Chapter 5 (Trouble's a Brewin')
Before I could chicken out I could hear the faint sound of the doorbell inside the house. Wide eyed I looked at my finger.
"Why did you do that?" I hissed at my finger.
I started running back to my bike in the pouring rain.
"Brady…is that you? Whoa whose' bike?" I heard Amy's soft voice through the sound of the rain hitting my skin and sizzling a bit. As I turned around I spotted the most beautiful girl squinting through the rain, at me.
"Jesus, Brady! Get your ass inside, it's pouring." Amy demanded.
She didn't have to tell me twice. Quickly, I jogged up to the porch, next to her.
"It's my bike." I finally answered her question, feeling like a total dork.
She laughed at me and took my hand pulling me inside. It felt amazing to hold her hand. I didn't want to let go, fearing I'd never get to feel or hands against each other ever again.
"So what brings you to my place at-" she looked at the clock "10 pm on a Friday night?" she raised one of her perfect brows at me.
Shit! Had I really been standing on her porch for 20 minutes? I mentally slapped myself.
"Uhm…do you need something dry to change onto?" she asked when I didn't answer her previous question.
"Yeah, actually that'd be great!" I smiled at her and pulled the shirt that I had borrowed from Jake over my head.
"Uh…where should I hang this?" I tilted my head at her.
"I…uhm-yeah." She held her hand out trying to keep her eyes off my chest, failing miserably.
I handed her my soaking shirt resisting the temptation to flex my muscles. Although I did cross my arms over my chest, causing them to flex a little. Suddenly I heard the sound of someone doing a spit take. Both Amy and I turned to the kitchen door to see Amy's mom standing there, wide eyed with milk dripping down her chin. Her surprised expression shifted to an excited grin.
"Amy, dear. I believe you'll find some of Brady and Collin's clothing in the basket at the bottom of your closet." Amy's mom told Amy without talking her eyes off of me.
Amy ran off upstairs.
"So you phased. I always knew one of you boys would, you've both got strong blood lines…" Amy's mom kept going on but her words were blocked out with my own thoughts.
She knew about the wolves? How come everyone seemed to know about them! Why had I just learnt that the legends were true three weeks ago, when I burst into a giant wolf? I guess I should have listened to my grandparents more…Wait, did Amy's mom know about imprinting? I started to listen to her again.
"-wish you were dating Amelia rather than that little scamp, Collin. I guess-" I cut her off wanting to know how much she knew.
"Do you know about a wolf's true love?" I asked, careful not to disobey any of Sam's orders.
"You mean imprinting? Oh yes! I think it's so romantic how it's…" I ignored her again.
If Amy's mom knew about imprinting and wolves did that mean that Amy knew? No, Amy's mom recognized I was a wolf right away, Amy hadn't. I frowned a little.
"Muuuuuum!" Amy whined from the top of the stairs throwing what looked like a towel and jeans on the couch...no shirt. I smirked a little.
"I'll let you kids be then!" Amy's mom grinned and slowly walked upstairs.
Amy sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Well" she pointed to the jeans and towel on the couch "I'm not sure those are going to fit you any more…" her voice trailed off as her eyes wandered my body again.
"Soo…you wanna go to the park?" I smiled at her sheepishly.
I was going to try and figure out a way to tell her I was a wolf…I just didn't know how yet.
Amy nodded and I watched her pull on her rain jacket and boots. After I was sure she would stay dry and warm I led Amy out the door and down to the side walk where we walked beside each other silently. I had to think of a way to tell her I was a wolf, that she was my soul mate-not Collin's. I growled to myself not noticing that I had. Amy stopped walking and made a curious face at me.
"What?" I stopped and turned to look at her.
"You keep doing that." She tilted her head at me.
"Keep doing what?" I didn't feel like trying to think of a way to explain it so I decided to play coy, hoping she would give up.
Obviously that was the wrong choice because she suddenly punched me in the arm, frustrated. She pulled back, her face twisting into one of pain.
"OWWW FUCK FUCK FUCK!" she screamed in pain as she jumped around, cradling her hand.
"Amy stop doin' that retarded monkey dance and c'mere!" I demanded seriously worried that she hurt herself, badly.
She tried to make an annoyed face at me for calling her a retarded monkey but I could see the faint indent of her dimples showing. I looked over her hand and shrugged.
"You're fine, just don't try that again." I smirked at her.
She glared for a second then placed her hand on my arm, squeezing it a little. I just stood there letting Amy examine my arm, minutes started to pass and I got fidgety so I picked her up on my back and started jogging towards the park. I could hear her soft giggles in my ear making me melt inside. Not wanting to stop I decided to keep jogging around the park so I could keep hearing her soft giggles. After a while she got bored and asked me to put her down. I nodded and set her down on her feet, sitting on one of the swings, swinging lightly. She just kept watching me, I kind of liked her eyes scanning over my body-it made me feel important to capture her attention for so long.
"You're hot." She broke the silence with those two simple words.
"Thanks." I smirked cockily.
"No. I mean you're like really hot to the touch." She raised an eyebrow in though like she was trying to figure something out.
"So. What's your point?" I asked coldly.
"Never mind." Amy shook her head still sounding a bit lost in thought.
Amy stood there watching me closely as I sat in the pouring rain on the swing set. She looked so cute in her pink rain coat and matching rubber boots, with that one strand of hair that was just a little too short to tuck behind her ear now wet and sticking to the side of her face. I stood up and stepped closer to her. Amy looked up at me expecting me to say something. Slowly I raised my hand to her face, trailing my thumb up her cheek bone to her hair. Gently I took the stray strand in my fingers and she automatically raised her hand to try and push it behind her ear, but before she could I grabbed her raised hand with my free one and slowly put it around my neck. Surprisingly she kept her arm draped around my neck and watched my face as I twirled the stray strand of her hair around my finger. This felt right, everything felt right. Slowly I unwrapped her hair from my finger and trailed my thumb over her soft lips in attempt to dry them from the pouring rain. Before I could register what was happening she wrapped her other arm around my neck and stood up on her tippy toes. Suddenly her soft lips were pressed against mine, moving in a rhythm with mine, slowly. I closed my eyes and wrapped my arms around her waist gently as we kissed, I felt my heart leap into my throat and a strange tingling travel down to my manhood.
Amy pulled back slowly and smiled at me, slightly dazed. I grinned at her probably looking like a dork but I didn't care right now. Suddenly Amy's expression became very dark and displeased.
"Did I do something wrong?" I looked at Amy concerned.
Amy put her head in her hands and stood there. I didn't know what to do so I just watched her. All of a sudden Amy looked up at me quickly, wide eyed. Stupidly I just stared back at her. She gently touched her fingers to her lips and continued to stare at me. We stood in the park, staring at each other while getting pelted by rain for what seemed like hours. Finally I grew the courage to make a move. Slowly, I reached my arm out to her and cupped her cheek in my hand. She pulled away viciously and turned on her heel, running back in the direction of her house. I stood there watching her run away, trying to keep my eyes from drifting down to her ass ever two seconds. Without warning a thought hit me like a brick wall, I had rode my new dirt bike to Amy's house…it was still there. Fan-fucking-tastic. I'll just pick it up some other time, it's too awkward to go get it right now. I slowly walked home still dazed from the kiss, never had I ever experienced a kiss like that.