Chapter 62: Leah's Invitation to a Date with Jake

Leah's POV:

I was literally dead on my feet. Two days ago, I helped Ale and Paul to have their wedding ceremony, and on the same night, I had to cram for my mid-terms for yesterday. I had to go in person to take my exams, but I have to go back to Seattle to pick up my assignments that I have to do during our week fall break. I am so glad that I am having the fall break. I have been going back and forth to Seattle this past week that I am sick of the place.

Seeing how happy Ale and Paul were in their wedding, it stirred something in me that I have forgotten. It wasn't jealously of course.

It was desire.

The desire to get married and to have a wedding. I used to dream a lot with what I was going to wear, what I was going to have in my wedding, and when I want to have the wedding. It was all shattered when Sam left me, but it became non-existent when I became a shape shifter. With my period being halted due to my transformation, I lost all hope to settle down as a normal girl. I grew taller, muscular in size, and my long hair was cut short due to the transformation. I didn't feel like a girl or a female anymore, but it was my fault that I pushed my identity of being a female to my female body. I didn't realize it had to be this way. Hanging with Ale, she showed me that there is more to being a girl than cooking, cleaning, and having babies. You can just be you. She didn't care if she was tomboyish or not "feminine" enough, but she wasn't a toxic feminist either. She was just simply Ale. She just focused on being her authentic self even if she gets insecure and anxious. It makes her human, and I love her for that. Without realizing it, she helped me once again through her wedding. The love and adoration that Paul and Ale had. Now, that is what you call a true mated pair. They weren't even together for long, and you can tell how in tune they are. Seeing them like that, I realized more about myself.

Hanging around her, I became more confident in my new body as she helped me and the tribe. Jacob also been helping me too. I finally asked him how he is able to have his long hair without his wolf's fur being long. He said that once you are united with your wolf spirit and able to differentiate your mind with the wolf spirit, your physical characteristic won't be bleeding into the wolf form anymore. The spirit warrior form would be more from the wolf spirit's form than from the spirit warrior. It is because we aren't at peace with our wolf spirit that it was shown from the spirit warrior's hair length impacting the wolf form. It sort of makes sense, so I am finally going to start going out my hair again. I missed it.

I wanted to take it slow with Jacob because I want to heal before jumping into a relationship, but was it really the reason? It wasn't to be honest. I didn't want things to go south in my relationship with Jacob like it did with Sam.., but what is there to fear?

I am Jacob's mate as he is my mate. We both imprinted to each other, so why keep pulling back the brakes? We are already mated to life, so we have our entire life to get to know each other and to become better people. There wasn't a point with trying to become a better version of me first before getting serious in a relationship. It would be a great advice for normal people, but me and Jake. We aren't normal. We are spirit warriors, so it can't really apply to us. It is only applied to them because they aren't sure how their future is going to be together. As in for us, …the spirits already showed both of us through the vision when we first imprinted each other. We are going to have a great future together, so why stop it from happening?

Embrace it..Just like Dad told me in the spirit world, embrace my new role and life. I understood when he first told me and it helped me accept my Alpha Female role, but now I understood it on a different level. Now I understand it on a personal level with my relationship and future with Jacob. Despite of having this great epiphany, I wasn't sure how to approach Jake. I haven't seen him since the wedding, and I know he is going to get his payback for the little stunt that I did to him. Not going to lie, I am curious what he is going to do.

My train of thought got disrupted when I heard my mom shouting, "Leah, breakfast is ready. You better get here or else, Seth is going to eat your portion."

I shouted, "don't you dare, Seth!"

With my wolf hearing, I heard him shout, "No promises."

I quickly got up to get dressed before heading out to claim my breakfast. As usually, mom made a great feast for us, and I am thankful to hear. No matter how many times she feed us, she always does it with a grateful smile. For some reason, I noticed she was a withdrawn today. I wasn't so sure the reason, but I didn't have the chance to ask her because I had to start heading to Seattle due to the long drive.

I kissed my mom at the cheek goodbye, ruffled Seth's hair before driving off to the freeway. It was before a massive reddish-brown wolf jumped in front of me, causing me to steer the truck off to the side and slamming the breaks. It was Jacob, and he was giving me a wolfy grin as he was wagging his tail in excitement. I stared at the wolf that was before me, and I began to swell in anger.

Mate is here! My wolf spirit exclaimed.

Jacob head motioned to the forest before disappearing into the woods. I jumped out of the truck, slammed the door, and stormed off to the woods.

I shouted, "Are you insane? What if someone saw you?"

I was immediately pinned down by a wolf Jacob, he was growling playfully at me, and he phased back to his human form. Jacob was smiling goofily, showing all of his glorious manhood without any shame, hovering on top of me. He quickly kissed me on the lips, and I stood there with my mouth half-gaping. My wolf spirit was squealing inside my mind while I stood there frozen from the kiss.

He said with a mischievous glint to his silver eyes, "I told you were going to pay back for that kiss few days ago."

He then started flooding kisses down on my neck. I tensed for a moment, and I was reminded myself to stop resisting.

My wolf spirit exclaimed in joy Finally, you are listening to me!

I instinctively tilted my head. He purred in satisfaction. He gave me a kiss on the cheek, and asked, "where are you going?"

I said, "I am going to pick up my assignments during the fall break and pick up my results from my midterms."

He said cheerily, "Oh, good. I want to ask if you ..want to go on a date with me? We can celebrate!"

I frowned, "But, I don't know my midterm results. What if I flunked them all?"

He said optimistically, "then, we are still going to celebrate even if you flunk them all. I doubt you did, but at least you tried."

He is too optimistic that I couldn't help but smiled softly. He was looking at me with pleading eyes, and the rim of his eyes lit up silver, showing that his wolf is curious too. I said rolling my eyes playfully, "oh, alright. We can go on a date. It better be worth it."

He said with a grin, "Oh, definitely! I pick you up once you come back to the reservation. See you soon, mate."

I could feel from the bond that he was definitely excited for tonight, and his joy was too contagious. He gave me a quick kiss on the cheek before phasing back to his wolf form and running off to the deeper part of the woods.

I shook my head, got back on the truck, and drove off to Seattle.

Author's Note:

Yay! We finally gonna see Leah on a date with Jacob and we are going to have a heart-to-heart convo with Jake regarding mating season soon. We'll jump back to Paul and Ale soon. I am not sure if I should make a smutty chapter with Jake and Leah. I am still thinking if I should or not.

I don't know when I am going to update again to be honest. I wasn't expecting to update so soon, so I surprised myself. I might update again on Friday. If not, latest Saturday.

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