Alpha Bloodlines (3 page)

"Scott you have any painkillers?" I asked putting my throbbing head on the counter enjoying the cold of the granite on my forehead.

I heard him chuckle, "Here" he said putting two pills and a glass of water on the counter. I sighed as I swallowed them quickly drinking the whole glass of water, "Suffering after drinking all of my beers?" he asked teasingly.

I nodded and sat on the stool, "Yeah" I muttered closing my eyes, I heard him move and suddenly he was behind me rubbing my temples. I snapped my eyes open and pulled away, "What are you doing?" I asked confused.

He smiled "Making you headache go, I learnt about head massages in my class" he said shrugging and reaching for my head again.

"Seriously? I thought Psychology was about what's inside the mind not outside" I said sarcastically.

He rolled his eyes, "Fine, you don't want my help don't take it, suffer for all I care" he said shrugging, I sighed, my head was killing me, it wouldn't hurt to let him try.

"Ok, ok rub my head then" I said exasperated, he shook his head amused.

"Not if you ask like that" he said teasingly, I smiled, ok I guess I was a little rude.

"Scott will you please rub my head?" I asked stepping closer to him.

He laughed "Maybe I could ask you to return the favour later and rub my head" he said suggestively.

"Ew! Gross!" I said slapping his shoulder, he laughed and reached for me again, I pushed his hands away. "No way! I don't want to be owing you anything" I said honestly, there was no way I would be doing that later!

He grabbed my waist and spun me round to face him and moved his hands to my head massaging my temples in small circles making his way across my forehead and back again going down behind my ears making me moan at how good that actually felt. Someone cleared their throat behind me and Scott stopped "Finished seducing my friend?" Mel asked sarcastically.

Scott laughed "Actually no, can you give me ten more minutes?" he asked teasingly.

We all laughed and I stepped back, my head actually felt fine now. "Oh my God that did make my headache go!" I said excitedly.

He smiled and did a little bow "Told ya" he said winking at me.

Mel rolled her eyes, "Shopping!" she said excitedly, I groaned, oh shit I hated shopping!

"Do we have to?" I asked grimacing.

She nodded "Yes! You need to get something for tonight, your not wearing jeans so you need to buy something new, maybe a dress" she said happily.

I shook my head, "Come on, why can't I wear jeans?" I asked hating the fact that she would make me try on dresss and skirts.

She grabbed my bag and put it in my hands, "Come on, let's get something to eat on the way, I'm starving" she said dragging me towards the door.

"See you later Scott, thanks for the massage" I called as we headed out of the door.

After three shops of me refusing to try on anything that she picked out for me she finally had enough. She grabbed a black dress that looked absolutely killer on the hanger but on me would look absolutely hideous. It was tight and short and small! "Try this on Brook or I swear I'm gonna embarrass you in front of this whole store" she said warningly as she shook the dress in front of me.

I raised my eyebrows at her, what the hell is she gonna do to embarrass me? "Yeah?" I asked teasingly.

She nodded "Yeah I'm gonna start screaming and tell everyone that you just felt me up" she said grinning happily.

I laughed "Yeah ok, you do that" I said shaking my head at her amused.

She opened her mouth and screamed, shock shot through me and I jumped forward putting my hand over her mouth looking round to see everyone staring at us shocked and scared. "Shit, ok! Give me the damn dress!" I said angrily snatching it out of her hand.

She laughed "It's ok everyone, I'm sorry, I thought I saw a spider that's all" she said waving apologetically.

I laughed as she pushed towards the fitting rooms, "You are fucking crazy" I said as I stepped into the little curtain and started to strip out of my clothes being careful not to look at my almost naked body in the mirror. I grabbed the dress realising too late that she had picked up a size four, "Mel, damn it, you got me a four! Can you get me an eight or a ten?" I asked holding it outside of the curtain.

She laughed "A ten? Come on jeez try the damn thing on, fuck me, a ten yeah right!" she said laughing her ass off.

Oh for god sake! I pulled the dress over my head pulling it down to see it literally fitted where it touched. It was tight all over literally like a second skin. I looked like a fat ugly prostitute! The dress itself was beautiful though, made of silk and had thin straps, it was beautiful, well it would look beautiful on someone other than me.

"You have it on?" Mel called, I crossed my arms across my body.

"Mel, it's too tight, can you get me a bigger one?" I asked uncomfortably.

She wrenched the curtain open and gasped making me feel even worse. I closed my eyes not wanting to see the disgust at how fucking hideous I was, "Oh God Brook, this dress was made for you, you look so hot, I swear your gonna be fighting them off tonight" she said sounding a little jealous. I opened my eyes to see her looking me over proudly.

I frowned "It's awful Mel, seriously, I look like a fat tramp!" I hissed angrily.

She gasped again, "What? Fucking hell I would kill someone to have your body Brook, your cleavage, my god even I want to fuck you in that dress and I am most definitely straight" she said throwing her hair over her shoulder. I laughed and looked back in the mirror, I suppose it did make my cleavage look good, I dropped my hands slightly so I could look at my bust but still cover up my stomach, she wrenched my arms down to my sides.

"You're getting this dress" she said looking at me sternly, I grimaced.

"I can't wear this! Seriously Mel, come on get real" I said turning my nose up at myself.

She shook her head, "You're getting it, take it off, let's go get some new underwear to go with it, that dress deserves pretty underwear, oh and new shoes" she said clapping her hands.

"I'm not some damn Barbie doll!" I snapped making her laugh as she closed the curtain behind her.

After another hour and a half of shopping we made our way back to hers, I had bought some slutty black lacy underwear and a killer pair of heels to go with the way too tight, way too short dress that she made me buy. God I hated my life, but at least this party was at some friend of her brothers, I wouldn't know anyone there and they wouldn't be able to see me again to talk about my embarrassing show in a slutty dress designed for some runway model.

I showered and let her do my hair, blowdrying it straight and shaping it into a perfect bob, I applied my own makeup much to her disgust, I added a little mascara and some clear lipgloss, I never wore much makeup. Trey said it made me look cheap so I didn't even wear any when I was out with him.

When I couldn't stall anymore she made me pull on the dress over the top of the lacy black slutty bra and thong. She was watching me the whole time with a proud little smile.

"I'm glad I've told Scott we'll meet him there, he is so gonna be drooling for you tonight, I bet he wouldn't let you leave the house" she said smirking at me. I rolled my eyes, yeah as if, the only one that would be drooling right now is Trey and he would be drooling with anger at how fucking embarrassing I looked right now!

Mel as usual looked beautiful, she added some soft curls to her poker straight hair and pulled on a gorgeous red dress that made her look super skinny and graceful. I was so jealous of her, god why the hell can't I look like that? I pulled on my shoes and she wrapped her arm around me, "Let's go break some hearts" she said winking at me making me chuckle. We walked to the car and made our way over to Scott's friends house on the other side of the woods.

As we approached I gasped, this place was gorgeous, like a log cabin with big green windows. It was so cute! Mel laughed and pulled me towards the banging music, "Right, let's get wasted!" she said happily as we got to the front door.

"Who's party is this anyway?" I shouted over the music as she led me through the house. It was really cute on the inside too, and much bigger than it seemed from outside, all open plan, the walls were all wood and looked really homey.

"It's Scott's best friend Jayden's, it's his birthday today" she shouted back pulling me over to the kitchen area. She grabbed two cups and went straight for the punch raising an eyebrow at me, oh crap there could be anything in there!

"Um maybe we should stick to bottles?" I said but it sounded more like a question.

"Don't worry, it'll be fine, Scott will look after us" she said ladling out two big cups of punch. I could feel everyone staring at me so I wrapped my arms around myself wishing I had on a pair of jeans and a hoodie to hide under.

Mel handed me a cup "Cheers" she said knocking our cups together, I took a big swig and almost spat it straight back out, it was fucking awful! There was so much alcohol in there it was just crazy!

"Ew!" I said turning my nose up, "This needs something" I said looking round for anything to put in the punch to take the kick away. I grabbed some orange juice and poured in half a carton before grabbing two apples and two oranges. "Find a knife, the fruit will soak up some of the alcohol" I said opening the nearest drawer.

"Here" Mel said sliding a knife across the counter, I chopped up the fruit and threw it in giving it a big stir with the ladle before serving up a little more into a fresh cup.

I took another mouthful and it was actually quite nice now, "Much better" I said handing my cup to Mel. She smiled and downed the cup nodding for some more, with our drinks in hand we made our way to the dance floor to find Scott.

"Hey, shit, wow" Scott said with wide eyes as he looked me over, why the hell is he looking at me like that? I blushed and dropped my eyes to the floor, I knew I shouldn't have worn this stupid dress!

Jayden

I dumped the last of the alcohol onto the kitchen counter looking it over to make sure we had enough, this party was gonna be awesome. I grinned as I counted the bottles, eight bottles of every single drink you could think of, people were supposed to bring something too so we should be fine.

I grabbed the punch bowl and started mixing in shots of stuff, I had no idea how to make a cocktail or anything so I just threw in whatever I could get hold of first added some orange, apple and cranberry juices and mixed it up with the ladle thing. I spooned out a cup and took a big mouthful, fuck that was awful! I swallowed it grimacing as the alcohol burnt it's way down my throat. I grabbed some lemonade and poured some of that in too, after another test it still tasted like shit but the burn was gone so I downed the rest of the cup. I opened all of the snack stuff pouring them into big plastic bowls before heading upstairs to change.

It would be hot tonight and I was already running a temperature because of the moon so I pulled on a pair of low slung ripped jeans and a plain white t-shirt, screw it I'm not dressing up to go to a party in my own house. This party was arranged to celebrate my birthday, well that's what most people thought anyway, to my pack and family this was a coming of age party. It's kind of like a birthday party but it was special, today I was twenty. Which meant that I was now officially a full grown male shifter, it also meant that I had the right to challenge my father for Alpha of the pack seen as I was the next eldest male in the family.

My father had made it clear to me that he would not reject my challenge should I feel ready to face him, a challenge was not to be taken lightly though. If neither of us were willing to submit it would be a fight to the death, there was no way I was doing that. I didn't like my father, I mean he was never really a father to me, taking off just after my Mom died when I was five leaving me to be raised by my Aunt.

But he was still my father and I wouldn't fight him for something that I had no desire to be anyway, I mean why the hell would I want to be Alpha? I was twenty, in college, fucking anything that moved and generally having a good old time out of life. Who the hell would want to trade that for the responsibility of heading a pack of damn shifters? Not me, certainly not yet anyway, I hadn't ruled out challenging one day but not until it would suit me to do it.

I was the only one that had the right to challenge at the moment, it went on bloodlines, the Alpha had been in my bloodline for over two hundred years. The only time someone can challenge that is not of the bloodline is when the Alpha is either killed or wishes to resign as Alpha, in which case there is a fight amongst all male shifters over the age of twenty that want to compete. It's a fight into submission or to the death depending on how far you're willing to go for it. Basically it's a huge type of contest with the one left standing at the end being made the new Alpha, but like I say this hadn't happened for over two hundred years as the Alpha's had all bore son's to take over from them.

My father wouldn't give it to me easily, he would make me work for it and probably make me kill him just to test how far I would go. It seemed to me like I was always a disappointment to him, nothing I ever did was good enough so to be honest I just stopped trying to impress him. When my Aunt died last year she left me the house and a tidy sum to see me through college so I had been taking care of myself since then.

Once I was dressed I heard people arriving, pulling off the road about a mile away so I made my way down stairs. Scott, Anthony and Paul all let themselves in heading straight for the kitchen to dump the booze they had brought before slapping me a high five. "Wow man, coming of age! You excited?" Scott asked happily.

I shrugged "Same as yesterday man, nothing's changed" I said a little bored with the whole coming of age thing already, I just wanted to party and get laid.

"So you gonna make the challenge?" Anthony asked looking at me excitedly, I shook my head laughing.

"Nah, what the hell do I want all that responsibility for? It gonna get me any more girls?" I asked jokingly making them laugh.