Zack's mate

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Elva's POV 

I didn't come across Zack for the rest of the hours at the college, I tried to ask Derrick, but he said Zack has gone home already, meaning he even skipped the rest of the sessions for the day.

I just don't understand why I am caught up in all of this? It's not even my fault that they fought, but why was he lashing his anger on me?. He always does that leaving me stressed with confusion. 

I arrived back home at the evening and went straight to my bedroom, skipping dinner because I really had no appetite.

Laid down on my bouncy bed, I took out my phone to check for his text or even a missed call for a hundredth time and still ….. there was none.

My eyes shut as I tried to cool down the painful lamp on my throat.

Suddenly the phone pinged, the excitement that my body reacted with died down instantly when I saw  it wasn't even his text at all. Disappointed, I let out a big sigh.

It was from our class group chat on W******p, I didn't even open it and just read it through the notification bar.

There was a football match tomorrow, a football match! This at least brought light to my dark face, I told myself I would meet with him there and talk things out.

I smiled faintly pressing the phone on my chest, "Elva honey" my mom called out from downstairs.

"Yes?" I shouted back, this was our daily routine. 

If she doesn't want to come upstairs, we'll talk like this. 

"Dad's home, let's have dinner together." 

"Oh ok, one minute" I shouted and rushed to the bathroom to change, now that I was less worried I couldn't waste a chance to have dinner with both of my parents.

The next day we all headed to the college stadium for the match after morning sessions. Aria had already gone ahead to the bleachers so she could get some good view seats for us while I went to get us some drinks. 

On my way back the players had already begun to enter the ground, Zack and Derrick were amongst them. Our eyes met for a second and he blew me a kiss, that was enough to make my heart flutter. I blushed profusely and forgot everything from yesterday. Love was blind and I was the victim. 

"El! Over here" yelled Aria waving her hand to me, thank god she spotted me because I was searching around for a while but couldn't find her. 

She was in the fourth row of the bleachers, and damn the other lower seats along with where she sat were all occupied, so there was no space for me to walk to. I couldn't just pass and annoy the people. 

My eyes scanned for the upper rows and thank God the last row was all empty, I quickly made my way there.

However, my feet came to a halt when I saw who was sitting there, the masked senior, all alone.

He actually laid there, his legs stretched horizontally, his head rested on the armrests and a book covering his face as if the mask wasn't enough already. 

Just why the hell was he wearing a mask? No! Actually why was he even here if he wasn't going to watch the match? I shook away the thoughts and prepared myself to walk past him, something about him is bloody eerie, he gives me goosebumps whenever I see him. 

With steady and silent steps I started to walk by but my luck seems to be so very bad.

I tripped, my body turning to the audiences on the following lower row, my eyes enlarged and I could already foresee how terribly I was going to fall on people or how badly I was going to get hurt. A yelp slipped from my mouth. 

My eyes were tightly shutted waiting for my fate, my heartbeats going haywire, breathing heavily. When a strong arm circled around my waist pulling me back.

"Watch your steps" came a cold voice, sending shivers to both my back and my nape, that is when I realised I was on his lap. 

I stood up like I was striked by lightning, my eyes darting around to see if anybody saw what happened but thank God the match had already begun so everybody was busy cheering.

I didn't want to be the cause of a bloody fight between these two now. Staring back at his cold eyes I swallowed hard, something about him makes me so nervous and I keep telling myself to stay away from him because he is a bad news. "Tha.. thank you" I muttered.

He stood up and walked away as if I just ruined his beauty sleep. My tongue clicked as I watched his retreating back "What a rude jerk!" I mumbled. 

He turned to look at me as if he heard me, my eyes widened, that was a cue for me to dash away.

I quickly made my way to where Aria was, her eyes glued on Derrick who was just so good at football,  leaving the girls smitten. "Go baby!" She shouted as I handed her a soda.

"You took so long" she said, and I wouldn't dare to tell her why, I opened the soda and took couple of gulps.

"Is Jena here yet?" I asked to avert the topic. Jena was Aria's cousin, she finished college last year and now she is the doctor of our pack, back at Blood moon.

She said she would be here today to help the injured players, as a volunteer, red cross or whatever. I didn't pay much attention to Aria when she informed me today. 

"Yeah there she is." she pointed at the ground. Jena sat at the bench along with some other medical personnels. Her white coat looked so cute on her.

The match was so exciting, our boyfriend's team scored four and the opposition team two goals, and then came half time.

Zack and Derrick came to us to catch up for a minute before heading back to the ground once the time was up. I was still holding my burning lips, unable to brush away the kiss Zack had given me just now.

I was happy that were okay now.

The match ended and Derrick made sure to show the opposition team who he was, he scored three more goals and made it 7 against 2. We all cheered for the victory. 

Aria and I went down to the ground. As I approached him, Zack pulled me in for a passionate kiss before everyone, again. I don't know if it was a makeup kiss or what, all I knew is that I like it.

The tingles it brings to my body, I was there for all of it.

The students cheered for us making me blush even harder, I was sure my face looked nothing less than a tomato at the moment. Lost in the moment a loud growl was heard, laced with a tinge of anger.

We both pulled away and turned behind us curiously. Jena stood there furiously,  her claws elongated ready to rip anybody that comes across her. Why was she glaring at me though?.

Just a minute later, Zack roared and uttered "Mate", his eyes glowing and shining with unexplainable happiness and it was all for her, Jena.

I felt like the whole world tumbled down and buried me along with it when he shoved me aside like a contagious disease and ran to his mate.

I was still trying to decipher what happened but it was the truth! Yes Jena, Aria's cousin was Zack's mate and not ME!.

This truth was so hard for me to accept, left on the ground, all eyes on me. Some looked at me with pity while some with mocking eyes.

The dam broke and my eyes were flooded with tears, the two were kissing and hugging over and over again right before my eyes. Their laughter of happiness was like a tight slap on my face.

I felt pathetic! Humiliated! Shame was my second skin at the moment. I slowly got up when I saw Aria walking towards me, probably to comfort me but no! I don't think I needed it at the time. 

All I wanted was to run away and I did! I felt so much pain that if I had stayed there some more minutes then I would've gone insane. 

Zack didn't even spare  glance at me, not even once! I ran away and fast out of the college, to the woods.

I couldn't tell for how long until my feet couldn't take it anymore, I weakly fell to my knees and cried out loudly.

Everything was replaying again and again in my head and I couldn't hold the loud scream from my mouth. 

Nobody told me a heartbreak was this much painful, my heart felt like it was being poked by thorns all over. 

All this time, all those years, my mind, my heart was very sure he was going to be my mate and no-one else, even though my wolf was immobile and hard to sense. 

Even he said he felt the same for me, said that I must be his mate because of the feelings he gets whenever we're together. So then how? Why now? What changed it?.

I blamed it all on the moon Goddess, if he wasn't even my mate why did she bring him into my life? Why?.

Maybe I wouldn't have been this hurting if he wasn't my boyfriend. My eyes started to see black spots, it was snowing hard.

I passed out and dropped down on the cold snow below me.