Al winced at the glaring of the sun on him. He woke up feeling the heat from the sun. As he wakes up he noticed the bitter taste coming from his mouth. Probably a morning pill, Toke has been exploding inside of him, it was only natural to give him birth control pills. It'll be a disaster if he becomes pregnant but he spits it out because it was useless to him.
He checks his surroundings, he was inside the dumpster sprawled like a thrown garbage inside. His body seems paralyzed from aching. Multiple purple bruises can be seen from his shoulder downward of his body. He can even feel the sticky liquid down is middle.
His hands unconsciously reach for his nape, it is still smooth and no sign of any wound or specifically a bite. He then breathes as a sign of relief. At least Toke is not delirious as he was what before.
Aside from body ache, he also bleeds.
For a moment, Al didn't move. In practiced breathing he relaxed his body, whispering under his breath. Then he helps himself out of the dumpster. Wounds are gone without a scar, bruise from purple to yellow then vanished as if it didn't happen. Even his broken bone is also healed.
He stretches his body as the delicious crackling sound was heard. Ahh so much better.
Clattered money and his tore clothes were on the ground. It was his clothes, now he's butt naked.
Because he's an omega, it was just a typical night for him. But what was perplexing is that something triggered his estrus or heat, making his pre-estrus to come early. Pre-estrus is the stage where he will feel heated and weakened but on a milder notion. He can function normally, except he secretes minimal pheromones. Although it was minimal, alphas' can still smell it distinctively.
His estrus should come during winter and not before. Although it's almost the season of winter, usually his estrus will come in the middle of it, so he didn't take any suppressants.
But even if he did, it won't be effective as it normally had.
Omegas could take suppressants for their estrus to be manageable. It has 99.9 percentage of success, but for Al, suppressants, and injections are not effective as it should. He's the 0.1% of the odd.
The downfall of the alphas. Haha.
There's only one way his estrus to be manageable, it's to be marked by an alpha.
Haha.
No sane alpha would do that for Al, especially if they know what he did. He cut the reason why omegas are omega. His fertility rate turns into zero, he will never get pregnant. And maybe this is the reason why his estrus is hard to control.
But that's not the real problem, he remembered last night at the bar where he's working he suddenly felt heated. There was this specific smell that affected him, making his blood wreak havoc causing his estrus to come early.
What makes that specific scent affected him?
Mm...
He was thinking about what that means while he tries to look for anything that could cover his nakedness.
He found some winter woolen coat in navy blue. Long enough to reach below his knee. Al has always been different from typical omega. Generally, omegas have a small stature, most of the time delicate and feminine. But Al is tall, almost as tall of a man beta which sometimes mistaken him as a beta. Although he has a thin waist his shoulders also wide like betas. He has the typical appearance of beta, though his face looked delicate.
Al was fastening the coat around him when out of the corner of his eyes, he saw a movement. When he looked it was a child with big round blue eyes and black hair like an onyx. He had big eyes that carried a pair of bright and clear blue irises. They were so clean that they were able to clearly reflect Al's figure. He didn't know but somehow the child seems familiar, he just can't point where he saw him.
He seems to be between the ages of 3 to 5 or seven? Eight perhaps? He wasn't sure because he never really know what's the difference between those ages to a toddler and a kid. But the boy is small and round, he looked like a rabbit with those chubby cheeks and big round eyes.
For a long time, the tiny human just stares blankly at him. Al wasn't sure what to do, the tiny human is watching him when he was getting dressed. He didn't know how to address the issue less to explain why is he was naked!
Ahem. He let a dry cough be heard.
And as if he didn't see him, he ignores the child and started to walk away. The dumpster is near the slum, people often have thrown something in there. Sometimes things, most of the time dead bodies. Or alive, like the tiny human.
There are only two types of jobs there, one is finding a body and the other is burying it. If you're still alive, that means you can live and hide. Find a job and lived, but never ever return to where you came from.
This is the lowest of the lowest. If you're thrown in here, that means you are not needed. The Slums are the place for useless.
In the Kingdom of Cuwran, there ae three main region.
Upper Region: City of Seros. This is where the Elites and the leaders of the kingdom lived. They are the upper class in the Kingdom. Such as, the Minister, that overview the kingdom and the Palace, lead by the royal blood he Queen. Both are the first line in the Elites. Followed by the rich and powerful, the nobles and the officials. Since alphas are born masters, they are usually the responsible for leadership and military work.
Middle Region: Gonne. Most populated and other center of the kingdom. The middle class. They are the white worker, mostly betas. Betas' physical strength was second best and their IQ was average and above average, they could basically bear any work and had good enough fertility rate, the backbone of society.
Lower Region: Aros, the lower class. Although not populated as the middle region, they are the poorest. They are just poor because its usually omegas.
Omegas' character were delicate and timid, their strength is generally low. Since they can't do basic physical work they usually work as white workers. In the military, they can't be in the field, because of the problem from their erratic estrus. What if they suddenly in estrus while they are surrounded by alphas? Not only it was dangerous to the omega but also to the alphas.
The kingdom doesn't have any use for them except for their great fertility rate. Omega is a birthing machine, and the child's greatest genetic inheritance came from the father's side. Meaning if they paired with alpha, it was certain that their offspring would be also an alpha.
Other than that, they don't have any redeeming quality except if you're an omega born in the upper class, now that would be a different story. But if you are born in the lower class, what are you? That's why omega remains in the lower class. They can't do manual labor, they are lacking courage and confidence so in order to survive, omega usually sells their body as a birthing machine.
But there's even lower than the lower class. The lowest of the lowest, the Slums. They didn't even bother to think of what will they call us, just simply the place where useless lived. The poorest of the poor.
Al walks leisurely as if he's not naked underneath the coat or he's walking without shoes, wherever his shoes are, he better get them that's the only pair he had. And also the uniform, when he was staggering coming home, he's still wearing his uniform but now it was fallen to pieces.
He sighed and look for his missing shoes. He never finds them.
. . .
Inside the dumpster, the child's round blue eyes followed Al's back. It was father's coat, he thought, he should get it from the stranger. Wanting to get his father's coat, the tiny human troubled himself to get out of the dumpster.
He needs to get the coat.
He followed Al without him noticing that the tiny human was behind him.