My Secret, My Bully, My Mates

I have to admit, I'm excited too. This is what I have been dreaming about ever since I found out about the Elite Warriors. Working in the shadows, no one really knows who you are. It's not about the glory for them, well most of them, I think as Audrina's face pops into my head. They are the ones who take care of the really hard stuff and never get any public recognition. They make pack life better and most don't even realize it.

"We better get the homework done then, and maybe a nap if we're going to be up all night." I move towards my books.

"Wwwwhhhhyyyy?!" Mina whines. "We are like two weeks ahead on everything. I hate your classes, have I ever told you that?"

I laugh. "Maybe once or twice. But we don't know what this new training is going to do to us. If we can't stay ahead, it's going to be a bigger pain in the ass, trust me. Let's get this out of the way and then we can actually focus for the next week on training."

"Ugh, I hate it when you make sense!' She moves for her backpack. "At least most of the classes are starting to make sense. Math might kill me though. I may just have you take the test for me so the professor doesn't have to wait a week for me to finish it." We both start to giggle.

For the next two hours we work through everything that we can. Mina asks for help every now and then, but mostly we just work in comfortable silence.

By 6pm we are starving and as far as we can go with all of our subjects so we head downstairs to see if we can grab food before one of the warriors picks us up for training. Stella and Jack must have been told what was going on in some form, because when we walked into the kitchen two heaping plates were set aside with our names on them. I just smiled, something about the way they take care of us feels like what Luna Ava and Alpha Lucas would do. Parents secretly caring for the kids that want to grow up, but doing it without hovering.

We take our plates out to the dining room. While we are eating Audrina, Bridget and Chelsea walk by laughing about something. They all stop at the same time. It's almost like they share a brain. Now that I think about it, maybe they do since they have all been branded, maybe they were talking over the shared link and somehow knew to stop together. I don't know.

hell?" Chelsea

get to eat in the middle of training? And where's the spread?" Bridget says looking around,

They way she acts out in public, you would never know her real age. The way she whines about homework is another matter altogether. "That's just code for the spoiled princess gets whatever she wants." Audrina snarks, but the cold stare of

and then some. If you don't like our arrangement you will need to take it to the warrior who will be here to pick us up around eight." Mina stares them all down. For a Delta her presence is strong. The difference is, she doesn't use it to make people bow down to her, more as a pressure to

compound while the rest of us actually work. You'll never get called up if you can even manage to graduate." Audrina

train more than she does with all the extra thatl force my friends to put in and whatever hairbrained thing she has us do every

jealous of you it's kind of disturbing." Mina says around a

it's me she's jealous of. You walked in here like you owned the place and then owned the sparring mat your first night. I think I

my presence is supposed to be known. You came in unknown. No one knew you, or

my friends had some stupid small nickname for me. laughed thinking about the way that all started, then

special?" She asked with a funny look

and overbearing and wonderful

hearts did