Alpha Queen: Forgotten Bloodline

2 - The First-Year Student

Oh, man. School will start in a few days. I don't know what course I will take this year. I should have decided that last year but they gave me time to pick and allowed me to pick this year. I should probably get out of bed and head over to the academy. I hear a key in the door and also hear them struggling with it. Wonder who that can be? I sit up in bed and look at my room. Well, it is not dirty. I have my desk with school stuff in one corner of my room. My gaming corner, my closet next to my door, and my bed in front of my window overlooking the academy in the distance. And naturally, the garage for my car is underneath my room. The roof of the garage is an easy escape route if I ever need one. I grab my jacket from my work chair and head down. These people do not smell like Ricka’s family. Who are they? I unlock the door and open it, the guy can barely stand up. “Oh, dis is not may houssse,” he is drunk. This early in the day? Probably partied for the whole night. And I have not seen him around before. “Are you a first-year student?” I step outside, looking up at the guy with my arms crossed over my chest. His friends are laughing hard behind him on the path leading to my door from my fence gate.

They are werewolves. I can smell their stench. Must have had a lot of drinks to get this drunk since werewolves have a high tolerance to alcohol. “Uhm, yeeaah, aren’t yooo?” Is he serious? I may look young but what supernatural doesn’t? Oh right. I am human according to everyone. “No, I am part of the Elite Students. So, go get your house. I will put in a complaint if I do have this encounter with you again,” I say sternly, and his friends drag him away. They stopped laughing the moment when I said I was part of the Elite Students. Yeah, we are a small group of students that get very good marks and we have a sport we do well in too. We also have a say over other students and their behaviour. Not that I am one to put it to another student. I keep to myself most of the time and just gain knowledge. I am 28. I have 3 degrees already but more can not hurt. So I keep on studying. Maybe I should try for the supernatural doctor course. Wonder if Ricka is taking that course too. She only said that she wants to become a doctor. That will take several years to complete.

I see a car pull up to the driveway with a bed, desk, chair, and bookcase. That must be the Ricka family. “Hey!” I act happy to see them and walk up to them. “Hello, did something happen?” Ricka smiled as she climbed out of the car looking at the boys walking away singing drunkenly. “No, they just thought this was their house. Do you know them?” I asked as I helped get her bags. “Yeah, unfortunately, they are part of my pack,” she does not sound happy about that. “Oh, beta, delta and I think you call the leader Alpha, right?” I asked, faking my unsureness about them. “Gemma, yeah,” she corrected me and I smiled at her, also indicating that she should come inside with me. I led her up the stairs to the door on the right of the first floor. I open her door for her and she stops inside the door frame.

Her mouth is hanging open. What is she doing? “This room is big!” She walks in deeper and I frown at this. “Really? This is average, to be honest with you,” I look at the room just like she is. “What? No. The room I have in the pack house is not even half the size of this room,” she blurts out and this is making me frown. Really? That small? What is the pack doing? Don't they have enough space for everyone? “Wow, this room is so big. You can put a lot of stuff in here,” her dad appears with her bedding bag. “Yeah, okay. I need to process the information I just received. Let’s get everything in and you can come with me to the academy to get your things sorted. I take it you will not be part of a house?” I looked at Ricka and she shook her head ‘no’. “Great, I don’t like the houses anyway. I will help you with things,” I assured her before we get the rest of her things in.

“Uhm, Eva. I am curious about your room. My room looks so empty with my things. I was just wondering how yours looks,” Ricka is even blushing while she is asking me this. She is cute. This question has caught the attention of her parents too. “Be warned, I have clothes everywhere,” I gesture for them to join me and I open the door in front of her room. I step in and let them come in. Their faces told me everything. They were surprised. Hopefully not at the mess but what I have inside. “Wow, two desks and chairs?” Ricka walked over to the gaming corner and I smiled at her. “Yeah, pretty nice. With time, we can get your room also full of things you like,” I suggested and she smiled at this with tears in her eyes. She nodded while wiping her tears away. I take it no one was this nice to her before. Now my evil plan will not work. This sucks. I can not be cruel to this pure soul.

“Say, Ricka. Are you becoming a supernatural doctor?” I asked curiously as we made our way downstairs again. “Yeah, I want to become an Omega that is useful and I love helping people,” she seems passionate about this. “I am thinking of studying that too. I am allowed to stay alive as long as I help the supernatural. And by doing that, I can enjoy life,” I tell her my plan, and her face lights up. “It will be hard, we are not fully human. Even in human form. We are a little different,” Nathan spoke as we made it to the car. “I think that is what is going to push me to learn more. Knowing more about the unknown is what I strive for,” I must say, this is the truth. I love learning new things and with a werewolf living with me, I will learn even more. “And with Ricka here, I am sure I will be able to understand werewolves a lot better,” I added and she smiled at me. She can be glad to have me as her roomie. Anyone else would use her and throw her away after they got what they wanted from her.

“And that way, she will not be alone. She will have me to study with and go to classes. We can make friends together or just keep to ourselves,” I added and I can see those words touched her. She nodded at me and her parents suddenly came closer. I jump away from them, keeping them at arm's length. “Sorry, I am not a skin-to-skin person. No hugging,” I blurted out and they suddenly relaxed, chuckling a bit. “And here we thought you were uptight. Glad to see that you are normal,” Ann laughs and this is causing me to blush. “The rest of the world is normal. I don’t want to be the same as them,” I mumbled as I folded my arm over my chest. Yes, sometimes I do act like a child. They all laugh and I can not help but smile at this. “We should get back to our duties. We will come and visit sometimes,” they hug their daughter and I give them a little bow before they get in the car and reverse slowly.

We wave at them until we can no longer see them. “Okay, let me show you the bathroom quickly. I like to keep that place neat and clean. Just because it is a bathroom. I do have cleaning services coming every week to clean the house. So lock your room if you don’t want them to clean it. They normally don’t mess with our workstations,” I explained as we went upstairs, heading to the door you see as you get up the stairs. “We should probably keep this door open at all times now since we have two people living here now,” I added and opened the door. We have a shower on the left, with the toilet. The basin in front of us with the bath to our right. We have enough towels everywhere on shelves and hanging on railings. “That purple shelf in the shower and here at the bath is yours to put your things on and in. If you don’t have any yet, I have extra in here,” I open the cupboard of the basin. Showing her where the toilet paper is and the extra body washes, shampoos, and conditioners.

“Thank you, Eva. You are very nice. But I feel like this will end soon,” she looked down as she was saying this, and I smiled at her. “No worries. I can not be mean to a sweet girl like you. I can not say the same to the other people outside this house. So, don’t get scared if I am different towards them,” I give her a toothy smile before taking her hand and dragging her down the stairs again to the kitchen that would be to our left as you come downstairs since the door to the garage would be on your right. The lounge/living area with a big television is separated by a little food aisle/counter with bar seats on the living area side. I stop at the far end of the kitchen, at the back door leading to the patio and backyard with the clothesline. “This is the washing machine and dryer for rainy days if you need clothes. Here on top is the powder, softer and liquid to get those tough stains out if you have one on your clothes,” I also showed her the instructions on how to use the machines. She seems really glad about those instructions.

I showed her the rest of the kitchen and told her I have enough food for the two of us until month end. We will go buy them and she doesn’t need to worry about buying them herself. I will supply the food as long as she lives here with me. We are getting ready for our trip to the academy and we must wear our signatures, unfortunately. I have to wear a bright gold band on my right bicep area since I am an Elite student. Ricka will be wearing a grey band like any other first-year student. Second-year students will have green, third-year will have blue, and fourth-year have the colour red. The fifth-year have to wear white, and the sixth-year will be wearing black. The seventh-year students have a bright purple colour. There are not many of them normally since most of them dropped out before reaching that year. I decided to wear a black hoodie and jeans with black sneakers.

“Did I put it on correctly?” I heard Ricka behind me as I was picking out snacks and drinks for the day. I looked up at her and smiled. She did it correctly. “Yes, that is perfect. Here. Can you carry this to the car, please? The door before you go up the stairs. I think it is open,” I put the last snack inside before she takes it. I made sure the back door was locked and grabbed the car keys before checking the front door to be locked. I close the garage door behind me and see Ricka looking inside my car curiously. Guess she never rode in a car like mine. I have a metallic blue mustang, 1956. My pride and joy. I love this car. Naturally, I made it faster, and stronger, and inside I have given it an upgrade of luxury. Electric windows, and seat warmers for the extremely cold winters. I have a sound system for listening to good music or at least my music.

Yeah, my money is showing.