My Hockey Alpha

Nina

I searched high and low through the cabins in the hopes of finding some sort of lead on where Luke was, but unfortunately there was nothing. It seemed that the Fullmoons cleaned up every scrap, every little thing that would have indicated that they were even living here to begin with, and now they were gone.

I just hoped that Luke was okay. Hopefully, Myra or one of the others who didn’t agree with Lewis managed to set him free. I had to let that hope be the thing to keep me going for now, because I had a lot to do.

As I made my way back to the campus, I decided to head over to the infirmary to try one last time to finish the antidote.

And, unexpectedly, my friends were already there. When I arrived, Lori, Jessica, and Matt were all standing outside, waiting for me.

“We were just looking for you,” Lori said as I approached. “Where were you?”

“I just walked out to the cabins,” I replied as I unlocked the door. “It looks like the Fullmoons are already gone.”

My friends’ eyes all widened. “What?” Matt asked, his voice sounding disbelieving. “Seriously? They just up and left?”

I nodded as I walked into the infirmary and flicked on the lights. When I explained what Myra had told me the last time I talked to her, my friends were in an even greater state of disbelief. It really did seem as though Lewis fully planned on taking over as the Fullmoon Alpha, and there was no knowing exactly where they went.

the bright side, the antidote

found the name of the compound jotted down on a scrap of paper, shoved into the back of one of Tiffany’s drawers. There was no way of knowing whether it would work based on a single sticky note, but

as I dropped the compound into

widened as the solution began to turn black, and I took

solution turned

“Nina… I think you did

My friends joined me, high-fiving me and congratulating me on my breakthrough. Of course, there was still the question of how we would test it, but

produce more, and then we could distribute it and

As I bottled up the antidote and put it away safely for testing, my smile eventually fell. I knew I needed to tell my friends about Selena and Enzo; I just hoped that they believed me and that they wouldn’t blame my headspace on the fumes from trying to

a cabinet, “I need to talk to you about something. You’re

friends’ brows furrowed. But then, suddenly, Matt

and look at him. He paused then and cleared his throat before speaking again. “I think

relieved that one of my friends seemed

that,” I said, looking at Lori and Jessica now. My two friends stared back at me with knowing looks on their faces; they knew what I was about to say next. “I think it’s Selena and Enzo in disguise. And before you call me crazy, just hear me out: every time I look at either of them for more than just a few moments, I swear they shift in appearance. I’ve seen it too many times now for it to just be a coincidence. And furthermore, they’re staying

did Matt. “If Selena and Enzo were here in some sort of disguise or whatever, then why wouldn’t

few minutes alone with him, I can make him remember. Just last night, I ran into him and he said that I