Undying Love

Chapter 1

I looked into the shabby mirror on the wall of the cheap motel. I saw a reflection of the girl who I once was. Seriena Night ' a girl with black hair and piercing haunted blue eyes staring back at me. I always thought my name was fitting. Seriena means serene, calm and tranquil. That was basically an accurate description for me, but even the most serene night can be spoiled by loud unavoidable things. I guess I can say that my Serene night was ruined. My whole world came crumbling down to pieces. Everything I loved was lost and all I could do was standby and watch. I am dead and so is everyone I knew.

"Wind I evoke thee to be with me, blow away all my yesterdays."

"Water I evoke thee to be with me, wash away all my yesterdays."

"Fire I evoke thee to be with me, burn away my existence of yesterday."

"Earth I evoke thee to be with me, grow my roots of my tomorrows." I watched as my black hair started turning blonde at the roots, and then I watched it travel all the way down, until there wasn't any black hair left. I looked over the new girl in the mirror. This is the birth of the new me. Sapphire Evans' a stranger with blonde hair stared back at me with the same piercing blue eyes. I’ve always loved my middle name. Once I was born and my mom saw my eyes she was set on calling me Sapphire, but decided on Seriena after my father convinced her. And taking on my mother’s maiden name is an honour. Since my father is dead I don't see the reason for keeping his surname, I don't want a reminder of him anyway.

I looked at myself one last time before grabbing my bags and walking out of the door.

It's the first day of school and I’m sitting in the parking lot scowling at the door. I don't even know why I’m in this town and the bigger question is why would I want to go back to school, it was going to school that changed my life in the first place' it ended badly.

The plan was to stay on the move making sure who ever might be following me doesn't catch up and making sure everything I avoid doesn't catch up to me either. This small town was like a magnate as soon as I drove in I just felt that I needed to stay. I found myself wandering around and ended up here and even to my own surprise I registered for the year.

Come on you can do it! I’m trying to convince myself, but not even one muscle moves an inch, I’m not even convincing myself. How am I going to convince a whole school of kids that I want to be here. At least it's normal for teenagers to hate school to bad I’m 103 years old.

Why am I here?

I should just stop being a wuss and get on with it. I opened the car door and got out. Here I go, deep breaths. I walked over to the door, but froze at the feeling of déjà vu. it was a year ago that my sisters and I also walked through doors like these. Not something I want to think about now. I placed my hand on the door opening it and walked in.

Owen POV

"What's wrong man you look down, like if someone threw you to the ground, kicked you in the gut and spit on you!" That is descriptive. That’s Dax.

"I was just thinking."

"That sounds gay."

"How can this i***t be your third in command? What's up?" Nathan asked me.

"I’m wondering if I’ll ever get a mate. All the strong she wolves are of age and still nothing." I’m not the real sharing kind, but it's hard holding back from my beta and third.

"Relax man you have Valeri to keep you busy...all night long." Dax wiggled his eyebrows for an extra measure.

"As I said, i***t, a clueless one. Having a mate and a willing she wolf are two different things. Your mate is the other half of you that is missing, once you find that person you feel whole, nothing could ever feel as good as finding your mate. She is the one person that can accept you as is. She is your one true love." Nathan explained.

"You sound gay now, how do you know anyway?" Dax fold his arms over his chest and raised an eyebrow at Nathan.

"I have friends and parents, all of them have their mates." This just sounds like a classic argument between the two of them. Neither of them can ever agree on anything, the one always better, more knowledgeable or annoying in Dax’s case.

"I don't even want mine, being attached to one person fate picked out for you ,without even consulting you for the rest of your life. I’d rather stay single and when I’m tired and old I’ll pick someone for me."

"You guys aren't helping. I’m the alpha I’m supposed to have a strong mate who can support me."

"Isn't Valeri supporting you?" Yes,Valeri my girlfriend, Dax’s sister does support me. We know each other, it’s something that happens when you date someone.

"It's just not the same."

"Do you love Valeri?" Dax questioned further.

"Of course she is my girlfriend."

"Okay so let's just get everything straight, you are dating a red head s*x goddess that is head over heels in love with you and you are talking about finding the one girl for you, when did you start using drugs?" I just saw an arm flying past me knocking Dax right over. I looked over at Nate whose face didn't give anything away.

"What? He was annoying me and disrespecting you."

"So you decided knocking him out was the best way to get him to shut up?"

"No I thought about it and figured it'll be the quickest way and it felt pretty good."

"Let's just go before we are late for school." It’s not far but I don’t like being late I should set an example,

"Okay."

"Are you going to ride with me or take your own car?" I asked Nathan.

"Drive with you. He'll bring my car to me thinking it would piss me off."

"Ah uh." We got to the car and left for school. The mate thing still bothered me. As an Alpha it's important to find my Luna. She takes care of the Alpha and the pack. In my opinion she is more important than the Alpha, because when someone isn't taken care of they are weak. My pack is the largest most feared pack our only weakness being we don't have a Luna. My mom was the Luna, but when I took over from my father she also had to step down. How can I live up to being THE Alpha if I don't even have the person that compliments me.

"Don't think."

"What?"

"You are thinking too much it gives you away. You should rather just do." I just looked at him. If Nathan wasn't born into a pack he would have been a lone wolf. He is the mysterious guy. He always has a poker face and hardly talks and when he does you know you should listen. It's that fact that makes all the girls swoon over him and his brooding exterior. So he can't really talk about not sleeping around since he is also a hound comparing a wolf to a dog, wow how low can I go. They should have said that you are being a wolf not a hound. Male wolves do sleep around. It's not our fault. We are built like rock it's in our genetics and we have a lot of adrenaline and stamina ' running and working out isn't always enough. Although once he finds his mate he'll only be hers. He is right I shouldn't think about it, I’m getting soft. As we pulled into the parking lot I shook my head clear of all thoughts that were mate related, I’ll just enjoy life now' YOLO right?

We got out of the car and started walking towards the school. Something smelled great, probably something coming from the woods that surrounded basically everything in this town. My wolf loved the smell and was scratching at me to get out and track the source. I’m not that interested.

'Come on a quick run!' My wolf growled at me.

'No our last quick run ended 5 hours later with me falling asleep in the sun by a lake'

'but wasn't it great?'

'Yes but I have other obligations'

'I am the alpha and I command to be let out'

'You are the wolf and I am the man without me there isn't a you. You are my soul, we've been over this.'

'You are only my shell'

'And still I make all the decisions.'  my wolf and I sometimes fought a lot. It's like having multiple personalities. I am definitely possessive and controlling, but my wolf is ten times worse than me. Even with Valeri and she isn't our Mate, I can't imagine how it would be once we find her. Great I’m thinking about it again.

"You look constipated." Nathan said.

"My wolf wants out."

"Didn't you go for a run this morning?"

"Yes, but HE wants to find the source of the smell."

"What smell?"

"You don't smell it? It's a mixture of the smell of the forest after rain and mint. There is another undertone too, I just can't place it."

"I don't smell anything. This is what I get for not going for a run." Nathan admitted feeling defeated, I guess. I just shook my head. His wolf is also demanding, but his leans more too physical activities like running, working out and having s*x. I have seen him holding on to his head in frustration trying to fight of his wolfs suggestion. it almost never works. His wolf is apparently very convincing.

"Owen!" I turned around to see Valeri smiling at me. She really is a vixen. She started walking towards me. Her bright red, mahogany hair falling over her one shoulder, her body being put on display in a tight top and mini skirt. Her legs long and exposed with her high heeled shoes.

"I said hi." And there she ruins it by talking.

"I didn't hear you."

"It's because you didn't want to..." And this is about the time I tune her out. I only hear about 15% of what she says per day, if I had to listen to her complaining my head would explode. She kept on talking for about 5 minutes nonstop when she finally stopped I could talk.

"I’m sorry Babe, I’m sorry I didn't give you the attention you need from me..." As Alpha there is no way I would ever be sorry, alphas don't submit, but as a boyfriend I’d say anything to shut her up.

"I need to go now."

"Owen I swear if you leave I’ll..."

"You'll what?" I growled at her, I’ve had enough. I saw the flicker of fear in her eyes and I noticed her taking a step back, but Valeri is going to be Valeri.

"I won't sleep with you!"

"Why would you want to torture yourself?" With that I left her standing there speechless. She tests her boundaries way to often for my liking, just because she sleeps with the Alpha doesn't make her Luna, but she doesn't seem to get that. Another illusion of her is that I’m a love sick pup, bound to her. She is hugely mistaken. I looked over my shoulder to see Nate following me silently, if it was Daxton he would have been loudly explaining how his twin sister 'Valeri' is 7 different type of a b***h ending with a joke pointing out how his sister should have been a dog so we could be able to call her b***h legitimately.

Daxton is my Third and he is someone you need to warm up too. If you don't know him, you'll hate him. Without me he would most likely have been dead by now. He is a real jackass. He sleeps around on a daily basis, not to mention he has a few girlfriends that don’t know about each other. If you pare that with the way he parties you have a fine outline for disaster. Once again why I am grateful for having Nate as my Beta.

I walked into the school, heading down the hall, but was stopped by a sudden scent overload. I looked over my shoulder for the source. It's the same smell from before, just a lot stronger.

My eyes collided with a girl that is walking through the front doors. She is looking down so all I can see is her blonde hair and her extremely sexy body.

My wolf is going completely mad, he is scratching at me, he wants out. I can't focus at all between the girl, her scent and my wolf I feel like I’m in turmoil.

'Mate!' my wolf finally howls and everything seems to calm down, it's like everything else seemed to freeze. Except us. She is walking in my direction, she is coming towards me. I take in everything within seconds' she is small, almost fragile looking, but at the same time not. Her long blonde hair comes down to the middle of her very tiny waist. That's when she looks up and my eyes meet hers, blue' she has blue eyes, very blue eyes, crystal blue.

And then the dream shatters as she walks past me. Now it's seems more obvious that this is the only way into the building so in reality she wasn't walking towards me, but further into the building. But still, her wolf should have smelled me and stopped her, life should have slowed down for her too. What just happened?

"Dude you were staring."

"She's my Mate."

"She's not even a wolf."

"What?" My head whipped from her to him

"If she were all of us would have smelled it and immediately attacked her for being an unannounced rouge or lone wolf."

"Yeah that's true." I stared at her until she rounded a corner.

"You're not going to drop it."

"No I need to know what she is." He didn't answer, it would have been a waste of time anyway. I started walking in the direction she did. When I rounded the corner I saw her standing at a locker. I sensed that Nate was following me, this time it's my turn to roll my eyes at him.

"What the hell is wrong with you!" Thanks Dax, you always know when to show up. He is distracting Nathan for me, I don't need a crowd when I talk to my mate.

"Oh shut up, you deserved it!" Nate growled. "Owen thinks he has found his mate, she's didn't have any reaction to him." I just kept walking until I was standing a few steps away from her. Nothing. She couldn't even feel me standing so close to her.

"Hi." She looked at me with those blue eyes of hers past her locker door, before closing it.

"Hello." She seemed confused, like she didn't know why I was talking to her.

"How are you doing?"

"Uhm...good thanks and you?" She was frowning at me.

"I’m great, and I’m Owen by the way."

"Oh okay, nice to meet you." She just seems uncomfortable with this whole conversation. She is clearly not a talkative person.

"And you are?"

"I’m late for class." A girl has never shut me down completely within minutes of meeting me, she doesn't even want to give me her name. She gave me a small smile before turning to leave, but she froze. Does she finally feel it to? She looked around before looking at me again. The two of us and my back up were the only ones in the hall.

"Uhm...can you maybe tell me where room 203 Biology is?" That's what made her freeze, I seriously want to pull my hair out, what is wrong with fate, what have I ever done wrong to deserve my mate, not knowing that we are meant to be together.

"What's going on?" The last thing I needed was Valeri showing up. She was standing next to Nate and Dax.

"That's Owen's Mate." Her dear twin brother informed her.

"If you tell me your name I might?"

"Okay then." She turned and started walking away, she saw a guy and quickly stopped him, asking him the same question. I saw him checking her out and couldn't help the growl bubbling up in my throat.

"Yeah sure, I’m on my way there too. No one is ever in time for that class.” As they walked away I turned and walked to my audience.

"You got shot down, man." I glared at Dax, did he really feel that I needed to be reminded of what just happened to me.

"She doesn't feel it."

"I told you she isn't a wolf, only wolves feel the mate bond."

"But what is she? I won't be mated to a human, fate isn't that cruel."

"Fate is a b***h bro, at least you still have my sexy sister."

"Do you know how wrong it is for you to keep referring to your twin sister as hot, sexy and a s*x vixen. You're a sick pervert." Thank you Nate.

"It's not like I want her, I’m only advertising her, like a pimp." That is way worse, she would cut of his balls if she just heard him.

"I want all the information you can get on my mate. I also want her schedule. And by all I mean absolutely everything: where she came from, where she is living, family, her health history, even what her daily routine is."

Sapphire's POV

Okay this is going to be easy all I have to do is keep on walking. And that is exactly what I did, I look straight forward and just kept walking. I noticed a guy staring at me, very intensely. It's weird, I sped up and walked past him quickly, but I could still feel his eyes on me it made my skin tingle. When I rounded the corner I felt a lot better, more comfortable.

I started to look for my locker, once I found it I unpacked my bag, placing all my books in my locker. Afterwards I looked at my schedule that is pasted in my locker door. I quickly grabbed the books I’ll need for the first three periods and stuffed them in my bag.

"Hi."

Flashback

"Hi." I looked to the side and saw a boy standing there.

"Hello."

"Okay so I’m not going to be corny I promise." Him saying that kind of makes him corny. He smiled at me and I couldn't help but blush. A guy hasn't come up to me, to actually talk to me in a 102 years, sue me.

"Okay."

"I’m Jake and I wanted to say Hi and I guess, welcome to the town." That is one of the boys on my father’s list.

"Well okay, Hi Jake, I’m Seriena and thanks."

"I’m going to stop before all this become cliche, so for today I won't walk you to class, I won't say that you're beautiful and there is no way I’ll be asking your number. But tomorrow all bets are off." That was so corny.

"And now I’m going to leave."

"Okay bye." I smiled at him, he started walking away, but came back.

"So do you want me to walk you too your class?"

"Sure."

End of flashback

I looked past my locker door and my heart fell and plummeted in the dark. I expected to see Jake standing there even though I know he is dead. It's the cruel truth.

"Hello." Why is this guy talking to me I didn't give him any indication of interest when I saw him staring at me.

"How are you doing?" One simple question that has a million different viable answers.

"Uhm...good thanks and you?" His eyes, those golden green eyes' they bother me they make me feel weird when they look at me.

"I’m great, and I’m Owen by the way." I looked at the guy in front of me, who is smiling at me. He has dark brown wavy hair a bit long' he needs a cut, but it’s styled nicely. He is also tanned, not too much though more a golden glow, hinting he spends a lot of time in the sun. That's healthy I guess a lot of vitamin D.

"Oh okay, nice to meet you." There are two guys standing a bit back staring at us, which is kind of weird and uncomfortable.

"And you are?" He doesn't seem to get that I don't want to talk to him. It's nothing personal, not completely at least, I’m just not interested, not in any male company. And I especially don't want his company, because he just makes me feel different, his eyes makes my skin tingle and my heart beat faster that has to stop.

"I’m late for class." His smile fell from his face, as if he can't believe that I don't want to talk to him, he must have a huge ego. I gave him a small smile before turning to leave, but then I froze, I don't have a clue where to go from here. I looked around before looking at the guy again. I could ask him or his friends where to go, he is closer so I picked him.

"Uhm...can you maybe tell me where room 203 Biology is?” He seemed confused and angry.

"What's going on?" A red head girl asked the other guys loudly. She doesn't seem like the nice kind. I can see from way over here that she is a b***h, and she dresses like a slut, kind of reminds me of Jasmine. The one guy answered her, but I couldn't hear what he was saying since he didn't yell in a high pitched annoying voice like the girl.

"If you tell me your name I might?" Knowing each others names just leads to getting to know each other, not something I’m interested in.

"Okay then." I turned and walked away. I’m not here to make friends. I don't even know why I’m here, probably just something to do with all the time I have. I saw some guy walking down the hall and just asked him.

"Yeah sure, I’m on my way there too. No one is ever in time for that class." That's good to know, cause I hate being late.

"So you're new then?"

"Yes."

"Oh okay, this is a great school, they aren't as strict as normal schools."

"So this isn't a normal school then?"

"No I didn't mean that, but I guess it isn't normal. We only have school till 12 in the afternoon instead of 14 or 15 pm, and we only have 5 periods a day and one break each 40 minutes long instead of an hour. So schools nice."

"It's defiantly not normal, but I have experienced nicer."

"How is that even possible?"

"Home school. You do the work and then you're done for the day, most of the time I was done by 10 am and started at 7 or 8 am."

"Thanks now I hate this school."

"My pleasure." I won't be fazed by his sarcasm. I looked at the numbers on the doors and we were almost at the class, it was only two doors away and there were a lot of kids standing around, a lady, most likely the teacher showed up and everyone went inside.

"By the way I’m Paul." And just then we stepped inside the classroom.

"Paul you are late, go take a seat." No punishment, the whole class is about 10 minutes late for a 40 minute period. I just walked over to the nearest open desk and sat down. I got out my stuff, hoping that the teacher doesn't notice me.

"Let's start."

"No wait we can't start." I looked over my shoulder to see a red head girl smiling at the teacher.

"We have a new student, ma'am." Said her identical twin sitting next to her. This is clearly just a scheme to avoid class work.

"Oh I didn't see you, so sorry, you must think I’m so rude."

"No it's fine." The whole class was focusing on me.

"Do you want to introduce yourself?" No not really, but it will be rude to deny a teacher.

"Sure."

"Okay then, just get up and introduce yourself." I’m going to pop the poor twins bubbles, because I’m not self-absorbed and I don't plan to say a lot. I got up and turned to the class. Making sure to avoid Paul's eyes, I don't want him to get the idea that I’m introducing myself to him.

"Hi everyone, I’m Sapphire Evans." I looked over to the teacher and she waited for more, but as I kept quiet, she understood.

"Thanks Sapphire." I took my seat again, facing the front of the class.

"Okay then now we can start." I heard a double sigh. I kind of zoned out from the time the teacher started teaching thinking about everything I still had to do.

#1 Get a place to stay. Sure the motel I’m staying at now is okay, but it is at the other side of town. I don't want to be travelling that much. if someone comes after me the only place my scent should be strong is at the school and with all the scents it would confuse them. So I need a place close to the school. Another good thing being the forest that surrounds the town, especially the school I can escape through it if the occasion calls for it.

#2 I have to find a job, it's a new addition to my list. The school ending at 12 in the afternoon is not a good thing. I need something to waste my time at. Since I don't have a boyfriend and I don't want one, I’m not keen on making friends and lastly I don't have my sisters to go home too.

#3 Find the Cemetery. I need a place to visit a place where I can talk and mourn.

#4 Go shopping since I only have one bag worth of clothes and I’m not going to be using my powers that often, witches can pick up on it. That's why I changed my hair and did all other necessary magic 3 towns over.

#5 Get a second job. The more time I spend awake the less time I have to dream or toss.

The bell rang grabbing my attention. I packed my things up and started walking, once outside I was stopped by the red hair twins.

"Hi I’m Zoe."

"And I’m Mya."

"Sorry for making you speak in front of the class, we just weren't in the mood for biology."

"Yeah not that you were much help.”

"Ignore Mya she gets grumpy easily. Sapphire, nice name."

"Thanks." I wish I could just leave, but I don’t want to be rude.

"Your name is longer than ours put together." Mya is defiantly the weird one of the twins.

"What is your next class?"

"Science room 304."

"Great we have class right next door, room 305. Let's get going!" They are friendly enough at least.

"What subject is class 305?"

"Oh no there isn't a class it's just where we go when we ditch, it's that or the forest. Tip they look in the forest, but searching in locked classes not so much." Zoe smiled at me.

"Yeah a horrible thing happened, room 305 doesn't have a key it got lost and the damn lock is jammed." Mya added faking her disbelief.

"What class are you skipping?” The both smiled at me.

"Science 304." Of course it is. What if the teacher sees them walking past the class.

"What did you do to Valeri?" Valeri?

"Who's Valeri?"

"Oh my gosh, you don't know who Valeri is?" Zoe faked a shock expression with her hand in front of her mouth in a gasping notion.

"Yeah, if only she heard you say that, it could have been a nice stab at her ego." Mya added.

"So Valeri is?" They seem to get distracted easily.

"Oh it our b***h of a big sister, just squeeze in slut between big and sister and please subtract the ours."

"You said it Z, it's the red head bimbo staring daggers at you." I turned to look at the girl and saw the one from this morning.

"I don't know, but she's been daggering me since this morning."

"What happened this morning?"

"Nothing. She showed up and talked to these two guy who was standing to the side staring at me while this Owen guy talked to me." They both took an audible inhale at the exact same time.

"Really? Owen? Oh she must be pissed?" They said at the same time again. Which just get creepier every time they do it.

"That's weird do you do it a lot. You know saying the exact same thing at the exact moment."

"Oh yeah, all the time." Zoe nodded as we started to go up the stairs.

"Mostly to freak people out." Mya added.

"It works."

"We know." They said together.

"So why was Owen talking to you?" A simple question but it seemed to carry more of an intense value to them.

"Just being nice I guess."

"Owen isn't nice, he is forceful, stuck up, dominating and possessive, but never nice."

"Yeah do you honestly think a NICE guy would date such a b***h like Valeri?"

"The daggers are making sense now." Why would he come up to me with strong intentions if he has a girlfriend? Especially one that looks like her.

"What did Owen say to you?"

"And what did you say back?” They wiggled their eyebrows.

"He said hi and asked me how I was and wanted to know my name."

"He so wants you."

"Yes he wants me bad, that's why he has a girlfriend." I threw the sarcasm at them.

"Their relationship is open, if they find the one, they will just go for it."

"Sorry, but I’m not the one and I’m not interested."

"Damn if you were we could have gotten her good." Mya had an evil glint in her eye.

 "But its fine, we get attraction, if it's not there, it's not there." Zoe explained.

"Yeah till this day we haven't found a guy we are truly attracted to." Mya added.

"You said guy, not guys." They both just smiled at me.

"But if you ever decide to screw with our slutster you have to let us in on it." Zoe suggested

"You can even say it was us." Mya added. Clearly Zoe is the more forward one of the twins, she is clearly more dominant than Mya.

"There you are, I thought I was showing you around." I looked around and was shocked at the girl standing in front of me, talking to me, but I didn’t have a clue who she was.

"Hey girls can I steal her away, I know you two are probably going to ditch after biology, right."

"Of course we are H, take good care of our friend, she's a keeper." They winked at me.

"See you later." They threw over their shoulders as they walked away.

"Hi I’m Harmony, but most people just call me Hope, since that is my self  proclaimed name I choose when I could finally speak, aren't parents the worst at naming people." So a girl named hope with long pink hair and very light green eyes.

"Hi I’m Sapphire."

"Oh that's nice, but so long, I think I’ll call you red."

"Why red?"

"Well isn't it obvious, the last part of your name is phire, sounding like fire and flames do come forth as red, thus I’ll call you red." She reminds me of Tracey or Jane high on blood.

"And it was my pleasure for rescuing you from the twins, most people call them demon spawn, isn't that so fitting, they are great, after science I’ll give you the whole count down of this school."

"How..."

"Did I know you have science right now?"

"Yeah."

"It's simple, you see there is only 3 classes on this floor two which is for upper class student the hot seniors and we have already passed them." She is very smart, not something I would have figured by just looking at her.

"Here you are, safely delivered, I wouldn't want the wrath of the twins upon me." She joked rolling her eyes as she smiled at me.

"Aren't you going to come in?"

"No, I’m joining the twins." She is also ditching. I have a feeling that she’ll be missed in class, the teacher is bound to miss the one girl with pink hair.

"And the school does nothing?"

"Nah the school is laid back, they are like a high hippy. They don't care if you skip, if you do good that is. If your grades slip or you fail they are on you like bees on honey, it can become a sticky situation."

"I see." The school offers leniency for their performing student.

"Bye quite little red." She confuses me in ways I can't even comprehend and looks like without even trying I ended up with friends in a very weird click. Science was an absolute bore, I guess my second period on a Monday will be room 305. Hope wasn't there when I got out of class, I was fine with it, a bit disappointed as well, but like I said I didn't need friends or really want them. I got the whole school thing figured out now. There is a separate building which is the gym that is building one and then the first floor here is two, the second is number three and the third is four. I’m guessing that the Cafeteria is building five since the 4th period of each day is building 5. As for now I have a gym period, so I’m heading to building one. it's definitely a long way to go. Down the hall, down the stairs, down hall two out the door and to building one I went. Once there all I saw was the girls heading to the locker room. I followed.

On my schedule I had a separate number, which I guess is my locker number in here. Once I found and opened it I saw a pair of neatly folded short, t-shirt and then just below it a pair of sneakers, socks and an elastic band everything in white and blue. The girls all got undressed right there no one seemed to worry about how they looked, but to be honest almost all the girls were in pretty good shape. Might as well join in, no one seems to be checking each other out. I quickly got dressed and tide my hair up in a ponytail.

"You have a great bod." Mya said coming towards me.

"Yeah you should watch out, you might get devoured by the hormonal boys at this school." Zoe added coming from the other side. They both came to stand next to me, one on each side it actually made me nervous. 

"You look like a Barbie doll with you pretty blonde hair and blue eyes." Mya said.

"And not to mention that you are our new plaything." I can't see that being a compliment.

"At least she isn't fake." Said Hope as she joined us. "Just ignore them they like making people nervous." Good to know.

"Let's get going."

"Do you know what we are going to do?"

"Gasp! Red were you late for class?" Hope faked a shock expression. 

"I guess."

"We would have been, but decided to mess around in the forest, so we were close by. This is one class no one skips. The school is pretty strict on health, so are our parents and our community. To answer you we are doing a fitness test." Each twin grabbed my hand, entwining our finger and pulling me along with them. As we got in the gym I saw everyone sitting on the indoor bleachers. I got pulled there, and got suffocated between the twins.

"I see we have a new student, so I’m just going to go over this quickly."

"Yeah this is sexy..." Zoe started.

"Blue." Mya finished. Really sexy blue, almost sounds like sexy boo.

"Okay thanks for your input Zoe and Mya."

"You know we live to please." Zoe winked at the couch. Hope wasn't kidding when she said they liked to make people feel nervous and apparently uneasy. I don't think I’ve ever seen a man blush that much.

"Okay so you see the two rows of beacons, you're going to run from the one to the other. in the background a CD will be playing, every time you hear a beep you start running, you need to be at the other beacon before it beeps again. As the level increases so does the speed of the beeps." Sounds easy enough.

"I hate it."

"Me too." The twins complained.

"It's because once you two start running you don't want to stop." Hope rolled her eyes at them.

"Girls you'll go first giving you enough time to get cleaned up for break."

"The guys get to watch us run, but we don't get to watch them. What an unfair advantage!" Yelled the twins simultaneously. So creepy. They had a point though, it's not fair to have the guy watching the girls, if the beacon line was expanded, everyone could do it together.

"Hey red, don't go to fast in the beginning, it's a walk pace, if you jump forward it would be embarrassing." Between her and the twins I can't decide who is the leader of the group all of them seem so dominant.

And so it commenced.

It started really slow and then it started picking up, some of the more sluggish girl fell out fast and on purpose. I’m not one for bad grades so I’m in it to win it. Most girls held on for a really long time, but slowly the numbers started decreasing. in the end it was the twins and I. I lasted two levels longer than them, before the couch stopped me. I was exhausted and could collapse, and probably kiss him.

"What the hell are you? Some kind of fitness junky?" Nope that would be Analize.

"Nah."

"I thought you were home schooled." News travels fast.

"My father’s house had a track, gym and work out arena. I had gym every day. My father was a fitness junky."

"Rich b***h?"

"That was when I was younger."

"Well let me tell you, you just made loads of enemies and impressed the other half of the people." Hope said smiling at me.

"Why did I make enemies?"

"Because the average is set by the winner..."

"And you won meaning you got 100% and we get 90% since you lasted two levels more than us." The twins informed me.

"So if we do take it 5% per level if luck isn't with them, then those that fell out a lot earlier in the game will have pretty low marks." Hope continued their sentence.

"Are you sure you guys aren't a triplet."

 "Nah that is a gene pool I’m glad not to be a part of." Wow that was insulting.

"You wouldn't fit in anyway hippy." I know she was serious, they know it too and yet no argument.

"Okay let's get this figured out. On what level did you end?" Hope asked me

"Ten I think."

"Wow that's great, usually he ends it at eight since it takes approximately a minute per level and we have 40 minutes a period, 5 minutes for the lesson introduction, 10 to get dressed, leaving 25 minutes, 8 minutes for the girl and 2 for the boys to get in place and to restart the CD, then 9 minutes for the boys since they go to level 9 and that leaves them about six minutes to jump in the shower before the bell rings. Of course that is all give or take a few minutes."

"Hope, there is no hope for you! You are such a geek." Zoe teased her.

"The term is nerd. And to prove my nerdiness, I can tell you while doing the bleep test I noticed that each level is actually 62 seconds not 60 and with each level the speed increase by 0,5 km per hour and if we do start at 8,5 km per hour like couch said, that would mean I was running at 11 km/h at level 5 and the two of you were at an average of 12.5 and our winner over here was at 13.5 km/h."

"You are seriously damaging my brain." Mya complained grabbing onto her head. They kind of remind me of how my sisters and I use to be.

"Make it stop!" Zoe faked terror.

"Drama queens! Do you want your end results or not?"

"Fine we are listening." I hate it when they do that.

"Okay pretty easy estimate. She did ten levels and 100% divided by 10 is 10 so it means that each level will be credited at 10% meaning the two of you have 80% and I just passed with a 50%, screw this bleep test!"

"That means in a very rough estimate..." Zoe started nervous

"That half the class is failing because of you." Mya finished. Great, just freaken great.

"In fact we usually stop at level six, this was the first time we were actually beaten in running..."

"Or challenged."

"With their level 6 average it's about 17% per level, but since it's only 6 levels you only have to reach level three to actually pass. And even then you pass with like 10% since coach is too lazy to do actual calculate meaning he would use 20%."

"We get it you're smart." I could feel the glares from the other girl while we all got ready to shower and head out for lunch.

"Okay so in the back of your locker is a bag with everything you'll need. Use the shower cap, the shampoo the school give is horrible on the hair it dries it out really bad. You just put your gym clothes back. it's washed and folded for your next gym period. Each person has their own locker so you can put a lock on it if you want just make sure to give the office a key though." Hope smiled before leaving to go shower.

Once I was done I took everything back to my locker and got dressed and left for the cafeteria. I got to say for a small town school it’s pretty amazing. if I wasn't convinced, by their high pass average the principle gave me, their school hours and gym, the cafeteria blew my mind. The cafeteria is simple, but amazing. The entire one side was just food, and the wall opposite it was glass giving you a great view of outside. it also has aircons and an air freshener system, because it smelled, dare I say it, amazing. I grabbed a tray and moved into the line, shortly joined by three sets of arms one taking my tray while the other two grabbed onto my arms.

"You are so harsh, ditching us like that." Zoe said, while Mya just nodded.

"I’ll get the food, you guys go grab us a table, before we end up not having one at all." Almost all the table here are empty, I honestly don’t think that we’d have a problem with getting one. instead of getting a table inside, we went out the glass door and to my utter amazement there was a whole courtyard, with nice stone tables and seats shaded by trees. There was even a small shop where you could buy sweets and cooldrink.

"Let me guess, like health, fresh air is important?" The touched their noses to signal I got it right. What a weird town. I’ve never seen kids willingly hanging outside, or take gym so serious...except Analize