You Are It

As I made my way down the stairs, Liv was behind me, and I was quickly rushed by the younger set of twins as they helped me down and onto the sofa. They all sat on the large floral couch smelling the air and trying to get closer to me. Chris snapped his fingers and they calmed down adjusting their clothes.

               “Juliet it seems you are fated to my nephews, all of them.” He paused rubbing his chin and scraping the red whiskers. “Charles, do you have any idea why that is?” He looked up from the twins and found my father sitting on the bar stool at our kitchen island. 

               “Yes, when Juliet was born she had a fraternal twin named Jemma, she died in vitro, and Juliet absorbed everything from her in order to survive, I couldn’t operate. It was too risky for both of them and Katherine.” He slumped down taking a drink of the rum and coke he had every evening. 

               “So, what you’re saying is both your girls would’ve been fated to my nephews but because one passed away now all four of them are fated to one?” Chris asked putting his hand on the nape of his neck and shifting to one foot. “Well, we have a solution, we may not know who was fated to whom but you have two weeks to choose your mates by marking or to denounce them.” I gasped as thoughts came flooding into my head, I closed my eyes trying to calm my anxiety. I suddenly felt hands on me, on my hands, back, shoulders, and head, and I felt calmer but overwhelmed by a pull in my chest, I opened my eyes to see the twins rubbing me. All their eyes met mine as smiles came across their faces, their dimples were so adorable, I couldn’t help but smile as well.

               “Two weeks, Oscar, Oliver, Seth, Shane, and Juliet,” Chris announced as he walked over to my father’s liquor cabinet to pour him a drink. I got up and immediately felt dizzy, I fell backward but was caught and taken upstairs. I opened my eyes and saw the twins rubbing my feet, hands, legs, and head. I groaned as I watched my father enter my room and push his way through. 

               “Rest pup, you need rest,” He said as he put a damp towel on my head and walked out. I felt my eyes get heavy as I drifted off to sleep. I woke up in the middle of the night, and I tried to stretch out to hop out of bed, and I am greeted by Oliver as he rushed to my side grabbing onto my arm.

               “Brat, what are you doing out of bed?” Oliver questioned looking at me, smiling. I don’t know why I loved hearing him call me that, I also don’t know why I felt like pouncing on him all of a sudden. He inhaled deeply as his face came closer to mine. “Brat, you want me, don’t you?” He asked slyly moving his hand to cup my breast. I flinched and moved away stumbling, but was caught by Shane.

               “Baby girl, it’s okay Oliver got a little carried away. Are you going to the bathroom?” Shane asked as he swung his bulging muscular arm around me. “Let me help you.” I nodded my head and watched him snarl at Oliver in disapproval. By the time I got out of the bathroom, all four were at the door waiting for me. I smiled, but suddenly I felt this huge pain in my chest, and it moved to my abdomen. I grabbed my chest as I watched worried eyes then like a domino set one after the other, get a pain in their chest. They all helped me back to bed and whined having to sleep on the sofas in my room. The next day I felt a lot better, I woke up to the set of twins bringing me breakfast on a tray with a rose laid across. I couldn’t help but smile but in a sudden flash, I was revisiting an old memory of Oliver and Oscar laughing at me coming out in a bikini, soon being joined by Seth and Shane until Olivia came to my rescue as always. I was skinny my entire life until I hit eighteen, I suddenly grew big thighs, a belly, and a huge round ass. But I also gained weight shown on my face and neck. I wore baggy clothes and was still a virgin, my first kiss if you could call it that was from a young wolf named Jack Pine. At twenty-one I was not ready I wanted to wait until I found my fated one, I wanted it to feel special. Now, I have four, maybe I reminded myself, they will probably renounce me and I’ll be alone, they come from a long line of Alphas or Royalty. They can choose their own mates once they renounce their fated ones. I pulled myself together, but I was clearly upset, I pushed the grits around on my plate as I took small bites.

              “Will you be coming to school today, baby girl?” Shane questioned wiping away whatever invisible food he had on his mouth with his thumb. I nodded my head and pushed the tray to the side as I got up heading to my closet. 

              “I’ll see you guys later,” I said without a thought as I heard all four whimper and get up to leave out of the room. They each headed toward me, grabbing onto my waist and trying to kiss me. I backed away holding up my turquoise blouse to my lips. “I’m sorry I’ve never been kissed!” Oh no, why did I say that? They all giggled.

              “Wait, what?” questioned Seth, cocking his head to one side and smiling.

              “So, you’ve never..” Asked Oscar as he was being hit by Oliver. I shook my head, putting the blouse down. I turned around to face my full-length mirror on the closet door and touched my lips. I watched all of their eyes on me as they each kissed my shoulders and left. As I walked outside I was met by Olivia in her bright pink jeep. 

             “Good morning beautiful, you look great you ready to conquer this shit?” She asked raising her freckled arms in the air. I walked into school and was greeted by the twins. 

            “Baby girl, take my arm,” Shane offered smiling down at me, he looked so good in his black tank top, it made his muscles really stand out, so I took it without a thought.

            “Brat, take my arm!” Oliver insisted grinning as he draped my arm around his.

            “Beautiful, can I put my arm over your shoulder?” Questioned Oscar not giving me a minute to think he draped his right arm over my shoulder while standing behind me.

             “Gorgeous, my arm will be on this side.” Seth blurted out, putting his left arm over my left shoulder while standing behind me. I felt a little heavy but I also felt amazing, as I started walking down the hallway to my locker following Liv, I watched as everyone gawked at us. It didn’t help that they were all wearing different-colored sweatpants and tank tops showing off their Greek-like physics. I stopped, hearing the all too familiar clicking of heels coming my way, I flinched which made the guys go on alert. I stood there as I saw Talia and her posse coming to me, the boys instinctively got in front of me.

            “Babe, I was looking everywhere for you, I missed you.” Talia greeted Oliver trying to lean in for a kiss but he pushed her face away.

             “Taila we’re through I told you this two days ago, you are lucky that’s all I did,” Oliver growled at her.

             “Oh, come on, you didn’t mean that, she’s a freak!” She retaliated laughing and encouraging the other girls to join in on her cackle. Oliver’s eyes turned black, I could feel his wolf heat up so I put my hand on his back to calm him.

             “Don’t call her that, she’s my mate!” Oliver shouted, loud enough to grab the attention of everyone around.

             “And mine,” Finished the rest of the twins, standing straight up, looking for anyone to get close to their new desire.

             “Impossible,” Scoffed Taila looking at the guys and then back at her friends, she noticed me looking at her, so she took the opportunity to speak up. “What kind of spell did you put on them, you witch? They would never be with someone like you in a million years, you fat slob!” 

             “I warned you!” Oliver snarled as he started to lunge at Taila, but she quickly scampered off, and Oscar held his brother back. I slid to the ground, with my books in my hand, staring into space, crying. Talia was right I am a freak, I am fat, I am ugly, I’m not enough for the twins neither set. 

"I'm all those things she said," I spoke softly "You should just reject me,"

             “Baby girl, No!” Shane squatted down holding onto my shoulders.

             “You are beautiful, that’s why I call you that!” Oscar spoke up cupping my cheek with one hand.

             “Brat! Are you alright?” Oliver asked spinning around and getting eye level with me. 

             “I’ll take her to Nurse Broussard,” Seth scooped me up and carried me to the nurse’s room as he propped me up on a chair. “Juliet, Gorgeous can you hear me?”

I wiped the tears from my face and looked at him, my face was red and blotchy, I could feel it. “She’s right you know?” I spoke slowly taking my time to look at each of them. “I’m all those things, and you guys would’ve never given me a chance if we weren’t fated, I’m a nobody. You should just reject me now, so you can find someone you actually want.” 

              “No, I’m not giving up what has been given to me now! I’ve waited twenty-five years for you!” Oliver’s voice boomed as it echoed across the hall. “I finally have you, I finally have the one made for me and you want me to give you up?” He threw his arms down as he approached me, I stared up into his green eyes and looked at his messy black curls, as they started to hang in his eyes. “You are mine, Juliet! I will work hard to make you see that.” He cupped my face and leaned in, I could feel myself moving toward his lips but I quickly pulled away. He looked at me in shock but suddenly as if he could hear my thoughts of not wanting my first kiss to be of my red face with tears and snot everywhere he moved back.

             “I feel the same as my brother, Juliet, you are mine, and I want you!” Oscar stepped up wiping away the tears from my eyes while smiling.

            “Juliet we did not make you feel wanted for a long time and we are sorry, we truly apologize. I remember talking about us finding our mate and hoping it was someone like you. Beautiful, kind, sweet, caring, you have a love like no one we’ve ever seen and we want you. We want to be loved by you, to be truly loved.” Shane walked up caressing my cheek with his thumb.

            “It’s true, we were assholes but we promise to spend forever making it up, we promise to love you. To show you love, and to be wanted, because we do, we want you, Juliet.” Seth spoke up as he got in between my thighs and cupped my face with his hands. I smiled and wiped my nose with my jean jacket letting out a laugh while nodding my head. Seth grabbed me up and spun me around, handing me off to Oscar and then Shane, finally I ended up in Oliver’s arms as he quickly spun me and sat me down. 

           “We want to take you on a picnic tonight, Brat.” He laughed looking at me, I felt my red panties moisten at the sound of the nickname. “Oh, Brat, you make things very hard for us!” He sniffed me as I backed up into the gang of them watching them lick their lips.

           “Back to class, all!” Bellowed Dean Roberson as he opened the nurse's door.

As we all started walking down the hall, Olivia came running up alongside me, “Juliet, I couldn’t find you, but I did find Talia, and let me tell you she will not be messing with you anymore!” She said out of breath stopping in front of me. I stared at her a bit confused, tilting my head. “I broke her nose,” She snorted out loud as she walked in the opposite direction to her classroom. As the school day came to an end, there wasn’t a step I took that didn’t have at least one of the guys holding on to me so that everyone could see.