The 14 year old alpha

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This I'm happy with. The story has taken a great turn. It's about an A4 page long. Happy reading. 

“I actually want to grab your neck, and smack you against the car door right now,” I muttered as I ambled out of the car. “All I wanted to do was sleep.”

“Oh, get a goddamn grip!” Annabelle warned.  “People went to extreme levels for you to do this party and guess what: all you can do is moan, moan, moan”
“This is a rich pack, Annie. They can afford anything and anyone they want”
Annabelle dragged me out of the car and into the house. The atmosphere was buzzing, people were running around, drinking, dancing and even crawling across the floor. I picked at the wallpaper in distaste.
Annie rushes off somewhere and I hang around near the door, unwilling to socialise. I got no sleep last night, worried about the speech, worried about my hair, worried about everything.
Annie rushed back and placed a warm hamburger in my hand. 
“Eat it” She told me.
“No. I refuse”
She dragged me underneath the stairs, where it was dark and nobody could hear us. She twisted a doorknob, opened a door, and we were suddenly in a garage.
“How the - ?”
“I got around, honey. When you were gone, I got around.” She repeated, her mind somewhere else.
I looked at the ceiling, bewildered.
“Is it true all you eat is stuff like celery and stuff?” She stumbled over her words.
“Okay, for starters, stop saying stuff”
She nods dutifully.
“And, yes, it is true” I added. “All I want is water based foods. I don’t know why…” I lowered my voice, “my body doesn’t accept it”
“You need to see a doctor,” She says as she prizes the hamburger out of my hand, and takes a huge bite.
Then, unaffected by my revelation, she states “I want to be here as much as you,” She sighs, “So let’s try and rock this party and then escape”
I huff and exit the garage, her trailing behind me.

With my head down, a traipse into the main body of the party, and then bump into two hard, muscly chests. Okay, no way, bodyguards. What has this world come to?
“Hey, hey, calm down” One of the men chuckled.
“Who is that anyway?”
I lift my head. The men’s faces turn as white as their bones. “Er, we’re sorry, miss,”
“Do you know it’s a crime to be disrespectful to a person with alpha blood?”
“You don’t have alpha blood, honey. You’re a wannabe freak” The most bulky, stupid one said, after recovering his colour.
I sighed, and tried to focus on their thoughts.
When is this… girl… gonna leave the pack? Admit she’s not a wolf?
Hello? Are humans even allowed in this party?
Thinking hard about how to handle this, I launch myself into one of the men’s thoughts.
If I’m not a wolf, how come I can do this?
I lunge at the bodyguard’s throat, knocking him to the floor. I curse as I step off his unconscious body.
“This party sucks. I’m outta here” I declare, knocking the other bodyguard to the floor.

And that was the turning point in my life: should I be admired, honoured, popular, amazing, outlawed or just damn right screwed?

I raced out of the house, Annabelle following behind.
“You go get ‘em, girl. I’m by  your side whatever”
“No, seriously, Annabelle, don’t follow me. Please. I used the party as a metaphor. I’m out of this pack. I’m not a wolf. I’m not anything. I don’t know what I am, but I’m not this.”
I rushed over to Annabelle, gave her a long hug, and started on my way out of this place.
“I’m by your side whatever. I’m coming with you, durbrain”
“Anna, don’t do this.”
“I have nothing here. Without you: nothing. I’m slated and talked about. I’m stuck in a rut” She drops the cigarette I didn’t notice she was holding.
“Okay, we need to get supplies”
“What? The human world, you went there, on a field trip. Year ago. All we need is dosh, and an alibi. As soon as we’ve been in the human world for longer than two hours, we shift. Not into a human. Into something else supernatural. Anything”
“I’m there.”

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