The Alpha and the Mistake

I couldn't believe my eyes when I opened the door and saw him standing there. "Harry didn't throw you out?" Traitor.

"Why would he do that?" A lazy, yet smug smirk spread across his lips.

I did my best to ignore the way it made the butterflies in my stomach flutter. I leaned against the door, barely holding in the sigh. "You're not leaving, are you?"

He shook his head side to side. "Nope."

I left the door open as I sat on my bed cross-legged. Harry and I would talk about this. "I'd ask you why — why go through all this trouble? Yet, one of the first things I learned about your kind is you don't make any sense."

I expected him to get angry, but instead, his smirk turned into a smile. "Hey, there is a method to our chaos I have you know." He walked around the room. Dean paused at every picture, every decoration, every stuffed animal I still clung too. It was unnerving, almost as bad as if he had opened my underwear drawer and went through it.

He stopped at a picture of Dad and me and picked it up. I stiffened. "Don't you dare," I warned him. "Say what you want about me, but don't you dare say anything about my dad." I didn't care how much I would regret it later, but I wouldn't let them talk crap about Dad.

Dean set down the picture, looking sad and something like hurt. "I get you don't believe me, but I'm not like Mike. I don't enjoy making a stupid show of how badass I am by picking on those weaker than me. I only hang around Mike because I have to. In truth, I'd love nothing more than to break his stupid face, but that'd cause too much trouble for the people I care about."

Oh? Something about Dean made me believe him. Crazy, right? "If what you're saying is true then why are you here? If Mike found out you've been here, talking to me, he'd have kittens."

Dean laughed and shrugged. "Some things are worth the risk."

most confusing person I've met, and that is saying a lot." I shook my head. "Whatever game you're playing keep my mom out. Dad's death broke

want you to be happy and safe? Do you think

I knew Mom wouldn't like it, but what choice did I have. Besides, it was almost over. One more year and I'd be eighteen. I could go

none of your business. You're here a

You're — " Dean frowned, ran a

month. I do not need your help nor do I want your help. What I want is for you

for the oncoming argument. Instead, he sighed, ran his hands through his hair before walking to the door. At the doorway, he turned. "What's happening to you is wrong, Brook. I promise I will make

with some fava beans and a nice chianti. Damn it. Figures, I'd run into the one werewolf with a hero complex. He would ruin everything. I had to stop him, I

knowing what else to do, I started my homework. That's right ladies and gentleman; Hell hath frozen over. I am doing homework but not because I have to but because I needed the distraction. What is the world

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didn't want to deal with the Superman-wannabe. Despite all last night

callous when I told her I was quite sick. In fact, only a negligent parent would send me to school. So what did Mom do? Sent me to school. She even went so far as

be called nurses. It didn't matter if someone was vomiting their lungs out if a student

So I explained her moral duty to keep me home, saving the others from this

the school's bell system told me what Mom repeated several times today — I was late. F.M.L. I stepped toward the

a clumsy sort of hug. "Missy! Hey

all but yelled it in my ear, making me wince. Also, the boy stank of alcohol. My nose wrinkled. I tried to put some distance between us, but his arm wrapped around my shoulders like a snake around its lunch. "Where you've been, Missy? I didn't see you at