Ch 13
When the working day is done, girls just want to have fun- Cyndi Lauper
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"You've seriously never had a girls night?" I ask shocked. "Nope, I've always had to be home with Linah. Diggy gets called in at weird hours, so I had to be home just in case. Now I
know what I missed out on all those years" She said shrugging and smiling. After our talk in the gym a few weeks ago we have become really close. We've painted each other's nails,
put face masks on, and right now we're flipping through magazines. She sighs spinning her heart shaped ring as her eyes gloss over a perfume ad. "Is that from someone special?" I
ask watching the silver dance in the light. She smiles and blushes. "It's from Ignacio, we were secretly seeing each other before everything happened. Diggy would never approve of
me having a boyfriend, let alone one of his friends, and DM brothers. I haven't heard from him in a couple days" She sighs and frowns. "He's probably just busy. Tell me about him. Is
he cute, is he tall? What's he look like? Is he a good kisser?" I smile hounding her for details. She blushes and shows me a picture on her cell phone. He's hot, but not as hot as her
brother. "He's sweet and funny and caring. He's a great listener and was there for me through everything when mama died. And is he a good kisser? Dios Mio, he's perfecto" She
giggles and I laugh along with her. She focuses back on the magazine and I go back to mine staring at it blankly as I let my mind wander.
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I can definitely see Diego being overly protective of Reina when it comes to her having a boyfriend. He's such a good brother. I have to keep reminding myself that I don't actually
even know Diego. I've barley talked to him. I'm going crazy. Why am I so obsessed? It's almost like I'm connected to him. Maybe I am. I mean it could be possible. Did he imprint? Is
that why I had a change of heart? I thought it was because his story was sad and I felt bad, but is it because we're imprinted? Do I have an imprint? If I do, did I just mess it all up by
sleeping with Chris? It's the mistake that keeps on haunting me. If it is an imprint wouldn't I have known right when it happened though? Wouldn't he have known? How can he know
what imprinting feels like if he doesn't even know what it is?
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"Can I bounce an idea off you?" I blurt out. "Ya go for it." Reina says turning a page. "Ok there's this thing the pack does called imprinting, I kind of mentioned it that day behind the
bleachers, but it comes with being a wolf. It's like when they see the girl, or boy, and their eyes connect they get bonded to each other. Like love at first sight, but stronger. Now,
hear me out, but I kind of think that might have happened with me and Diego. I mean no offense, but I wasn't too fond of him up until the night he got shot. I can still hear him
scream in pain from that night, it gives me nightmares. Anyways, I did think he was a thug and a million other bad things, and then when our eyes met I felt bad for thinking all that
stuff. At first I thought I only felt bad because of all the stuff he's been through, like being sympathetic, but now I'm worried about him all the time. Everything I do, I wonder if he
would be mad, or what he would say. I've never even really spoke to him, so it's not like I miss him because we are friends. You said he does the exact same thing. Do you think he
imprinted?" I say all in one breath. "Um I don't know. I don't really know what imprinting is or what it looks like. Do you know anyone that's imprinted? You should ask them." She
says simply. She's right. I am a woman on a mission "Come on follow me."
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"DADDY! Daddy where are you?" I yell walking down the stairs with Reina following. "Kitchen baby girl!" He yells. We both quickly walk towards his voice. "Hi sweetheart, hello Reina."
He says with a smile. "Oh hi Reina honey. I'm so glad you decided to come." My mom says getting things ready for company. The pack and their families are always stopping by, but
my mom loves it. She loves entertaining. She told us that when she and Aunt J were younger and going through bad times that they used to cut out pages from magazines of
decorations and recipes and dream of a time where they could have fancy parties and that kind of stuff. "Daddy I need to ask you about imprinting." I start in quickly. "Um ok baby girl
what do you want to know?" He asks suspiciously. "This is hypothetical of course. Ok so what would happen if a wolf didn't know what imprinting was but he did it? What if the girl
didn't know if she got imprinted on or not because the wolf never told her because he didn't even know what he did? All the other boys knew what they did because they saw what
imprinting was and how it felt from their dads or the council told them. What are the symptoms of imprinting, if you didn't know anything about it? There's no Web MD for this kind of
thing. How would they know?" I say blurting it all out and mom laughs. "Well" Daddy says reaching something off the top shelf for mom. "They both would feel connected to each
other, but they wouldn't know why", he continues. "I know before your daddy told me about imprinting he was all I could think about, still is. We didn't get along in high school and I
felt guilty about all the mean things I said about him, even the mean things I thought and didn't say." My mom says smiling at daddy. "Wolves think about their imprint all the time
baby girl. If he didn't know what an imprint was he would still feel like all the others. He would still want to know everything she's doing all the time. If she's all right, if she's hurt, if
she needs anything. He might be confused why he feels the need to be around her all the time, or if he stays away why he starts to feel like a zombie. If imprints are apart for too
long, the wolf will get irritable and basically become a shell of a man." Daddy says staring at me questioningly. He knows something's going on but can't put his finger on it. "You were
right!" Ray whispers beside me. Did Diego imprint on me? All the signs point to yes, but I'm not going to believe it until I know for sure. "Rowen?" Mom asks looking from me to Reina.
"I think maybe, possibly, it's a long shot, probably not even true, maybe it is, it sounds like it is, no, yes, it explains a lot" I ramble battling with myself. "She thinks Diggy imprinted on
her, and from everything you just said Mr. Call I think so too. Every time he calls he asks how she's doing, or if she's all right, did she seem happy today, that kind of thing. He's angry
all the time and he's miserable back home. I thought it was because he being forced to do jobs he doesn't want to, but now I think it's because he's away from Rowen, probably a mix
of both." Reina says interrupting my ramble. Before mom or daddy can say anything there's a knock on the door.
A/N: Shout out to obsession-iz-a-good-thing for the review and questions. My answer is all in due time and yes we will be hearing about Rowen's performance in future chapters. :) Keep them coming people.