Moving On From My Mate

Chapter 3

I sigh, frustrated. I lift my head up from the desk and look at the paper again before giving up. "I don't understand! Please, please help me!" I cried out frustrated. My tutor have me a disapproving look. "You didn't even give yourself a full minute to try the problem out" my tutor, Adam, said. Adam was a total cliche nerd. He had the glasses the grades and personality of a nerd. He was one of the only person other than Ryder that I would trust to tell my life story to, except for the werewolves part obviously. "You'll never understand this if you don't try to solve it!" Adam said frustrated yet he didn't give me an unwelcome feeling that I usually get when someone's frustrated. I sigh and nod. I look down at the math problem. Math was always my weakest subject yet almost everyone from my family was great at math. Soon afterwards the numbers didn't seem like a jumbled mess once I tried to think of every note I took on this unit. I handed the paper over to Adam. He grinned up at me after a few minutes. "You did great! You made a lot of progress since the beginning when I tutored you" he said happily. I had gotten a tutor a month after I joined the school. It's been about two months since I joined. Yesterday was also the day that Ryder found out I uh dance for money. I still think that maybe it was a dream and they hadn't seen me on stage, but the looks Ryder and Daniel have given me so far in the hallways shows that it wasn't all made up in my head. "Thanks, I better get going. Our study hall class I'd going to end any minute now" I pointed out. He nodded and began to pack up his things. Just then I see a redhead come skipping up to us. I chuckled at her as she threw her arms around Adam. "Hey Elise" I waved my hand. "Hey Audrey! I was wondering if you wanted to go hang out sometime. We never really talk except for when I come here at the end of your study hall class and then Adam is here so then we can't talk girly and-" she rambled until Adam leaned down and kissed her. Her eyes were wide as she stared at me, then she closed them and relaxed into the kiss. I shook my head at the couple, you could mistake them as mates but they aren't werewolves. I wonder if I was human if I would have someone that werewolves would mistake as my mate because we were so perfect with each other... "Audrey I'm gonna take my top off!" Elise yelled. I snapped my head to look at her. "Don't look at me like I'm crazy! You didn't respond when we called your name so I decided to say that I would take my top off. And the bell rang already so we need to hurry to get to class. And you still have to pack up and-" Elise rambled, again. "Elise I think we should leave now, she was obviously deep in thought and probably wants alone time now, right?" Adam said to Elise but looked at me for an answer when he said 'right?'. I did want to be alone, sometimes I feel like he can read my mind... I nodded and smiled at them apologetically. "Alright, see you later Audrey? I'll text you the details about our girl date" Elise said as she left. I smiled at her 'girl date' she had a fun personality about her. Walking to my next class, English, I think about how my dance class was yesterday. It seemed inappropriate when I look back at the dance, I mean I did it with a principle and teacher! But technically we did nothing wrong. Anything like kissing, grinding, or touching in a sexual way. I mean it was dancing a tango! And we just did the tango that was already choreographed by someone else, it's not like we purposely had the choreography set it up to seem inappropriate. Plus I did a dance with my dance teacher and we didn't kiss of anything so it's not inappropriate. So I shouldn't feel queasy about the dance or how they look at me. It's not like I have or they have feelings that weren't student/teacher or principle/student. There is no reason to feel queasy. Ok if I repeat that in my head I should believe it after an hour or two...

I finally have lunch, and I can't wait to eat. I was starving since I had no breakfast. I grabbed a tray and grabbed an apple and a chicken patty. I paid for the lunch and then sat on a table that was in the far back of the cafeteria and had no one sitting there. It's a really big cafeteria and looks expensive but for some reason they don't fix the light above my table. The light flickers on and off. Today the light is off. Siting in the back in the dark where no one is near me and can't really see me because of the wall that acts like a divider to all the other tables. This table is so excluded that I wonder if this table was like the bad table, the one that no one goes to sit at because it either smells bad or they feel like is creepy. It does seem creepy.... Maybe the principle liked this table and that's why it's still in the cafeteria? I sigh as I think back to the past, no one had let me sit with them, I was outcasted and was even outcasted by the outcasts! I always sat alone in lunch, just like I am now. As I throw my garbage away I notice a different smell coming from outside the school. It was a werewolf. I ran as fast as I could in human speed and pushed the doors open. I faintly heard someone but I didn't care, I needed to know of this wolf was from my old pack. I then ran across the football field to the woods. I looked at the wolf and noticed it was a different wolf but from my old pack. Running werewolf speed into the forest and shifting as I tackled the wolf down. The wolf looked frightened as I bit it's neck, if I pulled my head back he would die. The wolf laid down on the dirty ground making its light brown coat cake with mud. I let go of the wolf expecting it to shift. When the wolf didn't shift I growled menacingly and stalked towards it. The wolf quickly shifted.