Yay! Now that lacrosse season in OVER, I have much more time to write! I really liked writing this chapter, and I hope you guys like it, or I might cry :(... so please read and review! Shanks ya! -Molly Rose
For the rest of the party, I hung out with all of my family and friends, trying to ignore Ace as best as I could. Overall, it was really fun, and it set the Galient off on a good foot. I had met up with Emily and Damien and told them all about the little 'speech' Ace gave me. We all left around eleven thirty, and I was finally in bed by midnight. Once I hit my pillow, I was fast asleep.
I was having a nice dream, with me, Emily, my brother and Sean when we were all little, having fun and playing, when my alarm blasted off.
"Throw it away!
Forget yesterday!
We'll make the great escape!"
"What the hell?" I muttered, as I leaned over and pressed the snooze alarm. It said four thirty a.m. Okay, I don't know about you, but I'm not the type of person to be waking up at four freaking thirty in the morning, especially during the summer. I started to turn off my alarm completely, thinking it made a mistake, when my door opened.
"Up and at 'um, kiddo," Ace said in a cheery voice. I put my pillow over my face and moaned into it. "Come on," he said, pulling off my covers, "Time to get up!"
"Why was my alarm set at four thirty? And why am I getting up?" I said, shivering from the cold morning air.
"You have patrol this morning," he said in a 'duh' type of voice.
Patrol is what we werewolves do, guarding the forest and making sure no vampires are near. I hadn't been a werewolf long enough to have actually seen one until the Galient, and even when there's a rouge vamp near, the guys always get to it first. We always take shifts doing guard, and there is always eight wolves on duty, two in the north side, two in the south side, two on the east side, and two on the west side.
"I do not have patrol!" I said angrily. "I checked with Daniel last night!"
"Well, we have changed it. The vampires are going to pair up with you to see how it works and to help." And that, my folks, immediately perked me up.
"I'm going to have a vampire paired up with me?" I asked. Please, please, please be who I want it to be.
"Yes, now get up and get dressed, I don't have all day," He said, and walked out of the room.
I quickly got up and put on a sports bra, t-shirt and sweat pants then ran to the bathroom to put my hair in a pony tail, wash my face and brush my teeth.
"Okay," I said, hopping down the stairs into the kitchen. I grabbed a big mug and filled it with coffee to wake me up, then grabbed two pieces of bread and popped them in the toaster. "I'm almost ready. Who's my partner?"
"You're with," Oh please, oh please be him, I thought, "…Justin." Damn, who is Justin? "And you're on the north side today. Take your cell phone with you so people can contact you. Now, go."
"Yeah, yeah," I said, finishing my coffee and toast. I walked out of the door, forgetting my cell, and changed into my wolf form then started sprinting for the woods.
Of course he would make sure I wasn't with Brysdon. How could I have even expected it after our little talk last night? He probably convinced Daniel to never put us on patrol together.
I got to the little spot in the woods, about three miles north of Daniel's house, where I always went first when I had north side patrol. I would usually stay in one spot for ten minutes, listening and smelling and usually just being bored or talking to my partner. Where is this Justin guy, I thought to myself.
About five minutes later, I heard someone running from a mile away. I knew they were in human form from the sound of it, so it must be Justin. I sat down and leaned back against a tree, then took a stick off the ground and started carving it with Frank's Swiss army knife that I kept under a rock there. My partner was getting closer and closer, until I could see a figure running towards me. However, I didn't see some random vamp running towards me, I saw Brysdon.
He kept running and then slowed down when he was a couple yards away from me.
"Hi," I said standing up, surprised he was there.
"Hello," he answered back, "I hope you don't mind me being your partner this morning. Justin had to hunt, so I volunteered to take his place."
"Oh, I don't mind at all," I said, sitting back down against the tree. "You really don't have to be here if you don't want to be though. It's not as if there is going to be much to do on Patrol right now. You can go back, if you want." I didn't want him to feel as if he had to stay, or have to come because this Justin guy couldn't.
"I don't mind," he said, sitting against a tree next to mine, "This gives me a chance to rest. And for us to talk some more."
I couldn't read the emotions on his face, but he seemed sincere when he said he wanted to talk to me. He leaned his head back against the tree, and I looked at him for the first time that morning. He was wearing a white beater and gray sweat pants, like mine, with no shoes on.
"You were really good, you know," he said, catching me off guard.
"I'm sorry?" I asked, not quite sure what he was talking about.
"Last night, at the party. You're a very talented singer."
"Thank you," I said, liking the feeling of him giving me a compliment.
"Do you sing all the time?"
"I have a piano at home, that use to be my mom's, and when I have free time I try to sing and write music, but that's pretty much it," I said, embarrassed that I had admitted that. I would only play when no one else was around to hear me.
"Your mother use to sing?" He asked, opening his eyes and looking at me.
"From what I remember, yes," I said, "But what about your parents?" He had mentioned them the night before, about how he had lost his mother, but nothing else. Plus, I didn't want to talk about my mother, I was missing her a lot lately.
"Like I said before, my mother was killed when I was younger, and my father is still in our coven. He is second in command, next to the King."
"Is that why you and Greg are such good friends?" I asked him.
"Yes, and the fact that we always got along when we were little. He was there for me when my mother died." His voice lowered as he said it, but I couldn't stop the questions from coming out.
"How did your mother die?" I asked him. He took a deep breath before answering carefully.
"She was killed by a pack of werewolves," he said, "I don't know which ones, I don't think anyone does." He leaned his head against the tree again. "It was hard to convince my father to come here for the Galient; he has the biggest grudge against werewolves. You're lucky Ace doesn't hold it against all vampires for killing your parents, it's not a pretty site to see someone you love hate something with such a passion," he said carefully, "Especially when you…don't. Feel that way, I mean." He looked at me again, and we just stared at each other for a little before I looked away first.
"Do you know how to play the game Favorites?" I blurted out suddenly, still looking at the ground.
"What's that?" he asked.
"It's when I list something, and then you have to tell me your favorite type of that certain thing, then I tell you my favorite." Emily and I always played it when we were bored; just to make sure there were no gaps in our relationship.
"Okay," he said, turning towards me and sitting cross legged, "Let's play." So we started listing our favorite animals, books, music, and so on, and it turned out we either liked the same thing, or polar opposites which made it very interesting. At one point, we started talking about languages.
"My favorite is Italian," I said, "It's so beautiful."
"Giusto come voi," he said, in a very sexy accent.
"What was that?"
"Italian." He answered.
"You can speak it? Oh, I wish I could. Say my name in Italian, please?" I begged.
"Non dovete elemosinare, Rosa," he said. I loved the way he said Rosa.
"What does that mean?"
"What's your favorite sport?" He asked, changing the subject.
"Fine," I said in a huff, "I'll just find out later." He laughed at my whining and asked his question again.
"I like to play soccer, a lot. If I weren't…you know, a werewolf, I would try out for my high school team. What about you?"
"I never went to school; our coven found there was no need to put us in a human environment. We always had tutors, but we only learned the basics, so I was never really exposed to sports. Soccer seems fun though." He seemed a little put down when he talked about school, and I didn't understand why.
"You only learned the basics?" I asked him.
"Yes, my father found it more important for me to learn…other types of knowledge. Like how to use my senses to the extreme, things like that. I have always wanted to go to school though, to learn." That was the first time I had heard someone say that they had always wanted to go to school, but I understood why. I always took school for granted; I hadn't realized how lucky I was in that way I guess.
"We should probably change our position now. There's a spot I always move to for the second half of my shift, it's about two miles from here. You ready?" I asked him, standing up and taking my wolf form.
He nodded and waited for me to lead the way, and I started to jog through the forest. I stayed at a steady pace at first making sure I wasn't going to fast, but the whole time he stayed right beside me. I started to speed up a little, and I guess he noticed because he looked down at me and smiled. Before long, we were sprinting through the forest, dodging trees and jumping over logs. When I could see the water from about a hundred yards away, I started to slow down my pace. We both slowed down to about a jog and then I walked through the last line of trees and into the clearing.
I had found this place last year when I was playing tag with the other guys, and I was trying to hide. It was a small clearing in the middle of the woods, and it had a large, clear pond in the center, with a huge waterfall coming off of the cliff face. Being early in the morning, the sun was about to rise which made the place have a wonderful glow. It was gorgeous, and I would often come here to think or swim when I had north side shift. Yea, I know, I'm a total slacker.
"Wow," Brysdon said from beside me, his lower arm was touching the fur on my shoulder, "This place is beautiful. Do you come here often?"
I nodded my head because I still hadn't changed from my wolf form back to my human form. I walked over to the water and took a few sips from the pond, then sat down on the bank. Brysdon came and sat down beside me. He lifted his hand up over my head, then looked at my face, asking for permission. I nodded again, telling him it was okay, and he started to stroke my back. I purred in pleasure and closed my eyes.
He laughed and said, "Feels good?" I nodded my head in response. "Your fur is so soft, and the color is beautiful, too."
We sat in companionable silence for a couple minutes, me purring while he stroked my back. I couldn't help but feel comfortable around him, which was an unusual thing considering I was a werewolf and he was a vampire. He was so nice, and easy to talk to, and…oh gosh, I'm starting to fall for him. I could feel it. This is bad, bad, bad, bad.
I stood up and stretched, and finally took my human shape. "Wanna go swimming?" I asked, already starting to head for the cliff. I didn't wait for his response, and started climbing the cliff side until I got to the top. I started to take off my t-shirt and sweats, so I was just in my sports bra and underwear.
"Impressive," I told him, noticing he climbed the cliff face in half the time it took me to.
"One of the few perks to being a vampire," he said, as he took off his shirt. I laughed while he took off his sweats, and I took the opportunity to scan over his body. His chest and stomach areas were big and muscular, while his broad shoulders were connected to long, toned biceps. He was a little paler than when I saw him in the woods yesterday, probably because he hadn't hunted since then.
"You ready?" I asked him, once he was in his boxers. Without warning me, he grabbed my hand and jumped off the waterfall, into the water below.
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