A Rogue

After walking over to the back of the class, I put threw my bag on the desk, sat down, and relaxed in the seat.

Suddenly a frown surfaced on my face as I stared at Nero walking into the classroom.

At that moment, my gaze rested on Karen as she sat in the seat beside me, and anger spiked inside of me while I clutched my fist.

Suddenly, Karen turned around, gazed at me, and cheerfully said, "Good morning, Blake."

“Have you lost your sense of shame, talking to me after what you did?” I harshly uttered, glaring at her.

A pitiful look settled on Karen's face as she pouted and said, "Someone is moody this morning. Sorry if greeting you was that offensive!”

“What?!” I mumbled, drawing my brows together in a frown.

Then I swayed my gaze at Nero, and he slightly frowned at me. But that didn't stop me from glaring back at Karen, and coldly uttering, " Don't play dumb with me. You know what you did, and soon enough, the school board will find out too!"

Without replying, Karen wrote on a piece of paper, and then passed it to me.

Even though I didn't want to accept it, I took the sheet and silently read it, "I know that you left the campus in Mr. Fang's car, and if you don't want him to get into trouble, you will keep your hole shut!"

It felt like time froze for a moment as I solely stared at Nero, knowing that if my father found out that I stayed at his place, he would hurt him, or worse kill him.

Swaying my gaze off Nero, I took the paper and stuffed it into my bag. Then I frowned and gave the middle finger when Karen turned around and stared at me.

I smiled as I swayed my gaze towards the doorway. But fear ceased my body as I stared at my father.

Immediately, I laid my head flat on the desk, hiding my face behind my bookbag.

“Running away from home!? You got guts, brat!" I heard Loki coldly uttered. "Are you going to come down here, or should I come there for you!?"

From his voice, I could tell that he was infuriated, and not wanting to test his unstable patience, I stood to my feet.

Struggling to steady my breath and calm the panic rising in me, my eyes unintentionally stared at my father, and fear immediately damaged the calmness that I tried so hard to maintain.

'Calm down, Blake. Once he knows that your wolf is awakening, everything will change for the better. You just have to make him understand.' I cried in her head as she walked away from her desk.

When I reached the front of the class, I stopped before my father, and the moment I met his icy eyes, a sense of distress rushed through me and I clutched my fist.

The entire class grew silent, and I just knew that they all were waiting anxiously for what was going to happen next.

“Dad, I can explain!” I cried out of fear, pushing my nail into the skin of my palm.

Without uttering a word, Loki viciously hit me in the face with the back of his hand, and I lost my balance and dropped to the floor, staring at the blood from my nose dripping on the tiles.

"You little bitch didn't I warn you to stay in line this semester!" Loki shouted as he scowled down at me.

Raising my head, I gazed into his cold eyes and felt a raw wave of a mixture of anger and fear wash over me as the hairs rose on the back of my neck and my mouth ran dry.

Then I suppressed it all in and whispered, "I'm sorry, alpha."

"Sorry! Wow! She is sorry!" Loki shouted, folding his fingers into a fist, "Do you know how troublesome it was to look for you!"

"I didn't mean to stay away from home!"

"Really! Then where the hell was you yesterday?!"

With tears running down my face, I choked back my cry as I fought against my urge to look at Nero.

Then I drew a deep breath, stood from the floor, and mumbled, “I missed the school bus, and I was afraid that you would get mad at me, so I stayed at a motel.”

"A motel?" Loki mumbled in confusion. "How did you get the money to book a motel room?!"

Gazing intensely at me, his face suddenly ravaged with rage as he looked me dead in the eyes and firmly asked, “Who are you messing around with?!"

"No one!" I whispered, gazing down at my shoes. "I swear that I was alone."

Not holding back, Loki viciously smacked my face, causing my head to veer around to the left, and then shouted, "You little lying bitch!"

Suddenly, I heard Nero's voice,  "Mr. Hayes, you are disrupting my class! So can you take this somewhere else!"

“Who the fuck do you think you are to speak to me in such a tone!” Loki coldly said.

Immediately, I looked back at Nero and slightly shook my head, knowing what my father was capable of doing to anyone that dared cross him.

For a moment, Nero gazed into my eyes. Then he looked back at Loki and said, "My bad for speaking out of term."

Clenching his brows, Loki gave him an icy stare and firmly said, "The next time you speak to me in such a tone, I will put a hold inside your chest and rip your heart out! Got it!?"

For a moment, I watched Nero's eyes darken as he nodded, and when I look back at Loki.

"Good!" Loki said.

Then he focused back on me and harshly uttered, "You can forget coming back to school for the next one month."

Although I was striving my best to stay calm, I immediately started to freak out when I heard those words.

“Dad please,” I whispered, hearing my heartbeat pounding in my ear. "I don't want to go to that place. I won't go back to that place!"

My gaze unintentionally rested on Loki's soulless eyes, and I swallowed hard as he approached me.

When he was only a foot away from me, he raised his hand and viciously slammed his palm against my cheek.

“Who do you think you are to tell me what you would do and wouldn't do!” Loki coldly uttered.

Frowning, Loki gave me a hard look and said, "I despise having the disappointment of a daughter like you! Maybe a few weeks in 'The Night' will make you learn your place in the pack!"

A deep sense of anger held me captive as the pain from Loki's hit surged through me, and I tightened my fists, lowering my gaze to the tiles.

"I am not going," I whispered, raising my gaze to stare at Loki.

“When I tell you to do something, you do it and shut the fuck up!” Loki screamed, staring coldly into my eyes. "Now, walk ahead of me, and let's go home!"

When I didn't comply, Loki seized me by the arm and yanked me along with him. But I fought back, struggling to pull my hand from his grip.

My action made Loki vex, and he forcefully swung me, causing me to lose my balance and crashed into the wall.

As the pain ripped through my body, I hurriedly crawled into the corner and pulled my knees against my chest. Then I hugged my legs tightly as the blood from my nose dripped onto my jeans.

A sense of hopelessness left me numb shaking, and my heart froze for a second as I ushered my eyelid shut and allowed my tears to soak upon my bloodstained face.

Suddenly, raw anger awakened in me, and I pushed aside my fear as I struggled to my feet.

"I will rather be a lone wolf than stay in a pack that treats me like a piece of shit!" I screamed, looking my father dead in his eyes.

A bitter laugh escaped Loki's lips. Then his expression grew cold as he said, "You don't want to cross that line! Trust me, your ass will be dead within a matter of days!"

"A dead hybrid is better than the one who spent her days in anguish, tortured by the very ones who should protect her!" I loudly uttered. "So go ahead, father, do the honor and denounce me!"

"Don't you dare test my patience!" Loki coldly uttered.

When I didn't react or say something, he let out a loud growl of annoyance and then approached me.

The insanity in his eyes sent chills down my spine. But I kept still with my hands tightened into fists.

“Your stubbornness will be the death of you!” Loki coldly uttered without taking his eyes off me. "You are dead to me!"

Then he turned away from me, gazed at the faces of those in the class, and firmly uttered, "From today onward, Blake Hayes will no longer be known as my daughter or a member of the Dark moonlight pack. From now till forever, she will be recognized by this pack as a rogue!"

After his remark, Loki stormed out of the classroom with Alaska, and for a moment, I looked at his back fade out the door. Then I hung my head and sadly thought, 'What have I done?'