2. Mate?

Alpha Fiama

"Fia! Are you okay?", Vienna jerked my shoulder as I came back to my senses. Rubbing my palms together I strived to decrease the heat of my body.

"Yes, I'm fine", I mumbled, looking at her but my eyes automatically moved to that guy.

"I'll say the same thing again and again", the guy spoke, hanging his head. His voice fitted his appearance perfectly; heavy, husky and thick. It felt like I hadn't heard such an intense voice for years. "I haven't done anything"

However, the way he talked was more humble and gentle. I had never seen any guy with such a heavy voice be so humble. My nostrils were filled with the scent coming from him; I felt like going closer to him.

"Lie! He has misbehaved with me", Lilian, the senior girl yelped, pointing at him. I had no doubt left right then. If Lilian was accusing someone, it might be the false one. She was the queen of bullying the freshers. And if someone dared to mess with her, she made sure to make their life a living hell.

"I didn't", the guy yelled back, throwing his hands in the air. I breathed heavily; with every word he spoke, with his every nerve shaking and with every blink of his eyes.

"Mate?", Zendaya popped out again.

"What?", I blurted out.

"Him", her voice seemed drugged too.

"It's not a time for this stupid thing. There's something serious. And I need to save this fellow, Lilian is a big bitch. No doubt she has done something", I shrugged.

Dropping all the thoughts from my sanity, I walked towards the Dean's table.

"Sir, may I know the matter, please?", I spoke as he moved his gaze towards me and paused. Our eyes met. His eyes had turned red in humiliation and pain as if they would bleed right now. Hell! How did I figure out that he was feeling humiliated and he was hurt?

"Because he is your.....", Zendaya started speaking again but I stopped her midway.

"Please keep quiet now", I grumbled.

"I feel humiliated every day", she scoffed at me and I ignored her, focusing again on that guy.

He almost cried. I had never seen a grown-up guy crying, nor seen their eyes getting moist. I had only seen arrogance and a lot of arrogance.

"Hey, that's none of your business", Lilian spat, nudging her green-dyed hairs. She was colourful all over with pink smoky eyes with a lot of pricings.

"That's my business, Lilian. I'm the head of the Student Affairs and Rights Council. If there's something wrong happening inside the campus, I have the right to know. Don't I, Sir?", I looked at the Dean.

"She is right. Go on, Fiama. What's your take?", the Dean leaned back to his chair and focused on me.

I had to look at him again. Damn! How would I do that? I didn't know what was happening but I knew that it wasn't normal. I didn't look at him and iced my eyes on the concrete floor.

"Would you tell us what actually happened?", I asked him.

"What will he say? Didn't you hear me?", Lilian screamed.

"Yes, I heard you. Now it's his turn. Shall we hear him too?", I looked at the Dean as he shook his eyes.

"Please", I said again to him.

"I came to the campus with Elson. She was at the entrance and started to bully me. When I refused to do what she said and threatened to complain against her, she came up with this evil plan. I didn't do anything", his voice shakes. It seemed like ten years old kid complaining which almost took my heart away. I felt butterflies in my stomach and couldn't help looking at him.

My lips widened to a lovely smile. I kept staring at him. He had semi-sharp jawlines and lifted cheekbones along with grey doe eyes, his hairs had the mixed shade of carmine and black. The cherry on the top were his long arms.

"Dead or not?", Zendaya muffled in parody.

"How can you speak so much? Let me finish this. We can talk later", I shrugged at her.

"He is lying. Bloody liar. He was the one to hold my hand forcibly", Lilian yelled.

"I didn't", he screeched, hardly holding himself.

"He didn't do anything. I was there", Elson said. "She was the one to mess up all this"

"Don't lie, Elson. You still don't know me", she brushed her teeth while clenching her jaw.

"So, that's the way you should talk while telling about the harassment?", I crossed my arms and passed her a tight-lipped smile. She scowled at me.

"Sir, please trust me. I didn't do anything. Why would I do something like this? I had put my heart and soul to get the scholarship to be here. Why would I ruin my own opportunity?", he almost broke into tears. I sensed a flame of fire burning inside me with the tears drops glistening in his eyes.

I clenched my fists tightly with all the nerves of my body shaking, my fury gaze stumbled upon Lilian.

"Bitch! You're gone", Zendaya spoke.

"Yes, she is gone", I mumbled.

"I think we need to look into this matter better. Though you're not proven guilty, Jay, we can't mistrust Lilian too. Until then you'll be under observations. Make sure you don't make any mistakes onwards", the Dean pointed at him as he again shook his head.

"Jay.....", I mutter, my voice turned thinner and softer.

"He's smoking hot, isn't he?", Zendaya jumped out again. I had the most annoying yet lively wolf on the earth. She could never keep calm.

"Heck! There's nothing like that", I scoffed, my eyes still stuck on his calm face.

"Then stop staring at him like this", Zendaya said in a tone of sarcasm.

"Seal your mouth please", I pleaded to her

"That's what I do all the time", she fired back at me.

Dean's cabin started to vacate as all the students tidied away. Lilian passed a strong glare at us. "Bloody losers", she shot a glare to Jay, he didn't react, just drove his eyes away.

"Let's go", Vienna shook my shoulder, distracting me from Jay.

"Yeah", I smiled and walked out with her.

The spark inside me wasn't letting me walk away from him. An unknown feeling crammed with an unknown longing was asking me to look back at him, stare at him a little longer. It was something that never happened to me before.

"Excuse me", hearing his voice, my feet stopped right there as I immediately turned around. He was standing just a foot away from me, so close.

My heart skipped right there. His lips stretched into a smile.

"Oh no. Oh no. He is so cute. Just kiss him. Now, right now", Zendaya almost drooled over him. No doubt that his smile had taken my heart away. I smiled back at him which I had never done with any other guy.

"Thank you for defending, even though you don't know me", he said in a humble tone. My hands were yearning to grab his face and......... Zendaya was dying to kiss him.

"Me? Such a liar. Don't you wanna kiss him?", she spoke.

"No", I grumble at him.

"That's.......fine.....", I stammered, gulped and shivered while talking with him; never in my life, I felt so nervous. "I knew she has the....habit of....doing all the shit"

"Still, thanks. If you didn't appear there, the Dean wouldn't have considered. Anyways, Jay Evans", he proceeded his hand towards me as I glanced at his manly hand, probably the most gorgeous hand I had ever seen.

"Sorry, actually Fiama never.....", Vienna strived to say but until then I had already held his hand and he had given it a gentle shake.

Electricity flowed inside me with his touch, giving rise to the heat of my body. My nostrils were starving to smell his scent and rub my nose against his thick skin. I lowered my eyes and closed my eyes to control myself. Yet the sensation continued to knock me inside.

"Fia....Fiama Henry Case", I managed to say with a half-smile. "Good to see you, Jay"

"Well, it's Jay but not that Jay", he rolled his eyes as I looked at him in confusion.

"You can enunciate as 'J' ", he said.

"Oh", I passed a smile and enunciated it the same way he said. "Jay"

"That's better", he smiled again.

"Are those dimples?", Zendaya cried out. "He is freaking something"

I didn't stop Zendaya right now, even I was also finding his smile cuter with those dimples. How could a man manage to be hotter and cuter at the same time? It was unreal.

"Good to meet you too", I said.

"So, I think we should move. It's the class hour", he said, raising his eyebrows steadily as his eyeballs rolled a bit. I was noticing every detail with his every movement.

"Sure", I mumble, looking into his grey eyes.

"So, let me.... I mean.... My hand", he pointed at our hands as I looked down. I had still held his hand.

"Sorry", I immediately pulled down my hand and stepped back.

"It's okay", he chuckled and turned to Elson who was gaping at us in disbelief.

"What happened?", Jay asked him as he glanced at me for once.

"No, nothing", Elson cracked up. "Let's go. I'll show you the classroom"

"Sure", Jay said and looked at me again. With his gaze lifting at me, my heart rebounded, shaking all the nerves at once and my heart pacing faster.

"See you again. Fiama.....", as he took my name it echoed into my head like a melody. He turned back and left with Elson.

I stood like a statue there and watched him leaving, glueing my eyes on him.

"That was something", Vienna came in front of me and drew her eyebrows together.

"What?", I instantly look at her.

"You never shake hands with any random guy, not you speak so warmly. What's the matter?", she asked.

I was also puzzled by my own actions. Everything he had was dragging me towards him like a magnet, I couldn't hold myself. Something was happening to me, my soul and body.

"You're dumb sometimes. It's our mate, dumbo Alpha", Zendaya screeched.

"No", I instantly denied.