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
I see Mia walk out into the waiting room, looking everywhere but at us. She seems nervous, so I stand and walk over to her. The rest of the guys follow, but Mia seems really distraught. I wish they’d let us see her; I just need to see with my own two eyes that she’s okay. Everybody’s being super secretive about what happened, and no one’s saying anything about her condition. We just know she’s here, but none of us know why.“Mia, what’s going on? Can we see her now?” Dallas asks. He’s really not doing okay, it’s like he isn’t being aloud to see the love of his life. I don’t have it in me right now to be upset though, I just need to know she’s okay. Mia looks down at the ground. “She’s okay now, but...” She’s taking way to long. “Spit it out Mia.” I say angrily. She looks up and glares at me. “Fine Liam. She wants all of you to leave. She doesn’t want to see any of you right now.” She says to the point. Why wouldn’t she want to see us? I thought things were finally being fixed between
This can’t be happening. Not again. She was left alone for five seconds! No!I watch as Dallas paces back and forth along the street, looking for her. Her scent disappears after we leave the porch. The only other scent is ours!Did her father find her?Everybody is looking, but we won’t find her. Not by scent, and she’s been gone too long that we’d see her.My mind races, as I try to figure out anything. Try to think of any plan. “Do you think maybe she ran again?” Cole asks softly behind me. A low growl leaves my throat.“How do you suppose she did that, Cole? She could barely walk! You think she just took off?” I scream at him. He puts his hands up, “Hey, I’m just pointing out all the possibilities! It wouldn’t be the first time!” He screams back at me.Already everybody is on edge. Fuck! I scoff, my hand running down my face. Then turn away from him. We’re just going to keep butting heads if I stay and argue.Hours we search for her. Hours! I can’t believe she’s gone again. The tho
Breathing heavily, trying to stay conscience, I look up at Andy. Who has taken a break from destroying me. “Why?” I ask, because he was never nice to me, but to team up with Clara… For this…He turns glaring at me, then shrugs. “Guess you won’t be leaving this room anyway. She’s, my mate.” I feel all the blood in my body freeze. What?!I’ve always been told mates mean everything to people that get them. Yet, he’s watching his mate try to get with someone else?“She’s going to become Luna, then kill Liam. Then I’ll be Alpha when she marries me.” He says with all the confidence in the world. I just shake my head at him, “She’s using you.” I tell him.He snarls at me, “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” He growls and I grimace. Not wanting him to continue beating me.“I know she’s loved Liam for as long as I can remember. I know she’s done everything to get rid of me to get to him.” I try to make him see. He just snarls again, “It’s all apart of the plan!” He shouts, coming to st
After throwing up black liquid for what feels like forever, I finally brush my teeth and walk out to the living room.Liam hasn’t left my side since I entered the bathroom, but Dallas grabs my hand as soon as I exit. Pulling me and Liam next to him, so he can be close to me.I lean my head on his shoulder and sigh. The pain in my stomach still there, but less. They walk me over to the couch, and I look for Hazel.I see her standing over the desk, holding all of her books and ingredients as she searches for something.She senses me looking at her and sighs heavily, then looks over at me. “I’m so sorry, Amy.” She whispers, and Dallas and Liam both tense next to me. I look at her confused, “For what?”She closes her eyes, taking a deep breath. “It didn’t work.” She says, then turns back to her things.It didn’t work.It didn’t work! All of that! And it didn’t work? I go to stand but can’t find the strength to fully pick myself up.“Damn it!!” Liam yells, standing next to me and helping m
We all stand in the field, waving good-bye to the helicopter until it was completely out of view, per Heather’s request. Granted I don’t think I could have stopped anyway, I feel like two pieces of my heart just flew away.I stand there clutching my heart, as Liam pulls me into his chest, kissing the top of my head. “They’ll be safe, and we’ll see them soon, Angel.” I nod, hoping like hell he’s right.Hoping everybody here is still standing when all of this is over. I look over at Hazel, who has tears in her eyes, and she smiles knowingly at me. “They’ll be okay.” She whispers and I nod.At least they won’t be in danger here.“Okay, let’s get this connection broken. The sooner we get things done, the sooner this can all finally be over.” Hazel says and everybody nods.We all stand in the living room of Liam’s house, while Hazel starts setting up around me.Candles at each point of a star she has placed on the ground, ingredients set up around me, that I’m not even sure I want to know
We stay up for hours, coming up with a plan. A plan to get the kids out and a plan for taking down my father. I’m trying so hard to stay awake, but I’m failing miserably. Liam keeps begging me to go to sleep, but I need to be apart of the plan. I can’t go into it half assed because I needed to sleep. The kids went to sleep a few hours ago so John and Julia are down here with us. “I don’t like this plan; I need to be here with the pack when this takes place.” John says, talking to Liam. “Dad, I get it, but you and mom are the only ones we trust to keep them safe.” Liam explains to him. Our group already got in a fight about this. I obviously can’t leave, which means Liam and Dallas won’t leave. Which means as Liam’s Beta Walker and Dallas’s mate Nick, they won’t leave. Which means Mia won’t leave. Hazel can’t leave, being our only witch which means Cole won’t leave as her mate. None of them are willing to sit aside while everyone else is in danger. So, in comes John and
Cole comes in carrying a small box of I don’t know what, but looking down at it. “Why was I sent on a mission to retrieve a bunch of random crap?” Cole says grinning looking up at Liam. Liam shrugs, “I don’t know, Hazel said she needed it.” Liam explains motioning to Hazel, Cole’s eyes follow his hand until they land on Hazel. The box of random crap falls to the ground, “Mate.” Cole nearly whispers, my eyes go wide as I stare between the two. “Hi Cole.” Hazel says casually. Cole walks over to her and kneels down next to her. “I asked for these things, specifically from you, because we needed to have a conversation before this…” She gestures between her and Cole, “was reveled.” I just gap at them, so happy that they found each other. Cole looks at the group frowning, “What conversation?” He asks, clearly not happy that he wasn’t included. I smile down at my hands shaking my head. She clearly wanted to have this serious talk, before her and Cole had their moment. Which t
I guess it makes sense that it’s my stress levels, every time the spells happen there’s some major thing happening. Granted, I’m not sure when my stress levels were ever at a normal degree lately. Liam goes on, “Okay, Hazel. Explain.” I know he wants to get this out of the way. See what explanation she has for why she did what she did to me. The plan will probably take up much more of our time than this. Hazel takes a deep breath, “Amy, you know I get feelings and can sense things that most people can’t.” She pauses and I nod. “Well, the night Nick and I got into a fight, not long after I joined you guys on the road. I had finally gotten the sense that you weren’t aware of Nick being a wolf. You were passed out in the hotel room so Nick and I went outside to talk about it. I told him I was going to tell you. I honestly didn’t really think about your father being the problem at the time, I just thought you deserved to know.” She pauses and looks at Nick sadly and he nods,
My cheeks are bright red as I sit up and face Heather. “You guys were kissing! Are you getting back together?” Heather exclaims loudly, I glance up at Liam and turn back to our daughter. “No sweetie, we got caught up in a moment, but your daddy and I have a lot to talk about. Let’s go downstairs and get something to eat.” I don’t look back at Liam, not wanting to know how he feels about what I said. I’m not sure it’s even true, I just don’t want to get my baby’s hopes up. They’ve been through enough with more to come, without adding this to the mix. I grab onto Heather’s hand and start leading her down the stairs, with Liam close behind. When we get downstairs Heather lets go of my hand and starts racing to the kitchen. “Griff! Griff! Mommy and Daddy were kissing!” She shouts to him and the entire room goes quiet staring between me and Liam. I can feel the heat rising in my cheeks. Goddess, if it wasn’t bad enough to have Heather see us kissing now everybody knows.
I wake up wrapped in Liam’s scent, I figure they must have taken me to Liam’s room to rest. When I open my eyes, I am in Liam’s room, but Liam’s arms are wrapped tightly around me. I look up and see him sleeping peacefully. I don’t want to wake him up, but I really have to go to the bathroom. I slowly try and make my escape, but he clamps down and pulls me closer to him. For a second, I just want to stay here and breathe in his relaxing scent, but I really have to go. “Liam, I have to pee.” I whisper, and he chuckles letting me go. When I walk out of the bathroom, Liam is sitting on the side of the bed. I suddenly get cold without his warmth, and I wrap my arms around myself. “How long was I out this time?” He looks at me sadly, “Six hours. Grab a hoodie from my closet and we should go down and see the kids. They’re worried about you.” I sigh, because I’m sure they are, especially now that they know I’m sick. I walk into his closet and grab a black hoodie he has folded