Paul.
I was so hurt when I heard the words come out of my imprints mouth.
"I just don't like you!"
I got so hurt and so mad, I had to leave, before I hurt her. Not on purpose. I couldn't control this kind of temper. My heart clenched and the white beauty that was, supposed to be, mine.
No. I wasn't soft. I am not soft.
I thought about her every day for two weeks when Sam put us on extra patrols because of the new leech in town. No one was supposed to talk to her, or see her, until this was all over. That was the orders.
I would feel the pain she had at our disappearance. I could feel it in my heart, clenching it, growing more powerful every night.
The only time I didn't feel it was during the day. I never saw her during the day. Never saw her down at the beach, or out in the sun. I didn't see her at all during daylight hours. But as soon as the sun sank an the moon rose, she was every where.
We finally chased the leech off the reservation and Sam finally said we could see her again.
But after what happened between her and I, he suggested Embry and Seth go round first. If she was any imprint of mine, she wasn't going to welcome us back in after two weeks of silence.
The rest of us watched out the window as they knocked and I held my breath. I watched as Adelaide opened the door, book and coffee in one hand and the other on the door knob. She was addicted to that coffee. They exchanged few words but I know that surprised but annoyed glare from any where and I clearly caught the;
"Who are you?"
Before the door slammed in their faces. They turned to me with apologetic face and I shrugged. I'd just try myself later. I watched then as Adelaide left. And then returned carrying a plastic bag.
"Maybe nows your chance, Paul?" Kim, Jared's imprint, told me, meekly. I just shrugged and she went back over to cuddle Jared without a second thought.
I was about to go out to her door when a truck pulled up to her house.
I growled in irritation as the door flew open again and a tall, gangly boy stepped out of the truck an wrapped my imprint in a hug. I held into the door frame and heard it crack as Adelaide laughed with this boy.
A growl shook my body and I was forced outside by Sam.
Phasing, I ran through the woods at a rate of nots, clearly startling Leah, who was on patrol, with all the ways I could murder that boy Adelaide laughed with.
He made her happy when I couldn't! Just the thought made me unbelievably mad.
I should be the one making her happy.
Making her laugh.
I decided I needed to I over there, and sort something out.
Phasing back, I pulled on my shorts and went and hit the door with much force I thought it might break. It didn't help my anger when that boy answered the door. He looked at me curiously.
"Can I help you, handsome?" I made a disgusted face. What? I clenched my hands.
"I want to speak to Adelaide." I said, through clenched teeth and the boy smiled at me.
"She's busy, sugar, who shall I say called?" His voice grated against my ears and I winced.
"Paul. I need to see her now." The boy smiled at me.
"Hi Paul, I'm Oscar." He clearly ignored the bit where I said I need to see Adelaide. I was about to open my mouth to make him see how much I need to see Adelaide, and maybe a bit of talking with my fists, when her angel like voice was heard.
"Who are you and why are you on my property?" She asked, placing her delicate hand on his little arms.
Mine.
My wolf growled inside and I agreed. I shook a bit more but was smug when she removed her hand from his arm as quick as if he'd burnt her.
"Adelaide! What are you doing? Who is he?" I asked, jabbing my finger in the boys direction, needing answers. She frowned an then I winced at the next words out her mouth.
"Stranger Danger! Stranger Danger!" She shrieked and I felt hurt at her words. She's acting like she doesn't know me. Did our disappearance hurt her that much.
Of course it did, dipshit.
"Adelaide! What are you-" She cut me off.
"Stranger!" she shrieked again and added a few more words but I couldn't heat them as the door slammed shut in my face and I felt the stares of all my pack. I could just imagine the sympathetic looks they were sending.
I blocked the whole world while I sprinted into the woods and ripped my clothes while phasing.
I howled and howled, pain evident. I howled until my voice cracked. I had hurt my imprint and my heart broke. I stayed in the woods for a long time util the sun was rising.
Then a new voice floated through my head, breaking off my self loathing thoughts.
Dude, come quick.
What is it? I replied, not caring.
Adelaide.
Was the reply and I took off after Brady, racing to the pack house and my angel's home.
When I got there I phased and silently thanked Emily for the shorts she'd laid outside.
Pushing my way through the pack I saw Adelaide'a front door wide open. There was lamp smashed on the floor and I couldn't stop the feeling of dread rushing through me.
"What. Happened?" I growled as my eyes took in the messy place. No one answered, but Sam beckoned me upstairs, with a sad, far away look in his eyes.
I walked up the stairs like a zombie, the rest of the pack following me, and I following Sam. He turned down the corridor to the last door.
Sam just gestured to it and the stood back with the pack. I pushed open the door and fell to my knee.
There,aid on the floor, was my angel.
My imprint.
I tried listening fir her heart beat. There was none.
I tried looking for the tell-tale up and down of the chest. There was none.
It looked like my angel was dead. With no heart beat. She was dead.
I howled loudly from the bottom of my body and the pack joined in with the despair. I crawled quietly to her and picked her up gently and rested her on my knee.
I stroked her hair and barely noticed the pack leaving. Tears finally dropped down my face and to the floor. Now my only reason for living was gone, I would surely soon follow.
i picked her up and laid her on the bed gently, moving the back of my hand down her cheek. Moving numbly I climbed into bed with her and laid side by side, staring at the roof.
"How do she die?" I whispered, not bothering covering my tears, not caring if this was the first time any of them had seen me cry.
"I don't know, Paul. There's no obvious cause of death." Sam replied softly and I choked on a sob.
What had I done to deserve such cruelty?
A cold gust of wind blew over my skin and then settled jut lightly on top and I shivered. The coldness visited my face briefly before moving to just my chest.
How could I cope?
i needed to sleep.
Its just a dream.
I closed my eyes and curled round Adelaide's cold body.
Its just a dream.
Some how, I just didn't believe it.