Assassin Blood

Chapter 2- I always wanted a Bestie

Pov: Ace

I walked down the stairs to be greeted by the sweet smell of pancakes, eggs, and bacon. “ You ready for school sweetie?" Aunt Clara asked me as she set the plates on the table. “ Yeah, I'm really excited,” I said. I’m not lying, I really am excited. We never really went to school, we’ve always been homeschooled, and we decided that ourselves. “ Really,” Aunt Clara said with surprise. “ You’re the first person I have ever heard say that”.

I sat down at the table and put two pancakes and some eggs and a piece of bacon on my plate. “ I would not expect the same enthusiasm from my sister. She would rather be buried in a pile of dog sh*t than have to wake up this early." I say in a half-serious tone. "Oh and thanks for the food aunty, it's delicious,” I say as I struggle to stuff food in my mouth, enjoying my first meal from caring relatives since the dawn of time. "This sure beats the poison Aleaza tries to feed me," I said while grabbing more food. “ When is your sister going to wake up? The food might get cold if she doesn’t get up soon.” Aunty asked while she grabbed some food for herself. “ She will get up soon, the minute she smells food she’s going to be running down the stairs.’’ Uncle Nick comes through the front door, he looks tired, like he didn’t get a wink of sleep. “ Hey little buddy, how was your first night here?” Uncle Nick says as he reaches out to grab a piece of bacon but he gets his hands slapped hard by Aunt Clara. “ Don’t touch anything, after you’ve just come from doing yard work and bringing dirt in the house you want to touch the food that people are eating, go hop in the shower before you eat anything.” Uncle Nick moves his hand away like he’s giving up then he quickly grabs the bacon and runs upstairs. “Thanks, love” he shouts from the top of the stairs. Aunt Clara yells “ You hooligan”. I can’t help but laugh. I'm glad their marriage is still alive, even in their old age. “ I swear I was on drugs when I agreed to marry him” she sighed. I laughed and decided to help myself for seconds, Aunty made enough to feed an entire village. Azalea came down sliding down the railing of the stairs, dressed like she was going to a club and not school. “ Oh, you finally woke up sleeping beauty, and why are you wearing a tank top and short shorts to school?" I said. She looked unphased by my words and just sat down and grabbed a whole bunch of bacon in her hand.” You cooked Aunty, you didn't have to.’’ she said while completely avoiding my question. “ Nonsense, you kids need sustenance for your first day of school. Starting school in October might not be the best thing.” Azalea slouches in the chair. “ I forgot that we had to go to school today.” I rolled my eyes so hard I think they were about to fall out of my head. “how did you forget we have school? I reminded you six times literally yesterday.” She sighed in fake sadness “ Sadly, if it’s something I don’t care about my brain just ignores it.” Aunt Clara spoke up before I could have a chance to strangle her. “ I hate to interrupt this lover’s squabble but, it’s 7:30 and you both should start to head to school.” She hands us our bookbags and gives us a kiss on our cheeks as we head to my car, I can’t help but be excited, this is my first day of school ever, and I’m ready to learn, make friends and just live life this is the start to a new adventure and I’m ready for anything.

Pov: Azalea

School sucks, I don’t know why the f*ck I have to go, but that was the requirement of Aunt Clara if we wanted to live here. I agreed but waking up this early is so f*cking annoying. I’m so used to waking whenever the hell I want, like why the hell do we need math and science for, I’m an assassin !!, you just need to kill your target and report back to the agency. That’s it, it’s not necessary for our line of work. I’m not calculating the number of victims I have, it’s not like the agency says a man has 10 brothers, 8 of them work in the family business as a drug traffickers including the man. If you kill 8 of them, how many living sons do their parents have left. It doesn’t work like that. The agency gives you a name and a picture of the target and you have to find out how to kill them without any witnesses, nothing else matters, so why do I have to suffer through 8 hours of my life every day for a year for useless information I’m never going to use in my life. “We're here ” Ace says with excitement, pulling me out of my internal rant. “Yes, we are,” I say with a lack of enthusiasm. We exited the car and head into the school. The minute we entered school, everyone turned their attention to us. They start to growl as we slowly walk through the hallway,” Rouges” one person said, the growls didn’t stop and it was visible that Ace was becoming uncomfortable, angry and not wanting to look weak, I growled back at them. An older woman with glasses suddenly burst through the door and came towards us.” Children, quiet down we have new students.” She turned toward us and smiled. “Thank you for coming to our school, the principal is busy so instead of him, I am here to give you your schedule and formally welcome you to Legerton High,” I did not return her smile, I was unhappy at the way we were greeted and even more angry that they made my brother uncomfortable. I coldly said “ I don’t like how we were greeted, I think it is very unprofessional of a school to let this happen,” The smile on her face dropped, which was then replaced by disgust. “ You rogues should be lucky of our principal kindness with his rehabilitation program for rogues that even let you be in this school in the first place.” She shoved the schedules in our hands. “ The numbers of your classroom are on the schedule, all your classes are on the first floor so it’s not hard to find your class. This school has a high reputation for elites in the werewolf community to attend, so don’t bring down the school's reputation with your presence, so you better know your place ” when she finished her rant she headed back to her office, she looked like she was the principal’s secretary. Ace turned to me with a pleading face., “ Are you trying to make everyone in our school hate us?” I rolled my eyes ”everyone here seems like trash, and it’s not like they want us as their friends.” He shakes his head “ It doesn’t matter if they want us as friends, let’s not make them our enemies, quiet normal life remember.” I sighed “Ok, no drama, I promise.” he hugged and thanked me and we headed to find our class. Three hours passed of boring lectures and everyone stared at me, till finally, it was lunchtime. I head to the lunchroom with the occasional stares of judgment from people, I’m used to it by now but I still wonder if nobody got anything better to do with their lives than look at me. When I arrive at the lunchroom I see my goofy brother slurping spaghetti like the scene from the lady and the tramp, like he usually does. He sees me and waves with a smile on his face. I grab lunch just a plain chicken and cheese salad and sit next to my brother. “ Hey twin how was your day,” he asks me in excitement. I sighed “ boring” his smile faded.“ I’m sad to hear that” his concern didn’t last long as he suddenly jumped up and smiled” Do you want to hear how my day went, Well, it was amazing,” he didn’t even give me a chance to answer. “ I was like a star student in my classes, I could answer mostly all the questions, everyone seemed pissed that I was smarter than them but I didn’t give a f*ck. This Just proves you did’nt need school to learn all this sh*t and taught myself, well with the help of online classes,” his smile fade “ there was one little incident, there was this gay kid, he dressed and talked. femininine. So... it was pretty obvious that he was gay, you know what I mean right. Anyway some football players were picking on him, I know that's pretty cliche, they were about to hit him when I grabbed their hand, some of the other football players who were just bystanders told me not to help him or someone is going to start rumors about us dating and obviously, I didn’t care and I said So, what if we were dating I'm gay also and I don’t think that is a reason to bully someone, I turned to the bullies and told them if you want to hurt him you're going to have to go through me, they only looked at me and then angrily stomped away, it looked like it was the first time someone ever stands up to them the guy that was being bullied thanked me, his name is Daniel and I told him, I wasn't lying about protecting him, if they pick on you again call me and I will beat some *ss. I shook my head in disapproval “ aren't you the same person that said that we shouldn’t be making enemies”. He smiled and said,“ Haters are gonna hate sis.” Two girls walked over to our table and sit next to us, “I’m Jennifer,” a beautiful curvy dark-skinned girl with Afro hair said, and “I’m Kianna,” a pretty blonde olive-skinned slim girl said. I looked at them distrustfully, “ I don’t remember saying you can sit here” I said a bit playfully, The blonde hair girl shifted uncomfortably, but the girl who I think said her name was Jennifer, boldly says, “ I invited myself here, and you’re stuck with me now so if you got a problem with that you’re welcome to try to move me.” I was impressed, she seems like a bad*ss, I can just tell. So I smiled and said, “ I like you, you can stay”. She hugged me, “sorry I’m a hugger, you’re gonna have to get used to that ”, Her friend Kianna smiled, “ How do you like our school so far?” I looked at Ace who had a warning face to be nice, I turned to her and said, “I don’t have an opinion yet because it is still my first day” She looks at me and smile “ of course you don’t but trust me this is an amazing school. Our school is in the top 10 of the best werewolf schools in the world, and it’s very diverse. People from different packs are able to go here, even rogues just like you guys have a chance to go to this prestigious school. Mostly everyone who graduates from this school are able to land well-paying Jobs that pay at least 100,000 a year. This school offers so many opportunities that you just have to take advantage of it.” I nod my head and smiled “ That’s cool and all but I think I’m gonna start skipping school.” Ace almost jumped out of his seat” Don’t make me smack you. This is the first day and you’re already making plans to skips school” Jennifer laughed “ Sure you can skip but just make sure you come to visit us at lunch a couple of times and to see the hot *ss alpha’s ” I was confused “Oh yeah were is your Alpha” Kianna turned to me “ Our Alpha and the other young Major Alpha and Alpha Heirs are on vacation doing god knows what, since their powerful people our school has a policy that doesn’t require them to be in school most of the time, some Alpha’s that are from other packs that are small and inferior to our pack has to follow the normal rules, they get some benefits but not like the rich and powerful Alphas like the one from our Pack” what she is saying does make sense in the werewolf world power is not just measured by being an Alpha it is by the size of your pack and the amount wealth you possess, and that what makes this pack one of the strongest in the world because it has all those things. Lunch finished and we all exchanged numbers and headed back to class, and the rest of the day was just as boring as the beginning. After school, me and Ace hung out with the girls from school at home and did our homework. Well, they did theirs, I was on my phone. We laughed and had a good time even Aunt Clara and Uncle Nick ended up chilling with us, things just felt really normal and nice for a change, if this is what it’s going to be like from now on I won’t complain, right now at this moment surrounded by so many smiling faces, life seems, peaceful normal and perfect.