Claim My Alpha

rue? That's absolutel

e are pack creatures; our diversity

ncement turn into your princip

find out he has fur. And here I was i

d you think of

pped into our principal. My mind was racing with a million and one t

felt completely overwhelmed. . My senior year of high school was wi

lo!An

nked and stuck my head

s ten-minute diatribe on how we need t

e-aged man's attempt at originality. He was a kind person for a school administra

ing because my buddies weren't wai

class, she had bounded up to me, declared our friendship, and slid me a cola. I was too taken aback to explain to her that it wasn't how th

t, was impressive. Never one to trust

myself by retrieving items from my locker rather than answering. I was dead

standing for teens, but I still felt left out whenever I had to m

me, but I wouldn't want to. Label it as you like, but it's pride

hat there's a party at Mat

kwardly, and it prompted the girl wh

what you said?" "Man, y

end. He was cute and I liked him well, but we just didn't click as individuals. He also had quite different priorities than I ha

tionship than I was ready for. We were also not on the same page se

ngs; we're just spending some time

n a lilting tone, Barbara Lim pointed ou

e chi

Stop stressing about it for now." Barbara Lim emer

night lo

we were graduating, our time together would no longer be the same. Everyone else seemed to be thriving in their new circumstances, while I was still strugg

bling's old graduation robe, please. I failed t

l means. Once again, though, that was none of m

yeah, of

tive of how kind my friends were and how they

d as our true "goodbye" location because that's where our automobiles or our parents' c

headed straight towards the central commercial di

c description. When I had a job, maybe I'd be more upbeat, too. Nonet

g to get a hold of

of that. I knew I should have requested an applic

es in one-on-one conversa

cess to our