Her Unwanted Mate

Chapter 12…

Isabella’s P.O.V.Everyone knows the feeling of, when a dream or a nightmare feels too real to leave you restless through the remainder of your night. And no, I am not talking about the feeling of falling from a cliff and waking up with a harsh jerk on your own bed.

I am talking about the feeling of hearing someone you know, says hurtful things to you, yet you can’t point out that voice to the person it belongs. You know who that person is, their name is at the tip of your tongue, their shadow is right in front of your eyes, but you still aren’t able to recognize them.

That is exactly how I woke up, in the middle of the night; wheezing my lungs out, drenched in sweat with a feeling of something bad that’s about to happen in the back of my mind. It was a nice dream which started with Cal finding his mate but soon turned into a nightmare, when someone I know, someone who is really close to me ended calling names. To whom? I don’t know, maybe me?

But they were Horrible Names.

The voice was so familiar; still I could not put a face to it. Seeing or more like Hearing that person call (maybe) me names, broke my heart into a million pieces and I couldn’t concede why? All I could think of was I don’t ever want to feel this thing in reality. But as the dreadful feeling started setting in, it felt like, it was a peek into the future.

Whose? I don’t know.

All I thought and begged to the Moon Goddess was, “please don’t let it be one of my friends” because I couldn’t imagine how heartbroken they would be. With this thought, I couldn’t sleep. But at the same time, I couldn’t move. Why, you would think, well because Cal had his arms wrapped around me.

I tried doing everything to get my thoughts together and away from that awful nightmare, but I just couldn’t. Having no other choice, I slowly moved his arms away from me and made my way to the kitchen.

I was Hungry. I can’t help it, it’s an old habit.  Whenever I had a nightmare and couldn’t go to sleep, I would settle my ass on the couch in the living room,  stuff my face with as much food as possible while watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S. and then eventually fall asleep. So that’s what I did.

I fried some French fries, heated the pizza in oven, took a small jar of Chocolate Brownie flavored Ice-cream and settled myself on the large sofa, tuning into my favorite show.

This was BLISS.

I don’t exactly know when, but somewhere around an hour or so, I fell asleep. I woke up to the sound of something falling in the kitchen and the first thought that came was, a thief was trying to rob something. And I’m going to whoop his ass to Antarctica.

I slowly, bend down from my sleeping position to take the baseball bat that I hide under the couch for such occasion, pulling it out and moving towards the kitchen.

The moment I entered the Kitchen, is the exact moment Ryan turned, scared to death; I think he almost peed in his pants when he shouted, “Bloody Murder!”

As soon as I saw him, I turned my bat down and asked, “What are doing in my kitchen Ry?”

“Hey, I thought I was family?” he whined.

“Yes you are” he was fast to reply with “then this is not your kitchen, it’s our kitchen princess.”

I just shake my head at his childish behavior and ask, “Okay. Then what are you doing in our kitchen?”

“Now, that sounds so nice, doesn’t it sis?” said Ry with a smirk.

This i***t.

“Well, I made breakfast for us. Now, go get ready and till then I’ll get the coffee ready” he continued.

I lunged at him, which made him lose his footing; still he balanced us as I showered him with kisses, “Have I told you, how much I love you brother?”

He was smiling at my comment and replied, “Stop buttering my ass and go get ready.”

Releasing my grip on him and moving towards the stairs, pausing and informing, “You’re the best Ry. Love you” ending with a kissing face and running upstairs to get ready for college.

I had totally forgotten that Cal had stayed overnight, until I entered my room and saw him sitting on my bed all ready for college. How you ask? All my friends have some of their clothes in my house, so that if anyone stays over on a weekday, they don’t have to rush to their house for getting themselves ready for college. This has been the same, right from our school days.

On realizing my presence he moved his eyes from the shoelace that he was tying, to my face and smiled. He smiled? I returned his smile with one of my own as he made his way towards me. Pulling me in for a hug, he whispered, “Thanks for being there for me princess. I owe you this one.”

I pulled away a little, holding his face in my arms, I croaked, “Hey, don’t say that. You’ll always be my Chipmunk and I’ll always be your Princess.”

He just nodded, with a small smile lacing at the tip of his mouth and replied with a mocking glare, “Now go get your ass in the shower. And I’m not sorry to say this but you stink.”

“I do not” I replied, acting offended.

“You so do. Go get cleaned up and meet us downstairs” were his last words before he turned and left. He was trying to not show his hurt and I will appreciate it and will reciprocate the same. I will help him see, that something better is coming his way; all he has to do is be a little patient.

For Christ’s sake.

That shower was much needed. It helped me clear my mind of what was left over of that nightmare and look forward to a new day. I just hope, this day turns out much better than yesterday night. By the time, I am downstairs; I see everyone all ready and settled for breakfast at the table.

Yes, everyone; my sisters, my baby brothers’, Ryan and even Caleb, waiting for me to join while they stuffed their faces with pancakes. I couldn’t help but smile. Ryan saw me coming and gave an exasperated sigh before saying, “About time. Now stop with your cat walk and get here. You have to eat quickly or else we’ll be late for class.”

I stuck my tongue at him to which he mumbled something like, “Real mature sis.” As I made my way to my brothers, I saw they were all cleaned and dressed, I couldn’t help asking, “Oh my god, my babies are all spic and span. Did you guys do it by yourself?”

Winston shook his head to say No; Lucas was shaking his head to say something between a yes and a no while Theo spoke, “No mommy, Iris and Mia helped us.”

I turned to them and mouthed a Thank You to which Mia acknowledged it with a nod and Iris replied, “It’s no big deal sis. You do tons of things for us, compared to that; this is nothing and also because they are our brothers’ too. It’s our responsibility to help you sometimes.”

Giving them one last smile, I turned towards my breakfast and started eating. Once the girls left for school, I cleaned the kitchen; well there wasn’t much to clean, since Ryan is a clean cook. With Winston in my arms, Lucas in Caleb’s and Theo in Ry’s, we made our way to the Pack house.

Dropping them off and making my way towards my car, that’s when Caleb said, “Bella, why don’t you ride with us today? I mean, with me and Ryan.”

“Sure” is all I said and sat in the backseat, Caleb in the driver’s seat and Ryan in the passenger one, we made our way to college.

While on the way, my phone dinged. I took it out and saw it was an unknown number. Unlocking it to check the said message, my eyebrows furrowed. It was an odd message,

Unknown Number: Hey baby girl.

Me: Who the hell is this?

Unknown Number: Feisty, huh? I love feisty.

Me: f**k off.

I locked my phone and turned towards the window. It wasn’t long before it dinged again.

Unknown Number: Come on baby girl. Stop being so hard to get.

Whoever this is has no idea, who he is messing with.

Me: Read this carefully f**k face, I want you to go f**k a Cactus and never message me again. If you do, I will hunt you down and chop of your balls, only to feed them to you. GET IT?

I smiled evilly, because no guy is stupid enough would risk his family jewels for a girl; especially when that girl is me. Whoever knows me has a fine idea about how bitchy and torturous I can be; hence would never mess with me after such a threat. My phone dinged again and it proved, this guy doesn’t know me.

He will. SOON.

Unknown Number: All your threat is doing, is turning me on babe.

Gross.

Me: What kind of a perverted person are you and by the way, which part of f**k OFF didn’t you understand?

Unknown Number: Why are you being so mean to me? Is there someone else in your life? Because last time I checked, I heard you were Single.

Me: I was, until yesterday. Now that you know, would to please care to get lost.

Unknown Number: Damn Girl, who is it?

Me: All you need to know is that he is my better half, the one who is supposed to be my forever. Now GET LOST.

Unknown Number: If I may ask, how do you know that love?

Me: Listen ass, I know what I’m talking about. Don’t you dare call me love ever again. I WILL END YOU.

I never realized when we reached college until Ryan said, “Thanks for the ride man. Bella, let’s go.” I took my bag, stuffed my phone in my pocket and made my way to the lockers. Matt and Rose were already standing there. As soon as we reached, Rose was all over me.

“Finally” she shouted.

I looked at her quizzically and replied, “Finally what?”

“Finally, I get to meet your mate, duh” she said as if it wasn’t a big of a deal.

“Whoa. When did I say, you could meet him?” I retorted.

She was frowning like a baby, but I couldn’t give her what she was asking for. Hell, I didn’t know myself, if I could just go and talk to him. What if he doesn’t want me anymore? What if he changed his mind?

There were tons of questions floating in my brain as I looked at Rose; and was about to tell her to suck it up, when two arms wrapped around my waist from behind. I knew before even I could see him, his scent was like soothing aroma oil candles, like the one you light up during romantic s*x.

He tightened his arms and pulled me towards him, his crotch digging into my back. I know what he is doing, he heard my thoughts and now he is making me feel, what my thoughts do to him. I was blushing, really hard. I could feel all my blood rushing to my cheeks and turning them Red.

God. This is embarrassing.

He snickered behind me, moving to bring his mouth near my ear and whispering, “It sure as hell is, love.” Someone cleared their throat, that being my one and only Best Friend Rose. She moved her hand towards Mason, for a formal Handshake and he took it without hesitation. Rose was impressed; I could hear her saying, “Damn girl. You got yourself a gentleman” that’s the exact moment she said; “You must be Mason. Hie I’m Rose, her only best friend.”

Ryan elbowed her and shouted, “LIAR.”

“Shut up you jealous Ass. I’m trying to be civil here” she said while glaring daggers at Ryan.

That’s my best friend people.

Mason was smiling at their banter and replied, “Hie Rose. You must be Matthew’s Mate. Luna of Blue Moon Pack, right?”

She just nodded, to which my mate replied, “It was nice to meet you.”

Matt pulled Rose into his arms and nodded towards Mason saying, “It’s good to meet you too Mason.”

Why the hell is he being a Jealous As?

“Because he loves his mate, love and No one in their right mind, would like their mate to be in a close proximity of another male. Not even me” I heard him say.

“Jeez weirdo. Stop hearing my thoughts” is what I replied with, which he found funny and was laughing slowly, his chest vibrating due to his muffled laughs. Everyone was staring at him as to guess, what he found so funny, only I knew we were having our own personal banter through our minds.

“Great. Now everyone is going to think, that you’re some crazy man” I stated to continue, “Stop laughing. They are all staring at you.”

“No. They are staring at us” he replied.

That’s when I noticed, they really were staring at us.