Study and Train.
Envy
I took the time to weave through the streets of Red Moon before I left. It was only an extra few minutes, but I just really wanted to see what the pack looked like. Aleisha was honestly so nice. A bit out of shape, but she has good potential, and I’m buzzing with energy right now because I think I just made my first-ever friend around my own age. We’d made plans for the weekend to hang out properly, and I’m pretty sure I’m going to have so much fun with this new job of training her.
I zip in through my own pack lands. Tolaris pack has been everything I’ve ever needed, until today, until I realised there was more to life than just working hard and achieving goals. I park my new bike in the garage next to Felix’s and slip in the side door. I don’t have time to change before the dinner rush, thanks to my little detour, but that’s okay.
“Hey girl, thank god you’re here. Can you start on those vegetables?” Jenny greets me.
“Yeah, of course.” I slip off my leather jacket and gloves, leaving the riding pants and boots with my camo crop top, and get to work, busying myself. Dinner was, as always, a success. I know this due to the lack of leftovers in the bain-maries. I’m silently cursing myself for not putting a portion aside for myself before I took the food out. Checking the time, it’s too late to be making anything else now, so I just grab a few granola bars and head upstairs. I can probably get in about an hour and a half of study before I need to sleep. I turn the hallway with half a granola shoved in my mouth when I stop dead. Right in front of my door, are dingbat one and two.
“Ready to study?” Theo grins at me.
“I thought I said I wasn’t going to help you two.”
“And I thought I said we would meet you here late.” Zion steps forward with a plate of food. “I figured you wouldn’t have had a chance to get anything.”
“That’s…nice?” I tilt my head in confusion.
“Don’t get it twisted, little warrior. I just don’t want you passing out on us.”
I roll my eyes and dig my keys out of my leather pants. Putting the key in the door and pushing it open before walking inside. The two giants follow me in, not like I invited them, but here they are, standing in my now smaller-looking room. Zion puts the plate of food on my desk and takes a moment to look around.
“Where’s all your stuff?”
I point to one of the doors. “Closet.”
To my surprise, the bastard goes and opens said closet. Not that I really care, I don’t have anything to hide.
“There’s literally nothing in here but some training gear and two sets of shoes.”
“And two hoodies.” I point out.
“Seriously?” Theo pokes his head over Zion's shoulder. “Where’s all your stuff?”
I plop down at the desk and unwrap the food. There’s no point in being high and mighty. I need food to train the way I do and keep up my stamina. “That’s all I need. Now, did you want to study or not? I have a bit over an hour left allocated before I need to pass out.”
They both settle on my queen-sized bed like they own it. I have to stifle a laugh at how ridiculous they look on it. It went from being an average size to being tiny. It becomes pretty evident after about twenty minutes that these two really do need help. I'm not sure why Alpha Marcus decided it was a good idea to put them into advanced classes. The time they've wasted in school has really caught up to them, and I'd honestly wonder if they could even pass normal classes at this rate.
Theo huffs out a breath and flops onto his back. "How the fuck do you even keep up with all of this?"
I shrug. "It's important."
"Yeah, but you do patrol shifts, dinner shifts, advanced classes, you build bikes with my Dad, and now you're also going to and from Blood Moon?"
Zion looks up from his book curiously. "What are you doing at Blood Moon?"
"I thought you were the future Alpha, shouldn't you already know everything?"
"I heard Dad say that she was asked to train the future Beta female over there."
Zion cocks an eyebrow at me, "You really that good?"
I roll my eyes. "You'd know if you decided to watch instead of just tripping me over and interrupting my training every chance you got."
He mumbles something under his breath that I don't catch, but apparently, Theo's wolf hearing does, because his eyebrows shoot up and almost off his face.
"We're not here to discuss me. Get back to the books or get out. I don't have time to muck around."
The following morning, I almost tripped going out my door. To my surprise, there's a little red box on the floor directly outside. I wonder if it's a mistake, but I bring it inside anyway, undoing the bow and taking off the lid. It's a figure of a motorbike, not just any motorbike, my motorbike. It's nice, but I don't know what to do with it, so I place it on my desk, giving it a small smile before heading out to train. I nick a few more granola bars and fill up my water bottle, shoving them inside my bag before I run to the training field out the back. Another surprise, although I'm not sure it's a good one. Theo and Zion stand in the middle of the barely lit field. They take off with just their shirts and I almost turn around to leave, as I really don't need to be spending any more time suffering around them, but Zion must have scented me as he sticks his nose in the air before turning around.
"Little warrior. We've come to see these skills of yours."
"You know you're really starting to invade my personal time," I mumble out, setting my bag down and beginning to stretch.
He simply shrugs his shoulders and starts to copy my movements, along with Theo, who only looks half awake.
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