Questions about Sexuality for Teen Alphas and Omegas – sponsored by Planned Packhood

Dear Planned Packhood,

So, there's a girl in my school who smells really awesome all the time, and then she went into heat and I knotted her, and now I just want to be with her all the time. Did we accidentally mate? I kind of hope we have. –Sappy Alpha

Dear Sappy Alpha,

Don't be sad, but it sounds like a crush to me! You've fallen for your awesome omega, and it's really romantic. But only .5% of natural mating heats ever occur in high school. They tend to cluster around ages 26-28, when the stress of school and new jobs starts to settle down. Enjoy being in love, but you don't have to worry about the commitment and legal questions that mating brings. You aren't her responsible alpha! If you want to double check, Planned Packhood has quick blood tests that can let you know right away if you've mated or not.

Dear Planned Packhood,

I was hanging out with my best (supposed) beta buddy a few weeks ago, when all of a sudden, he started smelling super good and getting hard and looking at me. I knotted him, and it was kind of amazing, and we had a great time. But I've always thought I was into girls, and I still think girls are super hot, but I really enjoyed everything I did with my buddy, especially because I didn't get bored when we were tied. We just talked about football and stuff. I know it's mostly betas who care about gay and straight and stuff, but I always thought I was straight, and now I just don't know. – Alpha in Crisis!

Dear Alpha in Crisis!

First things first, I hope you took your buddy straight to Planned Packhood in the morning to get a morning-after pill! Most first time heat sex is enough of a surprise that people forget protection, but alphas should make an effort to always carry and remember their condoms just in case of emergency! Having a sexuality crisis is bad enough. Having a sexuality crisis along with becoming a baby-daddy in high school is not something you want to be going through!

It seems that the confusing part is that you're best friends. Friendship and sexual attraction can be all you need to form a positive relationship, but fear and prejudice can easily spoil it. Best not leap before you look! Talk to your friend about his feelings. Consider dating a bit on the down low. See if you're interested in a relationship when he isn't in heat, and then make your decision. You don't have to know everything yet! Give yourself time to think and experience life, in all its crazy, beautiful colors.

Dear Planned Packhood,

When I went into heat for the first time, I found myself thinking about my best friend, and not about any alphas. I've come to terms with the fact that I like girls, and that I'm an omega. I'm considering asking out my friend, who's made it clear that she likes me, but I don't know how to talk to her about being an omega. She's a beta, and female alphas, even if they do exist are so rare, that I really doubt that I'll ever meet one that I want to be in a relationship. I'm probably going to seek out relationships with beta girls, but how do I make that work with my heats every month? Should I try to get knotted just so it won't be so crazy? – Lesbian Omega

Dear Lesbian Omega,

It's great to see you so up front about your sexual desire and your relationship choices. It can be really difficult to feel like your mind and your body don't fit. You know you want girls, but your body wants alphas. So how do you deal with that? Number one, getting knotted by some guy just to reduce your heats, isn't the answer. Sure, it makes things a little easier to handle, but so does mating, and you wouldn't want to force yourself into a mating bond just so you don't rev up so much once a month. Knotting, though not so permanent, is still a bond, and you should choose your bondmates for better reasons than simple convenience. And the truth is, you're not alone. Female alphas are a rare breed indeed, but lesbian omegas are not uncommon. Omegas who pursue relationships with female betas as well as other omegas can have happy committed family lives and satisfying sexual encounters. The most essential aspect is communication. Talk to your friend about what you want when you're in heat and be honest. Also stop by Planned Packhood for our pamphlet "Omega Sexuality: Untying the Knot on Love and Lust." It contains techniques and resources regarding sex and relationships, and, at the very least, brings up a lot of the questions that your friend might have but you might be unsure of the answers to. Good luck and good gardening!

Dear Planned Packhood,

I'm one of those rare things, a female alpha, but I've been pretty sure I was straight my whole life. Although I was attracted to omegas, I wrote that off as simple biology. But today, a girl I didn't know was an omega went into heat and kissed me in the janitor's closet. It didn't go farther than that, and she went off to shag her beta boyfriend, but I'm kind of a mess. It's never felt like this before. Being near omegas, kissing nice beta boys, and suddenly everything I thought I knew about myself is up for questioning. I just don't know what I'm supposed to do…

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"Hi Tori!"

Tori kept her face buried in her hands. She liked the janitor's closet. It smelled pleasant, and it was quiet, and she could hide her shame. She was considering staying there forever. But now Cat was in it.

"So, Jade's in heat."

Tori jerked her head up and glared. "I got that!"

"Why are you in here?"

Tori sighed and mumbled into her hands. "I don't think I can walk."

Cat looked shocked and a little impressed. "Oh," she said.

"Not that!" Tori didn't exactly know what she was thinking, but whatever it was, it was a NO.

"You missed Sikowitz's class."

Tori sighed. "I just want to go home."

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Her mother pulled up in the car as Tori headed out the back door. Was there any way she was going to get away with not explaining this? The nurse had taken one look at her and hadn't asked any questions, just taken her temperature and called her mom.

Tori slunk out to the car and climbed into the passenger seat. Her mom took a look at her and rolled down the window before pulling out of the school parking lot.

"Your friend went into heat," she said. It wasn't a question.

Tori nodded miserably, and then stiffened. "Wait. What? You knew? You knew Jade was an omega?"

Her mother patted her arm. "It was pretty obvious."

Tori stared, utterly betrayed. "How was it obvious? How was it- She doesn't act like an omega."

"How do omegas act, Tori?"

There was a subtle hardness to the comment and Tori swallowed, remembering who she was talking to. "They act like... people. But most of the ones in high school either hide or cling to alphas. Jade didn't do any of that!"

Her mother shook her head. "And how did she smell?"

Tori slumped into the car seat. "Awesome."

"You'll get better at identifying people when you get older and the hormones settle down."

"But other omegas don't smell like that."

"To you. Not all omegas smell the same, you know. And some scents you like more than others, just like with anything."

Oh fabulous, Tori's special omega scent blend just happened to be Jade. Being an alpha was the worst.

Holly parked the car, and Tori straggled behind her and in the door. What had she done? All of their odd interactions, falling all over her, sniffing the back of her neck... Oh god.

"Why didn't you tell me!" She pressed her hands to her face. "I've been making such a fool of myself! I've been acting like a total idiot alpha!"

"Tori..." Her mother shook her head.

"It's like I was courting her! I WAS courting her, wasn't I? Oh god." Tori threw herself face first onto the couch and pressed her nose into a pillow. "I just wanted to be friends. I didn't know she was an omega."

"Would you have wanted to be friends with her if you had known?"

"No!" Tori pushed herself up and frowned. "Yes? Maybe? I don't know. I mean, she could find out about me, right? I'm supposed to stay away from omegas."

"Baby, I'm pretty sure you never hid anything from Jade."

No. She really hadn't. "Not with all the sidling up close I did. Oh, god, no wonder she wanted me to stay away. And I didn't listen."

Her mother made a very 'I told you' face. "That was probably a stupid alpha thing to do."

"But I just..." Tori curled up into a little ball and cupped her head in her hands.

"You liked her."

"I did." Tori's lower lip extended. "But did I really? I mean, was it just the hormones? Did I ever really like her at all? Like her for myself, or just like her as an alpha?"

Because oh god, she had liked her as an alpha. Omegas in their first heats were sexy, but they hadn't made her knees buckle. Jade had kissed her and the alpha in her had growled so loud that she couldn't even think of what to do. Well, she couldn't think of anything but shoving Jade against the wall, burying her face between her breasts and her hand between her thighs. Tori's face felt like it was glowing with heat at the memory.

But it was Jade, Jade who was the most blunt and straightforward girl she had ever met. Who always said what she thought. Who had done everything she could to make her life hell, and then still cast her those secret amused incredulous smiles, like they had a connection, like they were having a secret friendship affair that no one was allowed to know about.

And the one thing that Tori had wanted – wanted with a desperation that was verging on Trina-style obsessiveness – was to open her arms and pull Jade in, and squeeze. It hadn't seemed erotic. But in consideration of recent events, it might have been a bit more inappropriate than she had first assumed.

Her mother sat down next to her and put an arm around her shoulders, pulling her in. "It's hard to tell sometimes. If you like someone, your hormones can respond to that. If your hormones respond, you might think you like them. The only way to know is to stick it out and see if it changes. Try to be friends anyway. And now that you know, you'll respect her personal space."

Tori slowly reached up and ran her index finger over her lower lip. "Yeah,"

she said softly.

"And if you can still be friends, then it doesn't matter if the hormones started it."

Tori swallowed.

"I don't even know if that would be a good thing or not."

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Jade and Beck weren't at school on Thursday. They weren't at school on Friday either. Tori very pointedly did not comment. She was fine. She was in control. She was not going to be a stupid jealous alpha.

Then Robbie said, "I wonder where Jade and Beck are?"

Rex scoffed. "What? You know they in the shaggin' wagon."

Tori punched through Robbie's locker. Robbie's jaw dropped.

"Tori? What?"

"You need to get rid of those nipples, okay?" She turned and stormed off, cursing herself for her lack of control.

"Some baby wishes she was in that shaggin' wagon," Rex remarked.

Cat grabbed him and stuffed him head first into Robbie's bag. "Hey! Hey! I can't breathe in here!"

"Sorry, Robbie," Cat said.

"No, it's okay."

Cat waved and left the boy and his broken locker to run after Tori. "Hi Tori,"

Tori pressed her forehead against her own locker. "You don't want to talk to me."

"Yes I do!"

"You shouldn't." Tori flexed her hand, which was beginning to swell.

Cat looked at it. Then she looked at Tori. "Come on," she said, catching Tori's wrist and tugging her toward the nurse. The nurse took one look at the hand and at Tori's face and then over at Cat, as if hesitating.

"Just say what you want to say," Tori said. "She can handle it."

The nurse nodded. "There are hormone suppressants that you could be on."

Tori sagged. "The meditation and yoga was supposed to be enough."

"I love yoga!" exclaimed Cat.

"I just... I don't want to drug myself out yet. I had a... shock. I'll get over it."

The nurse raised an eyebrow, prodding the yellowing bruises on her other set of knuckles. "In the meantime, you could invest in some boxing gloves?"

"Yeah! Drugs suck!" added Cat. "Jade's been going through like a prescription a week these days, and it's so not helping."

"She has?" Tori asked, suddenly worried. A prescription of what? Heat suppressants?

"Yep! She says it's your fault."

Tori nodded vaguely. "It probably is." Everyone knew that omegas made alphas crazy, but what was it like for an omega to be around an alpha all the time? After being knotted, heats were supposed to get calmer, but if Jade had always had Beck, then she probably hadn't been knotted before... and still smelled like it was her first heat. If being around alphas was anything like being around omegas, it would make the symptoms pretty bad. Being around stupid female alphas who liked to sidle up close and fall all over you in the hallway was likely even worse.

Cat gasped in shock. "You're making her do drugs!"

Tori just groaned and tried to find a blanket to put over her head.

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Jade lay in bed, staring up at the ceiling of the RV, Beck snoring beside her, and wondered. It was easy to lose track of time during her heats, but she could feel the ebb of her need, so it had to be late. How long had it lasted, two days? Three? She felt bruised and sore and unsatisfied, like always after a heat, as if her body was complaining, not understanding why she had bothered with a cock that didn't have a knot, or why she had bothered with a cock at all.

Grimacing, she lifted her hips and ran her fingers lightly over too sensitive flesh. It felt like a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, but her internal muscles still clenched, wanting it, wanting more. Beck was out for a couple of hours though, she could tell by the breathing, and last time he hadn't even tried to get it up, just stayed lying on his back with his eyes shut and stuck two fingers into her, with a casual carelessness, as if he might be getting paid, but he hated his job.

It had never felt so much like 'just sex.' And it wasn't even sex it was 'just penetration,' just 'doing my fucking job.'

Even the vibrator was too much right now, and Jade clenched her hands into fists and shut her eyes. This was when she could get herself off by squeezing her thighs together and thinking. Thinking about Tori's mouth, her stunned-rabbit look, the press of her hands against her waist. There, a slight peak. Her body relaxed into the calm moderate arousal of her last day.

She'd kissed Tori.

Fuck.

There was a reason people didn't let omegas out of the house, wasn't there? Heat made them insane. They thought of nothing but sex, sex, sex, and the frontal lobe was not involved in any way. She'd kissed Tori. What was she thinking? What had she wanted?

A growl vibrating against her throat, her shirt ripped, hands palming her breasts, a kiss, teeth tearing at her lower lip.

Fuck.

Jade rolled on her stomach, hand - still in a fist - nestled in the vee of her crotch, wrist pressing against her lower belly. She leaned into it, and bit back a groan.

What had she wanted? To be taken in the janitor's closet? To be backed against the wall, wrists bound so she couldn't touch herself, so she couldn't resist when Tori bit her way up her inner thigh?

That was what she'd teach her - to not touch her, not let her touch. Heats lasted three days, there was no goddamn hurry to get off. And the longer it took, the slower the build, the higher the peak, the more respite her body gave her after.

And if Tori could pick that one up, she might not end up feeling like someone had gone after her with a meat tenderizer.

Would it be enough? Would she feel satisfied after? Sated? If female alphas were just like female betas on the outside, could they knot? How would they do it? Jade had never saw the allure of knotting, intellectually. Fucking and coming were fine. Being opened, penetrated, stretched, her body liked that. But being tied? Having someone stick something in you that swelled up like a wound and then not being able to get it out? That was shit. She was always sweaty and sticky and foul smelling after sex, she would hate not being able to roll away right after and get in the shower.

Not that what Tori did in bed had anything to do with her. She had made things clear when Jade had kissed her, pushed her body into her grasp, and Tori had done nothing. If Jade could be an omega who hated alphas, Tori could be an alpha who only wanted men. That was sexuality for you, you got slapped with whatever you got, and it wasn't like you could make an executive decision to fix it. Just like your kind. Alpha, beta, omega, you were stuck.

Even if it hadn't been perfectly clear, screwing Tori wasn't going to change anything. Jade would end up knotted and tied - from behind, if she had any choice in the matter, so she didn't have to look the alpha in his idiot face - and she would be forced to stay still, sweaty and gross, as her daddy's pick of an alpha shot off into her for twenty minutes. She would be dripping with it for hours. And he would do it again, and again, until the heats stopped, because she was having his fucking pups, and the little boy would be an alpha and the little girl would be an omega, and the cycle would start all over again. That was her life.

Unexpectedly, Jade felt her eyes start to burn and her throat tighten. Goddammit, she was going to cry. She hated crying.

Beck's arms flailed out and found her. "Hey," he murmured, still mostly asleep. "What's wrong? Why're you crying?"

"I'm not," she spit out, and pushed him away. She crawled out of bed and headed for the shower where no one but her could tell the difference between water and tears.

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Tori spent the weekend on the couch, curled into a ball, nursing her fractured hand.

Her dad tried to comfort her but she waved him away. "No, no. I am going to be humiliated here for another," she checked her watch, "six hours. No comforting."

"It isn't that humiliating," her father offered. "Alphas have good noses, but we do occasionally get distracted by how interesting the scent is."

Tori put a pillow on her head. "You're not helping!"

"You know they say that omegas are only up for it during their heats, but I've found that with the correct preparation, they're quite willing-"

Tori shrieked and threw the pillow at him.

"David!" Holly called down from upstairs. "Don't give our daughter unsolicited sex advice!"

Her dad grinned, and Tori ducked her head, pushing her hair behind her ear. He was just trying to make her feel better. Her dad leaned close and whispered to her, making indicative glances in the upstairs direction, "very careful, well-planned preparation. They have hair-triggers, those omegas. Avoid pissing them off."

He sauntered off upstairs, and Tori leaned back into the couch and stared at the ceiling. She had to pull herself together before school on Monday. She had embarrassed herself enough in front of Jade already. She was going to try and stop that now. She was not going to be a stupid, pushy, (courting) alpha. She was not going to drive Jade into ODing on hormone suppressants, or to more... embarrassing PDAs in the janitor's closet.

She still wanted to be friends. She wanted it so much she felt sick inside.

They could be friends... at a distance... in well-ventilated areas.

Tori groaned and rolled over onto her pillow. This was going to suck.

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When Jade walked into school on Monday, she spotted Tori at her locker, just like she had on the Wednesday before. And Tori froze, just like she had then. She turned slightly, just enough to see Jade and force a weak smile, and then ran like a bunny-rabbit from a fox.

For some completely incomprehensible reason, Jade felt a little disappointed.

Tori continued to avoid her for the rest of the day, very carefully staying on the opposite side of any classroom, ducking her head to avoid attention when Sikowitz wanted volunteers to get up on stage and interact.

It was depressing. Jade didn't even have the opportunity to get in a good insult or death glare. It was like one big failure.

What made it worse was when she got home. Her dad was actually sitting in the kitchen, across the counter from a young man with handsome features and slicked back dark hair.

"Oh, Jadelyn," he said. "This is Gavin Marks. Gavin, my daughter."

The young man in his sharp suit turned to look at her and smiled. "You're still in high-school, are you?"

Jade nodded, not sure what to do. He had to be an alpha. He had the easy confidence and proprietary grin that they tended to.

"Man, that was a good time. It's always great to be ruling the roost," Gavin commented. It seemed like he was addressing her, but speaking to her father. "Do you have a boyfriend?"

"Yes," Jade said sharply.

Her father snorted. "A beta."

Gavin shook his head. "I'm sure he's very nice. You're a pretty girl, Jadelyn. You should have the world at your feet."

And was he the one offering to get it for her? Jade kept her face stony, but her eyes down. She didn't need her dad blowing up at this too.

"Say thank you, Jade," her dad said, "and then get out of here and change. Honestly, what they let you wear to school these days. It's revolting."

Jade spun and strode away.

"I don't know," said Gavin. "She seems very stylish. And she has a good figure. I bet she could carry off the classics if we could just teach her to smile."

"Oh, she can if she wants. She's not a bad little actress. She's quite good at playing a role."

Slamming the door to her room, Jade found her favorite scissors and started savaging her father's old briefcase.

This was her life.

Goddammit. Who would be surprised if she did end up going on a serial killing rampage?

No one.