Becoming One

Today was a normal day for Denice. She woke up, got dressed, ate, and went to school. When she got to school she went straight to her locker. While she was getting her books for her first period her best friend came up to her.

"Boo!" Denice's best friend said trying to scare her.

"You try and try every day Julica. When are you going to stop?" Denice asks Julica.

"I'm not going to stop until I scare you.... but trust me I will!" Julica says determinedly.

Julica is Denice's best friend since the beginning. Julica was always by Denice's side when times got tough. People could even say that Denice and Julica were sisters because of how close they acted to each other.

"Whatever. Let's just get to class." Denice says just before she starts walking to class.

While Denice was halfway there to her math class she saw Bethany and her 'Squad'. Bethany was the school's bully and 'Queen'. Just because she's the daughter of the principal she thinks that she can run the school. Every male in this school falls to their knees because of her beauty, and all the females despise Bethany because of the same reason, her beauty.

Every female in the school believes that her 'Squad' only follows her because of her status in the school just to get popular, and not to be her real friends. Bethany's Squad consists of the school's old bullies before the recent principal came; Principle Simpson.

When Denice was trying to lay low from the group one of the girls purposely bumps into Denice's shoulder.

"Watch it loser!" Brook spat the words at Denice like it was venom.

"Sorry," Denice replies shyly.

"You better." She says walking off after pushing her against the wall and making Denice drop her books.

After a minute of picking up half of her heavy books, a mysterious boy bends down to help her.

"I saw what happened back there. Why do you let them push you around like that?" He says getting the rest of her books, standing up, and giving her books to her.

The mysterious boy who helped Denice was Jacob; Her crush. Jacob was the only guy who doesn't fall for Bethany, but Bethany was trying her best to make him fall for him but he wouldn't budge, and Denice liked him for that. They have started a friendship recently, but it is only in progress to become close friends so that Denice can confess.

"I don't know... I just don't stand up for myself I guess." She answers.

"Well you need to start then or you'll just get pushed around even more. I'll even help you!" Jacob offers.

"No thanks, I think I can do it by myself." She refuses his help.

The thing is Denice actually does need Jacob's help. Denice thinks that if he helps her she'll feel beholden, and Denice doesn't want him to see her as a helpless female.

"Alright then see you later!" He bids goodbye to Denice.

"Okay..." Denice mumbles in reply.

As Denice was speed walking to class she thought to herself. 'Why did I refuse his help? I actually do need his help, but I do need to do this on my own and figure this problem out.' Denice thought to herself.

Denice finally made it to her class she stopped at the door of her math class. Denice took a breath and got ready to get yelled at by Mr. Wattson; Her math teacher. Every student in this school hates Mr. Wattson. Why? Because he favored Bethany and her Squad, and let them go whenever they get in trouble with him.

Denice walked in and all eyes looked at her. The silence was as loud as a stadium with a football game going on. Denice's anxiety rushed like it was a river. Denice walked to her seat, put her books down, and sat down.

"Well, well, well, look who decided to show up six minutes after class." Mr. Wattson said to Denice.

"Well, you see I-" Denice tried to explain but Mr. Wattson interrupted her.

"Detention."

"But-"

"No excuses. I said detention and that's it!" He interrupted her again but this time more violent.

Denice decided to keep her mouth shut and keep quiet this time. Denice let her head sink down until the was looking at her thighs.

A couple of minutes later the door opened and a big group walked in with Bethany leading the way inside the classroom.

'Oh, that'll be good...' Denice thought with an eye roll.

"Sorry, we're late," Bethany said before sitting down. Her group followed the same thing, walking to their seats.

"It's okay you'll catch up with the lesson anyways." Mr. Wattson said waving off the situation.

'What?! How come they don't get detention and I do, and they got here way later than I did!' Denice thought.

Mr. Wattson continued the lesson. The bell rang and everyone left the class. Denice started to walk to her second period. While she was walking she saw Julica, so she sped walked up to her.

"Hey, Julica," Denice said like it was raining for a century.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Julica asked concerned for her friend.

"I got detention because I was late, and what makes it worst is that Bethany and her Squad came later than me and they didn't get detention."

"Well, don't beat yourself up about it. They'll get their karma someday." Julica said soothingly rubbing Denice's back.

"Okay, I'll try not to think much of it."

As they were walking they turned the corner and saw something horrible. Bethany suddenly kissed Jacob. Julica was smarter than Bethany and knew it was a trick, but Denice just saw it and started to tear up. Her brain was filled with thoughts instead of looking at the small details like how Bethany was talking to Jacob and kept looking in the direction of the corner Julica and Denice just came from.

"How could you?! I thought you were different!" Deice said before running to the nearest Girls' Restroom.

"No! Denice wait!" Jacob said, but he was too late.

"Why would you do that!? Don't you already have a boyfriend!?" Jacob turned to Bethany.

"What he doesn't know won't hurt him." She says as she tried to put her hand on his chest but Jacob pushed her hand away before she could touch him.

"Well too bad he'll see it," Julica says on her phone typing something in.

"W-what do you mean?" She says a bit timid.

"What do I mean? I mean I recorded the whole situation after Denice ran away. I knew from the point of walking around the corner that something was up." The bell rang after she explained herself. Julica thought that it was the perfect time to airdrop the video to the school, and when I saw the school I mean the whole school. Every teacher will see the video even Principle Simpson.

Every Phone went off now that all the students were in the halls. Everybody pulled out their phones to see a notification. A couple of seconds later there were faint sounds of 'Why would you do that?!' and 'What he doesn't know won't hurt him's. The most unexpected thing happened.

"Bethany Simpson please report to the principal's office now." The speaker blared.

Meanwhile, Denice was in a stall in the Girl's Restroom crying. Her head was filled with too many thoughts to comprehend the notification on her phone and what the speaker just said.

'Why does everything bad happen to me...' Denice thought to herself.

As Denice was thinking negatively she felt something... weird. When Denice looked up she had enhanced sight, and when Denice took a deep breath she could smell all these different scents, like what the school was going to have for lunch, the grass, car oil, and the air in general.

'What is happening to me?!' Denice thought to herself panicking.

The first thing she thought was to text Julica. She texted her that she was going home and to tell one of the teachers.

Denice waited until everyone was in their classes to leave. Thank god Denice lived near the school, so she wouldn't have to walk a long way.

Denice then started to run to make time pass by quickly. While Denice was running she noticed that she was running abnormally quickly for a human. It was almost like.... she had the speed of an animal, more specifically a wolf.

Denice didn't think much of it since she just wanted to get home and get this horrible day over with. Denice finally got home. Once Deice got inside she slammed the door. Unfortunately for Denice her parents were home and went to see what the noise for.

"Hey, Denice why are you back home so early?" Chris, Denice's father asked her.

"I don't feel good. Weird things are happening to me and I don't know how to deal with it." Denice said slightly scared.

"What exactly are the weird things happening to you?" Joy, Denice's mom asked her.

"Well.... my sight and smell are enhanced. Also while I was running here I think I was running at an unusual speed for a human. Is there something wrong with me?" Denice asked.

"I think it's time to tell her Chris." Joy said to Chris.

"I think so too." He responded.

"Tell me what?!" Denice screamed.

"Okay, so Denice we planned on telling you this when you were facing these changes. To get to the point you are a werewolf...." Joy said.

"Why would you hide that from me for so long?" Denice asked. Denice was furious but also disappointed at her parents for some reason. I mean she does have a right to feel this way. Right?

"You need to understand that we did this for your own protection. There are people out there who hunt our people, okay?" Joy said to her daughter.

"And Denice, you have a big responsibility on your hands because you're also an alpha," Chris informed Denice.

"Okay, but can I at least tell Julica?" Deice asked her parents for permission.

"Yes, but no one else until you've fully developed your powers, oh and also we're going to take you out of High School until next year so there won't be any accidents with your undeveloped powers. Remember this is for your own protection." Chris answered and warned her.

"Okay," Denice said before she went to her room.

All Denice wanted to do for the rest of the day was to relax from all the stress that was put on her today.

Maybe I'll tell Julica tomorrow... She thought before she drifted off to sleep at 8:49.