At lunchtime, I was walking towards the cafeteria with glee because I haven’t been able to see Joey throughout the day because he had failed a test and had been getting to his classes early to study before the last block.
I flinched when I felt someone wrap their arm around my shoulder in a buddy kind of way and from no tingles, I realized that it was definitely not my mate but some dude that reeked of Axe cologne. I looked up and noticed that there were four guys walking next to me along with the guy who had thought we were friends with his arm wrapped around me.
I tried to push him off, but he wouldn’t budge as he pushed me out of the direction of the cafeteria. I tried to push him away again, but my hands were forced down by one of the other guys and a hand went around my mouth to stop me from screaming. They pulled me into a bathroom that’s usually pretty empty, which meant that no one would probably come to save me anytime soon.
Why’re you doing this ? I asked when they shoved me onto the floor to stare up at their ugly smirks. As they looked down at me, I finally got a good look at their faces and realized that I knew who these guys were. One of them was one of the guys that was in the fight that Joey and Cody had to break up in the pack about a week ago. Which meant they wanted one thing revenge.
Joey had told me that they were ordered to help out at the pack hospital for a few weeks as their consequences for starting a fight in the courtyard. I guess they weren’t too happy for acting out like this, especially hurting an alpha.
He took a step towards me, which made me coward in on myself as fear ran through my whole body. He chuckled with an evil grin on his face as he kept moving towards me until he was in my face. I don’t really like this new boy that the Alpha has chosen to bring into to help run the pack. He seems like a bit of a coward.
But this was my pack, the pack I was helping run, which meant I had to take ownership for Joey and me when he’s not here to speak for both of us. If you don’t like it, then you’re more than welcome to leave.
He laughs loudly along with the guys behind him. He set his hands next to my head so he leaned over me, making me trapped in a very small box without any way to get away. I was here before you, faggot. You don’t get to tell me what I can or can’t do.
My body shakes as I just want to get out of this room and run to my mate who would always protect me, no matter the costs. All of a sudden, the guy grabs my side and throws me to his side, which makes my head bang against the wall with a loud smack. Everything is dizzy for a second before the guy comes back over to me and crawls on top of me. I can tell he’s using all of his werewolf strength by the way my head cracks and starts to bleed lightly. He lifts his fist and I yelp as he hits me in the lip with it. I feel my lip immediately start to throb with so much pain surrounding it that tears come to my eyes.
Oh, is little fairy gonna cry from a few bruises ? One of them taunted me as my eyes start to water from the pain. I tried to breathe for a second before he decided to do anything else and realized that if I clear my head a little bit more, then I can mind link my mate to come help me. He’s probably looking for me, but would never check here because it’s basically a ghost town in this hallway that only has lockers.
Before I can clear my head enough, another punch comes flying at my face and this time it hits my cheek, making my jaw crack. He punches me again, hitting my lip in the same exact spot which is definitely now bleeding while it flares with pain.
Punch after punch comes my way, all of them in my face until one of the guys steps up. Hey, man, we should probably leave before the Alpha can find him.
The guy that’s on top of me laughs, looking down at my defenseless body before back at his friend. While he’s distracted, I bring my knee up as hard as I can to hit him straight in the groin. He doubles over before I push him off of me and try to scramble up, but another guy pushes me back to the ground. For a few seconds, they leave me alone while they help their buddy up and I’m able to clear my head just enough.
Hall G bathroom, help me, I mind link to my mate before one of the other guys gets on top of me and just starts beating me with his fists. I cry out every time he makes contact with me, his punches hurting way more because he’s definitely letting his wolf out a bit more. I try to do the same exact thing to him by kneeing him, but he catches me by surprise and grabs my knee before I can make contact with anything.
He punches me one more time with so much force that my head spins and I just lay there, not being able to move too much without my head putting me off balance. I can hear the door fly open, so I find a way to pick my head up and see my mate standing there with electric blue eyes along with Cody and Melissa.
Get away from him, Joey growled as the other four guys back away with their hands up in a surrender position. The one guy that’s on top of me doesn’t move quick enough and is grabbed by his neck before he’s slammed against the wall in a flash as his head slams against the surface. I sit up, bringing my knees to my chest and setting my forehead against my legs.
P-please, the guy Joey is currently choking is able to get out while his throat is being crushed by my mate’s hand.
You think you could just hurt your alpha without any repercussions ? Because even if I can’t legally hurt you on school grounds, the pack is fair ground since I am your superior, Joey says before I hear feet hitting the floor, which means he probably let the guy go. The bathroom door creaks open and I hear shoes running away.
Joey’s hand lands on my back and I lift my head to look at him. His face immediately softens up as he runs over to grab a paper towel and wet it to get some of the blood off of my face. He comes back over to me and gently places it on my throbbing lip, making me wince in pain.
I know, baby, I’m sorry, he whispers as he kneels next to me. I reach up and grip his forearm while I shut my eyes to wish that this pain will go away as soon as possible. Melissa kneels next to me, tilting my head back a bit to look at the injury from when my head hit the wall.
It hurts, I croak out, looking up at them as they give me sympathetic looks.
Why didn’t you call Joey sooner ? Cody asks as he kneels next to his girlfriend to see the damage they did too.
I-I couldn’t clear my head enough to do it. They just kept hitting me and I was scared and I didn’t know what to do and-
Joey interrupts me by wrapping his arm around my shoulder. It’s okay, I know. I’m here now and they won’t be let off so easy, okay ? I’ll give them the worst punishment that I can find and make them suffer.
Within the next few minutes, Isaac walks into the bathroom with our bags slung around his back and an ice pack from the athletic training room that brings so much relief to my face that it’s unbelievable. We manage to sneak out the school without being caught and Joey speeds out of the parking lot as we watch our friends go back through the back doors to go back to his own mate.
As soon as we get home, Joey lays me in bed while Lila finds some cream for my lip. I can feel my eyes droop shut as my mate comes and sits next to me to run his fingers through my hair to bring some relief to my pain and not too long after he does that, I’m falling into a deep, deep sleep.
A few days later and my face is feeling and looking a lot better. Joey and Cody had met with the 5 guys yesterday and they were issued 200-hours of community service in the pack, no hunting for 6 months, and had their parents told about what they had done and were issued their own personal punishments by them.
Lila had been very annoying by putting this cream on my face where I had cuts or bruises every time she would see me. It was supposedly a leaf of some kind that healed any exterior wounds and I’m not going to lie, it did help, but it does get annoying when I would turn around and she would run up to me to put it on my face.