The Alpha's Daughter

Twenty Five | Pressure

Nova

Walking out of my closet with clean clothes I check the clock to see it's 6:11. I walk into the bathroom to get cleaned up dreading the day ahead of me. This whole plan is really putting a damper on my mental state lately. It's really hard to keep up with and to keep pretending knowing all that I do.

After walking out of the bathroom dressed in my work out clothes I turn my phone on silent and slide it into my waste band. Walking out of my room I shut my door and wait for my lock to switch over that I had installed once I got home. I now have to put in a password in order to get into my room. Only my dad, Noah, and myself know it.

When I got into the kitchen I reach the fridge and pull it open to see what I want. I decide on my favorite of all time breakfast drink, cranberry juice. For food I decide on something quick and just grab a banana. I turn around and sit at the island while enjoying the quiet. I look down at my watch and see it's not 6:35. Time to get moving I guess..

I get up, throw my trash away then rinse my cup out and put it in the dishwasher. I don't like leaving a mess for the Omega's so I try to help them the best I can. Leaving out the front door I look across the territory to the tree's. I love waking up this early for training and seeing the sunrise peaking through the trees. It's so beautiful. My train of thought is broken by a movement beside me. I look over to see Tanner smiling at me. Time to play pretend.. again..

"Good morning." He says while standing up and walking over to me.
"Morning." I reply hugging him as he opens his arms to me.
"What's wrong? You seem off." He states pulling away to look at me.
"I'm just tired. I think my monthly is going to start soon." I answer while looking down.

Really Nova? Your monthly? That's the best excuse you can come up with?

"Ahh I see. Do you wanna take the training day off? We can go do something?" He asks excitedly.

Ughhh

"No it's okay. I think training will wake me up and get me feeling right." I say back then lean over and kiss him on the cheek.

We make our way to the training grounds hand and hand and talking about what kind of training we wanted to do today. We decided on a couple of laps around the training grounds, then stretches, and lastly working out in the gym. I need to improve my muscle mass more than what it is. I want to start pushing myself to my limits again.

Reaching the training grounds we all wait for Landon to tell us to start once he's given the teens their tasks. When we got the go ahead Tanner and I share a smile and take off running. We ran 5 laps with each other trying to out run each other. Me being quicker obviously won. He called me a cheater which caused me to genuinely laugh which only irritated me on the in side. I hate this..

We started stretching and loosening our muscles before he headed into the gym. He decided to work out on the bench press while I decided to work on my legs on the leg curler. While working out I look over to see Tanner deep into a workout. All I can think about is how he would be such a great guy if he wasn't working with the enemy, but then again pretending comes easy to him too. Maybe that's all he's doing is pretending. Either way it sucks. I really would have liked him if he wasn't such a traitor.

We worked out on all the machines for 3 hours until my legs were sore and his arms couldn't move anymore.

"We really pushed the limits today, huh?" He chuckles out.
"Yeah we did. My legs are so sore that I can barely move them. I think I'm going to go soak in a hot bath for an hour." I laugh out causing him to laugh as well.

We clean up our sweat off the machines then both grab a bottle of water out of the gym's fridge then make our way back to the pack house. Walking home he had his arm around my waist securing me to him. In another situation I would be disgusted with the act, but right now I didn't mind considering how my legs were feeling. I felt like they were going to give out any second.