I stood outside of Aubrey and Chloe's apartment my hand raised as I tried to find the guts to knock. I really should learn that no matter what I always knock in the end. After a few more minutes I finally knock, and wait. Soon the door opens and Stacie is there greeting me.
"Hey look who is here! Beca!" Stacie grins hugging me. "Come in come in, Aubrey and I are just about to go out."
"We are?"
"Yes, dinner. Remember? I swear you never remember anything Aub." Stacie rolls her eyes, she walks by me grabbing Aubrey's arm and pulling her out the door, leaving a stunned Chloe and myself staring at one another. Finally I laugh, causing Chloe to laugh.
"Did you see Aubrey's face?" I ask and Chloe nods.
"She was so shocked. Oh I knew Stacie would be good for her." Chloe grinned at me. I nod and sit down next to her on the couch.
"So how did you figure it out?" I ask.
"Wow jumping right to it tonight aren't we?" She smiles at me. "I like a brave woman."
"Aw come on now, how?"
"Your eyes, they changed and gave you away."
"Cruse my father." I chuckle. "He never could control his eyes, neither could I." Chloe smiles and ruffles my hair.
"It's cute." I roll my eyes at her but smile at the same time.
"So, do you know about your family?"
"Oh do I know about my own family? Wow Beca," She's at least laughing at me while she's saying it so I know I'm not in trouble. "I know I'm the only one that can actually sort of blend in with the real world."
"So you know about the cruse."
"Beca…" Chloe sighs and looks at me. "I know what the cruse means, and I know what this feeling that pulls me toward you is, and that? Is kind of scary. I was raised my whole life being told that I needed to find another walker that was able to walk into the free world, to release our family of this curse. That was it, that was all I wanted in life. Then I met you and every time you were around I just wanted to be as close as possible to you but I met the wolf in the woods. I got so confused."
"And you found out it was me and you just…" Suddenly Chloe was kissing me, at first I was shocked, I couldn't move. Then I felt my hands moving up her sides, and I was kissing her back. Her lips were soft on mine and my hands slid up her back, I pull back from her, panting.
"Chloe wait." She smiles against my lips. "I think we should talk before we go any further."
"Your father, he was that lion."
"Yes."
"And mother, she would be the tiger I could smell her in the woods earlier that day."
"What about your family?" I ask and she moves us till she's laying her head on my shoulder, my arms around her as we spoon.
"My father was the only one of his generation to be a full dragon. The lines… he was the only out of seventeen dragons born to his generation to be dragon and to make it to adulthood. His brother died a week before his 18th birthday, his lungs burned from the inside out. My father was there, during the class where it happened, and the family rules state you must protect the family not the individual. My brother dragged him from the classroom and into the bathroom, he knew there was nothing he could do."
"Your dad watched his own brother die." I sat there in shock as Chloe nodded.
"It's why when I was born a wolf my father wanted no other children. I watched two of my cousins die the same way."
"Why does it happen?"
"They say it's part of the curse because before the curse no one died from shifting. Yet your family history proves otherwise."
"My family history? No one has died from shifting in hundreds of years, Chloe."
"You need to talk to your grandma."
"You know… I'm getting real tired of people telling me this." I laugh as Chloe rolls over to face me, she kisses the tip of my nose.
"Take me with you."
"Come with me." I smile back at her and she kisses me. I'm already starting to get nervous, first Jesse, now I have to see my grandma who's pack I one day am supposed to take over, who I avoid because the first time I go face to face with her and I am more dominate I have to take her spot and chase her out. Yeah doesn't sound like much fun to me.