The Alpha's Secret Daughter

02.

Bethany's POV:

"My name is Jones, I'm in charge of the staff and make sure everything runs smoothly here every day; girls' quarter to the right side of the staircase, boys to the left",Mr. Jones says to me.

Miss Ella leaves me with him.

"Where are the other students?"

"Some are around campus, but the main leader will be here tonight after dinner. You'll have plenty of time to meet everyone, but for now go get settled in. Your room is the number that your key has."

I looked down at my key, room 4.

"Room four?"

"Yes, I'm sure you'll get along with your roommate with no problem", he assures me.

I went up the stairs and turned right. When I get to the top of the staircase, there is a small living room with couches, a flat-screen TV, and a small dining table through the double open doors.

I go down the corridor on the left side of the room, I find room 4 with no problem.

I open the door and gasp at how huge the room is, with two queen-sized beds facing each other on opposite sides of the wall, a balcony straight ahead, and there are two closets, two study desks with their own lamps, and one big bathroom with two sinks and two mirrors,

"Whoa."

I see my suitcases.

I opened the closet. It's a walk-in closet that only had my school uniforms, gym clothing, and shoes.

I unpack my suitcases and then take a shower.

30 minutes later

I am going through my closet looking at my uniform when I hear voices outside the room.

"I smell something strange", a female voice says.

"Me too, that's odd, it's almost like our Alpha's scent."

"You don't think Tyler sneaked into the room to pull a back-to-school prank again, do you?"

"Duncan would kill him", the first voice chuckles.

"It smells too feminine to be Tyler."

"Do you think your roommate has arrived?"

"It's almost dinnertime, so I bet."

I heard the door open, " Hello?"

I walk out of the closet and both girls gasp.

"Who are you?" The ginger-haired girl questions.

"I'm Bethany, I'm new here", I answered.

The blonde hair frowns at me, "are you sure you're new here?"

I nod.

"How did you even get here? I know for sure you don't live around here?" The ginger haired girl crossed her arms.

"Um... I was enrolled here."

"I mean how did you get access to the elite group quarters?"

I shrug.

"It's clear she can afford it, stop scaring her Linzey, hey I'm Kortney, Linzey's cousin", the blonde-haired girl introduced herself.

I nod.

"You're not a scholarship student, are you? There is a quarter for those types of people. You don't look like you come from a rich household with the clothes you're wearing", Linzey states.

"I like to keep a low profile."

She smiles, "don't we all? I'm sorry for the way I am behaving, I thought my alp- friend was playing a joke on me."

"It's okay, nice to meet you."

"You smell funny", Kourtney sniffs at me.

"What?" I smelled under my arm.

I just finished showering a while ago.

"Not like that she meant, she means your perfume", Linzey chuckles, giving her cousin a look.

Perfume? I'm not wearing any.

"I'm not wea-"

"Do you want to meet our friends? They are in the main living room playing a game", Linzey cuts me off.

"Actually I just want to stay here until dinner time", I replied.

"Well I'm going to my room", Kourtney leaves.

"Since they are basically only three of us, how come we have to share a room?"

"There are more to come, but you're right, there are more guys than girls here", she sits on her bed, "you're not from a prestigious background are you?"

I shake my head.

"Do you know who your parents are?"

"My mother raised me on her own, no idea who my father is", I shrug.

"I see", she frowns, "you have unique eyes though."

"I know people wouldn't stop staring at me when I got here earlier. I guess they have never seen such colored eyes before", I shrugged.

"Or there are only two other people in this entire pack with such colored eyes", she mutters.

"What?"

"Nothing, let me give you an official tour of the area outside", she got up,"Luckily. We're closer to the lake."

We leave the bedroom, go downstairs, pass through the kitchen and go outside go the sun has set a while ago and the stars are coming out.

"This is my favorite spot to go and study under that tree", she pointed at the big tree.

I approach it, it has an initial on the trunk, L & D forever.

"My boyfriend craved that before the summer, this is the place where we first kissed", she explains.

"That's so romantic."

"Yeah it is", she blushes.

Our tour took roughly twenty minutes, then we went to the dining hall for dinner. There were a lot of students already seated.

I feel so intimidated already. I kept my head down as I looked for a table, hoping Linzey wouldn't notice. I may be sleeping in the elite's quarters, but I plan on avoiding them as much as possible.

Thankfully, Linzey gets distracted by a black-haired guy, so I find a table quietly away from the elite's table. It's not hard to figure out which tables are theirs since Kortney is sitting by one talking to a bronze-colored-haired guy.

I realized everyone had a tray in front of them with dinner. Oh no, I forgot to go to the line for my dinner.

Suddenly, a few waiters entered the dining hall with covered trays. I bet those are for the elite kids. A waiter approaches me and places a covered tray in front of me, everyone stops what they are doing and watches me.

Uh oh.

The guy with the bronze colored hair stares at me, his eyes widen in surprise when our gazes meet. He has the same colored eyes as me. How?

"She's the new girl."

"I saw her going to the elite quarters earlier. Is she staying there?"

"I bet her family is rich."

"Why do she and Tyler look like?"

I duck down my head and stare at the tray in front of me, I just want to go somewhere I hide.

"Hey Beth", Linzey comes and sits by the table. I am with her tray, and the black haired guy does the same.

"Hey I'm Duncan, her boyfriend", he introduces himself.

"Why does that guy over there look like you?" I frowned.

"He's my twin brother, Dylan, and a pain in the butt."

I smile.

"I can hear you, Duncan."

"I wasn't whispering."

"Just ignore everyone, they've never seen a pretty girl before", Linzey says, and I chuckle.

"Well she isn't lying", Dylan approached the table, "nice to meet you, Bethany."

I nod.

"So you're Linzey's roommate? We're gonna have so much fun during sleepovers."

"Sleepovers?"

"Yes, we sometimes sneak to the girls' quarter and have sleepovers", he replies.

"And sometimes I go to the boys' quarter", Linzey adds.

"Do we know your parents? All elite kids' parents are close friends or in the same group", Dylan asks.

"I don't think so."

"Are you a scholarship student then and was mistakenly placed in our building?"

"Stop asking her questions", Linzey glares at him.

"I was trying to get to know her."

"Don't you have a freshman to go harass or something?"

"Tomorrow."

"Attention all students, the headmaster will be addressing you now", someone announces, and everyone stops talking and pay attention to the man that has just entered the room.

"Hello students, for those of you who don't know me, I'm headmaster Gordon, but you can call me Mr. Gordon welcomes all freshmen, new students, and continuing students to River Creek Academy", the white haired man says and we all clap, "I hope your time here will be memorable for the freshmen group. I know all of you worked hard to get here, seniors, may this last year here be a memorable one."

"Yeah!" Linzey yells and her friends cheer.

"Glad to see you back, Ms. Mintz."

After the speech, some students did a performance to start off the new school year and we returned to our rooms after dinner, which was close to 9 pm.

"Hey, aren't you going to introduce me to your new friend?" A light-brown haired guy with blue eyes asked Linzey as we walked outside.

"Even this is Bethany, she's my roommate", Linzey replies.

"It's a pleasure to meet you", he takes my hand and kisses it, I blush, "are you related to Tyler?"

"Who?"

The alp-", Linzey elbows him in the stomach.

"What?"

"Never mind, good night", he leaves us.

"What classes do you have tomorrow?"Linzey asks once we get to our room.

I get my class schedule.

"I have AP Biology and History in the morning, in the afternoon I have AP Calculus and Geography, followed by an hour in study hall."

"Study hall is basically time to do anything like homework or research. The first week of school is basically slow. Besides reading here and there for certain subjects, are you signing up for any activity?"

I shake my head.

"I'm on the swimming team."

"What are training sessions after classes two days a week and Sundays on a weekend?"

"That's mandatory, in training you learn self-defense, you run and learn to use weapons", she answers.

"Why?"

"In case we get attacked."

"Attack? From what?"

"Oh look at the time I had better get to bed, Duncan and I go on a morning run before classes start", she ignores my question.

"What time?"

"About 5:30 am in the woods."

I go to the bathroom and wash up before bed then I'll send my mom a quick email that I reach safely and settle down nicely.

Someone knocks on the door when I am typing on my laptop, Linzey is on her bed reading.

"Guys!" Kourtney opens the door, "you wouldn't believe what I just heard."

"What?"

"All the senior year students are invited to the packhouse this Saturday for a small gathering with Mr.Bryan. Food will be provided."

"No way", Linzey gasps.

"Yes way, it's a type of formal so I hope you got a dress", she nods.

"Always."

"What about you Beth?" Kourtney turns to me.

"I'm not going", I shook my head.

"I'm sure I have an extra dress."

"It's okay really."

"You can't turn this down, all senior students are required to go, it's an order."

"By who?"

"The owner of the school."

"I don't have a dress."

"Let me worry about that. Have you worn eye contact before?"

"Yeah, why?"

"You don't want to draw too much attention at the gathering. Would you wear them if you had to?"

I nodded, mom told me to blend in as much as possible.

"Good it's settled then, the cars will pick us up at 4 pm", she leaves.

"How big will this small gathering be?" I turned to Linzey.

"Well, there are about 120 senior students, so there will be a lot of people."

"Oh."

"Don't worry, you won't be mingling too much with them once you stick with me."

I rather mingle with them, I don't want to accidentally meet one of the elite kids' parents who will take one look at me and throw me out of their fancy party.

"I can feel your fear, you don't have anything to worry about, the owner of the school is very polite along with his wife."

"Are any of your friends their child by any chance?"

"One actually, Tyler."

"The one with the bright eyes?"

"Yeah", she nods.

I see, so I had better stay clear of him then.

"Duncan and Dylan are his best friends, their parents are super close."

"Oh."

"You'll be fine once you don't piss off anyone", she chuckles.

I hope not. I'm a walking disaster.

I finished writing my email and sending it to mom.

"You better try to go to sleep if you want to have enough time tomorrow to have breakfast, dress, and find your class on time. This campus is huge", she adds.

"My first class isn't until 8:30 am", I frowned.

"Well, we are very punctual. The doors lock at 8:30 but the lecturers are in the classroom at 8:20 am, so sometimes they already start writing on the board by the time the door locks."

"So I can't be late ever?"

"Even though you'll have to hide out in the library or something until your next class because the hall monitors will be patrolling the hallways so no point getting back to your room unseen", she explains.

Wow, this school is strict.

"It's all about discipline and being ready for anything. If you get caught without a pass, then your punishment is varied depending on how many offenses you got, from detention to running in the woods, to staying in the water or to standing in the sun holding two buckets of dirt."

Whoa, it's worse than the military.

"So don't break the rules. You'll be alright."

"Have you ever broken a rule?"

"We all did", she laughs, "freshman year I was caught swimming in the lake after hours. We aren't allowed in the lake after 7 pm unless we get permission from our coach or a teacher."

"What about if it's an emergency?"

"Then you'll be spared."

Oh, this will be an interesting year.

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