Breakfast consisted of a granola bar that was quickly grabbed from the closet by Mindy before she rushed out the door. She was partially still zipping up her jacket as her backpack was hanging from her elbow. It amazed me how good she is at multitasking. This morning she also had time to brush her teeth while putting some type of cream on her neck and arms to disguise bruises.

The bruises were dark in color, proving that it was a werewolf's doing. I decided not to bring it up. I already knew that it was a sore subject, and bringing it up would most likely make her cry, and that was something I did not want. She is fragile to me and I don't want to break her before I get a better understanding on who she is, and even then I will still protect her. It would also be nice to talk about it when she isn't already going to a place that makes her sad.

Kimberly was the one to pick her up. Apparently no buses would go the extra distance to pick up one girl that lived away from everyone else. Meaning before she even started high school she would have been looked at differently, and I wasn't there for her. On the other hand I'm glad that we didn't ride the bus and that Mindy found someone like Kimberly. Even as the redhead turned up the music to men screaming into a microphone, and no matter how hard I tried to find something to cover up the speakers, there would still be nothing visible in the room of darkness, I didn't care. This redhead was helping out Mindy, and I could look past her music taste for that.

Parking the car Mindy and Kimberly both got out. As Kimberly waved and walked in the other direction I asked Mindy where she was going.

"Kimberly has her first class on the opposite side of the building and classes are starting soon, don't worry though we will see her at lunch."

Mindy seemed to know where she was going as we walked into an almost packed classroom, the first bell had just rung. She didn't have time to fully reach her seat before she was falling to the ground. Turning her head I saw all of the people that were currently in the class laughing, especially the boy who had his foot sticking out between the two desks she walked past.

Mindy didn't put up a fight as she lowered her head even more so that I had a better view of the carpet and got up from the floor. She walked to a desk that was near some cabinets, as far away from the laughing boy as possible.

Mindy didn't talk to me for the rest of the Class, or anyone else. I don't know how she managed to put up the mind wall, but it was working. She wouldn't talk to me, and she could talk to kimberly fine, but I doubt she would have talked to a teacher. So luckily the teacher never called on her.

the rest of the day went by like this too. There was no more people tripping her, but there was a lot of name calling, but the one I hated the most was, "You are lucky you don't have a wolf, because I bet she would hate you more than we do."

That was the only part in the day where Mindy couldn't keep up the mind wall. So I quickly got in the words that what the girl said wasn't true. Those were the only words I got to say before the mind wall went back up.

Until now, where lunch was about to start and the same feeling of the mind wall going down happened. Instead of Mindy being the silent one, I was the one that refused to open up my mouth.

Neither one of us said anything to each other as Kimberly walked up to Mindy and grabbed her hand to take her to a table. The particular table was half filled with a group of students and the other half empty, so they sat down on the empty side.

"So how was English? I heard that Mrs.Link decided to give a timed essay." I appreciated Kimberly for starting up a conversation, something that I could not do.

Mindy responded, "It was okay."

"That's good to hear, I'm just glad I don't have her as a teacher. Anyways, talking about work is boring, so let's talk about other things, like the Alpha is coming back to the pack tomorrow! Peneloppe was telling me in History that she overheard his dad talking about throwing him a coming home party, like a surprise birthday party. The whole pack is invited, so you are invited. Isn't this exciting!"

"So since he is back does that mean that he has found his mate?"

"I'm not sure, but probably. Why else would he come back home after two years if he didn't find his mate? That is why he left in the first place, if he did come home then he wouldn't be coming home empty handed. Why would he do that?" Kimberly was chewing her cookie so fast I was surprised that spit wasn't covering the screen.

"Maybe his father made him come back?"

"That's always a possibility, but I want to think positively. If he doesn't find his mate there is going to be hoes everywhere!" Mindy's hand reached out and slapped the cookie from Kimberly's hand. "Hey! I wasn't done with that."

Even though the noise in the cafeteria was loud I could still here Mindy's quiet laugh, and if I could I would say thank you to Kimberly.

Just that noise made Kimberly's fake scowl go away and taken up by a soft smile. "I know you don't like to talk about it, but how were people treating you today?"

"the same."

"Things will get better, and when they do you can yell, 'Look at me now'." This time She didn't laugh. "I know that you are devastated that you don't have a wolf, and that you don't get treated the best, but that shouldn't give people the right to treat you the way they do. And you shouldn't let there not accepting of you reflect back on you not accepting yourself."

"I know." the snip answers she was giving made me feel sad knowing that it meant she didn't want to talk anymore.

Lunch ended and Mindy went through the rest of the day the same as this morning. The same name callings, and occasionally a hard shove in the hallways. When the last bell rung she packed up her stuff and walked to where Kimberly parked. She got in the car and got dropped off at home. When the house door was reached the mind wall went down. This time I took full advantage of it and asked her the question I had been wanting to ask from lunch.

"Why do you not want to tell other people that you received your wolf? You told your mom and your dad. Are you ashamed of me?" I didn't mean for the last part to be said, but I couldn't take it back.

"Not at all, it's just..." Mindy trailed off. "It's just that my mom knew I had a wolf because she's is related to me, she found out on her own and I didn't need to say anything to her. People at school are different. They need to see it to believe it or the name calling will just get worse. I have less than a week before I turn into a wolf, can I tell them then?"

"What about Kimberly?" Her friend would never treat her that way, I bet she would even be excited to know that Mindy got her wolf.

"I guess I'm just not ready to tell anyone. Kimberly seems so accepting of me not having a wolf, if I told her I finally have a wolf will she think different of me?"

"Of course she won't, but I don't know her as well as you do, so you tell me. Would she?" I asked.

"No."

"Then that's your answer."

"I'm just scared and think that telling everyone later would be better, is that okay with you?"

I wanted to smile knowing that she was asking for my approval. We are both different, but truly acting as one. "Yes, that works for me."

Mindy didn't have much to eat for lunch so she went back to the closet and got out a box of cheerios and started snacking on them. She then pulled out her backpack and started working on the same type of math problems as the night before.

"Can I ask another question?"

"Sure."

"Why did you put up the mind wall during school?"

She sighed. "I thought if maybe I put up the mind wall It would help you not be able to take over my body again and attack anyone."

"That only happened once, and I don't know how I did. Do you think I'm dangerous?"

"No, I just didn't know how you would react to the people at school and might attack someone. Luckily, today wasn't a bad day. It's usually worse." I thought about the bruises again and decided it was still a bad idea to bring them up.

"Well, now that you know I'm harmless can you stop doing that."

"I don't know how i did it. I think I have gone so long with no one in my head that that is why I pictured being alone, but I will try my best." We went back to silence, but another thought came to me. Being silent for so long is really makes me think too much.

"You excited for the Alpha's return?"

"I guess so, I've never been invited to these kind of things before." It made me frustrated that they didn't invite her to pack things, but there was nothing I could do now about those events being missed. What's done is done.

"So what will you wear?"

"Maybe sweatpants? I think its suppose to be cold tomorrow night."

"Absolutely not!"

So I didn't know where to end the chapter...So I thought there was a good place.

So any thoughts on what the Alpha is going to be like?

This chapter is late at night, but for me it is still Friday so I posted the chapter on time! *Gives myself a pat on the back*