Trials of An Alpha

Chapter 22

Going back to pretending to be normal and that everything was ok was hard. All I could think about was my situation and it's similarities with Alpha Sheila, I could only hope that when the time came I made the right decision. I still wasn't sure what that would be, only time could tell. The group hadn't changed their behaviour towards me much, except there was an unvoiced understanding to the position I now held in our group and the unwritten realisation that everything could and would change soon.

Vince has said he was working on another theory at the moment about the rest of the groups experience in the change. But until he had more evidence he wasn't ready to share it which I respected. I think I had some imagination as to what he was suggesting but I know I and the others weren't ready to accept the possibility of having to reject our own packs just yet. Even though I know by this point I probably wasn't very welcome by my family.

It was hard to focus in class, even Vince was having trouble and he loved learning because he liked to know things, but this whole change business had completely consumed our lives at the moment. Vince and I were taking it the hardest for sure.

Claire was a back thought in my mind, I almost forgot everything that was going on with her but she made sure to remind me as her attitude became more sour towards me as the days went on. She had tried many more times to get a reaction out of me but I was done with it. However, I knew she wasn't done yet, she was determined that was for sure. Life had quickly become a waiting game now.

Later that day after classes had ended us girls had decided to take a stroll so we could just have some normal girly fun. The boys agreed saying they could do with some 'lad' time too. But they made sure to let us know they would gate crash us later. It was becoming more common for us to spend all our time together. I know now that our group had grown to six people that people had much more to say on it, especially because we practically did everything together. People didn't like what they didn't know and they certainly didn't know our group.

The girls and I gossiped about little things, each of us updating the others on our lives and our boys. Darla revealed that Vince had finally asked her on a date which I was so excited about. They were finally moving in the right direction. 

Hannah had said that her and her guy, which she revealed was called Zach, we're talking about their futures together, and allowing their wolves to bond like Aiden and I did. That is crucial towards building the mate bond since it stems from the wolves instincts and nature itself. She promised again that she would introduce us all soon when things calmed down with the change again.

The change had recently vamped up again but this time more in our human forms. Hannah was developing her confidence in herself as a person more now, Claire's biting words through their childhood slowly being forgotten. Although I think her new boy had something to do with that too. I often forgot Hannah is technically Claire's beta which is something neither of them really wanted. Even though she wouldn't admit it she had started to recognise Bryan as being a stronger beta than her and often followed some of his cues and directions without even realising, his natural ability to get people to do as pleased becoming more prominent.

Darla had become more aggressive and driven, not that she wasn't already, as she had gotten closer to Vince picking up on some of his personality traits and vice versa. Her drive to teach and train had increased, she and Vince spent most of their time when not with the group either training, which I think he was starting to love, or reading in the library together. I would be surprised if they weren't mates at the rate they were going.

Vince had grown more confident in himself. He was more sure of the things he said and did and he had stopped being nervous to propose ideas to the group, like with his theories over our wolf's etc. and he wasn't as nervous when he didn't know the answers, I know it frustrated him but he wasn't worried about any lash back in the group. Something I don't think he has had much of before.