A/N: I don't really have anything to say lmao, hope you enjoy the chapter though! The character up above has They/Them pronouns, their name is Dev Gonzales. Also I got memes to apologize for the short little hiatus I took 🙂❤️ My bad🧍🏽♀️
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(𝙿.𝚘.𝚟 ~ 𝙳𝚢𝚕𝚊𝚗)
"So, there's really nothing going on between the two of you?" Rae muttered in disbelief while flashing an unreadable gaze my way.
We had been sitting around for the last thirty minutes or so. The entirety of our previous conversation revolved around what happened yesterday, how people were reacting to it today, and really Jayden in general. Though, he was a topic I tried to shy away from.
"No Rae, I'm serious." I corroborated as I fidgeted in my seat, rubbing my thumb over the handle of the coffee mug I had been holding. One that matched the one Rae had been sipping on as she gave me a skeptic look.
"Wow, that was super anticlimactic...." Rae wheezed out humorously as she scratched the side of her head.
I chuckled dryly at her words.
Mainly because for a split second, I had to truly ask myself if that were true. Was there really nothing?
Jayden and I were just barely friends, but I'd have to been blind to have not noticed whatever it was that we had. Maybe this is a blossoming friendship? Doubt it though.
"You want me to walk you down?"
"That'd be a great way to draw more attention. I'm just gonna warp out."
I suddenly thought, blushing profusely as I remember the words we exchanged earlier.
"Goddess he just offered to walk me, pull yourself together Dylan." I muttered to myself as I focused my gaze on the light chamomile flavored liquid that swirled around in my cup, my cheeks still burning.
"Okay, well then that's that." Rae told me while giving my knee a supportive squeeze. Clearly not hearing or caring to ask what slipped from my mouth. She just proceeded to stand up and walk back over to the kitchen.
"You still have classes?" She yelled in question from the kitchen.
"Yeah, I think like two and then I'm done." I explained while slouching back on the couch.
"I have a late lecture today, but after that we can go grab some sushi for dinner before the next Olympic game." She offered happily making me frown slightly.
"I'd honestly love that, but I have a lot of homework to burn through before the games...damn Hillans." I explained while muttering towards the end. Rae knew of my dislike for Hillans, one we apparently and uncoincidentally seemed to share.
Rae started bugging out and tried to have me switched from her class the first time I told her I had Hillans. Apparently they had a past altercation that left a bad taste in Rae's mouth. They've avoided having anything to do with one another during staff meetings ever since.
"Okay ok, it's good to see you prioritizing your work like a good little student. But don't forget to eat, we'll rain check on the sushi." She chuckled while smiling proudly at me.
"I'm a great student, aren't I?" I rhetorically yet smugly laughed out.
"Y-Yeah, I guess. Um, Dyl why don't you see yourself out?" She suddenly muttered while placing her mug down harshly on the counter, almost shattering it.
"Damn, I've been here like two seconds." I huffed out with a hurt frown stretched across my face.
"You've been here for far longer than that, now get out." She insisted while giving me a firm look making me suddenly grow quiet, her eyes boring into mine before they darted nervously to the side.
"W-Wait, you're serious? Did I do something wrong?" I asked hesitantly making her shift her weight and sort of turn away from me.
"What the fuck......what's her deal?" Dimitri mumbled from within my mind in about as much confusion as I had been in.
"Uhh, is it about the rain check? If you really wanted to go eat, I could—" I started staring but was cut off by the sound of the door suddenly busting open and Venus running into the apartment looking nervous.
"Huh?" I uttered as I watched Venus practically sprint to Rae and inspect her shaky form, that had been looking anywhere but my direction.
"D-Dylan, it seems Rae's feeling a bit sick. Let me walk you out." She offered while ushering Rae out of the kitchen and towards their bedroom, before running over to me.
In that brief yet awkward interaction, I only made eye contact with Rae once, and I swear I saw a color that I had never seen before in her eyes.
"Bye!" Venus stated while practically throwing me out of the front door, slamming it harshly in my face. The clicking of the lock rang through my ears a second later leaving my eyes blown wide with shock.
After that I heard a few muffled yells and the sound of heavy items and glassware falling from the outside of her burgundy door.
"Were her eyes r—Wait, Dylan did you see that?" Dimitri asked causing me to blink excessively and rub at my eyes.
I stood at Rae's doorstep shaking my head emptily at the door. Pushing back the words and feelings that swarmed in my head.
"It's probably some misunderstanding. After all this is Auntie Raven we're talking about." I told Dimitri while finally backing away from the door.
"W-We don't keep things from one another." I stuttered out, feeling my nerves get the better of me. I start fidgeting with my rings while pacing slightly, repeating what I said to myself.
Surely it's all just some kind of misunderstanding.
"You're right, I'm sorry." Dimitri apologized quietly while insisting we get to class.
"It's okay, I know you meant well." I tell Dimitri in my sad attempt to calm our nerves, change the subject.
I found myself overthinking my entire rest of the way to class.
I prefer not to read too much into this.
(𝙿.𝚘.𝚟 ~ 𝙹𝚊𝚢𝚍𝚎𝚗)
"The Omegan scent gland is attached to the nervous system, just like ours. However the difference between us and them is how sensitive it is." Professor Donovan states while pointing towards the diagram hanging over the chalkboard.
"You see how lit up these nerve endings are on this body scan? You can see here by these color indications, how they—"
"Why are we learning about Omegan anatomy? They are just like us except they get heats and we get ruts." An Alpha seated across from me stated idiotically causing some of his friends to nod in agreement.
"This dumbass...Clearly he's failing this class already." Saint mumbled within my head making me smirk. I quickly looked down at my desk to hide my amusement.
"First of all, this course is literally called Omegan Biology/Anatomy 101. You're required to take this class and pass it in order to graduate." Donovan stated a matter of factly while rolling his eyes on the Alpha that now grew silent.
"Secondly, it's important for us to be educated on other's anatomies just as much as our own. Basic knowledge never killed anyone, fucking nimrods." Donovan stated while turning his back towards the class and back to the board. Everyone laughed at the little comment he slid in at the end.
"So anyways, their scent glands have plus sides and down sides due to this sensitivity." He proceeded to explain causing me to pick up my pen ready to jot down notes.
"Some plus sides are how intuitive it allows them to be, as you know we all have our distinctive scents. Yet because of how strong their glands are, they find it easier to decipher pheromones and their meanings." He explained as he wrote down on the board, the sound of chalk scribbling filled the room.
"Is that why they are better at caring for pups?" A girl Alpha seated next to me stated.
"Yes, precisely. Their scent glands allow them to be in tune with the slightest shift in scent change of babies. So now imagine how they feel around grown individuals such as ourselves." He explained making us all frown.
"So they just go around feeling all of our emotions? That sounds exhausting." An Alpha in the front of the class said sympathetically with a pout.
"Well technically, once mated they don't feel the effects of everyone else's pheromones as strongly. They are more attuned to their mate's, and pup's if they have any." He explained while turning to face us.
"Professor Donovan....You're gonna hate me for asking, but what is the difference between pheromones and scents again?" An Alpha named Nathan sighed out in question.
"I'll explain again, but I suggest you pick up a pen and write this down Mr. Thomson." Professor Donovan mumbled tiredly making a few of us chuckle.
"We all have our distinctive scents, correct?" He started explaining while posing us the usual question.
"Yes sir." We all mumbled out in unison.
"For example my scent is apparently sage, jasmine, and lemon scented. Which are my mate's favorite scents." He continued on in explanation.
"Rightttt, because our scents are made to biologically attract our mates when we first meet them!" Nathan shouted in remembrance.
"Correct Mr. Thomson." The Professor stated with an approving nod.
"Yet pheromones are the changing of our scents to display our emotions. For example, my scent turning bitter if I was angry, or sweeter when I'm happy." He explained making Nathan let out a dragged out 'oh' as he wrote this down.
"Okay, that makes sense..." Nathan mumbled with a quick head nod as he continued to jot down notes.
"I hope it does, we will be having a test next week on this before we dive into heats again." Donovan stated making me frown this time and others turn to each other in confusion.
"But we covered that already Professor, we took a test and everything." Someone reminded from across the room.
"Are you kidding? Ninety percent of the class failed to answer simple questions like, 'how to handle when your Omega mate goes into heat in public', can you guess what most of you answered?" Donovan asked making half of the room go red in the face.
"Most of you horny shits chose sex." He spat out in disgust and mild anger, he threw his hands up in disbelief.
"Damn, that was wrong? Are you sure? Because Omegas be kinda needy—" Some kid began stating before Donovan shot a glare his way.
"So what, you're just gonna pounce on your mate in public? What are you a fucking caveman? Are we in the bloody dark ages?" He ranted on making most kids duck their heads in shame.
I couldn't help but release a chuckle at his words. He seems like a rude Professor but honestly he's just joking, kind of...
"Something humorous Mr. Beaumont?" Donovan questioned making me instantly sit up straight and try to hide my amusement with my usually unapproachable gaze.
"The correct answer is scent them 'til you can find a safe location for them to nest." I muttered out tiredly.
"That is indeed correct." Donovan stated in relief.
"At least some of you listen to my lectures....Beaumont here was the only one to pass that last test with a practically perfect score." Donovan said proudly, clearly happy his teachings aren't being wasted.
"Well that's because he has a fucking mate, don't we all know it." An Alpha muttered loudly under his breath. Maybe he was trying to be discreet, but it's hard to tell with the super hearing and all.
Others laughed while I let out a small growl out at the comment.
Like, I deadass thought we was passed this.
"Y'all got nothing better to talk about?" I spat out angrily practically standing up out of my chair.
"Nah." He says while standing up out of his.
He's standing up tall like he actually did something, everyone here is a joke.
"Kaleb sit your ass down, whatever's going on save it for when you both are not in my classroom." Donovan scolded making Kaleidoscope sit down and shut up.
I sat down as well and ignored the glances and whispers I got. A few mentioning Dylan's name, which had me getting more heated by the second.
"So now onto the disadvantages/downsides of Omegan scent glands." Donovan began stating making the room fall somewhat silent.
"Wait, there are disadvantages?" Someone asked stupidly.
"Yes, I just said earlier.....Oh good Goddess, this is gonna be a long semester." Donovan cried out while dropping his head in exhaustion making the class laugh again.
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After class was over I was probably the first out of the room, probably because the bell hadn't even rang yet. Donovan didn't care if I left early, he knew I was a good student. If someone else tried that however, he'd probably have them wait after class.
I would've stayed 'til the end but I honestly couldn't take all the mumbles and the whispers. It's fucking annoying as shit.
"What the fuck was I thinking."
"I never should have held him, I never should have got that close to begin with." I mumbled internally causing Saint to frown.
"Jay...." Saint began stating making me roll my eyes.
I just blocked him out for the rest of my classes, and even when I went to grab dinner as well. I wasn't trying to hear anything he had to say. Or really anyone for that matter.
I think the others said something earlier about grabbing food together before we went to the games.
I didn't feel like doing that fucking shit at all. I need a second to just clear my head and stuff. So I just ate in my dorm room and studied a bit.
It was quiet as usual, nothing but the sounds of R&B in the background and me flipping the pages in my textbook.
My roommate is practically never in our dorm room, but that didn't bother me one bit, I obviously preferred being alone.
And I may or may not have been releasing my pheromones into the room to drive him out, so I was gonna get my 'lone time one way or another.
"Yeah that's a little fucked up of you, but at least he's clean when he is crashing in here. I couldn't handle a messy roommate." Saint said with a chuckle making me crack a small grin.
"I forgot you have OCD." I laughed out loud making him frown and huff at me.
"Dude you know that's not true, I just hate messy things..." Saint scoffed out in response to my teasing.
"Stop being such a baby, I was just messing with you." I told him while glancing at the time.
"Damn it's time to go." I muttered out loud while rushing to grab my dorm key and wallet and a few other things before rushing to leave my room.
"Hey dumbass, you forgot your phone." Saint reminded when I was half way out of the building.
"I—Wait are you serious?" I grumbled while patting down my front pockets nervously.
"Nah I'm just messing with you, it's in your back pocket." He chuckled breathlessly while practically rolling around in delight that he got me back.
"I literally can't stand you." I huffed out while continuing my walk towards the Sports center.
I spent the next couple of minutes swapping lousy insults with Saint, not even noticing the crowd that gathered by the entrance.
My phone suddenly started ringing in my back pocket and I turned to reach for it and answer the call. Having to strain a bit to hear Ethan's voice over the noise.
"What do you mean you guys are already inside? How did you manage to get through this crowd..." I began stating, finding myself walking away from the crowd in an attempt to hear his words more clearly.
"Oh, you guys got here early....Well of course I wouldn't know that if you decided it then, I didn't have dinner with you guys....Yeah Eth, tell everyone I'll be there in a bit, I'm just—No, I'm not quitting the games, I already said earlier that..." I began arguing back to the nonsense I was hearing over the phone.
".....Well tell Tiny to shut up and I'll be there soon." I scoffed while pinching the bridge of my nose.
"Unbelievable." I grumbled as I began walking towards one of the back entrances.
We usually aren't allowed to go through the back entrances because they're in case of fire emergencies. But we hardly ever use them, so I doubt anyone would mind.
"No like what's the point of a fire exit when fires can literally be doused by magic. Like, I legitimately don't get anything about this school." I argued towards Saint who had been nagging for the last three minutes that emergency exits are for emergencies only.
"How did I get stuck with such a morally righteous wolf." I spat out in annoyance as I finally made my way into the main sports center, quickly spotting my friends on the opposite side of the main entrance by the concession stands.
"Well I don't know how I got stuck with such a morally ambiguous human." Saint hissed back sounding just as annoyed making my eyes practically pop out of my head.
"I'm morally ambiguous?!" I queried aloud in disbelief as I shot a glare of offense towards nothing in particular, making my friends look to me as if I was crazy.
"Haha, yeah that's kinda true. Who told you that?"
"Morally ambiguous? I'm confused is that what we call assholes nowadays?"
"I wouldn't say morally ambiguous, just more like you don't particularly care for anything. Some say it adds character."
A few of my friends start teasing.
"No but for real, is he feeling okay?" Tyler chuckled while reaching to take my temperature with his hand.
"Touch me and I'll punch you." I said coldly while shooting him an annoyed look.
"He's doing just fine." Ryan insisted with a chuckle making everyone else laugh.
"Here's your shirt Jay, it's um...good to see you here." Dylan mumbled awkwardly while handing me a large teal t-shirt that matched his newly un-cropped one.
"Where else would I be Tiny?" I asked while shooting him a smirk and grabbing the shirt from him. I watched as he went alarmingly red in the cheeks.
"Stupid Alpha." He grumbled while turning away from my amused gaze, quickly walking over to Ryan who had been conversing with Jonathan and Riley.
Riley immediately greeted Shorty with a dork smile. The two immediately starting up some stupid conversation that I didn't care to hear.
After I changed I stood around for a while by Ethan while the others turned to go take seats in the stands. It was loud and chaotic in some parts of the room, while in others people just wait in silence as our Commentators took to the center stage.
"It's nice to see so many folks back again! Sorry for the uhhh, technical difficulties yesterday. I hope you're ready to hear which game will be taking place today." Marino states happily making half the audience cheer out. Though amongst them, several others stirred up chatter that I assumed involved the shit from yesterday.
"Pffft, not her trying to play Jayden's disaster yesterday off as technical difficulties..." Ethan began laughing loudly, his head tilting back as he grabbed at his stomach. Immediately falling silent when he realized I had been standing there glaring at him.
He shifted his weight and cleared his throat awkwardly before turning his attention back to Marino.
I just disassociated at that point and tried to get into the zone.
I just gotta control my powers, my pheromones, and get through these games without flipping my shit. I also gotta still act like I'm trying to win.
I lowkey just wanna say fuck it and go home so I could sleep. But I can still do this. If not for me, then for D....m-my team.
Yeah, this'll be easy.
"Easy." I said while finally snapping out of my daze, finding a concerned Ethan, Ryan, Dylan, and Jonathan staring at me.
"You were in the clouds dude." Riley stated through a fit of laughter, breaking the silence. I clenched my jaw and turned away from the other's worried gazes.
"You good man? We gotta get outside." Ethan questioned while trying to meet my eyes.
I rolled my eyes and I turned towards him with a frown.
"Why are we going outside again?" I ask stoically.
"Great, you just missed that entire explanation didn't you...." Tiny began ranting tiredly.
"Yeah, I did....So you can complain about it or just let me know what's up?" I said nonchalantly making him scoff before letting out a strenuous sigh.
"Ask Ethan, I'm gonna go grab a water and see if I can find my Aunt before we start." Tiny says flatly before walking off, not missing the frustrated gaze he shot me before he did.
"What's his deal?" I questioned while turning to the others, feeling annoyed by the way he walked off.
"He spent a long time waiting for you before you showed up. The entirety of dinner, and the whole way here, just wondering if you were even gonna show up, 'cause quite frankly we thought you'd just bail..." Ethan began stating before looking to the others for assistance in his explanation, visibly looking stumped.
"He was practically excited as fuck when you showed up because we all figured you wouldn't with of all the rumors flying around. Not that there's anything wrong if you didn't..... I think he's honestly just bummed that you're kinda not into it. Your head's not here Jay." Ryan went out and corroborated causing Ethan to nod in agreement.
".....I'm into it." Was all I could manage after the moment of silence I took to digest their words.
Ryan along with my brother and cousin glanced at me knowingly.
I shrugged off their looks and walked towards where Tiny had wandered to.
I half expected him to be talking to his Aunt or whatever his excuse was before.
What I didn't expect to see was Dylan apologizing profusely to some pink haired person who had water spilled all over their shirt.
"I am so, so sorry Dev, I'm literally a walking disaster." Dylan stated to the person as he offered up a clean towel he nabbed from who knows where.
"Dylan I'm not an ass, I saw you trip before you spilt your drink on me. You're acting nervous like I'm gonna bite your head off or something." The wolf said with a hearty laugh.
"Goddess, you leave for five seconds and you already get yourself into trouble Shorty?" I chuckled as I made my presence known.
Dylan simply turned and scowled at my words before barking something about me being the worst and so on and so forth. His cheeks were red as shit so it was hard to take anything he said seriously.
"You guys are really the cutest." They said suddenly making Dylan and I snap our heads towards them.
"Um, thanks but we aren't..." I began stating awkwardly but Marino's loud ass starting yelling for all teams to make their way outside to their designated locations.
"Ooooh we're starting! Good luck guys!" Dev stated while running off to their friends.
"They have the coolest hair ever and my way of introducing myself was spilling water all over them." Dylan recounted while looking mortified at his previous actions.
"I'm sure it wasn't as bad as you think." I assured while physically having to drag him towards the crowd of wolves exiting the stadium.
"No like do you know how embarrassing that fucking was...?" He all but sobbed as we walked together, his hand intertwined in mine as I walked ahead.
"You'll live Tiny." I stated as I pulled him in front of me, making sure he walked ahead so his short ass didn't get lost in the damn crowd.
If I didn't know another dude who was a short ass shit, I would have assumed there was something wrong with Dylan.
"Can you explain to me what the fuck is going on now?" I asked Dylan who was getting ready to walk off to wherever the fuck the Omega's we're heading.
"Oh, it's a Rough Terrain Relay Race." Tiny said as if that clarified everything.
He saw the scrunched expression on my face and took that as an invitation to go into more detail.
"It's literally a relay race but in crazy terrains. Alphas get the Rocky Mountains, Betas get the Muddy Marshlands, Omegas get the Ravenous Rainforest. You just gotta survive and run the baton to your awaiting teammate." He explained while slowly backing away to where all the Omegas had been grouped up. Making me aware that all the ranks had been grouped together.
"Why are we getting grouped like this, where's the track?!" I asked Short Stack who continued to walk away.
"Just go with the flow Jay! Also don't die!" He shouted over the loud awaiting crowd of Omegas.
"What's that about dying and surviving?!" I shouted back, but before he can open his mouth to answer, he was warped away to where I assume his waiting spot is.
I jogged over to the Alphas and watched as the Betas disappeared as well.
"Everyone have a baton?" A referee asked to the rest of the Alphas who all had batons that matched their team colors.
"Uh I need one." I stated over the crowd while raising my hand up.
A teal baton got thrown from some direction across from me and I caught it just as I was warped onto the side of a fucking mountain.
Like an actual fucking mountain.
I just barely caught the baton and myself. I literally gripped onto the side of the shitty mountain like my bloody life depended on it, 'cause fun fact, it did.
"What the fuck is up with this school?!" I practically bellowed as I shoved the baton between my teeth and pulled myself up from the ledge with both hands.
I watched as Alphas all around me shifted or remained in human form. Some switching depending on which form could handle a certain part of the mountain.
"I think I get it." I hummed while beginning my climb to who knows where.
A second into stating those stupid words, my dumbass slipped and nearly sent myself to the grave early.
If I wanted to survive, I had to be somewhat more careful than that at the very least.
"I literally should've just kept my ass home." I whined as I began climbing again. Ignoring Saint's poorly placed vote of confidence in me.
I better not fucking die....I swear to Goddess if I do, imma haunt everyone I know.
Starting with Dylan's short ass.
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•To Be Continued•