When Lovers Wake
Chapter 1: 1 Day before the Union
I pulled into the Mountian School parking lot in our jeep with Bryn sitting next to me in her babble mode. She was begging me to talk to Logan about her and Ansel being paired up as mates, but this is Logan we're talking about. His decisions can be sort of..unpredictable. I loved Bryn like the sister I never had, but seriously, I don't think Logan will agree to this.
"Come on, Cal. Please!" her eyes were wide and pleading me to ask him. Then she gave me her famous puppy dog face. I hated that face because it was the only thing that could make me do anything for her. It was so irrestiable and adorable, I just couldn't say no.
"Alright. I'll ask him. Just keep you two under the table until I get his answer." I felt bad for her because for one thing: its Logan Bane I have to ask, Efron Bane's only son. His unpredictable son.
When we entered the school, the smell of metallic lockers and cheap perfume filled my senses as we made our way over to the row of senior lockers. Speaking of which, mine was being blocked by none other than the bane alpha himself, Renier Laroche.
He eyed me up and down, probaby admiring how sexy I look in skirts and dresses. I still hate you mother!
He flashed me a 100 watt smile "Hey Lily." I absolutely hate that pet name, but I was stuck with it no matter what I did or said.
I returned a small, sweet smile in responce to his. "Hey Ren. So are we still on for tommrow?" It was a stupid question because tomorrow was the Union and he wouldn't dare miss this night for the world. We planned on going to the Blood Moon Ball, then dinner and finally the Union.
A smile pulled at the corners of his lips "If i didn't know any better, I'd say you we're looking foward to tomorrow, Lily."
I blushed furiously, but he was right. I have been looking foward to thsi for a very long time. I resisted the urge to punch him the the stomach again, but then remembered what happeded the last time i did that. I was not going to have tha seering ache in my hand again.
"To answer your question, we are. I'll come and pick you up around 8 and head to the ball for an hour or so then head to the grove for the Union."
"Sounds good. I'll see you tomorrow." I hadn't noticed it until now, but Bryn had left and gone to class and Ren had gotten closer to me.
He lifted my chin with his finger and brought his lips down to mine for a small kiss that just made me want to melt into him. He pulled away and gently kissed my cheek before heading to class without saying anything else. Tomorrow was the day everything would change. I would be graduating from school and taking the mate that was always destined to be mine. Wow. No pressure or anything.
I switched out my homework for my books for the first 3 periods of the day and headed to class. The day seemed to pass by slowly and finally approached my philosphy class with Ren. I don't know why, but everytime he touched me or kissed me i got so weak kneed. I took my seat next to him as Mr. Selby began todays topic which was infatuation vs. true love. Wow! What a topic to be discussing right now, such irony. With the Union so close, I wanted nothing more than to be with Ren and begin our new life together as the mated alpha pair.
When I got home, the smell of fine wine and aged parchment surrounded me along with the scent of burnt hair. What's Lumine and the wraiths doing here?
I walk upstairs and find that my room has been transformed into a fitting room with 4 large mirrors facing the small pedistool I'd be standing on for the fitting.
"Nice of you to join us, Calla." Lumines voice was laced with sweetness and dripped of honey. So it is about tomorrow. I wanted to roll my eyes at her and tell her to stop pestering me, but i couldn't do that. She is my mistress and her word is law after all.
"Hello Lumine." I glanced around the room, searching for Byrn and finally found her sewing little crystal beads onto the skirt of my dress. The nice thing was that it was a sleek silk dress, not a poofy ball gown like my mother wanted. The design was so beautiful and elegant that it could have been made for someone of high socitey or royality.
"Lumine, Its ready." Bryn stood up and held the dress out letting Lumine assess the work and she seemed quite pleased with it. I was actually pleased with it.
"Beautiful work, Bryn. Would you help Calla into the dress for the final assessment?"
"Of course, Mistress." Bryn grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the room heading for the bathroom.
When I entered the bathroom, I stripped off my shirt, bra, and jeans before she slipped the dress over my head. It fell over my figure and hugged and shimmered in all the right places to make me seem curvier and thinner than I really was.
I stepped out and headed back to the room and got on the pedistool. I gazed into the mirror and found myself staring at a complete stranger. She had my face and hair, but she didn't have my figure. This girl was much sleeker and sexier than myself.
"Lovely. Simply lovely. Nice work, Bryn. I think this dress is ready for tomorrow. Thank you all for your hard work. I do hope that you will be proud to see your work in action tomorrow." And with a smile, she gave a turn and walked out of the room with her skirt swirling around her ankles and her stelletos striking a sharp staccto on the white tile.
I went back to the bathroom with a hanger and stripped off the dress and hung it up. I redressed and gave it back to Bryn for safe keeping. I must have been spacing out again because Bryn was chatting away and i didn't hear anything she was saying.
"Calla? Are you ok?"she had a look of concern spread across her face.
"Yeah, i'm fine. Just a little nervous, I guess."
"Hey. Don't worry. Everythings going to be fine because all of us will keep those Banes in line. So all you have to worry about is keeping your jobs as alphas and your horomones in control." I blushed furiously at the the last thing she said. I wasn't ready to hear things like that.
"Please don't ever say things like that to me. Ever." I tried to calm down the warming in my cheeks.
"Come on, Cal. Besides the joy of hunting together to prove yourselves, the only fun part will be when Ren finally takes you to bed." she gave me this really sexy smile and wiggiled her eyebrows at me. "Plus, I think my present for you will absolutely blow his mind." Damn! My cheeks are getting warm again. Damn you, horomones!
I can't believe how close the Union is. In just a few hours, I will have taken a mate, formed a new pack and created unbreakable bonds. And basically, started a new life as an Alpha. I wonder what it will be like after tomorrow has passed? and now that I think about it, why wasn't the other members of either pack here today? I saw Sabine at the fitting. But there was no sign of Dax, Fey, Cosette, Ansel, Mason, or Neville anywhere. I wonder what their doing right now.
I changed into my pjs and crawled underneath my warm comforter and tried to drift off into unconciousness, but epicly failed...
End of Chapter 1
The next chapter has the Union scene and the sweet, desirable lemon scene everyone craves. Just so you know, this is my first lemon, so no extremely hard critisim please. That will be greatly appreciated. And one more thing, my lemons are sweet and romantic. They don't always go straight to the sex within the first minute of entering the bedroom. So if you don't care for that, i wouldn't finish reading this fanfic. Thank you! :)