At the All-Male Alpha Academy, the noise could be heard from far away, even with the school's high, thick walls.
Students packed into the assembly ground, waiting. Since the assembly hadn't started yet, they were left to entertain themselves.
Two boys from Year Three were already throwing punches, trying to show off their strength.
The younger kids laughed and cheered, finding it funny.
But Principal Valois, who happened to be omega didn't find any of it funny at all.
She was supposed to be checking the list of schools that sent in scholarship applications before sunset. But with this madness outside, she couldn't even think straight.
Fuming, she stood up from her desk and stormed out of her office.
The moment some students spotted her, they straightened up. Others didn't bother, especially the boys from the West Pack. They didn't respect anyone.
"You five!" she barked when she caught a group playing dice near the hallway. "Assembly grounds. Now!"
The boys hesitated, daring her with their eyes, but when they saw she wasn't joking, they scrambled away.
When she finally reached the assembly ground, the scene made her blood boil.
The two Year Three boys were now full-on fighting, fists flying, teeth bared.
"Enough!" Principal Valois roared. Her voice cut through the crowd like a knife.
"The both of you will be suspended immediately!" she snapped, marching down the corridor with the boys trailing behind her like guilty puppies.
"You weren't just irresponsible," she hissed. "You disgraced this school. Thank God there were no visitors today."
Her hands shook as she tightened her grip on the folder in her hand. She needed order. She needed peace.
She had to suspend them.
It was the only way to make them panic.
A simple punishment would be brushed aside by the senior boys who always covered for them. They would bail the juniors out from their dormitories, make the whole thing feel like a joke.
They would never understand the weight of what they did.
As they neared the office, Principal Valois noticed something that made her heart stop.
Her door was open.
She froze, glancing down at the keys still clutched tightly in her hand. She had locked it, she was sure. Even in her rush to the assembly, she never forgot.
No one else had a key.
For a moment, she fought the urge to run. Then she took a shaky breath, pushed the door wider, and stepped inside.
And there he was.
A young man lounged lazily on the old sofa like he owned the place.
His shirt was half undone, showing a stretch of his hard, muscled stomach.
He was tall, dangerously handsome, with messy hair that fell over his sharp eyes...eyes so pale they looked almost silver, almost... blind.
His jawline was too perfect, too sharp, and everything about him screamed trouble.
Principal Valois swallowed hard before finding her voice.
"Kaito! What are you doing in my office?" she barked.
The boys behind her looked like they had seen a ghost.
But Kaito?
He didn't even flinch.
He stayed there, cool and calm, his lazy gaze locked on the paper in his hand.
"Are you deaf?" Principal Valois snapped, her voice shaking now more from nerves than anger.
Kaito finally stirred. With a slow, careless sigh, he sat up, running a hand through his messy hair. A few strands fell right back into his face.
He glanced at the group behind her and smirked, biting his lip.
"I see we have offenders today too," he said, his voice smooth and dangerous.
"We? There's no we," Principal Valois snapped, trying to hold onto her authority.
She hated this...being the principal yet feeling like a joke in front of a student.
"Are you sure?"
Kaito narrowed his eyes, then winked.
The boys behind her giggled.
Oh, God. That was it. That was the height of disrespect.
She ordered the students to wait in the staff room. She would deal with Kaito alone.
"Mama, no need to get all worked up," Kaito said, rising from the sofa with slow, easy steps.
He came so close she could feel his breath against her skin.
"We have work to do," he added before brushing past her like she wasn't even there.
Kaito dropped into her chair like it belonged to him, throwing his legs up on the desk.
His tie was loose again...when was it ever properly knotted?
It was tempting... too tempting. But she shoved those thoughts deep down. She would never dare.
"You need to leave my office. We have no work together," she said, her voice sharp.
Kaito ignored her.
"I went through the applications," he said, like he had every right to.
"You had no right to touch those!" she hissed, slamming the door shut behind her so no one outside would hear.
Kaito sighed, leaning back into the chair like he owned it.
"Are we seriously doing this? You know I always get what I want. Why make a mountain out of nothing?"
The worst part? He was right.
Kaito always got what he wanted.
She exhaled sharply. Fighting him was useless.
"Fine," she said. "What do you want?"
"Good," he smiled, lowering his legs from the desk and placing a paper in front of her.
"Here. Someone sent this in yesterday."
"But the deadline was the day before," she said, frowning.
"Exactly, Miss Val," he said with a smirk.
"It's Miss Valois," she corrected stiffly.
"Okay, Miss Val," Kaito never took corrections, she would have know better. "The applicant wrote his name as Angel," Kaito said with so much excitement. "Angel like he was some girl," he laughed but the principal did not join him. In fact, she did not find it funny.
When Kaito realized that, he stopped and continued "Angel is a human with no special skills but the important thing is that I want him as my roommate. He would help me out like…"
"An apprentice?"
"No," Kaito shook his head. He had never had a roommate. Everyone knew that. They were supposed to be two at least in a room but he stayed alone for years and now he was in his senior year, it would be the last thing anyone would think he would do. But here, he was interested in Angel without a surname.
"Let me see his application" the principal demanded. She would have been glad that Kaito was finally opening up and becoming a changed person but when she saw where the application came from, she knew he had no good intentions.
"No. I won't approve of it. We just need a student from the humans," the principal shook her head. It was never going to work with a student from a public school. They were better choices. "He is not even an A student. You are looking for someone to do your dirty works. Someone who would be your cleaner. I won't do such a thing."
Kaito sighed. He rubbed his forehead "Who is even asking for your opinion? I have already made my decision."
He showed her the stamped application form "you will send a letter to his school. I want to see him in school before the next full moon."
That was a command. Principal Valois watch him walk out of her office and as soon as he was gone, she slumped into sofa and started preparing Angel's admission letter.
She had no idea why he chose Angel. But one thing was sure…Kaito was hiding something from her.