EXPLAINING BOYFRIENDS 1-10

Let me explain. I'm not sure why I feel the need to explain myself in my own diary, but bear with me. There was no way I was going to go down in history as the playboy Alpha - that was Henry. So let me clear my own name and set things straight.

I DID NOT have a lot of boyfriends. I just had a lot of friends that were boys. This was just like in my Original Timeline. I had always preferred running with the boys as a pup.

Anyway, they were just rumors. You shouldn't listen to rumors. At best, they were misunderstandings and exaggerations. Bearing in mind that most of the events in Timeline 3 paralleled the Original Timeline's quite closely, this was what happened:

It all started with BOYFRIEND #1, Dean, who was really my best friend who happened to also be a boy. I was kind of upset about Bell breaking up our engagement - even though it wasn't like I wanted to be engaged to him. This was mostly because Shannon was talking about always being the one who initiated the break up.

This made me feel bad that I wasn't the one who broke up with Bell.

"That's not good." Shannon agreed, "Now it'll look like you're the one being dumped."

"What should I do?" I asked. Boy-girl-relationships were never my forte.

"It's even worse because that Lorent Young Alpha is always with some other girl!" Lizzy fumed on my behalf.

From the moment Bell broke up with me, he had never been subtle about his affairs.

"You need to start dating too." Shannon told me, "If you don't, he'd think you haven't gotten over him."

Oh far be it for Bell to think that!

So we roped in Dean. He was my training partner and best friend, so it felt only natural to use him.

"From now on, you're going to be my boyfriend." I informed him.

"Just pretend." Shannon clarified on my behalf, "Its just for show."

So we told everyone that we were dating, but other than that, we didn't really do anything differently from before. For some reason, even though all my gang knew that Dean was just pretend, a lot of our friends also felt that Dean harbored real feelings towards me. Even Savy thought so.

"Are you two really only pretending?" Savy had asked.

"Yeah, why do you even have to ask?" I would think it was obvious.

Savy shrugged, "I don't know… Dean sounded like it was a bit more than that."

Later on, Shannon told me that Dean told the guys in the locker room that we nearly kissed. I seriously racked my brains to try to remember any incident when we might have been close enough for Dean to think so…

"I should have known he was lying." Shannon said.

Why? It wasn't like Shannon had an Alpha Wolf.

Shortly after, during one Saturday's breakfast with my gang, Tim asked, "Why the omega though?"

We explained that it was because we didn't want Bell to think I wasn't over him.

"I wasn't even into him!" I just had to make sure everyone knew.

"Okay…" Tim said, "But why the omega? I mean, couldn't Sam do any better?"

Oh, well if he put it that way… Bell was the Young Alpha of the Glorious Lorent Pack. If I ended up dating the omega of my pack after getting dumped by Bell, it would seem like a "demotion."

"You need an alpha boyfriend." Shannon told me.

Therefore, BOYFRIEND #2 was Mac. I just asked him when he came over with his Dad. (This was before he got kidnapped and sold to the fight cages.)

"Hey, Mac. Will you be my boyfriend?" I said.

"What?" Mac looked super shocked.

"Like just pretend." I said, "So James won't think I'm not over him."

Mac looked super confused, and then he grinned, "Sure, if it'll piss the Lorent Young Alpha off, I'm all for it."

My life went on as usual after that. I didn't even think getting Mac to be my boyfriend was any use since its not like we ever met except when our Dads had meetings (and we were not telling them!) We didn't even go to the same school so it wasn't like Bell or anyone would actually find out about us being an item.

Except that somehow they did. The rumors of Mac and I dating went as far as my dear parents' ears and I had to spend all dinner explaining that it was just pretend. Dad wore this thinking frown the entire night.

"Oh Sam!" Mum worried, "It does seem very complicated."

It seemed very straightforward to me. I really didn't see what the fuss was about.

"You're too young to date." Dad told me. (Because I was only allowed to start dating at 35 or something.)

"It's just pretend, Dad." I said for the umpteenth time. Why wasn't anyone getting it?

"Does Mac know its only pretend?" Mum worried some more.

Of course he would know! I clearly told him to "just pretend."

I found out later that the rumors exploded as it did because Alpha Wolf BOYFRIEND #2 beat up Omega Wolf BOYFRIEND #1 in school.

I could only conclude that Mac and Dean were taking their pretend roles very seriously.

Meanwhile, Bell's scandals escalated to LNC's Page Six headliners. Bell was as bad a playboy as Henry - worse actually because he was often with older women. At least Henry dated girls around his age.

"You can't lose to him, Sam!" The girls in my gang took affront on my behalf, "He's clearly declaring war!"

And you know how I hated losing.

"What should I do?" I asked.

"If I were you, I'd get more boyfriends than he has girlfriends." Shannon advised.

Did Bell even consider those girls his girlfriends?

"You can have Ben." Lizzy offered, "He's a beta and the girls in school think he's cool."

I looked at Ben and made a face, "Do I have to?"

My friends all nodded solemnly at me. I sighed and very reluctantly agreed, "Alright, Ben. You can be my boyfriend too."

So Ben was BOYFRIEND #3.

OMO. I was just a dumb pup! WTH! Why was I taking love advice from other dumb pups?

Anyway, it made perfect sense at that time. I didn't know anything about boy-girl relationships and I thought my friends knew everything.

Later on when I offered Harvey a double chocolate chip muffin and he took me to the Vday dance at New Leaf, he became BOYFRIEND #4. And the video where Ben had pulled me to stay on stage and dance with him after I sang A Whole New World with Harvey became, "BOYFRIEND #3 and BOYFRIEND #4 tug of war."

Fluffy and EJ conveniently became BOYFRIEND #5 & BOYFRIEND #6. This was self-declared on their part. I didn't have anything to do with it.

And then Henry was BOYFRIEND #7. I don't even know when or how that happened, but we were the second most shipped Boyfriend-Girlfriend pair after Jasmine and Liam on our school's polling site, beating Arlene and Aladdin - this was even before the Horneo and Bulliet play.

For most part, I ignored it. I mean, as long as my friends knew the truth, it didn't matter what everyone else thought.

"Do they though?" Savy asked one evening, "Do your boyfriends all know they're just pretend?"

I would think you'd know if you were really someone's boyfriend or not!

BOYFRIEND #8 was Lord Edward Ciara who sent 99 blue roses to our Alpha House. Dad very nearly wanted to storm his coven, but since Bell was holding the Lord Ring, Dad simply informed Bell and left him to "take care of it."

"Why would he even care?" Even though I was glad that Dad wasn't going to start a war with the vamps, I felt sure Dad must know that Bell and I had long broken up.

"He's still officially your fiancé." Was Dad's logic, "And Lord Ciara is his vessel. I'm sure the young alpha won't let it go."

After that, Maria told me that Lord Edward had named the Blue Alpha as his future queen. I'm guessing he was doing so behind Bell's back. But thanks to BOYFRIEND #8, the other vampire covens kept a respectful distance from all Night Leaf activities - even when it had become quite obvious that we were harboring their escaped fight dogs.

Just the thought of my boyfriend being a vamp… it was as appealing as dating a giant mosquito. But the title was given by the LNC because they had been following me ever since Henry was BOYFRIEND #7.

WHO TOLD THEM THE NUMBER?

So now it looked like I was dating 8 guys at a time - where one of them was a vamp. In light of this, when I put out the Fire Wolf's flame and "claimed him publicly" by putting my jacket over him, he was just BOYFRIEND #9.

It was news, but hey, since I was already dating a vampire a few hundred years my senior, a 10 year gap with a noble and respectable warrior wolf was alright.

Officially, Wolfgang was my tutor and advisor. BOYFRIEND #9 was a rumor - just like all the other boyfriends before him. It wasn't even pretend anymore… somewhere along the line, they were just being tagged automatically. As in there was an Alpha Princess Fanclub in this Timeline. I don't know who started it but its an online club which operated like a paparazzi club and posted news of Alpha Princess sightings. They also posted boyfriend sightings, and always referred to them by their number.

For example, this morning they posted a picture of the horse and carriage parade outside the packhouse with the caption, "BOYFRIEND #10 makes his appearance like a prince from a lycan fairy tale."

They were referring to Hayao, the healer prince who arrived this morning.

Omo. 10 boyfriends. I was worse than Henry.

Anyway, just in case my explanation sucks, my point is that I didn't have a lot of boyfriends. I didn't even have a boyfriend. I wasn't a playboy alpha. I was just very misunderstood.

In conclusion, don't listen to the rumors.