Virals Pack: Reborn

Chapter 12: New Friend

A/N: Hi everybody! I'm super excited to get his out so early, and am super grateful for the support I've gotten after posting the last few parts. This is a bit shorter and pretty much filler stuff, but it's important to the story as a whole, and I think you'll like it. I probably won't be able to start another chapter though until sometime next week, so you'll have to wait a bit for the next update. By the way, great job at guessing who found Katrina, we shall see who is right. *evil chuckles* Enjoy!

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"Hey...are you okay?"

Oh no... I thought Did they follow me here? 

I turn around and am shocked to see Tory crouching next to me with concern in her eyes. Sniffling, I quickly wiped the tears away the best I could. "Y-yeah, I'm fine"

Tory inched closer warily, a knowing look on her face. "Not used to all the Mean Girls here, eh?"

I chuckled mirthlessly "You said it, why do they hate us so much?"

"Because we're different. For one, we are poor", she said the last word with a mock horrified voice which made me smile a little, "And also since we are from families that spend their lives researching science and whatnot, so we tend to be smarties, which just adds another barrier between us and them." 

"Are all of them like this?" I asked, I couldn't stand having everyone, the pack and the snobs, hate me. Although, Tory was seemed to be a bit nicer now, but there's no telling how long that will last.

"No, there are some nicer ones, don't worry" 

"Good, cause I'm not going to last long if everyone here hates me" I said, voicing my worries aloud.

"Everyone?" Tory asked incredulously, arching an eyebrow at me.

"Yeah" I said,  still distrustful of her sudden niceness "Last I checked, most of your pack doesn't like me either"

"Well, to be fair, you did surprise us quite a bit. We successfully hid our...abilities...from so many, and then you just show up and manage to find us right away"

"Oh, well, sorry about that. But technically, you ran into me" 

Tory nodded "Hmm, true...okay, so we may be all at fault somewhat for how things went. But fact is, Morris Island kids stick together, we're pretty much all we've got out there. And I could honestly use a double-X chromosome friend on the island."

"But what about the others?" I asked, remembering the way Ben acted towards me before.

"We had a discussion between the four of us, and Hi put in a pretty good word for you" She added with a pointed glance at me. "So you can hang with us for a while, and as long as you don't cause any problems, you're in"

"Okay..." I certainly had no plans to cause problems. 

"If you don't mind my asking" Tory continued "How did you find the library? It's in a pretty secluded spot, and as a mater of fact, this particular corner is also pretty hard to find"

I looked around, noticing my surroundings for the first time. We were sitting in a small alcove behind bookshelves. I would've had to have squeezed in between the shelves and the wall to reach this space, and I had no recollection of doing so. It's a pretty small area too, if I stood up completely, I would have to duck, and there's only enough room for about two people to sit comfortably side-by-side. 

"I-I don't know" I stuttered, uncertain "I just needed to get away from them and...I found myself drawn here." It was true, thinking back to my flight, all I knew was that I wanted to be safe, and my feet pretty much ran themselves here. Must have been another instinct-based thing...

"Hmm, interesting" Tory said, then looked at me and asked "Well, are you okay now?" 

"Yeah, I'm fine..." I was starting to feel better, I could breathe easier and wasn't about to burst into tears anymore. I hated the fact that she saw me in the middle of a panic attack again, though.

"Good, cause the bell's going to ring in a little bit and you should eat your food" She paused and eyed me up "You have a lunch, right?" 

I completely forgot "Oh, um, yeah" time to bluff my way out of this "I, um, wasn't really hungry though, so I didn't grab it" 

"Great, then may I have it? I forgot to bring my lunch and I'm starving"

Crap "Well, um, you see...I left it in my locker. Sorry."

"Hmm" Was all she replied with at first, and I could tell she wasn't remotely convinced. "Well then I guess I'd better go mooch from Ella. See you around, Katrina" 

"Okay" I said, relieved she didn't continue to question me "see you 'round" 

With that, she got up and left. Leaving me to ponder exactly what had happened, yet again. 

The kids here don't like me. Except now Tory is willing to let me into her pack. The pack has powers that they have had to hide. Tory and  Hi like me, but Ben so far doesn't and Shelton isn't too sure. Tory's right though, they're all I've got, so let's hope we get along.