Mated To Her Alpha Bullies

LUSTRE I was starting a new life today. And I still haven't wrapped my head around it. It feels like a dream like I was still dreaming or hallucinating like I used to do back there in the orphanage, like I used to daydream about that day that would mark the end of my suffering at the orphanage but that day never came. Until now. I grew up in an orphanage. I've been there for as long as I can remember. According to the head matron, I was abandoned as a couple of days old baby in front of the orphanage, wrapped in a shawl and nothing else, no name, no letters, nothing to trace me back to whoever gave birth to me. I've long made peace with that fact, even though life at the orphanage was hell because I was human, the weakest of the weak and the most useless species to exist in the Veeralh Dynasty. Humans were just a few at the orphanage and the werewolves at the orphanage had never hesitated to taunt and bully us, especially me for being weak and useless, I never allowed it to get to me. I stood on my feet for as long as I could because I couldn't go down without a fight. I'd never go down without a fight. Growing up in the orphanage, I've seen a lot of werewolf kids get adopted but never me, I was the useless human and no hopeful parents would even take a second look at someone like me. I've long given up on that too, I just wanted to graduate from High School, clock 18, move out of the orphanage, attend a college, and become someone. I wasn't going to allow the fact that I did not have a real family to bother me even though on some nights, I lay awake on my bed, unable to sleep with recurrent thoughts of what it feels like to have a home, to belong somewhere, to have a family. I thought I'd never find out. Until them. The couple that adopted me, Ken and Lara, just walked into the orphanage one afternoon, took a long look at me, and decided that they wanted me as a child after purposefully staying childless since they got married a couple of years ago. I had thought I was hallucinating because I never thought I could be that lucky but I wasn't and before I knew it, a couple of days later, the paperwork was done and I was officially their daughter. My life changed completely. Ken and Lara insisted I call them Dad and Mom and they were the nicest beings I've ever met. I was surprised when we got to their house in the capital city of Veeralh, Haling, now the house I was going to live in too and I discovered it was a sprawling mansion, something straight out of my dream, I was shown into a room that was almost as big as the whole Orphanage, a bathroom that was bigger than the dormitory I shared with 19 other kids. It was a dream come true. Then, they told me they'd love me to attend a high school for my final year and just experience that high school life and I was over the moon. I had thought I was only going to live vivaciously through the series I watch or the novels I read since schooling back there at the orphanage was more like getting homeschooled so I jumped at the offer. And here I was, in the back seat with my parents on the way to Haling Prep, the most prestigious High School in the whole of Veeralh, dressed as a student and I still couldn't believe the life I was living, couldn't believe I was dressed in Haling's school uniform, a short pleated brown flower patterned skirt, cream shirt, blazer in the material as the skirt and the name tag, Lustre Bell. It felt like I was living a dream. The car drove in through the gates of Haling Prep and my mouth dropped open at the sheer beauty that was the school. I was still admiring it, still lost in the trance when Mom's voice jolted me out of my thoughts. "Do you want us to come with you?" She and Dad were looking at me with the warmest smiles as if I was the answer to all the unanswered prayers, "I mean, it's your very first day in any school and we want to make sure that you're very comfortable and..." "Of course," I answered quickly as I shrugged my back pad on, "I'll be fine, I'm an adult." And it'd be super weird if I had my parents following me around on my first day in school. "We know that, we just wanted to make sure you're fine and all that." "I'll be," I answered with a smile before I opened the door and stepped out, "Goodbye Ken, and... sorry Mom and Dad, I'll see you in the evening." I hardly waited for them to say their goodbyes before I turned and started walking towards the main entrance, mingling with the students and feeling like one. I couldn't wait to discover what life holds for me here. ****** I think I was kind of discovering what life holds for me here and I didn't like it, not one bit. Or maybe I was just overthinking things. I've been walking down the hallway for a way now, looking for the administrative block and I've run into a couple of students and they've not only steered clear of my path, but they've also looked at me with snickers and sneers, pointing at me and talking in harsh whispers that they didn't care whether I heard or not. Jesus Christ, don't tell me we have another dirty human attending our school. This place already smells like trash with the few humans we have here, we can't have another addition. Only God knows what kind of hole she crawled out of. Haling Prep really needs to do better than accepting these nobodies to our school. Their words were like stones, hitting me hard as I felt their hard glares on me. I've read enough novels and watched enough movies to know about the hierarchy and bullying in high schools but I wasn't prepared to be welcomed like this. On my first day. I kept my head up straight, my chin tight. I wasn't going to allow them to get to me, I wasn't going to allow them to steal this new joy from me. I kept following the map taking me to the administrative block and I exhaled when I finally saw a bold sign that had Administrative Block boldly written on it. I released a breath I didn't know I was holding since I entered the school as I opened the door and I walked in. The office I entered was big and empty; I mean it was an office quite alright with all office equipment but there was nobody there. I opened my mouth to say hello but something made the words die in my throat and for my mouth to be wide open. It was a sob, a quiet, choked one. I listened attentively until I heard it again. Someone was crying and they were trying so hard to keep it quiet. I knew I should leave, it was none of my business but the person sounded like they were in distress, like they were in pain and before I knew it, I was already tiptoeing in the direction that the sound was coming from. Nothing prepared me for the sight I saw and my mouth dropped open even more. Kneeling on the floor was a young woman who looked like she was in her late twenties. Tears were streaming down her face and with how swollen her eyes were, it was obvious that she had been crying for a while. But that wasn't even what shocked me. It was who was sitting on a chair before her, legs crossed, and Cigar in between his lips. He was dressed in the school uniform and she was... She had the tag of a staff on her shirt. What the f**k was going on here? Was I dreaming or hallucinating? Why would a staff be kneeling and crying in front of a student? “Please, I'm so sorry, this job... It means a lot to me. I have lots of debt, my mom is sick and the hospital bills are...” “Do I look like I give a f**k about your debts or your sick mom?” His cold voice shocked me, chilled my blood to ice and it took a while before I realized the emotion I was feeling. Anger. Blood-curdling and intense one. “I clearly told you not to pursue it, I told you to let it go and pretend that you saw nothing but you wanted to be a champion so bad and you went ahead to tattle like a spoilt brat. I don't think there's any other person to blame here but you.” What? I couldn't believe my ears and eyes. I couldn't believe a student, a mere student was talking to a teacher like that. I couldn't believe what was happening. It felt so much like I was dreaming. “I'm sorry... I didn't...” “You didn't know I have the power to get you sacked,” he took a long drag, “if I didn't, you'd have ruined my life, I'd have gotten expelled because you couldn't keep your mouth shut. You're only getting sacked, you can always look for another job, I’d advise getting one at a radio station since you don't know how to shut up.” He stood up suddenly. “We're done here, Ms. Tasha, have a nice life.” He turned back and his eyes settled on me.