MY ASSASSIN MATE

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The infamous prankster of all times- my Mom was on the verge of losing control due to her rising temper and the fact that she rarely blew her top like right now, especially with me and my sextuplet siblings, had me shaking like a leaf.     “You forgot ?”, Mom repeated through clenched teeth. “Why would you make such connections in the Chemistry Lab in the first place when you knew the repercussions !!!!”, Mom lashed out.     I wanna cry. Period.     “It was meant for the old Chemistry Teacher. I never intended to harm the new one. I forgot to remove the connections when I came back home last weekend for my 19th birthday bash”, I replied shakily. Mom was glaring at me furiously.   How could anyone expect me to not shake with fear when your powerful Alpha mother would blow off her steam on you any time soon ? She looked like a pressure cooker ready to burst any time !!   Out of the corner of my eye, I watched one of my sextuplet brothers- Kai and his dragon mate, Ty come inside the Alpha Office and the way my brother’s eyes widened on seeing me, was enough to tell anyone that he was surprised to see me here instead of studying back at my uni.           “Hello boys ! I have been waiting for you since so long”, Mom said and smiled at them.   Woah ! She smiled suddenly ?   Aaaaaand here comes the pointy glare back on her face after seeing me.   Sigh !     “Samantha ! What are you doing here, sis ?”, Kai asked. Ofcourse, the element of surprise laced his voice heavily.     When I remained mum for another ten seconds, Kai tilted his head questioningly and stared at me with an expectant look, “Well ?”, he urged me to respond.     Oh God !   I don’t wanna tell him too !!   It is so embarrassing that I got suspended but he’ll love the prank.   What do I do now ?   Should I tell him or not ?     “C’mon Samantha ! Tell your brother how you embarrassed your Chemistry Teacher at school”, Mom pressed me in an annoyed tone.     By her looks and voice, Kai could sense something dangerously malicious about the situation and I am sure he felt like an i***t who was adding to his dear sister’s misery.     “I am sorry mom”, I repeated like a broken record. I sounded so pathetic !! But then what else do I say ?     “Don’t say it when you don’t mean it. I sent you all to your universities of choice but I expected you to respect me enough to follow the rules of attending human school. How do you explain your behaviour, young lady ?”, Mom scolded rather harshly making me flinch.     Oh Moon Goddess please flip back my Mom’s cool switch.   I don’t want her to get angry anymore.   I am truly sorry.     “Mom ! She said sorry !! She is already regretting it. Please stop scolding her”, Kai intervened.     God bless my brother for stepping up for me.     “Don’t lecture me, Kai !”, Mom snapped.   Here she goes again.   It is platinum rare that Mom gets this angry and I don’t even remember when did she last get so angry at us. Must be when we were in our diapers or maybe she never showed us this explosive side of hers.   Someone please burn that suspension letter.   It just seems to aggravate her whenever she looks down at it.   Oh dear ! I am in so much trouble !!     “Samantha, what happened ?”, Kai gently asked as he wrapped a protective arm around me and I swear to God, I was already on the verge of crying before he came and to add to my embarrassment, the waterworks started in front of him and his mate at that very moment !     “The Chemistry teacher had been quite a prick to us for a whole week”, I started to narrate in between my sobs.   “Language missy”, Mom glowered as she watched Kai settle me on his lap.     Looking at mom with apologetic eyes, I continued.     “But that didn’t bother us because we go to the university to study and that’s the only thing we did. But then he started getting on our nerves and took surprise quizzes. Since, we all had been attentive in class we easily answered them all but when we got back our grades, they said something else ! He failed the entire class !!”, I explained while hiccuping in between my sobs.     Oh dear ! I promise I am not such a cry baby !!   I am an assassin for f**k’s sake.   I am too stone hearted usually.   Someone stop these waterfalls.   Nghh !!     “He is actually a prick, Mom. You know that an entire class can’t fail in a subject that is as easy as Chemistry !”, Kai exclaimed. “What happened next baby girl ?”, he asked while caressing my hair and making circles at my back to calm me down.       “We complained to the Principal but instead of asking our Chemistry teacher to re-evaluate us or set a new paper, he went to great lengths of scolding all of us to be losers and barred us from having lunch the entire week and we were grounded from all cultural functions of the year !”, I divulged.     I felt a lot more calm than before as Kai kept me close to his chest and kept patting my back softly.     “This sounds so fishy !”, Kai pointed out.     “Exactly ! So, the class investigated and two boys came up with evidence that the Principal and the Chemistry teacher were at cohorts with each other to ship off university funds to their accounts and the class punishment was just a facade to not organize any event at our uni to fill in for the lost expenses”, I revealed.     “Where do you come in, Samantha ?, Kai gently asked.     “The police authorities took away the Chemistry teacher and Principal to custody day before yesterday but before coming to the pack for our 19th birthday bash, I forgot to turn off a few connections of the apparatus in our lab that were meant to be a prank on the horrible Chemistry teacher and when the new subject teacher came, everything was an embarrassment for him”, I said and my head automatically hung down low in shame.     “I wouldn’t ask you what you did in the Chem lab but let me guess is it related to Hydrogen Sulphide gas, Samantha ?”, Kai asked me and I could only sheepishly nod when my eyes met those with my mother’s fuming ones. “That’s awesome !”, Kai chuckled and that i***t managed to get me to spill a giggle from my lips while a frightening, laser beam sharp glare from Mom was directed towards Kai this time.     I knew it that he would enjoy the prank !   But Mom looks even madder now.   RIP me …. and Kai.     Oh and for those who don’t know, Hydrogen Sulphide gas smells like poop and fart in layman terms but decently, everyone says it smells like rotten eggs which isn’t any better, let me tell you.   So, when the gas had been released from the teacher’s side, then obviously, everyone assumed the worse and that is why mom told Kai that I had immensely embarrassed my Chemistry teacher and that too in front of a huge audience. FML.     “But how did you get caught, sis ? I can’t imagine anyone finding out what you did ?”, he asked.     He look so perplexed because except for the Stone family and a few trusted warriors of our pack, no one had been able to figure out the culprit of my high profile assassination assignments till date.     Not to toot my horn but I was that good.     “The new teacher threatened that he won’t overturn our punishment given by the previous teacher if the culprit did not step out and for the sake of the class, I confessed”, I replied to Kai’s question in a small voice and started sobbing again. I am so pathetic. Someone just kill me.     “Hey ! Hey ! Hey ! Don’t cry baby girl. It’s ok. So you got suspension for how many days ?”, he asked while gently patting on my back to calm me down and using his thumb to wipe my gushing tears.     “One week”, Mom answered and threw her hands in the air dramatically in exasperation. “I told you no pranks in school, Samantha ! Isn’t home enough for you ?”, Mom scolded. There she goes again. This seems to be a never ending loop of me crying and mom scolding.     “Mom, please stop stressing her out. It’s ok. No one was harmed and as far as I remember you had burnt your own school down”, Kai snapped.     “Atleast, it wasn’t a human school. They have to be extra careful when they are studying there and although no one’s identity was let out but I am not going to endorse this behaviour and put the pack’s security to danger. That’s the last thing I want”, she said with finality in her tone. “Now you two have ten minutes to freshen up. All the Elders will be arriving in the conference hall soon. We will be discussing about the recent attacks which involve you and Ty, Kai so I don’t want any one of you late”, Mom said and stood up to exit the office.     Oh and before I go on further, let me introduce myself. I am Samantha Stone and one of the naughty Alpha sextuplets of the great Alpha Niyah Stone of the Diamond Heart Pack; in fact the naughtiest of them all.   My other sextuplet siblings are- Kai, Ryder, Jax, Aira and Joy. We all are Were-Vamp hybrids and I am the only assassin out of them who does the underworld, dirty work to keep the pack safe.   This hit man job comes naturally to me and I am yet to see someone, nearly as good as me in this line.     “Samantha, I am so sorry that happened to you”, Kai said after Mom was gone. He genuinely looked remorseful.     “It’s ok, Kai. You always have my back”, I tried to grin through my tear stained face.     “I am your brother, Samantha. Ofcourse, I will always have your back”, Kai replied and kissed my forehead. “C’mon let’s get those beautiful eyes of yours cleaned up, although you look more pretty when you cry”, he laughed.     On a serious note, he was right.   I really did look pretty when the natural rouge blush on my cheeks came up when I cried and my nose glistened with sprinkles of red.   Not to forget the swollen, dry lips that came with the crying package. In all, I agreed with Kai that crying made a person look more beautiful. Call us weird but it was the truth.   He got the expected smack from me and a teary choke of a giggle along with it.   I seemed to be at a lot more at ease just because of my brother’s support.   We sextuplets were too wild and mischievous for our own good but we always had each other’s backs.   Now it was time to face the music at the Council Meeting.   God knows what Mom would say and do with me now.   Sigh !