A Girl From the Past

NATACHA

I groaned restlessly and put my phone inside my bag as my Dad continues his daily speech.

“Are you even listening to me, Natacha?” My Dad asked averting his attention from the road to me.

“You must be cautious with your abilities. Stays away from the werewolves you know the Alpha is watching your movements I don’t want him getting even a hint of what you are.” I nodded my head trying to act as if am not bored, “And one more thing, Vampires are perilous and the witches are deceitful, never trust them. Just stay away from any supernatural.” I have to endure this every single day since we moved here and occasionally even before we moved here, I think he is just being overprotective of me because of the werewolves Pack here and the fact that I am half-witch and witches are quite infamous among the supernatural community.

“You are a vampire Dad,” I remained my Dad giving him an annoyed look, It’s kind of weird whenever I call him dad especially in presence of mortals, He looks too young to be my father; he looks not a day more than 27 but in reality, he is over 400 hundred years old, perks of being a vampire you stopped aging the moment you are turned and for the Pure blood vampires (the ones born like that) they stopped aging at 20.

“That is why I told you to stay away from them because I know how dangerous they are. Natacha, I am only saying this because I love you.”

“Fine, I love you too. Goodbye Dad,” I sighed in relief and kiss his cheeks before I get out of the car without waiting for him to say another word. I have to get my car fixed soon or just get a new one because I don’t have the strength to endure that every freaking day and luckily today he didn’t criticize my outfit, maybe he didn’t notice. I waited for my Dad to drive away before I walked into the school. “Hey Lila” I hugged my best friend who was standing in front of her locker, she turned and return the hug before pulling back as she examines my outfit. “You will never change, Tee.”

“What is wrong with my dressing?” I flipped my hair back and move a little backward as I checked out my outfit, I wore a loosely buttoned white shirt with a short plaid skirt and a pair of black stiletto heels. I hate to admit it, but my skirt is a little bit short to be worn to school. But that’s me, I am the kind of people that are very confident in flaunting their curves, I dressed anyhow I like and I did follow the school dressing code. While Delilah, Lila in short is your typical tomboy badass, I don’t need to explain you already know she is the pants and shirt kind of a girl while I am more on the girly side.

“This skirt is shorter than usual.” Lila continued whining but I ignore her and opened my locker which is next to hers, I pick the books I needed and closed the locker. I lean my back against it waiting for my best friend. “You won’t believe what happen yesterday,” Lila said as she closed her locker finally deciding to stop whining. “The Alpha king is here.” She said with so much excitement in her voice.

“The Hybrid Alpha,” I asked turning to face her.

“Yes, he is staying here for a few days.”

“Why is he here, I thought he never leaves his Royal castle.” I inquired with a little bit of sarcasm.

“No,” Lila frowns a little but continues, “I heard from a good source that they are searching for a special kind of werewolf,”

“Interesting,” I smiled giving Lila my full attention. Because that good source means her father, the Beta of the Black-wood pack.

“Yeah, and it is said that the special werewolf possess some kind of mystical abilities and he lives here within our land.” She added with so much glee.

“And who do you think is this wolf?” I asked as my curiosity perk up.

“I don’t know, but we can help search for the wolf,” Lila whispered the last part looking at me with her wide doe-like eyes.

“No!” I replied shaking my head. I know we had done so many things like that before but I had promised myself never to do anything like that again when I almost exposed my real identity. You see, we went in search of a mythical Were-cat without knowing it was actually a trap set by the hunters, and I had to use my full abilities to save us, which is very dangerous but I was lucky my Dad didn’t hear about it because we could have to move again.

“Please, we had done this countless times, no one will know.” Lila plead

“This is different Lila; we are searching for a mythical wolf that may be dangerous or a trap. And Your Royal Alpha is also looking for him”

“But there is nothing you can’t handle, you are also special Tee, and last time was my fault, I didn’t dig deeper and end off with false information. Please this one last time.”

I kept silent contemplating whether to say yes or no. I love adventures and all kinds of mysterious stuff, that’s what makes us friends in the first place, Lila is just like me, a free spirit trying to live the best of her life, but after that certain incident, I promise not to do anything dangerous again. Lila kept giving me her best puppy eyes which she knows I can’t refuse “Fine we will go after school, but this is the last time.”

“Thank you,” she jumped and crushed me into a hug; I smiled and hug her back.

“One more thing,” Lila said pulling away “My parents are organizing a birthday party for me this Wednesday, at the park house.”

My smile instantly widens “You know I can never say no to a party especially yours. But I can’t go you.”

“Why,” she asked with a little frown on her face.

“Lila you know I am a witch, I am not welcome there”

“The Alpha let you stay in his pack land Tee; this is just a one-night thing he won’t mind,”

“He let me because he is friends with my Dad, and what about the other wolves,”

“Don’t worry they know better than to mess with my friend,”

“What if my Dad hears about it?”

“Oh, just shut up, you are coming and that is final,” Lila stated leaving no room for argument.

I rolled my eyes looking at her with an amused expression “Fine, Mother, but what about his Royal Highness”

Lila smiled looking at me “He will be gone before then,”

“Very well then, I guess have to go shopping for a dress.” Lila froze without replying, her eyes were stuck on something behind me, I turned back to follow her gaze and that is when I saw two hot guys walking in, they are both strikingly attractive and well-built, they carry themselves with so much confidence, like some royalty. One of them who I think is a werewolf was looking directly at my best friend or more like they were staring at each other, while the other who I sense is a vampire kept walking without sparing a glance at anyone until they reached us, he turned and look at me before walking away but not before turning to look at me again, he whispered something into the others ear before they continue walking. I looked at my friend who looks like she has seen a ghost. “What is it?” I asked her but she dragged my hand and started walking instead of answering.

“What is it? You are scaring me, Lila,” I asked immediately she closed the restroom door and surprisingly the restroom was empty which is very unusual especially in the morning, it is usually filled with girls retouching their makeup or doing other stuff.