Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
We talked all the way to the university. All the way up until I parked the car and could see the others getting out of their car. Levi and Luka, who usually drove separately from Alyssa and Alexandra, were already heading toward us. I guess today was their sisters’ day to drop off the younger siblings. And seeing as the girls were pulling into the parking lot now, I would say that was a spot on assumption.
“Hey.” I called to Luka and Levi. “What’s up? How was your morning?”
“Making small talk this morning? Man, you must have had a messed up start to your day.” Luka laughed at me as he gave me a one armed hug. It was our typical greeting, and it was followed by one from his brother.
“Yeah, it was a little awkward, but nothing too bad.” I said as I stepped away from them. “Are you ready to get moving?”
“Not yet, the trips aren’t here yet.” Levi said as he looked toward the other end of the parking lot. The 鈥榯rips’ referred to the triplets, Ashle, Beech and Cypress.
“Yeah, and Elias isn’t here either. We need to wait for all of the others.” Luka said as he sat on the hood of his car. We always waited for the others when we knew that they were going to be here. And today, we were all supposed to be here.
“Yeah, better to wait.” I said as I sat on my own car.
“I’m glad that we brought your car today. I wouldn’t want your butt imprint on my hood.” Rika laughed as she slid on top of the car next to me.
“Then why are you putting your butt on mine?” I narrowed my eyes playfully at her.
“Because you obviously don’t care about putting butts on your car.” She wiggled her bottom as if she was getting as much of her butt on the hood as possible. It made us all laugh. Even I was laughing when the triplets showed up, riding with Elias like they did sometimes. We were all here now, and that meant that we were able to head on in.
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Luka
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Levi and I were the first ones to get here to the campus today. Even though I didn’t have a class this early today, I was going to be studying with Reagan. There was a massive research project that we needed to prepare for. One that was worth like a million percent of our grade. And, smart as I am most of the time, I still felt like an idiot when it came to getting ready for a massive project like this. I always felt like a chicken with my head cut off. I was just waiting to drop dead because I was out of my league. Or at least, that was how I felt when I got started on these things.
I had been brooding over my topic while we waited for the others to get there. Reagan and Rika, who had to drop off their younger siblings, arrived just before our sisters, who had also needed to drop the others off. Reagan and Rika, with all their siblings, only totaled eight, and they drove in one of those hybrid SUVs with a third row seat. It wasn’t like the ones that our parents used for major operations, but it was big enough for them all.
On the contrary, Levi, Lyssa, Alexa and I just didn’t want to all ride together as one group most of the time. So, we took turns driving our younger siblings to school in the morning. And next year, we could make Luther and Fauna, our younger brother and sister, drive them to school for us. They will be in their freshmen year here at the university with us, and they would have to deal with all the scut work. That’s how it went, right?
While I thought about a million things at the same time, I tried to keep an eye out for the others. I always had an easy time of keeping my mind in a million different places. It was like my mind worked differently. And even though my sister Alexa was a hybrid like me, she didn’t seem to have the same thought process as I did. I knew that to the humans, I often looked as if I had ADHD or something. It was always spacing out and things like that. However, I wasn’t really spacing out, it wasn’t like that.
In truth, it was like I was looking at and seeing things in a dozen different ways at the same time. I would just look tuned out at times because I was trying to process it all at the same time. I knew that I was still technically young and that I was still trying to learn how to manage to be me. Not even the humans knew how to be the best versions of themselves when they were only eighteen. Yeah, OK, I would be nineteen next month, along with Levi, Lyssa, and Alexa, but I was still only eighteen, and I was often still trying to figure things out.
When Reagan and Rika got to the university, I talked to them, but it was also like I was still processing the other thoughts in my mind. Still, I was able to sense what was happening with Reagan. He always joked that I could read his mind, but it wasn’t really like that. I just knew things based on the energy that people gave off. It was like I could sense things about them, things that others weren’t attuned to. Alexa had this ability a little, but not as strong as I did.
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I knew instantly that Reagan and Rika had had a bad morning, or at least a strange one. They were both giving off such a strange vibe.
“Hey. What’s up? How was your morning?” There was a strained sound in Reagan’s voice that I was sure even he wasn’t aware of.
“Making small talk this morning? Man, you must have had a messed up start to your day.” I joked back with him, because I didn’t want to alert him to the aura or energy that he was emanating. I just gave him a one armed hug and went back to where I had been before.
“Yeah, it was a little awkward, but nothing too bad. Are you ready to get moving?” He started to answer, but that was all. He also didn’t seem to be thinking clearly either.
“Not yet, the trips aren’t here yet.” Levi reminded him.
“Yeah, and Elias isn’t here either. We need to wait for all of the others.” I said as I scooted back to sit on the hood of my car.
“Yeah, better to wait.” Reagan nodded as he sat opposite of me, sliding on his hood as well.
What followed was a funny conversation about butt prints and cars. We were all laughing when the trips arrived with Elias. They had ridden in together and we were now able to get going. We were heading to our usual spot, which had never been encroached upon, even before people found out that we weren’t human. That was pretty cool in my opinion.
While we were walking toward the fountain and the benches around it that we always used, I noticed that there was a weird energy that was following us. I didn’t know what it was at first, but then I realized that it was a man that was following behind us at a distance. He was following us ever since we had passed him a few moments ago.
Why was he following us? Was he a fan of one of the twins? Or one of the rest of us maybe? No. He didn’t seem like a fan. His energy was too wrong for that. He was filled with anger and resentment. The energy that was coming off of him was bitter and disgusting. It made me want to sneeze, even though it wasn’t something that I was physically smelling.
Deciding that I needed to get a scent on this man, just to be on the safe side, I inhaled deeply. I knew that even with this distance, I would be able to get a read on him. I wasn’t as good as the wolves and felines when it came to somethings, but being a hybrid I was better at smelling than most people. And this man’s scent hit me like a ton of bricks.
The power of that smell was strong, but it was also wrong. There was something about it that shouldn’t be there. Something that wasn’t natural. And for someone that was all too clearly a human, there shouldn’t be oddities about his smell.
The hair on my neck and arms instantly bristled and stood on end. I was on edge, and I didn’t know why. This man, whoever he was, he shouldn’t be a threat to us, but somehow, I felt like he was. I felt like everyone around us needed to get out of here, and that something really bad was going to happen. And it would all be this man’s fault.
“Luka?” Reagan called to me in a soft voice just as the man turned away from me. “What is it? Is there something wrong?” He turned to look in the direction that I had been staring. The others had apparently noticed that I had stopped following them and was staring at something or someone in the distance.
“That guy there. The one with the duffle bag. He smells funny. And he feels weird.”
“Feels weird?” Levi asked me with a tone that had spoken more than the words did.
“Yes. His energy is strange. But the smell as well, that wasn’t normal. Not for a guy like that.”
“What did he smell like?” Rika asked me with a soft tone. The man, looking over his shoulders, kept stopping to see if we were following him.