1- Getting Ready
Alan’s POV
Aliane, my twin sister, and I, are already 20 years old, about to become Alphas at 21. Being the Alpha heirs came with lots of responsibilities, training, learning, and grown-up things that left little time to go out as often as other of our pack members, but such is life. Our dad, Alpha McKenna, was a loving father and mate, but also made sure to raise us strong and ready to be the best Alphas we could be.
Tonight is one of those few nights we are actually going out for fun and not for a training, event, or pack duty. My sister, the twin, the pain and love of my existence, decided that we were going to the club that had just opened on the outskirts of town, some miles away from our pack's borders.
We pose as an off-grid community that prefers to live by themselves without much influence from the external world. But we still go out there and mingle, some of us have actually found human mates, so mom and dad are okay with us going out there.
Our “town” is self-sustainable when it comes to energy. We have our own little hydroelectric plant that provides electricity, along with solar panels, and three windmills. We have wells that extract clean water from the phreatic level and several septic systems for our dirty water. Our fruits and veggies are grown on our hydroponic farm and some even have a little veggie garden in their lawns instead of flowers. The only thing that we draw the line at is having cattle. Our wolves would end up eating them, so there’s no point, plus we just hunt for deer, wild boar, hares, and other animals in the forest that surround us. The rest, like grains, and processed food like flour, coffee, and sugar we just import in large trucks to our warehouse sometimes per year, as needed.
My twin is nowhere near ready. She’s more used to athletic outfits for physical training or business casual for Alpha training than clubbing clothes. She has me in her room while in underwear and going through outfit after outfit. Her room is now a mess. Since we’re twins and wolves, nudity is just a normal thing, I bet human siblings would be disgusted at seeing their sister in a bra and panties.
“Alan, I was so happy to finally be able to go, stupid me, didn’t think of an outfit!” Said Aliane from her closet, looking for her seventh change of clothes.
“Ali, for the Goddess’s sake, you look great in any clothes, just pick something.” I told her, bored out of my mind and scrolling through my phone.
I’m just wearing black jeans and a long sleeved white shirt with the sleeves rolled up and some open buttons at the top. For some reason, the ladies liked to see the contrast of my tan skin and dark hair while wearing white.
Aliane and I are tall. I’m 6’3” and she is 6’1” barefooted, because on the two occasions she’s worn heels she’s been taller than me. It makes me happy that she likes flat shoes better. We have fair skin tones, jet black hair with what Ali complains is too straight, and light-grey eyes. I’m more muscular, while my twin has more of a lean physique.
“Okay, I’m going to have to intervene if we ever want to get out this year.” I told her while looking at the mound of clothes and starting to sort them into a no or maybe pile.
“Fine, you’re right, but it better not look slutty.” Came as her response.
“Ha, like you actually own any clothes that make you look slutty.” I quip back.
I hand her a pair of skin-tight black leather pants and a ¾ sleeve white sheer shirt. “Here, just be my twin, as always.” While I smirk at our own little inside joke since we were children at being each other's “twin” by wearing similar outfits instead of by actually being twins. Childish, I know, but still funny for us.
“You wish! You’re my twin, Mr. Alpha in Training, remember I was born a full eight minutes before you.” She sticks out her tongue towards me while I laugh at her usual response.
“Alan, this top is too see-through to wear with this black bra, I’ll have to change it.”
“Don’t, it’ll give you a “deal-with-it” aura and matches the pants. The guys won’t take their eyes off you. If anyone crosses the line, please let me know, I totally don’t want to miss it this time when you put them in their place.” I say, laughing and remembering the other time when a human tried to touch my sister and ended up with a broken arm.
“Deal! Okay, I’m ready, I’ll just use the black-sparkly ballerina flats that mom gave me; she always complains that I don’t wear them as often.”
We headed downstairs and said goodbye to our parents and joined our future Betas. I’m just glad our dad’s Beta had a large family of five children, so each of us was able to have a Beta instead of having to share one.
“The car is ready Alphas.” Said Ray, Aliana’s Beta, dressed in black pants and a black turtleneck. Goddess forbid you ever call him by his full name (Raymond), all hell broke loose when that happens. He’s quiet and serious, almost stoic, but a great friend and loyal to the core. We just tried to get him out of his comfort zone sometimes by going to clubs, or paintball, or any other crazy thing Ali and I came up with, but he was always there, whether he liked it or not.
“Thank you, Ray. I’m looking forward to a fun night.” Said my sister while climbing to the back of the SUV.
“Alphas, brother, wait for me!” Dany is screaming and running down the stairs. I can’t believe she’s even related to Ray. Who is actually sighing when he sees his sister, jumping while trying to run and put on high heels, in a cute wrap-around floral yellow dress. Leave it to Dany to always add color to everything. Like all the Wagner family, Dany has brown hair and brown eyes with a medium complexion. She’s the shortest one in her family, barely reaching 5’1”, hence her constant need to wear heels and reminds me and my sister how lucky we are because we’re so tall. She just has a bubbly personality and is always smiling, but can turn the tables and be a fierce defensive Beta in a second. Everyone would think she needs protection, but the little she-wolf can bring any guy to his knees.
“Dany, your brother was about to leave you, run faster girl!” I screamed back at her before closing the back door. She quickly closed the front passenger door after doing an acrobatic jump and looks at her brother sideways. While Ray just started driving without even looking at her.
“You really would have left me! How, in the Goddess' name, did I get stuck with such a mean brother?” Throws Dany.
“Should have been ready and waiting for the Alphas sooner, little sister.” Was the reply from Ray without even looking at her.
“Ray, it’s a night out, it’s okay, we all want to have fun.” Said Ali.
“Yeah, Ray, don’t be a spoilsport and have fun for once. Dany, cute dress by the way, hoping to get attention?” I said and changed the topic of conversation.
“You know it, Alpha! They can look, but they can’t touch. This cute package won’t be touched by anyone other than her mate. By the way, you look beautiful Ane, as always, how come you guys are twining?” Dany calls Aliane as Ane, and myself only as Alpha. We’ve tried to have her call us Ali and Alan, but it doesn’t work for her.
“Thank you, Dany, you too, that dress certainly matches you. About the twining, someone here helped me pick my outfit. I totally forgot to get something ready with all the meetings and work, but that’s okay, people need “another” reminder that we’re twins.”
And that made us all laugh at my sister’s joke, even Ray managed to smile at that.
We’re finally settled in the car while talking about certain topics and looking forward to arriving at the club.