Rejected by the Alpha at Christmas

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lavender perfume wafted through the bathroom, meeting me where I washed my hand in the sink. I f

g voice, chuckling while she twirled

bathroom until everyone was gone. "I don't want any trouble," I managed to get out. My heart was ramming

Don't be so boring. We're only here to play, right, Carla

went for miles and miles. And they were skinny- painfully so that they spent every waking hour in school maki

theirs was mostly pin straight. I was plus size and my uniform was bigger than most of the other gir

er my arm and held on to me

t, almost uncontrollably. "Let me go," I said, looking

asked, looking everywhere but me. "I almost

it was a crime to be plus sized, to be

lied. She and Carla began to pu

er to hold me tight. Somehow, all three of us squeezed into a stall.

I didn't want to plead, it would mean admitting defeat. They c

. "Look, everyone, I have our little school friend

ng out a carton of milk. "Today's episode, we're going to be making a farewell cake.

place else. I had learnt the hard way that when deal

o be embarrassed like this i

asked and the gir

ished that I wasn't this powerle

ttle happy dance before pouring the bottle of fish o

dget pouted, pegging he

She leaned down and grabbed a fistful of my

dly, letting me go and turning to take the call. I couldn't hear the voice on the ot

ing her hair in her finger. "I'm sure Daddy wouldn't mind if you came over." There

hen she saw me watching. "I think she's clean, right

nice," Carl

h ," Eleanor spat out. "See yo

and leaving me there with a torn and stained

rangle the sound. Tears rolled down my cheeks as my body shook with

on the sink. Thankfully, they hadn't taken it away like last time and 'mistakenl

ered, forcing a sm

e I felt, his voice always made me feel better. But, right now, I couldn't ho

can't talk right now. I nee

," he said in that tone that sounded like a question rather than a statement. "I

an hang out with any

y hung up. He would tell my mother and she would lec

red. I looked up at the mirror, barely recognizing who the girl in the mirror

ole of an academy. And most of all, I'll be away from my number one bully:

looked forward to all the adventures, all the new peop

ter all, this was t

s locked. I tried it again, thinking that

oll down my cheeks again as I realized what just hap

ed me in. And I