Sorry for the wait! So, this is chapter 2. I hope you enjoy it!
It was no easy feat for such a different pup to fit in with the rest of the pack. His father never did return from that night, which left Rhiannon to care for her little pup herself. The pup was named after his father, Alexander. Alex for short. The single mother and her pup found a large den in the middle of the Western Pack. They were isolated, but that wasn't because of the mother. She was liked, she was pleasant to all those she met and people felt morally obliged to help her, as she had lost her mate. Every single male in the pack had tried to woo her, including some of the most handsome alphas in the pack. But they were rejected, because Rhiannon could never bring herself to move on from her lost lover.
Any isolation that the family, or (at least) what was left of it, felt was clearly down to young Alex. He was aggressive to others, he was dislikeable and he was weird. That was what everybody said. When he tried to play with the other pups, they neglected him. When he was trying to be nice, nobody would try to reach out to him. He felt lost. Nobody liked him because he was rude, but he was rude because he knew nobody liked him. The cycle was torturous. His self-confidence had slowly evaporated away, and he felt he was just ugly, mean and stupid. He genuinely believed nothing could change that, and that belief influenced everything he did and said.
However, it was one sunny day when he finally met someone who didn't hate him - but there would be a price to pay for letting him surround you. At age 1, preparing to go off to Alpha School alone (after having a tearful and exaggerated goodbye with his mother), he crossed a young beta going the same way as him. Nervously, the black beta approached the larger, dark grey, wolf. He was desperate for a bit of companionship on what would be a fairly long voyage across the pack.
"Hello." He uttered, showing a somewhat nervous tone. He felt immediately embarrassed by his lack of confidence.
"Hi, there. What's your name?" The beta said with remarkable and admirable confidence.
"Err... Alex. What's yours?" Alex said even more nervously, with an evolving pace which made him sound uncomfortable.
"My name's George." He said, with a level of self-belief that made Alex blush from embarrassment. "Why are you so uncomfortable?" He asked. Alex felt like he was about to faint. Had he really just screwed up another opportunity?
"Oh, sorry. I just, don't get to talk to many people." He said, trying his best to relax.
"No need to say sorry. Hey, are you nervous because you think I'm attractive?" George said, starting to laugh.
"What? No, I'm not..." Alex started angrily. Before he could finish, George stopped him.
"I'm joking. Come on, man." George said jovially, pushing playfully on Alex's shoulder. Alex had noticed that this dark grey wolf probably got a lot of attention from the ladies. He was amazingly muscular, and was certainly a very popular wolf.
"Ha ha." Alex sighed, half angrily and half jokingly. George just laughed. Then he stopped.
"Hey, is that Tom?" He shouted over his shoulder. Suddenly - a large, white wolf appeared. He was running at us with quite some speed. "Whoa, slow down there!" George loudly told the wolf, with a grin on his face. The white male then seemed to halt himself by placing his butt on the ground and letting it add enough friction so that he could stop right next to George.
"Hey! Making your way to alpha school?" The white wolf asked with a happy and somewhat relaxed tone.
"Yeah. I thought you were walking with your girlfriend, Tom." George said tauntingly, which intrigued Alex.
"Oh, fuck! I forgot!" He exclaimed and turned prepared to run back, but he suddenly turned and asked: "Hey, wait. Just before I go, who's this?"
"Oh, this guy?" George questioned slightly offensively, but not intentionally. "He's just some dude I met walking this way to Alpha School. He's called Alice."
"Alex! My name is Alex, not Alice, thank you very much" Alex corrected quickly. George's eyes widened but he brushed it off with a cheesy grin. The black wolf turned to the other wolf and rolled his eyes.
"Oh," Tom sniggered as he smiled widely, "Watch out Alice, George here likes dark-furred wolves the most." With that, he ran off. George's cheeks went a deep red.
"Alex!" Alex corrected the wolf as he was just out of earshot. Then he turned to the grey wolf: "What did he mean by 'George here likes dark-furred wolves the most'?"
"Oh, come on, man. He's just being an asshole. Don't listen to people like that, they just like to annoy people, man. I mean, Tom's a cool dude - but he's a total dick when he wants to be." The grey male told his new friend with a slight laugh.
"Why the fuck are you laughing so much?" Alex said more confidently than before. "Are you drunk? Or high?"
"The second one. You see that plant over there, dude?" George asked, stopping and pointing at an odd blue flower. "That's called 'Blue Mania', and that green one," he started, pointing at a different, lime coloured flower, "That's called 'Dawn Fog'."
"Fuck me!" Alex exclaimed loudly and impressed, "Are you one of those Betas who hang out at weirdy under-ground hangouts and just have sex and take drugs all the time?" Alex inquisited, teasingly. Though George took him seriously.
"Any male or female beta you see, I've done stuff with. I'm all over the place, man."
"Not me, though. I'd like to think I'm above that." Alex told his slightly stoned companion, who seemed to be constantly laughing to himself.
"Oh, I'm gonna have fun with you..." George smirked. With that, he then brushed up against the smaller, black male and whispered gently: "We're only about 5 minutes away from Alpha School and we've got another 30 minutes at least. Just take a little nibble of something. Come on, dude. If you don't like it, you don't have to try it again."
He was convincing. Alex stumbled over to the green plant that had been pointed out to him and sat down in front of it. George sat next to him and leant against him again. Then he put his arm across Alex's back. "Take a bite". And that is exactly what Alex did. Immediately after taking one small bite, something happened. He felt fuzzy and he couldn't feel the ground. Everything but his and George's body turned into an insane, psychedelic mixture of yellow, green and pink. To Alex, George changed in a very strange way. His muscles seemed to grow, and his hair became perfectly manicured. Suddenly, he felt a rush of emotion and passion.
He jumped onto George. Suddenly, he saw the smirking grey wolf place his arms around him. He felt their lips get closer and closer until... everything became normal again. George went from being absolutely perfect to being just very handsome. Alex found himself very awkwardly only an inch from George's face, laying on top of him. George seemed slightly surprised, but not angry.
"Oh my, I'm so sorry!" Alex shot up and apologised.
"No, no. You just caught me off guard, dude. Hey, if you wanna kiss, then I'm not gonna say no." He smiled. Alex blushed heavily. They began to walk again. "Oh, and, Alex?"
"Yeah?" Alex asked nervously to the grey male, all of the small amount of confidence he had momentarily been blessed with having been evaporated into the wind after his embarrassing behaviour while stoned.
"Take a bigger bite next time.", Then he winked. Alex's eyes widened, but he also felt a bit hot.
And it's done! I'm so sorry it took me this long to get this out! I've not had too pleasant of a time recently, but I finally came around to updating. The next chapter will just about finish this bit off, and bring the story of Alex up to where the franchise is in real life now.
I've got only one question to ask: what should become of Kate and Humphrey? I was thinking of having them split up, but I've used that in all my other stories. Please review as to whether Humphrey and Kate should be split up when they get dragged into this story, and if so who they should now be with. All reviews are appreciated! Unless you're telling me you jerked off to one of my M rated stories. In that case, perhaps don't be so eager to review.