Just a Number

Chapter Seven - The Trance

Chapter Seven - The Trance

"Miss! Stop this nonsense!" The teacher had rushed to my side, obviously worried.

I clamped my mouth closed. I think I started convulsing in fear. My lungs were desperately sucking in air, but my throat had closed off. Hot tears were streaming from my eyes, most likely ruining my eye makeup. But I really didn't care. I couldn't stop staring at what was happening before me. I was so terrified, my legs began buckling and I was falling.

The teacher quickly latched onto my arm. He was the only reason I was not hugging the floor. I was going to faint. I was going to faint. I was going to...

But suddenly the blockage in my throat cleared and I could breathe again. The teacher was throwing a purple-ish looking dust in my face. What the...?

I slipped out of the teacher's grip and fell to the floor in a heap.

"Miss, are you alright?" He bent down next to me. I couldn't speak. It was silent except for the cracking sounds coming from across the room. Were Graydon's bones breaking?

Then, one of the other boys finally said something. "Mr. Delaney, she doesn't know anything about... us. She thinks she's human," he rushed.

The teacher eyed the boy suspiciously. From my frozen state on the floor, I saw the teacher's eyes widen in recognition before he closed his eyes and mumbled something, touching his forehead with two fingers in the process. He stood up, obviously not pleased.

"Why didn't you tell me before?!"

"Graydon was trying to," the same boy responded, motioning to the fully transformed wolf whining on the floor. "It was all bad timing and you weren't listening. Did you not feel it?"

Feel what? Explain what? Oh, this? I glanced at the wolf where Graydon was only standing a couple of seconds before. Yea, this needed a hell of a lot of explaining. I looked away because if I stared too long, it might start to look real. And there was no way anything that was happening right now was real.

"I didn't feel anything. I still don't feel it," Mr. Delaney said. He looked extremely alarmed.

"Feel... what..." I gasped as I curled myself into a fetal position. A tingly feeling was taking over and my heart was pounding more than usual. What. Was. Happening.

"Its a signal all of us in the pack feel when there's danger or an emergency. A chemical imbalance, if you will." The same boy replied. He just looked at me. Then, out of nowhere, his face went slack and all the sudden it was like he was looking straight into me. His eyes glossed over and turned completely black.

My heart was jumping out of my chest and all of the tingly feelings were traveling down to my core. I couldn't think rationally anymore. I was heating up, in a good way. All I knew is that I really wanted to mate with this boy right now. Wait a second... mate?

I furiously blinked several times and snapped out of it, looking across the room. Every single one of them had full black eyes and I could practically feel the heat coming from them blasting my face. I was continuously fighting between throwing myself at them and fleeing in fear.

I looked at the teacher, but he looked completely normal. I risked a quick glance at the wolf that was supposedly Graydon and his eyes weren't completely black, but now glowing red. He was growling menacingly at nothing in particular.

"Boys..." the teacher asked cautiously. "What's going on here?"

Their attention didn't stray from me. "She is mine," they all said in unison.

Well... that's sorta creepy. And attractive. What?

I licked my lips in anticipation. I was trying to muster all of my courage, just to be able to speak. "I can't be all of yours," I fake-chuckled. "In fact, I'm none of yours. No one owns me, especially none of you." Phew! There. Got that out without stuttering! Yay, E-May!