Ninety eight

CHAPTER 98

GLENN

The good thing was he picked up and as luck would have it,he didn't seem as angry as i had supposed.

I told him the words I had wanted to, and he fell quiet for a while, not wanting to answer my question—

"Fine, we'd meet at the regular place then." He answered after a while ignoring my first question and going for the second instead.

The moment he hung up, I shared a look with him. The entire feeling I got from all of this was that he was still pissed about my actions earlier. I sat there with the phone against my ears doing nothing except buzzing.

"What did he say?" Anna spoke, breaking the silence.

I sighed. "He is coming to meet me, but he said nothing about traveling with him… I guess he is still angry. "

I said that last word with conviction and she looked as though she agreed with me that he was still vexed about the entire issue.

I was caught right here thinking of a way to settle all of this, my mind felt like it was in a kind of flame.

"You need to go prepare then or when is he picking you up."

"I guess later this evening."

With the little time left all I did was find a way to solve the questions that were at the back of my head.

"So we have more time to talk." With that she pulled the duvet cover aside and tucked it around her.

For a moment I sat still unsure of what to do not knowing if the best thing for me at the moment was to just calm myself down.

At the back of my mind the whole situation seemed very difficult to handle. It was almost as though the thought of him was ghosting through my mind.

Soon after she was in there, I lifted the duvet and climbed in before pulling it back over my .

In that way we laid close to each other side by side,facing each other as music from my heart drifted through the room.

"Do you really think I am pregnant?"

She fought an eye roll, but a corner of her mouth lifted. “I am no Doctor. "

" But you brought up the whole issue, what else are you expecting of me? "

Expectantly, she pursed her lips like all I was saying was far from what to expect, the truth was that the whole situation felt dark in my head.

“You need to know that I might be wrong. You shouldn't even let it bother you at all. "

I tried to comprehend all she was talking about but couldn't as the whole situation felt like a hard task to accomplish just thinking about it alone made my heart beat incredibly fast.

The truth was I was trying to make all of it accountable, I was quick to make assumptions and had forgotten what the real truth was.

"Sorry, I put the thought in your head a bit . You should have expected that was going to happen when two adults have unprotected sex."

I scoffed. " That is not why I am shocked. " I answered.

"Then why are you—" she shrugged.

“It is biologically impossible for humans to, you know, get us pregnant.” My voice was shaky as I could feel a part of my heart dissolved into bits and pieces after I had said those words leaving an empty ache behind.

“No way .” She seemed shocked. “Well you can never know… You said inter-relationship is low within you guys.”

A lump formed in the back of my throat. If only that were a lie I would have been more excited but at the moment it felt like the truth, the absolute truth, the fact was I would be the first in this kind of …

Fuck!

I sounded pissed that I had been risked having unprotected sex with him in the first place.

"You worry too much, just let it go."

She was right, the more I thought about it the more the sudden realization was hitting me … I worry too much.

My eyes burned. “I am just confused. You know there are so many questions at the back of my head that I can't even voice them. "

Her gaze met mine, her brows knitting. “What do you mean?”

“You know … What if he doesn't accept me, or what if he claims that the child isn't his "

“There we go again, stop doing that—” She blinked, glancing at me. I didn't know how to stop it.

When the thought comes to my mind I just voice it out unrelentingly. It was as though it was heavy … so heavy that stopping it felt impossible.

As Much as I didn't want to, it was hard to just stop thinking about it really.

I knew the fact was because I was faint hearted, I was in a way more quiet at heart in such a way that I made most decisions just from what I was able to make myself feel.

Wasn't that incredible!

I wasn’t a girl that would just accept everything as being normal, In a way I loved to ask questions.

"It is just so hard to deal with, you know everything would have been normal if I was not cursed."

I said the word before I even knew I had uttered it and trust Anna she heard it quickly.

" Cursed? " She sighed deeply.

My silence took a while but eventually I nodded her head in agreement.

She twisted her head to look at me as a bitter laugh escaped her “I don't understand anything you are saying. "

“Just forget it… ?” I frowned. “I shouldn't have said that word … "

I felt the need to get away, the fact was she would probably keep asking till I would be forced to say something and at that period I didn't want that.

Anna didn't appreciate it the most that I was trying to make the situation more critical than it should be, she had this look on her face that was making me feel bad about it.

Guilt pierced my chest. I was a terrible friend …To think that she was ready to accept me regardless of who I was and what I did ?

I was making the whole situation worse than I should…

"Well it all happened years ago …A few years actually." I started to speak and she listened perfectly.

"I was caught up in a situation no werewolf would have wanted and there is this like deity—"

I watched her to see if she' tensed at any point but she had my attention. In a funny way she sort of did.

"So what happened?"she asked, looking very much interested.

That very moment my mind drifted to the past as I seeked a way to explain the situation. It felt incredibly different saying it but at this moment I couldn't just stop speaking not with her.

"I was involved In a relationship you know, he was my first love but I was betrayed by my sister."

Realistically, it looked as though she didn't know too much about me till this moment, letting out this much was like exposing myself to her totally.

"You have a sister? "

It was more like a shock than a question. And it forced a smile from me, the truth was I had not really paid attention to any of this but as it seemed at the moment I was starting to pay attention to every bit of the words that were being said.

"Yes, I do have a sister but we have one of the most complicated relationships you would ever think about."

Talking about it opened a wound I thought was gone from my mind, it showed that I still had a long way to go from healing myself completely.

"I don't want to talk about her."

"I understand." Anna muttered

What I didn't tell Anna was the fact that my sister' I’d lusted after my fiancé. That my own father had tossed me out of the house because he felt I was unbefitting if whatever this was.

What I didn't say is that I had been the least favorite, and in a way with how smart she was I guessed she was able to pick everything out.

At that Moment, I averted my gaze. The last thing I would want for myself was to let her see that I was about to cry… My eyes were heavy and it looked like at any moment I might cry.

I went over it in my mind again, this time the situation felt a whole lot different. While I would have thought about the entire situation earlier with tears this time I didn't have it in me to do that … It felt like I had cried enough tears about the situation all through this while and there was nothing left of it to cry about any longer.

"You know, if there is anything I know about you it is the fact that you are strong there is something about you that I can't just write off." She spoke calmly.

I smiled. “Yeah. Well, ever since I remember … I could remember I had been on my own so doing things like that had made me stronger."

She cuddled me in a hug, as I glanced up at the clock on the wall, as I did I couldn't help but notice that four hours had gone since all of this had started, it seemed like a little while but a lot of time had gone as well with it .

"You know I have always felt my love Is never within them… Those werewolves. " I sighed.

"I guess, it is because I searched for love all this long while but didn't find it." I cleared my throat. "Anyway , that night I met Santiago for the first time . . I guess I couldn’t hold it back anymore . Everything felt like it was coming together finally. "

"And you knew he was your mate … Or what do you guys call it?"

I bit my lips and nodded slowly. "Yes, the idea that someone like him would be my future scared me at first but then I accepted it. "

At that moment it felt like it was Squeezing myself into this person I didn’t think I could be anymore—

"Guess you'd have to go now… " she muttered. "Or what time are you planning on going?"

I glanced again at the clock. Deep down I felt every bit of anxiety from the fact that I might've to tell him about my supposed pregnancy.

It started all at once; my lungs closed up as it felt constricted.

"Let me go get ready."

I pulled the duvet away and sat up before turning to face her again.

I felt the need to share this bit of information with her before all of this went berserk again in my mind.

What I Believed at that moment was that if I didn’t get to tell her about being followed something might happen.

"Remember that text we got anonymously?"

" The one we thought Martha sent?"

"Yeah …" I answered.

" Ever since then I have been getting this funny mindset that I am being followed. "

" Really? "

I bit my lips and nodded my head. She looked at me, feeling concerned ." So what are you going to do? "

" Well, nothing yet, it might just be my thoughts. "

" Well ignore that sick feeling and go get your man… "

I forced a smile as I walked out of the room.

It was a long walk to the bus station back home and for some reason I still had that feeling that someone was walking behind me from the shadows.

This time it was so evident that I looked back expecting to see nothing as usual. I was left shocked this time however when I looked.

Standing right there was the dark figure of someone — Almost immediately the figure was no longer there.

My heart beat slightly as I thought about the situation. I was definitely not Crazy my fingers trembled as I jittered when the horn or the bus blared one more time .

As I walked into the bus, I looked out at it and could see nothing but pitch darkness. My mind went through the moment again. I was left there still trying to decipher what it was that I just saw.

It was no longer my mind playing tricks at this time. I was most certain of it. I was not running crazy either.

It was a fact I was being followed… But by who?