The Beta and His Human Mate

Chapter 2: Today is Going to be a Good Day

Aaron’s POV

            BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

            I roll over and quickly grab my phone to turn off my alarm. Typically, I hit the snooze on my phone like 3 times before I actually roll out of bed to get ready. But this morning I decided to get up right away because for some reason I am excited to go to school.

            My wolf, Jax must be excited too because he is howling and pacing in my head. He was pacing like a little kid waiting to head to Disney World.

            “Can you stop that?” I say to Jax in my head.

            Jax, “Sorry, I just have a real good feeling about today.”

            “Well if you don’t stop you are going to give me a massive headache and I won’t be going to school today.” After that, he stopped, thankfully. But it did not change the fact that I was in a good mood.

            I get up and head to my bathroom that is attached to my bedroom to take a quick shower and brush my teeth. My bedroom is in the packhouse with many of the other teenage members who have their wolves.

            The packhouse pretty much houses all the teenage and young adult members. Part of the reason why we all live here is to learn how to be independent of our parents and to be able to spend time with our mates once we find them. I have not found my mate yet though.

            The other people who live in the packhouse are the Alpha’s, Beta’s, and Gamma’s families, as well as some of the elderly members who can’t live alone anymore. However, if you want to live in the packhouse you can, but most families choose to live in their own homes with their families. Since the only families who get private floors are the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma.

            However, my father, David Miller who is the current Beta decided to move out of the packhouse when I was born. My grandma at the time was pretty sick and she did not want to move into the packhouse assistive living unit. She just didn’t want to leave the house her and my grandfather raised my dad and his siblings in. When she passed away a few years later my dad and mom decided to stay in the house because they enjoyed living there instead of the packhouse since there were more kids around for my sister and me to play with than at the packhouse. Their house is a small craftsman about a mile away in one of the many neighborhoods in our pack lands. My little sister Casey still lives with them but is planning to move out when she gets her wolf. She should be getting her wolf any day now though.

            We can get our wolves at any time between the ages of 16 and 17. Casey is currently 16 and will be 17 in a few months. She is getting super antsy and can’t wait until she gets her wolf.

            I finish my shower and head back to my room in just a towel wrapped around my waist to get dressed. Before I can get to my dresser, I hear my phone vibrate indicating I got a text. I look down at it and see it is from my "girlfriend" Rachel. Yeah, it is not the best idea that we are "dating" since we both know we aren’t each other’s mates. But we have an agreement that the moment one of us finds our mate we are calling off this little relationship. It isn’t that serious of a relationship anyway, it’s mostly just s*x.

            Rachel: Hey Sexy! How did you sleep?

            Me: Great, how about you?

            Rachel: Amazing… I bet you had a dream about me

            Me: Oh, yes baby.

            Rachel: Oh, did you now? Hehe. Why don’t you tell me about it later and we can try to make your dream come true…I will see you at school

            Me: Yeah, I would like that. See you then.

I put my phone back down to get dressed and I can hear my wolf growling in my head.

I say to Jax, “What?”

Jax, “You shouldn’t be having s*x with Rachel. How would your mate feel about it?”

Me, “Well I have yet to meet her, and I have needs”

Jax, “Gosh you’re an i***t. How would you feel if your mate is having s*x right now with someone who is not you?” I can hear the tension in Jax’s voice when he said this.

I growled, “I will gladly kill him.”

            Jax, “you are a complete hypocrite. So, you can have s*x with what like 8 people, but she has to be a virgin.”

            Me, “Fine you are right. I probably should end this sooner than later before someone gets hurt… And it was only 6 people and 5 of them were humans.”

            After that argument with Jax, I went to get ready for school. I decided to wear blue jeans and a basic black t-shirt with Nike Gym shoes. I head back to my bathroom and grab a little gel to style my hair, so it isn’t sticking up everywhere. Once I am done, I head downstairs to grab something to eat before I head off to school.

            I can hear a few of the pack members in the kitchen eating breakfast and two of them are my best friends Scott and Connor. Scott is the future alpha for this pack, and I will be his beta and Connor will be his third when he takes the role from his father in a few years.

            Everyone in our pack has different roles to help the pack run smoothly. Some members' roles are to cook meals for those living in the packhouse, I am so thankful for those cooks because they are amazing chefs. Some of the other jobs are working with the pack doctors and nurses to help take care of patients or those members living in the assistive living unit in the packhouse. Connor’s mate, Sarah, and my sister Casey help in the assistive living unit. Scott, Connor, and I help with training the pack members. All members have to go through some form of training starting at 8 years old. The younger members learn about detecting and distinguishing scents, how to cover their scent, how to control their heart rate, and what to do during a rogue attack. When members get into their teenage years they start to learn how to fight.

I walk past them and grab a plate putting some bacon, eggs, and toast on my plate before sitting down next to them. Connor c***s his brow at me and says, “What you so happy about?”

Scott chuckles, “He probably got laid this morning.”

            I shake my head, “No, I just woke up in a good mood.”

            Connor, “Whatever dude, you still hooking up with Rachel?”

            I nod and Connor asks, “And what is going to happen when one of you guys finds your mate?”

            I reply, “Call this little thing off.”

              Scott says, “Good luck with that, that chick is obsessed with you.”

            I roll my eyes, “Don’t act like you two are perfect.”

            Scott laughs, “Yeah, but we stuck with hooking up with humans.”

            Connor says to Scott, “Correction, you are still hooking up with humans, I am not.”

            Scott replies, “Yeah, yeah, we all know you have a mate.”

            Yeah, Connor is the only one of us who has found his mate. I have pretty much determined that I will meet her in college, hopefully. She isn’t in this pack. Even if she hasn’t got her wolf yet, I would still be able to sense that she is my mate, but it would be 100% confirmed when she got her wolf. I am pretty sure Scott’s mate isn’t in this pack either, or she is, and he hasn’t told Connor and me.

            Scott then changes the conversation and asks, “You guys ready for football tryouts today?” All three of us are on the football team, Scott is the Captain of the team.

            Connor, “Yeah, I really hope we get some new good players on the team since a lot of the good players left.”

            I nod in agreement, “Yeah, we really need a kicker since Alex graduated.”

            We continue talking about tryouts as we finish breakfast and start heading out to go to school. Our football team is made up of both werewolves and humans. It is good though because it reminds us that we need to hold back a lot during practice and games since not all teams in our conference have werewolves on the team.

            After about 10 minutes of driving, we arrive at the school. As I am walking through the parking lot, I walk past a car I do not recognize but has a faint smell of the ocean. When I catch the scent, my wolf is starting to stir in me for some reason. I try not to think about it and walk into school with Connor and Scott. We head over to the senior lockers area. But I can’t stop thinking about that scent I smelled. Whose it and why did my wolf respond like that. All three of our lockers are by each other’s and we all grab our books for our first class. We decide to hang out by Scott’s locker before we need to head to our first class. I then smell that scent again and I start to look around trying to figure out where it is coming from. Again my wolf is starting to stir in my head.

            Connor then motions to someone whose locker is about 15 down from Scott’s but we have never seen someone at that locker before. Connor asks, “Did we get a new student?”

            Scott shrugs, “Beats me, probably human since my dad didn’t tell me about any new families that might be joining the pack.”

            I am trying my best to look at this person because I notice that the scent is coming from that direction and I want to know if it is them. But I can’t see them because they have their hood is up and they are wearing baggy clothes. They then close their locker and walk in the opposite direction from us, so I couldn’t see what they looked like.

            Connor, “Well guess we have some new guy joining our class.”

            Scott shakes his head, “That was definitely a girl.”

            Connor looks back at the person walking away, “How can you tell under those clothes.”

            Scott replies, “Well, for one the height. I feel bad for any guy who is 5 foot at the age of 17-18. And two there is a natural sway in her hips as she walks.”

            Connor just shrugs, “Oh whatever, we have to get to class.”

            The three of us walk in the direction that girl went since our classes are in that direction. We pass Connor’s class and say goodbye to him. The two of us then approach Scott’s class since his history class is on the way to my English class. I then catch the ocean scent again and look in Scott’s classroom seeing the new girl in the back of the class with her hood still on and drawing away. Who is she and is it her scent I am smelling?

            Scott grumbles, “New girl stole my spot.” I chuckle before I head to class.

A few minutes pass after class starts and Scott mind links Connor and me.

            Scott, “Well, the new girl is definitely a girl, and there is something weird about her.”

            I ask, “What you mean?”

            Scott, “Well she smells human. But I guess she is from Harvest moon, and a few of us naturally growled in a low tone and I am pretty sure she heard us do that because she gave us a weird look” Harvest moon is one of the other packs in Montana. We don’t have the best relationship with them though. So, I get why they growled slightly. Part of the reason why we don’t like each other is because someone from our pack snuck into their territory and killed one of their members a few years ago. That isn’t the main reason why we don’t like each other but it started a lot of issues between our packs.

            Connor chimes in, “You sure she heard you. One of you probably made a face when she said Harvest Moon and it confused her.”

            Scott replied, “Good point because I have never heard of a human with wolf-like hearing.”

            After that, he closed the link and I went back to focusing on class. Once class let out, I met back up with Scott and the two of us were talking before heading to our next class. I was really hoping to catch a glance of the new girl but when I got to his classroom she was gone. Oh well. We then heard some commotion coming from our lockers, but we didn’t think anything of it until Connor mind linked us.

            Connor, “Hey come to the senior lockers, Chris is beating up some human kid.”

            The two of us hurry over since there is a rule that we are not supposed to touch humans because they can’t heal as fast as we can.

            Connor then chimes back into the mind link since he didn’t close it, “Holy s**t!”

            Scott asks, “What?”

            Connor, “New girl got into the fight and punched Chris in the face.”

            The two of us round the corner and we see Derek holding her back and Chris is threatening her.

            Scott is about to use his Alpha voice to stop the fight but the next thing she does stops us all in our tracks. We watch her jump up and kick Chris in the gut and he falls back and then proceeds to flip Derek over her back. Where the hell did this girl learn to do that. Scott and I look at each other confused as ever.

            Scott finally yells, “Enough.” To stop the fight.

            As the two of us walk up I can finally see her face. When I lock eyes with her, I am overwhelmed with that Ocean scent and my wolf is yelling in my head. “Mate.” Holy crap, she is my mate. I finally found her, and she is absolutely beautiful, and kind of a badass.

            I sit there staring at her catching a few words of this conversation trying to process all of this, but I hear Chris call her a b***h which knocks me out of my trance and it completely pisses me off that he would say that about her. But I have to keep my emotions in check. She is human and she has no clue who I am to her.

            I then notice the black eye that is starting to form on her face, and I have to clench my fist to keep from killing Derek and Chris.

            But when she goes and grabs Chris’s shirt and starts yelling at him, I can’t help but smile. This girl is fearless and not scared of these two guys who are twice her size.

            She then walks away with her brother but not before calling Scott hot. When she does that, I can’t hold back my growl.

            And then she goes and does something we all weren’t expecting. She confirmed that she heard my growling by calling me a ‘dog’ and saying, ‘it’s not nice to growl.” We are all confused by that and we just watch her walk away in disbelief.

            Scott quickly tells everyone to leave except for Chris and Derek so Connor, Scott, and I can talk to them. The two of them stand up to speak with us about that incident and before Scott can say anything, I grab both the collars of their shirt and slam them into lockers.

            I grit through my teeth saying, “Which one of you fuckers gave her the black eye.” I watch as both of them shake in fear.

            Connor grabs my shirt and pulls me off saying, “Calm down dude. Chris smacked her out of instinct after she punched him.”

            Scott then says, “How could you fight a human especially over something stupid. You know the rules.”

            Chris looks down saying, “Sorry I overreacted. But there is something weird about that family.”

Derek speaks up, “Yeah, that guy doesn’t smell completely human, but I couldn’t detect a wolf in him, so he hasn’t received it yet if he is going to.”

            Chris then says, “And you guys noticed that she heard Aaron growling. Plus, when she punched and kicked me, her strength was comparable to a she-wolf.”

            I watch Scott shake his head as if he doesn’t know what to do, “Okay, well you two go to class and you better not bother the two of them again.”

            Derek and Chris walk away, and Connor asks, “Who the hell is that chick?”

            Scott says, “Her name is Ashtyn Rainer. I have no clue what is up with her and her brother. How can she be human, and he not be?”

            Connor says, “He probably is human, Chris and Derek are idiots. But I more interested in how she heard you growling,” he says that last part as he motions to me.

            Scott shrugs, “I have no clue. I am going to speak to my dad about that. He probably knows.”

            Connor and Scott look at me confused then Scott asks, “What was up with your reaction?”

            I sigh, “She is my mate.”

            Both of them stare at me wide-eyed. Scott says, “The human girl with all the piercings?” And Connor says, “The one that called you a dog?”

            I nod, “How does this work? Being mated to a human.”

            Connor speaks, “So according to my cousin who is mated to a human, he explained how she didn’t detect the bond right away. He had to pretty much engage in normal human dating to help build the bond.”

            Scott laughs, “Good luck dude. Based on what we have seen with her, she is going to be a difficult one.”

            Connor chuckles, “I think he is going to have more trouble telling Rachel they can’t be bumping uglies anymore.” Scott starts laughing hard holding his stomach and I shove a laughing Connor into the lockers.

            I shake my head, “You both suck.”

            Scott laughs, “oh calm down, let's head to class before the passing period ends and we get in trouble for being late.”

            I say before heading in the opposite direction of them, “Whatever guys, I will see you two in AP Chem.”