The Jade Wolf Prophecy

I was so engrossed in the new book I was reading this morning, I looked over at my clock, s**t I am late! I rushed to my mirror to do a once over again. My curly red hair, bouncing every which way and my freckles standing out more than I would like. This will have to do since I am so late, I ran out of my house as fast as I could, worried I would miss the bus, again. Sure enough once I got to my bus stop, the bus had already left. “Damn it,” I cursed to myself. This was becoming a habit. Now I would have to walk two miles from my pack, the Black Moon Pack to school. On the bright side, I was able to enjoy warm weather outside. I am so glad that I decided to wear tennis shoes today. Thankfully my eighteenth birthday is two weeks away and I would finally have my wolf with me. I would be able to shift and run to school then, but being human still I am much slower. I was so lost in thought that I didn’t realize when I had made it to school. The school was a commanding three stories with a large open courtyard in the center. It was an old red stone building that our pack bought and turned into a school, with big archways and heavy wood doors. The campus was full of both humans and werewolves. Most of the staff were also werewolves so they didn’t ask too many questions when one of us missed class or were late to school. They also answer to our Alpha, Jacob Pierce. The Alpha is the leader of the pack. Alpha Pierce was a ruthless, strong man who leads the pack well. I find him hard to approach, unless his mate, Luna Abby was with him. She always brought out a different side to him. Luna Abby is literally the best. She helps a lot in the daycare center for the pups within our pack and community. She is the most caring person I have ever met. Having such a great luna is important because the luna is the heart and strength of the pack. Rushing into the hall with all of the lockers. It looked like a usual high school locker area, with long hallways, but big windows. I was getting my books that I needed for my first two classes, when I didn’t notice our principal was in the hallway. “Late again Miss Monroe?” He asked. “Yes, I am sorry Mr. Stevenson. I missed the bus and needed to walk. I will try to do better from now on.” I replied to him. Mr. Stevenson is a medium built man with a slight beard, but his normally kind, blue eyes looked disappointed. “Rose, listen you are a brilliant student. You ace all of your exams and excel in all of your classes, but you need to be here on time. It is a requirement. There are only so many times I can cover for you and keep you from getting failed for late or being a no show. You know this. Please see that this doesn’t happen again. Mr. Russels was already complaining about it this morning. So please stop putting me in this position.” “Yes sir. It will not happen again. Thank you for all your help.” I gave him a small smile and rushed to my first class, Mr. Russels math class. Mr. Russels is one of the few human staff on campus, but he hates me with a capital H. He was a tall, thin built man, with brown hair and oversized glasses. I always do well in class and he doesn’t understand how I can do so well in class, even though half of the time I am late. So he is always complaining to Mr. Stevenson about me. Mr. Russels was trying to get me expelled for cheating even, but Mr. Stevenson shot that down and always has my back. It doesn’t stop him from griping about me or being snarky in the classroom. Thankfully, my best friend Alicia is in the class with me. She is a few months older than me and already has her wolf. Alicia always helps me feel better after Mr. Russels starts picking on me. Alicia is a beautiful, tall, tan, blonde. Gorgeous to say the least. I walked in with my head down and rushed to my seat. Mr. Russels was busy writing a formula on the board. I let out a sigh of relief, thinking I was able to get into class undetected. Nope, I wasn’t that lucky. “Late Miss Monroe?” He turned to me, with an annoyed facial expression. “Yes, Mr. Russels. I am very sorry.” I said plainly. “That will be detention for you today after school with me.” “I am sorry for being late Mr. Russels, but I cannot stay after school. I have work at the daycare. I can do it Friday, that’s my day off.” “You do not work, you are in High School. Do not lie to me Miss Monroe.” Mr. Russels said, becoming more and more frustrated. “Yes, I do work. My only days off are Fridays and Sundays. Mr. Russels, I do not know what your problem with me is, but I always complete my school work and I have good grades. I am sorry I am late, but get the f**k over it. I have work whether you like it or not. You can call my mom and ask! Or don’t, I really do not care. But the harassment needs to end.” I yelled back at him, I couldn’t believe I just yelled at my teacher. I hardly ever raise my voice, but after months of him harassing me for such a petty reason. After I finished my sentence, Mr. Russels face turned red and I stormed out of the room. I rushed to Mr. Stevensons’s office. I needed to get out of Mr. Russels class, but I didn’t want to be caught in the hallway for another teacher to send me back to class. I wanted to go home. I walked into the familiar office and the secretary smiled at me because she knew where I was heading. I quickly knocked on the door and waited for him to come in. Once he did, I busted through the door and threw my bag on the small stiff couch in the office and sat down. He was sitting behind his large oversized desk looking over some papers. “Rose, you didn’t even last ten minutes, what happened?” He asked, I could tell he was annoyed, but not at me. “He called me a liar in front of the class,” I said, still annoyed that he even did that. “He did what?” Anger rose from Mr. Stevenson. He always had a soft spot for me because I am a spitting image of my mother and they were best friends in school, he even came over for dinner from time to time. That is probably why he covers for me so much. I have even went on vacation with him, his mate, and daughter, which happens to be my best friend Alicia. “He said I had detention for being late. So I said I couldn’t because I have work. Then he proceeded to say I was lying. So then I told him to stop harassing me and that I do work.” I left out the part where I cursed at him in front of the class. “I would like to go home. I do not understand why he hates me so much but I cannot go back to class, Mr. Stevenson.” “I will call your mom and have her come get you. I will also have your teachers email you the rest of today’s and tomorrow’s assignments. I will get to the bottom of this matter. I will stop by tonight and let you know what happens from here. Thank you for coming in here Rose. Please wait outside for your mom.” He said, I can tell he was mad about this, but I feel like he knows something that he isn’t telling me. I thanked him and walked outside and waited for my mom. The warm breeze was nice to feel, now that I am calming down from all of this drama. I had my eyes closed and with my face towards the sun when I heard a familiar voice. “Hey Rose, are you okay? I heard about what happened during class. Do you want me to have my father come to the school and force Mr. Stevenson to fire him?” Said Rachel, my other best friend and daughter of the Alpha and Luna of our pack. She has jet black hair and soft brown eyes, with a petite built. She is unique, but beautiful nonetheless. Basically a spitting image of her mother. “No Rachel, Mr. Stevenson will handle it I am sure. Oh my goddess, does the whole school know?” I asked her frantically. “Oh yeah, everyone knows how litte Rose has found her voice and is a vicious girl.” Rachel said chuckling. “Oh no! I cannot believe I yelled at my teacher in front of class! I don’t know what is wrong with me.” “Maybe it’s because you get your wolf soon and she doesn’t like you being bullied by a useless human teacher?” she said. “Yeah maybe.” By then my mom pulled up in front of the building. She looked like she was freaking out. So I waved bye to Rachel and went to the car. “Oh honey, Max called me and explained to me what happened. Are you okay? Do I need to get your father involved? This teacher has been an issue for you since the first day of class.” My mom likes to get my dad involved in anything like this because he is considered big and scary. My father is the Head Warrior of our packs warriors. He is a skilled fighter. To where my mom is more of a kind soul, who loved to bring life to anything around her. She runs the daycare that I work at. “Mom, please calm down I’m fine. No please do not get Dad involved. Mr. Stevenson said he will handle the issue and I am sure he will. He is the best principal. He said that my teachers will email me my assignments, so I won’t miss out on anything.” This seemed to calm her down, I am sure she will still tell my Dad, but at least he is in training and won’t know about it until tonight. “Since you have to wait for your assignments, do you want to head to the daycare center with me and help early and just go home with me? I can make you your favorite for dinner tonight.” “Yes, that sounds great and just what I need after the morning I had already.” I said. We drove back to the pack lands, coming into the gate, we could see the warriors guarding the borders of our lands with bored expressions. The warriors waved us in without even checking our car like they used to do when I was younger. Security seems to be getting more relaxed as of late. We drove down a windy dirt road lined with large Cottonwoods and Aspens to the packhouse. The warriors are important for our way of life, they train twice a day for battles, in wolf and in human form. They are the elite group that are skilled, quick, and larger than the average wolf, just not as big as the Alphas, Betas, or Gammas. The warriors protect our lands from attacks, from Rogues or other creatures of the night. We haven’t had an attack in years since our pack is one of the strongest in the United States. Others do not dare attack us unless they have a death wish. Our pack lands are vast, hundreds of acres of lush forest so that humans can’t see anyone in wolf form. There are many natural springs and even a large lake on the lands. Plenty of game for hunting purposes as well because let's face it, we are still wolves and enjoy the hunt. Within our pack lands we have all essentials. Families have their own homes throughout the land, but the Alpha’s family and the unmated adult wolves live in the pack house. The daycare center is attached to the packhouse, it looks like a big sunroom from the outside, but when you go inside you can see the rooms for the daycare. A room for babies that consisted of toys for infants, cribs, the walls were a light baby blue and had paintings on the wall of fun animals. Then there is the toddlers room, there were tables for crafts and snacks, crafts hanging all over the room. The toddlers room is painted a bright yellow with trees along the walls to give it a nice outdoors feel. The preschool school was the biggest room of all. There were desks for the children to learn, tables for snacks and crafts, but the walls were covered in learning posters. There were books that lined the walls. Even though the human schools have preschool, we keep ours on the pack lands until we know for certain they can keep our secret safe but also to keep our young safe. Once we were inside I was bombarded by all of the kids excited to see me, asking which room I will be in today. I let them know I would do story time and everyone’s room but I would start in the babies room since their naps will be soon.