Love With Her Unknown Mate

Episode 10

Summer's P.O.V

No, I could not sleep. Once again.

Pinching my nose bridge due to a mild headache, I sat up on the bed and the first thing that my eyes looked for, was the dark vastness beyond the glass window of my room which was compelling me to go out and unite as a part of the emptiness of this cold night.

And so did I.

A sudden cold breeze rushed in my room just when I slid the window up only to accept the invitation of the void out there. No, the chilled wind could not freeze my already frozen heart further, as I started to climb up to the roof slowly.

Everything in the surrounding seemed a bit smaller from up here, as I saw all the houses, trees, the empty streets and everything else was sleeping peacefully under the dark night sky.

I looked up only to realized that even the stars have voided to twinkle its starlight upon us.

No, not us. It is only me, who is that unfortunate.

I was sitting on the roof for long, engulfed with my loneliness while several thoughts kept crossing my mind every now and then for no particular reasons. But still, I was feeling like I am not caged at least.

A loud sound of shutting the front door of my house pulled me out of all those needles thoughts that I was involved with, just before I saw Kaith was rushing out to get the bike.

Realizing that it was past midnight, I wondered where he was going at this hour and that too with such a rush?

"Hey! Where are you going?" I shouted from the rooftop which made Kaith stop on his track but still it seemed that he couldn't get from where my voice was coming, as I saw him looking around in confusion.

"I am up here. The roof." Just when I said he could finally spot me and made his way up towards the roof as well in no time.

"What? I thought you were in some kind of hurry? Weren't you going somewhere?" I couldn't help but ask out of curiosity, as I saw Kaith was no more intended to go out and settled himself beside me lazily.

"No, I was going out to look for you again because when I went to your room to ask you for dinner, you know what happened?" He asked raising his eyebrows up a bit.

"What?" As soon as I asked the very word he made me realize why he was reacting like this, as he said,

"I was greeted with an empty room which was enough reason for me to freak out. Isn't it Sam?"

I sighed, only to let the silence creep in as neither of us talked for a while, keeping our sight straight on nothing but the emptiness of the air.

"What would you do if you find your mate one day?" I asked out of the blue, taking Kaith off guard, and causing him to look into my eyes for quite a while.

I wondered if I had just asked something dumb or not.

"What would you do, Sam? You know the time is not so far when you would be turning for the first time. Right? And after which you can be found by your destined one. What would you do then?" Kaith's words made me absolutely clueless just when something inside me stirred all of a sudden which I had buried within me for a long time.

At least I thought so.

But it is always better to avoid each and every possibility to get hurt, so I decided to ignore it once again.

"What is it like? Does it pain a lot?" I asked in a low voice and leaned my body backwards to sit in a comfortable way.

"What? I don't know. I didn't find my mate yet, you know that." A little awkwardness might have trapped Kaith in an instant, as he answered me back, rubbing his neck in a clumsy way.

And I knew why he was feeling all embarrassed. Because he had mistaken my question for something else, that only Kaith could think off.

"I wasn't asking about mating, you dumbass." I uttered with a tight s***k for his nasty thoughts.

"Ahh, then what?" Rubbing his back where I had just hit him, he enquired keeping his impatient eyes on me.

"The shifting, obviously, what else?" My words made him relaxed than before as his one big sigh confirmed so.

"Yes, during the first time, it would hurt like crazy. But you will survive, everyone does, so did I.

And with time, changing shapes won't cause you pain anymore." He paused for a while to look at me with concern only to comfort me with his words again, saying,

" Don't worry. I will always be with you. And together we will go through this, ... You won't be alone Sam."

Though Kaith's words indeed lessened my anxiety for the time being, still something caused me to fear about the coming future.

"Oh s**t. I had made noodles for us. It is probably all ruined by now. Tsk, I was hungry you know? Really." He stood up all of a sudden to jump down from the roof and waited for me to do the same.

I sighed as I followed him inside as well.

Today was a long day.

And I already knew that tomorrow will be even longer when I have to go through the same routine all over again giving myself each and every reason about why my life is all meaningless.

Yes, the same school, the same rival faces, the same fight and the same everything else.

It is my life, and it will be the same.

At least I thought so.

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Time had passed ever so slowly just like a tortoise. Every day I had to deal with all those things that I never deserved.

But, Kaith was always with me as he had promised, even when I had my first shift on my birthday.

No, I must say there is another one who is becoming even closer day by day.

Yes, Jenny.

And I am glad to have her as my friend.

Kaith also likes her very much and I know, even though they don't acknowledge but they do have a huge crush for each other.

Anyway,

Except them, nobody bothers anything about me, so I guess, others don't even know that now I have my wolf. Or maybe because I made sure of that right after I had shifted.

You can call it fear or whatever. But I did that anyway.

Yes.

I am always trying to hide. No matter where I go or where I stay, like at the school, at the pack, at my workplace, everywhere. Cause I don't know what I would do if I got found by my mate who turns out to be one of my haters as well. And I know that the possibility of it is at its highest.

Cause, you see, everyone hates me.

So, it is better to stay hidden, always.

And in that case, Kaith helped me a lot, whether knowingly or unknowingly, but he did anyway.

You must be wondering how, right?

See, it is only the smell that could make us realize who is our mate exactly, except through touching each other. So, it was easy for me to cover up my smell with Kaith's as he never minded to lend me his dresses.

Easy.

No worries at all.

And my days were back to usual once again.

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"Move, you bitch." I was about to enter the next maths class when I heard an irritating nasal voice from behind. I didn't even have to turn around to know who it was.

Yes, Lizzie and her group of universal w****s.

She pushed me aside rudely only to sway her hips seductively while making her way to Markus who was already sitting at the back of the class.

I saw Markus frowning a bit but little did she care and sat on his lap, glueing her entire body with his like some lizard.

"Get off me." His horrific voice caused me not to turn my gaze away from the pathetic pair only to see her frowning face revealing the fact that things didn't happen according to her expectations.

Poor Lizzie.

Tsk.

Seeing such a scene before my eyes, I almost cracked up, but I didn't though. Yes, I held myself back from laughing out loud.

Anyway.

I got into that classroom, just when another realization hit me.

Crap.

I sighed as I realized that I had to sit beside those pathetic fellows for an entire class because the class was full leaving the only seat for me to sit, just beside Markus.

Fixing the huge hoody I sat on the seat quietly, waiting for the class to end as soon as possible.

But something was wrong.

I kept zoning out throughout the period and my gut kept twisting for some unknown reason.

Something odd was in the air.

Anyway,

Another day when I had passed successfully, sneaking around the whole school without being caught or involving in some kind of useless fights.

But one thing I knew that something was definitely odd at school. I couldn't point it out though, but I kept feeling that someone is pulling me. But who I didn't know.

'No, I shouldn't encourage any uncanny thoughts.' That was what I thought every time whenever those feelings occurred to me out of the blue only to ignore such suspicion.

"What took you so long?" I asked Kaith when he made his way out to the parking area at last, after school.

"No Sam, I am on time while you are early, because you are eager as ever to get out of this school as soon as you can. What are you running from Sam?" Yeah yeah... He had started his nonstop lectures already.

"Okay, okay... I understand. Where is Jenny?" I asked intentionally, cause I knew only that name could make him stop.

"Why do you think I would know?" He asked acting all grumpy while I knew he was already feeling butterflies in his stomach.

You, dumbass.

But even before I could say anything else to Kaith, we heard the voice for which we were waiting.

"Hi, I am sorry that you had to wait." With that, she showed her dimples and I already knew that someone was already drooling beside me.

"No, it's totally fine." Came his reply.

I didn't know I should laugh or not.

"Anyway. Let's go. Are you going to work today?" I asked her as it became a routine for me since the first day, to drop jenny at work and pick her up from there as well.

And you know what?

Kaith has no problem with that anymore, as long as I take my bike with me and pick up his each and every call without hanging up in between his queries.

"Yes." She said and with that, we all started to head towards our own ways.

Jenny to her club, Kaith to his practice, and I to the cafe, after dropping Jenny as I said.

After work, I headed straight towards the club.

I was roaming around here and there in the dark alleys near Jenny's club as I came early as usual. It was almost midnight. And there was not a single trace of light in the surrounding, creating a replica of my own dark life. Yes, that was how it seemed.

But little did I know that something was about to happen, which I had always avoided.

With cold night breeze, came an unknown smell which appeared the most intoxicating one to me. The smell which could easily compel me to lose my sanity. And I knew what was happening.

Yes, I panicked as soon as I realized that the one is nearby. The one who was always meant for me. My mate.

The one whom I never wanted to meet due to my self-consciousness.

I panicked, even more, when another thought hit me all of a sudden.

I am wearing my clothes tonight just like every other night, because I had least expected to find my mate at these dark alleys and that too at this late hours?

What should I do now?

I can smell him, which means he could too.

Just when I kept thinking of all those possible ways to get myself out of this situation, the scent started getting even stronger and soon I could hear heavy footsteps that were surely coming my way.

Even before I could take another big step to increase my pace, a pair of strong and muscular hands pulled me back only to fall right into his chest and hugged me tightly from behind, in the middle of the darkest alley.

"Mate" that was what I heard before he buried his head on the crook of my neck from behind.