Erica
To my displeasure, my brother messaged me.
"Can Alice and I have tea with you and your Omega? -Daniel."
"My Omega has a name. -Erica."
"Stop getting angry, we don't want to fight, I've calmed down. -Daniel"
"Fine, 6:30PM tonight, 324 Eastwood Street, Ritten Parklands -Erica."
Goddamn it.
I told Jessica immediately what was happening and she seemed fine about it, now I was angry at her for not coming up with an excuse as to why we couldn't see them.
I calmed myself down as I sat in my car at work.
Breathing in and out slowly.
I hadn't talked to my brother since the night I found out about all the Omega and Alpha Clan stuff.
He messaged me throughout the day saying that he was sorry for getting angry, and that he only was jealous.
This made me want to see him less.
I asked Jessica to prepare tea, as I'd be home on the death knock of 6:30PM. Jessica really made good tea whenever Tyler and Rachel came around, so I left it to her to decide what we'd have.
I had a notification come through on my phone.
"Please don't yell at your brother tonight. -Mother"
Oh Jesus, now my mother was in on it.
"You're Father and I have discussed with both of them, they were given an ultimatum of leaving the family or staying -Mother."
Wait wait what.
"You really gave them that chance? -Erica."
"Your Father Loves you both, and wants nothing but happiness. -Mother."
"Thanks, I guess. -Erica."
I sat at work, for the rest of the day, regretting my decision on saying yes to Daniel and Alice.
I truly didn't want them to come over but I had to be nice, since my parents had allowed them to stay, provided they didn't act up about the decision.
"Erica." I heard from outside, then a knock at my door.
"Come in." I said.
"Erica, David wants to see you." Sarah told me as she walked in.
"Oh for fuck sakes!" I mumbled as I put my fist into a ball.
Here I was, in charge of the whole show, and he still wanted to talk to me still.
"Okay, send him up." I said with a smile to her.
"I'll go get him for you." Sarah told me as she left the room, shutting the door behind her.
David arrived at my office shortly after Sarah had left.
"David, what is it now?" I asked him rudely.
"The Lab Test for TEXRA-C31 has come back with good results." David informed me.
"Oh? That's good news." I said to him.
"It is good, the board of directors will be pleased with our work. This is going to help a lot of people suffering from chronic pain during the Rut/Heat Cycle." He told me.
"I know, thanks for this David, I mean it." I said to him, with a smile.
"Send me the files over when you get back to your work station and I'll review them and send them to upper management, so they can review also." I told him.
"No worries, Erica." David said as he exited the room.
I had tried to get this development approved months ago when David was in charge, It was only finally getting pushed through now since I had taken office, David hadn't put it immediately forward.
I suffer from the disease, so there's a reason why I wanted it done, I also know it's very common in Alpha Females.
The Alpha Female Body Simply cannot decide what gender it is during the seasons, so it leads to a build up of pain during the Rut Cycle Alpha Female's go through every season.
It's a rare experience for me, but it does happen, usually pain medication numbs the pain, but this drug will eradicate any pain felt.
This new drug will alleviate the effects of The Chronic Pain experienced during seasons. I breathed a sigh of relief... I sat for the rest of the day, reading through the document David had sent me.
I sent it to my higher ups and now it awaited official trial with a closed team of people, just in case there were any implications with the new drug, a secondary drug was also created to make the drug defunct in the host's body, like an anti-venom.
Jessica had no idea about this issue, I really felt embarrassed by it, I didn't even let her know that I had put my name down for the trial.
It'd be at least a week before some trial units were produced, so I had some time to think of a way to tell her about this issue I'd been having.
I packed my bag, turned off my computer and walked out of the building with Sarah and Yelena.
"How's Jessica? We haven't seen her in awhile." Yelena asked me.
"She's good, she's been super lately." I said to her.
"When are we getting the wedding invitations?" Sarah asked.
"I'd have to ask Jessica, I've been busy with my work lately, so I haven't had much to do with the wedding planning unfortunately." I told her with a soft smile, I had reminded myself that I hadn't been helping much with the planning, great! another thing to feel sorry about.
"You should take some time off, hang out and plan that wedding together." Yelena said to me.
"Yeah, but with TEXRA going into a possible trial period soon it might not be possible." I told her.
"Take the time off while you are on it?" Sarah said to me.
"That's what I plan to do, I signed up today for the trial, if it goes ahead." She said to me.
"You have these issues too?" I asked her.
"I do, I'm worse than most girls I know though, it's annoying, I'll be thankful when it's fully out." She said to me with a smile.
"I'll be thankful for you, Erica." Sarah continued.
"Look it's no worries, it's just good that I took over otherwise we were still going to be improving paracetamol for the next 100 years." I said with a laugh.
Sarah and Yelena both laughed as well.
"You're right, I'm just glad that more important things are taking priority now." Yelena said to me.
With that, I waved goodbye to my workmates, I never really got to call them workmates before, they weren't the nicest people to me, then again, I was never nice to them until I started dating Jessica.
I got into my car and put my head down on the steering wheel.
I checked the dash clock, 5:15PM.
"Right, let's go." I said as I sat up, hooking my phone into the car's bluetooth system.
"Siri, play 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton." I said to the car.
I had time to kill, I knew a place nearby that was used by a military supply company for several months back in the late 90's that went bankrupt after the earth threatening Katyusha Meteor was destroyed around Mars.
They had paved a beautiful area, for a massive warehouse that had no sheeting on it, minus the roof.
A lot of people, back when I was a wild 18 year old, used to hang out here at night, till late, my friends and I would set off fireworks, sometimes the police would even show up to ruin the party
Ritten City Council hadn't developed into this area yet, since I was a teenager the city has rapidly grown bigger, but in the opposite way from here.
I put the S-Class into sports mode, putting my foot down as I passed through the wire gates that we're always open. The engine revved loudly as I drifted out of the entrance.
I was a hoon when I was 18, which was extremely attractive to boys as I found out, and I had calmed down a bit with my age, but still felt that urge to let out my rage with a good skid every once in a while.
I did donuts, drifted around barrels that had been set up as a makeshift track on the paved area, probably by teenagers who'd come and do the same as me.
"Siri, Play Dancing in the moonlight by Toploader."
The car responded and began playing the song as I continued throwing the car around.
'Tire pressure low.' It was appearing on the dash screen now.
Had I melted my tread that quickly? I thought surely not, I'd barely even started.
That's when I remembered I hadn't replaced these tires since I came back from Ontriovik.
I stopped drifting and headed my way back home, I hadn't fully let my rage settle, I was being edged by life right now, it was annoying me.
When I arrived home, I saw Rachels BMW M5 with the licence plates 'GGEZ' parked out the front on the side of the road, Jesus christ.
As I pulled into the garage I saw my Brother's Car arrive in the driveway.
After lowering the car into the basement I got out and walked briskly upstairs to the ground floor to hear a plate smash.
As I turned the corner I saw Rachel in the kitchen, a plate of food on the floor in pieces, Daniel and Alice were in the doorway, being let in by Jessica.
"Rachel!" Alice said angrily.
"Alice!" Rachel also sounded pissed.
"What the fuck are you doing here!" They both shouted at each other.
I saw Alice march past Jessica and straight up to Rachel.
I was moving towards the kitchen now, I watched as the scene unfolded before me.
I looked at Jessica, who shut the door behind Daniel.
"You're a cunt." Alice said to Rachel.
"I'm the cunt?" Rachel said as she pointed at herself. "I'm not the one who agreed with mum and dad that I should be removed from the family!" Rachel shouted at her.
I saw Alice grab Rachels ear and pull it down, making Rachel whine in pain as Rachel attempted to kick.
