The Exiled Alpha

I slam my locker door shut, almost a little too loudly. Eyes turn my way and I have to stop myself from actually growling at the nosy students of Beacon Hills high school. I was not the happiest and calmest morning person you could find, especially after yesterday's night. I glance down the hall and notice my brothers walking up to a group of their friends, laughing loudly. I wish I could snap their necks. Well, at least Tyler's. I would let Thomas live, because he actually didn't do anything wrong yesterday. The twins look completely alike, yet their personalities are completely different. Thomas notices me standing by my locker, so he excuses himself from the group, his twin brother calls friends and heads to me. A perfect example of how different they are. Thomas would rather talk to me than all of those jocks and cheerleaders that Tyler hangs out with. Plus, the other brother is timid and quiet, he'd rather be on the sofa reading a book on a Friday night, than going out to party with Ty. "Hey, Mack." Thomas greets me when he comes to my side. I glance towards my brother that looks nothing like me and nod. I still burn holes in the back of Tyler's head in hopes of him actually feeling my scorching stare. Thomas's forest green eyes turn to our brother and he sighs. "You're still furious, aren't you?" Thomas asks and I finally tear my look off of my other brother. "No s**t, Sherlock." I mutter, crossing my arms over my chest. I think my brother could smell my anger filling the whole hallway. "He didn't even apologize." I say, turning to Thomas and dropping my arms to my sides. My dark eyebrows knit together and I get a disappointed look on my face. My responsible brother looks down on me, his figure practically towering over me. "Well, that's Tyler for you. I'm surprised you aren't used to it already." Thomas shrugs his shoulders and glances down the hall behind me. The relaxed expression suddenly falls and he looks rather alarmed. "Oh. Natalie six o'clock." Thomas warns me, which makes me turn over my shoulder to see my best friend heading right towards us. "I think this is my cue to leave." Thomas ruffles my dirty blonde hair and gives me a smile. "Behave." He adds, making me roll my crystal blue eyes. He sounds like our father. "Hey." Natalie comes to my side when Thomas turns away. He gives a small wave to Nat, before he heads back to his fake friend group. Or better yet, Tyler's friend group. I still don't understand what Thomas is doing in there. "Hey, Nat." I greet my best friend and turn to her, giving her my full attention. "Why does he always run away when I come along?" Her light brown eyes look after my brother and I have to shrug my shoulders. I don't understand that either if I'm honest. "I have no clue." I mutter back to her, watching as Samantha, Tyler's mate, wraps her arms around my brother. She has a huge smile plastered on her face, as Tyler gives her a kiss on the cheek. Samantha is a nice girl if she wants to be. And she doesn't hang out with the jocks, like Thomas is kind of forced to. I suppose that's why I'm close with her. "Where's your lover boy?" Natalie teases and my sore mood returns back almost instantly. I glance to her with a scowl and hear her giggle. Today she is dressed in some skinny jeans and a cute white shirt with silver sparkles on the front. Her brown hair that has highlights in them is in a high ponytail. "He is not my lover boy." I argue back, but to no avail. Natalie giggles again, enjoying how she can get under my skin so quickly. "Oh, don't be a sore wolf." She nudges my side and I feel all of my muscles tense up. My whole body becomes hard as a brick wall when I hear her words. I might be her best friend, but there's another part of me she doesn't know and will never know. "There's Alec." I answer her previous question, calling him by his real name, not the nickname Nat gave him. She believes there's something between us and teases us about it every chance she gets. But to her disappointment we're just friends. "Hey. Sorry I'm late." Alec says, his voice still laced with sleep. Natalie looks from me to him, a grin on her lips. "Late night?" She asks Alec, who is rubbing the sleep out of his honey brown eyes. "You can say so." He answers and opens his locker, which is right next to mine. I move aside and let him fetch his books, while still glaring holes into my brother's head. I think he finally feels my scorching glare on him, because he turns to look over his shoulder at me. Tyler gives me a flashy smile, before he turns back to look at his friends. His smile fuels my rage again and I wish I could just walk up to him and smash his head into the locker beside him. "Mack." Alec snaps his fingers in front of my face to wake me up from the daydream in which I tear my brother into pieces. I look up to the male beside me and finally notice he didn't even brush his light brown hair today. "You look like you just fell out of bed." I comment, finally ungluing myself from the spot I've been standing on for the past ten minutes and heading to the chemistry lab. "Because I practically did." Alec answers back, walking by my side, while Natalie flanks my other side. We head into the chemistry lab and I notice how one of our classmates stops Natalie to ask her about our homework. These are the only few seconds of the day that me and Alec will get to talk about the double lives we're living. "You're fuming." Alec whispers, as we sit down at our usual desk. "No f*****g s**t. I'm pissed at Tyler." I growl out and practically drop into my chair. Alec gives me a concerned look before turning to look around us, to check if anyone is listening. "Just try to calm down, Mack. Luckily, nothing happened." Alec murmurs and I look to him with wide eyes that flash with anger. "Nothing happened? He got out of the den with Sam on a full moon. He could've jeopardized everything. Our secret would be out." I hiss to Alec and I can see my best friend press his lips together. "But he didn't. You were there to stop him and Samantha." Alec tries to turn this conversation into a more positive way, but I don't let him. "Yeah, I stopped them only because I can't shift yet." I grumble. Alec lightly taps the top of my hand to warn me Natalie is coming our way, so I quickly shut my mouth and look to the ground. Living a double life is exhausting at times. Especially when you have to lie to your human best friend every single day, while you yourself are not entirely human. But the pack needs to stay a secret from the world, that way we are safe. And as much as it pains me to lie to Natalie, it's for the greater good. "Hey, I was thinking..." Natalie starts when she comes to us, sitting down a row in front of us and twisting her body towards us. Alec gives a gentle smile, the one he gives her every time we stop talking about pack stuff. "...there's this party that's going to be tomorrow at some senior's place. And I just thought, since Mackenzie has such a cool senior brother and his girlfriend actually hangs out with us, that we should totally go." Nat gives me and Alec a pleading look and I roll my eyes at her idea. Same story every single year. Well, I can't really say every single year since we're sophomores. Even though I am turning seventeen soon and was actually supposed to be a junior, but my dad decided to enroll me into school one year later than usual for kids my age. "No, Nat." I answer, just like I did last year. Every single year one of the seniors holds a house party at the start of the school year, which all of the popular kids of Beacon Hills are invited to. I didn't want to go last year because I hardly knew Natalie and I was still a freshman that didn't want to get exposed to bullying. "Oh, c'mon. Please! We aren't freshmen anymore." That was the excuse I used last year to get her off my back. I glance towards Alec for help, but he only smiles to me, as if saying "you're on your own". Coward. "Still... We're not really party material." I mumble, glancing towards the cheerleaders in our class who just walked through the door of the classroom. Alec notices that I look towards them and then he turns to me. "Did you just compare yourself to those headless chickens?" He asks and I glance toward him, our eyes locking together. "I did not. I just looked around the classroom." I argue and I can see a smirk growing on his lips. I did not compare myself to clear that out, I looked at them because I know they will be there. And I really don't want to go to a party where I'll get dirty looks for even being there. I'm not the most popular girl on this god forsaken school. And Alec isn't anything close to popular either. Natalie has the best shot at going to the party and not being crushed by countless dirty looks, since she actually is kind of popular with the sophomores and juniors. "You know what? I actually agree with Nat for once. We should go." Alec suddenly speaks up and my jaw almost falls slack down against the desk. "You're shitting me?" I say a little louder than I should have. And with my luck, the chemistry teacher just walks in through the door. "Language, Miss Moore. We are in a school." Miss Gardener shoot me a cold look and I slump back into the seat. I hear some laughs coming from the cheerleaders and jocks, but I try to ignore them. "Sorry." I mumble out and glance to Alec, who just gives me one of his charming smiles to try and sway me into giving in. It's not going to happen.