Blood Is Thicker Than Water // Lahote - [EDITED]

Part 13 - [EDITED]

Mia hadn't actually realized how hard it would be to keep up with Sam's rules. 

Going off the grid during the past two weeks helped her get used to being without her friends but it certainly prepared them to bomb her with questions. She couldn't read their minds but she knew they were going to interrogate her. Or at least intend to interrogate her. 

But she had agreed to be a part of the pack, she accepted the responsibilities and she accepted Sam as the alpha. Her alpha. As a result, she had to obey the alpha's rules, whether she liked it or not. 

It wasn't up to her, there was this thing inside of her that literally made her want to follow the rules. It was weird.

The first thing Mia did when she got back to school was to find the presidents of the clubs she was in and resign from them. From the way the others put it, it seemed like she was going to miss a lot of school already. The clubs' pressure would just be another burden to stress her out as if this whole thing wasn't stressing enough.

Before, Mia loved being a part of all those clubs. She wasn't doing them just to get into a good college, sure that was a good bonus, but she also liked being involved in them. It made her feel more productive.

It was a bummer and a whole bunch of lies to the people she knew but it was done. Luckily she managed to avoid Caitlyn and Olivia as she tracked those people down. She would get to class late and leave early and sit somewhere far from her friends so she didn't have to talk to them.

It was breaking her heart to do that but in the end, she decided, it was better to do this than to lie to them. Mia hated lying and being lied to. She barely got over her Mom lying about Charlie. She didn't want to do it to her best friends too. If either option was going to get them hurt she chose the one that would make her have the clean conscience.

So, after the last bell, she bolted through the halls and then outside so that her friends wouldn't be able to catch up with her. It was mean but it was better than the alternative. She was in the parking lot, speed-walking when she stopped.

It was because of the smell. It was distinctive and one Mia could make out quite easily from the others. It wasn't easy adapting to high school with all of her new senses but after an hour she managed it. This was different.

She knew what it was. Sam, Jake, and the rest of the pack said that she'd know a vampire when she came across it. That she wouldn't be able to not realize it. It was true. Although she never had the scent of a vampire before the feeling in her gut was telling her it was them.

It was a weird smell, both too sweet and revolting, at the same time. Like pancakes with bleach. There was no way she could ever forget it again in her lifetime. She knew she wasn't supposed to but she turned around.

Her eyes landed directly on the Cullens. Not all of them. Edward and Emmett weren't there. It was Alice, Jasper, and Rosalie. They were getting inside a shiny BMW with a smile on their faces. "Yeah, no, I'm looking forward to it," Rosalie was saying.

Mia flinched when Rosalie's words reached her ear. It wasn't that weird when she was down in the rez but in a normal environment, it felt weird to be able to hear someone from across the area. They hadn't realized Mia yet. Sam told her that just like vampires had a smell of their own so did the wolves and the leeches were able to detect them too.

She knew she had to go if she didn't want to be caught, either by Cullens or her best friends, but she couldn't stop looking at them. Now that she knew they were vampires, she just couldn't stop looking at them.

She felt stupid. How could she not know they were inhumane before? The more she looked at them the more she realized how stupid she'd been. Sure, the Cullens used to be a mystery ever since they came, both they and Mia moved to town around the same time and she was glad she wasn't the only new kid. She even thought they might bond over being new kids. They didn't.