Out Running the Alpha

This is How a Heart Breaks

"I can't believe it's your first day of school," Pierre said happily from where he was making french toast. Pierre had gone into what I liked to refer to as full dad mode since I had been back. He'd even wanted to go back to school shopping with Olivia, Ada and I, but had been talked out of it with the promise of a picture before the first day of school. I'd let Olivia talk me into wearing a cute red tartan mini skirt with a plain black top, leather jacket and simple black heels. I felt a little ridiculous, but Olivia had assured me I would fit right in.

Greyson walked in smiling widely "Are you excited for your first day of school?".

"No, and it's not fair that I can't have you with me" I pouted.

"I already finished high school. Besides, you'll be fine" Grayson laughed at me. He was starting his third year at the University of Virginia while I was stuck finishing up my senior year of high school. I'd later found out that the age gap between us was the main reason he hadn't consummated the bond with me despite how close we had come several times. He was determined to wait until I was eighteen and it was driving both of us a little crazy. I wondered how the separation we would face in a couple of weeks when Grayson went back to school would affect our bond. He was only going to be an hour away and we would see each other on weekends, but since he'd marked me we hadn't spent more than a couple hours apart.

"Ok before you kids go let me get a picture," My dad said hastily pulling out his phone. I rolled my eyes but smiled for the picture. Once my dad was satisfied with one of the ten pictures he had taken Grayson grabbed my backpack from the table and we left for school.

By the time we got there Ava, Olivia, Beau, and a couple of others who I recognized but couldn't put names too. I kissed Grayson goodbye and they all hooted and laughed. Several other students walking in looked at us quizzically. I blushed ducking my head as I joined the group.

"You two are way too cute" Olivia laughed putting an arm around me "But you need to tell Greyson to stop keeping you all to himself or I'm going to have to whoop his ass".

"Don't worry Liv he's going back to school next week so I'll be all yours" I laughed and she kissed me on the cheek with an exaggerated muah sound.

As we walked into the school Liv reintroduced me to Louis Ava's mate, Gabrielle her cousin, and Beau and Adrian who were going to be Greyson's Beta and Delta when the time came for him to take over the pack. I couldn't help, but notice the number of strange looks we were getting.

"Why is everyone staring at us?" I whispered to Olivia nervously.

"Oh don't worry about them" She laughed "They're just humans. They can tell we're different, but they can't exactly figure out why. Plus we don't exactly take in newcomers normally" she explained. I nodded realizing that this might have been why it had been so hard for Bran and me to fit in anywhere.

Besides the humans that seemed to keep a distance from us school seemed pretty normal. I'd been the new kid enough to know the drill and everything was going smoothly. I realized how school seemed a lot more fun when I actually had friends to enjoy it with. Sure Bran was had been great, but he was still my brother and we could really get on each other's nerves. I scolded myself for thinking about Brandon since I had promised myself that I wouldn't today. I knew he still wanted to kill me and if I thought about it for too long then I would start crying and I promised myself I wouldn't cry.

I looked around at our group noticing that Danielle wasn't anywhere with us. Sure the girl had acted like a royal bitch the last time I had seen her, but that felt like a lifetime ago now and I wouldn't ostracize her. "Hey, Olivia where's Danielle?" I asked softly not wanting to interrupt the stream of conversation flowing around us.