My Personal Lycan King novel Chapter 2

VICTORIA'S POV

Today was my first day of university. I took a shower early in the morning and dressed neatly with a crop top paired with a washed denim jacket, high waist jeans, and boots. Tying my hairs in a high ponytail I was ready to venture out of the house, practically towards my new life. 

To be honest, I was super nervous. I didn't want to read people's thoughts, which has always been my biggest concern.

Yes, you guys got that right, I am telepathic. Sometimes, if I concentrate a bit, I can read people's thoughts, with an accuracy rate of 99%. 

It is pretty much exhausting and well, downright annoying.

I always feel like I am invading someone's privacy and I hate the idea of it. 

Till the age of 16, I didn't even have any friends, because of the sole reason that I would always find some fault in their attitude and thinking by reading their thoughts. 

After that, I tried controlling this gift/ curse of mine as much as I could. And now I can read someone's thoughts only when I want. 

Earlier I didn't have any control over it and most of the time I would come home screaming in pain and agony because of my head pounding with unbearable pressure.

Sighing loudly I locked the door before breathing in the fresh air.

Since the university wasn't that far away from Marla's place, barely 10 km. I decided to walk down there. 

Walking had always helped me to clear up my mind and looking around towards forests and this naturally beautiful place, I feel more at ease.

Plugging in my headphones, I was tuning my favorite songs when I saw a blur of something passing in front of me. It appeared like a silhouette of a giant animal to me.

Pausing my song I looked to my left where it went nervously but didn't found anything suspicious or any sign of a big animal going there. 

'It's just my hallucination' I consoled myself.

Maybe because this place is named pearly canines and Marla had been telling me ancient stories about why this town was named so, I am imagining things now.

Wolves living with humans as their friends? Really? Give me a break!

Looking at my old-fashioned watch, which was gifted to me by my mum, I noticed I only had half an hour left to reach there and thus, I decided to sprint the rest of the way.

However, the image of that blurry figure kept popping in my mind.

Reaching the university the first thing I noticed was the grandeur of it. I don't know why a university this big and reputation isn't popular and is in a secluded town like this. 

I heard from Marla that it only takes selective students in, and the criteria of that selection is a mystery to everyone.

And here let me make it clear, I am not an academic type of person, though my IQ is always said to be more than average making it easy for me to score marks.

"Hey? Victoria right?" 

I turned around to see who called me and saw Daniel walking along with his friends, in my direction.

"Yeah..you are Daniel if I remember correctly." 

"Yup! That's me. Last time you left in a hurry. Let me introduce you to my friends. This is Kayla, this is Aiden, this is Chris, this is Angela and this is Tina. And that two guys who are rushing towards us are Sean and Matt." He introduced.

I just gazed politely at everyone before muttering my name.

"I am Victoria, Victoria Gibberson." 

With that, I turned around to leave for my class when I felt a heavy hand on my shoulder.

'Let's talk about personal space.' I thought rolling my eyes at that.

"You live in our town and we have a rule that no one is to be left alone. If you are one of those geeks who like to live in their bubble, you are in the wrong place, dear. And thus, we proudly include you in our group." Sean muttered.

I looked at others who were just smiling shaking their heads at him. To be honest, it was really sweet how they wanted to include me in their group without even prying about my whereabouts and whatsoever. 

"Haha..he is right. We heard about you. You recently moved here, to pursue your further studies because you wanted a so-called less crowded place. However, we don't like any person living in our town all alone and shady and we will make sure to take you out of your shell. Because we believe we are a family." Daniel said gazing at me deeply as if he knew my darkest and deepest secrets.

Breaking the staring contest with me, he looked at his phone and then at his friends before shouting,

"Guys! Guess what? Alexander is coming back from his trip. He should be here, by tomorrow night or the day after tomorrow. This calls for a celebration ain't it?" 

Everyone started cheering at the mention of this new person Alexander and I unknowingly felt a shudder run down my spine. 

This name, why am I having a weird feeling about it?

Reaching the class was a chore for me. 

Even though I was moving with this group, it didn't stop people from hitting and commenting on me.

What was much worse was that, because of me trying to avoid those comments, I had to concentrate on walking which resulted in me hearing more colorful thoughts about myself.

One was even thinking about an aisle and me being his bride. That made me laugh internally.

I was naturally gifted with light brown long hairs that reached below my hip with a lot of volumes. My height was 5'10" and I had curves in all the right places.

I won't call myself extremely skinny or fatty, I was in between I guess. My eyes were an amber-brown color that would look like hazel in sunlight or bright light.