Trials of An Alpha

Chapter 19

When I woke up this morning I was so thankful for it being the weekend at long last because it gave me chance to think about yesterday in a calm manor. I hadn't yet thought about my parents visit or the after events yet. I heard they had left almost immediately after I stormed out on them. Good riddance is all I could think in turn, not caring what they thought of me anymore.

I think a run was in order, it always helped my wolf and I to gather our thoughts and think things through more clearly. That is exactly what I needed right now. I had yet to see my friends today, deciding I would find them all later I left my room and jogged into the woods. I left my clothes in my usual hiding place and shifted. We just ran for a while, no destination in mind as we relayed the past days events.

Eventually we settled in a grassy clearing. The waterfall would have been a nice place to go to but I didn't want to risk Aiden finding us in our wolf form, much preferring to tell him in my human one. It was too cold now for me to sit in my human form without clothes so we curled up still in our wolf form, laying our large head on our paws. I just sat and watched the grass swaying in the breeze and listened to the sounds of the forest around me, content for now to stay like this.

Peace didn't last long though, little thoughts and emotions slipping through. I could feel the remaining anger over what our parents had said yesterday lingering slightly. But I had all but moved past it, I was a much stronger person now who they couldn't mistreat. And I was proud of my self for showing them that too, I finally stood up to them. Now there was only Claire, if she ever decided to bully my friends and I again. I wouldn't refrain from putting her in her place.

My wolf was also expressing her pride at our actions, and demonstrating our strength, even if it's something they can't be proud of, we certainly are. I was getting more and more used to it now, I was finally ready to accept the changes to my wolf. But I wasn't ready to accept my eyes changing just yet, that was too bizarre for me to fully understand at this point.

I knew the time for me to tell Aiden about my wolf was approaching, I couldn't keep it from him for much longer, and I knew he couldn't resist asking those questions for much longer either. Especially as the feeling of something big coming was growing by the day, my wolf demanding to be let out more often still. Even after our long run this morning it hadn't done much to dissipate the feeling and the buzzing energy running through her lithe body.

My wolf's ears twitched as we heard something in the distance. The sound of paws approaching us. I quickly leapt up, running over to a copse of bushes to our left and hid, waiting for whoever was coming to finally make and appearance. As we waited the sounds got closer, they weren't trying to hide themselves from me that was for sure. As they entered the clearing I could see four wolf figures with their noses in the air sniffing it. They could probably smell my scent. Watching them even more closely I could see their features and recognised them as my friends.

My wolf's stature relaxed then her shoulders lowering. Aiden wasn't amongst them. I crept out of the copse of bushes and back into the clearing, rushing over to greet my friends. They yipped as they saw me approaching rushing to meet me halfway as we nipped at each other in greeting. It was rare for us to spend time in our wolf forms together often struggling to find the time to now that things had become a bit more hectic in our lives. I know the rest of the group could feel the same thing I was as we waited for whatever was coming to make it's arrival, I could sometimes see the stress in the lines of their shoulders or the strain on their smiles. But they were coping. We all were.

The groups wolves were starting to visibly change now too, Bryan was bulking out with his growing power, so was Hannah, but Vince and Darla were growing leaner, their muscle strengthening and their wolves changing to match it. They were necessarily dominant and pure muscle but they were both still hell of a pair of fighters that's for sure. Watching them play like pups was refreshing, we were only young adults which was hard to remember sometimes. It felt like we had the world on our shoulders at times.