THE BULLIED ALPHA

CHAPTER 3: THE CHALLENGE

Ryder’s POV

“HEY FATSO d***s ! HOLD UP”, a pair of voices called out from behind us and it was not hard for us to identify to whom those rough voices belonged to.

Fuck. It was the Lee twins !

“Great ! Now we have to deal with those two bullies and that too early in the morning”, Chester sighed in exasperation and threw his hands up in the air while rolling his eyes.

“Let’s run !”, I exclaimed and dragged Chester with me as we tried to squeeze our bulky forms through the crowd and made it to our classroom before the twins could catch us.

“Whew ! I am so glad you kept your wits with you and saved us from their Karate beating”, Chester breathed out in relief.

“Yeah ? I don’t think so because I guess they are coming right towards us”, I said as Chester gulped in fear and watched the two intimidating figures approach us.

“Seems like the Fatso d***s have lost their sense of hearing too. Let’s box their ears to set their ear drums straight”, one of the Lee twins smirked and caught us by our collars only to fling us across the wall.

“f**k !”, we groaned as blood oozed out of our smashed noses and we tried to get up.

Before the twins could catch us again and beat the pulp out of us, the teacher thankfully came in and we all scampered back to our seats.

Chester and I went back holding our noses while the majority of the class snickered at us with hateful glares.

Suddenly, the speakers in our class went off and our Dean’s voice floated in.

“THE UNIVERSITY HAS DECIDED TO HOLD A MARTIAL ARTS COMPETITON FOR ALL FINAL YEAR STUDENTS AND A COUPLE DANCE COMPETITON TOO. PARTICIPATION IN ANY ONE OR BOTH IS COMPULSORY SO MAKE SURE TO GIVE YOUR NAMES BY THE END OF THE DAY”

The message was announced two more times before the class fell silent and then there was sudden chaos with all students getting excited and whispering and murmuring amongst each other.

“ATTENTION CLASS !”, the prof shouted and the class finally went silent when he sent his best glare towards the students.

The class carried on and we were lost in the amazing world of Quantum Physics before the bell rang and shook us out rudely from the dream land of sub atomic particles.

“It’s lunch break time, Ryder”, Chester whispered. “Let’s hurry up and give our names for the competitions”, he excitedly said.

“Yeah but have you decided where to participate ?”, I whispered back.

“Duh dude. I just said let’s give our names for the “competitions”. We are participating in both”, he said with finality in his tone.

“Are two dudes allowed in the couple dance competition ?”, I asked out loud thoughtfully.

“It doesn’t matter, Ryder. Let’s just give our names !”, Chester said hurriedly and two plump figures were soon running down the corridors before anyone caught us.

We succeeded in giving our names to the concerned authorities before anyone else held us up against a locker, washroom, inside a lonely room or any other f*****g place to bully or threaten us against giving our names.

The authorities teamed up me and Chester for both the events and now we were going to compete with everyone together.

“Whew ! I am so glad that we were able to give our names”, Chester said with a relieved sigh.

“Our nemesis are waiting for us in that washroom, Chester. Let’s just turn around and go towards the other side”, I whispered to him who only nodded in response.  

When we successfully made it to the cafeteria without getting any “on the way” beatings, our hairs stood up as we felt the dangerous presence of the twins again.

“So you thought we won’t notice that you would change course without us noticing huh ?”, the Lee twins laughed as they approached us near the cafeteria counter.

“We just came in the cafeteria to eat something”, I simply said and pushed past them while holding Chester’s hand with me and went towards the counter.

I felt the rowdy presence of the two bullies behind us again and I quickly mindlinked Chester to act like we were bending down to tie our shoe laces.

As soon as we ducked down their fists landed against the sturdy glass of the counter missing our heads by a few inches and they growled at us when everyone started laughing.

In their immense fury directed towards us, they caught us by our collars and smashed us to the spot where their fists had previously landed.

“Don’t act f*****g smart against us”, they shouted and punched us twice.

“Why don’t you leave us the f**k alone and show off your Karate skills somewhere else”, Chester roared in fury as blood dripped from the corner of his mouth.

“Huh”, the twins smirked and laughed. “So you think we are showing off our skills, huh ?”, they questioned as the inched closer to us menacingly.

“What else is it then ?”, Chester asked calmly with a teasing undertone to his question.

This boy will never learn.

He instigates the bullies and then gets beaten up himself.

Why can’t he keep his trap shut and let us have lunch peacefully.

“This is not even the ‘K’ of Karate, Fatso”, the twins laughed. “We will show you that in the competition”, they smugged.

“Let’s make a deal then. You don’t mess with us before the competition and whichever team gets knocked out first from the Martial Arts competition shall be branded as the losers and the winners can do whatever they want to do with the losers”, Chester said with new found confidence and crossed his arms.

Why the f**k is he challenging them ?

Why would they ever agree to this deal when they can already have their way with us ?

By now the cafeteria had gone dead silent and everyone’s attention was only on us.

“And why the f**k would we agree to this crap ?”, the bully twins laughed.

See ? I told you.

It is so cliché for the loser team to challenge their tormentors.

“So you guys are scared that we might defeat you”, Chester laughed.

This doofus’ big mouth. Ughh.

Where the hell is all this confidence of his coming from ?

Chester got a let’s say, well deserved punch in response because even I thought he was getting cocky and he lay sprawled out on the floor with his own pool of drool and blood surrounding him.

“Don’t you even dare to talk back to us like that”, the twins spat and walked away after giving us threatening looks.

I dragged my best friend towards the washroom and helped him clean up and let his wolf heal him as the day was still young and we had many more people to deal with.

“I am sorry”, Chester murmured.

His face looked so crestfallen and I was sure he was cursing himself inwardly.

“It’s ok. You tried”, I said and gave him a hug.

“I want to go back home this weekend”, Chester said as we headed towards our next class which was Physical Education.

“It’s my 19th birthday anyways. My Mom and Dads shall be waiting for me and my siblings in the pack house this weekend”, I informed him.

“That’s so cool ! You might even find who your mate is just as Aunt Amanda predicted !!”, Chester exclaimed. “She did say that you guys are gonna find your mates after you guys turn 19 years old !!!”, he shouted in glee.

“Shush !”, I cautiously looked around to make sure no one had heard us as I put a hand on his mouth before he babbled anymore and anyone heard us.

“Sorry, I got excited and forgot”, he grinned and hopped inside the class.

Luckily, no one picked on us the entire day as everyone was bracing themselves up for the competitions and it seemed like the Dark Gang was preparing for their leader’s birthday too which was incidentally during the weekend as mine.

Seems like they were excited for their Alpha’s 18th birthday and crowning ceremony.

I wish my pack was close to the university like theirs but still I am happy with my life.