Typhoon & Tempest

Chapter Six

Lily heaved the door out of the way and splayed her hands on the sink. Her hands were shaking as they rested against the still-wet porcelain, knuckles white with anxiety. She couldn't see anyone in the bathroom so Lily breathed deeply, staring at her brown eyes in the mirror. Her deep red hair was curling out of its braid, her freckles standing out more as her skin was still white in shock. 

She jumped when the door to the bathroom opened and Laura walked in with her two friends.

"Hey," Lily choked. "Thank you for standing up to them-"

"Let's get one thing straight, Morgan." Laura held up a hand while interrupting. "We didn't do it for you."

Lily scowled. "Then why'd you do it?"

"Alpha's orders." Tricia said coldly, watching her with suspiciously.

"I don't understand?"

Laura shrugged. "Neither do we - we were just ordered to keep an eye on you because of what you did for Alice." 

Lily was glad she was holding the sink because she would have fallen to her knees. "W-What?"

Laura narrowed her eyes. "You saved Alice, so Andrew's in your debt. He's enlisted the whole pack to support you - I took that to mean standing up to Isaac for you." 

The brunette on the right stepped forward, her eyes dark and accusing. "Isaac's right about you being a freak around here though; how'd you save Alice if you're nothing?"

Lily didn't move, didn't speak, just looked at the three of them in the eye. Her churning stomach settled almost instantly as cold fury laced her veins. Nothing? I'm not nothing. I'm something alright, something that can kick your arse.

Lily was going to give Croft an earful when she next saw him, and the alpha too, but first she had to stand up to these three. She raised an eyebrow at them, and shrugged. 

"You don't need to know that, it's none of your business." Lily didn't recognise her sharp voice, the confident and pissed off tone of it. "You just need to abide by your alpha's order - what will his reaction be to you calling me a freak?" 

The werewolves drew back a little, and the brunette's smile wobbled. "He wouldn't believe you over his pack, he won't even listen to you." 

Lily glared at her. "I saved his little sister, your alpha owes me, and that gives me a bigger voice than you." 

Laura held a hand out as the brunette snarled with golden eyes, drawing her back. Lily adjusted her shoulder bag one more time, grinning at the three of them. "I look forward to seeing you at the next confrontation, should be around lunch time."

She walked past the werewolves, careful not to shove her bag against them, and left the bathroom with a rush of emotions curdling in her stomach; pride standing out the most.

Lily wiped her hands on her jeans, still a little wet from holding onto the sink, and went into her first class of Friday, thinking about how much she wished for it to be the weekend already.

Her first class though, was History. Again.

As she stepped through the door, she got a guarded glare from Mr Booth as she went to take her seat at her empty table. Lily knew, as she nodded to him in greeting, that she would be saying absolutely nothing in this class to provoke him. She tried to ignore the glares she got from Isaac and his crew as they walked in after her. 

She could almost feel all the glares from the wolves - they had orders to protect her, didn't mean that they liked it. The vampires, too, were quietly hissing as she put her notebook on the table.