I looked at everyone in the group and saw that their eyes were also glowing brighter in their respective colors. The twins had ditched their shirts and were now removing their shorts.

"Whoa, I don't want to see that!" I yelled, closing my eyes.

"Why, its natural. We all shift back naked, why waste the clothes" Williams voice was recognizable, but over shadowed by a deep, guttural tone.

"Because I am not used to that!" I yelled

"We leave the boxers" Jason said in a clipped tone before a loud round of cracking could be heard coming from his body. He snapped a few times, and sprouted fur quickly. He ripped through his boxers and was in wolf form before I could completely contemplate how fast his change happened. The entire time we were talking, the girls had moved to the trees, stripped down, and shifted. They appeared out of the darkness as a blond haired, petite wolf and muscular, auburn wolf. Jason now stood as a medium sized husky gray wolf, panting slightly. The twins though, were what really caught me off guard. Rather than the exact same appearance in wolves, as I expected, they were drastically different. One was solid white except for a large, black spot on it's shoulders, where as the other was solid black but for a white spot. I wonder... if perhaps the white wolf was William, the more innocent and mild tempered of the two. Everyone knows white is associated with purity and light. And perhaps Brett was the black one, the short tempered, blunt brother. But the one thing both brothers had was a little of the other within them.

"Are you...William" I pointed at the white wolf and he yipped at me. That's what I thought. Sophie had run toward me and was now nipping at the back of my leg to get my attention. "Hi Sophie, you're very beautiful" I said touching her back. I was about to make a comment to Jason when a long, ear splitting howl broke through the night. They all snapped their heads toward the sound and slowly, then started trotting off toward the pack house. All except Jason. He grabbed his clothes in his mouth like everyone else and walked toward me. He growled lowly and threw his head to the left. What did he want? He threw his head again, and I realized he wanted me to turn around so he change back.

"Oh! Sorry!" I whipped around and heard distinctive snapping noises, then the sound of clothes being quickly pulled on .

"Sorry about that. That was Beta Andrew. We have to head back to the house for a training session." Jason explained.

"Oh, then I guess I'll go home" I murmured, a little hurt that I couldn't participate with my friends because I was a mutant.

" He specified to me in the mind link that ALL of us should come. I'm pretty sure that includes you" he said with a smile and turned around toward the house, expecting me to follow.

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"Good to see all of you remembered to show up in wolf form this time" Beta Andrew yelled to the group of wolves in front of him. Everyone was standing in the backyard of the Pack House, looking up at Beta Andrew for further instructions. I stood off to the side feeling very awkward, not knowing what to do. I didn't realized there were so many young wolves in the pack. I was so stuck in my small group of new friends that I didn't even think to ask how many teenagers were wolves, or, for that how matter, how many wolves were in the pack. There were at least twenty wolves, all around the same age as Jason and the gang, standing before Beta Andrew.

"Alright, today we're working on wolf agility, line up by Butler over there and he'll start you on the obstacle course" Beta Andrew motioned toward a large gray wolf at the other end of the yard. All the wolves ran to him and Beta Andrew turned toward me and made his way to my awkward position.

"Hey there new kid. How's pack life so far?" he asked with a smile.

"Ummm, much better than expected" I answered honestly, "why am I here? I know that you know I can't shift" I told him.

"And how do you know that I know that?" he asked curiously.

"Because you gave me a knowing smile after our discussion at the kitchen and I know that my grandparents told you because they were too vague in their answers when I asked what you four had talked about" I said with attitude.

He grew a Cheshire Cat smile and laughed a small chuckle. "You're too smart for your own good".

"I know, I got it from my mom" I whispered.

"Look, come with me" he said and walked past me heading away from the house toward another large, white, new looking building. I hesitated, then followed behind him quickly.

"Despite what you may think, I am not completely unaware of what goes on at school. I know when someone shifts on accident, when someone fails a class...I even know when someone is being bullied for something they can't help" he said, glancing back at me. My head snapped up to his face.

"Nate?" I asked curiously.

He turned around with a smile and booked it up some steps to the front door of the white building. He opened the door and held it open for me. I walked into the room and was hit with three distinctive smells. Plastic, metal, and sweat. Workout machines and lifting apparatuses covered the room, everything from benches to squats, leg press to lat pull machines.

"This", he gestured to the large, open building in front of my eyes," is the weight room and auxiliary building". At that instant, a large body came out of a door to our left. He stopped short of running into us and pulled one headphone out of his ear.

"Nate?!" I asked, shocked.






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