CHAPTER 8

Winston's POV

Kate and her boyfriend… i mean friend humphrey came through the door a few minutes later. She looked worried sick.

"What do you mean she's ran off?" she spoke trying not to tear up.

I looked at eve. She just tapped her foot waiting for me to continue. She was really starting to get on my nerves the way she was treating the two of them lately… especially poor humphrey. "We think she's only ran around the block, she might just be a few houses down but we're not sure.

Kate walked around us in a panic mumbling to herself with her paws on her head about where she might be. Humphrey sighed rolling his eyes slightly. He walked over to her shaking his head a little, but there was also a look of sympathy on his snout slowly spreading across his mouth.

He put his paws around her waist.

"We're going to find ebony, kate. Besides, she knows me as well." he smiled at her and she smiled back thankfully. That was what i liked about him, he always knew how to calm her down, and was always there for her. Eve growled lowly to herself and walked up. "Let's get this over with." she said a little coldly as she put her paws between them and spread them apart. She put a little force on humphrey, so he yelped and fell over.

"But-" she stuttered as they went out the door. She had grabbed her coat as eve tugged her out the door, and humphrey sighed a little.

"Sorry about that." i sighed helping him up. He smiled.

"I think we both know i wanna earn points with your daughter, so lets find the old girl." he chuckled. I laughed and patted him on the shoulder as we walked out. The girls were already gone, so we had time to talk.

"Soo… humphrey. A few questions i'd like to ask you." i saw my own air through the breeze as i gulped and nodded.

"How much do you really like kate?" was what i asked first. He nodded and talked a bit about how he loved her actually and would do anything for her.

"Okay… and who is fitz?" he laughed a bit.

"He's my brother, and he's dating your other daughter." he added with a chuckle. I nodded with a chuckle.

"And finally, what do you want most?"

"To meet robert downey junior." he smiled with a nervous chuckle.

I raised an eyebrow. "Tell me the truth boy. I was young once too."

He rolled his eyes sighing. "Fine…"

"...a...a life with your daughter." he sighed blushing as he put his paws in his pockets. "Who, lily?" i joked with a tired chuckle.

"Ha ha. I think we both know who. It's kinda obvious." he chuckled blushing a little as he looked forward with a smile. I nodded with a small grin. Now that i knew they both liked each other, maybe this… could work.

I patted him on the back as we kept walking. He led me to a spot where a picnic bench was. Ebony was lying down in a heated spot sleeping. "Thought so."he chuckled. He walked over and scooped her up. "Hey, ebs!" he giggled. She purred and nuzzled in to him. "Wait. this has happened before?"

"Yeah, she likes this spot." he chuckled walking past me. We walked back to the house and put her on the cat bed beside the couch. He pointed at the bed.

"Stay." he chuckled rubbing her head. She fell asleep a few minutes later. I sat on the couch grabbing us a couple cokes as we waited for the girls to get back.

He turned on minecraft and we both looked at each other as he hovered over a world.

"Dream date?" he read it out. He loaded into the world and a smile grew across his face as he looked at all of her creations. He pulled out his phone and started typing down notes.

"What are you planning?"

"If i do start dating her, her first date is going to be what she dreamed… literally."

I nodded and handed him a few bills.

"What's this for?" he asked eyeing the three twenties.

"For when you do take her. I want her to have the best experience," he nodded and put the few bills in his wallet. We heard footsteps outside and he quickly turned it off. Eve came through pouting… without kate. "Wheres kate?" i asked with a little worry in my voice. "I don't know, she stormed off in the driveway after i said something." she rolled her eyes with a shrug. Humphrey growled lowly and grabbed his coat.

"Where are you going?!" she barked at him a little.

He glared at her. "To find the daughter that you can't raise properly." he snapped as he walked out the door. She looked at me with an annoyed expression. I took a sip and looked at the screen.

"Don't look at me, that's your problem."

Humphrey's POV

God i hate her mom. Eve is such a bitch towards me and now even kate.

I was starting to get a little bit worried. The sun was setting and it was getting dark. Hank was back at her house asleep on the couch so that was one thing not to worry about, but what was really scaring me was that she was out alone, and news lately is a few teens have been running around so drunk a wolf was sent away in an ambulance.

"Sniff."

Whatever that was made me turn towards a bench. A wolf was wearing a black jacket and looking at the ground. Than i saw the ears. It was kate. I gently walked over.

"Kate?"

She looked up at me with tears. She looked kind of cute with her hood over her head like that. "Hey." i said softly as i sat next to her. She lost it as tears suddenly poured down her face. She buried her snout into my chest. "I… i hate my mom." she sobbed between tears. I wrapped my arm around her neck and pulled her in, gently rubbing my paw against her back to soothe her. "Yeah? Why's that?" i asked trying to sound calm. Her mom was pissing me off since she was using kate as a tool to use her anger on instead of me. She looked up at me as her snout twitched.

"Can i tell you later?" she coughed it out. I saddened a bit and nodded. She started to get up when i noticed something. Across the field in front of us were the teens from the news. They saw kate and a few of them howled as they started to walk over. I side glanced at her. "We need to leave. Now." i started to panic a bit when she turned around.

"Oh s-shit." she stuttered seeing them start to walk faster. I grabbed her arm and we started running. They saw this and panicked. They tried to keep up but we ditched them. I pulled her behind a bush before we hopped over a fence. We closed our eyes and held tight to each other as they came drunk around the corner. I almost coughed when one of them pulled out a joint and smoked it like there was no tomorrow.

One of them walked up to the fence and took out their phone.

"Greg, look at your porn later!" one of them joked laughing. The others laughed almost sounding like they were way out of it.

"Please don't let them take me." kate whispered to me with a tear.

"I would never do that." i whispered back a little hurt. The one with his phone heard us slightly and as he turned on his phone's flashlight he was stopped by a resident with a pistol. "HEY! OUT OF HERE!" she screamed at them. "SHIT!" a couple yelled as they took off. Kate slowly peeked over the fence as we heard the lady call the police. As she sat back down i hugged her immediately. "I thought he was going to knock me out and take you." i let a tear drop onto her neck. She giggled nervously with a tear and hugged me back. When the lady went inside we climbed over the fence and walked home. We looked back to see the teens just in the distance running away from a few more wolves. We looked at each other smiling and laughed. We walked back up and noticed the car was ready to go. We entered the house to see eve scrolling the feed and winston getting up to ask us what happened. "We got jumped almost by the local teens." kate sighed with a giggle nudging me. "And i'm sure he has something to do with this." eve growled looking at me. "Yeah, if he wasn't there they would have nabbed me so your right, he does have something to do with this." she snapped back.

"Don't take that tone with me young lady."

"Young?! I'm almost sixteen! Not like you can go back to that or anything." kate rolled her eyes as me and her dad held a chuckle in.

"How DARE you talk to me that way!" eve put a paw to her chest.

"While were all hear can i ask why you hate me so much?" i blurted out. I slapped my paw against my face as kate and winston shot me a worried glance. Eve pouted.

"Why?" WHY? My daughter is falling for a weak omega and not some macho alpha!" she growled. Kate and her dads jaws dropped at her remark. That hurt… a lot.

"I feel like that's racist." i uttered. "I think it's time to go." her dad shot a small glare at eve. Kate held onto my arm after hearing her mom. I began to wrap my arm around her as eve barked and stormed up, knocking my arm aside.

"Touch her again and i swear to god i will hurt everyone you love."

What i said next came out so fast i thought it would all be over, but what i didn't know… was that this meant huge.

"See… that's the thing. I love kate, so that means… what? You'd attack your own daughter?" i chuckled shrugging even though she was just totally racist towards me.

Kates mouth dropped and winston smiled. Eve was so mad she yelled looking up and stormed out, her fat mouth heard all the way to the car.

"We're heading back up now, we just came back to confirm a few things with fitz and lily." her dad chuckled rolling his eyes.

"Oh, and kate? Go easy on him." he chuckled with a wink as he walked out the door. My arms were grabbed suddenly and as i was being turned around i was expecting to see an angry kate, but what i saw melted me a bit. She was biting her lip with a hidden grin under her snout. "Did you really mean that?" she asked softly tilting her head.

I rubbed my paw against the back of my neck with a wince in my chuckle.

"Uh… i was going to make it a bigger surprise." i chuckled with a wince looking at the ground then back up to her. "But did you?" she was starting to sadden.

"Yeah...i mmMPH!" i muffled as she slammed her lips against mine. My eyes bulged as hers closed. She had wrapped my arms around me already. I smiled and did the same as her, eyes and all. I frowned a bit when she pulled back. That was my first kiss, and like lily said, hopefully my last… if you get her drift.