We play the rest of our day the same. Slerra and I trying to hold awkward, mundane conversations while the guys listened in, but pretended not to pay any attention to us. As I was putting my books away at the end of this mind-numbingly long day while Sierra waited on me so we could head over to check in with Delta Kyle, Kaley walks up and goes to slam my locker shut. This time I don’t let her. My reactions are fast and I’m done with her bullsh*t as much as the guys’.
I catch the edge Of the locker and push it back open, then glare at her. I won’t do anything here at school, my conditioning still won’t let me retaliate against her here, but I’m not going to let her walk all over me anymore either.
She lets out a little squeak before she composes herself again. “Whatever you did to piss off our future Alphas, you need to fix now! Your stupid childish games are making life hard for the rest of us. Apologize, grovel, kiss their feet or whatever they want and make this better. They have been yelling and growling at people all day. You even have them raising their voices at me, which is unacceptable.
“I don ‘t see how my relationship with any of them is any of your business. And I will not take responsibility for whatever stupidity of yours that got you yelled at. I said without looking at her and finished what I was doing, then closed my locker and turned to walk in the opposite direction, Sierra close behind.
“How dare you turn your back on your future Luna and speak to her like that! She grabs my shoulder to spin me around. But before I can do anything a shout from down the hallway stops everyone.
“TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF HER!” Oh goody, just another incident where Mateo thinks he needs to step in for me.
“And stop talking in third person, it’s weird.” Sierra adds under her breath. Kaley either doesn’t hear or chooses to ignore it, but doesn’t take her hand
off my shoulder and it takes all my patience to not rip her fingers off me.
“I was just explaining that she needs to be more kind to her future Luna. Her childish behavior is going to get her into more trouble, and I think there
has been enough of that, don’t you, Skylar? I mean you have spent more time in the principal’s office than in class. And she is constantly distracting
you all which is unacceptable as well.
The guys all 100k at me. It’s actually not true, but I come and go from classes as I need to because I am so far ahead and I am only in one class with
her, so she wouldn’t actually know if Pm in class or not. I spent a ton of time there last year though, due to her antics, but she conveniently left that
part out. I choose not to answer, they want to think and act for me, I’m not going to stop them. They can prove how well they know me by choosing to
believe her accusations or not. I cross my arms and look defiantly at everyone daring the guys to choose, Kaley or me.
As predicted, none of them say anything. They are not supporting me or her, which hurts just as bad as if they would have taken her side. At least
then I would know where I stand. Based on the look on her face, she thinks that they agree with her. They just showed both of us they think of us as
equals or at the very least are chickensh*t and don’t want to look like they are taking sides which solidified my belief in my true place in their life. I roll
my eyes and turn to walk away.
