(1)
When Leon was small, he was the adorable kind of chubby kid loved by everyone. He had choppy auburn hair and amber eyes. Fair skin. Little plump cheeks people loved to pinch. He was born in a decent family. His alpha father, Arthur Kirkland, owned a toys company. He spoiled his son excessively with trinkets and accessories. His omega mother, Yao Wang, owned a traditional Chinese restaurant down the street. He was slightly stricter in parenting, but he, too, pampered the boy a lot with food. Life was smooth and peaceful. Leon's parents were well-off so they could both offer him the best. He went to school with other kids. Met his best friend, Emil, in kindergarten. People doted on the boy a lot. He was reserved and enduring at first glance. Never spoke the unnecessary or countered his seniors. Always retained a cherubic smile on his face. Followed the rules superficially. Never failed a single test in class. He just knew how to please those around him.
But…
With every story comes a 'but'.
Underneath that endearing façade hid a slightly distorted core. Like every good kid has at least one nasty secret. Leon had many though.
His true self was the complete opposite of his facet.
There was this one Korean boy in class who stuttered in every speech. Never caught much attention from others and was always omitted in every class activity. He also had an unappealing look. He wore glasses with thick lenses. He carried around him an equally thick book. His oily hair was parted in the middle. His clothes were always frayed and dirty. Sometimes, a single sock might be missing. His lunchbox had nothing but kimchi and rice. His name was Im Yong Soo. He was a nerd forsaken in one corner.
A typical citizen from the third distract. A lower class. The filthiest kind of people, in Leon's opinion.
Leon had always been taught that society runs hierarchically. Even at an early age, his father had brought him to various social gatherings. He had met some of the most marvellous and affluent people. His family was among the best in the neighbourhood so they were always revered. When Yong Soo first joined the class, Leon couldn't help laughing inwardly. He had found the perfect target to abuse.
"Ill, this stuff tastes like shit." Leon scrunched his nose and held the lunchbox far away from him. The ten-year-old sat high on the teacher's desk and crossed his legs.
"What do you expect? People from the slums eat shit!" his sidekicks laughed simultaneously.
"Look at his clothes, Emil." Leon sneered and glimpsed his best friend. Emil had a head of silvery hair and pale skin. His amethyst eyes glinted with mischief as he joined in the teasing.
"He looks like he hasn't showered in two weeks."
"That's cross." Emil grimaced.
"Please…give me back…my lunchbox…" Yong Soo, the then shortest boy in class, stammered and tried to retrieve his measly lunch.
Leon flipped the lunchbox with a sickening snicker and poured all the contents on Yong Soo. The Korean boy widened his eyes.
"Now he smells kimchi."
Everyone laughed.
The empty lunchbox dropped to the ground with a thud. Tears trickled down Yong Soo's face. It wasn't the end of it though.
Two boys grasped his elbows and kicked his legs. He fell on his knees.
"Drag him here," Leon ordered.
"What're you planning to do?" Emil raised his eyebrows in amusement.
"I'm gonna, like, teach this lowlife what it means to be a dog." Leon tittered.
"No!" Yong Soo struggled futilely and landed in front of Leon's feet. His captors yanked his hair and squished his face.
"So you're new to class, huh?" Leon grinned, leaning forward to examine the hideous boy. "Do you, like, even know who I am?"
Yong Soo didn't answer. Tears kept rolling down his cheeks. He couldn't believe his first day to Academy H would be this catastrophic. What did this boy want with him?
"Clearly you don't." Leon sighed and shook his head. "I'll tell you then. I'm the head of this class. Everyone listens to me. And you, too, should obey me from now on."
Yong Soo frowned.
"I don't really like you, but I think you can be pretty fun to boss around." Leon smiled proudly and leant back against his seat. "Damn lowlife. Your family must be so poor they can't even buy you a set of school uniforms."
"S-Shut up!" Yong Soo cried, "D-Don't insult my family!"
Leon raised his left foot and trampled on the boy's head repeatedly, staining his face with dirt and mud.
"A dog, like, shouldn't bark at its own master." Leon smirked. "Guess you need to be trained more often."
"Let…me go, please!" Yong Soo whined.
"Leon, that's pretty enough, don't you think?" Emil gasped, tugging his best friend's sleeve apprehensively. "What if the teachers see us?"
"They won't. The room is locked anyway." Leon winked and glanced back at Yong Soo. The boy kept weeping.
"From now on, let's call him doggie," Leon announced. "Bow whenever you see us. You hear me?"
"No way!" Yong Soo squirmed free from Leon's grip and bounced up. He lunged at Leon. The boy dodged and spun around agilely, punching the Korean right in the face. He grabbed Yong Soo's wrist in the air and kicked him in the stomach. The Korean boy collapsed to the floor clutching his belly and coughed.
"And I've forgotten to tell you." Leon rolled up his sleeves with a condescending smile. "I know martial arts, so you'd better not risk your chances, doggie."
The gang burst into laughter watching Yong Soo whimper and crawl back up with broken lens.
It was only the beginning of hell.
For a year straight, Leon and his gang picked on Yong Soo every chance they got. The boy couldn't complain to anyone because no one would side with him. The teachers wouldn't believe a thing he said. Leon was the star pupil in class. He excelled in everything. There was not a single flaw about him in adults' eyes. To Yong Soo, however, he was a devil. A pure devil.
His pranks came in various forms, mostly consisting of incessant humiliation, physical abuse and verbal attacks.
"You said you were thirsty?" Leon cocked his eyebrows and simpered, "Drink all you need then!"
The boys plunged Yong Soo's head into the toilet and laughed.
They would force Yong Soo to run errands for them, get scolded in their place if they ever broke a rule, regard them as his masters. And if the boy ever voiced his objection, he would receive his punishment right away. He got beaten, burnt, smacked, punched, kicked and more. Leon once set his school bag on fire and dumped it into the reservoir nearby, burnt all his textbooks so that he couldn't revise for the test and had to retake it at the end of the semester.
No one realised the gang's doings. They masked their sadistic traits with innocent smiles and outstanding school performances.
The bullying soon met its end when Yong Soo got tripped and fell downstairs one day. Leon hadn't meant to render him with fractured bones and a twisted ankle. The Korean boy was rushed to the hospital and he never came back to school.
No one got reprimanded in that incident. Life carried on as usual. Yong Soo disappeared. Leon learnt about it later that he had switched to another school.
"There's, like, no fun now." Leon pouted after knowing that he had practically driven the poor Korean away.
"You know." Emil frowned. "What you did to him was pretty awful."
"Hey, hey, wait a second." Leon nudged Emil. "You're also involved. Don't you forget that, Icey." The boy smirked and pinched Emil in the arm.
"True but I never went overboard." Emil stuck out his tongue. "Be careful, Leon. Karma is bitch."
"Woah, that foul language of yours, love it." Leon laughed and nuzzled against his best friend's neck.
"Don't you ever feel guilty about it?" Emil giggled at Leon's nose tickling his skin.
"What?"
"About treating him like a piece of shit. I sorta pitied him." Emil chuckled.
"He's a lowlife. What do you expect?" Leon glanced up and pecked Emil on the cheek. "I bet he's a fucking omega. I swear if I see him again in the future, he won't get away that easily."
"I can't wait." Emil laughed.
(2)
Karma turned out to be even bitchier.
When the two boys hit their puberty, they found out that they were both omegas. Leon lost the crown place in class because, as the hierarchical game goes, omegas have the least say in society. The world is dominated and determined by alphas. Betas come in second. The pure existence of omegas is to serve the purpose of appeasing and complying with alphas.
Leon was not pleased with the result but he couldn't change the fact that he could no longer exert his domination over anymore. Puberty induced drastic changes on his psychological parts as well. He lost the sense of arrogance he used to have as a kid. He grew distant from his past habits of taking pleasure in abusing others. Inferiority slowly washed over him.
He and Emil got into the same secondary school. Emil at that time had trouble evading crushes and persistent alphas. Leon's situation was slightly better. Despite the enticing fragrance he emitted, he knew tricky ways to elude alphas and hide his own scent with suppressants. It still didn't help that both boys attracted lots of attention because of their fame in the past. People loved to see others fall miserably. The two major past bullies were now reduced to nothing but members of the lowest level in this alpha-omega hierarchy.
"Fuck them all." Leon grunted and glared at his rejected application form. "I can't believe I'm banned from the running tracks."
"Well, you should've expected that, right?" Emil sighed glumly. "Omegas don't compete with alphas. It's also dangerous if you run along with other alphas. You know what Sports Day is like. We're just there to watch alphas battle over one another and show off."
"Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous!" Leon creased the sheet and tossed it into the bin. "I can't believe we've ended up like this."
"Leon." Emil gasped at the tears surfacing Leon's eyes. "Are you alright?"
"What do you, like, think?" Leon bit his lips furiously and wiped his tears. "Those disgusting creeps in class won't stop stalking us and going after our asses. Damn it!"
"At least, we aren't alone." Emil snorted. "I know that the other omegas in class are also having a hard time. It's that season, you know. Be careful."
"Yea, you too." Leon shook his head in dismay.
"Do you think we should skip class for the time being?" Emil whispered.
"What? Skip class? Hell no, that's, like, surrendering to them. They'll, like, think we're cowards."
"But that's for our safety," Emil reasoned.
"I don't understand why we're the ones to make sacrifices." Leon scowled.
"Because we're now at the bottom of the hierarchy," Emil reminded. "We have to play with their rules."
Leon looked out of the window and didn't say anything.
"We acted like them once," Emil mumbled. "Remember?"
oOo
"Did you hear the news?"
Leon stared at his cousin, Mei. The girl was a princess in class. In addition to flaunting her luxuries and beauty, she was the master of gossips. She once had a childhood crush on her step-brother, Kiku. The Japanese boy, unfortunately, was classified as an omega. The two often sought shelter in the library, where most obnoxious and hyperactive alphas wouldn't bother to go. Also in their little chat group was an omega blond called Matthew, whose twin brother was one of the most powerful and notorious alphas in the grade. He was luckily outshined most of the time. He could use that little invisibility to his greatest benefit.
Mei was combing her wavy brown curls in front of a small mirror she set on her desk. Kiku sat beside her, sketching meticulously some BL manga. Matthew clutched his stuffed polar bear and listened intently as usual. Leon rolled his eyes. Ever since he became an official omega, he had stopped hanging out with his previous gang. He and Emil couldn't fit in with the alphas. Even if they did step into their zone, they wouldn't get away without being scorned and sexually assaulted. There were about ten omegas in class. They had no choice but to start hanging out with each other. He and Emil both had to agree that among everyone, Kiku, Mei and Matthew were the only approachable and "normal" beings they could tolerate.
"What? Like, you got another prank letter in your locker?" Leon teased.
"No!" Mei glared at him, "That wouldn't be an interesting topic, would it?"
"How should I know? You're weird." Leon shrugged. Kiku giggled.
"By the way, you know Elizabeta from class B?"
"Yea, what about her?"
"She used to go out with Roderich."
"Uh uh." Emil nodded, uninterested. He stared at his puffin key chain and twiddled it.
"Listen!" Mei hissed, "And you know how she has another annoying childhood albino friend called Gilbert? The three of them used to be inseparable until Elizabeta and Gilbert fell out. It turns out that Roderich is actually an omega! He got into his first heat last week. Gilbert marked him!"
"What?" The other three boys gasped.
"Horrible, isn't it?" Mei shook her head, "Now Elizabeta didn't just lose her boyfriend to another boy, but also her nemesis! I heard she got into some serious depression a few days ago."
"Is that why she's absent?"
"Probably." Mei coughed and continued, "And I also heard that Gilbert's brother, Ludwig got caught making out with his mate Feliciano in the toilet yesterday."
"Oh I heard that from Feliciano-kun too." Kiku glanced up from his sketchbook. "He forgot his suppressants. Ludwig lost it."
"When an alpha senses the heat, his need becomes insatiable, or so I've heard."
They all turned to Matthew and studied him in awe.
"You seem to understand them a lot."
"You forgot who my brother is." The blond smiled sheepishly.
"Speaking of Alfred, didn't he get suspended fighting with Ivan two days ago?" Mei exclaimed, "I thought they made a pretty bad scene on the rooftop."
"Hai, I thought there was an earthquake," Kiku said.
"Kiku, are you going to accept Hercules' confession?" Mei asked. The Japanese blushed and returned to his drawing silently.
"At least, Hercules confessed in some decent manner." Emil peeked at Matthew, who lowered his head and sighed. "I think getting a bunch of roses every day is already nightmarish enough. Getting chased around the court by a naked pervert is probably something only you would experience, Mattie."
"Is Francis really that bad?" Mei grimaced, "I think he looks charming though."
"If he doesn't flood my phone with a hundred sexts each day and grope me that much, maybe I'll consider going out with him."
"Seriously?" Leon cringed in disgust.
"He can be sweet sometimes." Matthew nodded bashfully and fiddled with his bear. "I mean, he's not as nasty as some of the alphas in class."
"I guess you have a point." Emil nodded.
"What about you?" Leon smirked, "Thought you're having trouble with your dear big brother's friend."
"S-Shut up." Emil averted his gaze. He had a brother named Lukas, who was two years old than him. A reclusive, calculating alpha. Lukas' best friend was a stubborn, energetic alpha called Mathias. The Danish boy happened to have his eyes set on Emil.
"I'm trying my best to avoid him, really." Emil grunted. "He's so, so, so annoying. Even more so than Lukas. I can't believe someone like that actually exists on earth!"
"We call that 'tunsdere'." Kiku chuckled.
"What?"
"The attitude you've just demonstrated." Kiku cackled softly and continued sketching.
"D-Don't get any wrong ideas!" Emil put up his hands in defence. "I really hate his guts. His hair looks like it can cut someone."
"When you say it like that, it's so unconvincing." Leon sneered, draping an arm around him.
"I really thought Leon was an alpha at first." Mei snickered. "And that you two would be together."
"Well, life is full of deadly surprises." Leon snorted.
"It isn't that bad." Emil laughed and patted Leon's back. "We're still best friends."
"A new transfer student is coming tomorrow," Mei piped up. "That's what I wanna say in the first place."
"Is it a boy or a girl?" Emil asked.
"A boy, I heard."
"An omega?" Matthew asked hopefully.
"An alpha. I heard he's one of Alfred's types."
"Fuck."
They all shook their heads simultaneously.
(3)
"Class, we have a new student today. His name is Im Yong Soo. Please welcome and treat him kindly!"
Emil widened his eyes and quickly turned to his best friend, who sat a couple of seats away and in the back row.
"Shit, did you hear his name?" Emil mouthed.
"I know," Leon mouthed back and bit his bottom lip.
He stared at the Korean boy in bewilderment. His dark hair was gelled, leaving a stylish curl sticking out from the right. His face features stood out remarkably. Enormous eyes with coloured contacts. A slanted nose. His smile revealed his white, glinting teeth. As he waved, a couple of girls giggled and blushed. He wore a neat dress shirt and a pair of black jeans. His scent was strong and intimidating. Spicy. Like kimchi. He was definitely the type with bottomless energy and vigour. His grin alone could tackle a dozen. Mei was right he could be one of Alfred's buddies.
"Oh gosh," Leon cussed in his mind and hung his head. "Shit, shit, shit, this is hella wrong. Holy-"
"Well, you'll be taking the spare seat next to Leon." The teacher smiled. Leon wanted to scream.
He kept his head low and avoided looking straight at Yong Soo. The Korean boy walked slowly, taking the time to scan the classroom and smile at his classmates. Leon trembled when the chair slid next to him. Thump. The Korean boy slumped down and stared at him.
"Hiya, I'm Yong Soo da-ze!"
The mirthful voice startled him. Leon didn't look up. He scooted a little away from the overtly cheerful Korean.
"It's so nice to see you again, Leon." Yong Soo lowered his voice and leant forward, his smile unwavering.
"Y-Yea…it's, like, been a while." Leon forced a smile on his face. He wouldn't stop shuddering.
oOo
"So, how do you feel?"
The voice was husky, the tone patronising.
"To see a stray doggie turn into a dazzling lion da-ze!"
"That sounds so cliché," Leon muttered. They were alone in the classroom. Yong Soo had waited until everyone else left to start their little "reunion chat". He cornered Leon and smiled.
"Your words are still as spiteful as could be." Yong Soo grinned. He stood half a head taller than Leon.
"Wh-What're you doing?" Leon blanched. He stumbled back until his spine struck the wall.
Yong Soo inched closer and kept sniffing the other boy. "Woah, incredible, my master has turned into a maid da-ze. You're an omega?"
Leon gasped. He leant against the wall and flinched from Yong Soo's teasing touches.
"S-Stop it," he stuttered as the hand stroked his hair curiously.
"Now tell me, did you expect to see me here?" the Korean boy leant forward, brushing his fingers along Leon's neck. The omega quivered and ducked.
"No, damn it! I wouldn't expect to see you in a million years! Fuck! I wouldn't be surprised if you were dead already!" Leon yelped.
"Really?" Yong Soo clasped Leon's hair and yanked it. Leon groaned. "Then surely you didn't expect me to come back alive and in this glorious state."
"Fuck you!"
"I thought it'd be the other way around, sweetheart." Yong Soo grinned slyly.
"What do you want from me!" Leon shouted. His cheeks were burning. Knowing it was one of his erroneous zones, Yong Soo pulled his bangs harder and lifted his chin.
"I'm sorry, okay? Sorry!"
The Korean boy frowned, "What for?"
"For…For…" Leon moaned. Yong Soo shoved him hard against the wall and ground his crotch with his knee. He couldn't believe this was happening to him!
"Say it."
"For all the horrible stuff I did to you in primary school…" Leon grunted.
"What did you do?"
"I…I couldn't remember," Leon mumbled. The other boy ground against his body harder.
"You honestly don't remember or there were so many things you did that you couldn't remember each clearly?" Yong Soo smirked.
"I…I'm sorry, okay?" Leon pleaded. He tried to wiggle out of Yong Soo's grip but hell, was the other boy strong. He accessed the chance of tackling him with Kung Fu but decided not to. Who knows Yong Soo might have acquired martial arts too over the past few years? If he could've come back as an entirely different person, he might now have strength and powers beyond Leon's ability to counteract.
"I was young. I didn't realise what I did was bad," Leon reasoned. "Forgive me."
"Oh clearly you did." Yong Soo laughed. He let go of Leon's crotch and smiled, "I still remember how you only treated me like that. You always played nice in front of others, but you and your 'good' friends never hesitated to fling me around like a piece of shit."
"Like I said…we didn't mean to- ah!" Leon moaned. The smell of iron filled the air. Warm, crimson liquid trickled down his neck. He panted and squirmed. Yong Soo clasped his wrists together and held them above his head. The bite was deep and harsh. Teeth delved into his flesh. He felt dizzy.
Thud.
Yong Soo released him. He fell to the floor, panting and clutching the bleeding bite mark.
"Revenge is sweet da-ze." The Korean boy chuckled and stepped back to admire his work. Leon shuddered and sobbed. Blood kept pouring out of his little wound. They all knew what it signified.
"But that's not exactly what I've come back for." Yong Soo giggled and squatted down in front of Leon. "I've decided, Leon Kirkland." He brushed Leon's wet bangs and caressed his cheeks. "That I want you. You're mine."
Leon opened his mouth to say something but found himself blabbering instead. Yong Soo's lips smashed against his fiercely. The kiss was sloppy and suffocating. Yong Soo forced his tongue in and bit him hard. Leon clenched his eyes. Tears streamed down silently.
The Korean boy finally pulled away and licked the blood off his lips.
"Scrumptious." Yong Soo smirked and stood back up. "I expect the rest of your body tastes just as delicious, my sweet little pet."
The alpha snickered and danced out of the room.
(5)
"So, what're you planning to do?" Emil asked worriedly. The two boys sat under the shades in the school's back garden.
It had been two weeks since Yong Soo got transferred into their school. The Korean boy had changed so much only his name was recognisable. He was no longer the bespectacled, short, nerdy boy in the background. He spoke confidently, his nose always in the air. And most definitely, he no longer feared Leon. He was a typical dominating alpha.
"I have, like, no fucking idea what happened to him in the past few years," Leon cursed and balled his hands into fists whenever he thought about the bite. The wound was still visible. He had covered it with a pad. It stung. It burnt at night. To make matters worse, his next heat cycle was approaching in less than a week.
"He's surely changed a lot." Emil had to agree that Yong Soo was nothing like the boy they used to prey on. "And he seems to be plotting something against you…"
"Yea, you reap what you sow, they say." Leon grunted and nestled his head on Emil's shoulder exhaustedly. "If I had known things would turn out this way, I wouldn't have hurt him enough to drive him away. He's come back for revenge obviously. I'm his sole target."
"Is there a way out?" Emil asked, perturbed.
"I apologised, you know." Leon sighed. "I think he hates me to death, which is pretty legit, actually. I really did a handful to him back then. He's probably scarred. Twisted in some way."
"He acts normal though, around other people." Emil scowled. "And he's quite popular among some hopeless omegas. Girls actually fawn over him."
"But when we're alone, he's completely another person."
"You used to be bipolar too."
"Yea, thought so," Leon whined. "He's probably using my tricks back against me."
"Uh, now you're guilty."
"I'm scared, Emil," Leon grumbled, laying his head down on Emil's lap. He shut his eyes and nuzzled against his friend. "Help me."
"What should I do?" Emil stroked the pale face sympathetically. The dark circles surrounded Leon's eyes.
"I think he doesn't just want to ruin me." Leon burrowed his face into Emil's shirt and muttered. "He wants me to suffer. I wish he would just kill me."
"He won't get you as long as I'm here," Emil reassured. "Don't worry."
"You can't fight him. He's strong. I regret even trying it myself," Leon groaned.
"It'll be alright, Leon." Emil sighed. "We'll find a solution."
oOo
Leon scanned the canteen. He couldn't spot his friends anywhere. Emil got called away to handle class duties. Kiku went out on a date with Hercules. Mei disappeared along with some other girls. Matthew…Right, where was he?
When Leon couldn't catch the blond, he flopped down in an empty seat in one corner. He stayed away from a couple of troublesome alphas and ate his meals silently.
"Aw, where're your sidekicks?"
Leon froze. He peeked through his bangs. Yong Soo propped his chin in a palm and smiled at him.
"Gone?"
"Buck off," Leon growled.
"Didn't you use to have a gang of lackeys with you?" Yong Soo snatched a bun from Leon's plate and stuffed it into his mouth. "They were pretty obedient, as I remember. Where're they now?"
"S-Shut up." Leon glared. "What do you want?"
"Woah, easy there, I'm merely trying to converse with my mate da-ze. You know at the end of the day, we need to strengthen our relationship in some way, right?"
"What the fuck are you talking about?"
"You heard me." Yong Soo grinned and fiddled with Leon's side bangs. Leon backed away and dropped his chopsticks.
"If…if you're going to take your revenge on me, go ahead," Leon snarled. "Just get it over with. Beat me to a pulp. Do, like, whatever you want. Leave me alone afterwards."
"I'm not going to do any of those things." Yong Soo chuckled. "Unlike you, I don't relish torturing someone I love."
Leon gulped. His jaws dropped at the last sentence.
"Oops, I said it, didn't I?" Yong Soo laughed, "Fancy a date with me da-ze?"
"No." Leon shook his head.
"What a pity." Yong Soo pouted. "To think that after all the effort I've put into transforming myself, you'd actually appreciate it."
"Bullshit." Leon snorted and spat at the Korean.
Yong Soo retained his smile and wiped the spit off with a napkin.
"Guess I'll need to tend to that spiteful mouth of yours." Yong Soo sneered. "Is it any good at sucking dicks?"
"You insolent bastard!" Leon hollered and slammed the table.
"Go on, call me names, I miss the way you insult me, babe," the Korean boy sang. "Wonder what kind of words you'll be using against me in bed da-ze."
Splash!
Yong Soo didn't move from his position. Water soaked his hair. His curl slumped a little from getting drenched. People stopped eating and chatting once they sensed the substantial temperature drop and the menacing scent enveloping Yong Soo. They all turned their heads to their direction.
There were two kinds of shows people enjoy daily in the school. One happens when two alphas engage in fights to see who is more prominent. The other type is when a tension forms between an alpha and an omega.
Leon didn't want to think he was inadvertently involved in the latter one.
Damn it.
"That sucks, man," a loud voice butted in. Alfred patted Yong Soo's shoulder and laughed, "That's one feisty, grouchy princess. Aren't you gonna do something, dude? He totally can do with some discipline."
Leon glared at the two boys and stepped away from them.
Yong Soo stood up and shook off the water from his hair.
"Time, Alfred." Yong Soo smiled. "I've got plenty of time to play with him. No need to rush. I don't think my little pet can run away just yet."
"What's going on?" Emil ran towards Leon and caught his elbow. He gasped at the two alphas mocking his best friend.
"I can't believe an omega dares attack an alpha," someone exclaimed.
"That's going to be interesting."
"I wanna watch that transfer student tame him though."
"He can't get away with this. He's got guts to insult an alpha, wow!"
"What's happened, Leon?" Emil ignored the whispers and shook his friend's arm.
"Let's go." Leon's voice quavered. "Now."
He grabbed Emil's hand and sprinted out of the canteen, his heart racing.
He felt Yong Soo's glares behind his back.