Chapter 2

Zeph Pov

We headed to the guidance office after the mess on the stairs. The principal of our school got angry with all of us and asked who was the instigator of the commotion.

"Didn't you hear my question? Which one of you started the commotion?" Our school principal, Diosdada Labanan, asked again in a high voice when no one spoke among us. "Or maybe you all want to be punished since no one wants to answer me?"

"Zeph was the one who started the commotion, Ma'am Diosdada," Duffy suddenly pointed at me as the one who started the commotion. I was taken aback for a moment so I couldn't speak quickly to defend myself. I thought that Duffy was brave but it turned out that she is a coward. She pointed at me as the instigator for fear of being punished. She dared to blame me because she knows that our principal is definitely not on my side. I'm just a lowly omega so for them it's okay to bully me. They bully me but they are all cowards deep inside.

"How did I start it, Duffy? Look at me. I look like I bathed in rotten eggs and fruit so anyone can see who started the fight," I bravely defended myself when I finally found my voice. If I don't defend myself then who will defend me? And another thing is that when I let them reverse the situation, they will always do it because they know they can blame me anytime they want.

"Shut up, Zeph! You're just a low-class omega so you have no right to speak!" our principal yelled at me. "Just because you look like that doesn't mean Duffy and the others are to blame for starting the fight. You may have provoked them so they threw stinky eggs and fruits at you," added Ma'am Diosdada. She obviously favors Duffy's group. Duffy's friends including Hillary sneered at me so I just bowed my head. Even if I explain, our principal won't listen to anything I say. She is super biased toward them.

"You're right, Ma'am. Zeph provokes us. She said harsh words to us so we couldn't stand her and threw rotten eggs and fruit at her. She wanted to tweak my hair but she couldn't do it because my friends helped me," said Hillary. She even pretended to cry and looked pitying where she was good at. Hillary is good at pretending. Her father scolded me almost every day because she always pretended that I am bullying her. Sir Keiver loves his daughter very much so even if he knows that his daughter is at fault and just pretending he still scolds me every time Hillary told him that I am bullying her. 

Our principal angrily pointed at my face. "Don't bring your attitude of being an omega here in school, Zeph. You really inherited your parents' low-class behavior. If it wasn't for Hillary's father's plea, you would never even be able to step foot at the school gate. You are biting the hands of the one who raised and feeds you, Zeph? You are very ungrateful omega."

"You are wrong, Ma'am. I know how to show gratitude to the one who sheltered and raised me, that's why I let Hillary bully me every time she wants to. But now that she has accomplices in bullying me I will not allow myself to be bullied by others. I will defend myself, Ma'am. I am not to blame for the trouble that happened. You saw that I am the one who is worse dressed than them and I am the one with scratches from their sharp nails while they look fine and don't even have a single scar. So they are not the victim here but me, Ma'am," I reasoned with Ma'am Diosdada. Even though I knew she wouldn't care about me taking my side and believing me, I still worked up my courage to tell her the truth. Maybe she will feel sorry for me and realize when she hears what I have to say.  But that was my mistake.  Because of what I said, Ma'am Diosdada slapped me hard on my face. The pain from her palm is nothing compared to the pain in my heart when they are talking badly against my parents. Why they can't just let them be? They are already resting in heaven but some people still dragged their names when they are insulting me just like our school principal.

"You can't let me go through your drama, Zeph. I know Hillary's group also made mistakes but I hope you just stay away from them so there's no trouble," Ma'am Diosdada told me angrily. I just bowed down while holding my cheek with my hand. "Because of what happened you ruined the teaching of other teachers and the learning of other students so I will punish all of you. Hillary's group will run across the campus ten times and you Zeph will carry the new arrival's flower vase up to the rooftop garden."

I just shook my head weakly when I heard Ma'am's punishment on both sides.  Just to show others that Ma'am Diosdada also punished Hillary and her friends so she gave them a punishment that was too easy for them. They are werewolves who can run fast so they could be finished running the entire campus in just a few minutes. I'm also a werewolf but I don't have the same abilities as them. I am a weakly werewolf with a lowly background. And with the weight of the newly arrived flower vase that I saw earlier on the side of the faculty room, it will surely take many hours before I could climb all ten flower vases to the rooftop garden. Sometimes it makes me wonder if it's really true that I'm a werewolf or maybe I'm just a normal person who just stumbled into the Golden Wolf's pack. It's because I feel like I am just a normal human being.

After telling us our punishments, we were sent out to the principal's office to quickly do the punishment.  Hillary's group looked at me with a smile while I'm passing by them. 

"You thought Ma'am Diosdada would side with you but sad to say, she didn't, instead she even slapped you. Poor, Zeph," Duffy mocked at me after we left the principal's office. She intentionally hit my arm before she passed by me. The rest of her colleagues did the same too.

"Poor, Zeph. Ma'am Diosdada will not side with a low class of werewolves like you. Later when you come home, Daddy will surely punish you too. Losers," Hillary speaks to me with a mocking smile on her lips before she followed her friends.

I couldn't help but cry. I cried to release the anger I felt for them. Even if I get mad I still can't do anything with them.  Because I'm an omega.  A lowly omega who is laughed at and insulted by all of my kindred. A lowly omega who seems to be just dregs of the world in the eyes of my kind.