One Night With My Alpha Professor by Eve Above Story

Audrey

"...only dating her because of that stupid dare."

That was Max who I had just heard. My boyfriend. And tonight, on the night of Grayspring Academy's New Year's Eve dance, he was admitting to only dating me on a dare.

I stood outside the door, my fingers curling up into tight fists around my skirt-so hard that I thought my nails might rip straight through the lace.

"It's gone on for so long now. How could you put up with her all this time?"

There was scoff, this time in a familiar voice that I recognized all too well: Linda O'Malley, one of the most popular girls on campus and my biggest bully. Of course it was her who he was complaining to; she had been torturing me for months.

"It was hard. But it's almost over..."

Silent tears streamed down my cheeks, leaving streaks in my foundation and dark black blotches of mascara on my skin.

Although, everyone at this academy hated me. I was the only human amongst an entire academy full of werewolves, which made me an untrustworthy freak in their eyes. I had come to expect it, had even accepted it at this point.

But not from Max. Not from the sweet boy who supposedly fell head over heels for me three months ago. I had thought that he was... different from the others. That someone had finally seen me for me and didn't care that I was a human, or that I was a bookworm, or that I was a fashion addict.

Apparently, I had been dead wrong.

knows she dyes her

only dyed it because

a snort. "I haven't had the heart to tell her that those outfits she makes are downright ugly. So much lace... and

around the corner, and I felt like I might be sick. My fingernails finally began to pierce through the lace on my skirt-the skirt that I had been painstakingly working on for a month now

delicate. The deep red fabric was my favorite color, and it fell around my ankles in just the right way. I even made a little matching top which

morning, barely sleeping so that I could get

been begging me for weeks now.I

hallway, I felt like a clown. A clown in a flouncy dress with dyed

truly be interested in someone like her," Max's voice rang out. "Honestly, I thought she was super smart, too; so

has her nose in don't teach her what men actually

my chest, and at that moment, all I wanted to do was get away.

was too slow. Before I had a chance to run, the door suddenly creaked open the rest of the way. I whirled around, my heart pounding, to see Max standing in

widened into saucers the moment he saw my tear-streaked face. "Audrey!"

shoulders, I tilted my chin up at him

"We're through," I said.

answer, I spun on

somewhere that didn't remind me of the boy who I had been dating for the past

to that, I thought to myself wryly as I slipped into the Academy's private bar. I couldn't imagine what it would be like if I slept with him; likely

one of the barstools and ordered a drink-rum and coke. Here, amongst werewolves,

and coke, coming up," the bartender said gruffly, not even bothering to make eye contact with me through the haze of cigar smoke