Forty Five minutes later Grey's arm was wrapped around my waist as we entered the dinning hall. He lowered his mouth down to my ear. " I'll be saving plenty of room for dessert." He breathed sending chills of excitement through my body. He nipped my ear before pulling away. We neared the table his parents were occupying along with my Father. Having arrived an hour late for our scheduled dinner with them, both of us had received plenty of calls before we left the room. "So nice of you to join us son." Grey's father said waving a had towards our seats across from him. "Mathew, please you remember how we were when we were their age." Grey's mom scolded him before turning to me with a small smile. I gave her one of my own in return. "Ya, dad we got caught up with something." Grey answered with a small of his own. "Oh I have no doubt of that son, I can still smell it on you." "Well we showered." Grey said growing slightly annoyed. "Together?" My father cut in raising his eyebrow at me causing heat to creep across my face in slight embarrassment. " Cause that would be counter productive." He finished taking a long drink from his beer. "I couldn't agree more John." Mathew chimed in. "Mathew, John. Leave the kids alone they're young." Angela scowled at them. I gave her another small smile. Grey's hand rested on my leg under the table. " Angie they both know it's school before pups, s*x is not more important then their studies and duties, As next inline to take my place as King Alpha he has to be focused." Mathew went on. I felt a squeeze on my knee and looked over to see Grey wink at me. " I agree Mathew they shouldn't be having s*x at all." It was my turn to scowl at my dad. He merely shrugged at me. "Both of you stop!" Angie said in a hushed command "They have been mated for a year you both know how that time can be and they should be aloud to enjoy it, this is not why were having this dinner, now stop bring up their s*x life." And that was that. "Your right dear, were here to talk about the incoming Occults." Mathew turned back towards us. Grey straightened next to me. Every year at Walker Prep we have upper classman from all over the world and of all factions come for the Annual Faction Trials. Only Juniors and Seniors are aloud to participate in the Trials, though it is broadcasted World wide for everyone to see. The trials last a month and consist of many different events some targeted only for specific factions, some encompassing multiple factions while others are limited only towards the Prince and Princesses of the factions. There are four factions, we recognize Shifters which is lead by Mathew Roberts our current King of Alphas , his son Prince Greyson Roberts who will take his fathers place in the years to come. The Faeries are lead by King Donavan Flynn King of the Fae, his beautiful daughter and my bestfriend Lilith Flynn Princess of the Fae and future leader. Witches are lead their King Colton Adams and his son Prince Cole Adams. Cole does not attend Walker Prep he will be coming in with the other Occults. Lastly The Vampires are ruled by King Taron Harris , Harris has no children and the vampires have yet to announce a prince or next in line for the role, though I have it on good authority that they also do not attend Walker Prep. Me and Lilith are Juniors , where Greyson and Cole are Seniors. It wasn't uncommon for the factions to be friends with each other like me and Lil or Greyson and his bestfriend a blue haired witch named Jaxon. But it was a dirty offense for the factions to mingle romantically. People are shunned or considered outcasts for doing so. We all have an image to keep up and Hybrids do not fit those images. Hybrid the word used with disgust when spoken among the factions. That's why only a few trusted people know that I myself am a hybrid. My mother feel in love with my Vampire father and she being the badass shifter she was didn't let anyone tell her how to live her life. They kept a secret affair for years until it resulted in my mom being pregnant, her and my father agreed to split and shortly after I was born my mom meet John. John is the only dad I ever knew and when mom got sick and died it didn't matter to him that I wasn't biologically his I was his. He has known what I was all along and has loved me despite it, I told Grey after we mated, he was freaked out at first but over the past year he has really catered to my vampire side, like letting me drink from him when I need it. He told me he actually really enjoyed me drinking from him, especially during s*x, said it got him feeling high. Which is why he had a s**t eating grin on his face as we left the room tonight. I told Lil about three months ago, she was very surprised but she just hugged me, told me she loved me and asked if my real dad was hot. We laughed and then got very drunk on Vodka that night. " The trials are merely three days away, and I need you to be on top of leading the shifters during this time, that means you can not be distracted." Mathews eyes lingered over to me as emphasis to his son on exactly which distractions he meant. Another squeeze to the knee, then his hand slide further up my leg, distractions indeed. I moved my hand on top of his preventing it from traveling further. "Not to mention your participation in the trials themselves, we cannot let any other faction beat us." Mathew let a growl out. Lucky for us that was when on of the dining hall workers came up to our table to get our food order, shifting the tense conversation over to one about food and how steak could never be undercooked. The rest of dinner stayed light with conversation and heavy with alcohol as Mathew and John kept their beers coming. We ended up leaving them in the dining hall and returning to Grey's room two hours later, reminding them of how late it had gotten with us having school the next day, though it wasn't too late for us to enjoy some desert before falling against the cool sheets wrapped in each other for the night.