I can’t argue with that and Kaley isn’t exactly original with her torture. So I led them down the hall. Our school has a central office that deals with all of the students, but from there the school is like a compound that branches from the main office.
Our elementary wing houses all of our younger pups from preschool to second grade. We even have a daycare that our high school students help with for the Omegas that have both parents working. Our gym and indoor pool separate the younger elementary kids from the older elementary kids. The third through sixth graders were always my favorite kids to work with on the weekends. We pass the middle school wing and the tardiness is amplified as we hear the kids and teachers in discussion.
The area between the middle school and the high school area houses all of our maintenance offices and storage. This is where I was taken most often when Kaley had her goons grab me.
“What are you looking for?” I ask Jena who is very intrigued with the wall.
“There aren’t any cameras visible here. But this is probably the most used portion of the hallway. All the lockers over there and the stairwell here, every single high school student passes this way. If I was watching for problems or really wanting to gauge literally anything going on with the high school students I would have cameras facing down both ends of the hallway, up the stairs and down the maintenance hallway. Cause we all know if kids are skipping class, it’s to get laid in a janitor’s closet.”
“Gross.” I can’t hide the look of disgust on my face.
“Meh, not really. It’s probably the cleanest place. Better than the bathroom.” Lil shrugs and my eyes pop. “What? You act like you’ve never gotten handsy with a boy. Even you aren’t that innocent.”
“Uh, no. Like I said gross and did you forget about the part where no one but the guys and Sierra talked to me before I left?”
“Honestly, I assumed you had a little fun with all of them, except your brother, the way they hang on you.”
I choke on air. The coughing fit lasts longer than it should with Lil laughing at me and Jena doing a half ass job at hiding her amusement.
“NO!” I try not to shout as I get the ability to talk back. “What the hell?! None of them look at me like that. Besides, Mateo would have killed any of them for trying even if they did look at me as something other than a little sister.”
“You, girlfriend, are blind.” Jena says.
“Huh?!” I’m so lost, but I don’t get my question answered when we are accosted by my favorite people.
“What the f*ck are you doing here? Aren’t you too good to be back at high school?” Kaley snarks. I wish I could just smack her, but old habits die hard and here at school, I find myself frozen in her presence. I just want to walk away and not bring attention to our group. But my friends have no such problems.
“Get back to whatever Diva hole you crawled out of.” Lil starts in. “We are too good to be here…as students. We’re here to make improvements, move along.” Lil twiddles her fingers down the hallway.
“You little b*tch, you don’t have any authority here.”
“That is where you are wrong.” Jena steps out of the maintenance hallway. “We all outrank you on so many levels, it’s ridiculous. We are all Elite Warriors placing us above everyone except your Alpha and Luna, for starters. If that wasn’t enough, Lillian is a Delta rank, placing her above you. A am THE Alpha of my pack, placing me above you. Skylar here is your Beta. Neither her or her brother have taken over the title so they are equal. You are a Delta’s second son’s daughter. You have Delta blood, but do not act like a leader in this pack, no one respects you which is why you bully the kids in this school. Let us do our job while we are here and like Lillian said, move along.”
“None of you will get away with treating your future Luna this way! You will all pay. I will have you thrown out of here tomorrow. Just wait until my dad hears about this.”
For some reason the idea that she thinks she can kick me and my friends, who are helping in the fight against the rogues, out of the pack just because she doesn’t like us is what sets me off.
“Kaley, go fucking tell your dad whatever story you can come up with. It will be a long walk home for you. Like Jena said, you have no authority here, you never have. Go b* tch to someone else. We have work to do.” I mimic Lil’s hand gesture and twiddle my fingers down the hallway.
Kaley growls and stomps away pushing people as she goes and I notice that Marnie and Jeanie are with her, but not at her heels like they used to be.
“Please tell me when we can just beat her ass. I really think that’s what she needs. Clearly she’s never had an ounce of discipline in her life.” Lil growls at her retreating back.
“Actually the bigger pain would be to make her an Omega. Someone who works all day out in the dirt or slaving over the little kids or something equally gross.” I say and they both laugh. “What? I’m not kidding.”
“You are way too nice. She needs to be a rogue and live without a pack. No money, no friends, no one to help her out. Like you did inside this pack for years.” Jena says, still inspecting the wall. “Got it!”
“Got what?” Lil and I both move closer.
“I knew there was no way someone wasn’t checking this hallway. But this isn’t your typical CCTV school security camera. This is something that Nathaniel would design and put in for us on big ops.”
“What the hell is it doing here?” I ask. “And how long has it been here?”
“That is the million dollar question. We need to get back to our office and I need a laptop.” Jena smiles. It is not the kind of smile that lets me know we are doing something fun. It lets me know she’s on the hunt. Someone is about to have their ass handed to them.
“Are you going to take it with us?”
“No. I don’t know if it has sound yet, but if it doesn’t, I don’t want the owner to know we found it. Plus, if it stays live, I will be able to track the signal better. We need to get in contact with Nathaniel and Wyatt.”
“But Wyatt is hurt and we don’t even know how badly.” | don’t want him to worry while he’s trying to recover.
“Stop!” Jena puts her finger in my face the way I’ve seen Luna Ava do with the guys. “I can see where your head went. You know they both would be pissed to find out you needed them after it was too late to help. They are warriors, like us. They don’t want to be put in a corner because they have been in a battle any more than you like to be pigeonholed into the weak little girl category by your friends.”
