The Alpha And His Abused Mate (#Wattys2016)

"Ice Cream?"

River above
DONT TAKE OFFENSE TO ANY STEREOTYPES... IM IN BAND DONT FREAK
Ellie's POV:

As I slowly looked up, to see 'Mr. Hales' he said, "My name is River." 

I didn't really care, but I didn't want to come off rude, so I said: "I'm Ellie." I wanted to sound confident but it came out quiet and weak. I didn't realize he was staring at me until I felt his hand touch my face, and shocks raced up my cheek. My face felt hot so I knew I was blushing, 'I'm g-gonna go." I spoke hurriedly so I didn't know if he understood what I just said, but after that, I booked it out of that class as fast as I could.

'What a weirdo..' I thought, I mean he's hot as crap but that was just creepy, not to mention awkward. It's not like I could have friends anyway if Craig found out he would really hurt me, especially if it was a male friend.  

My next class was band, so I walked to room 305. Once I got close enough, I could hear a bunch of noises and I knew I was in the right place. As I opened the door, it made a creaking sound, which reminded me of Craig and my house. I quickly forgot that thought and continued, my way into the room. I entered and saw the conductor, so I walked up and said: "I'm Ellie Smith, I'm a new student." She looked up from the sheet music in front of her and gave me a large smile. 

"Good morning, and welcome! I'm Mrs. Woodby," I smiled slightly at how happy she was, but paid attention to what she was saying, "It says here you play Alto Saxophone, is that correct."

"Yes, Ma'am." I had been playing since sixth grade, which was six years ago. A smile lit up my face as I remembered all the memories from band. Whatever anyone says about band kids, being nerdy and quiet was wrong. At my old schools, we had had jocks, cheerleaders, nerds, you name it we had everybody. I won't get started with what we did when the conductor wasn't watching, what we did in the stands on football games, no words would match up to the actual experience.
Band got me through lots of hard times, and it helped me meet new people at the new schools I went to. "That's great, we need a little feminism, all of our other Altos are boys, so I hope you don't mind." My first thought was 'If they're hot, I won't mind at all.' But then I registered what I just said, and I mentally slapped myself, like what the heck Ellie your not some chick who just sleeps around.

"It shouldn't be a problem, Mrs. Woodby. Guys don't really bother me that much." She nodded her head, and I followed her into a back room, where she gave me a saxophone to use and I went to where my seat should be. "Hey, you're a girl, what are you doin' back here? The flute section is in the front." A brown haired guy, said to me as I sat down in the Alto section.

"Leave her alone Gabe," a boy that looked like River said to the other boy "I'm Alex."

"Ellie," I replied shortly.

"The douche over there is Gabe and the other five are Luke, Jack, Spencer, Andy, and Aiden." As he was talking he was pointing to a group of guys, standing in the back of the room. They looked like they were arguing over something, but I had to stop staring as they walked over to where I was standing.

"Guys this is Ellie." I gave them a small wave and they smiled back.

"Wait so you guys are okay with having a girl in our section?" After Gabe said that, the other guys looked at him funny and Jack said, "Gabe she's a girl, not a disease. Anyways that means, we get to prove ourselves to Mrs. Woodby, I mean she's a girl and we play a guy instrument she can't be that good." He and Gabe seemed to share a brain, these goofs, they didn't know that I took pride in my instrument.

"Altos! Class starts in three minutes put your instruments together!" Mrs. Woodby yelled over trumpets and flutes who were blowing into their horns to try and get a good tone. I sat down next to Alex and Luke and put together, my saxophone.

"Alright class, we have a new student her name is Ellie, please make her feel as welcome as possible." Mrs. Woodby gave me an introduction that I got pretty accustomed to, with all the moving I had done. Everyone turned around in their seats and looked at me, which I didn't really mind because I knew it was coming.

"Ellie we warm up every day, on the b flat scale, put together with different notes. If you want to just watch today that would be okay."

"That's okay I think I got it." I gave her smile and sat back in my seat while she flipped through a book she had upon her stand. A smirk formed itself on my face as I knew I could play this, this was something I had been doing since at least seventh grade. Alex must have noticed, because he whispered in my ear, "Your secretly really good aren't you?" I nodded and he replied, "Well it won't be a secret for much longer." The section was surprised, to say the least, and was really funny to see their faces.

As we were packing up a girl with brown hair, greeted me and said: "My name is Morgan, it was really funny to see you set the guys in their place." Alex snuck up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"I swear to God Alex, you're going to give me a heart attack!" I got a kick out of that and let out a small laugh, and soon enough they both joined in. I found out that I and Morgan had the same classes. We started walking to the Gym, where I got a set of gym clothes and followed her into the locker rooms. Once we exited, a cheery girl with blonde hair ran over to Morgan. They met each other halfway and jumped into the air and butt bumped. As they calmed down Morgan introduced the other girl to me.

"Ellie this is Lexi. Lexi this is Ellie." After quick hellos, they were both filling me in on the gossip of the day. Suddenly while Lexi was talking about someone who did something I don't know I wasn't really paying attention, a loud whistle was sounded off followed by a voice who I assumed belonged to our teacher.

"Today the boys will be joining us in a game of dodgeball. It'll be boys against girls." Just as she finished talking about thirty or so boys came into the gym, including River, Alex, and Gabe. Balls were set down the middle of the floor and at the sound of the whistle, everyone went running. You would think the girls would wait for the balls to be thrown back, but no we all went for them.

Morgan and I were one of the few left with about three boys left. Wanna know who was left? River, Alex, and Gabe. A couple minutes later Morgan, was out because Alex hit her, which I couldn't believe and so for payback, I got Alex out. I went to pick a ball up and as I came back up, I was hit in the side of the face. The ball was thrown so hard I couldn't believe it. The gym went quiet and the teacher and someone else rushed over to my side.

"Ellie are you okay?" The teacher asked. I wonder if she was actually concerned, or just was hoping that I was okay so she didn't have to write up an accident report.

"Move your hand sweetie." I did as she said and I heard a sharp intake of breath. Followed by a cuss word from... River?

"River do you mind taking her to the nurse's office?"

"No, not at all." He may not mind but I sure did, this guy was weird! He was hot, but he couldn't just have sex with me and then be like 'Bye you're not needed anymore!'

I felt myself being picked up by River and I relaxed into his arms.

"You know I can walk right?"

"Yeah."

"Then will you put me down."

"Nope." He said while popping the 'p'. I sighed and just let him do what he wanted, I mean it's not like I could do anything, he was like 6'6, which was humongous compared to my 5'3 figure. After about five minutes I was questioning why it was taking so long to get to the office.

"River?"

"Yes?"

"I have a feeling we're not going to the nurse's office are we?"

"Nah, I had a better idea."

"Well then, where are we going?"

"Ice cream?"

"If I say no you're still going to take me aren't you."

" I was planning on it."

"Okay then. Ice cream it is. " Well, this ought to be interesting."