Reborn as Wolf!

Moon Light

Chapter 5 - Alexander

Penelope's feet were still inside the stream, and she watched them as if they were the most interesting thing in the world at that moment. Her flushed face told me she felt ashamed of her own words...

Because I was her Mate...

Years ago... When Penelope started to hear the heartbeats of her mate, she began to treat me differently. Suddenly, from night to the day I had my, until then, best friend in love with me...

... During the years that she attended high school, she tried several times to talk to me about this fact, making it difficult to be with her, and gradually I ignored her presence more and more each day.

In the years we studied in college, she stopped mentioning it to me; however, I could feel her eyes following me and our friendship never returned to the same one as before...

"I'm not your mate, Penelope," I said while staring at the stars.

"You don't know yet." She replied quickly to me.

"What!"

"You still can't hear the heart-beats, so you don't know yet." She answered me with all the confidence in the world.

"It also means she may not be you." She stared at the Moon, and I could see a tear trickling down her face before she quickly wiped it away with her hand.

"Yeah... You're right..." Her voice was sad as she agreed with me.

She got up to go back to Pack's House, but something told me that I couldn't let her go back feeling like that...

I asked her to wait for me, but she decided to ignore me... as I always did to her... Making me run to be able to accompany her back.

"Penelope, please! Wait!" I spoke as I followed her until I was able to hold her by the arm. Penelope's face was red, and her breath was slightly accelerated as she had practically run away from me as she tried to ignore me.

"...What?" Her voice was low, not at all similar to my childhood friend's usual one.

"Sorry..." I wasn't sure why but I felt that it would be better to apologize to her then, and it made Penelope raise her head to face me, at least with her eyebrows furrowing in the middle as if she tried to understand the meaning of my apology too.

Honestly... Even I wanted to understand the meaning...

However, such words made her stop running away from me finally... We stood in silence for a while in the woods... And for the first time, I noticed things that I always pretended that I didn't see before...

Penelope had become a beautiful woman. Her straight hair was long, stopping only as it met her waist. Unlike many girls I've dated, they were still in their natural color, a beautiful silky black hair...

Her face was delicate and sweet, matching the pink lipstick she used on her lips as her only makeup...

Her pale skin seemed to glow as she was illuminated by the subtle light of the Moon upon us, making the playful girl I once knew seemed to be no longer in front of me...

"AND YOU KISSED HER?!?!?!"

I don't know what happened in my head that day, but I was already kissing her when I noticed.

"Yes... I kissed..." I answered Phillip's question while running my hands over my face, and I was confused with myself. Why did I kiss her? 

... Because you wouldn't mind have her as your mate...

"What did she do after you kissed her?" I ignored my thoughts... That wasn't true at all... Sighing before answering the question that reminded me of what happened after the kiss...

"Well... She kissed me back before..."

"Before what?"

"Before she slapped my face and told me to not play with her feelings." A growl unconsciously fled from my lips as I remembered her words. It wasn't like I enjoyed or wanted to play with her feelings about me on purpose...

"Well, I would have done the same if I was her." That's what Phillip told me after hearing my answer. "Don't look at me like that, Alex! You spent years ignoring her because she liked you more than a friend. Then, out of nowhere! After you said she wasn't your mate, you kissed her!"

"I know, I know. But it was just... I don't know, man!" I said, throwing myself back on my bed, where I was already sitting while we talked.

"What are you going to do now?" He pulled out my desk chair and straddled it, folding his arms across the back of it and keep looking at me.

"I don't know."

"You already said that."

"Phillip!"

"What? It's the truth, Alexander!" He put both hands up like he was giving up. "But you know you can't avoid her forever. The right thing to do now would be you go apologize to her, Alex..."

His words weren't wrong, but where should I start? 

I still don't understand my actions from that day, and it was true that I ended up hurting Penelope by kissing her after rejecting her feelings, giving the impression that I was joking with her because she believed that her emotions were born from the bond that one day would connect us as Mates...

"Well... Tomorrow's your birthday, and it would be weird if in the next full moon you started to feel your Mate, just to find they truly are Penelope." Out of nowhere, Phillip spoke, reminding me of my 25th birthday on the next day. "Can you imagine? An angry Penelope saying 'I told you' or 'you didn't listen to me,' it should be terrible... Have an annoyed Mate on the first day."

I ended up growling again as I finished hearing his words; I didn't know what was worse ... The idea that Penelope could be really my Mate that she could still be sad and angry with me the day we find true about it or... The probability that I might still not hearing my mate's heart-beat even after my 25th birthday... 

It would be very... Very bad news...