The Female Apha

Chapter 2

    Parker is still shocked about the conversation he just heard. "I wonder why the other Alphas don't think you are strong enough to lead the pack," he asks as he observes my face to see how pissed I am.

    "Yes I am very pissed right now," I say as Parker looks over and just stares at me with confusion. "I know you wondering how mad I was. Also, I have no idea why the other Alphas don't think I am strong enough to lead the pack. This is ridiculous, I have given them no reason to doubt me!" I yell. 

    Parker pulls into the school parking lot. I get out of the Jeep and slam the door and start to walk into school but, Parker catches up to me and pulls me into a hug, and kisses my head. "It's going to be okay Care. Our dads will figure this out I know they will." I pull away from him, look up at him smiling at him and kiss his cheek.

    "Thanks, Park I really needed that," I say smiling at him then we walk into homeroom. Every time I get angry or stressed it seems like Parker can calm me down just with a hug. I really think Parker is my mate, not that I want or need one but if I have to have one I hope it's him. 

    The day goes on as usual girls trying to act like I am their best friend and guys flirting with me just so they can sleep with the soon to be Alpha. I just ignore all of them no of them truly want to get to know me so why bother trying. All I am to them is a way to get to the top of the pack and I wanted no part of it.

    Lunch comes around and that is the only time I get to see Parker during school hours. So we always sit together but today we had company. Alex and her two friends Ashley and Brooke. Out of everyone in the pack they were my least favorites. 

    "Hey, guys mind if we sit here?" Alex says as they sit down.

    "Actually we-" Alex cuts me off mid-sentence.

    "Awesome thank you!" She says as she completely ignores me. She is so lucky I can’t beat her ass right now. How dare they rudely invite themselves to sit with me and Parker. Does she not realize who I am and that I am clearly not in the mood to deal with her bullshit today. 

    I carry on eating my lunch ignoring them flirting with Parker. I hate to admit it but I am jealous. All the girls flirt with him and I can't blame them he is so good looking. If I was the Alpha I would have already made him mine so no one else can have him but I decided to wait on my mate if I even have one. 

    Towards the end of lunch, I hear one of them talking about me. "What did you just say about me?" I yell asking them giving them a dirty look.

    "O-O-Oh nothing!" Brooke stutters and looks away from me.

    "I said why the hell is she such a loser? I thought she was the soon to be Alpha of our pack!" Alex yells back at me drawing everyone in the cafeteria attention to us.

    "You better watch your mouth! I am your Alpha and you will respect me!" I yell as loud as I can at her.

    "You are a sad excuse for an Alpha, I heard the other Alpha don't think you can lead this pack and want to replace you with the late Alpha Daniel's son Kol." She said with an evil smirk. Everyone around us now is whispering.

    "Where did you hear that from?" Parker asked the look on his face getting angry.

    "My dad told me about it a few days ago he is friends with the Alpha of the Crescent Moon Pack," Alex    says still smirking.

    Still in shock from what she said I finally clear my head and say "You need to learn when to keep your mouth shut and respect your Alpha. I can have you thrown in the cells for disrespecting me. This is my pack and no one will be replacing me except my children." I get up and walk away from the conversation. When I hear Alex say something else.

    "That's right run away like the coward we know you are. No one in this pack thinks you will be able to lead us properly!" She yells at me.  

    I turn around and walk up to her "you better keep your mouth shut or you will regret it." I say to her with no emotions in my voice. Everyone is still looking at us wondering what is going to happen. You might be wondering why no staff has stepped in but in the werewolf world, we are taught to figure out our problems whether we decided to talk it out or fight it out. I always try to talk my problems out because I know I am the strongest wolf in my school besides Parker but I was even catching up to him. Plus my dad would be really be disappointed if got into a fight with a pack member over something stupid. 

    "What are you going to do Alpha?" She said mockingly while laughing.

    Without a second thought, I punched her in the face knocking her to the ground. She started to get up when I took my foot and smashed it on her throat so she couldn't get back up or breathe. I look at her and say "If you ever disrespect me again I will make sure you will in up in the pack hospital." I look around seeing everyone staring at me in disbelief. "If anyone disrespects me this is what will happen. Does everyone understand?" I yell in my Alpha tone. I hate using my Alpha tone but I needed everyone to understand that I am not to be disrespected. 

    "Yes Alpha," everyone says in unison.

    I look back down at Alex my foot still on her throat. I take my foot off and bend down "Submit to your Alpha," I whisper in her ear. 

    "I submit," she says quietly.

    "Louder so everyone can hear you!" I roar.

    "I submit to you, Alpha Caroline," she yells so everyone can hear her.

    After that, I took the Jeep keys from Parker and walked with my head held high to the car. I couldn't let anyone know that I had no clue what happened it's like I blacked out as soon as Alex started running her mouth.

    As I was walking out of the school I saw this beautiful man standing in the hall outside of the cafeteria. He had to be at least 6'8 muscular build, honey colored skin. Black hair that brought out his bright green eyes. He had a sexy chiseled jaw line that I could stare at for hours. I have never seen this man before maybe it's because I never paid attention to any guy other than Parker but man I wish I would have now. There was something about this guy that drove me crazy and I had only seen him for ten seconds. I could help but wonder if he noticed me the same way I noticed him. I didn't stop walking I couldn't I was trying to make a dramatic/effective exit. I think it worked to everyone just stared at me except Parker he started chasing after me. 

    I made it to the Jeep when Parker finally caught up to me. "Where do you think you are going?" He asks. 

    "I am going home I am tired of school for today." 

    "Okay"

    "What you aren't going to drag me back inside? You never let me skip school."

    "After that mess, we both could use a day off. I will call my mom and let her know so she doesn't freak out."

    "You know either way she is going to freak out and make sure I am okay. Everyone treats me like a child, not a capable Alpha. I will 18 in two weeks and in a month when we graduate I will be Alpha. Does no one understand that?" I say with tears coming out of my eyes. I am not crying because I'm not sad or upset I am crying because no one believes I can be the Alpha the pack needs. My dad has been a wonderful Alpha and it will be a tough act to follow but I know if given the chance I will be the best Alpha anyone has seen.

    "Care no one thinks that your aren’t capable of being the Alpha. Do you really think our Dads would be away convincing the other alphas that you are the right person to lead this pack?" He asks as he lifts my chin so I am looking at him.

    "I guess you are right Parker."

    "I know I am. Now get your ass in the car while I call my mom."

    I hopped into the Jeep and close the door looking out the window while Parker calls Lynn to explain what happened. As I am looking out the window I see that handsome man again staring at me. I wonder if he just saw what happened between me and Parker? I hope not I don't want him to think I am a child and don't deserve to be alpha because I doubted myself for five seconds. I waved to see if he would wave back but as soon as I did Parker got into the car.

    "What are you looking at?" He asked

    "Nothing." As I looked back out the window the man was gone. It's a shame he is really nice to look at.

    "So what do want to do? My mom told us to go have some fun and don't worry about being back in time for dinner she will save us some. After the day you had, I think fun is just what the doctor ordered."

    I thought for a minute then I decided what I wanted to do. "Can we go ride the horses?" Horseback riding isn't common among Werewolves as most like to shift into their wolves and run to relax. I haven't had my first shift yet, that wouldn't happen until my 18th birthday. So to relax I ride horses. 

FLASHBACK    On mine and Parker 3rd birthday we went to a farm. That's where I saw my first horse. She was a beautiful palomino standing at 17 hands tall. Her golden coat and long white mane and tail drew me in the moment I saw her. I begged my dad to let me have her. He kept telling me no that she wasn't for sale but the owner of the horse came up to my dad.

    "How old is she?" The man asked

    "She turned 3 today," my dad said

    "No kidding" the man laughed " so did the horse your daughter wants."

    "Well isn't that funny," my dad replied

    "It sure is. The world works in mysterious ways," the man said. My dad just looked at him confused. "Why don't I make you a deal if you take my Red and White paint over there," he pointed to the horse next to the palomino. They looked like they were best friends just like me and Parker. "I will let you have the palomino as well."

    My dad looked shocked then he looked down at me giving him my puppy dog eyes that he couldn't say no to. "Okay deal," my dad says as I jumped for joy. 

    So my dad went out bought a truck and trailer so we could take the horses home. On the way home he called a pack member telling him that we needed to build a barn and fence in 30 acres of our packs property. When we got home the 30 acres were fenced in and half the barn was built. That's the good thing about having a pack with 1000 members in it things get done pretty fast.

BACK TO THE PRESENT 

    "Of course, we can go for a ride," Parker said. He loved riding as much as I did it was what we use to do every day as kids until we turned 13 and had to start training that took up most of our time now.

    Once we saddled the horses up went when for a ride in the woods. "I forgot how relaxing this is we haven't done it in so long," I said letting all the stress leave my body.

    "I know I feel the same way. I missed this," he said. 

    We rode for about 3 hours taking a break every hour to give the horses a break. Once we can back to the barn we unsaddled the horses and gave them a nice bath. Then put them in their stalls for the night. 

    We got back to the pack house around 7 pm. We took the long way home since I really didn't want to see Lynn. I was worried she was going to lecture me about fighting with pack members. It was the opposite of what I expected to be honest. 

    Lynn pulled me in for a hug and said "I am so proud of you for standing up for yourself. I called your father and he said the same thing." 

    I looked at her shocked by her words. "really?" Is all I could manage to say.

    "Yes really, you know how your dad feels about fighting but he never wants you to let a pack member disrespect you. You are an Alpha and you have to show people that you can not stepped on. Now go eat there are leftovers in the fridge."

    Parker grabbed 2 plates while I got the food out of the fridge. We headed up our dinner in the microwave then sat down and ate at the bar in the kitchen. 

    After dinner, we went to my room to watch a movie. Let Parker pick this time since I picked last time. He picked some action movie that I had no interest in but watched it away because I knew it would make him happy. I cuddled up onto his chest like normal and started to drift off to sleep. Usually, Parker doest stay in my room the whole night but I made it kind o hard for him to slip out once I fell asleep. This was my favorite part of our nightly routine, he would cuddle me until I fell asleep then slip away into his room. I loved Parker and I knew he loved me but we made a promise not to do anything until we were mates or found our mates. I wished every night that my mate was Parker and if it wasn't Parker for my mate to treat me like Parker does. This was the first night since we turned 13 that Parker stayed in my room all night.