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Chapter 17– Home

"I wish there was something I could do. Maybe we can find him a girlfriend. Oh! And we have to give Harper and Zeek a boost their relationship is crawling along they haven't even kissed yet."

He laughs and I flip over to face him.

"What?"

"Your going to be a handful aren't you?"

I smile

"Yeah… and your stuck with me"

He laughs again and kisses me softly.

"Let's worry about it tomorrow. It's very late. Go to sleep."

"Fine."

I say and snuggle into his chest.

*Jake*

The sun is beating in the window right into my eyes so I roll over to escape the light but bump into something small and soft. I open my eyes and see Alex fast asleep, her hair a tangled mess around her beautiful face. I can't help but smile. Memories of last night flash through my head; she loves me. I can't believe she chose me over Mason. I shouldn't be surprised but I am. She obviously really cared about him before I imprinted on her. In a way I feel a little bad for Mason, I kind of stole his girlfriend; if I hadn't came here to New York and imprinted on Alex then they would be together and happy.

Alex sighs softly in her sleep and a gentle smile spreads on my lips. I brush her hair from her face and place a tender kiss on her soft pink lips. She smiles and peeks her eyes open to look at me.

"Hey."

She says and snuggles in closer to me. I wrap my arms around her, tucking her into my chest. God I love this girl.

"What time is it?"

She asks; her voice muffled by my chest.

"Nine thirty."

I say after looking at the clock on the nightstand. She groans and I laugh.

"Too early."

She complains and buries her face deeper into my chest. I smile and stroke her hair. We lay there silent for a few minutes. The silence between us is so comfortable, not awkward at all. After a few minutes she pulls her face out of my chest and looks up at me with concern glistening in her eyes

"Jake?"

"What's wrong?"

I ask, running my finger from her temple down to her chin.

"Are you staying here in New York… forever?"

I'm stunned into silence. I haven't been thinking about that lately. I know her life is here and mine is in Washington but how am I supposed to ask her to leave everything behind or how am I, supposed to leave everything behind.

"I… I honestly don't know Alex. I can't leave you and I could never ask you to move to Washington and leave your life here behind. It's my fault that this happened, that you're my imprint. I would never ask you to leave… but I also don't really want to leave my family and my life on the reservation either."

She nods and stares at the space on the bed between us. I can tell she's worried about me leaving but really I couldn't physically do it. I would never be able to live my life without her now. So if she wants to stay here I think I will have no choice but to give up my life at home. I will never ask her to move to Washington but if she decides she wants to on her own I would have trouble saying no. I miss my dad, my friends, and my pack. I would honestly love to go home right now; I just can't go without her.

"Don't worry Alex if you want to stay here in New York… I'm going to stay with you. I can't leave you it would be unbearable… for both of us."

"Y-you can visit them all the time if you want. You know that way you wont be giving them up."

I give her a small comforting smile. I can tell she feels horrible about keeping me from my family. I wish she didn't feel so bad, its not her fault, I'm the one that imprinted on her; this whole mess is my fault.

"We could go visit them together. Do you want to come with me? I'd really like it if you could meet my dad and my friends back home. They're really dying to meet the girl that finally took my mind and heart off Be…"

I stopped myself. I hate upsetting Alex by talking about Bella. But Alex just ignores the comment about Bella and looks away from me, nervous.

"Won't they hate me for taking you away from them?"

"No they understand our situation."

She nods but doesn't smile.

"Come on Alex. It'll all be okay. I promise. Will you please come meet my family?"

I ask and give her a sarcastic pouty face, which earns me a cute smile and restrained giggle. I smile.

"Okay."

I smile and kiss her. She laughs and pushes me away.

"Hey but we need to get my parents permission first."

"Easy. They love me."

She laughs again and kisses me. I wrap my arms around her and pull her on top of my chest as we continue our kiss. We pull away and she just looks deep into my eyes with her chocolaty ones as her fingers dance through my hair.

"I love you Alex. So much."

She smiles and gives me a soft, sweet kiss.

"I love you too Jake."

It's my turn to smile.

"I should go. I still have to go back to my hotel, change, shower and get back here in time to work."

She smirks.

"No need. I can do half of that for you and Jake you really should look into an apartment closer to mine, instead of living in a hotel."

I shrug. The hotel is nice because I don't have to clean up after myself. They come and make my bed wash my towels etc. But it would be better if I were closer to Alex.

Alex climbs out of bed, grabbing her wand out of her nightstand and motions for me to stand up. I do and she gives me a cute wink before raising her wand and muttering a spell.

"We don't need a washing machine to get this boy clean, a wave of my wand and he will gleam."

Within seconds I feel shower fresh and I have on clothes I've never seen before; but they're nice.

I don't get how spells work. Like, where did these clothes come from? Did they just vanish from a store? Is that stealing? Or did they just like materialize? I don't get stuff like that. And the way spells are formed is kind of haphazard. Apparently you just need to rhyme the words that suit what you want to happen and it just happens. According to Justin though, Alex tends to not think her spells through enough and weird things happen. It made me nervous but so far nothing odd has happened to me but I always get a little anxious when she performs spells.

Alex performs a similar spell on herself with a few extra words and she's clean, fully dressed and hair styled in soft waves with half of it pulled back in a clip. She looks so beautiful.

"Life is going to suck if I don't win the wizard competition and have to actually get dressed and learn to drive."

She laughs like its no big deal then comes over and kisses me on the cheek.

"I'm going to go downstairs. Wait five or ten minutes then climb down the fire escape and come in the front door. Kay?"

"Aye aye captain."

I say and she sticks her tongue out at me before she leaves. I guess Mason never told Alex's parents about last night or else they would have definitely came to check on Alex when they woke up this morning. Maybe Mason is the worst guy on the planet. If he would just get over Alex maybe I could actually like him.