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.

dyes her hair

black curls. Truthfully, Linda was right; I did dye my hair. But I only dyed it because its natural color was a strange silver hue, and

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

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

favorite color, and it fell around my ankles in just the right way. I even made a little matching

so that I could get it done in time, I had been so

I was supposed to finally sleep with Max. He had been begging me for weeks now.I

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

someone like her," Max's voice rang out. "Honestly, I thought she was super smart, too; so I'm surprised she

all those books she constantly has

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

suddenly creaked open the rest of the way. I whirled

saw my tear-streaked face. "Audrey!" he gasped. "What are

my shoulders, I tilted my chin up at him

"We're through," I said.

come up with an answer, I spun on

And somewhere that didn't remind me of the boy who I had been dating for the past three months. Our whole love story had been a lie, after

slipped into the Academy's private bar. I couldn't imagine what it would be like if I slept

a drink-rum and coke. Here, amongst werewolves, the drinking age was only eighteen. I didn't like alcohol

contact with me through the haze of cigar smoke as he began filling my glass with