,,You'll go to school."

When Tiffany announced this to us, completely all of us started to choke on breakfast.

,,What? Why?" Luke protested right away.

,,I'm not saying that you have to go to human school!" Tiff laughed, when seeing mine, Luke's and Kyle's horrified expressions – Lillian looked like she don't mind.

,,I'm just saying that after three months and half you should start studying a little bit more."

,,And who will teach us?" cousin asked phlegmatically.

,,Us, Me, Felix, Ellie and from the vampires-"

,,Ellie?" Luke snorted.

,,Oh, don't make that face!" she pinched his nose. ,,She was one of the best when young. And she's a very good teacher – ah, sure, you two. Your own elders will teach you," Tiffany looked on the vampires.

,,What about the other pack?" I sighed.

,,There are also three adults, the alpha, then current beta male and Sally's mate."

,,I don't want to go to school, mom," Luke sniffed. I couldn't agree more.

,,Oh I'll tell you a secret, yes you do!" Tiffany growled. He twitched and whinned.

,,We have peace at least, more than we had back there, so we can start half-human life at least. Goddamnit, we have to merge in! Carol?"

,,Yes?" I jumped.

,,In the store nearby they are looking for a waitress. Maybe you should go there?"

,,Mhm…"

Gosh. Me. Me a waitress, who was used to being paid 300 euro a month…

I sighed in annoyance, then shaked head.

That's past… the store, the companions I had there, and my old life at all.

,,Maybe you will get something better later, but as a start it's not bad," Tiff said, as if saw my thoughts.

,,True," Luke poked my side.

,,Okay," I sighed.

When going back to my room, he caught up with me.

,,Hey, what's with that face?"

,,I don't want to do a waitress," I whinned. ,,you have it better, you get paid from pa- eh, mom."

,,Ah, you think? I get so low that I merely live from it!" he sighed. ,,Mom's strict about it."

,,She wants to teach you good," I tapped his back.

,,Yes… Deryl wanted to, too…"

,,You mean your father?"

,,He wasn't my father."

I winked.

,,No?"

,,Nope. Carol, in this pack it's a bit messy. Mom is the pack alpha female for the third one now – first was my father, but he disappeared when I was just a bit older than our pup is now."

,,Where?"

He shrugged.

,,I've got no idea… mom then took Deryl, he was the beta then and the alpha's younger brother. Now, it's Felix."

,,How long did your mom and dad been together?"

,,Well around twenty-two years, maybe more. I can ask."

,,Wow."

We stand on the stairs, each puzzling about something else. Then he looked up.

,,Actually… I'm not quite sure if mom loved even one of them. She never talked about her feelings, but you know that."

,,Yup."

,,She did show Deryl affection, but…"

,,…No spark," I finished for him.

…

I couldn't sleep at night. Felix seemed he's pretty much horny and Tiffany too, they made such a fuss I heard even Luke growling from the room next to mine.

I was awake now, perfect, so I sat up and looked on the clock. Just past midnight…

Hell, why was I sleeping anywais?

I got dressed and jumped out of the window to the roof, sneaked past Ellie's room, jumped on a smaller one and then down.

Oh yes, I forgot to mention the house me, Felix, Kyle, Luke, Tiff, Lillian, Ellie and the pup shared was on a small hill surrounded by small forest.

We always settled beside a forest, Luke said. We needed it – wolves wouldn't survive without forest, so as we didn't survive without both city and the woods. This place was, I'd admit, perfect.

The night city looked peaceful, far more than the previous one. It was quiet, calm, I just heard night birds – and a lot, lot of crickets.

I loved the sounds.

I noticed before there's a old, unused church at the top of another small hill, this time without trees, so I ran there to observe it a bit.

Insides were light and open, I could see the moon through the window. Some bats were sitting there, and they curiously looked on me. I smiled on them.

I quite liked this place alone, without people. Who knows how would it look like with them?

I sat down beside a window and puzzled.

If it wasn't for Tiffany I'd sleep. How did she expect me to learn something, if she wouldn't let me sleep at night?

But yeah, I didn't blame her. It was still mating season, and she only lost her old mate.

I frowned. What could have happened to her to make her so cold about mating? She acted very warm towards Luke, the pup, me, well to everyone she called pups. And to Ellie to, they seemed old friends. But to Deryl, she was absolutely calm, even though she did occasionally show him small hints of affection, but never anything big. And to Felix, she acted almost the same way now, only going to him if she needed help in whatever thing.

She never acted as if they were more to her than co-workers.

Maybe it was the fact that she lost her first mate? Maybe HE was the one she loved?

Well, Luke promised he will ask her about it.

But another thought sticked me-

Where was he? Where did he went to? He disappeared. Well, maybe he was dead. I don't know. But I was curious.

I sighed.

,,Who's there?"

I twitched. Or mostly, my stomach did. I scanned the place, then hid behind a wall.

,,Hello…?"

Okay, male voice, seems teenage, Seems human. Damnit.

,,Are you there?"

I gulped and slowly walked backwards, to the door. When I was there, I opened and ran like crazy straight home.

This time I stayed in bed, and solved Felix and Tiffany with a pillow over my head.

…

,,You look like zombies," Kyle poked my side with a grin in the morning.

,,Didn't you hear last night?" I yawned.

,,Oh yes, sure I did. Nothing better than good wolf passion!" he laughed.

,,Heh. Talking about passion, you don't have anyone?"

,,Nope – not yet. You know I'm the only teenage vampire around," he frowned now.

,,You can find a human and change her," I suggested.

,,I can – but tell me, which human won't be scared."

,,Oh, we're popular nowadays," I grinned. ,,you won't have trouble with that."

,,Yeah, yeah, sure," he waved hand.

Lillian rolled eyes.

,,When I grow up, I'm finding a vampire born mate!" she raised her chin.

,,You are changed yourself!" Luke poked her.

,,That was my destiny," she said very seriously.

We all started to laugh like crazy.

After lunch I went to the city to see the job Tiff was talking about. It was somewhere in the middle of the city, a small cafe-chocolate store. What was it called again, darn?

Well anywais, I went there, they took me in. I started to work right away – six hours always. The payment wasn't much, but then again, better than nothing.

,,Hey, Carol!"

Someone tapped me, when I was at the pult. No customers today. Bad start.

This was Seraphine.

,,Hi Sera."

Yeah, since we both got mates we started to get along better. We hang out along with Amalie and the small yellow female, which name was Adelle. Seraphine was a funny and dynamic person, by the way – sometimes sarcastic and mean, but so what, she was quite the same type as me, so we went out well. I'd say we were almost friends. A bit rivals, but still friendly.

Amalie was a quiet and shy person, and the voice of reason among us. But she was quite smart and her remarks could often save us trouble.

Adelle, that was also shy, and she didn't talk much, she seemed a bit afraid of us, since she was younger (fifteen). But she still went with us. Sera said she was Amalie's younger sister, which was a bit of a surprise for me – yes, they were quite alike. But only by appearance. With her shyness and childlike-ness I was very surprised she was alpha's mate. Well, there's probably more in her than what can be seen at first.

,,So, ya got a job?"

,,Yeah. Not very good, but Tiff insisted we merge in."

,,Leo too. He's quite pissed all we care about is," she lowered voice. ,,hunting and mating!"

I laughed. ,,Summer time, he gotta get used!"

,,Hell yeah!" she clapped hands with me.

,,So, about mating – are you off to the disco today?"

,,Not sure yet. You going?"

,,You bet! We have to merge in, don't we?"

We both laughed.

,,May I…?"

We turned and my stomach jumped again.

I knew the voice. The one from the church?

,,Um, sure."

It was around the same age I was, maybe a but older. He had a bit weird charm, one I was unused to. If I had a tail now, it would waggle nervously.

Something in him made me feel uncomfortable.

I handled him over what he wanted without touching him. He took it a bit curiously on my nervousness, but said nothing.

When he was out of the door, Seraphine turned to me;

,,You know that guy?"

,,Saw him once."

,,He's a bit creepy, what'cha say?"

,,Yeah…" I agreed with a frown.

Why exactly?