I slowly make my way down the stairs, I have no desire to go to this party. I hate that so much is changing right now. I have a plan and I don’t want to do anything that might make me drive off course, but it is nice to feel like I have some more people in this pack that will be there for me. Maybe I’m more attention deprived than I thought. My mind keeps telling me this is all a joke, and I know I should listen, but my heart wants it to be real. To have more than one person in my corner, not that Mia’s not enough, because she’s more than, but i don’t know. There’s just a part of me that really hopes their friendship is real, that I’m not being played. Granted, me feeling that way might very well be playing right into their plans.I grunt and sit on my front porch and watch over at Liam’s house. I’m wearing jeans and a gray tight long sleeve shirt with Dallas’s coat on over it, and the necklace that I never take off. It’s silver and the pendent is of two hands holding up the moon. My
One of Mia’s friends comes over practically laying on top of her, “Who knew the human knew how to have fun?” I think her name is Kiera. I look down as Dallas’s hand on my back squeezes me closer to him. Mia pushes her friend off so she’s standing on her own, “I knew.” She says smiling over at me. “But, I’m not as shortsighted as most.” Mia finishes glaring at Kiera, and Dallas chuckles. Kiera throws her hands up in a defensive position, “Hey! No hate. It’s just nice to see you out. You always turn us down every time we tell Mia to invite you.” She’s not wrong, everybody at school has hated me for a while, so when they want to hang out with Mia and she wants to hang out with me, they invite me sometimes. I always say no, because I didn’t want their pity and to just sit in the back the whole night by myself. They only invite me to get Mia to come anyway, didn’t think they’d actually care. Mia finally stopped asking me, and just answers for me, because she knew I’d say no.”Maybe we can
When I walk out of the bathroom, Dallas is sitting on my bed. He sees me and instantly stands grabbing my chin and looking at my slap mark. I can see the fury in his eyes. He starts to leave angrily, but I grab his arm. “Please don’t, Dals.” I plead; he stops, still facing the door. “Look, I appreciate it, but it’s just going to start more shit if you try and do something about it. I don’t want more drama for me, and I definitely don’t want more drama for you.” I say walking closer to him.He turns around seeming to calm down. “Aims, I’m so sorry. Liam said he uninvited her and her friends. I shouldn’t have left your side. I should have known something like this might happen.” He says guiltily. I just give him a small smile, “Honestly, it’s not a big deal, I’ve had worse.” I say then realize what he said. “Wait, you guys uninvited her?” I ask, he nods. “Yeah, we wanted you to have fun. Didn’t want you to have to look over your shoulder the whole night. Apparently, they didn’t take the
He looks over at my face and his eyes go black for a moment, then they clear. I see his grip on my doorknob tighten, then he lets it go slowly. “You guys' mind if I join?” Liam asks only looking at me. I haven’t really had time to think about everything that happened lately, but I look around the room. Everyone’s face makes me confused; I can’t tell what anyone is thinking, but then I realize all of Liam’s best friends are sitting in this room. I feel bad for taking all of them from him, and it’s not the first time. It happened yesterday to. “Yeah, come on in Liam.” I say nonchalantly, I don’t want to make this a bigger deal then it is. Liam did throw Clara off of me once he had time to react. Whatever, it’ll only be a couple hours and then they’ll all go home, except for Mia. I’m sure she plans on staying the night again.Liam shuts the door and walks over to the couch, he starts to sit where I was. “Aims is sitting there.” Dallas says rudely, I don’t think he’s happy I let him stay.
It’s been three weeks since the night of the party. Three weeks since we’ve all become friends and hang out together all the time. I literally can’t get away from them, but at this point I don’t think I want to. Even Liam’s been hanging out with us. Which I can’t decide if I like or not. He reminds me of when we were kids, when everything wasn’t so fucked up. When he isn’t being a jerk, he reminds me of the kid I once knew. The kid I was once spent every waking second with. It’s hard to draw the line between who we were and who we are, when he’s nice to me again. It’s all so hard to figure out. Should I just forget about everything that has happened to me over the years, because they’re nice to me now? Should I just let go of this grudge, that likes to remind me of all the bad times? I’m not so sure I even have the choice anymore.Cole always brings laughter with him, everywhere he goes. Walker has that silent but loyal way about him. If this is all real, I don’t think he’d ever let a
Liam sits me down and takes the seat next to me. Dallas pulls out a crown that says birthday girl with a sash the goes with it. I look at him like he’s gone crazy, “I’m not wearing those.” I say, and he smiles. “Please! For me? I want everyone to know it’s your birthday! Plus, we went through all the trouble skipping class just so we could get some things for you!” He pleads with a innocent angel look on his face. “Ugh! Fine, only for lunch though!” He seems to accept that. I roll my eyes as he places the sash and crown on me. Mia’s sitting on the other side of the table grinning from ear to ear. I smile over at her, “Hey! They’re your friends now to! This will be happening to you in a couple of months!” I yell at her and her smile falls. Yeah, that’s what I thought.Dallas pulls out a bag with the café logo that my mom and I frequent on it. My eyes go wide, and he smiles. “Don’t be too impressed I had some help with this one.” He says laughing. We settle down and separate all the foo
I get out to the cars after school, and see Dallas sitting on the hood of his car and Cole standing in front of him, talking. Once they notice me, Dallas looks behind me like I’m hiding something. “What are you looking for?” I ask smiling. Dallas then looks at my face and smiles, “Just waiting for Amy.” He says, again glancing over my shoulder. “Don’t you have last period with her?” I ask Cole and he nods. “Yeah, but she ran to her locker. I figured she’d meet us out here.” He answers with a shrug.I look back at the school, it’s nearly empty by now. I had to stay back for a few minutes to talk to one of my teachers. “Have you asked Mia? Maybe she decided to walk home.” I say looking back at Dallas. “Maybe... I don’t know something feels off. I’ll call Mia.” He says, sticking his hand out to Cole for his phone. I look at him questioningly, he shrugs, “Lost my phone.” Ah, yes, he told me that, not long after lunch.Cole and I just stand there waiting. “Fucking Mia.” Dallas curses when
I wake up, I don’t even know how much later. My body feels like I got hit by a bus. I’m having trouble seeing from the obvious black eye, but I’m at least able to get myself into a seated position up against the wall. I pull out my phone with the left arm that still works, every muscle I move, makes me feel like I’m dying. It’s nearly six o’clock, my mom’s going to start wondering where I am if she isn’t already. I pull up my messages.*Hey, I lost my phone. It’s Dallas. You better not have walked home on your birthday! Where are you?* -Dallas*Hey, seriously where are you? Everybody’s getting worried.* -Dallas*Your mom doesn’t know where you are. Can you please answer someone?* -DallasThis is all Dallas’s fault. Why would he still be pretending to care so much when he knows exactly where I am? This hurts more than I thought it would, I really started trusting them. I scroll down to Mia’s name, I see that the rest of the guys have messaged me too, but I don’t care what they have to
While his body is turned towards his dresser, I peel off my soaking wet shirt and throw it to the side. He looks back when he hears the splatter sound on the ground. Then looks up at me with wide eyes. He leaves the clothes he’s brought out of the dresser there and walks up to me slowly. I stare him in the eyes his whole walk to me. While he’s watching me, I reach back and unclip my bra and throw it to the side with my shirt. He takes a sharp intake of breath, but doesn’t move forward to touch me. I hesitate, then move down and unbutton my jeans. I peel them off slowly, still trying to keep eye contact. I stand up straight and I see his eyes slowly look over my body, that only has underwear on it.He takes off his shorts and slowly walks closer to me. He pulls me into his arms and kisses me passionately. He pulls away slightly, “Are you sure?” He asks, giving me a look that I know means if I want to back out I can. Which makes me want him more. I nod my head and pull him closer to my
A few days later, and it’s time for Mia’s birthday! We’ve already decided to add some security to this party to make sure Clara isn’t able to come start drama. So, I’m actually looking forward to it now. My mom again agrees to let me skip my schoolwork, and as soon as I wake up, I start filling up the water balloons.Dimitri walks inside the back door, he started acting like this is his home. I can’t say for sure, but I think him and my mom have something going on. It’s about time, I haven’t ever seen her with anyone. He looks at me and starts laughing, “What are you doing?” He asks, and I join in with him. “Just a bit of pre-party fun for Mia and the guys.” He smiles kindly as he grabs a bottle of water from the fridge.“Those boys really seemed to like you two. Looked like you had a lot of fun at prom.” My face reddens, because he was here when Liam ‘dropped me off’ but didn’t leave until the next morning. I hide my face but nod to him. He comes closer to me, with his hand outstretc
I’m just looking around the limo amazed, when Liam leans down close to my ear. “Do you like it?” I smile, “Of course! It’s beautiful, Liam. Thank you!” I look into his eyes, and he smirks, “Nothing is as beautiful as you, Amy. I’m so happy you came with me tonight, I want to make it magical.” I start to smile, but before I can his lips find mine. I’ll never get enough of him, I wish this feeling could last forever, but I know it.... No! I can’t think like that, not tonight. I promised myself I was just going to live tonight, no thinking of the future, no thinking of the past, just in the moment, with my amazing friends and amazing Liam.When he pulls away, I hold onto the side of his tux making eye contact, “You look very handsome tonight, Liam.” I say with all the confidence that I usually never feel, he smirks and I pull him in for another kiss. I’m honestly not sure what all happened in the limo on the way to the restaurant, because I was a little preoccupied, but before I know it
I spend the next week with school in the mornings, training with Walker after, and then hanging with everybody after training. I made a mistake finishing those fifty push-ups, because now Walker knows I can do it, so now I’m forced to every day. He’s also started adding on some running around the pack, but that’s something we all do together, so at least it’s usually entertaining.Luckily, Walker gave me today off, because it’s finally prom day! Mia came over early and my mom took us to get our nails, hair and make-up done. We take a break after getting our nails done to go get some lunch at the cafe my mom and I both frequent.We sit there eating for a little while, before my mom looks at me anxiously. “Are you sure you’re going to be safe tonight? I don’t like that I won’t be right next door in case you need me.” I sigh, because we’ve talked about this several times over the past few weeks. “Mom, I’ll be fine. I doubt Liam will leave my side all night. And if he does I’m sure Dallas
I turn around and lean against the table as Liam comes up caging me in. “You look beautiful.” He says as he places a gentle kiss on my cheek. I pull his lips to mine and like always it’s like I escape this world and fall head first into pure bliss. We’re interrupted by Cole pulling Liam away from me and dragging him into the living room. “You can make-out later, right now we need to party!” Cole exclaims, shouting the word party, having the whole house howl in response. I chuckle shaking my head, when Dallas hands me my drink. “Thank you.” I say sweetly, taking it from him.He smiles and nods his head towards the living room. I take a deep breath and follow him. I’ve been getting better, but big gatherings are still not my thing. Kiera runs up to me, stopping me from getting to the chair I was about to sit in, until I wanted to start dancing. She wraps her arm around mine and starts pulling me the opposite direction. Dallas spins on his heels and follows us, he doesn’t like being too
Mia and I leave Liam’s to go get a couple last minute things for Cole’s birthday party tomorrow. We’re walking around the store. “So, Amy, what’s the holdup?” Mia asks me out of no where. I look around to see if there’s something I’m not seeing. I look at her confused, she rolls her eyes. “You and Liam. Why haven’t you two gone all the way yet?” She clarifies my mouth goes into a o shape finally understanding. I turn my head and grab a blow horn off the shelve, and turn back to her. “It’s not like I don’t want to, but there’s actually a couple reasons.” She urges me to continue with her eyes, I roll my eyes again looking around to make sure Dallas is still across the store. “First, it seems like every time we get to that point, he pulls away... I’m not sure he wants to.” She rolls her eyes, “Amy, he’s a teenage boy, he wants to do it.” I look down embarrassed to be talking about this.“And?” She urges me. “I’m scared, okay? He has a mate out there somewhere, and when I think about Lia
Christmas and new year came and went quickly. All of us hanging out like we were always meant to be together. Amy and Mia’s appearance in our lives have proven to make our whole atmosphere brighter. Even my mom and dad smile more with them around. Walker and Dallas have both turned eighteen unfortunately neither of them has found their mates yet though.Amy finally got her cast off, and they say her skull has healed. Everything in our world is finally working out for the better. We’re happy, we all are, and it’s the end of March so the cold weather is finally going away. Making it easier for us to all hang outside with Amy. Dallas and I were having to sandwich her at some points because she’d just get too cold. Most of the time we would just end up going inside, regardless of Amy’s protest that she could handle it. Now, I no longer have to share her with him. I’ve gotten over my jealously of there relationship for the most part, but still doesn’t mean I’d liked having him holding her.
Once we get back to Amy’s house, she heads up to her room to get changed. I follow her and wait for her on the bed, while she goes to her bathroom to change.I feel like a lot was spoken on this tonight. I couldn’t be happier that she’s willing to give us an actual chance. And that kiss, Goddess above. I could barely breathe when she went in to kiss me, my whole body wanted it. I don’t know what I would have done had she changed her mind. I don’t think there’s any words that could describe that kiss, all I know is I hope it keeps happening. I can’t believe I went so long without her. Everything about her draws me in. She’s right, I really need to thank Dallas.She comes out dressed in jeans and a tight pink short sleeve shirt. She smiles at me and goes to grab her hair clip off her desk. She accidentally trips over her backpack but catches herself quickly on the desk.I see her freeze, did she hurt herself? “Are you okay?” I ask getting worried because she still hasn’t moved. Then, sh
He doesn’t say anything for a minute then he sighs, “I brought you here, to this exact spot because it’s a reminder to me. To see you sitting here... It tells me, everything I did was for nothing. Everything we both, but especially you, went through was in vain. You still broke through my resolve. You still made me care about you, regardless of me trying not to... I believe you being here, in this spot where I fell apart, proves that we were always meant to stay together. That no matter what we went through, us being together, as friends or more I don’t know, but we were always going to end up here.”I stare at the sky, trying to blink away the tears. Walker had said something similar, that I was meant to be with them. What if it’s all true, some divine intervention is making sure we’re where we are supposed to be. That I’m supposed to be apart of their group. I’m not sure if that makes the last six years of my life worse or what. If Liam hadn’t decided it was better for us both if we