"Ok, so you are chasing the thing that is after Emily, and then you become it when you go to change into your wolf form?" Spencer asks, trying to get the right parts down.
"Yes. And I'm so afraid when I wake up, that it takes me a few minutes to let her near me." Paige said. The two girls met and agreed to go to the coffee shop for some breakfast. It wasn't really crowded, a few people besides the girls.
"Is it a were that is chasing after her?" Spencer asks, Paige nodding. "I don't know. I feel that if something was wrong with your relationship, or if this was a sign of how it would end, this would have started when you first saw her. I had a dream once that Toby attacked me, turns out he was having a dream that I attacked him. It was just a reflection of a fight we would eventually have two weeks later. After the fight happened and was resolved, neither of us had that dream."
"Maybe that's all this means." Paige said.
"Maybe, but don't you have to go meet her now?" Spencer said, standing up. "I will text you later for dinner plans."
Paige made her way to the school, parking her car in the lot. She was a few minutes late and didn't see Emily outside standing. Paige got out of the car and made her way into the pool house, smelling chlorine made Paige miss the pool. She heard a voice rising, it was Emily's yelling at someone. Paige made a mad dash for the locker room, pulling the door open. She ran around the side she knew was where Emily's locker was.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." Aria said, holding her hands up in defence. Paige couldn't stop herself fast enough and was in front of Emily growling at the girl before she saw it was just Aria. Her eyes were mid-shift. This made the girl before her gasp, Paige bounding behind a locker to control herself.
"What the hell?" Aria whispered out.
"I can explain." Emily said, looking for Paige to appear from behind the row of lockers.
"What just happened to her? Her eyes were yellow, like a dog's." This caused Paige to whimper from her spot, not liking it when someone called her a dog. "And did she just growl at me?"
Emily went on to explain what had happened over the past few weeks between her and Paige. The imprinting and Paige's gift. Emily had to eventually drag Paige out from behind the locker she was hiding behind, really embarrassed at her outburst.
"Wow. Ok, so that explains why you have been with her almost every time I texted you to hang out." Aria said, still not taking her eyes off Paige.
"I'm sorry I snapped at you. I'm still getting used to these changes myself, and I heard Emily's voice raise and her tone made it sound like she was scared, which made me scared." Emily stopped Paige's rambling by placing a firm kiss on the girls mouth.
"Hun, I think an I'm sorry would be just fine." Emily said, grinning up at Paige.
"It is really ok Paige." Aria said, smiling at the girl.
"So, did you need something? We were going to go get our schedules." Emily asked as she stepped into a stall to change.
"Was going to see if you wanted to do lunch." Aria asked.
"How about dinner? My treat for scaring you?" Paige suggested.
"That would be fine with me." Aria agreed.
"Ok, so like 5 at The Brew? We should introduce you to Spencer and the gang." Emily said coming out of the stall.
"Text me if that changes, if not I will see you at 5!" Aria said, leaving the two girls alone in the locker room.
"What the hell Paige?" Emily said as soon as the door closed.
"I'm sorry, instinct took over." Paige said, leaning against the locker, watching Emily closely, looking for any sign that the girl was mad.
"Of all the times for you to let your instincts take over, now would be that time?" Emily turned to Paige, arms crossed over her chest, pointedly looking at the girl.
"I can't control my instinct to protect you, Emily, you know that. It is completely different than when were having sex. I don't want to voluntarily lose control right now." Paige said, looking back at Emily with an almost pleading look.
"Why? Does this have anything to do with the fact that you have been screaming in your sleep the past few nights, waking up all sweaty and scared to be near me?" Emily asked, her face softening.
"Yes. I have been having a dream that you are being chased by another wolf, and when I go to change to attack it, I'm the one ripping your stomach open with my claws!" Paige turns to walk away from the girl, visibly upset from recalling the dream about her mate.
"Hey, Paige, come here and talk this out with me. It is just a dream." Emily says following Paige outside to the parking lot.
"To you it is just a dream Em. But to me, to have to watch it over and over every night. To have to see me be the one that attacks you." Paige steps toward Emily and places a hand over the spot on the girls stomach where she cuts open in the dream. "It kills me." Emily places both of her hand over Paige's.
"I know you. I know you would never intentionally hurt me Paige. I trust you with my life." She pulls on the girls hand so that Paige is pulled into her, kissing her softly at first, then deeper for a few moments, until they hear a cat call from across the parking lot. Both girls look up in time to see the boys swim team standing around a truck, gawking at them. Emily sees Bobby standing there staring at the two. She doesn't like the way he is looking at Paige. The look in his eyes is scary, like if looks could kill. She quickly grabs Paige's hand and drags her to the front entrance to get their schedules sorted.
"Two classes! Only two classes together?" Emily yelled once they were in the car.
"Babe, calm down." Paige said.
"I don't understand why you are not more upset about this. You are the one that can hardly go thirty minutes without some form of physical contact." Emily started, cut off by Paige.
"That is all your fault though, I wouldn't need so much physical contact if you didn't have the libido of a teenage boy!" Paige said, making Emily stick her tongue out at her. "This will be good for us Em. Help us deal with the fact that we aren't going to be in each others sight all the time."
"That is easy for you, all you have to do is concentrate and you can know what I am thinking." Emily huffed. Paige reached over and buckled the girl in. "I'm not a child."
"Well right now you are acting like one. Look, we have two weeks to try it out. If it doesn't work well for either one of us, we will change them as best we can to match up more." Paige said, giving Emily a kiss on the cheek. "Now let's go, we have dinner to get to."
Dinner went very smoothly, the rest of the group taking a liking to Aria. She would ask them questions about where they were from, and they talked for hours, like old friend would. Hannah was glad to have another girl around that wasn't a werewolf. They all made plans to meet to for lunch the next day at school before leaving.
"So you pretty much attacked that poor little girl?" Spencer asked Paige once they were alone.
"Spence, you know that I am on edge with this dream that keeps happening every night. When I heard Emily raise her voice, instinct kicked in to protect her." Paige said, hanging her head low.
"What if you went through with the dream?" Spencer asked.
"I'm not attacking her!" Paige yelled.
"No, dumbass, what if you went through with the whole dream. Didn't wake yourself up? Maybe see how it ends?" Spencer said.
"I can try, but I always wake when I see it is me." Paige said.
"Hmm, maybe we could drug you into a heavy sleep." Spencer suggested.
"No. My luck, something bad would happen and I wouldn't be able to wake." Paige said.
"Ok, go home and try to sleep through it off our happens tonight. I will see you sometime tomorrow." Spencer said as she got into Toby's car with Hannah and Caleb.
She watched them drive off, hearing Emily behind her saying goodnight to Aria. She didn't know if she would be able to sleep through the whole dream if it would happen tonight. She didn't want to see the outcome of what would happen if she attacked Emily. That is exactly what she was thinking when the two crawled into bed that evening, Paige laying herself on top of Emily like she usually did, her body temperature adjusting to what Emily needed it to be so she would be comfortable.
"You have got to relax, Paige. I can feel how tense you are." Emily spoke into her ear, softly, running the girls back to try and soothe her to sleep. And it worked. Paige fell asleep for about two hours before she wroke from the dream. Leaving it at the same place she always did, but seeing anymore of it than usual.
When Emily woke the next morning to the sound of her alarm clock, she was surprised to see Paige was not in bed. When she rolled over she saw the girl sitting in a chair in the corner of her room, looking outside the window. Paige didn't even notice she was up.
"Paige, what are you doing?" Emily asked, getting out of bed and walking over to the girl.
"Just sitting here, waiting for you to get up." Paige replied.
"How long have you been up? And you could have woke me." Emily said, sitting in Paige's lap. Paige moved her arms to wrap around the girl.
"Well I don't think you really would have wanted me waking you at two in the morning." Paige said kissing Emily's shoulder.
"Two in the morning? Paige, we have school today. How are you going to stay awake?" Emily asked in concern.
"I actually don't feel tired at all. Let's get ready for school." Paige said, standing up and heading to the bathroom. She didn't lie to Emily, she didn't actually feel tired. She was concerned that school might make that feeling change.
"I will see you next period, ok?" Emily said, shutting her locker and turning to Paige.
"Ok. Have fun with Hannah in algebra." Paige laughed. Spencer and Hannah walked up to the couple, Hannah's mouth never stopped moving.
"Heard you gave the boys swim team a show yesterday after practice." Hannah said to the two.
"What?" Paige asked.
"In the parking lot. You two were making out. Honestly, I know that you two are still adjusting to the imprint, but you can't go turning all the boys on." Hannah said.
"Hannah!" Spencer yelled. Paige and Emily both turned red, putting their heads down.
"Although Em, Bobby was talking about you this morning to a few boys. Talking about how you looked in your swim suit at practice." Hannah laughed. Paige on the other hand let out a low growl, pulling Emily towards her just a little.
"Paige, come on. I'm all yours, you know that." Emily whispered to the girl. "Alright Hannah, time for math!" Emily said, linking her arm with Hannah's and dragging the girl towards their classroom. Paige and Spencer laughed as Hannah turned around and mouthed 'help me'. As Paige turned and looked back towards Emily and Hannah, Bobby stepped into her life of view. He also turned and looked at Emily, then back to Paige. The glare he gave Paige was cold. Paige went to turn but Spencer caught her by her arm.
"Not worth it Paige." She said as she pulled Paige to their class.
At lunch everyone gathered at the biggest table they could find in the courtyard behind the school. Aria had joined them and was in the middle of a fashion argument with Hannah and Emily. Paige was sitting by Emily and had a hold of one of the girls hands. Being separated by classes was having a harder effect on Paige than she thought it would. Four out of seven classes down, and Paige felt like she was going to explode. During her third period class she finally broke down and listened for Emily's thoughts.
She relaxed when she finally heard Emily was working on her English work. She didn't tell the girl that she was having a hard time. After all Paige had been the one to tell Emily that our wouldn't be that bad for them. Right now, she didn't want to have Emily out of her sights. Maybe it was being around all the kids at school. Not being able to just look up and see Emily, having to actually search for the girl. Paige turned and buried her face in Emily's hair.
"Three more classes, and then we can go home." Emily said to Paige.
"I wish I could tell you that this will get easier, but every imprint is different. And yours is so strong, I don't know how to help you." Spencer said as they parted ways for the rest of the day.
Paige didn't see Bobby the rest of the day. And when her and Emily got home the first thing Paige did was strip both of them out of their clothes and get a shower. She couldn't stand the smell of other people on her mate. All she wanted was for all of her senses to be filled with Emily, hoping that it would take some of the edge off.