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"Enid, if you don't release my arm in this instant, I will change all your colorful nail polishes with silver pint ones." Wednesday said as the blonde wolf dragged her through the crowd of students
"Sorry, no can do Wednes, you promised you would be eating lunch with us, no take backs!"
"I did not do such thing, i don't make promises i know i won't keep" the goth grumbled while following the taller girl onto the table
The pair arrived in front of a wooden picnic table where the Nightshades were sitting, eating their lunch together. The group all made space for the two girls to join, gladly including the girls on their chatter and gossiping of the 'Last First day'.
"I can't believe this will be our last time entering a school year, how did we make it this far?" Divina asked nostalgically, tilting her head into Yoko's shoulder, while the vampire sipped at a black straw on her cup clearly hiding her bloody liquid from view just to not upset some of the group that were more wary at seeing blood, especially when it was being consumed as food.
"I can't believe this moron made it to last year" Bianca says while looking at Ajax, who was oblivious and playing with a little meatball on his plate "if he and Kent made it, i think we could pass this year sleeping and still get an honor medal for being the best on our year"
"Even Pubert could pass this school year without help from anyone, it's not complicated" Wednesday says while peeling an apple with her pocket knife, the goth usually eat lunch as a whole meal, just a few snacks or fruits and replaces the calories either with smoothies -that Enid started to force her to drink- or with a more heavy meal on dinner
The group continued eating and chatting for a few more minutes, the gossip hot on their tongues until a little redhead with twin braids came walking at a faster pace to them
"Agnes!", "Hey kid", "Sup, redhead", "Yo! Little Wednesday" the group greeted her as she halted to a stop in front of the table and them
"Hi! eh...Wednesday, something happened..." the younger girl said, while squirming under the looks of the older teens, especially the goth's glare
"What kind of situation must require you to come running through the school and interrupting my lunch time? Need I remind you what happened last time someone interrupted my time for some nonsense?" Wednesday threatened, getting a little elbow on her ribs that instead of making her flinch, only made her glare more but this time at the blonde wolf guilty of the hit
"It's Pugsley, he...i don't really know how it happened but he was inside the bee's apiary, he got an allergic reaction and is in shock, Eugene gave him an Epi-pen but he says he won't go anywhere without seeing you first" the redhead scaredly said
Wendesday sighed and took the last bite of her apple slices and stood up, giving everyone a glare that everyone interpreted as her 'goodbye' to them. Both braided girls walked together to the apiary's direction while Agnes gave more details to the older goth, details she probably skipped to not reveal Pugsley's privacy
(...)
A few minutes later, a few others had to leave to do their own things too, Ajax went to his room to finish unpacking his clothes, Kent said he would go clean the other side of his room 'cause he would be getting a roomate and didn't want to have problems on the first meeting. All the girls were still on the table, still talking and without anything to do because they were responsible before and free for the moment.
While they talked, the new principal walked slowly to them, being recognized a few meters beside the table and the girls looked at her, Principal Montgomery, former student of Nevermore and a well-known social worker
"Good afternoon, girls. Pardon me for interrupting your time, but I had a favour to ask and you four are the best option I have"
"Hi, Principal Montgomery" the girls all said, and Bianca took the chance to speak for all of them when she saw none of the others looked like they wanted to continue the interaction "What do you need? Is something wrong going on?"
"Oh no! None of that, Miss Barclay. I just need a few people to help introduce the new students. I know it's usually a job asked for the ones in second year only, but this time we have a little complication. The students I'm asking you to help aren't freshmen, they will be in your grade actually, and since they are older I was thinking to give them a tour with people their age so they feel more at home, do you understand what I'm trying to do?"
"Oh...in that case, i guess i don't have a problem helping you, do you, girls?" the other three shook their heads, they didn't have a problem and considering they were friendly and extroverted most of the time, it didn't seem like a problem to meet new people and make new friends, "We don't have a problem, Principal, when do you need us to do it?"
"Well...now" the Principal says while looking behind her, at the entrance of the lunch hall, The Quad, stood a little group of 5 teens, three men and two girls looking lost. Mrs. Montgomery waves at them and gestures for them to come closer, when they are a few steps away from the table, the adult again talks "Well, girls, I want you to meet the Stillwater Pack. This is Valen, an alpha werewolf. Callum, a seer, a dove specifically. Adrian, a young vampire. Malia, a siren. And Shayla, a gorgon. They are a formed and registered pack so you will be seeing they have the same last name if you ever are curious enough to snoop around the files like i know certain girl does. I hope you can get along well, and with that i have to leave because there are still so many parents waiting to talk personally to me" the principal sighed while looking to her office far away, a tired look but she doesn't lose the glamurous stance before she walks away
"Hello! Nice to meet you, I'm Valen, well, i think you heard the Principal hehe...anyways, thank you for this i assure you we will behave on this tour" the new alpha smiles, while the girls look at the new pack with calm looks and stand up to greet and begin the tour "what are your names? if it's not a bad question to ask"
"Hi, yeah it's okay, it's a basic question i guess. My name is Yoko, this is Divina, my girlfriend" Yoko grabs Divinas waist while saying that, obviously showing a little posessiveness over her girl "this is Bianca, and this is Enid" she finishes to introduce them
At the last sentence, the new pack perks up, like Yoko had mentioned Voldemort's name, they look at the blonde surprised, even the gorgon girl stepping forward without noticing, making Bianca stand a little closer to Enid just in case
"Enid? as in...Enid Sinclair?"
"..." "..." "...How do you know that?"
"You-you are alive, and...human"
All the girls tense at hearing that last part, the recovery and back-to-human story wasn't a good story for Enid, not liking to be reminded of it, not even in a full moon, so for a stranger to know that, and to say it, it was...complicated
"I repeat Enid's question, How. Do. You. Know. That?"
"Oh shit, no no it's not like that, please we come in peace, we are not trying to have a problem, please forgive Shayla, she didn't mean it the way it sounded we are just surprised to see you. We...did not know if you had made it back to human form, the last thing we knew about you was that you took a little trip to Paris"
"It's a very very private situation you are talking about, so i have all the right to ask you, who told you that? Where did you learn what happened to me?"
"...Wednesday."
"...What?"
"Wednesday...Addams, she came to us, for help, to help you. We did what we could but by the time we had the answer you were far away so we couldn't go with her to catch you, it wasn't safe for us, it wouln't have been comfortable for you"
"You...you know Wednesday?" Bianca asked, looking curious but serious, still leaning into Enid just to protect her from the new pack's gazes
"Know her? Yeah yeah, ahhh we camped with her for a few days while she was in Canada, we are from there. Malia's family are friends with the Addams so Wednesday contacted us through mutual acquaintances. Like i'm telling you, we helped her discover the ritual she needed to do to bring you back to human"
"Ah...that's...that's new, i knew Wednesday asked for help from a few but i didn't know about...about you"
"She is a very private person, maybe she didn't think you would want to know" Callum says
"Or knowing her, she got embarassed she had to 'ask for help' from outsiders to get her girl back" Malia
"Her what?!" Yoko says, choking on air
"Yeah, like...you haven't noticed how Day talks about her GirlWolf? Please it's almost as tiring as Valen and Adrian fighting over who gets to be on top"
That gets the four girls choking and confused, but they didn't want to seem rude so they shut their mouths, sensing their curiousness but wanting to move on, Callum said
"Yeah, well...eh you could say we are a modern pack, like, don't be surprised if you see some of us kissing, we kind of...are all together? We have not defined anything yet, we feel free as we are and don't need titles to mantain our trust on each other so...yeah that pretty much contains it hehe. Anyways if everything is cleared and you don't hate us for being rude first thing on our first meeting, how about we begin the tour?"
:)