THORNS POV
"Thorn, honey, it's time to get up; you start school today" Aunt Ella yells from downstairs.
"I am not going to school today." I groan into my pillow but is comes out muffled and I don't think Aunt Ella heard. I don't exactly like school, plus my bed is very comfy right now so I am definitely not getting up.
"Thorn James Graveling! If you don't get down here in the next ten seconds I will personally come up there and wake you up with a nice cold bucket of water" Aunt Ella yells at me again. She is clearly out of her mind if she thinks that I will fall for that again. I go back to sleep thinking nothing of it.
. . .
"Ahhh! Bloody Hell, Aunt Ella! What was that for?!" I yell from my room as I am awoken by ice cold water being dumped on me. I can hear Aunt Ella running down the stairs.
"Thorn, I am leaving for the office. You will have to take the bus today, and it leaves I twenty minutes. Don't even think about skipping school. Love you. Have a nice day" Aunt Ella yells before I hear the front door slam. About a minute later I hear the car drive away.
Well I might as well go to school; I mean; I am definitely awake by now. I make my way to the bathroom to straighten my hair and do my eyeliner. I decide to wear my new skinny jeans, which are black of course, a panic at the disco band tee, and my black high top chucks. To top it all off I wear my famous leather jacket.
"Ugh! I really don't want to go to school today," I mumble to myself as a walk out the door... but Aunt Ella will literally kill me if I don't. I skip breakfast like normal and head to the bus stop.
The bus pulls up and I hesitantly get on. As I make it to the top step the bus driver stops me. She looks kind of like a biker grandma with her silver hair in a long braid and a leather jacket. She looks me up and down a few times and then asks "You new? You look new, so I'm guessing that you are new. My name is Jannet but you can call me Jan. Goodness knows it's what everyone else calls me. By the way, what is your name?" When she is done with her spiel I just shrug my shoulders and walk to the back of the bus.
Some kid trips me as I walk past him, and all of my stuff falls from my bag. Ugh. . . I just want to get today over with.
Once the bus gets to school I make my way to the front entrance. I notice that a lot of people are staring at me, I expected to attract attention but they don't need to make it obvious. One of them snickers as I walk past them. "Freak" I hear someone sneer at me. Maybe it because I'm fat and really ugly. I will just skip lunch today.
I eventually find my way to the main office. When I get inside a lady with died red hair, cheap makeup, and a bright pink suit. She looks absolutely ridiculous. I ask her for my schedule and she hands it to me along with a map of the school. "Have a nice day" she says I a way to cheery voice for my liking.
I walk out of the office and find my locker within five minutes. I put my stuff in my locker and I look around the hallway. People are shuffling to their classes so I should probably do the same. Now where is room L5?
I turn the corner only to run right into a wall, that happens to be a person. Who is really tall, has a broad muscular build, and is extremely cute. "Watch it Freak! Are you blind, or are you just plain stupid?" he yells at me.
I simply respond with an eye roll and try to walk past him.
Big mistake.
He shoves me into the lockers and laughs when I wince from the impact. "Have a nice day Freak" he sneers and punches me a few times in the gut before walking away, letting me drop to the ground. The warning bell rings and I still haven't found my class.
By the time I find my class, I am five minutes late. As I walk in I can't help but to feel self-couscous about how I look. It doesn't help that everyone is staring at me. "Look I know that I am new and all, but come on, do you really have to stare at me like I am an alien" I snap at everyone.
The teacher clears her throat and sternly says "You must be Mr. Graveling. I am Ms. Rose, I am your homeroom teacher and I will also be the one who is responsible for making sure you are all caught up in your class work."
I simply shrug my shoulders and look around the classroom. There must be something in the water because everyone in my class is extremely good looking, even the girls. That says a lot coming from a guy who only interested in the male population of the world.
"Mr. Graveling you will sit next to Damien. Damien please raise your hand" Ms. Rose says before starting to write something on the wipe board.
The guy who raised his hand is so unbelievably good-looking that I think that I might be dreaming. He has black hair that is trimmed into a very nice haircut, piercing blue eyes that are the same color as the blue streaks in my hair. I could literally stair in them all day long. By the looks of it he is built but not in the noticeable way, and his nose is crooked, probably from being broken one to many times. He is literally the guy of my dreams come to life. I silently pray for him to be gay, and not a total duchebag.
He must have notice that I was staring at him because as I sit down he smirks at me and asks "Do you like what you see." This makes me blush so hard that my cheeks feel hot. I could listen to his voice forever. He must have noticed that I was blushing because he chuckles and whispers under his breath "Don't worry you are pretty good looking too", making me blush even harder if that is possible.
"Leave the pore boy alone, will you it's his first day here" Ms. Rose scolds Damien when she notices what is happening in the back of the classroom.
That makes everyone turn around and stare at me even more. This makes my anxiety even worse. I start to black out and just before I am surrounded by total darkness I hear what sounds like Damien growling at others "Don't touch him, he is MINE!"
. . .
I can still hear everything that is going on around me but I can't respond to it. I am being picked up by someone and I know that this should freak me out but I just want to be held in their arms forever.
"Damien put him down. We don't know what is happening to him. Damien please" I hear Ms. Rose timidly tell Damien.
"Don't tell me what to do with him! If you had been paying any attention to him you would have noticed that he fainted, after his heartrate skyrocketed! This is all your fault. If only you hadn't turned around and stared at him" Damien growls at whomever is standing by.
"Yes Alpha Damien", "Sorry Alpha Damien", "It won't happen again Alpha Damien" is all I hear as I am carried away to god only knows where.
Who are they calling Alpha Damien? Aren't alphas a wolf thing? How did Damien know that my heartrate skyrocketed? What hell is going on?
What if they are going to hurt me like my father did? No I can't go through that again. No please, oh god please don't let them hurt me like my father did. I won't be able to handle it this time.
I am put down on a soft surface and I hear a lady talking to Damien in a hushed voice in the background. All I can focus on is the fact that someone is tenderly stroking my hand an occasionally kissing it. It feels nice. I slowly start to drift off thinking about how it would feel to kiss Damien, and how I want to finally be able to find a safe place in this world.
Pic at the top is Thorn
