True Love~Seth Clearwater Love Story~ Heartfelt Confession (Ch 21)

Aurora Lilac

The confession
The second most awaited chapter is here!

Seth POV
Jake hurried to me and I stood still not knowing what to do.
"Seth, did Stella really see you?" Jake asks, surprised himself.
"Yeah" I answer.
"And she was relaxed not scared at all?"
"Yeah" I reply.
"She even petted you" Jake said.
"Yeah" I say repeating.
"Can you say anything beside 'yeah'?" Jake says angrily.
"Sorry Jake, I'm honestly as confused and surprised as you" I reply.
"Yeah I can see"
"Um I remember her saying there were wolves in Canada, maybe they are friendly and pet them there" I say remembering our conversation after the campfire.
"That is possible..." Jake muses.
"Okay, I'll tell the pack about this later, you can continue with patrol" Jake says.
Don't have to tell me twice!
I quickly resume my patrol.
Wow that was nerve racking, to not think about the signs Stella has shown and focus on Jake's words.
After finishing my patrol I phase back, change into my clothes and go home.
I greet my Mom as she's making food and head to my room.
I lie down in my bed.
Man there's so much to think about...
Is Stella really from the extinct species? What exactly is she? I mean Stella is Stella. But I'm still curious.
I grab my phone to look at my lock screen and background.
A few days ago, when Leah and Stella had their girl day Stella managed to convince Leah to take selfies with her, Leah quickly send them to me.
After cropping Leah out of the picture, I made one of the pictures my screen background and another my lock screen.
Love ya, sis!, I texted Leah after she send them to me.
Yeah, yeah You owe me one. She texted back.
I chuckle at the memory and turn my phone on, to my surprise I see a text from Stella.
Shit, shit! Did she find out I was that wolf?! Damn what do I do?
Well maybe read the text... I think to myself.
I open it and see.

Hey Seth, finished dancing what are you up to?

Oh never mind guess not.
Oh nothing much just lazing around in my house u? I text back.
Working on Chemistry homework
There was Chemistry homework?!
I quickly type my thoughts.
Lol yep there sure is. She says back.
How come I don't remember...?
Oh right I was glaring daggers at Derek's empty seat.
Wanna work on it together? Stella asks me.
Its as she read my mind!
My phone starts ringing and I see its her, I nearly drop my phone from the surprise.
Chill Seth its just a call... from your Imprint.
"Hey" I say hoping to sound cool and not awkward as I feel.
"Hey Seth!" I hear Stella's pretty voice "Thought it would be better to work on the homework by call so we don't get tired from typing"
"Oh yeah great idea!"
"So for page 32 I wrote down..."
And so we worked on homework but there was a lot of chatter and laughter in between as we chatted of various topics.
"Anyway look at us! We got all the way to page 34" Stella says, happily.
"Awesome!" I reply.
"Which is half of our homework" Stella says bringing me back to reality.
"Oh..." I say not as chipper as before.
"Its fine, I'll work on it in the morning" Stella says.
"Or... we could ask Collin for the answers" I say with a grin.
Stella chuckles "Why do I feel this happens often"
"Nah I didn't do this last year" I say.
"Oh really?" Stella says amused.
"Yup mostly 'cuz I was a freshman and Collin was still in middle school"
"I had a feeling it was something like that" Stella replies with a soft chuckle.

"If you really have trouble with school just know I can help you" Stella offered kindly.

"Do you really think we could focus on studying and not chat?" I tell her playfully.

"It has been a challenge but if it will help you then I will focus on teaching you"

God she's the best, so kind-hearted.

"Okay If you teach me then I'm sure I'll learn" I say.
"Okay! Well it's late, I need to shower see you tomorrow, let's have a study day another day" Stella says.
"Okay, see ya tomorrow"
We hang up.
I smile.
Yeah whatever species she is, I still love her no doubt.

Next day
Today's the day! I have already asked Stella if she was free which she said she was.
After a busy day at school, we are walking together, chatting about everything, strangely we never run out of topics to chat about.
We soon reach my house.
After entering, Stella looks around.
"Where's Sue?" she asks.
"She's at work" I answer.
"Oh okay"
We go to my room and she shows me the warrior cats videos she told me.
I found them very interesting, heck I might start reading the series.
Afterwards we played video games.
"What the heck! You're cheating!"
"How can I cheat when it's your video game?" She replies sassily.
"Lets see what you think of this!" I then do my special move, defeating her character.
"Nooooo!" Stella shrieked.
After a few more rounds we saw we were pretty much even.
"Gotta say I'm impressed for a first timer" I tell her with a smile.
"Who said it was my first time?" Stella says with a smirk.
"I knew it! You were too good for a first timer"
We laugh, I then look outside and see the sky darken.
Perfect.
"Hey Stella, would you mind a change of scenery?" I ask her.
"Change of scenery? Uh sure?" She says bemused.
I grin and before I can think twice, I grab her bridal style and jump off the window.
I hear her audibly gasp.
I then begin running to our destination.
"Seth! Did we really need to jump off the window?" Stella asks.
I chuckle "Yeah we did"

I see her roll her eyes but keeps her cute smile.
After I saw we were near enough, I let her down.
"Sorry for carrying you, but it was a lengthy distance so I though it would be faster to carry you"
She fakes an angry voice but still smiles "Are you calling me slow?"
"Nah if anything I'm too fast" I wink and offer my hand out.
I already carried her without permission, might as well offer my hand.
To my happiness she takes my hand.
There's a twinkle in her eyes of amusement, "Okay then lead the way"
I grin "You're going to love it"
And so we walk hand in hand deeper in the forest.

Stella's POV
I am giddy with excitement, I have a good feeling of his 'change of scenery'.
But I try to remain calm in the outside.
And relish the warmth of his hand in mine, the tingles and electricity becoming more familiar from all the times we've held hands.
I also marvel the beauty of the forest.
Seth then comes to a stop.
My breath hitches at the beautiful sight, there was a beautiful river, the moon shining above it, the stars sparking the dark sky.
"Wow it's beautiful!" I exclaim.
"Yeah I like coming here sometimes, it's very peaceful" Seth tells me "Surprisingly no one has found this great spot"
"You've never told anyone about this part?" I ask him.
"Nope I thought I should reserve it for a special girl"

I'm caught in the gentle pull of his gaze and it takes me a moment for me to find my voice as I feel my cheeks warming in the cool air and my heart beat rapidly.
"Seth..." I manage to breathe out.
He then grabs ahold of my hands, looking me straight in the eyes.

"You are the most gorgeous girl I have ever met, you are beautiful in the inside and outside, you are really kind to everyone and unbelievable strong even though you don't see it, and you have made me unbelievably happy by coming into my life"

I felt my breath hitch, my heart pounding loudly in my chest.
"I know it may seem sudden since we just met 6 days ago" His gentle fingers caress my hands.
"But Stella I have completely fallen in love with you" he says, his sincere eyes staring right at me.

I feel my eyes water from his heartfelt confession, so many feelings inside of me, but my loneliness and sadness completely disappearing as he continues.
"So if you could be my girlfriend uh please?" He asks with a genuine smile that has my insides in knots.
I feel an immense amount of happiness and I glomp him, almost making him fall as he didn't expect it, but he still puts his hands on my waist and hugs me back.

"Yes! Definitely!" I exclaim joyfully, still hugging him.

Seth laughs, his laugh full of happiness and relief.

I feel his arms tighten around me, and then, in the space from one moment to the next, he begins to spin me around, all while we both laugh.

Seth stops and pulls back enough to see my face and I smile.
"I have also fallen for you, from your cute smile to your sweet personality" I tell him.
"Hey if anyone is cute and sweet it's you" he tells me with a chuckle.
I giggle still holding on to him.
"Besides no guy wants to be cute and sweet" he says acting offended.
"Well you make it work" I say and ruffle his hair.
"Is that how you want to play? Let's play!" Seth says and gets his hand near my hair.
"Nooo! Not my hair!" I say as I laugh and get far from him.
"Lets be fair, Stella!"
"Ha! No way!"

My pulse flutters as his antics make me smile.

I stared running and he chased after me and after awhile he stopped.
"You sure have a ton of energy, fine you win this time" Seth says with a grin.
I smile and get close to him, when he surprises me by grabbing my wrist and pulling me towards him and squishing my cheeks making me look silly.
I get back at him by grabbing his cheeks as well, I giggle at his silly face and we both laugh in unison.

He then lets me down in the ground gently, we both sit down in the grass and gaze up at the sparkling stars.

I feel like the stars look extra pretty and sparkly.

I don't know if it's because of how beautiful this spot is or because I'm here with Seth.
My boyfriend...
God I can't believe it! I'm so happy!
I feel his hand rest in my shoulder and I tilt my head to his shoulder.
As I look at the sparkling stars I feel a soft smile come to my lips.
Mama, Papa I am together with my Imprint.
I now know the inmense happiness you both experienced when you met.
"Stella, sweetheart please be strong, I know you will one day find your soul mate and understand why I did what I did"
Mama you were right, I now know why you did that.

These feelings are like no other, and I would do whatever is in my power to make Seth happy.
Papa... I hope to one day find you...
Time seem to stand still as we gazed up at the stars until Seth's ringtone sounded, surprising us both.
"It's my Mom she says we should head back, its late" Seth says, telling me the message.

"Did you even tell her we were going out?" I ask.

"Nope!" he replies with smile.

"Did she not find it weird you weren't in your room?" I ask, bemused.

"I usually tell her when I'm leaving, so yeah probably gonna get a scolding later on"

"But I don't care, you're my girlfriend and nothing can ruin my day" Seth grins.
He gets up and offers his hand to me which I happily take.
After getting up, he still doesn't let my hand go.
I cheekily grin, finally holding hands like a couple we head back to his house, hand in hand.
Once arriving, Sue is placing food in the table.
"Glad you kids got back, I'm surprised you were able to survive without food, Seth" Sue says playfully.
"Heh my head was filled with something other than food" he says and looks dreamily at me, a look in which I return.
His Mom then stares at us more closely and notices our linked hands.
Her eyes widen, a happy smile in her face.
"Are you two dating?!"
"Yeah Mom we are" Seth says and I nod.
Sue comes and hugs me as hard as the first time we met.
"Welcome to the family, dear!"

I feel elated from Sue's blessing and the idea of having a second family.

"I've been wanting to tell you that since I met you, but Seth kept insisting it was too soon" Sue said while shaking her head at Seth.

I giggle as I look at a flustered Seth.
"What's all this racket about?" I hear a familiar grumpy voice and see Leah coming down the stairs.
Seth smiles, "It's good news, Leah"
She raises her brow, "You finally learned to take a shower?"
"No!" Seth yells and turns back to me "I know how to take a shower, don't believe Leah"
I giggle "Seth and I are a couple" I say the news.
Leah widens her eyes, "Well good job, Seth" she smiles to Seth and then turns to me "Well you could have done better, Stella"
"Hey! I'm your brot-" Seth was saying but Sue called him over.
When he left, Leah whispered to me with a gentle smile,"Take good care of him, Stella"
Happiness surged though my heart as I received her approval as well.
"Of course!"

We all ate together, happier than ever, even Seth enjoying himself as much as Sue and Leah embarrassed him.

"Stella do you want to see baby pictures of Seth?" Sue asks me taking out an album.

"Absolutely!" I eagerly answer.

"Mom!" Seth quickly intervenes, with a flushed face.

Yup the confession is the second most awaited chapter, the first being the revelation of being shifters.