Chapter One

—Nathan Gregg—

It's been a month since summer passed by and the fall breeze started to do its rounds. I detest school days. It is such a big headache and a cause of stress. But mostly kids at my age like going to school. Only to see their crushes and gossip around on, 'Who will become the next homecoming King and Queen?'

Well, of course, they all wanted to be the homecoming King and Queen. It doesn't even make any sense. 'What's with the crown?'

I know I am popular, as the captain of the soccer team, but I don't like those mean girls who only wanted popularity on campus by flirting with me. It will be a big gossip in school. They only wanted people to talk about them, and us.

I hate the first subject for the day, which is calculus. It gives me such a headache early in the morning. I always escape the subject, because the teacher is annoying. I stood from my seat to go out in the hall. In the front door, there is Grace who winks at me. She's one of the popular girls around here, also the hottest one in school. We had dated but I never showed any interest in her. She is a werewolf, just like me and we are from the same pack. The whole town is made for the New Moon pack which is ours.

Some people around here are from our packs while some were from other packs that just transferred in our town. But they are not enemies. We work and protect each other.

Grace walks in like a runway queen with her two popular friends, Lila and Hailey. I stopped when I saw a girl who was walking with a guitar and a bag. She's busy looking at her paper. While Grace had stepped sideward for her not to bump at the girl. 

She is far away from me, but I can still smell her enticing scent.

"Look out!" She scolded irritatedly.

The girls hissed at her and murmur that she's a bitch. She just raised her middle finger like signing them not to block the way.

She is a beauty to look at wearing a black blouse with a black leather coat that cut over her waist, fitted jeans, and a leather closed-shoe with a hidden wedge. My eyes sparkle, and I feel a tingling sensation around my body. My wolf growls and howls in my head, happy to finally see her. 

'Our mate.'

She stopped in front of me and lifted an eyebrow. I got mesmerized by her beautiful crystal-like blue eyes. Her hair was cut a little short reaching upto her shoulders and curled on the tip. I wanted to hug her, smell her, and tell her that I was longing to see her. But she snapped her fingers in front of me.

"Hey, dude. You are blocking my way." She said, she was annoyed and a little irritated.

I blink for the first time, from the time I ever saw her. She didn't react to it. Why? I stared at her, trying to read her. She's new here, and it is the first time I saw her.

"Move!" she demanded.

She stepped forward a little closer and pushed my right chest. I stepped back. I can feel electricity flowing in my veins from her touch. My wolf plays inside me and smells her enticing scent. She had an earphone on her left playing the song: I am in love with a monster of the fifth harmony.

"Miss Wesley?"

"Hi," she greeted as she extended the paper to the teacher.

"Everyone, this is Zoë Wesley from France." The teacher introduced. 

'Zoë... What a beautiful name? Zoë... Zoë... I am getting crazy here!'

I went back to my seat and watched her more. She walked in the aisle and placed the guitar over Gab's table.

"Thanks, sweetheart!" Gab exclaimed to her with winks and sparkling smiles.

I wanted to break his neck for it. Gab is not from our pack.

He's from the Blue moon pack, the strongest one and the royal one. She smiled at him and patted his head before walking to her seat.

"Mr Gregg, are you changing your mind?" Mr Clifford asked me. Everyone looked at me. I smiled lopsidedly.

"Well, I still have a realization in life," I told him and leaned on my table. I looked at my mate's name Zoë. She is cool and beautiful. She's more than what I used to dream.

Now I know that she's not a werewolf, that's why she hadn't felt anything. She won't understand about us but, why is she here in New Moon town? Her smell isn't a werewolf or a vampire. I assume that she's something else. Maybe a human? That's why she didn't react to the spark between us.

The teacher gave us something to solve. So, she put her earphone on and played the classical music of Chopin. I know a few about that music. She is solving the problem while I am leaning on my forearm watching her.

"Nathan, why aren't you solving?" Mr Clifford asked.

I lazily pushed my back on the chair, and I pulled a paper and a pen from my bag and started solving it though I had no idea about it. I glance at my Luna who is busy solving the problem. My wolf howled at me and wanted to be near to her but I had to control him so as not to freak my mate out.

I've been waiting for years for her. That's why my wolf is getting crazier now that I met her. I will be the next Alpha of the New Moon pack and I need my mate, my Luna beside me.

"Nate..." my Beta Yves calls. I looked at him and he gave me a paper while Mr Clifford walked out of the room. I looked at the paper and it was all the answers to the problem on the whiteboard. He's the one who always saves my life in calculus.

"Thanks..."

What's your reason why you go back here? He asked me through the mind link. I just looked down on the paper and sighed. Is this something to do with the hot chick? Tell me about it.

Shut up, she's a human.

She's not a human... she's something peculiar. Gray told me that she's peculiar.

Gray is the name of his wolf. But why did my wolf didn't recognize her scent. If she's not a human and she is one of us, why didn't she feel the same way when we found our mate?

But it seems she's closed to Gab. She might know what he is and what we are so she's not a human. He added.

The bell rang and Mr Clifford told us to pass our paper, so I did. I passed the paper that Yves answered for me. I got up to my feet. Ready to talk to her. But, Gab helped her with her bag and he put his arms around her while they were exiting the room. I growled, in my mind, my wolf did the same. If he keeps that close to her, I will kill him literally though he's from the Royal pack where all the packs would bow down to them.

"I knew it..." Yves told me.

I frowned at him and walked to my next class.

It is lunchtime, and I am ready to have my lunch. Walking down the corridor to the cafeteria, I saw my mate alone leaning on the lockers while busy on her iPod. I smelled the air. I can smell her sweet attractive scent. I had to talk to her, so my feet started walking in her direction.

"Princesse!" someone shrieks, and I saw this guy named Harris, also from another pack and working with our pack. Zoe's eyes widen and she runs to him. She jumped to him and he caught her kissing her cheek while twirling her around. "Comment Allez-Vous?" he knows how to speak in French.

I rolled my eyes on how they are gazing at each other with sparkling eyes. This is stupid.

"I am fine, merci."

"Good, because we are going to the cafeteria to eat!" he told her, putting his arms around her.

'Great! I am starving!'

I went to the cafeteria with a mad face. I know that they had noticed it when I sat on our table.

"Bad day?" Terence asked my third in command. He put the slice of pizza, the sandwich, and the Gatorade in front of me. I looked at the direction of Zoe with Gab, Harris, and the other two members of Blue Moon, who are Sam and Chase.

"Oh, I see..." Yves grins playfully. I grimace at him and he just wiggles his brows. "Why didn't you go to her and asked her if you could talk to her?"

"How can I if those boys are around her?" I hissed and swig the bottle of Gatorade to my mouth.

"So you are jealous?" they asked. I throw a glare at them and they all look away.

"Babe!"

"Should I run?" I asked them because I can feel Grace walking near us.

"She's just behind you," Terence said. I hate that flirt. She gives me goosebumps all over my body. I stood before she even touched me. I faced her as her perfume entered my nostrils such that I would sneeze anytime.

"Nate, baby!" she held my face and kissed me torridly. I pushed her away and wiped my lips.

"Will you stop it?!" I hissed, picked my bag and walked out the cafeteria.

I waited for the next subject to start. I don't know why I enter this Music and Art class but it makes me comfortable. I stopped and my wolf came back when I smelled her getting close to us. Mate...

"Chase, I am not going to do that! You are crazy!" She entered the room together with Chase and other students who are taking this class.

"It's not that hard. You've mastered it last year. Right?" They take their seats together.

"Yes, but I am not in the mood to play it. I feel frustrated..." 

I watched her lean on her seat with a sigh. Chase patted her head.

"Don't worry honeybee, Miss Clarkson will love it."

"Chopin's Nocturne?"

"Yep!" Chase looked in my direction when he sensed that I was watching them. He nods at me, and I nod back as a response.

When our teacher Mrs Clarkson had arrived. She introduced Zoë in the class as the pianist for the play that the Musical Club will present in the next spring. I shifted on my seat when she walked to the grand piano. She adjusts the piano seat and sits down. She placed her hand on the keys and started playing the Chopin's Nocturne.

On the way, as she presses each key they give me and my wolf a big turn on. She is fascinating and beautiful. I could watch her play that piano every minute. Wishing that I was the piano who she played and careful not to make any mistakes in the notes.

I never leave my gaze on her. She was perfect for me. She's all that I wanted. When the piece had ended our classmates clapped their hands and were amazed at her. She was smiling beautifully at everyone. She takes her seat beside Chase. Chase patted her head.

"I am not a dog." She told him.

"Yes, you are." He teased me but, I'd like to know what he means or if he's serious. She nudged him on ribs.

The class went on, and my attention is all on her. She hadn't noticed it because she's busy listening to the discussion about arts, and flirting with Chase. I hate to see her flirting with another guy.

I drove home, and when I got there. Mom, the Luna of our pack is preparing for dinner while dad just arrived from Alpha duties.

"How is it, dad?" I asked him. He grins widely.

"We have a new neighbour, and he will be in every meeting."

"From?"

"France, well he's from the Royal family, and he will be here to survey our pack. Since there's lots of rejection about the mates."

"Uhm, there's this new girl in school," I told them, and not intending to tells that she's my mate.

"How is she? Is she pretty? Is she your mate?" mom asked as if she knew it. 

The mother's instinct is so powerful. 

I didn't say a thing and just went to my room. 

'Seems she is... what happened, sweetie?' mom calls out. I just slammed the door and took a shower.