Family Drama Really!!

I woke up to my little sister brushing my fur, she was brushing a little hard but it felt pretty good. I was tempted to stay there and let her brush till I fell back asleep. But I had to go to school today so I let her know I was awake by wagging my tail ever so slightly and slowly stretching out. Once she knew I was awake she smiled at me, told me it was 5:50 A.M. and that breakfast would be done soon. Then she left the room making sure to close the door behind her. I knew she was going to tell mom I was up. She only brushed my hair (or in this case fur) when someone wanted me in a good mood for something.

I didn't think it would be a good morning, but I changed back to human and put my favorite dress on. After all, it was the last full day of my sophomore year. Tomorrow is a half day, then it's summer vacation for the next three months. This summer was definitely going to be one to remember, from what mom said last night. I finished curling my hair by 6:25 a.m, if the clock on my dresser was right. Which it sometimes is even though it broke last month when my little sister had her first change. She really freaked out, the first change can be painful but that is the only painful change. At least if you're healthy and not injured.

I opened my bedroom door and smelled all kinds of pork cooking. Okay, mom must really want me in a good mood, like I will do anything. I might be in trouble if I had to try and fight bacon then I was a goner already, and my mom knew it too. When I got down to the kitchen there was no doubt I was a goner, three plates piled high with various pork foods. First thing I did after drooling over the food is turned to my mom and ask

"What did you do? Or what do you want?" I had an idea of what she was going to say but I didn't want to deal with it right now so I played dumb about know what was going to happen.

"I didn't do anything." she protested as sweetly as she could.

"Then what do you want mom, I am not dumb. I know you're trying to butter me up, so what is it?" I tried to say coolly but I had a feeling it came out as a whine as I stared at the food, I was hungry and that food smelled really good okay.

"We'll talk after school when there aren't as many ears around to hear."My mom said with no more push in her voice than a puppy I was a goner! If she was being nice that meant she was either going to kill me or she just needed to talk without the chances of my siblings hearing the possibility of the fight we might get in. She was right, I could hear my three little brothers and three sisters right around the corner trying to listen in on what we were talking about. So being the oldest I went around the other way and got right behind all of my little siblings and….

"BOOOOO!" They all ran right into the kitchen and from there behind my mother. "Man you should have seen all of your faces, they were priceless," I said between fits of laughter.

But then Rose yelled "DOGPILE!" Followed by 6 little bodies getting ready to pounce.

And every one of them jumped at me, but I was slightly faster. "You really think you can catch me, don't make me laugh." I hollered back at them as I dashed around, grabbing my bookbag, two or three hands full of bacon and sausage using a napkin to hold it all and dashed out the door yelling "Bye guys see you after school, by the way, I win Rose."  

I could hear Rose running behind me so I slowed down for her so she could catch up. I was faster and older after all. "It's all going to be okay right sissy?" she asked me looking as worried as a ten year old could which was pretty impressive for her.

Knowing she had overheard mom's conversation with me last night I wasn't sure how to respond because I didn't know for myself so I just said what I could without lying. She would know if I lied by my change in a heartbeat and change in my scent. "I will do my best to make everything be okay, but that's all I can promise Tiny. Now I have to go or I will miss the bus."

"Bye bye sissy see you tonight right?" she called as I started up the road again.

"Unless Benny boy has anything for me, tomorrow is my birthday after all," I yelled back without turning around. And with that, I put on the speed because I was still over a mile from the bus stop and I could hear it. Hard to miss the sound of gunshots the broken old bus makes every minute.

No sooner then I got to the stop the bus pulled up. I got on looking carefully for the school bullies. Finding them in the front watching me with hungry stairs as if I was a hamburger and they hadn't eaten in days. Before I knew what was happening I was covered from head to toe in raw meat and garbage. The food I had intended on eating was taken and ripped up or eaten right in front of me.  

The second in command of the school bullies a kid named Bruce took one long look at me and said to the whole bus "Look the only time she will have a place to belong in the trash, but wait that's an insult to trash. Well, I guess she will just have to live out her life in the middle of nowhere so no one ever has to see her face. Wait she already lives in the middle of nowhere but sadly we still have to see her face!" He said sarcastically then sadly.

Then the leader of the group Felix stood up.

"Bruce sit down, apologize then shut up." Bruce knowing that Felix could beat him and kick him out of the cool crowd looked at him and sheepishly asked.

"Are you for real? You want me to be nice to this outcast!"

"Yes, Bruce I expect you to act like a human being. I may not like May but you will at least be polite to her!" Felix is a very soft-spoken person but there was a strong command in his voice. Bruce not wanting to become an outcast did as he was ordered to and stayed quiet for the rest of the bus ride. I wondered why he hated me or if I had ever done anything to him. As far as I know I had not.

Let me enlighten you on the thing known as Felix, he is the kind of man that has the looks of an angle but the attitude of a sinner.

But Felix is just a bad boy not a jerk like most of his friends. Thought then again he was popular and so were most of his friends.

       His angelic face, warm smile, sharp jawline. His looks are a gift from God. Felix has all the teachers wrapped around his finger, in their eyes, he could do no wrong. That is a lie but at least he wasn't so out right rude and mean to people.

The bus started moving as soon as I was on so I had no choice but to sit down and go to school covered in trash with the whole bus laughing at me and cracking jokes out aloud and in hushed voices. Everyones talking about me or how funny Bruce is or how hot Felix is. I even thought I hated the guys he hung out with. I had to admit that Felix was the hottest guy at school. And I was head over heels in love with him just like every other girl.

I wish I could say that I hated the guy and didn't want to feel the touch of his skin on mine or know that he is mine and only mine. But that's not true and sadly I knew that he would never be mine. But it would do me no good to try to get his love now because I don't get to have a dating life no I don't get the choice of who I do or don't date or marry. No, my mom has already made that choice for me.

Now I was mad at my mom so I wasn't listening to everyone on the bus and therefore I wasn't paying attention when Felix was close enough I could smell him for the first time and right then I knew why he hated me so much. He wasn't human at all but I wasn't sure what he was. There are many different non-human things that I had never come across but I had a very terrifying idea of what he might be.

When the bus finally came to a stop in front of the school I pulled on some of the Leash magic to hide myself. It is kinda like going invisible but really it just makes people not notice me, as long as they are not looking for me and I don't do anything to attract attention. 

Luckily the only person who saw me was Benny. He came rushing in and didn't look at me and I won't break your face. Benny is a very different type of person, he lets off this 'don't mess with me' vibe. He's tall, taller than most. His eyes a dark green and his hair jet black. His arms held some ink and his clothes were usually dark. I'm usually the only one who dares to approach him.

With worry written all over his face, he slowly ran up to me. Everyone thought he was some big bad scary guy who might kill you in your sleep, but he is a really sweet and caring guy once you get to know him. But that is not to say he wouldn't break your face if you messed with his friend aka me.

He would go to the ends of the earth to protect me. And every time he tries to save me I put him in his place.  I tell him all the time, I don't need protecting, we were after all the same age and we both turned into the same animal. But on days like today, there is no point in arguing with him.

"Are you okay? Who did this I will kill them." His voice was full of concern and anger.

"I am fine just a wounded pride. And I am not telling you who because I need you more than they are worth you getting put in jail over. I will be fine once I get cleaned up and outta these clothes." I used my voice to convey what I said so he would back off a little.

"Okay. I will do what I can to help you." He responded to the look of need in my eyes.

"Thank you now, let's go, people are starting to look this way and you talking to yourself is drawing more attention to me and my magic trick is starting to wear off. Can I use your jacket when I am done to hide this dress?" I asked, adding big pleading eyes to get him to give me the jacket. He hardly ever took his jacket off. It was the last gift his leash had given him before the accident the same one that took my dad away from me.

I had a flashback to the little girl I was when he left for work, promising to take me for my First Hunt Under the Moon as a fox when he came home. The First Hunt Under the Moon is a right of passage, that normally the alpha or the leader of the leash would take the young kit or kits out to learn how to hunt on their own. On top of it being a way to learn how to hunt it is also learning how to be part of a leash. I had been so excited about it, I was finally going to become part of the leash I was finally going to have a place to belong. As I got home from school I sat trying to be patient but being only ten years old I wasn't very successful at it. I waited all afternoon just sitting by the door.

I remember falling asleep and waking up to my mom screaming in pain. I ran to her side to see she was in labor thou at the time I didn't know what was happening. Just that she was lying flat on the bed screaming. She had been training me on what to do in case dad wasn't home when she started giving birth, but at the time I wasn't sure what that meant. So I ran and got hot water and some towels and put them on the floor next to her. A while later I met my new little sister, who we named after my dad's mom not knowing he would never get to meet his new daughter.

Returning to the present I looked around to find myself in the bathroom having been pushed inside by Benny. As I looked around I realized that I was in one of the gym bathrooms because there were showers at the other end of it. Lucky school hadn't started yet so I was all alone but I knew that wouldn't last long so I hopped in the show in all of my clothes minus my bra and underwear. They didn't get dirty after all. I knew it was safe for me to do this because Benny god bless him wouldn't let anyone in until I was out. Not even the teachers if they were brave enough to try and face off with Benny.

As soon as I got the last of the trash out of my hair and got rid of most of the smell I stepped out of the show and started trying to dry off. Luckily I always bring extra clothes for gym but sadly today I didn't put a shirt in my bag just shorts in case it got too hot and I needed to put shorts on under my dress or something.

I was walking out of the bathroom dressed in a dripping wet dress but at least I was clean and I didn't smell so strongly of trash or raw meat. Benny took one look at me and without a word, he took off his jacket and put it on me. I just stood still while he did this because one he was doing something he had never really done. Two he is dominant which means when I get hurt or bullied he feels it is his job to protect me.

If he was part of a Pack he would be the Beta or Delta. He wouldn't be an alpha just because he is so young. Unlike some supernatural creatures we have a mostly normal childhood, by that I mean we grow up just like normal kids do, but we also, like Werewolves, won't die of old age. Most of my kind dies because of the wars with the Werewolves. And from what I have heard most Werewolves die from dominance fights, aka fights to the death or very near death just to see who is to be obeyed and who is to obey. You know that is what is dominance.

"Thank you Benny, now let's go before anyone sees us and gets the wrong idea." I said sheepishly waiting for him to understand that I needed to get out of sight if no one saw me then hopefully no one would believe Felix's story.

"Alright but I am not letting you out of my sight today!" Benny said it as a command which made the hair on my neck stick up. I was dominant too in a way at least. I was an omega aka dominant but I don't have to fight to prove it. I also was not good at taking orders from anyone but my own alpha which had been my mom since my dad died.

"You can't follow me to every class I have. We don't have the same schedule. I will see you in the gym and language arts. The only other time I want to run into you today is lunch. Even then you can't be trying to herd me like you are a dog and I am your sheep to protect. I am fully capable of protecting myself." I say with a bit of anger but not because of his command. I have started to think about what awaits me after school today. "Besides you can't protect me from everything," I add under my breath hoping he does and doesn't hear.

I know it would be pointless to tell him about the conversation I had with my mom last night. He would try to find a way to fix it. When he couldn't it would hurt him. The more I thought about it that way, the more I started to realize just why it would hurt him. If I was right no matter if I told him that I am engaged or not he would be hurt. If I was just a friend to him he would never have given me his jacket.

As all that works through my head Benny is giving me his puzzled tell me more face. I try to think of a way to blow him off until I can make sure of my suspicions. I also need to find a way to tell him about me being engaged without him getting hurt. Just as I was about to open my mouth and feed him some really dumb excuse that is also true the bell rings.

" See you third-hour. I have to go or I will have to take the test without getting a little extra time to study." I call out over my shoulder as I turn heading in the direction of my first-hour class.  

"Okay, we will talk about what you said at lunch though! Don't think I missed it." He calls after me as he heads in the other direction.

By the end of the first-hour, I knew that going to lunch was not an option for me. Everyone who has any kind of social media has heard or seen what happened on the bus today. As the bell rang to signal that the first hour had ended I made a dash to the bathroom.

"I can just hide in here for the rest of the day," I mumble to myself. Just as I think that my plan might work I hear my name being called over the intercom.

"Will May Faith Forest please return to class or call the office." My teacher Mr. Wells' voice repeats two times before letting the intercom hang up. All my hopes of ghosting the rest of the day gone. If I didn't show up to class soon there would be a man-hunt for me. Not something I wanted. Off to class and my doom, I thought as I walked like a sloth slowly down the hall.