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Chapter 12

The first thing I became aware of was the shrill ringing of something in the distance. Every few seconds it would drill in my ears, waking me just as I would fall back to sleep during its momentary silences. I swear I could almost feel the sound vibrations it was so loud. As I tried to cling onto the fogginess of sleep I rolled onto my back, hoping the annoying sound would stop.

It didn't.

As deep sleep slowly seeped away from me I registered warmth and a comforting weight on my left side. I turned into it instinctively, noticing a part of it was already wrapped around my waist. No sooner had I settled did the weight around my waist tighten and pull me closer, another part of it nuzzling into the side of my face and neck as it did so. Still too sleepy to put it together I smiled contently. It was short lived however for once again my sleep was interrupted by the shrill ringing, making me frown in annoyance. The ringing was slowly joined however by light thudding, like footsteps, slowly getting louder and closer? that ringing was a phone! it finally clicked just as a door was wretched open and someone rushed into the room. My eyes flew open and suddenly everything came back to me in a split second. Where I was, last night, who I was with…. I froze. Directly in front of me, mere millimetres apart was Seth's sleeping face, nuzzled into me. I struggled to control my breathing as my eyes widened in shock as I peered down at our intertwined bodies, his arms were wrapped around me and our legs tangled.

umm…

"Hello Sue speaking." a women sighed tiredly into what I assumed was the phone, silencing the ringing.

Oh god that must be Seth's mum! I realised in horror. Please don't let her see us, I prayed. From what I could tell she was in the kitchen part of the room which meant luckily for us the couch was hiding us from view. Hopefully she didn't need to come into the living room so I could sneak out of here before anyone noticed and got the wrong idea. What was the time anyway?

"Oh good morning Billy." She replied after a pause.

Oh ow. This didn't sound good.

"Allira's missing?" Sue questioned disbelieving.

Shit.

"I don't think she's here, um, Seth went to bed quite early, although who knows… why is the TV still on down here?"

SHIT. We'd forgotten the TV!

"Sorry, someones left the tv on over night... but yes it would make sense to check here first for her… where is that damn remote?!"

I look around the room wildly trying to figure out a way to make this look not as bad as it did. I try to wriggle out of Seth's comfortabe hold, gentle at first but then full on pushing trying to get him an appropriate distance away, but he's almost holding onto me.

"Seth!" I whisper trying to wake him up as I hear Sue moving around the rooms looking for the remote, still talking on the phone.

"Seeeeeeth!" I whisper again, this time pinching his arm hard.

"OW!" he yelps, pulling his arm away from my waist and finally opening his eyes to look at me accusingly. His glare drops quickly however when he see's how intimate our proximity is, making him turn red.

"What the-" Just at that moment Sue comes around the couch, phone still to her ear, looking at the awkward site in front of her in shock.

Like deers caught in the headlights Seth and I freeze looking up at her. After a pause we look back at each other and in unison shuffle away into sitting positions against the couch. I stare at the floor mortified, my face burning.

"Morning, Mum." Seth said weakly, ruffling his hair.

Sue sighs. "Allira's here Billy." She says before walking away. "Yes, we should have assumed."

I look up with a frown, What? I turn to Seth in question but he stares blankly forward, refusing to make eye contact.

"Yes, oh I will, okay Billy, I'll make sure they're there, okay bye." Sue finally finishes, hanging up the phone with a beep. She walks back around the couch to stand in front of us with crossed arms.

"Well, I guess its great to finally meet you Allira." Sue started gently.

Holy hell can the floor please crack open and swallow me up, this is so embarrassing.

"I'm Seth's Mum as you probably already know, you can call me Sue."

I nod with an awkward smile, not knowing what to do or say.

"Now to the both of you," She looks pointedly at Seth, her tone completely changing. "A few simple house rules in future, number one I would like to know when people are under my roof, whether entering or leaving and I'm sure other households would appreciate the same curtesy." This time she looked pointedly at me.

Urgh theres no shame like being told off by your friends parents shame, especially at this age.

"Number two, I don't know whats going on between you two but you're getting to the age-"

"Oh my god mum stop!" Seth groans covering his face with his hands. I cringe as a fresh wave of heat deepens my already red face.

"I know its embarrassing but-" Sue starts again but is once more interrupted.

"It's not even like that Mum, we were just talking." Seth moaned from behind his hands.

"Well thats not what it looked like and I know she's your-"

"MUM. STOP." Seth glared at his mum, dropping his hands. "Just stop." He once again covered his face.

"Okay but I would just rest a lot easier if we had no sleepovers okay?" Sue finished, looking between the both of us.

"Oh my god you're so embarrassing." Seth whined quietly through his hands, shaking his head.

"Okay well I think thats all then, if we can all just remember those two okay?" Sue finished. Seth nodded from behind his hand. "Okay well lets have some breakfast then shall we." and she walked off into the kitchen.

Seth and I sat frozen and red for a moment, taking the time to come to terms with the extreme embarrassment we had both just endured. As I stared holes into the ground I saw Seth finally drop his hands and turn to me.

"I am so, sorry about that." Seth says apologetically, his face almost pained.

Unable to help it I crack a smile and laugh, quickly covering it with my hand though. This makes him smile. "It's okay. It's pretty funny now." I reply once I get my laughter under control.

"She can be so embarrassing sometimes." Seth says as he rolls his eyes.

"Billy wanted me to remind the two of you that theres a pack meeting at 10, remember at Billy's?" Sue yells from the kitchen startling us both, the smell of bacon and eggs beginning to waft throughout the room.

"Yes Mum." Seth yelled back, rolling his eyes again.

"Allira, I'm sure my daughter Leah has some clothes you could borrow if you'd like to have some girl clothes for a change." Sue added.

"Umm…" I said unsure, I hadn't even met this girl so I don't know how she'd feel about giving some random girl her clothes.

"She's about your size, it'll be no trouble, I'll help you find something after breakfast." Sue seemed to decide.

"Ahh… okay, thank you." I said looking awkwardly at Seth. He just shrugged and turned to watch the tv.

I pretended to watch the tv as well, too many thoughts running through my head for me to actually focus on it. Once I got past the way I woke up this morning Sue had mentioned several things that hadn't made sense just now, like why should they have assumed or guessed that I would be here? and I was Seth's- what? and the word 'imprint' seth had said last night? All of that and my strange feelings towards him, I just knew they all had something to do with each other. Today I was going to find out, I promised myself. No matter who I had to ask I was going to get to the bottom of this weirdness.