A Generous Alpha.

Ariana was on a call and went to open the door as someone was knocking only to find Nicki standing right in front of her doorstep. She ended the call quickly and hid the phone before she asked.

"Nicki?, You are back again? I thought you were with your guides" She moved out of the way, allowing Nicki into the room.

"Yeah, I was" Nicki found her way into the room. "But we are done and I don't think I like those people, especially the one called Astrid. She was kind of mean to me" 

"You mean Astrid?" Ariana shut the door after Nicki went into the room and hurried her footsteps towards her.

"Yes, Astrid. I think I will relate better with Hanna than I'll do with her. She kind of said all sorts of things to me when they took me to show me to my room" Nicki threw herself on the bed and let out a deep breath.

Today, being the first day of her trying to learn about werewolves, hasn't only been fun and thrilling, but also tiring coupled with a little bit of the murderous content she has encountered here but it was still amazeballs.

"You look upset, what kind of things did she say to you? Astrid is one of the best and nicest guides anyone can ever wish to have around here" Ariana joined Nicki on the bed, repeating the same description Nicki's guides are known to use on themselves.

And was really inquisitive to know the sort of things Astrid said to her.

"Yeah, they said the same thing to me but Hanna happens to be the only nice one, not Astrid" Nicki could have agreed with this but it wasn't true. The word 'nice' can't be used to describe Astrid if one wanted to. 

"Look, I'm not supposed to tell you what she said because she told me to keep it between us, but I trust you, and that's why I'm just going to let you know it. I can trust you to keep this a secret between us, can I?" Ariana doesn't know this yet, but this wasn't just an ordinary question asked but a test that Nicki is trying on her and if she passes it.

Then Nicki can prove her guides wrong that trust could actually be founded in this place. It just has to be with the right people. 

"Yeah, of course," Ariana held Nicki's hand in agreement that she can keep whatever she was about to say to her a secret between them.

"First of all, I have to ask this. Did the Alpha currently lose his Luna?" This was the number one question stuck in Nicki's head and she couldn't help but let someone else know it. It was starting to feel like a heavy burden bothering her.

"What? Why would you think or even say that?" Ariana scoffed at Nicki asking such an unnecessary and weird question. She's lucky she didn't ask someone who could easily tell on her such a thing or else they would start thinking she was trying to hit on the Alpha or something.

"Because Astrid kept saying the Alpha might have a thing for me. No, she literally said he has a thing for me and I've been thinking about it and I think it kind of seems true….." It was at this moment Nicki was telling Ariana what transpired between her and Astrid that she started to accept the fact that the claims could be true. 

However, Ariana wasn't going to agree to it and found it absurd instead.

"What?!" She was trying to understand Nicki but she wasn't making any sense. Especially with the part, Nicki herself thought that it could be true the Alpha might have a thing for her.

"Shh, keep your voice down. No one must hear this. I don't want to get into trouble you know" Nicki shushed Ariana, she continued when it seemed like Ariana was calm again.

"You are not going to tell on me, are you?" She asked with a little bit of hope that Ariana won't be a snitch. The look she had on her face right now didn't look so trustworthy anymore.

"Of course, I'm not going to snitch on you but what makes you think the Alpha has a thing for you? You just got here today, you shouldn't be thinking of such things already" Ariana shook her head in disbelief. It wasn't right for a newbie like Nicki to bother herself with such thoughts.

"Just tell me first, did he lose his Luna or not?" Nicki ignored Ariana's advice, all she wanted to know right now was if the Luna was alive or not to help confirm her suspicions. The curious look on her face helped made Ariana know she urgently needed an answer to the question asked. 

"Of course not, he didn't. She's very much healthy and alive. She doesn't stay here with him because she takes care of the other academy. But,  she only comes here once in a while, you know when they want to…." Ariana didn't want to say the last word, she had already given Nicki a hint of what she meant.

"Bang?" However, Nicki was smart enough to figure it out herself and said it out loud.

"You didn't have to say the word, you could have just kept it to yourself" Ariana slapped her forehead and sighed. 

"Look, the Alpha has a Luna and they seem very much in love with each other. There's no way he likes or feels a thing for you. You can't possibly be his type and he doesn't fall for his students. He's a very strict person so I don't know what your guides told you but they are wrong" 

"Yeah…. right, Astrid's wrong" Nicki scratched her head, pondering deeply about what Ariana just said to her. She was right, Astrid was just messing with her. However, there was one more thing Nicki needed to be cleared with so she spit it out.

"So, which place do you stay? What room was handed over to you?" Ariana changed the topic first before Nicki could go ahead with what she wanted to say, it wasn't something relevant to talk about anymore.

And it happened to be what Nicki wanted to tell her that she had to ask about. "About that …..I was given the Luna's room. They said it was the place she used to stay before she moved out"

That was the only statement Ariana needed to hear from Nicki that made her jaws drop in shock. "What?" 

"I know it's crazy, right? That's why I think Astrid might not be wrong. The Alpha might actually have a thing for me" Nicki was filled with dreadful awe as Ariana was but her jaws weren't lucky enough to drop open.

It took Ariana a couple of minutes to get back to her senses before she started trying to figure out and reason what Astrid said. She doesn't seem to be wrong about the claims of the Alpha having a thing for Nicki now.

"But why…why would the Luna's Lounge Room be given to you?" Ariana held her chin, extremely confused. No one is allowed near the Luna's lounge room so why was it now given to Nicki?.

"I don't know, that's what I'm trying to figure out. I don't want Astrid's claims to be true. I'm just nineteen, I can't fall in love with an old man" Nicki shuddered at the thought of falling in love with an old man. 

The Alpha looks pretty young but who knows his real age?. Werewolves tend not to look like their age, right?

"Oh my God, I think I'm getting something…." Ariana held her head, behaving like a newly possessed being while doing some real hard calculations. 

"What is it?..." Nicki watched in horror as her friend was suddenly acting really weird. What could be going on with her? 

"You weren't punished when you refused to answer the Alpha and defied him in the hall, right?" Ariana traveled her mind back to what transpired in the hall, taking Nicki along with her.

"Yeah, I wasn't punished and I wasn't supposed to. I'm just new here" Nicki said and took her time providing answers to all the questions being thrown at her.

"And you were sent two guides instead of one, right?"

"Yeah..yes"

"And then you were given the Luna's Lounge room next, right?" 

"Right"

"Oh my God, I think Astrid's right"

"You mean about the claims of the Alpha having a thing for me?" Nicki's nightmare was about to come alive.

"Yes, I think so, but we just have to confirm it first to be sure it's true" Ariana got off the bed, walking around the room in circles. It helps her in meditating fast and clearly.

"Well, how do we do that? Because I seriously hope it doesn't turn out to be what I'm thinking.." Nicki gritted her teeth in fear.

"Well, I don't know but we will figure something out by tomorrow. For now, let's stop talking about this, it's making me go nuts" Ariana shook her head as if it would make the claims of the Alpha having a thing for Nicki to go away. 

"Yes, you are right. Let's talk about something else…" Nicki rolled her eyes and shook her head too.

And just like that, they both ended the topic about the claims of the Alpha possibly falling for her and talked about something else. 

When tomorrow comes, they will sort something out to confirm if the claims could be true or if it was just the Alpha deciding to be more than generous to the first human he bit and turned in quite a long time now.