I'm flipping through my pack history book when Lillian comes rushing in. "I am so sorry, I totally forgot to come get you."
She looks horrified and I look up at the clock, it's 5:45.
Probably no time for breakfast. I grab all my things and shove them quickly into my bag following her down the hall to the main stairs. "I only realized you weren't there when Wyatt asked if I had seen you so he could get you to school."
"It's okay, I was up, I should have paid more attention. I was just trying to get ahead on the reading so I could understand what was going on. This is not your fault. I didn't hear a wake-up call at all." I hug her and she apologizes again before jumping down the last few stairs and running off to join training.
Wyatt catches up to me in the foyer. "You probably didn't get one," he says. "Audrina's group is usually first in and first out, and she was saying something about certain people not being able to handle being here. She is making a point of separating you from the rest of the floor mates."
"Perfect. Well, let's get this show on the road, tour guide. Am I late to school? My schedule didn't have times on it." "Really? It should have. Well, that doesn't shock me. Your floor leader was responsible for getting you everything you needed for today." He rolls his eyes and leads me out the door to some kind of two-person four-wheeler I've never seen before, but really want to learn how to drive.
"And if she screwed with my daily schedule, I'm screwed. Who can I go to to confirm that it's right? I'll double-check with the office at school, that will be easy enough to do, but if she sets my training schedule, she's going to mess with me until I get kicked out, isn't she?"
"Maybe. I've never had a problem with her, so this is all new to me. I can't understand acting this childish over a new recruit." He shrugs and steps on the gas, and I almost fly off the four-wheeler. I laugh all the way to the school building, Audrina forgotten for now. We pulled up to a building about ten minutes later. I use the word "building" loosely. Like every other structure I've seen in the Royal Pack, this building is old and weathered, but impeccably well kept.
"This is the high school?" I can't help the squeak in my voice. "Yes... correction, this is the high school for the ranked members of the King and the Elders and their families."
"Ugh, seriously? I know Sierra is amazing, but are the rest of them stuck-up elitists? I had enough of that in my own pack and all ranks went to school together, so it really sucked."
"Aren't you a Beta? I'm sure everything was just fine for you being the second's kid." He snaps back at me a little. "Yeah, I am the Beta's second child and his daughter, but no, it wasn't all that great. Being the spare Beta and a female made me no better than an Omega to some people in my pack. I turned around and walked to the door. I need to walk away from this conversation, now, before I say something I will regret to a person who has actually been kind to me."
"Wait up, Midge. I didn't mean to piss you off. I just meant that as Beta kids we don't really have it all that rough, you know. 'You may not have, as the firstborn male, like my brother, but it was not the same experience for me. Maybe someday I will tell you about it, but right now I need to figure out what I am doing here and how badly Audrina messed with me, so I need my head on straight, okay?" He just nods at me and we walk into the building.
