1 Chapter 1

I quickly rub on some clear lip gloss. Then some mascara and walk away from my reflection. I didn't have time to ready myself at home this morning.

I wave my hand in front of my face to clear the stench of smoke from the girls in the bathroom, lighting cigarettes.

I leave the bathroom and run to my locker to find my charger.

My phone's about to die, and I need to make sure it's on if I get any alerts from the pack, or from my dad. I roll my eyes at the thought, knowing it's my sister who should be worried about all that.

I opened my locker up and search it, but can't find the stupid thing.

Finally, my fingers grab hold of my light pink charger cord and I yank it out. In the process of pulling my hand out. All of my books that were in my arms fall to the floor with a loud sound, and it feels like half of the hallway is looking at me.

My cheeks grow pink with embarrassment and anger as I reach down to grab my stuff.

Everything is disarray. I didn't charge my phone before school just in case for alerts, my locker is a literal pigsty. And now I'm throwing my books each and every way in the halls.

The reason everything is in such a clutter is that I'm on edge. The three people in the pack who are taking it the hardest by far. Is my dad, my mom and unfortunately, me.

With my dad being the Alpha, of course, it's all gonna be on him.

I gather the rest of my books and check my looks in my locker mirror. My makeup looks fine, but my hair is little messy and there are dark circles under my eyes that show I haven't been sleeping a lot lately. I'm starting to break out on my forehead from stress, too.

Whatever it's the least of my problems.

I close the locker and start my trip to Pre-Calc.

I smile at several people as I walk, then sigh with relief as Tracy joins me. My best friend for 3 years on-going.

"Hey girl!" She calls as she starts walking next to me.

"Hi Trace," I reply, brushing behind my ear.

As we continue our walk, chatting about the simplest of things, it's easy to pretend everything's okay, and that gives me hope.

We pass Kyla, my sister, in the halls, but of course, she ignores me, like she always has. I shake my head, used to it.

Liam runs up and gets on my other side. His gelled black hair threatens to come loose as he bounds up to us. "Hey, Ar-Bear," He says to me. I laugh as he ruffles my hair. Liam and I've been close since 6th grade when I stuck up to a bully for him. Last year, sophomore year, he liked me a little more than just friends, and I had to shut that down quickly.

I've never been one for dating. I've only dated one guy - and that was in freshman year when I thought I should have a boyfriend since everyone else I knew did. But it lacked spark.

For now, I'll stick to mentally dating Ian.

Liam takes a turn and meets Tracy, giving her a quick kiss on the lips, then put his arm around her. "Hey, baby," He mumbles in her ear. She giggles and nuzzles his neck with her nose.

They've only been dating for less than a year, but I think they've mated already.

I smile at them.

It's nice to see some normality in such times of fear.

"So, Trace. Ar-Bear. Just think about it - in one year, we'll be seniors!" Liam says, laughing. He whoops loudly and unknowingly freshman look our way.

He continues, "That means parties, beer pong, and the best year of our lives! Oh, and this is summer is going to be amazing. I mean, us three are going to have the summer of a lifetime."

I sigh longingly. If only we could be guaranteed this summer. But now, you never know what's coming our way.

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