Zero was happier than ever before. He is playing for the best team, he is team captain, he is making more money than ever, he is dating the hottest girl in LA – the head cheerleader of the LA Devils, Jelena.
Unfortunately, that was how other people see him but in fact life cannot be truly perfect, even for Zero. Truth is that Zero is having problems, lots of them – first it is hard to maintain his captain position on the team. Everyone were breathing down his neck, waiting for him to make some mistake, so they can steal the position under his nose. His biggest enemy on the team was Terrance Wall, the guy hated Zeros guts, not only because of the team, but because Zero was dating the girl he was head over heels for – Jelena. Fortunately, Zero also had friends on the team, who were supporting him as a captain of the team. His best bud was Derek Roman. Usually Zero was a loner, he was not used to having friends on the court and outside it, but Jude made him try to socialize with his teammates and 'get some friends in the locker room', as he has told Zero one time. As usually, Jude was right and Zero was glad for his friends, Derek was a good baller and when they were playing, they were almost unstoppable, also they were looking each other backs outside the court which was great for Zero.
His other problem was Jelena, his girlfriend – to said it nicely, Zero hated her, she was a manipulative spoiled bitch. She was also an alpha and was as bad and self-loving as most of them. She is always demanding expensive gifts – designer clothes, shoes, jewelries etc. and usually Zero is fine with making presents for the people he likes or people he is trying to impress but she is neither and he hates buying her stuff. But spending money on her was not the worst part, it actually was spending time with her and he hated every second he has to be with her, but she was part of his plan – dating the hottest girl always puts him in the media's attention and makes him even more famous, desired, and rich. Lately it was getting harder and harder to be with her, listening to her bitching about how the other girls were trying to get her position as top girl on the team, or how she was too good and too talented to be only a dancer and more and more. Zero was catching himself to think about other things, or other people more likely … ok only one person in particular – Jude.
His other problem was Jude, or more specifically all the stupid people who were underestimating and hurting 'his sweet omega' – as he was always referred to Jude in his head. Jude was amazing, Zero knew that he was smart from the first moment he saw him, but God, was he wrong – Jude was a genius, he was always able to get Zero the best deals and to protect him from all the sharks in the business and outside it. Even though he doesn't have a lot of experience, like most of the agents he was competing with, he was compensating with his eagerness and his ability to always predict everything, as Zero likes to say – 'he is a brilliant strategist'. And the best thing is that he was truly honest and happy for Zero, he was not doing anything for himself, but he was working for Zero's benefit always. Zero was truly amazed and was thanking whoever God blessed him with this amazing person every day.
They became good friends very quickly. Jude was the only person that Zero truly liked and was able to be himself on a 100% only in front of. At first Jude was awkward and stiff in front of him, as he is with everybody else, but over time he got comfortable with Zero. They were spending a lot of time together, planning their next moves, talking about different things and drinking beer together. Zero was happier in this days, in this few hours when he can spend time alone with his sweet omega – when Jude was smiling and laughing, when his eyes were twinkling with joy and when his scent was so sweet and so rich that Zero was getting dizzy from it.
Unfortunately, only Zero was seeing Jude for what he is, while a lot of people were treating him as something disgusting, shameful and disgraceful. A lot of the agents think that he is my agent only because of his father or some shit like that, but the truth is that his father was worse than everybody else. Oscar Kinkade was the LA Devils owner, he was cruel man and everybody were scared from him. He was an alpha and was behaving like most of them – thinking that he is the best and everybody else were beneath him, especially the omegas. That's the reason he was so cruel to Jude – he was ashamed that his only child turned out to be an omega, not the next most powerful alpha in the world, like he and everybody else were expecting. That's the reason he is always behaving awful to Jude and is humiliating him verbally. Zero wanted to punch the guy every time he sees how he is looking at and behaving towards Jude, only because he was born as an omega – it was not his fought in any way. And truth is, Zero liked that about Jude, he LOVED that the guy is an omega – sweet, caring, considerate, sympathetic, generous, family oriented, sensitive omega. Those qualities he has from his omega side, but he also has lots of other qualities, that are usually not very typical for omegas, such as: adaptable, ambitious, courageous, rational, witty, etc. He was perfect in Zeros eyes, and Zeros main mission lately is to make Jude see, understand and accept who he is – an omega, beautiful, smart and perfect omega and there is nothing to be ashamed of. He wanted Jude to see that his so-called father was nothing but an abusive asshole, who don't deserve Jude's love and admiration.
