Chapter 6

Dylan POV

During the last week, I’ve been horrible, in class I’ve been loud in voicing my views, I’ve insulted at least everyone to some degree, I didn’t care about the consequences, and I certainly didn’t think about them. I haven’t seen Nick at all since he was claimed, and to make matters worse today was the royal visit.

Oh yes, werewolves and mated humans alike were spending every waking minute preparing themselves to meet his royal majesty, king of the wolves. Unclaimed Humans however would rather stick pins in their eyes.

“Dylan, get down now… you’re going to be late.” She was right, I was dawdling this morning, I really couldn’t be bothered today, I gave myself one last look in the small mirror and sighed when my eyes met my newly uncovered brand. It had bad bruising around the letters, and was still extremely tender to touch, it was definitely healing now though.

I made my way down the stairs and came face to face with my mother who was seeing to Freddie, she was helping my brother get his coat on when she turned to me.

“You ready sport?” Freddie nodded his little head at me and smiled while I quickly slid my shoes on.

“Just Remember, the alpha is bad enough, Dylan, please, please don’t do anything to anger the king.” My mother stopped us from walking out the door to tell me something she had been telling me continuously for the last couple of days, it was almost as if the entire human population of our district was expecting me to do something stupid. “Try and have a good day.” I rolled my eyes but nodded, even I know not to push the king, he could kill me in the hallway like it was nothing. In fact I plan on staying out of his way for the entirety of the day.

“We will see you tonight mom.” I stated before me and my brother began our walk to school, his little hand clutched my own tightly as we went. Usually Nick would be with us, as he lives next door, well he used to, now he’s residing in the main pack house.

I quickly dropped Freddie off at his school and watched him get the wolfsbane neutralizer before walking into him building giving me a small wave before he went in.

With my new scar on complete show, and my figure being complimented by the skin tight shirt I was wearing, I sauntered down the street to school, I gave my name and year in and took the wolf’s bane neutralizer injection with no problems at all. It was finally getting into school that the problem occurred.

Walking through the halls I was met by many looks, some of pity some of disgust. You see every single non mated human in the school was wearing a long sleeved version of the uniform I was given. All the Wolves and mated couples were scattered around in fancy floor length dresses or tailored suits. As I turned the corner I noticed a couple, now this couple happened to catch my eye the most out of all of them because it consisted of Arya and Nick, eating each other’s faces off.

“What the fuck!” Nicks head shot to me as his eyes widened. He too was dressed in a tailored suit, a navy blue tie hung on his neck to match Aryas dress. Why was this happening all the fucking time? It’s always my friends that get completely brain washed. I shook my head in disbelief before turning my back on him. I heard his fast footsteps behind me as I rounded the corner.

“Dylan?!” He ran right in front of me, stopping me in my tracks, making me drop my bag off my shoulder and almost causing me to bump into him. “Let me just explain…”

“Has she marked you?” I mean you could almost see it in his eyes, she had marked him, and knowing the way life goes he’s probably even mated with her. “Actually… Don’t even answer that.” I aggressively picked my bag up off of the floor and stormed off down the hall.

“Dylan, just listen to me, Erin was right, it’s so hard to resist your soulmate, and Arya is actually ok once you get to know her.” I just kept walking, he caught up to me walking beside me but it didn’t matter, I completely ignored everything and everyone.

‘I’m so not in the mood today’ getting into class was good though, I said hello to Mr Foley and took my usual seat. Nick sighed then took his bag off ready to sit next to me, but I snapped before he had the chance. “Traitors and mated idiots sit on that side of the room.” I didn’t look him in the eye as I pointed to a seat right at the front of the classroom on the opposite side. His eyes widened as he turned his attention back to me.

“You can’t be serious Dylan.” I gave him a blank look before grabbing my book out of my backpack, I placed it on the desk then began to write the date on the top line. “I’ve sat in this seat for as long as I can remember.” I ignored him, his voice sounded sad and shocked. “Dylan? Wait! What is that?!” Before I could react Nick had grabbed hold of my branded arm and turned it to see the letters. “Oh my God! What the fuck happened?” I snatched my arm away from him and shrugged as I continued to write in my book before grabbing my water bottle out of my bag.

“The principal happened, it was my punishment for speaking out against Adrian and Arya. I wear it with pride.” He just held a complete look of disbelief.

“You spoke out against them?” I shrugged, what did he think I’d do.

“It’s no secret that I despise this stupid new world and the mutts that control it. You were my friend, I wasn’t going to let them just take you without saying something, although that is exactly what you seem to have done. Enjoy the view from your new seat!”

“Don’t be like that, Dylan, I’m your best friend, I’m sorry about your arm, but…” my eyes rolled inside my head at my friends words.

“Anything with the word ‘but’ in, isn’t an apology, it’s a rationalization.” I took a drink of water from my bottle and kept my eyes facing forward, ignoring his every attempt to try and talk to me.

“Dylan?.. Dylan?… Do you know what? Erin is right, if you push us all away you won’t have any friends left.” He huffed before walking over to the empty seat and sitting down, I could feel him glancing up at me every now and again but I didn’t respond.

“Good morning class, please settle down.” He looked at me then at Nick and frowned, we’ve never sat apart, we were friends before the new world even began. I just shook my head telling him to forget it. “So… as you know the king will be arriving in a short while, but until then lessons will go on as normal.” Its funny seeing teachers in the same uniform your wearing, mr Foley and his wife are the coolest. Human teachers and doctors only have slightly more respect than we do. Because of Mr Foley’s status him and his wife have better access to food and drink, Mrs Foley is cool, sometimes she even makes sure mr Foley brings some in for me. Ya know, coz I’m their favorite student. It’s not in a weird way, it’s just they were friends of the family before the new wold took effect. Mr Foley and my dad were buddies from high school, so it goes without sayin really.

“All the mated humans will be at the front of each years line again, after that you will all be placed in status, Nick, as your mated to Alpha Arya, you’ll be at the front of your line. Dylan as you have been branded…” his voice trailed off as he looked at me.

“Yeah yeah, I’ll be at the back of the line behind everyone. I get it.” I huffed, moving my sight towards the window once more.

“I am sorry.” I turned to face Mr Foley again, he looked genuinely upset and that look of pity wasn’t something I wanted to see. I gave him a clipped nod then turned away again. “Anyway, on to the subject matter, ‘Of Mice and Men, page 64, Nick why don’t you start us off with the reading.”

“Of course sir.” Nick began reading the book but I switched off, today is going to be a long day. After almost an hour and a half of reading comprehension, the bell chimed signaling lunch. I shot up and out of the classroom before anyone could say anything. Today, I was avoiding drama like the plague