CHAPTER 3
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The following morning when I woke up, I got up when Sophie did and I started thinking about what happened in the kitchen.
It must have been a dream. There’s no way that really happened to me. Not to me. Nothing like that ever happens to me.
I got up out of bed and I went to have a shower first, but as soon as I went in I was sure to lock the door and I had the quickest shower of my life before I dried off and got dressed.
I went back to Sophie’s room and she was still stumbling out of bed.
“Do you want me to make you a coffee?” I asked.
“Hell yeah. Thanks.” She said.
So I walked downstairs to the kitchen and the whole house seemed dead quiet. Nothing was stirring. It really was her parents that used to make all the noise in the morning.
I started the coffee machine and got two cups out and started getting the milk and sugar and everything that I needed for it.
I heard footsteps and I turned around and saw Blaze walking down the stairs with messy hair, he rubbed his eyes and yawned while walking, he poured a glass of water, raised his head and drank it all by the sink, the sunray casting on him from the window and I can see the silhouette of his adam’s apple, it’s going up and down while he’s drinking, I swallowed hard until I realized he saw me.
“ Morning.” He greeted casually, put down the glass and was ready to leave.
Wait, what?
That’s it? Just like that? What about last night? Did it really happen?
“Blaze…” I stopped him.
He turned around with a confused look on his face, waiting for me to continue.
“How was your night?” I asked tentatively.
“Good.” After a short answer, he turned around and left.
I was stunned. Why is he acting like this?
“Hey Gen, is that coffee ready yet?” Sophie sang out, her voice getting closer to the kitchen. She bumped into Blaze on his way back.
“Oh, it’s you. What are you doing up so early?”
“Yeah. They’re ready.” I said with a shaky voice.
“Always a ray of sunshine in the morning.” Blaze said to her.
“Screw you. I thought you were out slutting yourself around all night. You should be pretty exhausted. Or are you just getting home?” She asked, walking over and taking the coffee from me.
“I actually wasn’t slutting myself around. I went to see some friends and then I came home.” Blaze said.
Sophie looked at him for a moment and then started laughing.
“Yeah right.” She said, sitting at the table. But he just rolled his eyes at her.
“Why the hell are you two up so early on a Saturday?” Blaze asked.
“You’ve been gone too long. Mandatory training.” Sophie said.
“Really? I thought they were just doing that to me.” He said.
“No. Everyone has to train. Everyone has to know how to defend themselves. The Alpha insists. Just in case we ever get attacked or we get attacked outside of the pack.” Sophie explained as I sat down as well.
“Well, I guess that’s a good rule to have. Everyone should know how to defend themselves.” Blaze said.
I kept looking down at my coffee while those two talked back and forth and gave each other a hard time.
I knew that they were always giving each other a hard time and they pretended to hate each other but I also remember that Sophie was really upset when he left the pack. I was too, but I couldn’t let her see that.
She knew that I had a crush on him. But she didn’t know how bad it was. Obviously, he did.
“Gen.” Sophie said.
“Sorry, what.” I said, looking up.
“Where were you just now?” She asked.
“Daydreaming.” I said.
“Well, we have to go.” She said.
“Alright.” I said, standing up.
We put our mugs in the sink and I grabbed my bag from next to the stairs and we left the house.
We both got in my car and we headed to the training field that was behind the packhouse. It was reserved for our age group.
As soon as we got there I took off my sweater to reveal a black and purple sports top and I already had on the matching tights and socks and sand shoes so it revealed my stomach which I never did except for when I was training.
We went over to the group of people that were waiting for training to start and we sat down and started doing our usual stretches.
“We didn’t think you two were going to make it.” Cooper said, walking over to us.
“Yeah. Someone isn’t a morning person.” I said, looking at Sophie.
“I still want to go back to bed. It’s your fault. You came over on a Friday night to do an assignment and then we went out and then we didn’t get to bed until late.” Sophie said.
“Don’t blame all of that on me. The assignment was my idea, but otherwise, you were planning on staying up eating junk food and watching movies.” I said.
“Yeah. That’s what we’re doing tonight.” She said. And I looked up at her, a little panicked, but I got it under control really quickly.
“I can’t sleep over tonight. Zane would have told my parents about last night and they aren’t going to be happy.” I said.
“Why the hell does your brother have to be such a buzzkill?” She asked.
“Who knows? I think he was just born that way.” I said.
“Alright warriors. On your feet.” A man yelled behind us. So we all got on our feet and turned to look at our trainer.
He was only 23 but he’d been a warrior since he was 18 and he was now training us. 6 foot 2, ash blonde hair and Sophie was totally in love with him.
“I’m glad to see everyone showed up this morning. At least I won’t have to write anyone up.” Dallas said.
“He can write me up any day.” Sophie whispered, but I just rolled my eyes and shook my head.
“Alright. We have another trainer with us. He’s going to be learning the techniques of training students as well as also training to be a warrior himself. This is Blaze Underwood.” Dallas said. And I looked over to the side to see Blaze walking across the field heading straight for us.
“What fresh hell is this?” I asked myself. And as I looked over at Blaze again, his eyes were focused completely on me with a little smirk creeping up along his face.
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