Chapter 4

Violet's POV

I was still unhappy about what happened earlier with Summer, but I calmed down on the way to the locker room to change into my gym clothes for sport. I'm excited because I love being active and I find it helps me calm down as I can push myself with the anger I hold and release it into what I'm doing.

Summer and I have only been to this particular school for one week since it's the beginning of the year but also because we just moved again. We don't stay in one place for too long and the longest time we have stayed in one place was for 18 months, which was a mistake. I make sure we have two, sometimes three different places we can call home in case one gets discovered. I also make sure I can get a place where I can work which helps pay for school not that we need the money as we have a lot because of our parent's will that gave us all of their belongings and their money they saved in case wee needed it and for our college if we find a safe place where we don't have to run.

I work at a local veterinary hospital. The owner was a bit unsure about employing me because of my age but I was able to convince her to do a trial and was accepted to work a few hours a week and Summer can stay and do her homework when I work in my office. Yes I have an office which surprised me but my boss was really happy with my work and said I was a natural as I was able to calm down one of the clients dogs who has a tendency to be aggressive when at the vets but when the dog saw me he instantly went towards me and laid down next to me. The owner of the dog was surprised as well as my boss. And we got the dog towards the back to do the annual examination and all that and he was as I predicted was healthy.

My boss is short, in her mid thirties with short black hair. She is really nice to everyone and one of the kindest people I know. When we aren't busy she helps Summer with her school work and even lets Balto stay with Summer which didn't take much convincing as when I went to apply for the job Summer was with Balto and he as normal was guarding her but with no collar or leash. To say she was surprised was an understatement as she said that she has never seen that but I had explained that Summer and I raised him and found him as a puppy alone with no pack or siblings and the only signs of others where carcases which is sort of the truth. My boss understood and allowed him to stay as I explained that I have taught him everything he knows and he never leaves our side unless we are at school. She accepted this which I was grateful about as I knew that summer would feel more comfortable with Balto there if I was with a client.

As I walked to the oval where sport is I could sense Valarie on edge.

'What's wrong Val?' I asked in my head

'I don't know all I know is that I sense something bad is going to happen but I cant tell what'

'Okay ill keep an eye out and stay alert can you mind-link Sea and alert her please but tell her not to worry Summer and if something seems off tell her to contact you so you can let me know and ill go to Summer please Val?'

I have heightened senses so I can already tell when I'm a couple of hundred feet away that there are more shifters then humans and the shifters are wolf shifters. I keep my guard up and make sure I still mask my sent so the were-wolfs don't smell my sent and ask questions like why I don't smell human or like shifter. When everyone arrived on the oval we were asked to do 2 laps around the hole oval and that's roughly 5 km. I made sure I was slower then the were-wolfs and I was actually doing a slow jog at the pace I was going I was faster then the humans and slower then the wolves. I think coach caught on that this wasn't even remotely hard for me and signalled to me to come over to where he was. The people running weren't even a quarter of the way done.

"Yes Coach Simon" I asked worriedly

"I wanted to ask you why were you jogging and why it looked like you were barely trying?"

"I guess I am just really good at long distance running?" I said but it came out more like a question then a statement.

"I know your school records and more importantly your sport records and they said that you could run this within 5 minutes"

I sighed I know I could run 5 km in 5 mins but really they HAD to put that in my records. Urgh... so annoying.

"I think they made a mistake. No one could run 5 km in 5 minutes." I said a bit unsure but I knew I could do it as I have done it in less when needed but I can't tell Coach Simon that. I don't know how they knew I only did it when I was bored and when no one was around.

"That is what I thought but looking at you just now it looked like you were walking at a fast pace. Violet I can sense talent from you. I have had a few people less than a dozen that can nearly do it but are short of a minute. But you looked really relaxed and you looked board but you were still going fast." Coach looked at me cautiously and then his eyes went slightly grey compared to his usual dark blue. He was obviously a were-wolf but he must be mind-linking someone.

Just as I think that the rest, the rest of the were-wolf guys and some of the girls and the human kids later came up and coach waved one over. He was obviously the Beta. He has slightly lighter, darker hair.

"Jake where is Jackson?" Coach asked

"Urm out doing stuff?" the Beta/Jake person said giving Coach a short answer but the Jackson guy is probably the Alpha doing stupid errands or in a meeting.

"Okay Jake you and Violet are going to race around to the goal post which is 500m and back which is another 500m and in total that is 1,000m that you will race so lets get ready." Coach said looking pleased with my expression. I love racing but because Jake is a beta he will be the second fastest and strongest wolf in the pack. So I will have to try to lose and I hate absolutely hate loosing especially a race.

"Okay ready, set, go!"

Once I heard go I started to run but at a slower pace than what Jake was doing annoyingly. I was starting to get board and I could tell Jake was to so I casually over took Jake to tease him and to also annoy him on porpoise. I over took him to make him try harder and sure enough he tried harder and I made it look like he was catching up but sped up just a tad. You could tell he was getting really pissed off. It was really funny so as we were getting closer to the end I dialled it up a notch but no-where near the fastest I could run/sprint. Lets just say it took him a while to catch up.

"Okay, now I know you can beat be- I urm mean Jake with out even trying" Coach said

Dammit I forgot I wasn't supposed to win... oh well now I am screwed. Royally screwed.

"Urm it was just a lucky day?" I said but of course it had to come out more like a question. Coach continued on our workout and made us work really hard but I wasn't even breaking a sweat. The whole lesson was really like a warm up for me that I would do when I had to do some exercise when really lazy. But the were-wolves where sweating and the humans looked like they just ran a 24-hour ultra marathon.