The Damned Princess

The whole week passed as the first day only, we would attend our classes, meet at the lunch break to eat and after the rest of the day go home together. We all fell in a routine. It was not exciting, I and Liam were super bored while Becky was enjoying knowing about stars and stuff. I was spending all of my free time in the library; I made a list of all the books I wanted to read and re-read. Everybody was busy making friends and here was me the great Sienna, lost in my world of fantasies.

I still didn’t make any efforts to be friends with anybody, I went to classes and sat at the very end, although I sat with the same girl for the whole week as she was there in almost every class. She tried to talk to me a few times, her name was Violette. She took a lot of time to explain to me how it’s not pronounced like the color violet and it is a French name which is pronounced like VEE-OH-LETTE and how she is tired of explaining it to people so she let them call her whatever they want. I just gave answers to her questions and didn’t make efforts from my side.

I thought that maybe this time we’ll be staying for long because nothing interesting was happening and we were just living the boring life of college students. We were trying not to make ourselves the center of attraction. Although everywhere we’d go, people would stare at us like we are aliens or something. Hopefully, they’ll get bored of us and stop staring.

As the weekends came, Liam was adamant about making the weekend some fun unlike how the week passed. So, we decided to go out and check out the hangout places in California. We went to the malls, I and Becky shopped like crazy, we watched movies and tried bowling and other games like that in the mall.

On Sunday, we stayed at home watched Netflix all day and as the night came, we went out to free our lycans for some time. It feels really good when the cool breeze caresses our face when we run with all the strength we have, it feels refreshing. I was doing this every night but I didn’t tell them.

I didn’t sleep for the whole week because I didn’t want to experience the nightmare again. But now it was tiring me, I knew I needed some sleep. Weekends passed and it was Monday again, I hated it and didn’t want to go to college but even staying at home is no fun, so I decided to get ready and go down for breakfast.

When I entered the kitchen, Becky was cooking breakfast for us and Liam was helping her. I felt bad for her because I never help her with anything so I made a promise to myself to help her a little bit with all the work she does for us. I greeted “good morning peasants”, they both replied. Becky questioned, “you look so tired Enna; did you not sleep well last night”? I lied “no-no, I slept fine, it’s just I hate going through this torture all over again”, to which Liam added “that makes the two of us” and we both high-fived each other.

Becky laughed at us “you both behave like toddlers when they are forced to go to school”. “Toddlers probably have more fun in their schools than we have”, I said. “Enna you need to make friends, you need someone to talk to, to have fun with when we are not around you” Becky suggested. “Yeah right”, I groaned.

“She’s right Enna, we might stay here for some time now, so it’ll be easy if you have some friends here to hang out with”, Liam said. “Oh, come on guys, I’ll try okay now stop bothering me” I groaned. We finished our breakfast silently after that and then left.

As soon as I stepped out of the car, my lycan became restless, like it wants to break free and run around. I thought it was happening maybe because I didn’t sleep for a whole week. My heartbeat was fastened. Liam and Becky noticed and asked “is anything wrong? do you want to go back home because you don’t look so good”? “I’m fine don’t worry, I’m heading to my class now, we’ll meet at lunch okay”? I said. They both nodded and we said our goodbyes.

As I was heading towards my class, I was getting more anxious, I didn’t know what was happening. But on the way, I saw a guy was running and mistakenly bumped into Violette, which made all of her stuff fall on the floor. Asshole didn’t even bother to help her and just ran away.

She was saying some colorful words to him which made me laugh. I went to her and asked, “Hey, are you okay”. “Yeah that son of a bitch hit me and my stuff fell, he didn’t even have the courtesy to say sorry”, she said. “Wait let me help you”, I said and we both picked up all of her stuff from the floor.

I looked at one of the pages and it was a beautiful artwork, I looked at some more of them in my hand and told her “wow, Violette did you make all of this, it looks amazing”. She looked wide-eyed at me, “Was I not supposed to look? I’m sorry I didn’t mean to” I was saying but she cut me off and said, “you pronounced my name correctly”.

I laughed at her, she said, “what, don’t laugh nobody remembers my name right and they’ll just call me Violet or something”. “Yeah, I do remember your name but honestly it’s really hard to say”, I said. “It’s okay, you can call me V, all my other friends call me that only”, she told me.

“Great, my name is Sienna Castello”, I said and took my hand forward to shake it with her. She shook my hand said, “I know your name; we sit together every day from the first day”. “I know but I never officially introduced myself, so yeah” I smiled at her. “Your last name is Castello, are you Italian?” she asked. “Yes”. I answered.

“Wow, I’ve never been there, how is it?” she asked. “It’s a really beautiful place, someday I might take you there” I winked at her. We both went to our class, we had all the same subject except for two. We were sitting together and talking, trying to know each other a little better and this time I was trying to be a part of the conversation. I like her and I also think that we could become great friends, of course, if I stayed here for long enough. Through everything, my lycan also became normal again or so I thought.

It was lunchtime and I asked V “come with me, we can have lunch with my brother and his girlfriend” I didn’t say mate in front of her because she was a human and they find it weird. She agreed and we both went to meet with Liam and Becky. I introduced all of them to each other. She seemed a little starstruck looking at both of them “all three of you look like supermodels” she whispered to me.

I laughed at her “you don’t get to say that, you’re so beautiful” I was even envious of her gorgeous green eyes, mine are such boring brown I thought and pouted. “No, not like you people, you three have some different aura only, have you guys not noticed people staring at you all the time”, she said. I rolled my eyes “people are crazy”.

She wasn’t wrong though, this aura she’s talking about is because we are a very superior species, humans aren’t aware of our existence, so they don’t get it but if we’d be near our kind they will bow down to us because we are not only lycans but we are the royal family as well.

As soon as we entered the cafeteria, my lycan became crazy and my heart was beating so loudly, if people would concentrate, they could hear it. There was this very refreshing and strong scent in the air, like mint and mosses which filled my lungs.

I was so attracted towards the scent that I forgot about everybody else and started sniffing around for the source, I was frantically looking around and didn’t give a damn about a few people staring at me weirdly that’s when my eyes landed on a guy sitting on a corner table.

As my eyes landed on him it was like everything else vanished and it was just him and me there. I couldn’t stop staring at him, my heart was thumping so loudly against my chest. He got up from his table and his eyes landed on me. Something clicked the moment our eyes met, he stood up and started walking towards me.

He had beautiful blue-grey eyes like the ocean, you could see emotions in them brewing like a storm, I could look into them all day. My eyes moved to the rest of him, his lips so full and seemed so soft, I wanted to know how they would feel on my skin. His hair was a dark curly mess, it looked like his hand went through them many times but still looked so perfect. He was tall around 6′2 and muscular, he looked like he was twenty or twenty-one, not a day older. He was wearing a black leather jacket that was hugging his body with black ripped jeans and a white tee.

He was so perfect that he seemed unreal. I was feeling a pull of attraction towards him and there was electricity in the environment around us. I wanted to feel his touch, make sure that he was real and my instincts were to claim him as mine forever. It still didn’t register with me why all of this was happening.

He came so close to me; my heart was beating like crazy I thought it would just burst out of my chest. His eyes didn’t leave me the whole time as well. Somebody’s shoulder bumped into mine which made me lose my balance, he held my hand to help me and that is when I felt the sparks, my eyes widened with the realization at that moment. My eyes were changing into red because my lycan was breaking through. I guess he felt it too because he looked like he wanted to say something but Liam came and dragged me out the cafeteria.

On my way out my eyes could not leave him, we kept staring at each other and when I was out Liam shook me and asked me in a hushed tone “what’s happening Enna”? “Mate” was all I could say back to him.