Their Hidden Princess Novel

---- Chapter 130 Zora Basics the morning after my week of nightmares was, surprisingly, uneventful. Maybe it was that it was a Monday. Maybe it was that the temperatures on campus had finally dipped low enough that the first snow ghosted over the campus ina thin white blanket. Maybe it was just that | was no longer interesting. Regardless, people seemed to not give a shit about me as | walked into Basics with Loren. Training that morning with Thorne, Maximus and Valentin had been surprisingly uneventful as well.

Aside from a few growls from Maximus when Thorne wrapped himself too close to me or a snap from Valentin as Maximus splayed me to the ground, it went well. I'd recounted my experience to Loren on the way to Basics. "What's it like to have three Alphas fighting over you?" she sighed dreamily. "exhausting," | deadpanned. "Tell me about your Alpha." Apparently, Loren and her mystery girl had a run in last night in the library. She wanted to tell me when she got back, but I'd been slumped over my books when she got in.

Our time between my training and Basics was the first we'd had to talk ---- about it. Loren had just told me about how she was approaching the girl when we walked into Basics. | flinched as | waited for everyone to glare at me but was met with only blank half-stares. | furrowed my eyebrow and looked at Loren, who was doing the same. We exchanged a wordless glance at each other before marching into the locker room and changing for Basics. Something seemed...off. But neither of us could pin point what. It didn't help that all of Basics went as smooth as molasses.

No snide remarks, no bitchy comments. No scoffs. "Do you think some magically put a spell on this place to make people forget the last month?" Loren whispered to me as we walked back into the locker room after Basics. "I don't know," | said with a shake of my head. "It wouldn't surprise me if someone randomly slipped them some magik memory potion." Loren snorted. "Those don't exist." | gave her a look that said "Really?" She shrugged sheepishly then looked down at her watch. "Shoot," she cursed. "I have to go to the library. | promised one of the girls in my math class I'd tutor her.

| was supposed to start five minutes ago." ---- "Go," | said with a half laugh. Loren gave me a weak, apologetic smile before darting off into the locker room. | couldn't help but chuckle as she ran off. |, unlike Loren, had no responsibilities until the afternoon. | thought that a shower and a good ole PB&J was exactly what | needed at that moment. | shrugged off my training gear and left them on the bench by the showers as the steam engulfed me. It seemed no one else had elected to shower in the locker rooms after class that day. | was the only one in the room and | took my sweet-ass time.

| lathered my hair and body with all the soaps in there for communal use. When | finally turned off the shower, | smelled like roses and sunshine. | walked over to where the towels were and found the shelf completely empty. | guessed that's why no one else had showered. | poked my head out into the locker room, tentatively and looked towards the other shelf that usually held towels. Sure enough, there was one sitting there, fluffed and ready for me. Unfortunately, that meant | had to mad dash across the locker room in only the skin | was born in. | did another sweep of the locker room.

Everyone had pretty much left save for a few loners changing in the various corners of the locker room. | looked back at the towel and made a conscious decision. My wet, bare feet slapped against the tile as | darted across the ---- room. Water was still cascading off me as | went. | was about to. grab the towel when it was snatched off the shelf by a well- manicured hand. | turned to scowl at the person attached to it when a flash blinded me.