Chapter 6

The whole school was in chaos. Alice Ferdinand ran around EPC in her crimson wolf form to look for Isis Cepheus, her best friend, so she could share the gossip. After running for a while, she shifted back and breathed heavily because her wolf was still weak and couldn’t stay in that form for too long. 

She couldn’t keep the news to herself! The new guy at the swimming class was just too handsome to ignore, and Alice thought Isis must see this. 

Still breathing hard, Isis appeared behind her and laughed shortly, “Did you want to flaunt your wolf again because you got it before me?” 

Alice jerked up. “Hey! Where have you been? I’ve run for more than an hour to find you!”

“Don’t tell me you’re on your period?” Isis laughed, but Alice brushed her off. “The whole EPC is on fire!!” 

Isis was still thinking her friend was joking around and smiled. “EPC is on fire? What happened to Gamma Jay, the self-acclaimed security guard? You should call him first.” 

“Who is talking about real fire!!?” Alice was frustrated. “Come with me” 

Grudgingly, Isis followed with a loud hiss. “Let’s see where the fire comes from.” 

Alice led her friend until they both stopped at the corridor leading to the principal’s office, where most students rendezvous to gossip at break.  

Isis snapped her hand away from Alice. “Did you bring me her to fang out?” 

“Just wait and see the fire,” Alice insisted, and managed to make Isis wait until another group of students came rushing from the other side of the corridor, gossiping and whispering about some new student.

“He’s so handsome. I heard he comes from Vineyard Pack College.” Isis heard another student comment, and this made her hiss with disgust. She could now guess the source of the so-called fire, and she wasn’t ready to waste time waiting for him. 

She pulled Alice. “Let’s leave here. It’s useless.” 

“Hey!” the latter scolded. “Don’t you hear that a new hunk just arrived from VPC?”

Isis was frustrated just by the way her friend was talking about him. She knew this was going to happen because, in truth, Samuel Armani was very handsome and was a good hunk who would be so hard to ignore. 

She recollected how Dalton cruelly broke up with her over the news of her mum, and she wasn’t ready to let anyone know that he was her stepbrother, and who knows what kind of stunt Samuel could pull? 

She turned around when Alice was being adamant, ready to avoid Samuel at all costs until she could warn him not to let anyone know about their relationship, but she stopped when she heard a certain voice. “Here, Alpha Sam” 

She turned around abruptly, and she was shocked to see Fatima, coming through with Samuel, grinning ear to ear and wore a pink fur cardigan. 

To Isis's surprise, Fatima was wearing a makeup! Something she only does once in a blue moon. Samuel who was coming beside her too had the most handsome smile that Isis had ever seen on, like he was comfortable being around Fatima. 

Since they came from the opposite side and were going to the class, Samuel and Isis saw each other, and for that moment, time seemed to freeze, and the two stared at each other, Samuel smirking at her and Isis glaring back evenly. 

Fatima noticed  Samuel’s absentmindedness and quickly came before him, therefore breaking the hypnotic staring competition. “Alpha Sam, this is the way to the principal's office” 

Isis hissed very loud enough for the two of them to hear before stomping out of the scene. ‘The two of them are your enemies and we must break them apart!’ her wolf swore.

Isis also clenched her fists. ‘Just let him come out of that principal office, I will show him that I was a student at EPC before him’ 

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Before the end and the start of literature class, the EPC school blog was filled with several posts about the new student and pictures comparing him, and the former school star boy, Alpha Dalton, who was going viral more than Isis could take. 

The fact that she had something to do with the two trending boys was so frustrating, and she was barely holding on until the end of the class. 

Isis was the first to get out, and it was to go see Samuel Armani and warn him off telling a talkative and gossipy person like Fatima anything about them. 

Immediately getting out, she met Dalton standing by the door, as if he were waiting for her. 

Isis hissed and pretended like she didn't see him to continue leaving, but he stopped her. 

“I came to see you, Ice,” he said, his voice cold as ice. 

Isis stopped and eyed him for a split second, “You came so you could mock my mm again or break up with me over again?” 

Dalton leaned away from the wall, “I… I need you to help.” 

This felt like the cruelest and wildest joke she had ever heard. “You need my help?” She scoffed. “What came over you?” 

Other students have begun to disperse from the class and, as expected, most female students would stop to look at Dalton, the school's star boy, who was at the brink of dethronement. 

He pulled her hand, “Let’s talk somewhere else.” 

The other students howl at the scene of them holding hands, and cameras are already flashing. “Get an interview from him, Ice.” 

He pulled her behind the notice board. Isis snapped her hand away from him angrily. “What is wrong with you? Did you forget that this is the mass comm department building?” 

Dalton bowed his head in embarrassment, “Sorry, I was desperate.” 

“Desperate, huh?” Isis smirked. “Desperate to mock me or to…..?” 

He ran his hand through his hair in frenzy. “I…. I don’t find you for that. I want… I want an interview.” 

Isis froze for a moment, “You say what?” 

His gaze was firm this time,  “I mean it, Ice. Come and interview me, and even film my training.” 

Isis was confused. ‘But why? You could have asked another person, right?” 

He shook his head. “I must crush that new boy and put him in his place!”  His determination is unwavering. “I want to remain the star boy of EPC and not some Samuel Armani!”