As I walked out of the lockers I noticed everyone in the pack, other than Lil and I, were waiting for us. I walked over to them, when I arrived everyone was battering Zander and I on whether we knew she was that strong or not. Both of use kept saying no, he claimed that he had never seen her go all out before and he still doesn’t think she has. And I just said no. The only people who might know anything were Libryinth and Ash, Ash cause he is her brother. And Libryinth cause of the way he spoke, like he has fought her in the past and knows what her limits are.

“So, you guys waited?” Her voice came out of nowhere.

I turned around to see Lil standing there back in her uniform with her book back over her shoulder. “Oh… Uhh… yeah, of course, we couldn’t leave you here alone to walk and get lunch” I checked my phone to see the time, “and look at that it’s almost noon now, lets get heading.” I really hope she didn’t hear our conversation.

“Yeah what Juniper said, lets eat!” Zander exclaimed, pushing us all toward the door.

We all walk to the cafeteria, got our food, and ate. The whole time we were eating Lil was quiet, she just stared at her food, I was getting pretty worried to say the least, but I don’t think anyone else really noticed. She was usually pretty quiet, but this was different. She didn’t speak during lunch or on our way to our next class.

In the next class we had assigned seats, when we found our seats we were all sat in the same clump. Lil, Zander, and I were in the first row, Arbid, Bex, Braden, and Winnie were in the row right behind us. We were sitting in that order as well. We were all pulling out our book and notebooks for the class, when Libryinth and his pack came in. They had one more pack member then we had, they were all in the last half of the matches this morning, and were all the other PVT students. I went back to my textbook when I heard a loud thump on the table. I looked over to see Libryinth and his pack settling down in the seats next to us. So we share the front middle with him.

“So… they put you in the front-middle again. Man! It’s just like back at PVT, huh?” He chuckled and continued to speak to Lil, “I can’t believe we have to take a gatherers class this year. I want to fight not mix potions and look at plants.”

“We actually have two gatherer classes this semester and two next semester as well.” Lil had pull out a laptop and was working on it, “It’s not what you think, if you get separated from your pack in the middle of a swamp. What are you gonna do? Eat something poisonous and die before you can find you pack? No, you will know the basics of what you can eat and where to find fresh drinking water. You can’t just fight, being a licensed hunter, no matter your speciality, you need to know how to survive. If you don’t, then you are beyond useless. Use your head and think before you speak, fucking lowlife.”

Libryinth glared at her, I’m guessing he was just complaining to complain. But man, Lil really knows her stuff, I haven’t even checked out the schedule for next semester. At QHGPT first years all take the same classes whether you are in the hunter or gather course. Second and third years you have more freedom and can choose electives, and where you start separating into hunter and gather classes. You get to do your specialty classes when you hit fourth and fifth years. But we have a long way to go until then.

After talking to Libryinth, Lil was quiet again, all threw Herbology, the walk to our last class, and Logistics. Even the walk back to the dorms and the elevator ride. When everyone got to their doors and started unlocking them is when she spoke again.

She exhaled heavily before turning to face us, “I know everyone is shocked and probably has a lot of questions for me. I will answer as many as you want, but before that we need to decide on who’s going to lead the pack and we need to complete our homework. So, what would everyone like to do?” She was waiting for answer but no one knew what to say, I expected Zander to at least say something.

So, I spoke up, “Lets complete the homework together first, everyone can think about who they want to lead the pack and what questions they want to ask Lil. Everyone change into something comfy and meet in Lil’s room in 10 minutes. Don’t forget to bring your books and study materials. Does everyone agree?”

“Not that I really mind, but why do we have to listen to you? And go with your plan? You aren’t our leader.” Winnie scoffed at me and Lil.

“I don’t see anyone else coming up with any ideas on what we should do,, and no one can make any decisions about the pack except the decided leader. So we have to pick one. Which is way I asked for everyone if they agreed on it.” I was aggravated, I guess I really was the only one that noticed.

“I’m fine with it, let’s meet in Lilli’s room!” Arbid exclaimed, “I really want to see her room.”

“I’m fine with it as well.” Braden nodded as he spoke.

“Well, I don’t really care as long as I get some help with this Herbology homework, I don’t understand it at all.” Bex added in, she smiled at me when she spoke.

“Lillith’s good with that, and I’m good with the plan, and anyways I already know who I want the leader to be. Back at PVT we called them pack alphas, but I always thought it was ironic.” Zander chuckled as he spoke.

“Well alright then, we have a plan. See everyone in Lil’s room in 10 minutes.” I called out as I unlocked my door and walked in my room.

I threw my stuff onto my bed and dropped down on it. I sighed, it’s the first day and I’m more worried about what Lil’s hiding from us then the homework. I could do this work on my own in a couple minutes. But in the pack with everyone all around its going to talk lot longer. I told everyone to think about what questions they want to ask Lil, but what am I going to ask her. Asking her about her secondary sex and her transform seam way to personal. Even asking about her past relationship with Libryinth seams to personal, maybe they dated or are mated and it all went sour.

Everyone is going to be asking personal questions, but I really think choosing the ‘alpha’ is way more important then asking her questions. The alpha needs to be strong enough to make hard decisions by their self and take the slack from the teachers when the pack messes up. They also need to be levelheaded so that they can deal with pack members when they’ve gone off the rails. They don’t need to be the physically strongest or the smartest. But they need to be able to ring everyone in easily. Who should it be? Zander? No Lil already said he has no experience and when he did try he was just an ass. Braden? I couldn’t do that, he asked us specifically to not put him as the alpha. Winnie is to hotheaded. Arbid is an omega, that really shouldn’t matter, but I feel like he needs to be protected not be put incharge of us. Bex doesn’t like taking charge and making hard decisions. I would be better as the second in charge, I don’t even know enough about it.

Lil said she was in the same pack as Winnie for their first two and a half years at PVT and Winnie left after the end of their third year. That doesn’t make since, if Lil left the pack she was in and that made Winnie leave school at the end of the year, then it would work out. But aren’t the pack rules there the same as the ones here? If so Lil would started her own pack after that with Zander, and would have been the alpha. And Zander did say it found it ironic that they were called alphas, maybe Lil is a Beta or Omega? Oh I don’t know. But she is the only one who stands a chance of being strong enough to control everyone. She fits the description almost perfectly, well I guess I know my answer.

After I found my answer, I quickly changed my clothes and grabbed my study materials and textbooks. I still had a couple minutes so I grabbed my laptop and charger. I don’t use it usually for studying but we might need it to research the pack basics. I finished gathering up everything I’d need and locked my front door. I walked out my back door into the back hallway that lead to Lil’s room and the living room thing. I went to her door and knocked, she called out to me;

“It’s open Jun!”

I opened the door, and let myself in.