"Goddess, Noah stop torturing my eardrums!"

"HE'S GONNA EAT MY FACE!" He yelled back pointing to my brother, Brent who at the moment looked confused, hurt and sad because his mate seems to be rejecting him at first sight.

We all are now inside my room, the three of us standing infront of the bed while Noah is on the bed as far away from us as the wall could allow him.

"No one's eating anyone's face, Noah" I sighed pressing my temple with my fingers. He's giving me a headache.

"Are you okay?" Ricky asked me but I just ignored him.

"You don't understand! It's a weirdwolf thing!" Noah exclaimed.

"What's a weirdwolf thing?" My brother asked him

Noah whimpered but he eventually answered. "W-werewolves? When they say the word 'mate', they eat each other's faces"

We all went silent.

"Is he for real?" Ricky uttered beside me but I ignored him.

"I won't touch you in any way without your consent." My brother told him and he seemed to relax at that

"Y-you promise?"

"I promise, Noah" my brother smiled softly at him

Noah smiled back and they stared at each other for a while.

I rolled my eyes. "Take the eye fucking elsewhere please, not in my room"

They immediately averted gazes and my brother turned his at me, glaring. "What have you been teaching him?"

"Did you tell him about us?" Ricky asked but I ignored him still and proceeded to answer Brent's question.

"I didn't teach him anything, he figured it out himself."

"W-w-wait wait, you knew?" Noah turned to me

I sighed "I'm a werewolf too"

"B-but, you-" he frowned at me looking like he was betrayed "you lied!"

"I didn't lie, I just didn't tell you anything"

He narrowed his eyes. "Omission is a form of dishonesty"

"If you were a werewolf, would you just tell any human you're a werewolf?"

He just pouted as a reply.

"Didn't think so" I continued and he just crossed his arms and continued to pout.

"I think we should leave the two of them to talk" Ricky uttered beside me referring to Noah and Brent but I ignored his presence and picked up Noah's notebook from the bed instead to continue reading it. I said I was unprepared to face Ricky right now, that's why I'll just ignore his presence. Easy to say, fucking hard to do.

I was flipping the pages to where I left off when someone grabbed my arm, making me drop the notebook. I immediately recognized it was Ricky because of the sparks. He pulled me out of my room to the living room and to the balcony.

He stopped walking and faced me "I said let's leave them alone."

I glared at him "I was trying to read!"

"You were ignoring me! Ignoring my presence the whole time! And what was he doing in your room?"

I pulled my arm from his grasp "What are you even doing here?"

"You weren't replying to any of my texts"

"Why would I?"

"Why wouldn't you?"

"Do I have to?"

He looked hurt and it pained me but I remained stoic. "Jamie, did..did I do something wrong?"

I sighed "Just... stay away from me from now on" I turned to leave but he grasped my arm.

"Wait, wait.. what do you mean? What did I do wrong? Was.. was it because I was late last saturday? I'm sorry.. I'm sorry, I.. I cant.. I made it this far, are we, are we back to square one? Jamie, look at me, please"

I heard the hurt in his voice and it was affecting me so I remained facing my back to him. Why is he even hurt if I tell him to stay away from me when he obviously have someone else whom he can't live without? He's confusing me and I can't help but think he's just playing with my feelings. "Why did you even kiss me?" I uttered.

"I.. I thought--"

"You thought what? You don't even tell me how you feel, you just do whatever you want"

He let go of my arm and I longed to feel again the sparks that disappeared when he did.

"You want me to tell you how I feel when you can't even be honest with me" he chuckled sarcastically "you can't even look at me right now." He sighed before continuing. "do you hate me that much? So much that you don't wanna be with me? So much that you needed to avoid me and hide from me?"

I couldn't take it anymore so I turned to face him, holding back the tears that's starting to burst. "Ricky, I-"

"Rick?"

We both turned our heads to the voice.

It's the girl from before.

She's standing infront of the house with bandages around her neck and arms.

"Bea? What're you doing here? You should be resting" I looked up at Ricky as he said those words, worry in his voice, ache in my heart, and tears blurring my sight.

"I..I just wanted to apologize to Jamie for ruining your saturday night." Her answer made me look at her. She looked at me before continuing "Mom said I shouldn't have held my brother back and forced him to watch a movie with me, using my birthday as leverage. I realized I might've ruined my brother's lovelife with what I did and with what happened to me with the rogue, forcing him to cut your first date short on top of him being late. Because of me, he wasn't able to go to school with you today because he needed to track the rogue that attaked me before it harms anyone else."

She took one step closer, hands together infront of her chest which made her look like she's pleading. "Please don't hate my brother. He was really worried when you weren't replying to his texts. He already has a lot in his plate because of me, with the rogue still out there so I wanted to try and help him atleast. I'm really really sorry."

I was dumbfounded.

And it took a while before I could reply.
"Br-brother?"

"Yeah, Rick, my brother, the one who's been obsessed with you for as long as I can remember" she chuckled but when I didn't laugh with her and instead stayed shocked, she tilted her head to the side with a confused look.

I could feel Ricky's confused gaze on me. I turned my head to look at him, seeing his expression changed from confussion to realization "You didn't know she's my sister, did you? Did you think she's my girlfriend or something? Were you jealous? Was that what this is about?"

I felt my face grew red with embarrassment as I looked up at Ricky who's now smiling teasingly and the tears I was holding finally fell down my face. This is so fucking embarrassing. I can't believe I got heartbroken because of my own stupidity, and I even thought of Ricky so badly.

I'm relieved because I was wrong but I am so humiliated I couldn't help but continue to cry.

His smile automatically vanished, replaced with worry. He immediately touched my face and wiped my tears with his thumb. "Hey hey, what's wrong? I'm sorry. Uhm can I do something-"

I cut him off by pushing his hands away and running back inside the house but instead of going back to my room, I run straight to the kitchen and to the back door. I could faintly hear Ricky assisting Bea to sit inside and telling her to stay there.

As soon as my feet touched the grass, I shifted and ran my way into the forest. I needed some fresh air, I felt so stupid and humiliated I needed to be alone. I hope he doesn't follow me. I'm too embarrassed to face him.

He has a sister? Why the heck did I not know that? and I immediately concluded they're together or something. I'm so fucking stupid I'm getting annoyed with myself. I could've saved myself the heartache and tears if I just confirmed things first.

How am I supposed to face him now without feeling embarrassed? Goddess, I'm so stupid I just wanna strangle myself.

I ran deep into the forest, trying to forget the embarrassing moment I put myself into. As I ran, I began to admire the greenery surrounding me, I began to enjoy the cold wind on my fur. I haven't done this in a while and it felt refreshing. I felt one with nature and I started to relax, forgetting the embarrassing moment I just had.

I was enjoying myself, sniffing flowers, hopping over tree roots and chasing butterflies, unaware of the eyes watching me, unaware of the danger lurking behind the trees.

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