Chapter 33: I'm No Trick!

Mia had a pleasant conversation with Nico.

She learnt a great deal about him.

That Theo as well as the rest of the members of the student council were quite close.

He loved coffee.

Plus, he had a big family of four brothers and sisters.

However he went quiet when talking about his parents and Kavyaa decided not to pry too much.

"Well, it's getting late, I should head back to my tent."

But Nico wasn't done with her yet.

He grabbed her hand and prevented her from leaving.

"Wait, it hasn't been an hour yet Mia."

Kavyaa sighed and just wished to retire to her bed.

"Nico, I don't care, I'm really tired."

Then suddenly he pushed her back making her lie next to him. She was stunned with his sudden behaviour.

"Nico?!"

"Don't go just yet, stay a while Mia? I'm starting to enjoy your company."

He glanced towards his watch.

"For the next twenty minutes?"

Kavyaa shook her head, fine.

"But don't get the wrong idea. I'm not into you. You're a complete friend zone to me." Kavyaa said strictky making Nico chuckle. Sure he was facinated with her and he did find her cute, and he wouldn't dare cross that romantic line with her, knowing she was his Alpha's mate.

"Well since I'm in the friend zone. Mind telling me who you like?"

Kavyaa sat up.and looked at him shaking her head.

"No way."

"Why not?"

"Because you'll go tell your friends and then the guy that I like will end up getting beaten up."

Nico sighed. He felt bad that they had to keep her away from Chase.

"I'm sorry that we beat up Chase."

"Yeah, why did you guys do that, and why isn't he allowed to hang out with me at school?"

Nico fell silent not able to tell her anything.

He just wanted to know how the heck she grew a root vine out ftom the ground that tripped him up.

"Fine, since you're not going to tell me anything, i'll get going."

She turned to leave the tent.

"Alpha Roman."

Then stopped. She looked back at him sharply.

"What?"

Curses!

He wasn't meant to talk about him.

"Nothing."

Mia crawled back towards him and grabbed his collar.

"Nico, you have to tell me about Alpha Roman, because if you don't I'm not leaving this tent!

"We'll get into trouble, if the teachers catch us." He reminded.

"I don't care! Look I over heard Nabi talking about to her body guard, and I want to know why he's keeping an eye on me?"

Nico sighed and gently pulled her hands away from his collar. He could see how worried and angry she was.

"You're right, it's late. You better go." Nico said trying to evade her keen interest with his Alpha boss.

But Kavyaa suddenly pulled out her pocket knife and pointed it at him warningly.

Nico raised a brow, sensing her pounding heartbeats.

"Woah! Mia?"

"Tell me."

"Or what?" He challenged, remaining absolutely calm.

Kavyaa nervously gulped knowing she was only trying to scare him, but there was no way she would actually harm him.

She sighed giving up and gave him a cold look before turning away. However Nico grabbed her and pulled her on his lap, all whilst grabbing the knife.

He pointed it at her neck making her quite alarmed.

"Nico?!" Her heart pounded nervously as she sensed his strange high energy.

"Don't move."

She suddenly felt him sniff her head.

She smelt amazing to him. Even if he taken the pill, he couldn't help himself and feel attracted towards her.

Even if she was of limits.

She was still a lamb, trapped on the lap of a wolf.

Nico wished to kiss her due to his horny side slowly waking up, but he managed to control himself and placed his chin ontop of her shoulder, making Kavyaa gasp.

Her cheeks heated up by the way he held her, on his lap.

"You shouldn't have this."

He played the blade over her skin gently making a shiver run down her spine.

"Did you trip me up today on the mountain whilst you were on my back Mia?"

"I..I don't know what you're talking about?"

Her heart spiked and she tried to squirm out of his hold but Nico held her tighter, with one firm arm wrapping around her arms whilst he had her on his lap.

"Don't lie to me Mia. Cloud told me that you tripped him up to when you fought with him and the same thing happened again. So tell me how you did it?"

"Let me go Nico, or I swear I'll scream."

Nico chuckled as her heart beats rised some more. He could easily sense her lie.

She wasn't going to scream, because she didn't want to get caught with him.

"I'll tell you about Alpha Roman if you do."

Alpha Roman.

The one that everyone seemed to fear.

"How can I trust you? You work for him right, and I can't really show you what I did." She said in all honesty.

Nico loosened up his hold on her, seeing as she relaxed and wasn't fighting him anymore.

Kavyaa got of his lap and then quickly went to grab her knife off him.

However Nico was quick and pulled the blade away from her.

"I'll even give this back, if you tell me more about yourself?" He grinned and she sighed in defeat.

"You're not going to let this go are you?"

Nico shook his head.

"When people hide things from me. I tend to dig deeper, and right now I don't think you're being completely honest with me Mia."

A part of her wished she could tell him her real name. But due to the rules, she had to keep her mouth shut.

"You're going to freak out if I do." Kavyaa said knowing she shouldn't share this part of her life with him.

But what choice did she have?

Nico wasn't going to easily let her out if this tent and he'd already become quite suspicious of her.

"I won't."

He said looking at her with curious intrigue.

Kavyaa sighed.

"Fine well I can't show you here, we need to go to the woods."

"Why the woods?"

"I need ground, soil, dirt you catch my drift?"

Soil and dirt?

He pulled his sleeping bag to the side and knelt again towards the tent floor.

Nico then took her knife and then struck it towards the tent floor ripping through it's thin green fabric.

"Nico?! That's school property!"

"Relax, it's a little hole."

He ripped out a piece revealing the ground he built his tent upon.

"Here you go, your dirt and soil just like you requested."

Kavyaa sighed. There was no way she was going to be able to run away from revealing her secret now.

"Well?"

Kavyaa muttered a silent curse under her breath and put her hand over the dry grassless ground.

Soon she thought of her favourite plant and Nico saw the ground she covered with her palm, shortly tremble.

His eyes were trained heavily not daring to look away when she removed her a palm.

A short plant spurt out with leaves, then grew to atleast ten imches with flowers.

Nico's heart pounded with a little fear yet excitement at the same time.

"Are you a magician? Or is this some sort of an Illusion?"

He gasped when touched the authentic blue bell plant.

"I'm not a trick. I'm real."

"What are you?"

He looked at her as if she wasn't human. He wasn't wrong, but there was no way in hell she was going to tell him that.

What if he panicked or freaked out? No she had to be careful since she didn't exactly trust him too much.

"Just a girl with a gift. Now, please tell me who Alpha Roman is, or I'm walking out of here Nico, and if you dare try to stop me, i'll call upon my vine powers and have you strapped down to the ground."

Kavyaa warned keeping him in the dark about who she really was.

But Nico didn't care. He found her trully amazing and knew he'd have to find out about her through other means. He didn't wish to mess with her plant powers and knew he was taking a big risk in telling her. However his dear friend deserved the truth.

"He's a guy, that'll give you nightmares if you ever cross him."

"Nightmares? How?"

"He has powers too. Mind powers, he can get inside your head, cause you pain without really touching you, and he's got telekinisis powers too."

Kavyaa found the last part unbelievable that she chuckled.

"It's not funny Mia."

"What does he look like?"

That was the million dollar question.

"Only he's top betas know, but the rest don't because he hides his face behind a black yokai mask."

"Betas?"

"We're more like guards."

"Are you a Beta aswell?"

"A junior Beta, the student council members of Apollo High are like a secret elite team that helps guard the school under his watch." Nico explained.

"Why does he have you guarding the school and for what?"

Killer Rogue wolves. Nico dared not to mention anything to her about his kind.

"I can't tell you the everything Mia, he'll kill me if he finds out, and trust me the man behind the black yokai mask always finds out." Nico sighed.

A black yokai mask? The way Nico described him, was almost describing the devil himself.

A small chill ran down her spine.

"Why does he want me?"

"Well 'miracle plant grow' you tell me?"

Kavyaa scoffed. He's kidding right?

"I haven't shown him my powers! How can he possibly know?"

"Because Mia, he's an Alpha. He's got eyes on almost everyone and he only recruits people will special talents."

"Oh yeah? What's so special about you Nico?"

He was just about to reveal his secret about him being a top hacker but suddenly a loud shriek of a woman filled the air.

Waking almost all the students on camp.

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