My anger simmered down a little, knowing I can't possibly go butt heads with Channing when I was the one who suggested yesterday to call him as 'Alpha Channing' with respect and the people gathered here were mostly not the part of the pack, the pack was yet to arrive. If these people saw what Channing had done at my house yesterday, they would start doubting that man. I seriously never expected that from Fang specially.

"Selene!" I heard Channing call me from the other side, and I walked to him.

My voice came in a shouted whisper, "what did you do to my house!"

Channing rubbed the back of his head clumsily, "Ahh, about that I am really sorry I got wasted and now I have this severe headache that won't go away."

"You deserve it," I huffed and opened my palm ahead, "where is my breakfast? I am hungry."

Channing clapped his palm on mine and started dragging me out of there, "we are going to the restaurant. You choose your breakfast." He got out of there so fast I did not even get the time to look at the people who had gathered there. I bet they formulated some or the other thing, looking at the way Channing was treating me. But I could feel the change in Channing since yesterday. Today he stood in front of me just as a friend and it was just like in the beginning.

We entered the chilis, and I ordered chicken popcorns, bruschetta with some nice coffee and Channing ordered himself pasta. Channing paid for it in full and I did not care to loot him today.

We sat at a corner table and it felt so good to be having such an amazing breakfast after a long time. I always wondered how Channing and Fang were this close and now that I have seen the mess they had created, I could say they were like the best friends. "How did you and Fang meet?" I asked Channing with a full mouth.

Channing took a sip from the lemon tea that he had got for his hangover. He rubbed his head as he replied, "We met at school."

"School! I did not see any in the village," I exclaimed. There were only training grounds here that meant schools for werewolves. I did not know there were schools and that too for both of them to study together, it must be outside the village.

Channing had a pain-ridden face as he ate his pasta. He mumbled, "Yes there is a school in the capital where you can take education till high school. By the time you pass out from there, your wolf awakens so you are no longer allowed to study there as young bloods are hard to control."

I hummed as I took another sip from my large cup of coffee. "So how did you two get along?" As far as I could see, Fang was not the kind of person to take any unnecessary burden and, looking at the mess Channing had created yesterday, I could tell he must have been burdensome in his teenage years.

More than that, Channing was the pure soul, while Fang looked like he must have been the bad boy during those days.

Channing chuckled as if remembering the memory, "Ahh, it was because the schools placed students in alphabetical order of their last names. We both were Warchilds, and I used to sit beside him in the classroom or in front of him during the exams." Channing looked at his drink as he said with a mild sadness, "Both of us kind of had this sympathy spot in our hearts for each other, being a Warchild. But it more so happened like I was the person who Fang used to copy from during exams, so he was possessive about it."

"Possessive?" I questioned. What was there to be possessive about that.

Channing pressed his fingers over his forehead while he continued, "Fang is an extremely possessive man. I used to be the first in the class, so people used to come to take notes from me or try to cheat from my paper, but Fang would not like that. I was a fool back then, helping anyone and everyone, so Fang kinda kept me as someone who only helped him. Later, it turned into a good friendship when people started running away from both of us because our Alpha blood started acting up and Fang was the worst."

"Did he hit people?" I asked, as if that was the obvious answer.

Channing was sipping his drink when he almost choked on it. He was trying to hold back his chuckle, "Fang once conspired against the Principal about something stupid that he said he would reveal out about his wig and some affair... I don't remember.. but that was if the Principal did not erase his detention record."

"What!" I could not help but chuckle at that. Fang had always been this conspiring idiot since his high school days. No wonder his habit of still conspiring had not gone.

Channing sighed, "Those were some days. Fang had also hit a lot of people who tried to use me to get better grades. He used to say I was only supposed to make 'his' grades better, others shouldn't matter. By the time we went to high school, there was no one who wanted to be around us so we used to stick together and voila, the friendship just boomed out of nowhere."

"That is so nice to hear," I remarked before finishing my last chicken popcorn. "I wonder, would Fang tell the story the same way."

Channing chuckled at my question, "He would give some short answer like 'we used to study together'," Channing impersonated Fang with his typical passive expression and deep voice, "Or maybe he would say 'Channing was my grading ATM, I would rank second in the grade because of him'."

I kept on giggling at the way Channing impersonated Fang. It made me feel like I was some teenagers sitting with Channing as he talked about so much of their experience at the school.

As a princess, I was home tutored during childhood and somewhere, hearing Channing's talk made me want to go back a few years and enrol for school.

If Channing and Fang were this close, obviously Channing must have known things about what Fang used to like. Fang had always mentioned that I smelled like the ocean to him, and I wondered if Channing and Fang had been there together at least once.

"Channing," I called out, almost interrupting the next story he was about to tell. "Have you and Fang ever been to the ocean?"

The smile on Channing's face suddenly fell as he replied, "No, it was only Fang who had travelled outside of Adalolpha since he is the foreign minister. No ordinary person is allowed to go there." I did not understand why Channing was so serious about the matter.

"Did you never sneak out with Fang?" I asked Channing.

He shook his head, "Our kingdom has some set rules and if I don't follow them, how would the people who I overlook follow them. It is better that you don't think about it as well."

"But it must be a nice place to visit," I stated.

Channing clicked his tongues irritated, and I did not understand was it because of my persistence of the question or his hangover. "Selene rules and rituals are there for a reason. They are supposed to be followed or people like John Walter will roam around Adalolpha." He rendered me speechless at this point, and I silently finished my coffee. I would love to see the ocean one day, but Channing was right with his words.

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