The Hidden Maiden

Chapter 2 - The girl in the shadows

Victoria's POV
The three of us were on our way to the School of Lykánthropos, which is an All-were school by the way. The three of us are 19 years old, going 20 this year soon. Next year August we would be graduating from here. Yeah werewolf academy works a little different, as we only graduate at 21 years old. 'Teenage Dream by Katy Perry' was playing on the radio and we were jamming to it wholeheartedly. After the song was over, we were soaking in the warmth of the sun and our own comfortable silence.

A moment later, Megan spoke up. "You guys heard about it right? The Alpha Prince's birthday is coming next week,"
"Yeah I've heard. I think this is his upcoming 21st birthday party. Such a nuisance that we have to participate." Heather said uninterestedly.

Well the 'Alpha Prince' in question here is actually the next in line to the Alpha King. The Lewis Cedric Rowan. Our community consists of a large number of different packs and basically the Royal Pack oversees the rest of the packs here in England. Which means that the Alpha King is the Alpha of the Alphas. The current one in power is Alpha King Ivan Rowan. Telltales about him were never positive. The only stories circulating are the ones that talked about how cruel, manipulative, horrifying and formidable he is. Honestly, I've only seen him twice from a distance and I'm already hoping I wouldn't meet him again.

Rumour has it that the 'Royal family' organised these extravagant birthday parties, after Lewis Rowan turned 18, was in fact as a way to increase the chances of him finding his mate.
Werewolves can only start sensing their mates after turning 18 years old. Since he is oh so important, the parties are basically presenting him with a pool of she-wolfs to pick from, so as to speak. But almost every she-wolf would happily get down on their knees and beg him to take them as his.

Sadly after 3 years of searching there still wasn't any news of him finding his Luna-to-be. Oh well tough luck I supposed. It's never been easy to find your predestined mate. In fact, many of the werewolves have found someone other than their real mate because it's really difficult to chance upon your mate. Some never found theirs, some only did in their mids. So it comes as no surprise I guess.

Maybe his mate is in another continent, miles away from here or perhaps she's not even 18 yet. You see both wolves have to reach 18 before one can find the other.

The bad thing was agreeable or not, all unmated she-wolfs must attend the goddamn party. I scoffed at that. Last year when we were 18 we all had to attend it at the Royal Pack itself. Lewis's younger brother Chace Rowan had also celebrated his 18th birthday here last year, which we also went. But thanks to the free flow booze, I can safely say the boring night didn't turned out too bad in the end.

My thoughts seized just as Megan's car came to a halt outside the school gates. We hopped out and scrolled in, pushing through the ever growing crowd inside the school. Finally we reached our lockers and hastily grabbed whatever materials we needed for our classes and shoved in the unnecessary ones.
"Later then!" I shouted to Megan and Heather before rushing to my first period - Principles of Mates. I know it's weird studying these kind of subjects but it has to be done.

I barely sat down and the next moment I was tackled to the ground. I gasped out loudly and snapped my head back to find out who the hell was my attacker.
"HAHAHA Caught you off guard now aye?" He said, giving a belly laugh. And he didn't stopped. He continued to tickle me.

"Seriously Keith..? It's like 8:30am in the morning!" I rolled my eyes, annoyed at him.
"Hey hey calm down chica the only one is to be blamed is yourself for not being alert." He smirked.

"Yeah yeah thanks for nothing." I got up when he offered me a hand and I rubbed my sore ass absentmindedly. He laughed at that and I gave him the 'Ha ha very funny' look and smacked his arms. Still I couldn't resist laughing a little at his silliness.