One Day, I Woke Up A Werewolf novel Chapter 7

Hailey's POV

"Hailey, how are you?" Rebecca asks me as I'm walking to the cafeteria.

I ignore her but she keeps up with me.

"Look, I'm sorry for what I did to you." She says to me, making me roll my eyes.

"You are just sorry because Jaxon and his friends won't leave you alone. They have turned you in to the school joke. So much for  climbing that social ladder." I say, leaving her at the door.

"You won't always have him around. One day, he will turn his back on you and you'll know what it feels like to be on his receiving end." She shouts out but I keep walking.

"Hailey Ferguson please report to the office." The intercom calls out.

All the kids in the cafeteria look at me as if I was some naughty kid about to get the scolding of my life but that wasn't me.

I turned to walk out of the cafeteria, getting grumpy that I would miss lunch and I wanted that froyo so bad today.

Walking in to the office, the receptionist  smiles at me before walking up to me to give me a side hug as she walks me to Mrs. Gellar's office.

"Hailey, come on in." Mrs. Gellar says to me and I do, ready to get out of this woman's tight embrace.

I sit down on one of the chairs facing the headmistress.

"Hailey, I just received a call from your stepmother. I'm so sorry to be the one to tell you this but your father passed away last night." She says and I chuckle.

That man did not die.

"Is this his ploy to orphan me? I'm almost 18, I don't need him as a parent." I say.

"Hailey, this is not some game. Your father is gone." She says to me, her eyes filled with tears.

I don't believe it. I can't believe this.

My phone vibrates in the inside pocket of my blazer and I react without thinking, taking it out and looking at the caller id, Aunt Tara.

The zero phones on school grounds rule flying out the window in front of the headmistress.

"Hello?" I say as I answer the phone.

"Hailey, sweetie I've booked you on the first flight home. Check your email okay? Your father, oh my." Aunt Tara starts tearing up over the phone.

"What's happening?" I ask.

"I still don't know what happened. I just flew back in from a business trip. Your flight is in a few..." Aunt Tara says but is quickly interrupted by a loud crashing sound.

The call gets cut off and I look at Headmistress Gellar in panic.

For a second it looks like she zoned out but quickly snaps out of it as she jumps out of her chair to sit on the chair next to me.

I try calling Aunt Tara's phone but it keeps sending me off to voicemail.

I try her eldest child, Vincent's cell and he picks up.