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Chapter 2: What To Do?

Alex's POV

I went up to the food table and grabbed a plate. My mouth watered with the scents of all the different food layed out before me. I reached for the large fork to scoop up some pasta onto my plate but so did somebody else.

I looked up to see who it was and saw that it was Seth. He was staring right back at me and I blushed.

"You go first." he said quietly, nodding to the fork.

"Thanks." I replied, reaching for the fork. He walked past me and I felt a shiver, causing goosebumps to appear all over my arm.

Damnit, keep cool Alex.

I sighed and scooped up a bit of pasta onto my plate. I moved along the table to see what other foods I could find. I saw fried chicken and licked my lips. No words could describe my love for chicken. I took a pice and placed it on my plate. I decided that I had enough on my plate at the moment and would just come back whenever I had finished my plate.

I walked back over to our table and sat down, next to Rachael. I noticed that the table was half empty and looked around. I saw that Paul and Jacob were with the other pack members, standing around talking.

Sam and Emily were talking to Gabriella and Embry and Stevie was up getting food. I mentally laughed to myself because most of the food included meat and she was a vegeterain.

I shrugged and started to eat some of my pasta.

"You ok?" Rachael asked me, looking concerned.

"Yeah I'm fine, why wouldn't I be?" I replied, smiling at her while I cut a bit of chicken.

"Nothing, you've just seemed more quiet and reserved ever since we got here. You're not usually like that back home." she replied.

"What? I'm not being quiet." I denied, eating the piece of chicken.

"How does your murdered chicken taste like?" Stevie said, sitting down on my other side.

"Delicious." I responded, smiling at her.

She gave me a dusgusted face, "I'll never understand how you guys could eat that."

"Because it's delicious." Rachael interrupted.

"It's murdered animal though!" Stevie protested.

"It's delicious and tasty murdered animal." I replied, winking at her.

Stevie made a gagging noise and poked around at the food on her plate.

We made small talk but the majority of the time was filled with silence as we were enjoying our meal. It was finally time for the newly wedded couple to have their first dance. Everybody in the room stood up and formed a small circle around Gabriella and Embry.

They both looked so happy standing in each other's arms just dancing to the slow music that was playing in the background. Embry leaned in and whispered something into Gabriella's ear which made her blush wildly and she hit his arm lightly. He laughed and pulled her closer to him. They looked perfect together; like two pieces of a puzzle perfectly fitted for each other. Well, I guess they were the perfect match; they were imprints after all.

I looked away from the happy couple and caught Seth's eye. He had a small smile playing on his lips and I sort of smiled back. I decided to walk up to him and confront him about what happened between us three years ago. However, that plan was trashed when I saw a girl approach him and flirtatiously grab his arm.

She whispered something in his ear and he smirked and with her am linked with his. They walked out of the hall and I wanted to go after them and rip the girl's hair out but I resisted the urge.

I had nothing to do with Seth anyway, why was I acting this way?

The slow music faded away and was replaced by an upbeat tune which had everone rushing to the dance floor and dancing while Gabriella and Embry tried to run away before they were caught in the crowd.

They walked over to me and Rachael.

"Hey Alex and Raquel." Gabriella greeted, smiling at us.

"Raquel?" Embry asked looking confused. "I thought her name was Rachael?"

"It is, it's just a nickname for her so we don't get the two Rachael's mixed up." Gabriella explained, cuddling into Embry's arm.

"Oh." he replied.

"So why are you guys standing there like losers? Go mingle with people on the dance floor!" Gabriella encouraged.

"I would but Alex here has been looking depressed all day and has barely said a word. Although, she does keep stealing glances at a certain person." Racahel teased, nudging me in the arm.

"Oh really?" Gabriella asked, raising an eyebrow at me.

I blushed. Was it really that noticeable? I thought I was doing a pretty good job at hiding it. Apparently not.

"No I haven't." I muttered lowly, doubting that anybody heard me except from Embry who had super hearing from being a wolf.

I looked up and he just smiled at me.

"Well we better go, we still have some people to go greet. Just go enjoy yourselves." Gabriella said, before she and Embry walked away.

"She's right Alex, let's go have some fun." Rachael said, tugging on my arm.

"You go, I'll follow. I just have to use the bathroom and then I'll come right back." I responded, walking out of the hall and going in search of the bathrooms.

I was walking down a hallway when a door opened and Seth stumbled out with the girl from earlier. He looked up and caught my eye but I quickly looked away. Instead, I looked at the ground. Anywhere but his eyes.

"Do you know where the bathrooms are?" I asked quietly, almost sounding like a whisper.

"Down the hall a bit more further." came his reply.

I muttered a thanks and walked past them. As I was walking away, I could his eyes on me but I just walked on until I found the door with the ladies sign on it.

I walked in and went to the mirror. I looked at myself and sighed; I looked like complete shit. There were huge bags under my eyes that no amount of make-up could get rid of and my eyes looked so sad as I stared at myself.

Gabriella had explained to me ages ago that it was probably because of our imprint bond. We were both fighting against it, well at least I was, and she told me that that would cause some strain in our bodies. I knew whyat she was talking about though. Every single time I spent away from him, I could feel a pull at the top of my spine; like it was dragging me towards something or someone. Of course, I knew who that someone was but I had refused to come back, making all sorts of excuses of why I couldn't come back despite Gabriella's pleas. She did finally get me to come back but that was only because of the wedding.

The door suddenly opened and Gabriella came sauntering in, looking at me.

"Hey." she said, walking up beside me.

"Hey, shouldn't you be out there with your husband?" I teased, smiling at her.

"I have forever to spend with him, don't worry. He won't die if I leave him for a couple of minutes." she said, rolling her eyes but there was still a smile playing on her lips.

"So what's wrong Alex? I've noticed that you've been looking quite down lately aswell." she asked, running my arm comfortingly.

"Nothing, I'm perfectly fine." I responded, trying to put on my best smile.

"Don't lie to me, I've known you for too long to believe it." she said, nudging me. "Have you talked to him yet?"

"Does asking him where the bathroom was count?" I asked.

She laughed, "Really? That's all you guys got? I know you both have a lot more to say than that."

I sighed. My cousin knew me too well for me to even try to hide what I was really feeing. I hopped on top of the counter nea rthe sinks and stared at her while she raised an eyebrow at me expectantly.

"Ok fine, I really want to talk to him about what happened three years ago but I don't have the guts to go up to him and just talk about it. Plus he obviosuly hates me so I don't even know why I should bother. He's moved on from what I can see so there's really no more point anymore." i said, sighing at the end.

She had a smile playing on her lips. "Sounds like you still have feelings for him."

I scoffed at her. "I don't have feelings for him anymore; its just guilt I guess. I feel guilty that I left here three years ago without saying goodbye to him or giving him a chance to explain."

"Okay... Whatever helps you sleep at night. But let me tell you this; the harder you try to fight the imprint, the stronger your bond will get and you'll feel incomplete unless you're with him. Now, with that being said get out of this bathroom and go mingle with people in the hall instead of feeling sorry for yourself." Gabriella instructed, ushering me out the bathroom and practically dragging me back inside the hall.

"Gab, I'm not in the mood to dance tonight." I whined.

"I don't care. You're at my wedding and you don't want to make me unhappy tonight do you?" she replied, pulling puppy dog eyes on me.

"You're not going to make me do anything I don't want to." I responded, glaring at her.

"Oh really? Let's see about that." she said, winking before walking away from me.

I looked at her retreating form in confusion. What was she up to now? I saw her walking up to Emily and gesturing for the mic.

She tapped the microphone gently and that seemed to get everyone's attention. The music faded away slowly and everyone turned to look at her.

"Sorry to interrupt your dancing but could I ask the bridesmaids and their partners to dance together? I think it'll be nice while me and Embry dance together again. Just one dance, then you can all return to your respective couples." she announced.

I caught her eye and I tried to show her that I was mentally strangling her inside my head. She only smirked at me in response and headed over to Embry who was only smirking lightly at me, though he was trying to hide it.

I'm going to kill them, I swear!

I heard someone clearing their throat behind me and I slowly turned around. Sure enough, he was standing there, looking at me expectantly.

"Uh, Gabriella said we had to dance together." Seth said quietly I could barely hear him. He held out his hand to me.

I just gently nodded at him and placed my hand in his. He led me to where the other bridesmaids and their partners were dancing and we got into position.

I felt butterflies in my stomach and my heart was beating furiously against my chest that I thought it was going to jump out of my chest when he put an arm around my waist. I placed my arms around his neck.

Kepp it cool Alex

We avoided each others gaze but I desperately wanted to look into his beautiful brown eyes again. However, I fought against my urge and resorted to looking at anything else but that.

"How you been? Haven't heard from you in a long time." Seth said, breaking my daydream.

I looked at him. "Yeah, I um, went to college to get my degree."

He simply nodded at me. "What job are you thinking of doing?"

"I want to be a kindergarten teacher. I never thought that working with children would sound appealing to me but I guess things change." I replied.

"Yeah, I would know." he said, a hint of bitterness in his voice.

I shifted uncomfortably in his arms and desperately tried to think of something to say to change the subject.

"So what about you? Did you go off to college or anything?" I asked curiously.

"I can't, I'm tied to the pack meaning that I'm stuck here." he responded.

"Oh." was the only response I got out.

It must've been hard. Imagine one day you were thinking of all the things you could do in the future then one day that all gets taken away. You find out you can turn into a werewolf and that you're tied to the reservation forever because you're meant to protect your tribe.

The song finally ended and Seth let go of my waist.

"I'll see you around." he said, before turning away and walking in the oppsotie direction. I noticed that he was walking back to the girl from earlier and I sitffened.

I sighed and shook my head.

Shit, I do still have feelings for him.

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