Chapter 1- It Begins
Light shone through the open window, burning Liz's closed eyes. Throwing her arm up to cover her eyes, she groaned. Birds sang there greetings from there perch outside the window irritating the waking girl.
"Damn light. Such a nuisance when a person is trying to sleep." she mumbled sitting up. Huge mistake. Grumbling Liz brought her legs underneath her and placed her palm to her forehead. Bright morning light always gave her a migraine.
'Who ever said school had to be as eight in the morning were idiots.' she though to herself.
After the pain passed, she stood up to arch her back into a comfortable stretch, popping all the vertebrae from top to bottom. Tousling her hair Liz gave a sigh of content before shuffling zombie like toward her bathroom. The door closed with a thud behind her, glimpsing toward the sink, she caught sight of herself in the full length mirror. Brown hair lay tousled around her shoulders, while her eyes shown like liquid gold.
"God I look awful first thing in the morning. Whelp, time for a shower." she mused aloud.
Water was turned on to heat up, before long the entire room was filled with steam. Next, her clothes quickly found their place among the growing pile on the floor. Shower curtain zing as it was pulled close to contain the cascading water. Thirty minutes passed before a knock at the door, breaking Liz out of her still half sleeping stupor "Mistress Elizabeth, hurry up or you are going to be late for your first day of school." sounded a female voice from the other side of the door. "Alright, alright Mala I'm almost finished." Liz replied, yelling to be heard over the water. "You have ten minutes before I drag you out myself. No tardiness this year Mistress."
"I heard you." Liz grumbled.
Exactly nine minutes and thirty seconds later the bathroom door opened expelling the fog it held with in. Out walked Liz in a towel and was greet by a woman who looked to be in her early fifties. Gray hair was pulled back into a perfect bun, and eyes of gray shown with tenderness. She wore a dress of a dark purple, it always reminded Liz of the dresses from Gone with the Wind. "Good your on time for that at least. Now get dressed before you catch a cold." the older women said gesturing toward the bed where a pair of black slacks and a blue button up shirt were laid out.
"By the way how are you feeling this morning, young mistress?" she said with a smile. "I'm feeling fine, Mala. But seriously stop with the young mistress stuff already" Liz said laughingly. "Really mistress, I've been with you since birth and you still have problems saying my name." the maid chuckled. "Mladenka. Say it with me now. Mala-dan-ka. When you call me that I'll stop the young mistress, young mistress."
"Yeah...I'll just stick to calling you Mala." Liz said with an eye-roll.
"Haha, of course dear. Now you best be getting ready for school. Don't want to be late for your first day at a new school." Mladenka said while tidying up the room.
"What? You've got to be kidding me!"flopping back on the bed in irritation, "I was hoping you'd forget about the school thing today.'
"Now Mistress Elizabeth that's no way for an alpha of you age to behave. School is very import." Mala scolded.
"I know collecting data for the Searchers and all." she humphed.
"Come now. You've been an alpha since the day you were born. That entails helping and leading your pack the best you can."
"Yea, yea. I get it, so can you leave now so I can get dress like you said."
"Very well but don't forget to mask you essence before you leave this room."
Mala nodded her head as she headed for the door, but stopped short of leaving with her hand on the knob. She turned back to Liz and said with a creepy smile, " If your not down in fifteen I'll be back."
And with her last statement, the maid finally departed.
Liz stood there for a moment in peace with no sounds, but for the still annoying birds outside the window. Turning toward the bed, she decided it was time to get dressed. Looking at the clothes laid out, she decided a change was necessary. Heading back to her closet Liz chose something that would be comfortable yet stylish: green cargo pants, black tank, and black combat boots is what her outfit consisted of, but the the black beanie with red stars is what completed the look. Rushing to the bathroom she checked herself before she checked to see how much time she had left. Two minuets, definitely had to hurry up, no need to make the nice lady angry.
Liz ran down the stairs, making sure to beat the maid. When she saw Mala rounding the corner of the banister, she quickened her pace and leap the final six steps. However, in her haste she almost went head first in the hard wood floor before catching herself on the railing. Plopping down she grasped her chest, breathing in and out slowly. Her heart raced ninety to nothing.
"Are you alright, dear?" Mala raced up the stairs to check on her ward.
"I'm alright,"she gasped "Just a little rush of adrenaline to start the morning."
"Well since your fine here's your pop-tart and keys. You're running behind schedule already, so hurry up and leave so you won't be late. And I will see you after school." Mala tossed the packaged breakfast and keys to Liz, before practically shoving her out the door and waving bye.
All Liz could do was shake her head at the maids actions. Pulling a 180 cause her to have another heart-attack. That car was a dream come true. Today was her birthday.
The blue aston martin V8 vantage S drove so smoothly and handled with ease. The gears slid into place with no trouble.
'God I love that old maid. I have to than Mala some how for this present.' she chuckled.
Pulling into the parking place, Liz jumped out and ran a hand over the sleek surface. She let out a final sigh before locking it and taking a look at her classes for the day:
Homeroom- Mr. Graham's
Creative Writing- Ms. Welhiem
Algebra III with Statistics- Mrs. Maness
Organic Chemistry- Ms. Foris
Lunch
Big Ideas-Mr. Shelby
"Well that doesn't seem like such a rough day." she said absently while striding toward the main building.
15 minuets Later...
'What was I thinking? This place is huge!'
Wandering down the hallways Liz had no idea where she was or where to go. She glared st the schedule for the millionth time since leaving her car, wishing it came with a map of the school. The tardy bell had rung five minutes ago, after trying not to be late she was any way.
"Fuck." she sighed, hoping there were no teachers around to hear.
Looking at the sound of a throat clearing she saw the group of kids standing by the lockers staring at her. Well the guys stared, the two girls in the group really just glared.
"Hey!" she chuckled embarrassed at being caught "I was wondering if one of you might be able to tell me where Mr. Graham's room is?"
As she approached they all followed her movements as one, each wearing a different look. The two girls wore faces morphed from glaring to disdain and loathing, while the tallest male just seemed cautious. The last two just seemed surprised, Liz thought they weren't going to answer her for a moment till the one with charcoal black hair spoke up.
'What is with the wolves? They act as if they never get asked questions.'
"Excuse us. Where are our manners? I'm Renier, but people just call me Ren." he said holding out his hand.
Liz looked at him, giving him a once over. Charcoal black hair, eyes of cloudy skies, and body that no doubt had muscles galore on it. With a flirty smile showing a hint of teeth she shook his hand saying, "I'm Elizabeth, but just call me Liz. So Mr. Graham's room?"
"Right! Just take this hall till you get the second right, then go down that way and it will be the third door on the left."
"Thanks Ren. I've been wandering around here lost for a bit, but hey maybe I'll see you around."
A growl reached her ears as she turned away. The alpha inside Liz rose to the surface in challenge, looking at the lower female, Liz stared at her not backing down in the least, before she remembered she was under cover. Lowering her eyes as if in fear, she backed away, nodding her head to Ren in farewell as she headed toward homeroom.
"Damn gotta recall not to do shit like that around them. Or else they'll kill me in a second." she mumbled.
Sabine seemed suprise that the female before her, looked her in the eye, for a moment she thought she sensed a presence of something else, but the girl turned away in fear a second later. Sabine sneered at the wall, while she waited for the girl to walk away.
Ren watched as he realized that Sabine had taken off more than she could handle from this girl. He also had caught what Sabine had, but he knew it was an alpha. Not only that one who peaked his interest more then Calla. Glancing over at the female called Liz, he saw more then others did. Brown hair that looked only mousy appeared a gleaming golden, and eyes of light brown shined like warm honey. As he was finishing up his once over, the girl, Liz turned back toward Ren and nodded before she left.
"Who was that?" Dax, Ren's second in command, asked.
"I have no idea, but I aim to find out. Especially if she's the new alpha on the block." Ren replied sarcastically to his pack.
'No need to let them know just yet.' Ren thought with a predatory gleam in his eye.
"Ren why are you interested in a lowly human?" Sabine sneered.
"Because Sabine, she is obviously different then most. " Ren answered easily.