I flutter my eyes open and sit up from my bed and stretch my body
Wow I feel I slept a lot and had a well-deserved rest, but that scene hasn't left my mind…
Wait…. Oh my god! School! I was so fed up from yesterday I fell asleep and didn't put my alarm
I quickly scramble out of bed and look for my phone
I know I threw it somewhere around here… Found it! Ok let's see…..
4:28 am?! Wow I don't think I've ever woken up that early, well besides when I was on my training or when I was having those nightmares
Then again it's no wonder I fell asleep as soon as I came home and I came home pretty early
Well no time to waste I need to take a shower and then get ready
I grab my towel and take a relaxing, soothing shower after showering I choose a stylish black blouse with a fuchsia skirt and put some makeup, out of nowhere a loud growl is heard and I notice it was my stomach, that's right I didn't have any dinner, man I'm super hungry
I finish brushing my hair and putting my special necklace and ring I start heading downstairs, Karen for once isn't up and so I whipped myself some breakfast as I made myself some eggs with ham and pancakes and waffles
I saved some pancakes and waffles for Karen and made sure to leave her a note
Hey Karen!
I went to school early so don't worry about me, I made some breakfast, it's pancakes and waffles hope you like them!
Ps. Sorry I acted weird yesterday, I'll tell you all about my day today at school
After that I grab my backpack and went on my way to the school, I'm glad I put a lot of attention so I know the way to school after some minutes I arrived and went to the office, the lady asked me what I needed and I told her I needed my schedule and she pulled out a paper and gave it to me she also said
"Since you came pretty early, you should go to your dance teacher and audition to see if you can join the class, if you didn't make it come right back to me and I'll give you another class" the lady told me with a smile
"Ok, thank you" I replied back
There's no way I'm going to fail, I was the captain of my school's dance team and I know my team would never forgive me if I failed
I exited the office and I noticed there were some students out in the hallway, I thought it was mostly gonna be empty as I woke up really early but a lot of time must have passed on showering, dressing up and cooking either way I read the room number of the dance class that apparently was my 5th period
Most students that I saw ignored me as everyone went on their own business but there were a few who stared at me, I'm not sure why I hope I don't look too much out place
After walking for a while I made it to the class, I opened the door and saw a woman in her 30s who told me she was my coach I also noticed there were girls in the class in what seemed like a dance outfit, they must have been practicing
After explaining my situation, the coach put a song and she told me to dance with what I knew and I moved to the rhythm as I could finally dance freely after so many months, the dancing I did with Nessie was good but I was mostly teaching her so I couldn't move on my own pace so being able to dance freely felt amazing probably third best feeling after running as a wolf and as much as I don't like to admit it the feelings Seth gives me
Which of course is the best feeling in the whole world
I give my final move as the music ends and many of the girls clap while the rest look envious and the coach gives me a smile and told me I did a great job and to say the least I didn't fail and was accepted in the team, before leaving the team leader, I noticed because of her uniform, congratulated me and told me the coach didn't give complements lightly and I should be proud of my work
Suddenly I felt lighter and happier, I checked my phone and saw the bell was gonna ring soon so I made my way to my first classroom, now seeing much more students than before, I mostly focused on getting to my class as I can't be late on my first day of class but I still couldn't help noticing some people staring at me
Damn am I giving off the new girl vibe?
Before long I reach my class and enter, my teacher takes notice of me and introduces herself to me and introduces me to the class before telling me to sit next to a black haired girl
I do as the teacher says and sit in my assigned seat, the girl calls to me
"Hey there, I'm Kim" the girl tells me
"Oh hi I'm Stella, nice to meet you" I tell her
I see many students, girls and guys turn to me but don't say anything, I look down on my outfit
Am I wearing something weird? Why are people staring at me, I'm sure I looked okay before I left the house
The girl next to me giggles and I hope she's not laughing at me thankfully she smiles to me, her smile looking innocent and amused and not malicious
"Don't worry you look great, that's not why people are staring at you" The girl, Kim I believe, says with a friendly smile "well most anyway" she says with a roll of her eyes
Did she read my mind? Or was I too obvious…?
"We don't get new students often, so having a girl suddenly moving is making everyone curious" Kim explains
"If you don't mind me asking, what made you move to La Push?" Kim asks me, being curious herself
"Well I really like the nature around here, and it seemed like a good place to live" I tell her, having thought about my answers before I came to school
"I agree, La Push might not be the biggest or the most well-known but it has a great beach and beautiful scenery" Kim tells me
I smile at her, It's great to meet someone who cares more about a beautiful rustic reservation than a modern city
"Ok you will start reading chapter 4 of Animal farm with the person seating next to you, Kim please give Stella a brief summary of the book and then continue reading with the current chapter" the teacher tells us
Kim begins telling me about the book and we soon both begin reading it and we both make high or deep voices depending on the character and by the end of the class we are bursting laughing from how bad we were on that
"Gosh and the way you did Jones's voice was hilarious!" I say as I chuckle from the memory
The bell had rung and me and Kim were walking together
Don't get me wrong the story of Animal farm seems pretty serious and we are only on chapter 4 but me and Kim try to have fun as much as we can
"So what class do you have next, Stella?" Kim asks me
"Art" I say and show her my schedule
"Oh that's on my way to math class so I'll walk you" Kim tells me with a smile
"Thanks!" I tell her, happy to have made a friend
"Oh right! My boyfriend normally walks me so I hope you don't mind him joining us" Kim tells me remembering her boyfriend
"Oh it's no problem" I tell her, the more friends I make the better
"Great, he should be…. Huh? This is where we meet up…?" Kim says looking around and I see many students on the hallway and not knowing who he is, I can't really help her
Then I smell a shifter scent and when I follow it suddenly a body envelops Kim surprising us both
I'm about to shove the guy off of her when I hear her laughter, stopping me on my tracks
"Jared! I've told you many times to not surprise me like that! I can never see you coming" Kim tells the guy with a huff but I can see the happiness in her eyes
"C'mon Kimmie how can I not do it when you yell out such a cute squeak" Jared says with a laugh as he hugs her close and I can see the spark on his eyes as he looks at her and I've seen that special look many times from my parents and former pack mates
They're Imprints
And no matter how many times I see it, I always get this happy feeling whenever I see imprints together though I also envied them but I don't envy them anymore because I also have an Imprint myself
Seth…
Ufff no I shouldn't think of him, he lied to me….he lied to me…
But no matter what I do I can't help think of him, his sweet smile and warm eyes
Pull yourself together, Stella!
"Jared! We're in school!" Kim chastises Jared but still laughs "Sorry about that" Km says looking my way
"So what if we're in school? There's no PDA" he then looks my way "Oh hey Stella, what do you think of our school?"
"I like it, the teacher was nice and everyone's pretty friendly" I say as I look at Kim
"Um you two know each other?" Kim asks us, curiously and a bit nervously
"Yeah Stella came to our bonfire this Friday" Jared tells her
"You had a bonfire this Friday?" Kim asks Jared as she raises her brow
"Yeah it was last minute" Jared tells her, him looking a bit nervous now
"I though bonfires were special and very few people could go" Kim whispers to Jared, probably so I couldn't hear but I could hear perfectly
"Well she's a special case, but I'll explain later" Jared whispers back to Kim before turning to me
"Well me and Kim will accompany you" Jared tells me and we continue walking, Jared and Kim holding hands
"Have you gotten lost?" Jared asks me
"Thankfully not, the hallways aren't too confusing but it's still might take me awhile to memorize each class" I answer back
"The school isn't too big so you should get used to it pretty quick" Kim tells me with a smile
"So you didn't get a guide or anything?" Jared asks me, looking a bit surprised
"Uh no, was I supposed to?" I ask him confused, the lady didn't say anything of a guide
"Well I thought you did" Jared tells me and then whispers "but he probably overslept"
I stared at him confused, overslept, who?
Kim starts telling Jared about our amazing voice acting during English class and he cracks up so I keep my questions to myself
~Seth's POV~
I hear the sound of my alarm and I groggily shut it off, being careful enough to not break it and sleep is about to overwhelm me when my brain begins functioning and I remember I have to wake up early to pick up Stella and my eyes immediately open and sleep completely leaves me
I quickly look at the time
6:03 am
I scramble out of bed and take a quick shower and dress myself, I go downstairs and my mom greets me
"Good morning! Want eggs with toast?" My mom asks me
I'm about to decline to hurry to Stella's house when my stomach betrays me by growling so I thank my mom and quickly EAT the eggs and grab the toast and thank my mom before grabbing my backpack and hurrying out the door and running max speed while munching the toast
In no time I reach Stella's house, I decided against phasing in case someone saw me since many students leave around this time to go to school and because I'd rather not have my backpack in my mouth
I knock the door and I calm myself so I don't make a fool of myself, because I really want to see her again
It's only been a few hours since I last saw her but I already miss her
Karen opens the door looking surprised to see me and I don't blame her as I didn't call in advance
"Good morning Seth" Karen tells me
"Good morning Karen, is Stella here? I want to walk her to school" I tell her with a smile, happy to be able to see my Imprint
"Sorry Seth, Stella left very early, before I woke up" Karen tells me sadly and I felt my happiness fly out the window
I should have known…. I was so nervous when Stella said she saw a wolf that I didn't ask her if I could accompany her to school, I was so confident she was gonna be here that I didn't text her and I also wanted to surprise her
"Oh no it's fine I didn't tell Stella I was coming so she didn't know, well have a good day Karen" I tell her with a small smile, as I still have to be polite
Damn it! Damn… Damn…
I take full speed to school in hope of bumping into Stella, unfortunately luck wasn't on my side and I didn't see her and only got some strange looks from my speed, in no time I get there and enter the school
I try to sniff her scent but there's too many students for me to find her though I was able to catch the slightest of her scent which confirms she is in the school though I don't know where
And as much as I want to find her I shouldn't run all over the school sniffing the air, I might endanger our pack secret
So with heavy feet I drag myself to the cafeteria to my usual table where Quil and Embry are already there
"Hey" I managed to say as I slump to my seat and put my head on the table from my sadness
"Damn what ruined your morning?" Embry asks me
"I can take a guess; it was Stella right?" Quil says and I can hear the smile he probably has
I just give a "mhm" sound as I don't move from my spot
"Did she reject you or something?" Embry asks and I immediately react by raising my head fast and yell out in anger
"Don't even joke about that!"
"Woah! Sorry dude" Embry says surprised and guilty
"There's some things that you simply don't joke about" Quil says, ever so knowingly
I put my head back into the table with a huff though now my hands crossed on the table too
Kim came and greeted us though stopped when she saw me
"What's wrong, Seth? Did you forgot to do your homework again?" Kim asks me, though I know for a fact I've never been so down about something as homework
"That's not it, Kim" Quil tells Kim "Seth just found his Imprint"
"Oh my goodness! That's great, Seth!" Kim tells me happily and at the mention of that a smile comes to me as I remember the best day of my life which was meeting Stella
"But if that happened why are you brooding?" Kim tells me confused
Brooding….?
"I wanted to walk her to school but she had already left when I went to pick her up" I muttered sadly
"Oh Seth, at least she comes to our school I'm sure she will be in at least one of your classes as our school isn't that big, wait is she your grade?" Kim asks me as she knows Imprints can be of different age such is the classic example of Quil and Claire but also Jacob and Nessie (well at the beginning anyway) and Paul and Rachel (Rachel is older than Paul)
"Yeah we're in the same grade" I tell Kim
"That's great! Then your super likely to have her in at least one of your classes" Kim tells me with a smile
"Yeah that's true" I say my spirits feeling lifter, Jared is really lucky to have imprinted on Kim, she's great. She used to be really shy but she has really opened up since she and Jared started dating
"Where's Jared?" Embry asks Kim as we know how inseparable they are
"You know how he loves to sleep so I probably won't see him till after first period" Kim says with a huff but still smiles and it's cute how happy they both are and I can't help but yearn to begin a relationship with Stella but that takes time and I shouldn't rush things
The bell rings and we all say bye to each other before each going on our own ways
I really hope Kim is right and we have a class together as I want to know why she was acting like that; I mean I know she's probably angry, she had a plate thrown to her face for Pete's sake! Though I don't know I have a feeling it's something else
I go to my first class with hope of seeing her there
~Stella's POV~
We reach my class as Jared is laughing at Kim's imitation to Jones voice, Kim notices I stopped and elbowed Jared and he stopped laughing and muttered "Ow what was that for Kim"
I mentally rolled my eyes as I know that didn't hurt him at all and I see Kim actually roll her eyes at him but still keeps a smile
"Well this is your class, Stella" Kim says cheerfully "It was great meeting you"
I smile back "Nice meeting you too, Kim" I then turn to Jared "Good seeing you again Jared"
I turn to my class and walk in and I smell another shifter scent I look to the source of the smell and find Embry, boringly painting on a piece of paper
I'm about to walk to him but I remember I have to talk to the teacher first and I look for someone resembling a teacher and quickly find an older man in his computer
I walk to him and introduce myself and he does the same and tells me to sit wherever and today's assignment, draw something special to me
He hands me a paper and some drawing utensils and ushers me away
I walk to Embry's table which is surprisingly empty and I look around and see all the other tables have students, his being the only empty one but ignore that and walk to him
"Hey there" I tell him and sit across from him, he looks up and replies "Oh hey"
He doesn't seem surprised but it's to be expected as he probably smelled me coming here
….. Man that sounds weird even in my head
"So do you sit here by yourself?" I ask him and immediately regret it
What's wrong with you, Stella! He already obviously dislikes you, now he's going to think I'm mocking him
"Not always, whenever Paul feels like showing up to school he sits here" Embry motions to his side
"Oh right, he skips a lot" I say as I start thinking of what drawing to do
Something special to me….something special to me….
And image of Seth pops into my mind and I immediately wave it off
Damn imprint bonds… I have to think of something else
I then sneak a look at Embry's drawing and see a drawing of a boy running to what seems like a race track
"Is that you running?" I ask before I can help myself
This time he seems surprised I talked but quickly composed himself and said "Yeah, running a race" he says and has a fond smile probably thinking something special to him
"Are you in track?" I ask him
His smile instantly disappears and a frown appears "I used to be but I'm not in anymore"
Why would he not be in track? He's a shifter he could easily overrun all the other contesta-
Oh that's why
Well damn that sucks his Alpha probably prohibits him to run track as that might expose the secret
"Oh… I'm sorry it looked like you really liked it" I tell him, sad that he had to give that up
"Don't worry about it" Embry's frown pulls up to a slight smile "Besides I traded it for something far better"
I smile back fully knowing what he meant, running in wolf form is amazing, it makes you feel free and gives you an amazing sense of adrenaline
Then an idea come to my mind
"Thanks Embry! I know what to draw now" I tell him and begin drawing I can see him giving me a confused glance from the corner of my eye
I ask him how he did his shading and he tells me and I tell him some art tips I know when suddenly a guy taps me in the shoulder and I turn to him
"Uh can you give this to Embry?" He asks me looking really nervous and I simply nod at him
"This is for you" I tell Embry and give him the paper, Embry looks unamused and takes the paper and opens it and reads it and then stuffs it in his pocket
"What was that? Why did that guy not want to give you the paper himself?" I ask Embry
"The people are stupid they think me and the guys run some kind of cult or something and are scared of us" Embry says, obviously annoyed and I burst out laughing not being able to help myself
Embry looks surprised obviously not expecting my outburst of giggles
I manage to calm myself "I'm sorry I just couldn't help myself, all of you in a cult? A cult of what? Steroids?" I begin to laugh again "A steroids cult!"
"We don't take steroids! W-we just exercise a lot and eat plenty" Embry says defending himself and his pack
"Don't worry I believe you, I just thought It was silly" I tell him giving him a smile
"Yeah people are silly just because the most fit guys hang out together we are now a cult" Embry says rolling his eyes but still smiles
"What about jocks? They all hang out together and they're not a cult" I tell him in hope of showing my support
"Yeah though they play sports we don't, we just look…big for no reason…well besides exercising and eating a lot, ya know" Embry says growing flustered
I begin laughing, he sure is funny and I'm glad he seems a lot more relaxed then before I decide to change the topic before he gets a heart attack
"So what did the note says?" I ask him
"Oh right!" He says remembering the note "I gotta meet someone, be right back"
He goes to the teacher and asks if he can go to the restroom and leaves
I wonder what that was about…?
Well no matter I need to finish my drawing
I continue drawing for a while until I feel I am done and look at my master piece proudly
The drawing has a girl dancing while singing, the girl is of course me and I chose one of my most favorite dancing dresses and my braided French bun as hairstyle, I'm singing and dancing to 'I am by Hilary Duff'
Thats one of my favorite songs as i relate a lot to it, it explains how imperfectly perfect I am
I look at the time and see Embry has been gone for a while, the shifter smell comes back and I see Embry has returned
"Hey" Embry says and then turns to my drawing "Oh wow that looks good, is that you?"
"Yeah" I reply
"Seth did say you were a dancer though he didn't mention you could sing" Embry says
My cheeks redden at the mention of Seth and I cough in hope of getting rid of my blush but I know I didn't succeed as I see Embry smirking "I like to sing, I never said I was a good one" I tell him
"I'm sure you're better than Seth, anyone can sing better than him" Embry says, immediately irritating me
"I'm sure he isn't that bad! I've heard many horrible singers I'm sure with some practice Seth can be an amazing sing-" I stop myself as I noticed I had jumped to Seth's defense without meaning to
Damn in Stella, you're supposed to be angry at him, don't defend him
But Embry grins almost expecting my outburst "I'm just joking Stella" Embry grabs my drawing and his "Seth has a great singing voice" And he has the nerve to wink at me before heading to the teachers to turn in our drawings
I cover my face with my hands as I feel my whole face reddens
Damn it he was teasing me…
Just you wait Embry, I'll have my revenge….
Hey everyone~!
So I chose the book Animal Farm (Yes, it's a real book) as that's one of the books I read on my English class on sophomore year and I'm trying to make this story as real as possible
So Stella has 7 classes that are also called periods, I live in Houston and I'm a student myself and in here there's 7 classes, 4 core classes 3 electives, I don't know how it works on Washington as I've never gone there but I'm gonna do it the way I know