The Beta's Apocalypse

6. Tag You're It

Ellie stood there waiting. She let out a sigh, running her fingers through her hair and fidgeting with her shirt.

Elijah noticed and smiled. He walked over and whispered to her. "Don’t worry, that boy has it bad. Besides you look beautiful."

Ellie rolled her eyes. "Yeah but you are biased."

Elijah laughed. "Zeke doesn’t my sister look beautiful."

Zeke's eyes grew wide. '"I uh." He turned and looked at Sophie, who just smiled and crossed her arms. He turned and looked at Ellie then Elijah. "I feel like this is a trap."

Elijah burst into laughter. "It's not a trap, she's nervous."

Ellie punched Elijah in the arm.

"Woah! Anger!" Elijah smirked.

Zeke blushed. "You have nothing to be nervous about, but imma leave it at that. I want to stay on Eric's good side."

Elijah laughed. "Fair enough."

"You guys leave poor Ellie alone." Sophie shook her head and walked over, putting her arm in Ellie's.

Ellie smiled glad there was another woman around to have her back now,

Amelia came running out of the house, followed by Justin then Oliver and Eric.

Eric took one look at Ellie and a huge grin spread across his face. He quickly took three steps towards her, and then stopped in his tracks. He looked down at the ground, and rubbed the back of his neck. Stop you i***t, he thought, you promised you’d take it slow.

Ellie looked up at him walking towards her. Gosh he is handsome, she thought. She wasn’t sure what to do or say when he stopped, saving her the trouble. She frowned, knowing it wasn’t fair but she wasn’t fully ready yet. She smiled as he shuffled his feet and rubbed the back of his neck.

Sophie leaned her head to Ellie's, whispering. "Justin rubs the back of his neck when he's nervous too."

Ellie whispered back. "It is kind of adorable isn’t it?"

The two girls giggled as Justin walked up to them. "Now what is so funny?"

"Oh nothing." Sophie mused. "You and your brother are a lot alike, that is all."

Eric's head shot up to Sophie. Sophie smiled at him, and winked. Eric smiled back,  and nodded.

"Well, shall we go find these honeysuckles?" Sophie asked.

"Yes let's." Justin agreed, taking Sophie's free hand into his. "It's about a 20 minute walk on foot."

Sophie smiled at Ellie, and then took her arm back.

They all started walking towards the back of the Packhouse. Amelia ran up grabbing Ellie's hand. Ellie smiled down at her. "Hello little one." She bent down and whispered to her. "Thank you for getting Eric."

"You welcome." Amelia said with a big smile, proud of herself for helping.  "He's happy now, you like him now?"

Ellie smiled and kissed the top of Amelia's head. "I'm working on it little one."

The twins followed close behind Ellie, Zeke walking next to them, while Eric and Oliver brought up the rear.

Oliver elbowed Eric. "You ok?"

Eric nodded. "I really want to just go be next to her, but at least this is a fast improvement."

"Give it time. I am sure she'll come around. After all you're mates from the little I know it's pretty much inevitable she'll come around right?"

Eric shrugged. "Usually but there have been cases where one of the mates for one reason or another rejects the other one."

Oliver shook his head. "Seriously why?"

"Different reasons. Sometimes they think they are better then them, say an Alpha gets mated with an Omega, or their families are rivals."

"Or they think their mate is a Human?" Oliver offered.

Eric laughed. "In his defense he never went through with it, and changed his mind before he knew she was a wolf."

Oliver laughed. "I'm just kidding."

Eric looked at Ellie and sighed. "She wont even look at me. Do you think she hates me?"

"No I just think she's scared. She has her heart broken, that's not an easy thing to come back from, and she said you could come. That’s improvement right?"

"That's true. I just wish she would give me one look, one glance that maybe somewhere inside her she feels an ounce of something. I'm worried she just invited me to be nice." He watched as Ellie bent down to talk to Amelia, then kissed her head. She glanced back at him and gave him a quick smile, before turning back around as Amelia pulled her forward skipping through the garden.

Oliver patted Eric on the back. "Well there you have it. I would say there is at least a little something there."

Eric's mouth spread as wide and it could, and his eyes lit up. He looked like a little kid on Christmas morning.

"Oh man." Oliver laughed. "You got it bad bro!"

Eric smiled. "I do, and I don’t even care."

They all continued to walk until Ellie let out a squeal.

Eric took off in a dead sprint towards her, as she picked up Amelia and ran forward. He stopped as he got next to the twins and saw Ellie stop in front of the honeysuckle bushes. Ellie picked two, giving one to Amelia showing her how to suck the nectar out.

Elijah and Ethan turned to see Eric standing next to them, complete shock on his face. "What is wrong?" Ethan asked.

Eric looked up at them. "I thought something was wrong with her."

They looked at each other and laughed. "Yeah she gets pretty excited about things. You'll learn her different squeals."

Eric shook his head. "I hope so." He looked over and smiled as Ellie and Amelia giggled sucking nectar out of flowers. She was beautiful. Seeing her being sweet with Amelia was making him fall for her even more.

"Do you want to go suck on some flowers?" Elijah laughed. "Ok that sounds really weird out loud."

Eric shook his head. "I think I'll stay back here. I don't want to make Ellie uncomfortable."

They nodded and joined Ellie.

Oliver walked up next to Oliver and laughed. "Over react much?"

Eric shook his head, and sat down on the grass. He sat back and watched as Ellie laughed and showed everyone how to get the nectar out of the flowers. He smiled, at how everyone just seemed to connect with her. She was amazing. She turned and looked at him again and gave him a small smile. Eric let out a sigh and leaned back on the grass. "She is killing me. How am I supposed to stay away if she keeps smiling at me?"

"You can handle it."

Eric looked up at Oliver. "It is torture."

Sophie walked over and sat down next to them, handing them both a honeysuckle flower. "Have you guys ever done this before? I had no idea you could suck the nectar out."

Eric smiled and sat up. "Yeah Justin and I used to come here when we were younger and do it." He popped the green part off, then pulled the string out and sucked the nectar up.

"What does it taste like?" Oliver asked.

Eric shrugged. "It's like a sweet flower taste."

Oliver followed what Eric had done and sucked the nectar out. "Hmm not bad, I'm going to get another one." He stood up and walked towards the bushes.

Sophie looked at Eric. "How you holding up?"

Eric smiled. "I just want to run over there and take her into my arms." He smiled. "But at least I'm near her, and she smiled at me." He held two fingers up in the air, like a peace sign. "Twice!"

Sophie laughed. "Well that is good." She reached her arm behind Eric's and leaned against his arm. "She is pretty special Eric. She has some pretty strong power radiating off of her."

Eric laid his hand on Sophie's hand around his arm. "I know I can sense it when I am around her." He stared at Ellie with a huge smile on his face. "How did I get so lucky? The Moon Goddess must really love me." He smirked.

Sophie shook her head. "Yeah and you’re also so modest too."

They both laughed.

Ellie turned and looked at Eric and Sophie with her arm in his, laughing together. A small frown crept on her face. She didn’t really like seeing Eric so comfortable with another woman. She felt a nudge on her back. She spun around and saw it was Elijah.

"Jealous?" He asked.

Ellie furrowed her eyes brows, and spun around facing the bushes. "What?! No I'm not jealous." She scoffed.

Elijah looked at Ethan and they both laughed. "Uh huh, sure." Ethan joked.

Ellie shook her head. "Whatever you two are idiots." She turned and walked a little ways off, sneaking a glance at Eric and Sophie again. She sighed, she would never admit it to them, but she was a little jealous.

"Ellie, Ellie!" Amelia yelled. "Let’s play tag!"

Ellie turned around and smiled down at Amelia. "Ok." Ellie replied with a smile.

"You're it! Everyone RUN! Ellie it!" Amelia exclaimed.

Ellie laughed and took chase after Amelia, who ran and hid behind Justin. Ellie quickly reached up tagging Justin on the arm. "I guess that means you're it Alpha." Ellie laughed as she ran the other direction.

Everyone else took off in different direction's. Amelia let out a squeal as she ran to Eric and Sophie, jumping on Eric. "Protect me!"

Eric laughed, and stood up with Amelia in his arms. He sat her down and they both took off running as Justin chased them down

Justin reached out and touched Amelia. "You're it little bit!"

Eric let go of her hand, but she reached and grabbed his leg. "You it unca Eric!"

Eric let out a playful growl chasing Amelia down. Amelia ran and hid behind Ellie. "Tag Ellie Tag Ellie!" Amelia called.

Eric stopped and stared at Ellie, who stood there in shock, unable to move. "Uh we better be getting back to the Packhouse." Ellie Said. She turned and looked at Ethan her eye's wide.

"OH um, yeah right." Ethan said. "We better get back." He looked at Elijah who nodded. They both walked up to Ellie.

Ellie turned and looked at Justin. "Thank you for bringing me here."

Justin bowed his head slightly. "You're welcome, you come here anytime you want."

Ellie smiled and nodded. She walked up and gave Sophie a hug. "I'll see you later, thank you for today."

"Eh, that's what family is for." Sophie said with a wink.

Ellie and the twins started walking back towards the Packhouse. Ellie turned around, and looked at Eric. "Maybe we will see each other again tomorrow?"

Eric looked left to right, making sure he was indeed the only one standing there. He raised his eyebrows and pointed to himself. "ME?"

Ellie smiled and nodded.

"Uh, yes I would really like that."

Ellie smiled and turned around walking away.

Once they were out of earshot, Justin walked up next to Eric and put his arm around his shoulder. "Wow!"

"What?" Eric asked.

Justin laughed. "You got it BAD!"

Oliver and Zeke both burst into laughter. "That is exactly what I said." Oliver boasted.

Sophie shook her head, grabbing Amelia's hand and walking over to them. "Don’t listen to them, I think it's sweet!"

Eric looked at her and smiled. "She talked to me."

Justin, Zeke and Oliver burst into laughter again. "Whooped already." Zeke commented.

Sophie rolled her eyes, and put her free arm in Eric's leading him away from the boys. "Ignore them. You know when you and I were sitting off talking, I am pretty sure I saw a tinge of jealousy coming from Ellie."

Eric shot his head to look at her. "Jealousy really? Are you sure?"

Sophie nodded, and laughed. "Oh I am sure! A girl knows when another girl is jealous."

Eric laughed. "She has no reason to be jealous of you, you're like a sister."

"Jealousy doesn’t care if its irrational." Sophie stated.

Eric looked forward and caulked his head to the side. "Jealous huh? That makes me happy actually!"