"Normal Talking" "[Whispered Talking]"
"Thought-Speak" {Sign Language}
D/C: I do not own, or wish to claim ownership of the characters from Stephenie Meyer's books. I'm just writing this story for fun, my characters and plot are mine, there may be some elements from other Fanfic stories I have read but no direct copying.
Chapter 14: First Date
~Edythe~
I used my mindreading to answer questions from my family and teachers. Then I drift off again thinking about that last kiss.
Touching my cheek, I could still feel the heat of it even though I do not generate heat. If I ask my siblings about it, they would say my skin felt the same as always.
"[You need to move a little, the humans are staring. Some of them are going to get a teacher soon. They think you are having a seizure or something.]"
Blinking my eyes, I looked around to find I was seated at our table for lunch. That could not be, I was just sitting in my first class and now lunch is almost over.
"[What is wrong? You have not been yourself since we found that disgusting blood and tracked it to you standing next to the creek. You looked lost and when I suggested that we leave you got all angry. Now, that we are staying and attending school as you wanted. You have been this sad lost thing, that is not my sister.]" Edward whispered
I was still making small movements like he asked and blinking my eyes, maybe a little too much or not enough I could not tell. My mind started to drift back to my memories of seeing all that blood gushing from Red's shoulder.
I shook away the awful feeling in my chest and was thinking of what to say when the end of the lunch bell rang. "I need to get to class."
I was again, staring off into space when I felt a warm hand touch my arm. Reacting fast, I gripped the wrist of the culprit.
I felt and heard the blood vessels in Jason's wrist *squelch* and burst. It was shocking that I did not crush the bone too.
Jason made a low *whining* noise as he pulled his hand from my grip and put it under the table, so I could not see the damage I had done.
There was a *cracking* noise from the table as Jason put his head down on it. All class I tried to look at Jason's hand or get him to talk to me.
At the bell, he gets out of his seat, grabs his bag, and quickly walks out of the classroom.
By the time I got my thing in my bag and got out the door, Jason was heading through the door to the main school building.
I sprinted across the distance and grabbed the door before it closed behind him. Following him down the hall towards our next class he turns sooner than the classroom and walks into the Men's room.
I continued past, to the Women's room next door. Going into a stall I place my ear to the brick wall that separates the two restrooms.
The only thing I could hear was the sink running directly on the other side. After only a minute or two at most, I heard Jason leaving the Men's room. I hastily washed my hands and headed out the door.
Fowling Jason to English class. Walking to the back of the class he sat in the chair close to the wall.
I still could not get a good look at his left hand. Leaning closer to Jason trying to get a look at his hand. Putting my head on his shoulder and ignoring the whispers of the other students, I spoke into his ear.
"[I would like to feel your hand. I know I gripped it pretty hard in Algebra and you have been hiding it from everyone.]" I layer my voice with charm and concern.
I could hear his heart quicken and in a breathy low tone said. "[My arm is fine Edythe, see.]".
I made a *squeaking* noise when I felt his right arm go around my back. His hand grips my waist. He pulls me closer to him with his right hand, not the one I wanted to see.
Mr. Manson looked up from his computer "Ms. Cullen, is there a problem?"
"No, Mr. Manson, there is no problem." Mr. Manson went back to his computer.
I carefully slid my right hand over Jason's to remove it from my waist. "[That is not the hand I was talking about Jason.]" I said in a tone of annoyance, but once I had him stop touching me, I felt cold like he sucked the heat out of me.
Jason was holding the book for English in his left hand. "[You mean this hand?]" I could see the slight shaking of his left hand as he gripped the book. He put the book in between us and turned the pages with his right hand.
I could not see anything wrong with his left hand that was still on the table. It was not shaking anymore, once he put it down on the table.
I was thinking of asking him straight out about his hand but without the ability to read his mind. I changed it to asking him how far into the book he got.
"Not that far, the beginning is mostly about the wolf's backstory. There is not much about the Vampire, like what led up to her becoming a Vampire. What was her human life like before? What is it like after her change? Did she have a mate before?" I got the feeling that those questions were not about the book but directed at me.
I thought about those answers, like I was born in 1904. My parents and my older brother Edward, whom I had assumed died of Spanish influenza in 1918. I survived the sickness but my immune system was destroyed and I got sick easily. My brother found me in the hospital in 1924 after my 20th birthday.
I spent nearly 40 years staying away from humans, spending that time in the forest where I feel more comfortable.
With my constantly getting sick after my family died, I did not get close to anyone, and I have never found anyone as a Vampire either.
I of course could not tell Jason all this. I know he knew I'm a Vampire but he did not need to know more about me.
I smiled at Jason ready to give some answers to his questions when I heard his heart jump a beat and he shifted in his seat. I realized that I smiled with my fangs showing. It had to have scared him like I did last week.
I felt sorry that I'm scaring him. I have never felt like this before. Normally I ignore humans or if they try anything with me, I intentionally scare them off.
"[I was not scared by your smile.]" I could not come up with what to say when Jason asks.
"[Edythe, are you scared of me?]"
I instantly said. "[No, I'm not scared of you. I'm just. I might be.]" I stuttered over what I wanted to say.
Leaning over I took his right hand in mine lightly and started making circles with my index finger on the back of his hand. Putting my head on his shoulder, I breathed in his scent, and the heat from his touch made that feeling of coldness go away.
I whisper into his ear. "[No, she did not.]"
"[She who did not?]" he asked with a large exhale of breath as I continued to make circles on the back of his hand.
"[The Vampire, she had no mate before her change or after, until they met.]" I said in a low voice, breathing in his sweet scent.
The bell rang and I slid my hand down his shoulder to around his waist. In turn, he turned toward me and slid his arms around me. Pulling me to him, he leans into me and I was going to let him. Before we could touch lips, Alice again interrupted us.
Getting over to where my brother and I parked this morning. Rose was glaring across the parking lot. Following her gaze, I saw a Silver Acura, it looked like a normal V6 Acura with dark tinted windows all around.
"What is wrong, Rose?" Rose turns to me and an image of her racing down the road in her tuned-to-perfection red V8 M3.
In her mind, I saw her coming up to this slow-moving Honda as she went to pass it. The thing outpaced her car and would have beaten her if it did not slow down for the turn.
"She is just salty that this Acura could outpace her." Emmet said to all of us.
"It's not just that. I tried to get a look at its engine but I could not get in. I tried jimmying the lock but the tool would not get through the gap in the window. I even tried pulling on the door handle but that did not work. The car just slid sideways on the ground as I pulled it."
"What, you use your full strength to force the door open. What if you had ripped it off?
Why not just smash the window and make it look like a break in?" Jasper asked.
Rose got very interested in her shoes. I got the image of Rose pushing the car back into its exact spot and then looking around. She pulls back her arms and punches the driver's window. Even in her thoughts I could hear the *crack* as the window itself did not break but Rose's hand did.
Rose glared at all of us and spoke. "That is not a car, it is a Cybertronian, transformer or something. After it dislocated my finger, I kicked its door and nothing happened. The car did not move or take any damage. The only thing that did happen was the windows all tinted black."
Looking around the parking lot before I got into my car, I did not see Jason's truck.
I went straight to my room, grabbed some things, and took a shower. Scrubbing all the tanning spray off, leaving my skin pale white.
Back in my room, I sat on my couch and opened my laptop. I typed in 'Lord king of Werewolves'. What came up was about a man named Lykaonis, who became the king of Werewolves after he tricks the god Zeus into eating human meat.
There were different versions of what happened to Lykaonis after his curse. One said he was killed by a demigod hero named Achilles. The other story said he was killed by a hunter of Artemis.
In that one, he tried to court one of the hunters and was killed by another. I thought that perhaps Red is one of the people that Lykaonis changed. The problem is Red told me, he was born a Lycan and did not turn into what is called a Lycanthrope.
I had several tabs open on different Werewolf Guardians, Kings, Lords, and even a god named Fenrir.
The description of Fenrir was very similar to the Cherokee legend of the great black wolf which is filled with anger, jealousy, and fear. Digging into his legend I found that he came to the physical world and fell in love with a mortal wolf.
After her mortal life was over on the physical plain, he took her to the spirit world and is now his immortal mate. She is referred to as the white wolf. The white wolf mother loves her mortal children and mate.
I was looking for more information on the Black and White wolf gods. When Alice barges into my room.
"You should really knock. What if I was busy."
Alice gave me a smile and I caught a glimpse of her thoughts on what I would be doing in my room that I would not want her to see.
"You know what time it is? I know you are not going in that."
"No of course not, I'm only going out hunting, it will not take me long to change into something for that."
"You are right, you're not and I know the perfect thing."
"Alice" I said with exasperation as she ran over and started pulling open my drawers. She got that look on her face that she was looking to the future to see how my date would go.
In her head, I caught the image of me standing next to the creek behind the house wearing a cloak that was mostly midnight blue with lines of stitching that matched my bright golden eyes in the vision.
"I do not know where you got that and I'm positive we do not have that in this house" Alice would of course know every outfit we had in the house. She loves to dress us up for any occasion.
Alice threw me a pair of very short black shorts and a light green T-shirt. She went back to my drawer and then tossed me something small and black.
I caught the lace thong with my free hand. "[Alice, I'm not going to have sex with him, [at least not tonight]" I mumble the last part.
"What was that?" "Nothing."
"You're right, nothing would be better." Alice gave me a devilish smile.
Picking up one of the decor pillows, I threw it at her face. If I had not lost the ability to blush, I knew my face would be like Rose's car.
Alice caught the pillow easily and spoke. "I'm going to get something to fix your hair. You better be dressed by the time I get back."
I quickly changed before she could get back, which took her less than three minutes. This time she did knock. "I'm dressed, Alice you can come in."
Alice messed with my hair for so long that I had to stop her and run from the house to make it to the meeting place in time.
"Red, sorry I'm late, where are you?" I called but there was no answer. I walked around the clearing for an hour, past the time.
I ran home and asked Alice if he had called. Alice said no and her vision of me standing next to the creek in that cloak had not changed.
"It could be from a different time or day." Alive said. I ran up to my room and put on the watch that Alice had given me.
Back downstairs. "What about now, I put on that watch?"
"Sorry, the cloak in the vision covers you from the neck to just past your knees."
I was back in my room. It was now two hours past the time to meet. All of us could hear the *splat* of a snowball hitting the window in the hallway outside my room.
"I got this." Alice said as she jumped from the sliding window at the end of the hallway.
At the open window, I heard him tell Alice that she was not the one he was looking for.
I was out the window and leaping over the creek to the last place I heard his voice. He was telling Alice that he had tracked her sent here.
Good luck with your hunt, Alice thought to me as she ran back to the house. Tracking Red's heartbeat and breathing I ran to the tree.
Even with my very enhanced night vision, it was nearly impossible to distinguish him from the tree. That is most likely why the thoughts of the locals refer to him as the Shadow Wolf Lord or god.
I was not thinking about how he would react to having a Vampire leap at him. I should have, because one moment he was on my side of the tree and the next he was on the far side of the tree from me.
I did not even hear his steps as he moved, his breathing did not increase nor did his heart rate. He indeed moves like a shadow.
I swung around the tree to grab him but he took off into the forest at incredible speed. "What, do not run away." I said with some worry that I had frightened him off with my movement.
He just told me to follow him so I did. We ran for a little over a mile away from the house.
I was a few hundred feet behind him when he suddenly turned. When I turned, he was gone. I was just about to call out when he appeared behind me and I felt his very hot arms go around me.
I let him pull me to a stop and into his chest. He spoke into my ear "I'm sorry that I did not call and tell you I was going to be late."
This close to him I noticed he did not smell the same as before. He did not have that forest and cool wolf scent. He smells like a boring not so appetizing human.
Turning myself to face him, I lift my hands and lift the hood off his face exposing his Lycan head. His scent initially changes the moment the hood dropped behind his head. He had a sea-salty smell mixed with that cool wolf scent that drew me in.
I could not be angry that he was over two hours late and had not called. I did not even want to know why.
Wrapping my arms around his neck I lean forward and kiss him. He pulled me even tighter to him, deepening the kiss. His lips taste of, it takes me a minute of kissing to figure it out. "You taste like deer."
Giving me a wolf smile, my heart starts that electric feeling I got last time we were making out. "If you do not like the taste of deer, I could find something else. What would you like?"
I was smiling so big that I was sure my flanges were showing and I may have giggled like a teenager even though I'm over 100 years old.
The conversation I had with Alice about not having sex with him tonight went through my head and I actually wanted to.
"I could go for a nice warm sweet wolf." I said to him as I grabbed the front of the dark blue and violet hooded robe thing he was wearing.
Pulling extremely hard expecting the cloth to rip. I was shocked when it did no such thing. The material pulls away from his chest a little but would not stretch any farther or rip even with my nails.
"Edythe, what are you trying to do?" He asked and I could tell he knew exactly what I was trying to do. I gave him my best charming look.
"I'm trying to get you out of that cloak" I pulled more at the cloth but Red stopped me with his hand. I could tell he was being gentle with me.
I was going to tell him that he better take this chance when he told me we should go hunting and after we needed to talk about this.
During the first hunt, I worried that he was going to break up with me. My mind then told me that we had just met and that we had not started courting.
I just watched as Red took down the two deer. I had witnessed his claw easily sink into Emmet's hard Vampire skin. It was still a bit of a shock when he was able, in one swipe, slice cleanly through the neck of the deer.
After he ate both of the deer except for their hooves and their digestive symptoms he walked up to me.
"Edythe, I can see you are hungry too, what would you like? Beside wolf or horse or shapeshift." He added after I gave him a look up and down.
"I would like…" I paused for a minute to think of what I wanted and I thought of why Red would not share his kill with me. I could have drained the deer and then let him eat them.
I was not going to ask. Alpha male wolves share food with their mate mostly, according to the research I did earlier.
"Mountain lion" I could tell he was thinking for a moment then he raised his head. Closing his eyes, he started sniffing the air. I could also see his ears rotate to pick up sounds.
"There are a few, that way about half a mile up the hill."
I was surprised, I could track humans with absolute precision but animals since they were not our natural food were harder to track down. Red is able to track animals he had not scented before and he was able to track me back to the house.
The annoying thing about it is every time I tried to go out after I spent the night with him taking in his scent, I could not track him.
I ran after him as he headed in the direction of the mountain lion. He let me choose the lion and take it down after I drank it dry. I ended up taking two of them down.
Red would not eat the lions after I offered them to him. I got worried again that he did not want to have a relationship with a Vampire. He must have noticed my worry or sadness, that he would not eat after me.
"Edythe this is not about you or me, it's about both of us." I felt like my heart was going to start then stop and kill me this time.
I turned to run away but Red was way faster and he caught me around my waist. He nuzzled me under my throat. His hot breath made me shudder and my legs got all jelly-like, that he had to hold me up.
"What I mean is that if I eat after you and any of your venom got into the body, eating that would make me sick. It would not be enough to kill me but I would be throwing up for an hour. That would put a damper on our date."
I was so stupid. I read the whole book about the Vampire and Werewolf lovers. She killed her mate by biting him and her venom had poisoned his blood. It made sense that if a Vampire killed an animal and a Werewolf came and ate it. The meat could be poisonous to that Werewolf.
After my misunderstanding was sorted out, Red took my hand and led me to a small clearing of trees where we could lay on the ground to look at the stars.
We were both lying on the ground, my head was up on Red's chest. He was running his hot claw-free hand up and down my arm.
After some time, he started talking about some things I needed to know about courting with a Lycan. One of them was that we could not bite each other, which I thought was disappointing.
That thought came out of nowhere along with the image of me leaning against a large red and amber wolf and giving him a light nip on the ear.
The thought disappeared quickly, and I was back to lying on Red's chest. While I was lost in thought, Red had sliced the back of my shirt open.
The feeling of both his hands running up and down my back was making me want his chest bare, so I could press against him.
I could not help my *moan* from his touches. I told him "Not fair" as I tried again to find a way to remove his clothing.
He said something and the robe unwound itself from around his body to become a cloak that I had seen before in Alice's vision. It had a different stitching color but it was the same.
Untying the cloak from around his neck, I push the rest of it away to leave him in nothing but fur and muscle.
Tugging what was left of my T-shirt and tossing it away, I settled down on top of him.
My breast was hard from being a Vampire but the heat radiating off Red was making them and the rest of my body hot.
I slide down his chest, his heart rate increases as my breasts track down. My hand slid down to find his sword, as I was feeling for it, I kissed him under the jaw as he did me.
It happened so fast that I could not even understand why I was on the cold ground on my back.
I actually blinked a few times. I heard the sound of *splintering* wood. I followed the sound and saw Red with his forehead pressed against a tree, a good 600 feet from me.
The cold air was already making me miss his touch and I could not stand it. Getting up I approach Red with slow cautious steps, trying not to scare him like what happened earlier.
"Red, I'm sorry I did not mean to." He tells me not to be sorry and that it is his fault he almost lost control. So, he was not afraid I would hurt him but that he would hurt me.
I was about to tell him that he could not hurt me when I saw the crack he made in the trunk of the tree. The split starts at his hands and traces up the 5' diameter tree and traces a good 6 feet up.
Standing behind him, I wrap my arms around his hot torso and place my head against his neck.
I did not know what to say so I started blabbing about my research and asking him if he is Lykaonis or one of his descendants. What surprised me the most was what he said.
"You are way off the mark Edythe. I'm not Lykaonis descendant, I'm his brother."
I thought back to all the different stories about Lykaonis but none of them mentioned he had a blood brother that was also cursed to be a Werewolf.
Pulling at his chest, I get him to turn and face me. I notice that his claws retract after he removes them from the tree.
In asking him about clarifying the legend. He tells me that Lykaonis was always a Lycan and that Zeus just revealed his true self to humans at a dinner party.
I was comparing the turning of a legend to how Vampires are believed to burn up in the sun, when he started laughing at me. He mentions the holy water thing and I was going to ask why it was funny.
I never got the chance, he put his hand on the back of my hips. I stood frozen as he put his muzzle into my collar then I felt his tongue on the skin under my jaw.
The sense is like electricity passing from my jaw through my breast to the place where his hands were. It got even more intent as he slid his hands down to my thighs.
"[Tell me know if…]" he was breathing hard and his heart was going way faster than before.
I barely got out a "No" and *Moen* "More" as his hand moved to my inner thigh.
I could feel his hand pressing into my thigh just below my vulval. Waiting for him to loosen his grip a little as he needed my inner thighs.
I *Moen* as I bend my knees so his hands come up to rub my vagina. My spot gives way with the strength he has. *Moening* louder I let my legs fall out from under me so Red was now holding me up by my pelvis.
Red stops kissing my jaw and sets me down, making me stand on my own. I felt his hand move away from my spot to rest on my waist.
I'm extremely disappointed he stops and I can tell he knows I am. Reaching up I pull his head down and kiss him on the lips. I ran my hand all over his chest, arms, and down low.
I got close to getting him to give me what my body wanted but he would break away. Several times I had to find him with his head on a tree or what was left of the tree. He turned one of the 3-foot diameter tree trunks into splinters. Causing it to crash to the ground.
We were on the ground and I was thinking of the last time I pushed him, he had tried to get away. I would not let him go and ended up tearing a chunk of flesh out of his forearms.
The pain of what I did hit me hard. I started freaking out that he needed to be taken to the hospital. I then thought he could not go to a normal doctor and I tried to pick him up to take to my father.
He convinced me he did not need a doctor. He took me in his arms and showed me the thin layer of new skin that had already grown back.
Laying on his chest I ran my hand over the spot with shorter hair than the rest of his arm.
Looking at the watch I still had on, I noticed that it was 01:23.
I knew that my siblings would be starting to wonder where I was and Alice would deftly want to know what happened on this date.
While asking Red if he had to go soon. The *Clomping* of hooves and the *Snort* of a horse interrupted us. I went to sit up but Red would not let go of my stomach.
The white horse with a black bridged nose came over to us and *Snorts* in Red's face.
"What happened this time, and you did not have to snort in my face." Red spoke to the horse just as the noise of a buggy could be heard. I was about to tell Red when he unwound his hand from around me and stood up.
Red tells me to hide before the humans can see me. I was about to tell him I did not care, when I caught the look of the horse eyeing my breast. I covered them with my arms and glared at the horse.
He *Nickers* and I saw him flick his tail and twitch an ear in a strange way. Looking at Red. I notice he does the same with an extra twitch of his ears.
They were talking about her and she wanted to know what. "Are you two talking about me?"
"Yes," Red replied, coming over to me, kissing me on the cheek. That did not answer what they said, but I did not have time to ask for the details.
"I will not be far." I said running over to a spot that will not be filled with light from the buggy.
I could not hear what is decried in books as bones breaking, as Red changed from a Lycan to a Wolf. The image of the red and amber wolf in my vision came back to me and I realized I could not tell what or who I was in the vision.
Red was crouching a bit at first standing behind the horse. The humans did not see him as they came over a small hill. The light of the buggy fills the clearing and I could see the glint of Red's amber undercoat.
I had to resist the urge to not cross the clearing to run my hands through that fur. I knew it would have the same soft feel as his Lycan fur.
What was even harder and had me digging my nails in the bark of a tree was when the man said. "Looks like it ran out of steam. Now we got something to show the fellas about."
He then raises a rifle to shoot the horse, and that is when Red stood up fully making himself larger than the horse.
He stepped around to the line of fire. I look at the man aiming his gun at my Wolf and I move to go to him and rip his arm off.
I first read his mind to see what he was going to do. This was the precise moment he took in Red and screamed "RUN" terror went through the man's thoughts and he squeezed the trigger.
His mind went to the rummers he heard about the Wolf god that lives in the Olympic forest. One of them was that bullets and trank-darks had no effect on it.
Sure enough, I watched the dart fly across the distance at Red, and he simply lifted his right front paw off the ground and swatted the dart away.
The *Growl* that emanated from Red and the hackling of his fur making him look even bigger, had me frozen in place. The horse standing next to him got goosebumps and took several steps back from Red. It did not run off, just looked terrified.
The man with the rifle pulled what looked like real bullets from his pocket. Red gave another *Growl* and got into a crouching lunging stance. The man fumbles and drops the bullets.
His mind screamed to run and he did. Tossing his rifle to one of the other men cowering in the buggy. He got in and it tore off in reverse, dropping down the hill and bouncing before turning around to drive as fast as possible away.
I ran over to Red and since he was still crouching, I was able to stand on my toes to wrap my arms around his middle.
I could only wrap my right hand down around his chest just behind his wolf shoulder. My left arm only reaches to the top center bridge of his shoulders.
"That was hard, seeing that man pointing a gun at you. I was fighting with myself not to run over there and rip his arm off."
As I was saying this an image of myself riding atop a red wolf, the size of a stallion. The feeling of riding the wolf made me feel wonderful and I wanted to feel it now.
Without saying anything I put my hands on Red's wolf-back and with my strength, easily lifted myself to sit on his back.
I slid forward to be situated behind his shoulders as if I was riding a horse. The feeling of my vagina going across his hot back made me start *gasping*. I held in my moan and the urge to slide back and forth on his back.
"(Red) Wrap your arm around my neck and hold on." I could not speak without groaning. I slid forward in order to get my hands around his neck to hold on, I bared my face in his head.
Riding on his back was nothing like riding a horse. Horses could not run this fast and when they did run their legs were straight. This caused the rider to feel each impact and bounce around on their back. I have not ridden a horse since my parents died and riding one after I turned into a Vampire was impossible.
Horses could sense we are dangerous and with our hard buts, we could break a horse's back.
Red seems to be absorbing the impact of his stride into his legs and shoulders by bending his joints.
The speed he was going was not as fast as Edward or myself just running since we are the fastest Vampire that Carlisle or any of my family know.
I was wondering if he could run fast when he spoke in my mind. "(Red) Edythe I have connected our thoughts so we can talk over the wind. I would like to know if you want to try going faster. I do not want you to fall off."
He was not going as fast so I would not fall off, that was sweet. Smiling, I leaned into his ear. "(Edythe) Gallup, sprint, go, go, go.." I also thought of this like I was talking to a horse and not a magnificent Wolf.
Through the connection, I caught the image of his eye roll. The impact I felt from his paws hitting the ground increased slightly, in turn, his speed increased to what I felt most cars could not drive.
The way he was slipping around the trees was amazing. I turned my head to see that his tail would swing to either side and that would allow him to make corning around trees and the part of him I was sitting on was not through the side to side.
We stopped on a cliff, looking up at the moonless sky and getting there I did not once think I was going to get thrown off.
Sitting up on his back I start petting his head, running my hand from his left ear tip to his right. The image of my hand petting Red changes to an old wither one with white hair.
A woman's voice seemed to come from me "(?) promise me my love, that you will be waiting for my next life and the life after that. I do not know when we will meet again or if my life will be shorter next time. If you die my soul-love I will spend every lifetime searching and waiting for you to return. Even if you got to Elsewhere and have to spend your life backward to get back, I will wait"
I recognized the next voice that spoke. "(Red) It will be hard my soul-love but I promise you that I will not end myself to follow you. I will wait even if you go to Elsewhere and have to live your life in reverse."
My vision self looks down to see large wolf teardrops hitting the ground.
When I was back to sitting on Red in the present, I would have been crying if I could.
Red turns and heads back for the forest. Keeping my voice cheerful I ask "Where are we going now?"
"(Red) We are heading back so your brother does not come looking for you. I do not think he will be pleased to find you half-naked riding a Werewolf."
"Ok then let go" I did not speak for the rest of the journey back and I could not tell him what I just witnessed.
We were back in the clearing. I slid off his back. Watching him shift back into a Lycan was smooth. I did not hear the sound of bone breaking or the tearing of flesh, like what is described in many books about his kind.
Once his transformation was completed, it took about 10 seconds.
It would have been nice to just skip school today and spend it trying to get Red to take me.
Turning my back to Red so he would not catch my face and read the longing on it. I felt him come up behind me and wrap something around my neck.
It was his cloak, around my shoulders covering my naked breast. Once around me, its violet line stitching shimmered to honey gold. This was the outfit I was wearing in Alice's vision.
Red said he needed to get going. I turn to stare eye to eye with him. He leans in and catches me with very hot lips.
The heat of his body had gone up after his shift to wolf and was still that hot now. I went to put my hands around his waist and pull him into my chest but he turned to leave.
Grabbing his left hand gently but firmly, not letting him get away.
"I will see you here tonight?" I had to ask him. He has not even left yet and I have this feeling of missing him.
He lifts my hand to his cheek/jaw, I stop breathing and stand like a statue.
"No, I'm sorry Edythe I have an appointment I cannot reschedule. I do have Saturday open after 13:00."
What, he has something else to do than spend time with me. The thought was in my head then out. I reminded myself that he is the Werewolf Guardian and had others that relied on him. It is not right for me to tell him to drop everything from me.
This is our first date after all. This all went through my head so fast that I did not pause when I said "Ok, I will see you Saturday."
Running back home to change, I ran into Alice just before the creek. "Tell me everything, did you guys have sex? No wait, you must have, you are wearing that strange cloak that he was wearing."
I concentrated on Alice and found she was going to ask about the anatomy of a Werewolf. I did not want to go into that. She can butt out.
"Alice, we are not talking about this and I need to get changed for school."
"Ok, but at least tell me if you…" I cut her off. "Alice, no we did not."
Alice followed me over the creek as I was running over to the house. "Which one do you like more?"
I stop walking and Alice runs into me. "What do you mean, who do I like more?"
"I'm talking about Red or Jason, that human you have been trying to make out with since we came to Forks."
"I do not think that Jason is human." "Do not dodge the question."
I thought about the time I have been with Jason and all the times I have been alone with him. I have been drawn to his scent and with Red, I do not notice. He smells like a wolf and pine, well tonight he smelled like wet wolf and seawater.
It was not appealing like hunger but I still wanted him to hold and touch me places.
"Red ok, he is the one that I miss. I have not even thought of Jason until you said his name."
"I'm happy for you. I do have to tell you I have had several visions of the future. One of the most important events that need to happen is you have to tell Esme first and her only."
"What way?"
"I do not know. Tell her as soon as possible and when you tell her say this.."
Alice shows me the conversation I need to have with my loving mother.
The house was nearly empty, it was already past 08:00 and everyone was off to school. Carlisle goes to work at the hospital at 13:00 and gets off at 02:00.
Esme stays home and does home redecorating with clients around the world. She uses allies to do business with older clients every time we change our name and identities.
Pacing in my room, I put on a white bra, black T-shirt, and wrapped the midnight blue cloak around my shoulders. The scent of Red was still on it. Opening my door, I called "Mom, I would like to speak with you."
Esme appears at my door along with Carlisle. "I would like to talk alone." I could not help fidgeting as I looked at Carlisle.
"Ok I'll give you two some privacy."
Inviting her into my room we sat on my small couch. I waited a minute after I heard the front door open and close.
"I met this guy and I cannot stop thinking about him." I blurted out.
Esme wound her arms around my shoulder to squeeze me tightly. "I'm so happy for you. Now it is only your brother I hope finds someone."
She looks into my eyes and smiles "Alice said you had a hunting date last night. It may be hard that he is not on our diet but I do not think the rest will be upset."
I gave her a confused look.
"That is why you wanted to talk to me alone? You are concerned that the rest of your siblings will be upset that we have to move for you."
"Wait, you think that I'm in love with another Vampire and that he could not stay here because of the restrictions in this area."
"You're not in love with the Vampire, then is it that strange human that Edward and the others are concerned about."
"No…. you have met him and he is sorry about breaking the window."
"Breaking the window?" Esme was confused for a second then her hand went to her mouth.
Before Esme could say anything, I said "Hargonis's favor is paid to Esme Platt."
She looked even more shocked by the name and then wrapped me in her arms.
"I am happy for you, just be careful loving the Black Wolf's eldest son. He is known as the Shadow Wolf Lord by the tribes. We Vampires call him the Red Shadow."
"Why that name?"
"I don't really know, Carlisle told me once but I don't remember."
"Do you know how old he is?" I asked.
"No, but he did say he saved a young Werewolf in the early 1200s."
I had forgotten he mentioned that when telling us about who owns the Olympic forest.
"Does it matter that he could be over 900 years old?"
Looking at Esme, it only took me a second to decide my answer.
"No."