Lucio wore a lovely suit as he got off the train toward the center of Thornside. He tipped his fedora and made sure his shoes were shiny and clean.
Today was Sponsorship Day. A day in Nadia when cities, towns, and villages coordinate financial support for the various clubs at Hacate.
There was a particular club that Lucio and all of Apex had an interest in: Wolves Unite. It was a club that had been sponsored by Apex years ago, but was desicrated due to the supremacy ideologies that were being expressed.
Apex learned their lesson. This time they would build the club back up and have it focus on wolf engagement and activities, but most importantly, it was to tear the very fabric that held Sous and Tany, Sous and Kara together.
Lucio walked up to the club table in the center of town. Two lone Alphas sat in chairs with a sign on their table that said the club's name.
Lucio took his hat off and showed his ID to the club who immediately stood and bowed to him, recognizing he was from Apex. Lucio pulled a chair up and sat down with the two members.
"Sous shall be going through rut this year," he said softly to the two leaders. "Alphas, we can be pretty brutal when it comes to our urges." The two student leaders listened in although not sure where Lucio was going with all of this. "Pay close attention to Sous and when she enters rut or begins to mate, send her Omegas. Because as we all know, sex and finance are the two factors that tear couples apart." Lucio gave the two student leaders his card and informed them to email him to keep him up to date on the status. With each month, Apex will place 5000 don in their student club account for the treasury.
Doureena was setting into motion what the witch informed her to do to ensure her pack comes out on top: disrupt the relationship with Tany and Kara that Sous had.
She placed her laptop top down and pulled out from her chair. Doureena got up and walked out of her office toward the council hall. She saw Riley and Curtis were tending to residents of Red Woods and their cases.
She looked at her watch, straightening her tie, she went off to meet with her wife.
"I'MMA LEARN HOW TO TELEPORT!!" Sous screamed as she humped the air in the main court yard. School was back in session from summer break and Sous was fifteen years old and stood at her final height of six feet and seven inches. Randali stood at six feet and four inches while her mate, Zan was five feet and five inches.
Her arm was around Zan as her ears dropped looking at Sous. Randali's voice was deeper as with Sous' when they spoke. Randali slapped Sous on the back.
"You should probably focus on herbology class than teleportation class considering your history," Randali said with Zan laughing at the comment. The two were officially dating and Randali had confessed to Sous some time ago that her and Zan were also mating with each other. That Randali told Sous that sex was one of the best feelings in the world. However Randali also confessed that Zan had a pregnancy scare that did not sit well with his parents so Randali had begun to take suppressants to block off her seed from taking hold in Zan when intimate.
Sniff, sniff!
"Sous, you smell different," Randali said.
"That's because she's going into rut soon," Zan said, blushing.
Sous lifted up her arms to smell herself but didn't noticed any difference to her scent. Omegas on the other hand were well aware of the changing scent to Sous, making them excited including Zan who of course said nothing to Randali. But to Zan, Sous was the Alpha he wished he had although he did truly love Randali. It was just, Sous was bigger, stronger, faster, a great fighter, had actually fought in battles. To be blunt, Zan wanted to mate with Sous.
He turned his head away not wanting Randali to noticed his mannerisms and his flushed face, but to Zan, Randali was...weaker.
"Have you seen the nesting room?" Zan managed to ask. Sous shook her head. "Its where Alphas and Omegas can go when they're experiencing their heats or ruts. You can login to the student portal to report your absence to the school board since heat lasts a whole day while ruts last three. Or you can go to the infirmary and see if they can give you some suppressants so you don't have to experience rut."
Randali and Zan walked the halls to an area Sous never saw before. It was by the locker rooms to the sports fields.
"This is the nesting room," Randali said. "There are six of them and as you can see none are occupied."
"Randali, can you come here?" Randali excused herself to speak with a student leaving Zan and Sous alone.
Sous walked into one of the nesting rooms and saw there was a small refrigerator for water and fish and the room was small, but filled with cushions and pillows. Ideally, the Omega or Alpha would come in the room alone and wait out their heat or rut in solitude.
"If you want," Zan started. "I can help you with your first rut." He knew Sous didn't have experience to a rut so she hadn't a clue what he meant when he said 'help'. But Sous being Sous was more than happy to have her friend's help during her first rut.
One thing Sous discovered over summer break was her love for video games, an invention by humans. To be specific, she loved visual novels and sports games. Visual novels to her were just animated books and she was a big fan of basketball and baseball so she played those games regularly. She wasn't really into hack and slash or anything fighting related because she did enough of that in real life.
She even purchased a high resolution computer to allow her to read some of the longest visual novels that she managed to purchase.
Sous sat at her desk that evening reading a new visual novel with her head phones on. She was wearing a blue tanktop and striped blue pajama bottoms. She felt a poke on her shoulder and turned around to see one of her roommates. She took off her head phones in which the roommate told her Sous had a visitor.
She walked into the hallway and saw Jacob, an Alpha who stood at six feet and six inches, making him about the same height as Sous. He jumped into Sous' arms and hugged her, cutting Sous off guard.
"Derrick's pregnant!" He said, smiling from ear to ear.
"Whoa...what?" Was all Sous could say especially since Jacob was pacing back and forth running his hands through his hair with excitement. The eighteen year old in his last year stepped back up to Sous and repeated, "Derrick-is-preg-nant!"
"When...when-when did you find out?" Now it was Sous who was nervous.
"Just now...he called."
"I didn't know you and him were mating," Sous said.
"It only started when he turned sixteen."
"What about Doureena, does she know?"
Jacob shook his head. "Not yet...he'll tell his parents soon and I'll go up there around Navititas break to officially explain myself to Doureena."
Sous shook her head, not feeling good about the situation. She placed her hands on her hips. "I don't know, Jacob. You're still a betrayer."
Jacob was more optimistic. "He's having my kid. Come on, even she has to be okay with that." Jacob said. "I have it all planned out. Once I graduate, I'll work for my uncle in his botanical shop in Red Woods and me and him will get ourselves an apartment. He won't have to work. He's so excited to be a father, he just wants to stay at home."
Sous wasn't buying it and it showed in her face. Jacob's own face dropped when he noticed little enthusiasm from the other Alpha.
He slapped her on the shoulder and jumped up and down to try and get her excited. "Sous..."
"Jacob, I don't believe Doureena is going to accept you as that baby's sire." Jacob felt defeated, his shoulders slumped. "If you plan to go speak with her, let me come with you." Jacob nodded his head, still disappointed by Sous' more realistic reaction. Still, she pulled him into a hug and patted him on the back. "Congratulations, dude, this means a lot."