When Selena got to school, she found Jenna McSweeney hanging around her locker. Jenna had been crushing on Selena since middle school and always seemed to dissolve into a blushing, stammering wreck around her idol. It looked like she was trying to finally work up the nerve to ask Selena out.
Selena tried to decide how she felt about that. On the one hand, Jenna was cute. She was a petite girl with a strawberry blonde ponytail, and freckles on her nose. Selena had to admit, sometimes she found herself staring at that cute round little ass when Jenna ran off embarrassed. On the other hand, Selena was madly in love with Tatiana von Karnstein. Selena knew that some werebeast alphas had more than one mate and that Tatiana had given her permission to do so to pass her genes on to the next generation of the pack, but Selena was still trying to work out her own feelings on polygamy.
Selena wondered if it would be a good idea to not mate with Jenna and still bring her into the pack. It had the potential to be extremely awkward, Jenna having her crush constantly around while Selena was having the time of her life with her vampire girlfriend. On the other hand, Jenna seemed like a good fit for the pack. She was very outdoorsy and was always helping Brianna Dixon out with fundraisers for animal rights charities and conservation groups. And who knows? Maybe Jenna would meet someone else she liked even better than Selena in the pack. She always did have a thing for muscles, after all. And maybe Selena would mate with Jenna in the end. Either way, she seemed like a good future werehyena.
Selena walked up to Jenna and smiled. "Hi, Jenna! Any particular reason you're hanging around my locker?"
Jenna turned red as a beet. "Oh! I... well, I... ermm... crap! Let's start over. Err... I know this probably looks like I'm stalking you... but I'm... actually... well, I'm... crap, crap, crap!" The nervous girl buried her blushing face in her hands.
Selena placed a hand on Jenna's shoulder. "Relax, Jenna! I really don't mind."
"You don't?" Jenna said happily, looking up from her hands.
"Not a bit," Selena said. "There's actually something I wanted to talk to you about. Now, I've noticed you, ahem, seem to like spending time around me, Jenna."
Jenna blushed deeper red. "Y-yeah. I... guess I do." Jenna cringed. Why did she have to get so bashful around such a beautiful girl? Jenna's eyes suddenly locked onto Selena's forearms. Were they looking more muscular lately? They definitely looked hairier. "Say, have you been working out? Oh, and you grew out your body hair." Jenna buried her face in her hands again. "Sorry, that was rude! I just thought it looked kinda... hot. Ugh, I'm such a pervert!"
"No, you're not," Selena laughed. "I'm actually pretty flattered you noticed. Yeah, I've been putting on muscle mass. And I've always let my body hair grow natural, but it's been getting waaaaay longer and thicker lately. Must be some kind of second puberty or something. Anyway, back to the point. You like spending time with me, that's super obvious. Well, my friends and I have this sort of... I guess you could call it a club. It's top secret, and I was wondering if you'd like to join."
A grin split Jenna's freckled face. "Really?! Sounds great!"
"A little warning, though," Selena said, raising a hand. "Our club's a little... different. You have to promise nothing you see will scare you, and double promise that you won't tell anybody but other potential members."
"You aren't sacrificing goats to Satan, are you?" Jenna laughed, just a bit nervously.
"Satan's got jack shit to do with anything," Selena assured the strawberry blonde.
"Then I promise," Jenna smiled.
"Thanks," said Selena. "We're initiating new members in the gym after school. Feel free to drop by and see if this is something you might be interested in."
"I will," said Jenna, "but what's the big secret? Since I'm interested in joining, can't you just tell me?"
"You'd just say I was crazy if I did," Selena shrugged. "I think this is something you need to actually see to understand. If you need a little hint, think furry."
"You mean like the furry fandom?" asked Jenna.
"Not exactly," Selena chuckled. "Though Harper Browning is a member, so there's that. Here's another hint: remember Remus Lupin from the Harry Potter books? How 'bout Sirius Black? Well, I gotta go now, or I'll be late for Trigonometry! Bye!"
As Selena Lyall zipped down the hall (God, she had a nice ass!), Jenna pondered Selena's hints. In the Harry Potter books, Remus Lupin was a werewolf, cursed to become a savage wolfman under the full moon. Was Selena trying to say that's what she and her friends were? Was Jenna going to get eaten?! But Selena had also mentioned Sirius Black. In the books, Sirius was an Animagus, a wizard who could transform into a specific animal at will and kept his own mind. Was Selena trying to say she was a werebeast that worked a bit like an Animagus, transforming at will and staying herself mentally? But all this was impossible. Magic and werewolves weren't real... right?