5. Another's past and uncertain futures
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“Is everything okay in here?” Of course the moment had to end.. This damn saleswoman had afoul timing.
"Yes, not problem whatsoever." I used my 'happy-voice' which was high pitch and really annoying if I'm being honest. I just wanted her to go away.
"Perfect, just shout if you need anything." she said and we listened to her heels as she walked away and once she was out of earshot we bursted out laughing.
"Oh my God. That was new" El said.
"Really? I thought a vampire of over 500 years would have had s*x in a dressing room before." I teased her.
"Not what I was thinking of." Then what was she thinking about?
"Then what? A woman?" I asked curiosity.
"You think I just figured out how to do that as I went along?" That was true.. There was no way that was her first time.
"Definitely not" I said.
"I was talking about the feeling. The electricity, fireworks, fire, your taste. All of it. I could do that forever." I was melting at her words.
"I know that feeling. The best feeling that you don't think you can live without and want it all the time.." I felt the heat starting again.
"Okay so to make sure we're not stuck in here all day I'm gonna go wait outside." she pulled her clothes back on as she spoke and gave me a sweet lingering kiss before walked out of the small dressing room. I gathered myself up and got dressed, looked at myself in the mirror before walking out of the store to Elizabeth who was talking to someone. A girl, smelled like a vampire, around twenty maybe twenty five, pixie short blonde hair, arms covered in tattoos and dressed in simple blue skinny jeans and a grey top with matching grey sneakers. She was pretty and I couldn't help the possessive wolf in me from being extremely jealous right now. I walked over to them and the girl scanned me a few times over before turning back to El and speaking.
"She's cute. Sure you can handle the wolf in her though? Seems a little possessive." this girl said, clearly a vampire the smell was all over her.
"I can handle anything." El gave the girl a look before talking again. "Sophia this is Faith, my best friend. Faith this is Sophia, my betrothed."
"Hey, it nice to meet the person that melted the ice queen's heart" she laughed as she stretched out her hand to me. "Thanks I guess?" she laughed at my confusion.
"It's a long story. I'll tell it to you one day." Faith said and I wanted to know what ever story she had about my mate.
"No she won't. Sooo how about a coffee?" Whatever it was I wanted to know even more now but let her have her way for now.
"Nice, real smooth you know. I barely noticed." she said with sarcasm dripping from her words. She look at me and mouthed ~I'll tell you later~ to me. I nodded with a smile.
"Coffee sounds good. Hey, mind if I call Cole over? He was gonna be around here somewhere today." I looked at El and she nodded.
"Sure, the more the merrier. I haven't had a real conversation with him for two years I think."
I texted Cole to find us, using his speed he found us by the time we got a table at a small café around the corner from the store. He gave me a hug and said hi to El before going stiff. He didn't move, didn't speak. Nothing.
"Cole, are you okay?" I turned to see what he was looking at only to see it was Faith.
"It's been a hundred years and you have nothing to say?" Faith didn't sound happy.
"What do you want me to say. It's been a hundred years, you said so yourself." Cole said with a cold tone in his voice.
"Well hi is a nice start or maybe sorry?" Faith crossed her arms.
"You still haven't changed one bit have you? Still the same ignorant little girl that you were back then.." wow.. That didn't sound anything like Cole.
"Oh you little s**t. I'm sorry El, Sophia it was nice meeting you. I'll see you later." she said abruptly and walked away and was soon out of our line of sight. Both my and El's eyes landed on Cole who stood and looking over to where she had disappeared to.
"Care to explain?" I asked him and crossed my arms, he wasn't getting out of this one.
"We used to date.." I wasn't happy with the short answer he was giving me and he knew it. "It didn't exactly end well as you can tell.."
"Well you just left Cole, without a so much as a goodbye." Elizabeth added which intrigued me even more.
"You don't know what you're talking about El. I told her I had to leave and she didn't want to understand why I had to leave. It's not like I didn't ask her to come with, she's the one that didn't want to listen." Cole explained and he sounded kind of hurt.
"Then you didn't try hard enough Cole." El pushed his buttons.
"Wait.. When you left to come live on our grounds?" I asked him.
"Yeah, the council voted and my family always had a good relationship with the witches so it was an easy decision that we would move. She just never understood why I had to follow them and I couldn't stay with her because she couldn't adapt. I'm sorry but it's not my fault" Cole wasn't taking the blame even if they were both guilty.
"There is something else. There was this rumor about another girl, a wolf." Elizabeth said, more careful and gentle this time.
"What? Who? What else have you not told me Cole?" I was kind of impressed that he could keep a secret from me.
"Nothing, it's no one. I never dated anyone since I moved" I believed him, but then what was the rumor about?
"Really? Cause Thomas said he had seen you with some brunette and giving her flowers and hugs and that crap." Shit.. That sounds way to familiar.
"Wait, was it white roses?" I asked El and gave Cole a look and I knew he was remembering the same memory.
"Yeah, how did you know? You know who the slut is?" She sounded excited about what I was gonna say next not knowing what I was about to throw at her.
"Well yeah, you're looking at her." the smile fell from her face and I could see flashes of her undead monster inside her eyes.
"Really? You two? I never saw that coming. What did you think you could have us both at your feet or what?" She was disgusted and confused at the same time.
"Excuse me? We're not.. Cole and I are just friends. He was making up for some i***t that stood me up the day before. To afraid of my powers or something like that. Anyway, he showed up with flowers and took me to a movie and ice-cream. We've been best friends ever since." I explained the innocence of it all and hoped she would believe me.
"Oh my god, I'm so sorry Soph. I didn't mean the whole slut thing." her face was red of embarrassment for having called her betrothed, mate a slut.
"It's okay. Plus I can be a little slutty at times if you want me to." I whispered the last part in her ear, not that everyone around that was supernatural couldn't hear what I had said but still. If I just could read her mind right now I believe I would be so turned on and reliving our time in the dressing room.
"Still here guys.. So I'm guessing this date has been going pretty good until I crashed it." his eyes going between the two of us. He couldn't read our minds but I think it was pretty much written on our faces that something had happened.
"I can't complain to much, she's just so cute" she gave me a look and I smiled as she took my hand in hers.
"Oh shut up. It's been wonderful though" I couldn't stop smiling.
"Have you told your mom yet about finding your mate?" and with that simple question everything came crashing down on me. I knew I had to talk to them but I didn't know what to say, how to put it.
"No.. I'm not sure how to start that conversation of. It's not like I've been secretly gay all my life so that my parents always knew on some level. This is just awkward and weird."
"They love you more than anything in this world and they won't care if your mate is a guy or a girl. I think they will take it harder with the vampire part of it all." He really did know how to.. Mess me up even more.
"I don't think you're making things easier for her Cole.".
"Sorry Soph. Everything will be fine. You're parents are amazing and they love you no matter what" That was way better.
"Better." she said giving Cole a quick look before turning her attention back to me.
"It just hit me! Together you represent the magical kingdom. Werewolves, witches and vampires. Sure we have the pixies and all the ugly faces but pixies is related to witches so it sort of counts." I burst out laughing at his sudden outburst of realisation.
"You are truly weird Cole. Thank you, I needed that laugh."
We made a little more small talk and actually got our coffee before walking back to the car. Well me and Elizabeth did, Cole ran home which probably was faster than the car but still. The car ride back was silent, not awkward but comfortable. My mind was all over how I would tell my parents about her that I didn't even notice we were back home. Home.. Yeah, maybe I could see myself living here I thought as I got out of the car. I stopped right before the door and Elizabeth turned and looked at me with concern that something was wrong.
"I'm gonna call my mom, I can't stand the thought of her finding out from someone else." I told her and she walked the few steps it took to get to me.
"The garden to the left is beautiful and secluded, you should check it out" she said with ease and kissed my cheek soft before walking inside the Manor. I pulled out my phone and called my mom on FaceTime, I had no idea why I thought seeing their reactions would make me feel better. Well their faces before I tell them would be calming. My heart skipped a beat when she answered the call and her smiling face appeared on my screen.
"Oh my baby! How are you? Are they treating you alright? Did you meet the count and countess yet? No vampires giving you a hard time I hope?" I smiled at her being so much her and my dad chuckled in the background somewhere.
"Let her breath honey before you bury her in questions." his face was now next to my mom's. "hi princess, are you alright?" he asked.
"I'm fine, no I'm really really good actually. Everyone has been really nice to me and I met the council yesterday and Frederick met us when we got here. It's been good." I was rambling and I knew it.my mom can read me like an open book when I ramble.
"Oh my god! You found your mate! You did didn't you?" like I said, she can read me too well sometimes.
"I have." I said quietly.
"Is he good to you? I don't care how it is as long he's not an ass." Dad had no idea.
"She good to me." I didn't realize that I had said her until it was to late to take it back. My whole body went into panic. I had just blurted it out like it was natural to say 'she' where it had always been 'he' before I came here. At the moment I had said it it felt like I was having an out of body experience. I was floating above my own body and shaking my head at the stupidity that was me. When my dad spoke I was back in my body.
"Then I'm happy if you are princess." it was like he hadn't heard my words but my eyes found mom that sat there quiet, thinking.
"I'm truly happy dad." I smiled, I was extremely happy even if I had just met her last night. The bond makes it feel like years.
"who's the lucky guy? It's not Frederick is it. I'm guessing it's a vampire since they have the majority in that town" I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding. He didn't care that my mate was a vampire. So did I really have to worry about the Elizabeth part? I was happy and that was all that mattered right?
"Mom, dad." They looked like I was gonna tell them something terrible, life changing and partly I was. A lot of things wouldn't turn out the way my mom and I had talked about. The wedding, kids, heir.. I hadn't even thought of that yet. I shock the thought our of my head before gathering my courage to just tell them. "My mate is a vampire, yes. But my mate is also a girl." I looked at them for a response. Screaming, yelling, swearing, tears, nothing. I would have taken the reaction of hanging up on me over this silence. The silence was killing me slowly. It felt like I sat there waiting for almost an hour but I looked at the call time and we had only been talking for a few minutes. It felt like a huge weight I didn't know about lifted from my shoulders but a cloud of worry and shame soared over me as I kept waiting. I felt a tear rolling down my cheek, I didn't even know I was crying until now.
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