The Alpha's Favour

I

They told me not to think about him too much. But how can I do that when he's all I see?

I think about the slight scattering of freckles on his nutmeg skin. I think about the deep coils in his hair and his long fingers, I think about his name - Roman.

A name which I always thought was fit for a guy like him.

But most of all, I think about his eyes and their peculiar shade of grey. I had never seen eyes that shade before I met him.

For some reason, they remind me of the moon. Especially when he stood in different lights. I'd like to think his eyes also reflected his moods, his emotions, his feelings...

Did you know that when an eclipse happens, there are two shadows cast? The first is called the umbra and it gets smaller as it goes away from the sun. The second shadow is called the penumbra and it gets larger as it goes away from the sun.

I used to think Roman was as beautiful as the moon. But I never looked at him during an eclipse. I forgot that you needed the light to see the shadows.

"Wakey wakey Crystal, dear, it's a beautiful day." I heard an all too familiar voice yell, next thing I knew I felt someone jump on my bed, causing a depression to form right beside where I lay.

"Arg! Go away Kat!" I groaned as I turned over and threw a pillow over my head.

Kat started bouncing up and down, provoking the already overused springs in my mattress.

"No can do. Mum told me to make sure you wake up for school."

Of course she did.

I lifted my pillow and looked up at Kat. "Could you just tell her I'm sick?" I gave her my best puppy dog eyes.

"Nope, you're going to school. Now, get up." Kat tugged on my hand and pulled me into a sitting position.

She jumped off my bed and walked over to draw back the floral turquoise curtains. I could just picture her scowling at them. I picked them out at a thrift store a few months ago and Kat had hated them at first sight. But since we had an agreement that she would get to pick out the colour on our bedroom wall - a dark blue that I wasn't too fond of either - she couldn't complain.

The sun's rays filled in the room causing a warm glow. I smiled. It was rarely ever warm in Woodfell but when it was, I found it hard to be in a bad mood.

Except today.

"Come on Cryss, the first day of school always sucks but we'll endure, we always do." Kat had already moved over to our closet and had started digging through no doubt searching for an outfit for me to wear.

She was already all dressed up in nothing else but her favourite colour of course, black.

Black jeans, a black halter top and a black leather jacket paired with black and white converse. It's days like this that I'm grateful her hair isn't dark like mine. Instead her long curls hold some golden blonde highlights.

"Easy for you to say, you're not on the pack's 'most hated' list." I told her as I let out a yawn and stretched my arms.