AZARIAH THE UGLY QUEEN OF THE PACK

Azariah's pov For the second day in a row, I'm up early and attempting to make myself look presentable. I've promised myself that today I absolutely will not do anything to embarrass Micah. Not that I'm convinced he was overly embarrassed yesterday, but it's probably best to err on the side of caution. My mother comes into my room just as I'm pulling on my shoes. " Good morning. How's my favorite daughter today?" "Real funny mom, I'm your only child. And I'm fine, thanks for asking." "Good. Please be home for dinner tonight. Dad has some things he wants to go over with you." She smiles at me. "Of course. Gotta go mom. Love you." I kiss her cheek on the way out of my room. I get outside just as Micah is pulling up. Still a win for me. I can see him shaking his head as I walk up to the truck. "Who are you and what have you done with my friend?" He says as soon as I open the door. "I didn't realize you had friends. Sorry. " I reach over and grab the box expecting donuts, but I'm happily surprised that he brought muffins today. " There you are. And to think I get to put up with your attitude for many years to come. Lucky me". Micah says as he reaches over and steals the blueberry muffin, the one he knew I was gonna take. Not that I'm in a position to complain since he bought them and all. " Anyways Azariah, what are your plans for tonight?" " Well, I was gonna spend some time with my two favorite boys, Jack and Daniels. Had a rough week." If I can handle it I may invite my other favorite guy, Johnny Walker. "I see. Instead of getting shit-faced how about going on a little adventure?" He asks with a knowing grin on his face. "I'm intrigued. Go on." "Well, I had an interesting phone call last night. It appears the final test for Jace is going to be that of brain not brawn. And they asked for a volunteer." I don't even have to think about it. " I'm in." "Don't you wanna know your part?" He asks teasingly. "Okay, tell me. But either way, I'm still in." Once Micah finished, I was stunned. Actually a lot stunned. I get they need to test them in all areas, but this seemed weird. "So let me get this straight. I'll be taken up into the Selkirk Mountains, at night, and left alone, waiting for Jace to "rescue me". " Micah laughs at me, " First of all, this is a test for Jace, not a question of your ability to rescue yourself. Second, you already said yes." "The things I do for you two." I groan loudly. "What time are we leaving?" "I'll pick you up at one am. Just don't tell Jace anything when you call him later to wish him luck." We pull up to the medical facility with time to spare. I see Amber sitting in her car, so as we get out I wave her over. As always she keeps her head down and doesn't make eye contact with us. I see Micah look over at her and with a small smile he says " Good morning Amber, how was the drive?" "Fine thank you." Her voice is so low that if we were human we never would have heard her. I notice a slight pink hue on her cheeks. Even though I find it comical I don't laugh. To me, he's just Micah, pain in my ass, Koyle, but to everyone else, he's the future Alpha Micah and I guess some find that intimidating. I'm surprised when were the last ones to enter the classroom. We're definitely ahead of schedule today. Bunch of brown-nosers. The whole lot of them. "Nice of you guys to finally show up," Priya says as were walking past her. I keep on walking back towards our seats, thinking Micah was going to handle that, but nope, he doesn't say a word. He takes his seat beside me and I give him the "what the fuck" look. The bastard has the nerve to roll his eyes indicating she's not worth the effort. I disagree. And he's gonna hear all about it later. The teacher finally comes in and explains that we will break up into smaller groups for the day. One group will go to the lab, one to the surgical, and one to the tech area where they teach us how to use the upgraded equipment. Amber is looking around nervously. Micah took notice and turned to her, "You're with us." We notice Priya and Eric joined up with some other students, thank fuck. I can't guarantee my good behavior all day if she joined us. One of the male students from another pack, don't know who or which one, comes over to us. "Hey I'm Chris from Ambersy pack, can I join you guys?" " Of course, I'm Micah, this is Azariah and this is Amber." "Ya, everyone knows who you guys are." He's looking straight at me when he says this and the laughter is written in his eyes. " Well, I see four, got room for number five?" Oh Goddess, please tell me he's not behind me, talking to us. But of course, he is, and of course, Micah, the ever so polite asshat, accepts his offer. Alpha Zane steps around in front of me and asks which area we want to go to. Micah says surgical, thankfully, and we head out. The facility here is relatively new and has lots of upgrades compared to ours. Not that ours is shabby, but certainly not as nice as this. I find myself excited to get my hands on some of this equipment. In the surgical unit that is, if they let me touch the stuff in the lab, well, let's just say it won't be good. On the way to the department were going to be working in, Chris steps up beside me and tries to make small talk. "Did you always want to work in the medical unit at your pack?" "No. Micah here forced me into it." I say with a laugh. "Plus, I'm gonna be his right-hand male, or female in this case." "How does your mate feel about that?" His inquiry as to rather I'm mated or not is funny as shit. I conceal my laugh, "Don't know. I haven't met him yet." And isn't that the sad truth? Almost twenty years old, and I've never even been on a date, or been kissed. Most of the males in our pack hardly even speak to me. I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that I'm always either with Micah or Jace. Not too many would be brave enough to approach me, that's for sure. We get to the classroom, and the teacher sets up all the practice skins. She talks about the wound we'll be closing like it's the first time any of us have seen this. I seriously want to roll my eyes at her, but I refrain. She finally gets to the point of teaching us a new technique that involves gluing the wound closed. I'm not sure how efficient this will be considering it's for smaller wounds, but I'm curious to try it out either way. After half an hour, I can tell you it's harder than they made it look. I glued my gloved fingers together, several times. The worst part was listening to Micah and Zane laugh at me. Time to see how much better they do at it. While the boys were practicing the gluing, I went over to watch Amber, who was trying to stitch a wound closed. She was pretty bad at it, so I decided to try and help her. I needed a break from the others anyways. I was annoyed with Micah about earlier, the Chris creep keeps checking out my tits, and Zane has just been full of compliments all morning. You wouldn't think that would be annoying, but it was. Just as Amber is getting the hang of it, Zane comes over. "You should be helping to teach this Azariah, you're a natural." Oh boy, the shit's getting deep in here." Umm, thank you, Alpha Zane." "Please just call me Zane. I'm not used to the title yet, besides I think we're gonna be good friends so no need for that." Really? Good friends? That's stretching it. But I'm not going to insult him by saying so. Believe it or not, I do know when to keep my mouth shut. "Right, so anyways Zane, the thing is I'm far too busy to be taking on any more work. Thanks for the vote of confidence tho." "Just think about it. Were short on people who are good at this and I know many of the packs would benefit from some extra help." The look in his eyes suggests this conversation is far from over. Well, it's over for me. How many people do they really need to teach this stuff to anyways? It's not like any of our medical facilities are overrun with patients. The busiest would be on a Friday or Saturday night when the bar crowd gets out, and the males are drunk and aggressive. But even then, it hardly happens. Unless he knows something I don't, I'm not seeing a big need for more teachers. ***** At the end of the day Micah and I walk Amber to her car. I'm not gonna give that Trish bitch any opportunity to catch her alone and harass her again. Thinking about Zane's words from earlier, I look at Amber and think to myself that maybe I am up to making new friends. I've never really had any female friends, maybe I could give this a try. I try to think up something to ask her to do with me, without coming off as some weirdo. Did I ask her to have lunch on our day off? Or maybe she would like to go on a shopping trip. Hell, I have no clue what to suggest. Then I remember about the party for Jace coming home. "Hey, I was wondering, if you're up to it, Sunday night we're having a dinner for Jace completing his training, would you like to join us?" I ask her with what I hope is a genuine smile and not a creepy one. She looks a little taken aback, like she's not used to being invited out. She's probably not to be honest. " Um, ya, I mean ok. If that's ok. I don't want to impose. Or really, you don't have to do that. I'm good if not. " I couldn't even stop the laugh that escapes my lips, " I'm inviting you because I want to. Plus, I don't have many friends and I thought maybe it's time I change that. Please come. Rescue me from the sausage fest. " "Okay, I would like that." She has a real smile on her face and is looking right at me. I'll take that as a win for now. Hopefully, she doesn't chicken out. After exchanging numbers with her Micah and I jump in his truck to head home. I'm gonna need to have a nap if I plan to be up most of the night. I still can't believe I've been roped into being dropped off in the woods in the middle of the night. It would have been better if I was allowed to just fight Jace instead. I think I could hold my own. The advantage I have is that he's the one who taught me how to fight. Like really fight, not just defend and throw a punch or two. So ya, I could hold my own against him. Micah hasn't said a word since I got in the truck, and I'm betting it's because he knows I'm pissed right off about earlier. This nice guy act he has going needs to end. In a couple of years, he's gonna have an entire pack to run, and maybe he doesn't know it, but the nice guy usually gets stepped on. Sure, I'll be there to help, and I pity the idiot who tries to step all over me, but still, he needs to grow a pair. "So Micah, you wanna tell me why you allowed Priya to publicly disrespect us today and did nothing?" "She's not worth it, that's why. She's always looking to get a rise out of me just so I'll pay attention to her." He says this like it's obvious. "So for the sake of avoidance, you let her act like that. You know I let it go because I thought you would say something. Won't make that mistake next time. You may not mind being spoken to like that but I sure as hell do. You sure your not actually fucking her?" Micah doesn't even look at me or acknowledge my rude remark. We drive the rest of the way in silence. I know I crossed a line, but he seriously needs to address that she-bitches mouth. The longer he ignores it, the worse it gets. Maybe she thinks it's encouraging that he doesn't say anything to her. We pull up to my house and as I'm about to jump out Micah grabs my arm. "I'm sorry." Before he can continue I jump back and mock him from earlier, "Who are you and what have you done with Micah?" "I'm serious here, I'm sorry. Your right.Not about me fucking her, jerk. I shouldn't have let her get away with speaking to us like that. My father would never allow it and I need to learn to do the same. It's just every time I even speak to her she's encouraged to start trying to get me to date her again. I'm so sick of having to dodge that bullet." " I get it. I certainly don't envy you. " And that's the truth. "But you can't keep letting her say and do shit without addressing it. You need to put your foot down and stop this bullshit." Cause if he doesn't it's just going to keep on happening. Ignoring her hasn't worked for him so far. "I know. I was hoping she would just give up but that's apparently not happening." I hop out of the truck and grab the box of muffins we didn't finish. " I'm going to take a nap. See you at 1." "Try not to be late." He chuckles at me. The jerk just had to get in the last word. *********** Several hours later... It's way colder out here than I thought it was going to be. It's pitch black, cold, and I'm literally alone. Yup, they just dropped me off. Oh, I'm sure they aren't far away, but still, I'm kinda having buyer's remorse right now. If it wasn't for the fact that they gave me the green light, actually encouraged it, to give Jace a hard time, this wouldn't be worth it. He better move his ass. I don't wanna be out here all freaking night.