“Help?” I furrowed my brow and wiggled her tablet. “With what?”
“Toya had the idea last night while you shut yourself up in here.” Wendy handed me hers and Toya’s tablets and then sat down in my chair.
“What idea?”
The girls turned to Toya, who just smirked. “I was thinking, instead of having just your tablet, what if we had a table of five tablets? All with the same application and system to forward the emailed forms directly to Rowan.” She wiggled her dark brows. “It will go five times faster and honestly, we can streamline the whole process. That way, if there is a deadline for applications of a few hours…we can maximize the amount we can put in.”
The idea was perfect. “You are a genius.” I jumped up and ran to my computer. I started the install of the program I created on the tablets and then had the girls log in to their emails. Once everything was set up, we stood. “Let’s go eat.” I smiled, but then my phone rang. “Hello?”
“Hey Amy.”
“Hey Sterling. What can I do for you?”
There was a hesitant pause. “I have an Alpha Brandon waiting down here for you. He said he is here to help with today…” Sterling trailed off and I pulled my phone away from my ear.
“Um. Sure. We were just heading down, anyway.” I answered as I ended the call.
“What’s wrong?” Wendy slid up next to me.
“Brandon is here to ‘help’ with today…” I looked at the girls and then down to my phone. “Well, let’s go see what this ‘help’ is, ladies.”
We reached the ground floor. Brandon was leaning against the wall with a roll of brown paper against his leg. Confusion was the only thing in my mind as his smile stretched across his face. “Good morning.”
“Good morning Brandon.” I pointed to the roll. “What’s that?”
He smiled bigger. “I know you didn’t need my help with your plan for today, but I wanted to.” He looked at me hesitantly before turning to Sterling. “Can you help me with this?”
Sterling looked at me and I gave a tiny nod before he walked around the desk and grabbed one end of the roll. Together, the two unrolled a banner that was obviously handmade, but it made a huge smile break across all our faces. “You didn’t.”
Brandon’s face took on a little bit of a predatory smile as he turned back to face me. “I did. I figured you guys were busy figuring out the logistics of how to do the tech stuff, that you wouldn’t think of something to pull people to you. I thought this might help.” The words were bold, black with golden highlights made of thick paint. The words Royal Mate Applications were written in clear legible letters across a ten-foot span. “I already moved a table from the cafeteria into the main building hallway and I have a ladder waiting for us to slap this on the wall behind it.” Sterling’s eyes bulged out of his head as he read it, but Brandon was already rolling it back up. “This should attract everyone to you…right?”
“It’s perfect.” I bounced up to him and nudged his shoulder. “Thank you.”
He sniffed a few times and I could see a little sadness flash across his face. “You are welcome.” I waited for Megan’s reaction to being this close to Brandon, but there was none. And I felt myface fall. “What’s wrong?” He leaned into me and I had to stop myself from pulling away. Allowing him to get close.
“Nothing.” I lied. Then my stomach growled, and I smiled, thanking my body for saving me. I pulled away and turned to the girls. “I don’t know about you. I am starving.” I wiggled my now empty coffee cup. “And I need another shot of caffeine before the mayhem of today begins.” Because we all knew today was about to be the biggest shit show of the century.
We ate quickly, then made our way to the hallway. Brandon went up the ladder, but I held him back. “What’s up?”
“Let’s wait until the announcement happens.” I smirked at him, and he nodded. We got chairs and Brandon tracked down a few long extension cords for us. We plugged in the tablets and we waited.
“What’s going on here?” A random few people stopped and asked us, but we just smiled.
“There is going to be a big announcement today, and we are just getting ready to help the students here.” I smiled up at one girl that stopped in front of the table.
“Okay…” she trailed off as she turned, but I called out to the students hanging around.
“I can’t tell you what the announcement is going to be, but when it happens. Remember, we are here to help streamline the process.” Everyone giggled as the confused students moved away from us.
“They probably think we are crazy.” Hanna tossed her hair, and I nodded. I grabbed a lock and twirled it around my finger.
“Your hair has grown so much since we met.” I still remember the short-haired bird framed girl I scared in the bathroom. “You have grown so much.”
She flexed her arm, making the firm muscle jump there. “I know. It’s crazy how much we have all changed. Well, everyone but you and Toya.”
Toya grinned and flexed her arms, making her thin looking arms look huge. “I changed. It’s just less noticeable because I trained before.”
Brandon stared at all of us, flexing with a weird smile. “I never knew any girls who enjoyed being this…”
