"Hey you," a young Alpha boy called across the playground.
Looking up from her place on the ground, the small brunette green eyed girl brushed back the tears that trickled down her cheeks and glared back at him.
"Are you okay?" he asked and started jogging towards her, a football tucked under his arm.
The girl didn't answer, she only glared back at him.
"Hey if the awesome me is talking to you, you have to answer," the boy gave her a cheeky grin.
She scoffed at his reasoning and pushed herself up to her feet and started walking off as the boy finally reached her. She didn't need someone else telling her she couldn't play or she was weird. It wasn't her fault that she was stronger than everyone. It wasn't her fault she wasn't afraid of a fight.
Seeing her leave the boy reached out and grabbed her arm, spinning her around. Her eyes widened as they met his and she finally spoke to him.
"Your eyes are red!" she instantly slapped a hand to her mouth. She was taught better than to automatically say what came to her mind.
"Kesesese yeah cause they're awesome like me," the boy chuckled in response.
"Your hair's white," she exclaimed when she noticed the boy's very pale hair. Once again the girl slapped her hand to her mouth. A blush started forming across her cheeks. Try as she could, she couldn't stop talking.
"Yeah it's all part of the awesomeness that is me and because I'm albino I'm even more awesome than everyone else!" The boy cheered, then fidgeted slightly before pointing at the ball under his arm. "So... uh... want to play? We need someone on my team and I saw you over here on your own and I heard you're good so..."
The girl stared at him, completely awestruck that someone would want to let her play on their football team.
"If you don't want to, that's okay," the boy conceded after a very long silence.
"No! I want to, it's just that a lot of people don't like playing sports with me cause I get too competitive," she explained quietly. As an Omega she wasn't supposed to like sports or even do anything else she liked. Try as she could she couldn't conform to what was asked of her and she always scared away any Alpha and Beta that tried to talk to her. She could barely even talk to the other Omegas because they fled everytime she tried to join their games. Apparently they didn't appreciate her make believe war when they were making nests out of leaves and toys. So even at the very young age of six she already hated the strict rules society placed on her. She hated being meek and humble, she hated having to bow down to Alphas who were apparently better than her. She hated being submissive.
"Awesome!" the boy exclaimed then remembered he knew nothing about this girl. "So what's your name? I'm Gilbert and those guys over there are my best friends." He pointed at two other boys who stood talking by some makeshift goalposts. One of the boys, a blue eyed Alpha with shoulder length blonde hair looked up and winked at her, the other a tanned brunette Alpha with green eyes smiled and waved at them. "The blond one is Francis and the other one is Antonio, but you can call him Toni. They are awesome but not nearly as awesome as me! I was going to play them on my own but they said I needed someone else to play on my team."
"I'm Elizabeta," the girl said once she wrapped her mind around the idea someone actually wanted her to join their game.
"Elizabeta huh, can I call you Liz? It's a lot easier to say," Gilbert grinned at her again. Before he realised what was happening he felt hands push against his chest and the next thing he knew he was staring up at the sky. A very disgruntled Elizabeta standing over him, her hands on her hips as she glared angrily down at him.
"It's Elizabeta! Not Liz!" she snapped at him.
"Kesese ja, I'm gonna call you Liz anyway 'cause I'm awesome," he chuckled and pushed himself up off the ground. Brushing himself clean of dirt, he looked to his side where he saw Francis and Antonio laughing at him. Ignoring a slight blush that was building on his cheeks he turned back to Elizabeta and said, "Liz come on, the guys are waiting to start the game. We don't have all day!" then raced back to the others.
Annoyed, Elizabeta scrunched her fists together. She had expected to be given out to and shouted at for being so unomega-like but what Gilbert did only brought out her competitive side. Now she wanted to prove she was better than that cocky Alpha boy. Grinding her foot into the ground she set off after him and when she reached them she was quickly introduced and the game started. But with one major difference to the plan they already had. She played on Antonio's team against Gilbert after insisting that she had to beat the albino Alpha. The match started off friendly but soon divulged into a bloodbath. Ten minutes in both Francis and Antonio had opted out. Antonio from a cut to his knee from a very fast, very violent tackle with Gilbert. Francis had a black eye after he ran into a pole when he got distracted by an Omega girl on the other side of the playground. Now it was nothing more than a wrestling match between Elizabeta and Gilbert. Everytime it seemed one got the upper hand the other would throw a punch or kick that threw the opponent off. It didn't take long until both were exhausted and lay sprawled out on the grass as they watched the clouds drift overhead.
"Are you an Alpha?" Gilbert asked after the few minutes they used to catch their breaths.
"Nope," Elizabeta answered shortly. She didn't like telling people she was an Omega, it always got her down and she wanted to ignore that part of her biology.
"Then you have to be a Beta, you're too awesome to be an Omega," Gilbert said as if he had just uncovered the greatest secret history had ever concealed.
"Wrong again..." Elizabeta said as quietly as she could.
Gilbert's head snapped to his side and he stared wide eyed at Elizabeta. "Seriously?"
Elizabeta nodded sadly and sat up to look around. Antonio and Francis had gotten bored and wandered off shortly after their wrestling match started.
"Wow then you are the most awesome Omega ever!" Gilbert proclaimed and sat up beside her.
Elizabeta blushed at the statement. She had never been called awesome for behaving the way she did, normally she was told off for it.
"Thanks," she mumbled and hid her face behind her knees. She couldn't let Gilbert see her blush.
"No problem, but you're still not as awesome as I am!" Gilbert teased and shoved her arm a little to get her full attention back.
"Hey I can be more awesome than you!" Elizabeta argued and shoved back.
"Ja Liz, like that could happen," Gilbert stuck out his tongue at the girl.
"Don't call me Liz!" with that she flung herself on top of the alpha and started pinching his cheeks with one hand and tickling him with the other. Gilbert gasped at the sudden confrontation and broke down into a fit of laughter as he wrestled her hands back and spun them around so he was now leaning over her.
"Hey guess what! The awesome me just decided that when we grow up you're gonna be my awesome Omega!" he declared with the biggest most arrogant grin he could muster.
Elizabeta's jaw dropped at his sudden declaration, there was no way she was letting this cocky Alpha claim her. Without a second of hesitation, her fist met his jaw and he collapsed on top of her with a grunt. Before she could push him off a teacher came rushing over and dragged them both off, the teacher throwing an unconscious Gilbert over her shoulder.
The next hour was spent in the principal's office as both of them awaited their parents. Gilbert had woken up the instant they were back indoors and was now putting up the best fight he could in order to get out of whatever doom they were facing.
"Come on Grandpa!" he cried out at the man who was sat behind a large, very neatly organised desk. The man was in his late forties and grey hairs were coming through the long blonde hair he had tied back into a ponytail. He focused his steel blue eyes on the young alpha sat in front of him and pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance.
"Gilbert, how many times have I told you not to call me that in school?" he asked in a low growl.
"I forget," Gilbert whined in response, "come on we were playing and I'm too awesome to get in trouble, so is she!"
Elizabeta looked between the two confused as to what was actually going on. She had no idea the principal had a grandson and to see a young Alpha oppose an older one was strange. Maybe Gilbert was really different around everyone, not just her.
"Gilbert!" the principal slammed his fist on the table causing Gilbert to freeze in place and sit bolt upright. "Behave or you will no longer be in line for head Alpha!" Gilbert instantly quietened and behaved. Sighing in relief the principal sat back and started shifting through his papers until a knock on the door interrupted his concentration.
"Mr. Beilschmidt, their parents are here," the secretary said as she popped her head into the office.
"Ja send them in," Mr. Beilschmidt sighed and gathered up his notes before standing up to greet the children's parents. As they entered he shook their hands and motioned for them to take the four empty seats beside the children.
"What has she done now?" Elizabeta's father, a tall man with brown hair and deep brown eyes asked. Elizabeta glared up at the man but was quickly told off by her mother, a small brunette woman with the same green eyes Elizabeta had.
"Dear, Omegas don't behave like that," she quietly scolded her daughter. Elizabeta reluctantly obeyed her Omega mother, she had to. If she didn't things would be a lot harder. "Good girl."
"Well Mr. and Mrs. Hédeváry it seems your daughter and Gilbert here got into a fight today. We don't know who started it but I wouldn't put it past Gilbert," Mr. Beilschmidt explained.
"We're very sorry if he did, we know he would never hurt an Omega," Gilbert's father, a greying alpha with dark blue eyes added.
"But Vati! She knocked me out!" Gilbert protested but the man refused to acknowledge him.
"Yes, it's just he's a little spirited and well he gets carried away," Gilbert's father spoke up again and gave a quick slap to the back of his son's head causing the boy to yelp in pain. Gilbert's mother flinched at the yelp, as much as she knew the boy needed discipline she wasn't keen on hitting the poor child. The small blonde Omega wished they could just talk to him and make him see sense that way, but it never worked with Gilbert.
"No I think our daughter might be at some fault in this as well," Elizabeta's father countered, "she always had a problem with submitting and well this isn't the first time something like this has happened."
"But he said he wanted me to be his Omega!" Elizabeta yelled up at her dad and pointed a finger at Gilbert. "I don't want to be anyone's Omega!"
The adults all raised their eyebrows at the new information before the principal finally asked them to tell the whole story. As they ran through their story, each one trying to shout over the other at certain points or using the other to prove their own innocence the adults sat back and listened. Eventually after they finished they were sent outside to wait in the hall.
"This is all your fault!" Elizabeta snapped at Gilbert when the doors closed behind them.
"It's not my fault! I'm too awesome for that. It's all your fault, you should just be my Omega!" Gilbert argued and squared up against Elizabeta.
"No!"
"How can you say no to the awesome me?" Gilbert shot back at the simple answer.
"Cause I... cause I don't want to!"
"You're so stupid!"
"So are you!"
Their voices started raising until they were almost shouting at each when Gilbert shouted something he would regret for years to come.
"You're such a useless Omega I bet you'll never find a mate when you grow up! I bet you don't even have friends!"
At that Elizabeta froze, tears started forming in her eyes as she stared back at the albino.
"Ja and you can forget about being my awesome Omega cause I don't..." Gilbert stopped when he finally looked up at the girl. His eyes widened in fear at the sight in front of him. Tears streamed down her face as she desperately tried to stop them with the base of her palms.
"You... you're right! I am a useless Omega... the others don't like me and I just want to fight and play sports but no-one will let me... and when they do they get scared and run away!" she bawled and crumpled to the ground.
"Sorry I didn't mean to... I'll be your friend I was just... ah stop crying," Gilbert pleaded and knelt down beside her and desperately tried to pick her up.
"No! You meant all that and now I'm going to die alone and no-one will ever like me!" she wailed and wrapped her arms around herself.
"No you won't! I swear it, you'll never be alone and I will be your friend. You're awesome and I really didn't mean any of that, just please stop crying," Gilbert begged and quickly looked around. People were starting to gather in the hallway and it was only a matter of time before a teacher showed up or worse still their parents left the principal's office.
"No you won't, you'll get scared and run away, just like everyone else," Elizabeta sniffled, her crying now finally coming to an end.
"I'm too awesome to do that and you're too awesome to leave!" Gilbert said as kindly as he could and gave her a soft smile. Looking through her tear lined eyes Elizabeta didn't know if she wanted to smile or hit the Alpha boy, instead she reached out her hand for him to take.
"If you make me cry again I'll kill you," she muttered and wiped away the last tears clinging to her eyelashes and cheeks.
"Deal," Gilbert exclaimed and helped get rid of any errant tears she missed. "So want to be my awesome friend?"
"Sure," Elizabeta smiled back. As soon as they had that said their parents came out of the office and stared down at the pair completely bewildered at what they were seeing. "He promised to be my friend and we won't fight anymore," Elizabeta filled them in before they could say anything.
"Ja and I won't let anyone be mean to her either!" Gilbert added with a flourish only he could add.
Their parents shared a look then nodded and took their respective children home.
Thus was the start of the strange rollercoaster-like relationship of Gilbert and Elizabeta.