57

Rhen

The sun streamed into the room again and today and I couldn't help but feel happy.

Jedidiah and I took a big step last night in our relationship. Or at least I think we did. I don't know. I still have no idea what mates are supposed to do.

But I guess that's what happens when you're sheltered.

I stood up and straightened out my pajamas and brushed through my hair.

I opened the door and there he was as always. His eyes locked with mine and he looked me up and down. He growled and pushed me back into the room and closed the door. He pushed me against the wall and put his hands on my waist.

"You need to put some clothes on before you walk out of your room."

His head was in my neck breathing in my scent. I was so out of breath by his actions I just stood there. He backed away and walked into my closet and grabbed one of my robes and threw it to me.

"Put this on." I grabbed it and put it on and tied it around.

"Better."

I looked at him and he smiled at me. And when at that moment my insides melted. His smile was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. It lit up the entire room.

"I actually wanted to ask you a question, about high school." I sound dumb asking about high school to him.

"I'm sorry that is a dumb question." I moved my hair out of the way and walked to my spot at the windowsill and sat down. He walked over next to me and sat down.

"It is not a dumb question. Though I don't think I'm the best person to ask since I wasn't that popular." He chuckled lightly.

"I don't think you have anything to worry about. I don't as a nerd, but you. Well you're the princess. Everyone is going to love you. But I will say...High school is not fun but it doesn't suck. And I will be with you the entire year. You have nothing to worry about."

"Well first I have to ask my dad, if I can even go." I sighed out, knowing that he will most likely say no.

"I'm sure he will say yes." Jedidiah tries reassuring me and I just shrugged.

"I just want to go out and be around other wolves." I sighed out. "He just doesn't understand. It's lonely."

We looked at each other for goddess knows how long. I think he was trying ti find something to say. But my situation is delicate. In one hand I'm sure he understands where I am. And how I feel. But on the other he understands why I'm being kept away.

All he did was pull me into a hug and rub my back. And I took a deep breath drinking in his scent.

I was really expecting this entire situation to go differently, only because of our first meeting.

Which I have been meaning to ask him about.

"Why were you so cold to me when we first met?" I asked him messing with the tie on my robe. He took a dip sigh and leaned back a little.

"I guess I was scared. There are a lot of things you still don't know about me. And when you do I know you won't want me anymore." He said that same thing last night.

"How could you possibly know that?" I leaned closer to me trying to get him to make eye contact with me.

"Because if it were you...I would never forgive you." His face went blank again and he stood up. I sat there shocked at what he said. There is no way what he did was that bad.

"This was a mistake. I'm sorry, princess." He headed toward the door and before I could stop him he closed it leaving me all alone again.

I stood up and walked to my closet. I shouldn't have pushed so hard to try and make him open up. I put on a pair of black skinny jeans and a white t-shirt with white vans. I pulled my hair up into a bun and put on a pair of black sunglasses. I opened the door and saw Jedidiah standing with his head down.

"I just texted Bellamy and her and I are going to the mall for school shopping." He nodded, he kept his usual cold expression. I just wish he would smile at me for once.

I started to walk down the hallway to the main floor, this would be my first time in 19 years that I would see the actual pack and be normal. I am more than excited to finally be normal and go shopping. When I walked downstairs I saw my mom sitting on the couch with Christina and Bellamy.

"Hey, mom." She looked back at me in panic and started to freak out.

"WHERE IS YOUR CLOSK?! EVERYONE CLOSE YOUR EYES!" She grabbed me and tried to take me back upstairs.

"Mom stop. I found my mate it is okay. You all can open your eyes." I said laughing at her. She almost knocked my sunglasses off and that would have been bad.

"Wait, what? Your mate? You and Jedidiah?" She asked. Her eyes fluttering back and forth between us.

How could she know it was him?

"Yes. It is. And remember you told me once I found my mate it would only affect my eyes and not my entire body right? So as long as I wear shades I should be okay."

I was rubbing my hands up and down her arms to try and comfort her.

"Yes, but there is a lot more you don't understand. You need to go back to your room okay?" Why was she being so weird?

"What else don't I know? Tell me, mom." I stood back from her kind of sizing her up.

She looked nervous and agitated.

"Come sit please and I will tell you." She grabbed my hand and led me to the couch. Jedidiah stood a bit further away.

"Look, honey, your dad and I didn't want to tell you this because we didn't want you to be nervous or upset. Jedidiah you might want to sit for this too."

I was confused and my heart started beating really fast and I couldn't help but feel scared. Jedidiah sat over where Christina and Bellamy were sitting.

"You know how your Lycan has been dormant? Well, that is because you have the moon goddess' sister as your Lycan. Her name is Leaves and she escaped and became your Lycan when you were born. Leaves are not good. She is evil and luckily she hasn't revealed herself. The reason we have you hidden is that any negative emotion can trigger her and have her arise."

My heart started to hurt as she was saying this, what is she talking about, Leaves? My lycan is evil.

"The elders told me what happened to you and how we need to take care of you. It is inevitable that she will appear but keeping you away can with long the process. Once Leaves appear though we need to kill her."

My heart stopped. That meant they had to kill me.

Jedidiah growled and his eyes were shining gold, showing his wolf was almost in control.

"Kill me??" I yelled. My heart began beating incredibly fast and I felt real fear for this first time in my life.

"No Rhen, just kill your Lycan. There is a potion that can kill her. The only thing is that you are going to be in a coma for 2 weeks in a fragile state. During that time the moon goddess is going to find a new Lycan for you. But Leaves is powerful and the only person who can kill her is her sister." My mom was rubbing my hands trying to calm me down.

"The moon goddess?" I was confused and all this information was new to me and hard to follow.

"Well no. They have another sister. We don't know who it is but all we know she has silver hair."

After my mom said that Jedidiah stiffened and looked at my mom.

"I know who it is." He sat up straighter getting our attention.

"It's my sister," I swear my eyes almost popped out of my head.

He has a sister and she was going to be the one to kill me.

Great.

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