Relationship
Two: Todd
I wake up. s**t, I never went back home last night. I look at the window and see light streaming in the window. I try to get up but I’m pulled back into a warm embrace. “Tray, let go. I have to get home and hope that Avia is not up yet.” I say as Tray is kissing my on my neck and I can feel his hard length on my butt. “But baby I want you.” I giggle as I finally get lose and pick up my clothes, running into the bathroom. I hurry and do my business and get dressed. I’m walking out of the bathroom and see Tray in shorts sitting on his bed. “Are you still coming to diner tonight?” I ask him as I am putting on my shoes. “Yah, isn’t tonight the night you want to tell your family about us.” I take a deep breath feeling the uneasy feeling in my gut.
I look up to Tray’s face and see how he is worried that I still want to keep us a secret. I am determined to make sure he knows that he is not my dirty little secret. “Yes, it is time. I’m sixteen now and can have a relationship if I want.” I see a smile spread across his face. He jumps up and gives me a kiss on the lips. “I will see you tonight. I really must go now.” I turn running out the door. I make it to the fifth floor and stop trying to calm down my racing heart. Just as I’m about to open the door. It opens on its own and I see Emerson standing there. I put my head down in shame. He steps aside walking out the door. “Your sister is in the kitchen waiting for you.” He didn’t even look back at me. I can feel his disappointment coming off of him in waves.
I sigh stepping into the hallway and quietly shut the door. “Todd Lye Walters, get in this kitchen now.” I hear my sister yell. s**t, s**t, double s**t. I can’t even take a shower to wash off Tray’s scent. f**k, she is going to know just by looking at me and smelling me. Damnit all. I slowly walk into the kitchen feeling like I’m going to face a firing squad. I walk in with my head down because I knew s**t was going to hit the fan. I stop and the breakfast counter and just stand there. I don’t hear any sounds but my sister breathing.
The first thing I hear is my sister’s growls and I quickly look up. Her eyes are completely black. s**t, she is going to beat my ass. Well, I had a good life up till now. I see her take a deep breath. I watch as her eyes return to their normal color. “Go take a shower then you have some explaining to do.” I nod my head go to turn away and I’m stopped. “Oh, here. This came for you.” I turn back around taking the letter from her hands. I walk to my room already knowing who it is from. I close my door and walk to my desk. Opening the bottom drawer, I throw it on top of the fifty million other ones.
I go and jump into the shower. Standing under the raining hot water I let all my tears out. Why won’t he just leave me alone. He left me four years ago without a good bye. He sends me presents at my birthdays that of course I open because I’m in front of my family but I never open the packages. He refuses to answer my calls when I tried so after a couple of months I quite calling. Then all of a sudden, I start to receive these letters from him. I collapse in the shower as sobs rack my whole body. Why did he leave me and not tell me why? Nobody would tell me why. Just that he joined the Elders Enforcers squad. That’s when I started to worry about him staying alive. The Enforcers have the lowest survival rate in all the jobs of the Elders Council. Why would he put himself in that kind of situation? I get up trying to pull myself together. If I’m truthful to myself I may love Tray and want to be with him but Drake will always be the love of my life. My very first love.
I sigh as I get dressed and leave my room to go and face my sister. As I walk into the kitchen, I overhear her talking to one of the teachers. “Yes, can you take them to the daycare when school is over. I’m going to be a while. Yes. Thank you.” She hangs up her phone and looks up at me, sighing. “Take a seat Todd. It’s time we have a heart to heart.” I quietly sit down and look at my hands on the counter. “You need to explain exactly what is going on before I lose my cool and really hurt someone. Mainly Tray.”
I look up at her quickly in shock. I know she smelled him on me but the way she is talking she knows more than just that. I take a deep breath thinking of what I’m going to say. I know if I don’t get this right, she will kick Tray out of the pack. I’ve already lost Drake I can’t lose Tray to. “We started dating a month ago.” I say looking right at my sister. I see her face looking sadly at me. “Why would you do that Todd? He is Drake’s cousin, his family.” I just look at her. “So, why should that matter?” I say angerly. When in all actuality I never even thought about that. This was the first time we have ever had s*x. We waited until 12am this morning, so I was sixteen. Old enough to consent.
“You are not even eighteen yet. You shouldn’t be in a serious relationship with anyone.” I hear her say. I stand up feel the anger inside of myself. I don’t know if it’s about what she said or because I completely forgot Tray was Drake’s cousin. “I love him and I’m not going to break up with him.” I spit out not thinking of what I’m saying. “If you kick him out of the pack, I will leave with him.” I shout at her and storm out of the apartment. I can feel the tears rolling down my face as I run to the only place, I feel peace. The waterfalls at the back of the packhouse in the woods.
I think I have been here for an hour contemplating my situation when I feel a presence behind me. I look over when someone sits next to me. I look over to see Molly and I can’t help but to smile a little through my tears. “Fancy meeting you here.” She says to me and I can’t help but to give a sarcastic laugh. “Avia sent you, didn’t she?” I ask her turning to look back out at the water. “No, actually Emerson sent me as Avia is breaking down on him right now. Guess you were a little hard on her, huh?” Now I really feel like s**t. I made my sister who has a heart of gold cry. I sigh. “I think that I messed up but I don’t want to make it right. My mess up is making me feel loved.” She nods her head.
We sit there looking out over the water and I’m can’t help but to think of the mess I’m in. All the things that my sister could do to Tray and what it would mean for me. I just don’t want him to regret loving me. I won’t survive if he leaves me to. I feel Molly’s arm wrap around my shoulder and she pulls me close as my tears start up again. “Hey suck it up buttercup and remember you are a very loved prince in this pack of ours.” I laughed at her saying my line right back to me. I said those exact same words to her when her and River came back to the pack. I sigh and wipe the tears off my face. “I don’t know if what I’m doing is right or wrong.”
She looks me in my eyes. “Does it feel wrong?” I look back at her. “That’s the problem I feel both ways about it.” I hear her sigh and look back over the lake. “Todd, I will tell you a story. I know how if feels to be loved and feel that loved returned. I loved someone, or thought I loved someone very much. I was proved wrong and almost lost the one who means the most to me. The only advise I can give you is to know your own heart. As long as you are true to yourself you should be alright.”
I sit there and think on what she just said. I just can’t think right now my mind is so muddled with all my thoughts running wild. “That’s the problem. I don’t know what my heart wants.” I say looking back at her. She gives me an understanding look. “I know how that feels to. The only way I got my head together was to take myself away from everything until I could work everything out in my mind.” I look at her and nod my head. Maybe that is what I should do. Just get away from everything for a while. Doc Evers wants me to go with him to a near by pack and help with some healing due to a sickness that is spreading. I think I will go and not have Tray go with me. “I think that is a great idea.”