The Unwilling Mate

Chapter 6

The next morning I wake up and look through my clothes. I settle on a white crop top with high  waisted jeans and black ankle high boots with a leather jacket.  I head over to my bathroom and apply mascara and red lipstick and add a simple black choker to tie the look together. As I continue to get ready I cannot help but feel in the mood to turn heads at school today. I go through my normal morning routine like normal until Liz calls to let me know that she is outside. As I head out to go to her car I start to feel a little awkward. Ever since the argument over the phone we have not talked mostly because I feel embarrassed about the whole thing. Lately i have been going to school by myself. As I look at Liz I see her beautiful blue eyes shadowed by dark circles.

" Are you okay?" I ask her in concern as we are driving toward school. She looks at me and then pulls the car over.  She turns to look at me and starts searching my eyes as if she is looking for something and then just shakes her head.

" I just do not understand why you have been avoiding me." she says hurt. I end up telling her that I was embarrassed about what happened and I thought they would be mad at me still. As I finish explaining to her I give her a sheepish smile. She rolls her eyes and laughs at my stupidity of an explanation.  Then as we are driving again she keeps looking back at me every so often. When she brings up Henry for no reason. I did not want to tell her that he broke into my house and that he might be a wolf. That would make me sound crazy even for her.

" Were okay I think we will stay friends though." A look of confusion crosses her face. I look at her strangely. " Are you okay? Whats with the look." I asked a little worried by what she would possible say it is not like she really knows Henry anyway. 

"Huh? I am fine I was just under the impression a lot more went on for you to be more than just friends. Especially after your phone call." She says nonchalantly. I groaned as I remember the excitement of it all and I say, " I jut overreacted a little bit but after thinking on it nothing really happened except that I now know he likes another girl." 

After my statement the car goes silent and other than what i said to her the other night and how i acted what would make her think more went on than it did. 

I head into my English class for the day. I was kind of grateful that I did not run into Henry the whole day and was kind of hoping he would not be in the class today. Although at the same time a part of me really wanted to see him and be in his presence. All i  could think about is his crooked smile and his dark forest green eyes. As I go to my seat I try to hold in a moan of pleasure as I recall the look of him. I sit down and sneak a look towards Henry's seat as soon as my eyes land on him I feel butterflies in stomach. I instantly start talking deep breaths to calm myself down.

As the English teacher Mr. Connor walks in I actually hope that we do not have to pair up and we end up working on an essay instead for our SAT. Yea i know i am not conventional. Unfortunately either MR. Connor hates me or the universe does because he informs u to pair up with our project partners. As I grumble under my breathe about how lazy the teacher is about not wanting to teach us anything; I start to take my stuff up when I am surprised to see Henry already dropping his bag by me and sitting in front of me.

" Well would you look at that partners again. Working face to face at that to." He says as he turns around and cracks his handsomely stupid grin at me in humor.

I roll my eyes and ignore his comment or the fact that m heart sped up when he looked at me. We start working on the project. I start to write out the story while he draws the pictures. As I look over to see how far he has come along I am surprised to see how beautifully done the pictures are. I realize that he was not drawing anymore as i looked up I realized he was staring at me. 

" What. Is something wrong?" I say with slight annoyance. As he does not answer and just keeps looking at me I end up saying, " Why don't you take a picture it will last longer?"  He gives a fake laugh " Well are you giving me permission then to keep a photo of you." I start to blush as I start thinking of the implication that he made. 

" Just tell me what you want then?" I say with a growl. He gives a slight chuckle. " Well there is no need to be feisty I just wanted to know if you wanted to go on a date this Saturday?" He asks a little nervously. 

" Yes I would love to." I say without thinking. As soon as the words leave my mouth I starts to get angry with myself. I bet this is funny to him to me making a fool of myself like that. After all I said about not wanting to being around him and I agree to go out with him. I am so disgusted with my lack of control especially since i sounded excited about it too.I feel so stupid now. I look up at the clock to see when class will end. I balled my fist up in frustration as i still had to wait 25 min until class was over. I continue writing the story with rage and disgust going through my body.

As soon as the bell rings I grab my books and shove them in my bag and run to go find Liz. I go to her locker and see her changing books for the next classes. I quickly walk by her and grab her arm and start  dragging her as she tries to close her locker demanding to know what is wrong with me. 

" We have got to talk now." I say as I lead her to the library. As we walk inside we head over to the back of library where no one will see us right away. I tell her everything that happened with Henry and how it all makes me feel. Except I leave out the part of him possibly being a wolf or a wolf talker or whatever. 

Once I finish the story I notice she has a serious look on her face, but she bursts out a forced laugh a second later. " I am confused. He helped you and you still do not want to go out with him. Why not?" She asks curiously. 

I roll my eyes at her. " Hello did you not hear the part about the other girl and how he treated me when he was with her. He obviously likes this other girl." I tell her with sadness in my voice. I notice her roll her eyes as she looks away and gives a small sigh. " Fine if that is true then I will help you get over him. Even though I think he is still fair game since they are not dating right." I give her a deadpanned look. I rub my forehead and say " How about you help me by sleeping over at my house and giving me a girls night." I say a little exasperated. She gives a small smirk as she agrees. 

Later on in the Cafeteria i see Robert and I head over to the table to make up with him and apologize for the way that I reacted to everything. As I go over to sit with him; I notice another boy sitting very close to him and I feel like I would be intruding on their moment but decide it has got be now or never. 

"Rob, may i talk to you please." I say a little anxiously. I see him look up at me and just nod his head toward the doors outside. " What is the matter Addison?" He says indifferently to me. I look down and apologize to him and as soon as I look up. He looks at me with fondness in his eyes. 

" You know that was just a silly argument it was nothing to get stressed about."  He says sweetly as he gives me hug. " Yea I know but I felt like I was very rude to you both. Anyway would you like to join me and Liz for a sleepover at my house?" I ask with excitement and hopefulness. He looks at me with a big smile and regret in his eyes. " Sorry, but I already made plans tonight with Grayson." I look at him with love and understanding." Its no problem maybe another time."

AT the end of the day I get into Liz's car and we head to her house so she could grab some stuff and leave a note for her parents that she will be sleeping over at my house. or whatever reason Liz's parents will not buy a cell phone for themselves so she always has to leave notes or call there job to get in touch with them if they are not there. 

We head to my place after and instantly get changed in something comfortable to get our homework done and out of the way for the rest of the night.

As Liz and I get settled into bed for the night I start to get nervous. All i keep thinking about is seeing the wolf again tonight especially with Liz here. As my nerves finally start to calm down and I begin to doze off I hear a faint howling outside. My eyes shoot open and i bolt up right in bed and look towards Liz to see if she was awake as well. Liz was still fast asleep; I get up and put on my black slip on sneakers and my red chunky sweater. As I head downstairs I could not help compare myself to a horror movie and I how i stupidly follow the sound that will end up killing me. As i leave out the back door and head towards the woods I still could not stop myself from feeling excited and thinking that it was really Henry I was going to see instead of a big ferocious beast as I went into the woods looking for him.