Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
I just turn around and face the front of the ine again. This is going to get real old, real fast. We make it through the line doing our best to ignore Audrina and her friends, who are all making little comments under their breath. I love the variety of food we get. Everything from Steak and mashed potatoes to tacos to sushi. There is something for everyone and a TON of it. There is rarely much left over too. The kitchen Omegas are miracle workers. I get the basic idea of what a day full of training is like in a rapid fire from Nathaniel while in line. Wyatt must have explained what Drina tried to do to my school schedule and wanted to make sure I knew what was really going on before she tried to set me up again. “Basically, we all start together first thing. We get announcements, find out about any missions that are up for grabs, things like that.”
“Wait, we get to volunteer for missions?” “Sometimes. If they want to train people in a certain skill or have simple recon or protection details they will let us sign up. For the more intense missions specific people with specific skill sets are assigned and it’s not an option.”
“Have any of you been on missions yet?”
“No, we are all still on probation, just like you.”
Wyatt bumps my shoulder. “But we do get to start going out into the community soon and helping around the Royal Pack territory. We will also start doing patrols soon too. It’s all decided by the warrior leaders and the elder council.”
“Ah, well hopefully I can do the territory missions and patrols with you guys. I hate missing out on stuff.”
Lillian just laughs at me. “You’re here three years sooner than you should be, we figured that out.”
I just smile back at her. We get to the end of the line and I decide to stop pushing my luck with Audrina and wait with my plate while my friends, slowly, walk away. Lillian said they would try and stay close, just in case, but if they sit anywhere near her usual table she’ll probably steer us in another direction. This is so stupid, it’s worse than the petty high school interactions I used to watch from a distance back home. “Let’s go, newbie.”
I follow Audrina and two other girls who are wearing the same look of distaste on their faces as she is. This should be super fun. We walked over to the table Lillian had pointed out before as ‘their’ table in the middle of the canteen. This is clearly a place given a wide berth from the rest of the warriors. There’s enough space to fit ten wolves here and it’s just the three of them, now four including me. I make a move to sit on one of the benches. “Not there, that’s my seat.”
The darker brunette says to me. So I go to slide over on the bench.
“That’s my spot.”
The ighter brunette whines. I have to fight a laugh. Are they serious? It’s bench seating, there really aren’t ‘seats ‘ to have. This time I do roll my eyes. “You all realize it would go faster and be far less irritating if you just used your big girl words and told me where you wanted me to sit, right? You are wasting my time and missing out on your own dinner time just trying to be difficult. You can be mean to me when we are all sitting and eating. Where do you want me?” I gesture at the table. Hopefully I can use logic and nonchalance to get through this dinner. I try to channel my inner Nathaniel. “Over there.”
Audrina points to the opposite side of the ong table. There are so many people in here now and the table is so big I have to walk half the length of the room to get to the end and walk back to the center of the table on the other side. Center of the center table, yep she likes the attention and wants to be in the middle of everything. I finally get to my seat, sit, and start eating without looking at them. They are going to try and keep me from eating and I cant afford that. I still have Olive(s voice in my head telling me I need more food so I don’t become malnourished again.
“What pack did you say you were from again?” The dark brunette asks. “l didn’t, but I’m from Blue Crescent” I responded without looking up. “And how is it you managed to get here at 15, when none of the rest of us were allowed until we turned 18? I mean I am the best warrior to come out of my pack in 30 years.”
The lighter brunette asked. “l dorfi actually know. After the trials I was told that I could join when I graduated high school. That was the plan, but the plan clearly changed.”
I continued shoveling food into my mouth. “What makes you so special that you know the Alpha King?’ Audrina asks. “I’m sure plenty of people know him. I’m sure my age and early entrance to the warrior program were the reason he was here yesterday.”
just have to keep my answers short and sweet. These girls strike me as the gossips and they will use any info they learn to their advantage, including altering what they hear. “No one else got a personal escort by the Alpha King though. Not even Audrina, who got here the day after her 18th birthday. That’s how good her training scores were.”
The dark brunette raises her eyebrow at me.
I really should learn their names, but they aren’t offering them up and none of them have bothered to say mine so I just let it go. I shrug in answer to her non-question. I have no control over who the Alpha King pays attention to. “Do you think you’re better than us? That you don’t have to respect us since you have been noticed by the Alpha King and personally trained by Warrior Osiston.”
The light brunette asks, letting her attitude slip in now, not bothering to pretend to be nice. “No, I don’t. I’m a warrior in training just like you, no better no worse, just new. I don’t know what did to you, but I’m not the bad guy and I’m not a threat. From what understand we are supposed to train like a team. I just want to train, become a warrior and move forward with my life. As for respect, I give it when it’s been earned.”
I figure I’ll try to be the bigger person and slow down the hostility a little. But I’m also not going to let them walk all over me. I came here to get away from that. These three like a scene and I refuse to give them one. “We are your superiors, you’d better learn to respect and obey Bridget, Chelsea and l. I’m done hearing how great you are and you haven’t even had to prove yourself yet. You’re probably just a sl*t who slept around so much you had to be sent here before you were discovered as a stain to your pack. I bet your Alpha wanted you to have the warrior brand so you would be forced to keep your legs shut.”
Audrina is talking loud now and has the attention of the people surrounding us, but it won’t be long before she has the whole room listening in.
“You have no idea what you’re talking about and you for sure don’t deserve respect or any kind of obedience. What time is training in the morning, 5am? I believe you wanted me there early. Is that still the case or is 5am satisfactory for you, ma’am?”
I ask standing up with my half empty tray. I’m done sitting here listening to this b*tch try and sabotage me by insinuating stuff. No one knows why I’m here and she isn’t going to bait me into talking about it. And she’s lost her mind if she thinks that I’m just going to blindly follow her. I just stand there staring at her. The ball is in her court, she can either back down on her ridiculous need to feel in power by giving me commands or be a decent team leader and lead.
“5 am, outside at the ropes course. Do not be late.
“I wouldn’t dream of it.”
I walk off to dump my trash and see if I can find one of the kitchen omegas to see if I will be able to get some food or a snack early tomorrow morning.
Lillian, Nathaniel and Wyatt all get up to follow me. We head into the common area, but I cut back towards the kitchen.
“Where are you going?”
Lillian asks. “We’re not supposed to bug them while they are cleaning.
“I have to ask about getting something for breakfast, even if it’s leftovers. Otherwise Audrina is going to make sure I can’t last during training tomorrow and I can’t have her starting or spreading any more rumors about me. She’s already telling people that I slept my way here. My fighting needs to speak for itself and I can’t do that if she keeps messing with my meal time. I’ll be back in just a couple minutes.”
I head into the kitchen which is bustling with about ten people moving quickly but not in a rush, just a well oiled machine that is on the move.
I look around and spot an older man and woman deep in conversation over a few sheets of paper on the central prepping island. I walk to them.
“Excuse me, I just have a question when someone has a minute.”
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