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I was waiting in the waiting room. Val has been talking with his psychologist for the past hour now. I really should of head his advice to bring something to do. The door to the psychologist opened and Val walked though, “so how did it go in there?”

Val smiled at me, “it went good; he even said I might not need to come around anymore soon.”

“That’s good,” I probability should have said it was great, but I wasn’t surprised at his progress. As we walked to the car, Val wrapped himself around my arm, “something wrong?”

“No, I just told the story of how we meet and stuff.”

“I see, you were a huge dick back then.” He was, I remember how difficult it was to open him up.

“I know and I am sorry that I was so hostile to you,” Val looked ashamed of himself when he said that.

“I already forgave you for that,” I leaned closed to him and whispered, “and I get my revenge by fucking you in the ass at night.” We both laughed when he said that, “but seriously, I am happy to have you in my life. You are very important to me, Valrez.”

“And your very important to me as too, Fredrick.”

Despite how we started out, it was so odd how we became a couple. Maybe because of what we went though that we end up as a couple, I started to think back on how we both started out.

It was a Monday morning and I didn’t want to get out of bed. It was a full moon last night so William and I just wrestled all night till early in the morning. However, Mom didn’t want us to sleep in, “wake up both of you!” Even with Mom’s yelling, we both where slow to wake up, “so you both decided to play all night did you?”

“Yeah,” I yawned, “so what time is it?”

“To get dressed,” Mom threw cloths at us, “honestly, I already made breakfast for the both of you and here you are wasting the morning away.”

“Sure whatever, when does Steven gets here?” Steven was a year older than me and was one of my Betas. Since he can drive, I have him pick up the rest of the pack on the way to school.

“He already came by and left.”

“What,” I tripped on my pants, “but he was supposed to wait for me, I’m the next Alpha for crying out loud.”

“So,” my Father entered the room, “he is a Beta. Plus he did try to call you, so it is not his fault you didn’t respond.”

“But-“

“Nope, you have no one else to blame but yourself for your actions.” This is how my parents act, they always just let the situation unfold before interfering, just like a sitcom family, “anyway grab your breakfast and bags, I will drop you off on the way to the station.” I grabbed all my stuff and headed to dad’s car. We really didn’t talk much on the way to school since I was devouring my cold breakfast. by the time got there, I was probably had only a minute or two to get to homeroom.

I jumped out of the car and full on sprint to my homeroom. School has only been going on for a month and Mr. Cullen already hates me. When I saw the door to Mr. Cullen’s room, the bell decided to ring. Going full force I practically crashed into the door just as Mr. Cullen was closing it. “What Fredrick!”

“Hey, Mr. Cullen,” I greeted.

“Don’t ‘hey’ me; do you know how many times this happen?”

“Is that rhetorical?

“No, and if you don’t know, it was seven! You nearly crushed using my own door seven time and we only been at school for a month! You just started high school, so start acting responsible.”

“Yes sir,” I went to my desk, or where I sit during home room, and slumped. This day is not going well.

“Anyway, as I was saying before, we have a new student.” My ears perked when he said ‘new student’, I didn’t notice it at first, but there was something new in the room, “anyway, Mr. Noden, would you stand up and tell us about yourself,” nobody stood, “Mr. Noden,” again nobody stood, “Valrez Noden!”

“Yes sir,” one of the students shot up like a rocket. So that was Valrez. he looked slightly skinny, but he look like an average built.

“I asked you to tell us about yourself.”

“Yes, sir,” Valrez grabbed his stuff and went to the front of the room. “Hello, my name is Valrez Noden, I just moved here from Virginia because of my Mother’s work.” that was a very short answer.

After introducing himself, other students asked some question about Val. but I started to notice some things about him. One, all his answers were really short, not a regular short either. All his answers were vague and ambiguous. Two, he would always move a bit before answering then return to the position after answering. It was just so weird, “what is wrong with you?” Oh shit did I just say that out loud?

“Fredrick Lowell you will see me after class!” Mr. Cullen yelled at me just as the bell rung. Yep I did. “Mr. Lowell, it is not polite to say what you said out loud.”

“Sorry sir, but you should have notice it as well.”

“It doesn’t matter if I noticed it or not. When someone just moves to a new school, you have to be respectful and polite to them, no matter how odd there body language is.

“So you did notice.”

“Yes but that is beside the point. You are going to apologize to Valrez tomorrow first thing in the morning or we are going to the office and explaining why the son of a police chief might get suspended for his actions.” So the next day I apologized like I was told to do and high school continued just like it was suppose to, but Val’s actions still bothered me. His actions bothered the rest of my pack as well. We all agreed to watch him closely just to make sure he wasn’t plotting something.

His actions over the next two months where more or less the same each time we compared notes each week. Whenever a pack member attempted to befriend him, they would always get either a rude or withdrawn answer. Even attempts to get contact info about Val seemed to just fail in one form or another. I was going over my notes about him when my father came into my room one evening, “hey Fredrick put some good cloths on.”

“Why, it’s a full moon tonight,” I rarely wear clothes on the nights of a full moon since it is difficult to remove them after transforming.

“I know but we are going to a friend’s house tonight and having some dinner. You are coming with me.”

“Why?”

“You need to start learning to stay in human form during a full moon. What better opportunity then this to learn how.”

“I don’t want to,” I went back to my notes.

“Already decided you have no choice but to go.” after a bit off back and forth Dad win and I was in his care, “now listen, this friend has no idea that werewolves do exist and I want to keep it that way at the end when we leave.”

“Then why not bring Mom and leave Will and I at home.”

“Because the last time I left you alone without supervision on a full moon, you tore up the couch. I am not going to leave two werewolves alone on the night of the full moon by themselves; you both might tear up the whole house.” Dad pulled up to a gate and put in some code on a keypad. We drove a bit and then parked, “remember, no transforming.” I followed Dad into the building and stayed close to him when he knocked on the door. I was shocked at the person who answered it, “why hello there you must be Valrez. It is nice to meet you, I am Cain Lowell.”

Val and I just stood there staring at each other, “Val don’t be rude, it is nice of you to make it tonight.” The man invited us in and started to chat with my Dad. I was shocked how close Val seemed to live to us.

“Sorry this is important so I’m just going to skip,” I was so lost in thought that I barely catch Val leave the room.

“Is he always like that,” I asked Mr. Noden.

“He wasn’t before, but this behavior is getting more common.”

“You mean he wasn’t like this before?”

“Yeah, Fredrick right, I know this might be odd, but could you talk to him?”

“Huh?”

“You’re both the same age right? So Val might open up to you.” He didn’t open to the other dozens who happen to be the same age, so what makes me different?

“Alright,” I went over to his bedroom door and knocked. Val opened the door’ “Hey we need to talk,” I slipped in before he had the chance to close the door on me

“About what,” he seemed stressed that I was in his room.

“Well…about how I acted when we first met,” it seemed like a good place to start.

“Mr. Cullen already had you apologize for your actions weeks ago, so we don’t need to speak about it.”

“Actually there is more to it, so I decided to look up some info about you,” or rather attempt to anyway. I couldn’t find anything about him or his interests at all.

“You did what,” Val yelled. He started to pace around the room with a horrified look on his face. he looked terrified that I looked him up.

“Val?”

“Get out,” What, “I want you out NOW!” even before I could react, Val grabbed me by the shirt and shoved me out of his room. He closed and locked the door on the other side.

“What is going on,” my father rushed to my side.

“I don’t know, Val just lost his shit and tossed me out.”

Mr. Noden placed an ear to the door. When he pulled away, he started at us with a serious look, “there is something I should tell you. Wait in the living room,” he then went to his room and came back with a box. We each sat around the table waiting for Mr. Noden to explain what happened, “alright, before we begin, can you both agree to keep what I reveal a secret Fredrick?”

“Sure,” why did he single me out?

“Thank you,” he opened the box showing a lot of paper in there. Dad and I each took a piece and read their contents. Their contents were…disturbing, “when we used to live in Virginia, Valrez was a victim of bullying during his last year of middle school. We don’t know how severe the bullying was or what they did till he ended up in the hospital.”

“He ended up in the hospital?”

“Yeah, and in terrible condition, I might add. All that both my wife and I know was Val was lead into a trap and beaten up for being gay.”

“Valrez is gay?”

“We don’t really know, Val never opened up to us about it, but the notes suggested he might be. Anyway, when he recovered he seemed like a completely different person. He started to get extremely paranoid and shutting himself up in his room for days on end. When we had a chance to move, we decided to take that chance and hope that Val might go back to how he was before, but as you just saw.”

Everyone in the room was silent. So everything Valrez has done was to protect himself from being hurt like before. I had an ugly feeling in the pit of my stomach, “thank you for telling use your story Edward. Fredrick we are leaving.”

“But Dad-“

“We are leaving Fredrick, now.” we left the apartment and headed home. I still had that sick feeling in my stomach, “what are you thinking about?”

“Was it really okay to leave them like that?”

“It is better this way. That was a family problem; it is not our business to get involved.”

“Are you serious? How can you say that?”

“What could we even do get involved? We don’t know him as well as Val and you were the one who caused him to have a meltdown, it is better that we left.”

Dad’s answer left me furious but I didn’t know why it upset me so much. I started to transform into a wolf form without thinking about it. “You could have done something, you could have done anything!”

Dad drove to the shoulder and slammed on the brakes; the car shock with the sudden stop, “listen here Fredrick, you do not understand anything about what happened now do you!” Dad leaned close to me, “tell me one thing I could have done to improve the situation. There was nothing I could have done in that situation. I have seen situations like this before, and I know how these play out. Unless Valrez wants help, my hands are tied.”

“Wants help, Dad he had a mental breakdown just because I tried to look up info about him, which is an S.O.S to me.”

“Fine, let’s pretend what you said is correct, would he even accept help. I have seen this before and I have seen what happens if something goes wrong. I have seen people, good people, commit suicide in front of me because I fucked up, and all of them acted like Valrez before killing themselves. Do you understand why we left, do you want to the reason he killed himself because you tried to help him when was like this, do you?”

I saw tears form in my dad’s eyes as he tried to recompose himself. I was letting it settle in just how serious the situation just was back at the apartments. The thought of someone killing themselves because of I did something was just horrifying to think of.

I started to return to normal when Dad started the car up again. I was still in shock when we got home, “Fredrick, I am sorry I yelled at you. You have to start to think about these things when you become Alpha. Your choices and how you respond, are going to affect others in the pack as well.” I was already tired so I just nodded, “also, I am not going to stop you.”

I was puzzled, “stop what?”

“With Valrez, odds are he should be calmer when you see him again, so you can do whatever you want with him then.” Dad left the car and head inside. It took me awhile to realize what he meant.

For the rest of the week, Valrez didn’t come to school. I used that time to practice what I was going to say Valrez when he returns, if he returns that is. I didn’t understood why I

When Monday came around, Steven picked me up like he usually does. The ride to school seemed like it was getting longer each day. “So, think Valrez would show up today?”

“I don’t know, Poram, but I hope so.”

“why are you so hung up on Valrez,” Poram asked, “he hasn’t been here so long and you almost seem obsessed with him?”

“I really messed up when I saw last time; I just want to fix what I caused.” In truth, I didn’t have a clear reason to behave like this. I just wanted to help Valrez.

When I entered my homeroom, I saw Valrez talking to Mr. Cullen, “Val, I wanted to talk to you.” I tried to keep my tone pleasant as I approached him, but he just step away from me,”Val?”

“So you know now, right? You know my secret?”

“Yeah I know about it. So I understand your actions somewhat.”

“So let me guess, the next day you told the entire school I was a cock loving fagot right!”

“What, no, I would never do that.” Why would I do that?

“Bullshit,” he shouted, “you probably just came here to rub it in how you are going to fuck my life now don’t you.”

“No, Jesus Valrez, I came hoping we can be friends.”

“Fredrick let me be perfectly clear.” He stepped towards me and lean closed to my face. I only saw his brown eyes, “you and I will never be friends.”

He pulled away from me and head towards his desk, “why not,” I yelled at him, “just because you’re gay, doesn’t mean you can have friends. I have no problem with your sexuality.”

“For now you don’t, but can you say the same an hour later? What about tomorrow, or hell next year? Can you say that exact same thing forever? No, you cannot. That is how some of them start out, saying ‘no problem’ and ‘I am not bothered by it’. Days pass and you start to think otherwise. ‘Is he flirting with me’ you think. So you start to stare at them, study them, trying to figure out what goes though his head. Then you experience fear, not the screaming kind, but a silent terror. You start to put distance between you and them. You look on your past and start to make conspiracies. You slowly realize just how much of a fool you were and start to hate them for manipulating you. But I am not done. You start to plan you revenge. It started out simple, just anonymous generic threats on the locker and Facebook. Then the threats start showing up in other more specific places. The threats and taunts seem to increase in violence, but you didn’t stop. You pretend to know nothing and proceed to just continue with them like normal. Then just when they go to you for comfort, you turn on them. You leave them to your new ‘friends’ to do whatever they want to him; and when they call out to you for help, you just leave, disgusted you called them your friend. Can you say that never once you would think of doing that to anyone you call a friend just because he was gay?” I was shocked, he knew what he meant. That wasn’t some hypothetical shit; it was something he experienced firsthand, “Yeah just what I thought,” when he said that he bolted out of the room before I could even form a response.

“Valrez Noden,” Mr. Cullen called to Valrez from the door. The other students looked horrified at what took place. Fredrick Lowell you have fucked up. “Fredrick Lowell what have you done!”

“Mr. Cullen, I can explain-“

“Explain? You need to do more than just explain this!”

“Look, I will do whatever you want; I just need to fix this.”

I tried to chase after Val but Mr. Cullen grabbed my arm, “that is enough Lowell; you have ‘helped’ enough.”

“So what do you want me to do?”

“You are to stay here while I go to the main office and call your parents.”

“My parent; But Val is-“

“Not your concern anymore. You are to stay here till told otherwise or you will be punished.” He released my arm and left the room. Fucking asshole. The other students took out there phones, probably to spread the word on just what happen here.

“Fuck this,” I muttered before leaving the room. I don’t care about my punishment; I am not leaving Val like this. I checked all the halls I could while trying to avoid the areas around the front office. At some point Val’s name was being called over the intercom.

As I was checking the outside area, my nose caught Val’s scent. But it was too faint for me to tell where it was. Seeing I was alone, I shifted a bit so I could get a better handle on his scent. I followed it back into the building and shifted back to normal.

His scent lead into the bathroom, I went in. inside the bathroom was Valrez on the floor while two other guys just pounded on him, “Valrez.”

“Who the fu-“I suckered punch the son of a bitch squarely in the nose, He flew into one of the stalls. The other guy was not pleased. He punched me in my side then in my face. While I was stunned I was not out.

He tackled me and pined me to the wall before letting loose a fury of punches. I just allowed him to hit me for now, only protecting my neck and groin. It didn’t take long for him to tire out, so I counter him. My attacks were savage and merciless, I immediately went for the throat when I saw the chance and chocked him. I saw his eyes rolled back and his arms fell to his side. I let go of his throat, I didn’t want to kill him but I did manage to beat him and his friend.

I approached Val, “Val, are you okay?”

His face was bruised and swollen, “Fredrick you saved me?”

“Yeah I guess you can say that.” I nearly killed one of them but yeah I did save him.

“But why? After everything I did and say to you, why bother helping me?”

“I guess what you said earlier hit a cord with me,” what werewolf hasn’t felt like that, paranoid about it. but the way he is handling it is just hurting him, “you been though a lot and you have been hurt pretty bad by someone you trusted, but does it justify about what you are doing? Does pushing people away before you get to know them fix what happened to you? I know you are still hurting from what happened because it wasn’t that long ago, but can you allow me to help you?”

I blushed; I can’t believe I said that. Val returned with our order and saw my face, “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing just remembering something embarrassing, that’s all.”

“What is it?”

“Nothing important,” I really didn’t want to say it.

“Fine, then I guess you’re not hungry then.”

“What? Come on.”

“Then tell me what you were remembering.”

“Please don’t take the food hostage, I’ll tell you.”

“Then talk.”

“It was what I said in the bathroom.”

“Are you talking about this morning or from years ago?”

“Years; it is just embarrassing thinking about it.”

“Don’t be, it was sweet,” he started up the car. I reached for the food but Val took the bag away, “you still have one more thing to do before you eat.”

I cupped his face and kissed him. I pulled my face away, “so can I eat now, please?”

“yep,” he handed me the bag and we both drove off.