Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
The four of us, having been the best of friends since we were really little, had aligned our schedules for the first semester. There were similar prerequisite classes for all of us so we thought that taking them first would be the best options. And it lets us be together every single day.
While we were waiting for classes to start, I heard someone call out to me with a strong German accent.
“Rika! I found you!” It was Clovio. He was running toward me with a big smile on his face.
“Hi, Clovio!” I smiled back at him. OK, he was cute, that was true. But he wasn’t my mate, so I didn’t want to get too attached to him.
While he was running toward me, I saw that he had a larger group of people with him than last time. There were more than just the five of them that I met before. So, I wondered for a moment if they were just people that they had met since coming here or if they were more of the kids from Germany.
“I wanted to introduce you to my friends.” His accent was so thick that it made me want to smile when he spoke. I liked it, I really did. It reminded me of Uncle Dietrich, one of Lyssa and Alexa’s dads. “They were not in our group, but they are from the same orphanage. They were on the tour the day after ours.”
“Oh, more friends from Germany.” I smiled as I looked at the group. I saw that among the one that I had met before, there was another guy and two other women. The girls looked like they could have been sisters, but not twins. Well, not identical twins anyway. They had dark brown hair and hazel eyes with thin, pale faces that looked like they were perpetually sad. They were tall, but skinny. The guy looked completely different. He had black hair, green eyes, a handsome face that was filled with angles and looked like it was chiseled out of some pale stone. He was very good looking, very tall, and very mysterious. He also seemed to be staring at our group with shock in his eyes.
I heard someone gasp behind me, but I didn’t pay attention to it at first. I was talking with Clovio and didn’t want to be rude. He was starting to introduce us to all of his other friends.
“You know Gunnar and Aloisius, as well as Armina and Lovisa. These here are sisters Hede and Hedi, and this here is Warrick. Everyone, these are some new friends of ours. Rika, can you introduce everyone for me?” Clovio smiled and handed the conversation over to me.
“Sure. It’s nice to meet you guys. These, here, are my friends.” I smiled and turned to look at them. “This is Ilana, Alexa and Lyssa.” I wasn’t paying much attention at first, but when I looked at Lyssa to introduce her, I saw that she was staring at the other group as if in disbelief. It was like she was not able to believe what she was seeing. “Lyssa, is everything OK?” I thought that something might have been wrong or that she was upset about something.
“I..I’m fine. Everything is f..f..fine.” She tried to smile through it, but I knew that I would be talking to her soon. Something was going on and I didn’t know what it was.
“Thank you.” Clovio grinned at me. “What classes do you have? Anything that we might be in together?” He was excited. Maybe he had developed a little crush on me the other day. That wasn’t overly bad, but I didn’t want to break his heart when I met 鈥榯he one’.
“Well, we are all taking our prerequisite classes.” I explained to him and started to list off the English, math, history, and science classes that we were all taking this semester.
“Oh wow. That is so funny, Rika.” Clovio was laughing hard like he had just heard the funniest joke in a long time. “We’re all in the same classes. Well, not all eight of us, but most of us. Me, Gunnar, Warrick, Armina and Lovisa are in those classes. Aloisius, Hede and Hedi are in half of them and then in other classes for the rest. We will all be together. That is great. We should make a study group.”
“Yeah, sure, that sounds great. The more we have the better, right? If we all work together, I am sure we will pass the classes with no problems at all.” Ok, I think I might be crushing on him a little bit. Would that be so bad? I mean, to have a little crush on a human and maybe date him for a little while. Maybe he just wasn’t ready for me to recognize him as my mate. I might not know until later. It might take us some more time or something. And if that wasn’t the case, at least we could have some fun for a little while. It wouldn’t really hurt either of us, would it?
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After we finished our conversation with Clovio and the others, the four of us went to get a drink from the student center before class began. It would be nice to have something to sip on while going through the lecture for the first time.
While the four of us sat together near the fountain in the center of campus, I noticed that something seemed off about Lyssa. She was looking off into the distance and seemed to be trying to find something. I didn’t know what was going on with her, but I knew that she was different than usual. I mean, I had been around her since the day that she was born, well almost. I would know if one of my best friends was acting differently than usual.
“Lyssa, is something wrong?” I called out to her, worried and curious at the same time. It was our first day of college. Our first day of classes. First day of meeting a bunch of new people. There was a lot to process today and she could just be overwhelmed.
“U..uh..uhm, n..no, I don’t really th..think that anything i..is wrong really. I..I just have this really strange feeling. And, w..well, there is something in my head that is telling me that I..I need to find someone.”
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I could tell that she was looking for someone with her heightened sense. Lyssa was a pure vampire, that meant that she could literally sense things about people that I could never even imagine. She had told me once that it was like being able to smell the blood of everyone around you and knowing when they were near after you had learned that scent.
Lyssa, being a pure vampire, had that ability more than her sister, who was a hybrid of wolf and vampire. For Alexa, she could smell people like a wolf, but she could also sense them like a vampire could. There was a slight difference there. I thought it was interesting and cool, and just another way of showing that we were all different.
“Who do you need to find?” Alexa was looking at her twin sister like she was worried about her as well. She, like me, had seen that she was not acting normal right now.
“Is it someone that is a bad guy?” Ilana, who looked just like my Aunt Juniper, asked in a soft voice. Her green eyes glistening and wavy, ashy blonde hair swaying in the wind.
“No. Not a bad guy. Nothing like that. It’s just… It’s just weird, you know. It’s like, a voice inside of me is telling me that I need to find someone and be with them. I..it’s almost like, my heart and my mind are both telling me that I am in love with someone. Someone that I just met.”
There was a moment where me, Ilana, and Alexa just stared at Lyssa. I had a feeling that we were all processing the information and thinking the same thing. This was amazing. It was definitely not what we were expecting, but it was amazing all the same.
“LYSSA!” I almost shrieked as I squealed her name loudly.
“Oh my Goddess, Lyssa!” Ilana squealed as well.
“Lyssa! Oh my Goddess, are you serious?” Alexa was grinning as she asked her sister that question.
“What? What is the matter with all of you?” I guess that Lyssa hadn’t made the same leap that we had. She was still trying to figure it all out. I guess since neither of us had known someone that this had happened to, it was hard for us to recognize it. I mean, I didn’t get it until I listened to what she had said. I might not have gotten it if it were me, though.
“Lyssa, think about what you just said. Your heart and your brain are telling you that you’re in love with someone. That you need to find them. Probably that you need to be with that person. What does that tell you? What do you think that means?”
“Huh?” She was seriously having to think about it. I swear, she could be so dense. She was a smart girl, brilliant even, but she was clueless when it came to social things. Well, not always, just when it came to things that dealt with boys.
“Think about it, Sissy.” Alexa took her sister’s hand and looked into her eyes. I knew that she was trying to get her to understand, and she was calming her down by using the nickname that they had for each other growing up. “Think about what those words mean.”
“W..well, I..I uhm, I have never felt it before. B..but I guess that, uhm, i..it can mean that I found my… I found my… I uhm, I found my-.”
“MATE!” The three of us said the word in a very loud whisper with so much excitement filling our voices.
