The Unwilling Mate

Chapter 4

As I am walking up to my house all i keep thinking about is what happened at the diner. As I go in and sit down with my book-bag in the living-room on the couch. I start on the rest of my homework. After I finish up I look at the time and see that it is now eight o clock. I let out a relieved sigh and go into the kitchen to get myself a glass of ice cold water and decided now i should call Liz and Rob and tell them all about what happened at the diner. I run into the living-room again and pick up my phone and call Liz. The phone rings a few times before she answers. "Hello." she says automatically.

"Hey I have some news. Just give me a minute while I call Rob okay?" I say super fast from excitement . I do not give her time to answer before i start calling Rob.

As I wait for him to pick up I go back in the kitchen. " Hey Addy whats up?" Rob says nonchalantly

"Hey I am good I am gonna put it on a three-way okay?" I say completely breezing through any obstacle to discuss what happened at the diner that has got me all excited which they do not want to hear anymore apparently.

"Sure no problem." Rob mumbles which makes me wonder if maybe I shouldn't but i know he does not like to talk about his problems.

As i added Liz back in i asked them about the rest of their night before i told them about mine since i am a nice friend like that. When Rob said everything was fine and nothing happened tonight I remembered what happened this morning with his situation. "Rob are you sure everything is okay at home what about the incident you told us about?" 

The line goes dead silent for a good while that I actually look at my phone to make sure we are still connected. Then He lets out a puff of air" Honestly nothing happened I got home and my Dad acted like nothing happened I guess I freaked for no reason." HE says this with relief but i feel like he is not telling the whole truth and i try to probe a little further without outright asking.

"That is a little strange?" I say to him a little confused.

" I would not sweat it to much though.." Liz says, " if he wants to talk about it he would." I roll my eyes at her comment because obviously he must have said something, but it is just Rob who does not want to talk about it.

" I guess so ." I say with worried reluctance. I want Rob to tell us what happened so that we can help him and i am afraid that we won't be able to help his situation if left in the dark for so long.

"Anyway how was your date Ad?" Rob says awkwardly trying to ease none existent tension he always feels is there when Liz and I do not agree.

As i became aware that he used the word date i start to go red on my cheeks and realize I am being ridiculous it is not like anything remotely happened like that." It was not a date." I say as my cheeks feel hotter. Then I remembered the beautiful lady at the diner and said a little disheartened " Besides he likes this girl who works at the diner."

"What are you talking about?" Liz says outraged, "He totally likes you otherwise he would not-"

"Yes he would." I cut  her off with a hint of anger in my tone " We have to work on a project together remember. Anyway i do not know why I even like him. I do not even know him. I do not want to tall about this anymore." I say with sadness that i did not feel in the beginning. After I finish my little rant it is just silent on the other end.

" Hello " I say worried that they would hang up and ignore my feelings on the matter.

" Yeah, hey i get your upset so why don't we get off the phone so you can calm down and we will talk more tomorrow." Rob says in a perfectly calm voice.

Feeling slightly guilty for yelling at them when they did no wrong i say in a small voice "Yeah no problem. Bye and sorry about that." Then we all hang up and i bring my knees up to my chest and lay my head down on them and take deep breaths. As I pick up my head I look outside and have a very strong urge to go outside and walk around the forest in my yard.I get up from the couch and grab a very light maroon colored sweater and put my shoes back on before heading to my yard.

As I head out into the woods I start to reply the encounter with Henry over in my head. I realize that I was so stupid for thinking that he liked me he gave no indication that he felt the same as me.As I realize that i am getting a little to far away from my house so late at night I turn around to head home when all of a sudden i hear a snap right behind me. I snap my head back and narrow my eyes to see a big black furred wolf with golden eyes looking back.

I freeze up and my eyes go wide. I let out a deep breathe and he darts his massive head up and narrows his eyes at me. I slowly start to back up as he inches his way closer. I could not believe this was happening I have never seen such a wolf in our yard before and he was beautiful at that. I realized that I had stopped moving and he was now even closer than before afraid that he was going to try and attack me for a meal I dashed away to my house. I soon realized this was a bad idea as I hear a growl and a thundering sound right behind me. I look back to see the black wolf closing in fast. I turn back around to focus all my attention on trying to go faster and head into my house. When I am almost to my house I am knocked to the ground and roll until i stop on my back and start crawling back. I start hyper ventilating and when I try to stop and calm my breath it gets worse until I see black dots cloud my vision I notice the big head of the wolf come close to my face and that is when I pass out.

Wolfs Pov

I growl at her my anger high. I cannot believe she tried running I never thought she was stupid but that moment made me believe otherwise. As she passes out I transform back and pick her up and walk the rest of the way to her house.  I approach the door to her house and notice that none of the lights are on which meant no one was home or they were all asleep.  I try and sneak into her house. As I sneak up the stairs to her room  I start to realize that no else is in the house. I double check by slamming her bedroom door shut. As I put her down in her bed gently I felt concern for her being alone after what just happened. I help her clean her clothes off which makes me look down. I completely forgot to grab clothes before coming here. As i leave to go get myself clothes i decide I will wait for her for when she wakes up.

Addison's Pov

I slowly open my eyes and sit up. I look around my bedroom confused. I thought I was outside in the woods about to be eaten by a wolf. I look at my feet and see no sneakers on. " It must have been a dream that is all."  I say to myself trying to convince myself to believe the lie I just said but was it.

I get up and cautiously walk downstairs. I cannot help feel that everything that happened in the woods was 100% real. As I get to the bottom step I see someone laying down on my couch. I widen my eyes a let out a gasp . I quickly cover my mouth and crouch down and i start to quietly but quickly crawl to my kitchen.

As I enter the kitchen I crawl over to where our knife block set on the counter was located. I quickly get up to grab one of the biggest and sharpest knife. I start to move around to peek behind the wall and prayed that he did not leave the living-room. I looked and saw that he was now sitting on the couch looking around suspiciously like he heard something which should not be possible. 

I decide to move behind the couch to get him. I decide to put the knife between my teeth like a dog with a chew toy so i would not make any noise while i went over. I make it behind the couch and move behind where he is sitting. I plaster my back to the couch and take the knife into my hand.With a deep breath I stand up and wrap my arm around his neck and put my knife near his face as if i will stab him." Who are you?" I whisper deadly quiet.

 As he turns his head as much as he could I saw his face and jumped back and dropped the knife I could not believe my eyes. I start to shake my head as I said with incredulity "Henry?"