The Badass and the Alpha

Chapter Two

So, where should I start? Shall I start with the animalistic growls that escaped their throats or the death glares that weren’t that intimidating for me. OH, or even better, the leader’s response.

“ Sweetie, the men whores are that way. Go there and open your legs like doors.”

Taken aback, might say so. What kind of reputation do girls have here? Are they really whores? I mean, I saw a few of them with very short skirts, but really…is it really that bad? But either way, I had to stand my grounds. I. NEED. MY. TITLE.

“ Nice. Really nice. Where did you come up with this sentence? Took it from the cereal box?” I tried my best to look casual and free caring. If he wanted to play dirty and snarky, I’m in for it.

“ What about you? Did you find that sentence while being between someone’s legs?”

“ Very mature. I see you know the drill. Tell me…how many times did this comebacks ever work?”

“ When did you face ever work?”

“ Are you done? With the physical appearances I mean? I’m getting bored of them. Really now, let me speak to the leader.” I said, making a gesture for him to move out of my way.

“ I’m the leader.” He said really confident. I was about to pop that bobble of his.

“ Very funny. Now get the hell out of my face. Or do I have to draw you a map?”

“ b***h-“

“ Oh…I see we are starting with the names. Nice. In this case, let me present myself: Jay, aka Satan. Now, do I really have to ask twice where your leader is?”

“ Ares Wilder. He is the Alpha of this school.” said a guy that was next to him, that was also looking at me intimidating.

“ What the f**k?! We are not animals to be controlled by an alpha. I mean, I don’t know what to say about you, but I know I’m not and probably a pretty big part of this school isn’t either.”

“ Stupid little human.” Ares said growling and approaching me even more than we were before, “ so little do you know about this school.”. Did I mention his stupid smirk? Makes me want to rip his lips out of his face and shove them up his ass. And what did he mean by ‘ little human’. I know I’m not the tallest girl, but I’m not the smallest either. And the human part is getting me even more confused.

“ Last time I checked, you were human too. Kind of ballistic if you ask me, but you are human too. So can you stop with the physical appearances? You are degrading yourself even more than I’m doing it for you now.”

Did I mention that probably the whole school gathered around us and started recording the scene? No? I didn’t know either until they started making whispering noise at every exchange of words we had. But no one seemed to care enough to stop the fight so the show continued.

“ Nice ass by the way, let’s see it bounce out of here before you are going to be sorry.”

Me? Sorry? Never!

“ Someone call a doctor and the institute of anomalies! I think we have a case of brain dead patient that’s still talking. If you can still connect that limbs of yours to your brain, maybe you can try and drag yourself out of my face. Now!”

With a shift movement, he was in front of me, bending down so our heads were one against each other. We were so close, our breaths were mixing together. His breath was erratic, making his chest to move up and down full with rage. Mine was just calm, staring into those eyes of his which for a split second, thought they turned gold.

A gasp moved around the room and a few students acknowledged that I didn’t even blink when he moved towards me. In that moment, I knew that the others started realizing that I’m challenging their so called Alpha for his title.

He wasn’t looking at me. From the second I barged in their group, he didn’t look in my eyes. He was always looking away or above my head. Even now he was trying to avoid my eyes by looking at the ground, soft growls escaping his throat. What was going on?

His breath started calming down, eyes still on the floor and he started sniffing. He started sniffing around me, up in the air and finally moved his eyes to me and watched me. Some kind of realization crossed his face and then it shifted back to stoic. He took another look at me and then he left. In fact, the whole group left.

This is not fair! How am I going to take my title from him if he will keep leaving. At least I know the others will not mess with me now.

“ Wow…that was close.” Said a voice that sounded familiar.

James.

I completely forgot about him. I turned around and looked at the tall figures striding down the falls. How dare they leave?! I wasn’t done. Does this mean that I lost? Does this mean we will get back to each other’s throat after school and finish this once and for all? I’ve never been walked over before. They all gave it to me in the first few seconds when I started responding back to them.

“ This isn’t over.” I said not looking at James. And indeed it wasn’t over.

I started looking around at the students that were still looking at me. What are they still waiting for? Can’t they see that without two people, at least, there can’t be a fight. Are they really that bad at math?!

The bell finally rang and James and I headed for my first hour, math. He was going to leave me in front of the class and decide later the time and place he should pick me up seeing that I created chaos just a few seconds ago, in my first minutes in this school.

I started walking down the halls and found my class. The moment was still playing in my mind, especially the one when he looked close at me. I swear I saw his eyes turn from hazel to gold and back when deciding to leave.

James let me in front of my class and tried to grab my attention, but he didn’t manage until he started shaking me, moment when I grabbed his elbows, turning them outside and grabbing his left hand, turning him around and forcing his wrist and shoulder back.

“ OW! OW! OW! OW! STOP IT! IT HURTS!”

“ DON’T. EVER. TOUCH. ME. AGAIN. Are we clear?” I whispered to his ear.

“ Sorry, sorry.” And I let go of his arm.

This incident will sure start some talk around the school. I hope they take in account also the fact that I didn’t break his arm and that I also let him go as soon as I realized he didn’t know I was super strict about my personal space.

I finally took another glance around the halls and entered my class, telling James to come find me here after this lesson.

When I enter, so help me Satan from sending an innocent person to him, I was about to flip seeing who was there with me: Ares Wilder.

Really life?! Really?!

“ Isn’t there a rule about animalistic people like you saying something like, animals don’t have brains”, I didn’t mean to insult animals, they are really intelligent, but in this case, he didn’t strike me like one who would survive society.

“ I believe you are the new student, Miss Doukas. I’m Mr. Tully. Please take a seat and I’ll come at you in a second to discuss what you’ve been studying at the other schools.”

As in this moment, life seems to enjoy seeing me suffer, the only place, out of five, still available, was at the end of the class, next to Ares.

As I was moving towards the end, he watched me carefully, analyzing my every move. Like I was the prey and he was the predator. I took my seat, threw my bag down and took out a pen from the outside pocket and papers from inside my bag.

“ Are you done undressing me with your eyes?” I said not looking at him.

He turned his head towards the from of the room and said in a whisper, “ Not here. Not now.”

“ Why? Are you in trouble?” then realization hit me. He was the teacher’s pet. “ Oh my God, are you the teachers pet?” an evil smile appeared on my lips.

“ No! God! Gross! I’m not his chewing toy!”

“ If you say so…” I continued grilling him.

“ We will talk about this later. After school.”

“ Yeah right… like I have the time to listen to your pathetic comebacks again.”

“ If you don’t come, I’ll send my pack after you and you might not like it as they are not playing nice like me.”

I was about to burst into a full on rage laughter, “ Playing nice you say?” I said controlling the urge to laugh and instead giggled, “ You left i***t! You are a coward!”

“ Suit yourself then.” And that was the last thing we talked to each other for the rest of the day.

Little did I know that what he said was about to become true and start regretting my decisions, starting with me waking up this morning.