Chapter 10

"How Are We Going to Play Hide and Seek in My Room?"

I looked over at my clock and it was only 8:30, so I decided to go take an extremely long shower. I let the warm water relax my muscles as I went over how crazy the past week has been. I thought about how when I saw Sam coming towards me that I needed to get over myself and let Jared be mine. I already knew that I was in irrevocably in love with him and he was the same, so the only thing stopping us from moving forward was me. Thankfully I had this epiphany before he found me, and I let him take care of me.

I smiled to myself and got out of the shower. I got ready for bed when my mom yelled for me to come downstairs.

"What's up Mom? I promise I won't sneak out," what I can't promise is that I am not going be sneaking someone in.

"Well that is nice, but I don't think you ever would. First can you either call Riley May or turn your damn phone off. I can't stand Womanizer one more time," she said while grimacing.

I chuckled as I took the phone and text Riley May saying I would talk to her on Monday. I proceeded to turn off my phone and put it back on the coffee table.

"Thank you, now moving on. I have not stopped thinking about Zach. I have no idea how to handle this. I know we should do something, but telling the police won't really help much," she looked at me with concern.

"Just don't worry about it mom. I stopped him before anything too serious happened. But you could tell his parents about the party," I suggested. I really hate talking about this and I wanted to get to my room so I could see Jared.

"I could do that," she looked deep in thought. Before she could start up another conversation, I rushed to tell her goodnight. "Well I have had a long few days, and I should get to bed. Goodnight and I love you." As soon as the words were out of my mouth I sprinted to my room.

"Goodnight, I love you too honey. And we will be talking about Jared tomorrow," she yelled after me.

Great, well at least I had the night to think what I was going to tell her. I looked out my window and saw a black figure walking towards my window. That was perfect timing on my part. He tapped on the window and I opened it.

"I think I went to your mom's room first, there was no one in there so I just wandered around," he gave me a sheepish grin.

"You're a dork, but that's ok, you're my dork," I said while still chuckling.

He pulled me into a hug and I wrapped my hands around his neck, pulling myself closer to him. I buried my face into his bare chest and inhaled his delicious scent. I smiled as I felt his lips on the top of my head. I lifted my head up to look at him, and then I pulled him into my bed. I cuddled as close as possible, not allowing any space between us. He hugged me even closer to him.

"So, now that I believe you, can you tell me all the stuff about being a um…werewolf," I didn't like to admit it but it was hard to say that word out loud. It was like a swear word, you should never say it but you can't help yourself and say it anyways.

I heard him chuckle. "What would you like to know?"

"Everything, and anything," I whispered against his chest. I felt him shudder and then he took a deep breath before launching into everything he could rattle off about being a…werewolf. After about two hours, I was overwhelmed. He looked at me and noticed that I could barely keep my eyes open.

"I'm sorry, you should sleep now. You have had a long day. In case you forgot, you puked quite a bit today," he said with a wide grin.

"No I did not forget. Anyways, goodnight. You better be here when I wake up," I said as I melted in his chocolate eyes.

"I will be here, forever. Goodnight Kim," and he leaned down to kiss my forehead. I smiled and cuddled closer to him while sleep enveloped me.

When I woke up in the morning, I was all but drenched in sweat. My shower last night was pointless. I started to push off Jared. He noticed this and just pulled me closer. This was not helping me cool off. I tried to pull away again, but this time his eyes snapped open and he looked me in the eyes.

"If you don't let me go, I think I might get heat stroke or something," as I said this he yawned and eased his grip. We sat in silence for a few moments, but then it became too much for me.

"I'm bored, let's do something," I suggested.

"What did you have in mind? And frankly I am offended. My presence isn't enough to fulfill you and make you happy?" He grinned at me so I would know he was just teasing me. I played along.

"You are quite boring this morning, so you should come up with a game to play," I said while grinning back at him.

He thought this over for a minute. "If you want a game, then your wish is my command. Let's play hide and seek."

I stared at him for a few minutes. He looked totally serious, which made me nervous. "How are you going to play hide and seek in my room?" I was confused on how this would work.

He rolled his eyes before saying, "Use you imagination, and no complaining. We are playing, so close your eyes and count to 100."

"100? We are playing in a bedroom. Why do you need 100 to hide?"

"Do it." So with that I closed my eyes.

"1, 2 skip a few 99, 100. Ready or not, here I come," I said. Maybe he was right, this would be fun.

I got up and looked under my bed first. I saw nothing so I went into my closet, but once again nothing. Where else he could he hide? I looked behind my computer table. As I was standing up I hit my head very hard and it made my picture of my mom and I off the table. It crashed to the floor.

"Are you ok?" Jared asked helping me up. Where did he come from?

"I'm fine, I just-"I was cut off when I heard footsteps coming upstairs. I looked at Jared and he raced to get under my bed.

My mom came in my room and looked around. Then she saw the picture.

"What happened?" She said as she went to my bathroom to get the dust pan.

"I was picking up a book and it fell off the table."

We didn't say anything as she cleaned up the glass. Without a word she walked out of my room, shutting the door behind her. I looked around and I saw Jared reading one my journals. Crap, I forgot I put those under my bed.

"Jared put those away," I said with anger rising in my voice.

"No, I am enjoying myself," he said as he looked up and showed me which journal he was reading. It was the one from freshman year. It had both of our names with hearts around it.

"You are such a…um a …" then the perfect word came to me. I played close attention when he was telling me werewolf stuff. "Bloodsucker."

The strangest expression came across his face. He growled playfully at me. He dropped my journal on the ground and walked over to me. "What did you call me?" He asked with an evil grin on his face.

"Bloodsucker, or do you prefer leech?" I know now I was just being cruel. I was calling him the most insulting words to him. He didn't seem to mind much. He jumped to other side of me and dropped into a crouch.

"You better not. I will be so-" But before I could finish he jumped at me and we both landed on the bed. We were both trying not to make too much noise, which was hard with how hard we were laughing. I looked up at his face and my heart leaped. I didn't notice how close we were. Then I couldn't help myself and I leaned in and kissed him, and he definitely kissed me back.