Ella’s POV
In three days, we were done searching all the private schools in the neighborhood and it was left for us to search the public schools. I had a huge frown on my face as I left the last private school with the boys and didn’t find the girl.
I had had a tiny hope bubbling in my heart that we would be able to find her in a private school. After all, why would assassins want to go after a girl who wasn’t from a rich family? Not that I was being judgemental but I didn’t expect that the young girl with the supposed dramatic ending to her life was going to be an average Joe.
“Mum, are we going out today as well?” Neo asked as I got them ready.
“Yes. Let’s get ready on time.” I replied, pulling Nathan’s t-shirt down his head.
I had been buying them the cookies they wanted and loved so they had been amiable for the past two days and hadn’t been rude to any other principal. Asides that, I had given them a tongue lash and long lecture on their attitude after we had left the office of the first principal and I knew that also played a major role in their refined behavior.
“Take care of yourself.” Kevin said as he pulled me into an embrace and kissed me.
“I will.” I nodded, smiling at him and walked out of the room with the kids.
We got to the first public school right after the students had settled in for the first class of the day. I asked for the directions to the principal’s office and was shown to the place. I knocked gently on the door.
“Come in,” I heard a voice say from inside.
I smiled as I got there and saw that it was also a female that was here and hoped that she wasn’t going to be sentimental as the first one that I had met.
“Good morning, ma’am.” I said as I moved into the office.
“Good morning.” She smiled at me as she raised her head from the forms she was looking at. “Have a seat.” She said, extending her hand forward and pointing at the chair in front of her.
“Thank you.” I said as I settled on the chair opposite her.
“How may I help you?”
“I want to register my boys in school.” I said, pointing at the boys standing right behind me.
“Where have they been schooling before?”
“We just moved into the state so they haven’t been in a school here at all.” I explained. It was more like we just moved into this world but she didn’t have to know the truth.
What she didn’t know wouldn’t kill her. I couldn’t afford to lie in case she wanted to verify. It would be a disaster if I tell her the name of fake school and she found out that I was lying. It would also be a disaster if I tell her the name of a real school and she found out that my boys had never been there after making her research.
It was better to keep the information as vague as we could.
“What class are they in?” She asked.
I had learnt about the academic grading system of the human world so it was easy to answer that.
Few minutes later, she offered to take me to their classroom without me having to ask and I was elated as I followed her to where it was, the boys moving silently behind us and making small talks among themselves.
Hopefully, I was going to find the girl here as it was already getting suspicious the way we were moving from one school to another. I had started to dread meeting one of the previous principals I had met at the new school and getting reported.
It was a bust. We didn’t find the girl in the classroom and I had to spin another lie to excuse why I couldn’t get my kids registered at the school. At this rate, I was going to run out of lies and excuses to make. I didn’t think I had ever lied so much in my life than I had in the past few days that I had been here and going all around schools.
We moved to the second school and then to the third but there was not much success with finding the girl. By the time we got to the fourth school and final one we were checking for the day, it was already close to their break time and I knew that we had to be fast if we wanted to catch the students in their seats and check them out.
Thankfully, the principal didn’t waste our time and he agreed to show us the classroom. I sighed as I checked the faces of the students and didn’t see the girl I was looking for. I was starting to think that this was a wild goose chase.
Maybe there wasn’t any girl and Eliza hadn’t seen any prophecy. I wondered if this was her punishment for me daring to ask for the years that she already took from Kevin in what she considered a fair deal. It wouldn’t be funny if she was playing a prank on us just to get back at me.
It seemed like that was what she was doing with how unsuccessful it had been to find the girl we needed to find. It was more believable that she was playing with us as I couldn’t believe that she had actually seen a prophecy. It could be a lie that my boys were going to be mated to her. That had to be the strangest prophecy I had ever heard and when something was too strange to believe, then it had to be a lie.
By the time we had to go back to the principal’s office, the bell rang, indicating that it was time for the students to have their break. The students all came outside, milling around in all corners. We had to walk gently as we made our exit as the hallway had become rowdy because of the students who couldn’t control their excitement.
A young boy who seemed to be nine years old pushed Nathan as he was rushing out.
“Hey, watch it.” Nathan yelled at him as the boy ran past him without looking back, not to apologize or check who he had it.
The boy finally looked back at the sound of Nathan’s voice and smirked at him, not feeling an ounce of remorse for what he did.
“What if I don’t? You should watch your tone, new boy.”
I gasped at the same time that Nathan did. What insolence! I couldn’t believe someone could be that rude and brazen. I looked at the principal to see what he was going to do about his new student but he looked confused and that was the last look I expected on his face. When he caught me staring at him, he looked away and my eyes widened in disbelief. He didn’t just do that, did he?
“You should apologize if you hit someone, idiot.” Nathan hissed, narrowing his eyes at him.
The rude boy chuckled. “You should be prepared for hell if I apologize to you, unless you don’t want to school here.”
I knew shit was about to go down even before it did. Nathan was already fuming with anger and it just got worse with those words. Nathan was his father’s son and would never take lightly to being threatened. Nathan had never been threatened in his life (well, no one had ever dared to) and he wasn’t going to let this rude prick go scot-free.
“No, you should thank your stars that I’m not going to be a student here or you would die.” Nathan hissed.
“The Mama’s boy has a voice.” He laughed and turned to his friends who all started laughing.
Nathan turned red at the insult, hating that a crowd had already formed around us, all looking at him and wondering what was going to happen. I was sure that they were expecting Nathan to give you since he was a new student and he was younger than the rude brat.
I was glad that I hadn’t found the girl in this school as I couldn’t imagine letting my boys school here just to save a girl. It was evident that my boys was going to come home everyday with bruises if I had to enrol them here. I knew that Nathan was stronger than the boy even though he was older but there was no how he would beat up the boys without his friends butting in and his brothers wouldn’t sit still either if they see Nathan involved in a fight.
It would be a disaster everyday and I doubted that the girl would want to be friends with the new troublemakers. It was really a relief that she wasn’t here.
This was getting too far and I was eager to call it a day even though I wasn’t ready to do this tomorrow if this was what we might have to deal with.
“Watch what you say,” Neo hissed.
“What if I don’t?” The boy said, squaring his shoulders and moving closer to Nathan, daring him.
The next few minutes was a blur to me as I didn’t expect what Nathan did. I couldn’t even shout as I stood still, looking on with worry at him and feeling proud of him at the same time.
He ran towards the boy, flew into the air and kicked him in face with his leg. The boy fell down on his back. Nathan bent low and struck at the boy, packing a mean punch and then moved away.
The students standing by started clapping and cheering for Nathan. He ignored everyone and turned to me.
“Mum,” he called out, his eyes filled with a lot of questions and expression.
He was apologizing for what he did but I wasn’t going to rebuke him here when he had just earned the approval of everyone. From the looks on everyone here, it was glaring that the boy had been a nuisance to them all and they were glad he had finally learned the lesson they couldn’t teach him.
Some of the students looked at Nathan with surprise and amazement, wondering how he could have beat up a boy older than he was by three years. I kept my smile to myself. If only they knew that he was a werewolf who had been getting training on how to fight and be an alpha for some years back now, that rude boy would have apologized when he had been given the chance to.
Nathan was also asking me with his eyes if we were going to go home now.
“You should leave with your kids.” The principal said, his eyes narrowed at me.
I snorted at him, surprised that he could talk now after everything had gone down in shit. None of what happened would have happened if he had done what he was meant to do at the beginning.
“We were just about to leave.” I said as I walked out of the school like the Luna that I was with the boys following at my trail.
The students parted for us as we walked out and I had to confess that this was the most exciting moment that I had ever experienced since I got to the human world and I thought of rubbing his head but I had to be his mother.