High Moon Academy

Chapter 10 - POV Charlie - What the actual....DAD!

Upon entering my room and shutting the door, I immediately called dad. Who else would orchestrate something like this?

“Really dad, Marissa, I thought you wanted me to branch out and meet new people. This has you written all over it!” It's not that I hate Marissa, I don't. Honestly, on some level, I’m happy I’ll know someone here. What if this turns into high school all over again? She has lots of friends and I’m sitting here wondering what to even do on a Saturday night as she parades people throughout the suite.

“Oh calm down Charlie. Marissa is a lovely girl, you two used to be good friends. Also, hello dad, made it here safe, thanks for believing in me and sending me here, blah blah blah would be nice too.” Ugh, I can hear the smugness in his voice. Yeah, Marissa and I were friends when we were like Jaymee’s age I think to myself.

“Right, sorry, yes I’m here, dad all safe and sound.” Well, safe and sound now, but I won't be letting him know of my adventure here.

“Dad, that's not the point, you know what kind of people gravitate to Marissa, is this your way of sabotaging me? Making it so I hate it here and leave.” This sucks.

“Now you listen here, Charlie. I would never sabotage you. You want to work on pack relations. Patching things up and making good with Marissa is a perfect way of demonstrating your abilities.” Ugh, I hate when he is right.

Okay, I can do this. We used to be friends and Marissa really isn’t an awful person. I remember when we used to race to the creek behind the pack house and skip rocks. That is until Damon found us and tried to join us. We’d always yell no boys allowed and runoff. Those were the days just before Marissa hit puberty and then it seemed all she cared about was boys. Okay, I can do this. How hard can it be if we used to be besties?

“Okay dad, sorry I accused you. You’re right, as a future beta, I can totally handle this. I love you. Bye.” I hung up the phone and decided to unpack.

Mrs. Green was right, my schedule and clothes were already here. I assume I have Marissa to thank for hanging all my clothes up. I set up my favourite picture of the boys and I on our cabin front porch and put out my bed spread. I know I have to leave the room eventually. So I crept over to my door and peeked out to see if Marissa is still out there. Of course she is, so I open the door and go over to the couch and sit.

“Hey sorry if I seemed, err, um, shocked on arrival.” She simply smiles at me and offers me a mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows. Okay maybe I could get used to a girl roommate. Goddess knows the boys never have hot chocolate waiting for me.

“Oh no problem Charlie, I was a bit shocked too. When your dad said I’d have a roommate from Silver Moon I never imagined he meant you.” I turned a bit and look a little disappointed. I think she picked up on that and continued.

“Not that I'm not happy, that youre my roommate. On the contrary, after being away for so long helping my aunt I’m glad it's you I get to spend time with. I wanted to let you know how sorry I still am about Piper, it was unnecessary what she said and meant. I haven't spoken to her since.” Ah yes the hurtful memory of my last encounter with Marissa, wait did she just say she hasn’t even talked to her since. Did Marissa really care that much that she cut off a friend for me.

“Oh, um, wow I didn’t know that. I’m kind of glad you’re my roommate too, it’ll be nice having a friend around. As you know I’m not the most friendly, people don’t tend to care too much for a fighter girl.” She laughed intently.

“Oh Charlie, you have no idea how happy I am to hear you admit that. I’ll tell you what you help me out in the whole being a whole baddie thing when it comes to training and I'll help you be more approachable.” She winked and I smiled. Of course I’d help her train and I’ll take all the social skills help I can get, Marissa was great at interacting with the pack. I’m sure she will make her mate very happy someday.

“Lesson one Charlie” She points at the show she is watching. It seems kind of familiar. I think a lot of the pack girls back home used to watch this in the common room. I’d usually see it as I passed by on my way with the boys.

“This is Nate and Haylee, they are basically mates even though they are human, their love story is untouchable. That there is the sneaky and downright S*** of a babysitter that Haylee thought she could trust. But Naylee will trump all you’ll see.” I rolled my eyes and laughed, but she was right. We ended up binge watching the rest of the season that night and hitting the sac late that night.

I crawled into my bed still relaying everything One Tree Hill had to offer me into the world of socially acceptable behaviour. It wasn’t long till I drifted off to sleep, suddenly really happy that I was going to have Marissa through all of this.