Aurora’s Life of Dreams

Who Am I

Aurora’s POV

**He has me by the arm dragging me away from the stream. I’m screaming for help but no one can hear me. Just as I’m about to give up, I feel her hand on my shoulder. “Invisique.” she spoke and suddenly the man didn’t have me anymore. “Da**it Charlie, how’d you lose her?!”**

I woke up breathing heavily, realizing where I was. I slid slowly off the bed and slipped into the bathroom as to not wake Hayley. It’s been just over six weeks since I started staying at Hayley’s. I haven’t spoken to any of my family, except for Payton, nearly at all since the night I discovered Jett is my mate. Hayley never questioned anything, when I showed up at her door with tear stained eyes and completely nude. She just pulled me in for a hug and comforted me. I didn’t tell her what happened since according to Payton, who showed up shortly I arrived at her house, dad wanted to keep this quiet until I knew what I was going to do.

“No Hayley.” I answer with frustration as she now watches me brushing my hair. Propped against the bathroom door with a look of defeat.

“Come on Rory, your mom shows up everyday to talk to you and you’ve only seen her the one time.”

*Flashback*

“Honey let me explain.”

“Explain what!? That you, dad and Jett kept the biggest secret of my life from me. There’s nothing to explain.”

“Honey we only did it to protect you.”

“Mom I get that. I understand when I was younger, but I think since you guys knew you should have told me when I turned 18. You knew Jett was gonna be coming home in a few months and instead of giving me a heads up you just kept the secret.”

I started to cry and my mom reached for me.

“Just don’t, I need to figure this out for myself.”

She quietly nodded and I saw tears fall from her eyes as she got up and walked out the door.

*Flashback Over*

“I said no. I’m going to talk with my dad today and that is all the family I can handle, okay?”

“Okay, but girl I don’t know how much longer you can hide out here. I mean Ian and I have set the date for our mating ceremony I’ll only live here for a few more weeks.”

“I know I’ll sort it out okay, I will figure this out. I just can’t deal with BOTH my parents today.”

*A few hours later*

I approached my dad’s office, when all of a sudden his scent filled my nose. “Cr*p” I whispered. I turned to walk away, thinking he was in with my dad and instead I ran smack into him.

“Jett.”

“Rory, are you okay?”

“Yes I’m fine. I’m here to talk to dad.”

“Huh, I thought you were ignoring all of us?” He said dripping in sarcasm.

“I’m not ignoring, I’m avoiding. But dad needs to speak with me so,” he looked down at his feet, “you know J, I’m not going to avoid forever. I just need to work out how I feel about this, which is much harder than I expected since I have my wolf now.”

He let out a small laugh.

“Yeah Troy has been very opinionated about everything.” I smiled at the thought of Troy.

“There it is” he smiled back at me.

“What?”

“Your smile. I missed it so much. Not seeing you for four years, this is the only thing that kept me together when I got homesick and well....you-sick.”

He handed me a picture from his wallet. It was a picture I mailed to him from my senior prom pictures, I had on a long lavender a-line mermaid dress that had sleeves hanging off my shoulders, the jewels all over the dress reflecting the sunlight making it seem like I was the only thing in the world that the camera could pick up. My hair was curled into lose beach waves with a braided crown around my head. I decided no make up, my look was so natural on the day to day I wanted this day to only reflect my natural state. You could see the glimmer in my hazel eyes, the excitement and just pure joy which was reflected by the biggest smile I had ever worn from Payton making me laugh while my mom took the pictures.

“You kept it?”

“Of course I did,” he looked down at me shocked that I would even ask, “it was my only real reminder of home.”

I started to tear up, I could feel every part of me wanting to kiss him. I looked up into his eyes, I saw the want, no the need for me to at least touch him. I jumped up into his arms like I had done before he left, wrapped my legs around his waist and my arms around his neck and just hugged him. He swiftly wrapped his arms around me and hugged me tightly, his head in the crook of my neck breathing me in while I was doing the same against his neck. “I miss you,” he whispered into my ear causing me to smile. I didn’t realize how much I needed his touch, but it made me feel complete in this moment. I started to lift my head to meet his eyes and he did the same. He took his hand and moved the strands of hair that were in my face to tuck it behind my ear. Feeling his hand graze my cheek I felt sparks all over my body. “I forgive you.” I whispered as we stared into one another’s soul. He slowly cupped my cheek, his eyes looked to my lips as if asking permission. I started to lean in closer to him, his lips mere centimeters from mine...

“There you are!” My dad proclaimed from behind, looking at us and realizing what was happening.

“Oh, I’m so sorry. I’ll just—.” Dad said as I quickly pushed myself off of Jett.

“No dad you’re fine, we were just....talking.” I handed Jett back his picture of me that I didn’t even realize I was still holding. I saw his face drop out of the corner of my eye.

“Actually this is a matter I need to speak to both of you about.”

“Both of us?” I looked at Jett.

“Yes, both of you.” Great.

We followed him into his office and sat down. I loved my dad’s office, it was too comfy for me to even call it an office. There was no desk, just a giant black sectional couch complimented by a grey oak coffee table in the middle of the room. The walls were a cream color that reminded me of how I like my coffee, coffee with my cream and sugar as dad liked to tease. Plants sat all the way down his large window that took up the whole wall so that dad could see most of the east side of the territory. His book shelf took the entirety of the wall across from us with pictures of our family covering the other two walls.

“Does Jett know about your dreams?” Dad asked cautiously

“Yes, he, mom, Pay and Hayley have been the only ones I’ve told.”

“Okay, have there been any more changes?” I started to think back to my dream last night,

“Yeah, I told mom that some lady grabbed me. I couldn’t tell if she was with them or not, but now I know that’s not the case. She was saving me and she’s a witch. She spelled me to be invisible with her. One of the men got really upset and yelled at the man that grabbed me, the guy I knew. He called him...Charlie.” They both gawked at me for a moment.

“That is certainly a new development.” My father said inquisitively. “I spoke with the Elders about your dreams, they want to do some blood work to see what strands of wolf run in your DNA. They believe there’s more than just wolf in there.”

“Strands of wolf?” I asked my face consumed with confusion.

“So all of us are wolves, but sometimes in our lines there may be other magic: witch, fairy, phoenix. Stuff like that. They want to see if you have any of that in your bloodline. Right?” Jett explains to which dad nods in confirmation, I could tell his travels to the different packs around the world really taught him a lot.

“Okay, so when are they wanting it done?”

“Right now” my dad said and a nurse walked in through the door.

“Well no time like the present right?” I joked and they both giggled. As they both got up to leave me to my blood draw, I grabbed Jett’s hand “will you stay with me? I don’t really do blood.”

“Of course.” He smiled so big I thought it would take up the entirety of his face.

“I’m sorry about in the hall, I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. I just still don’t know—”

“No, no it’s okay. Don’t be sorry. I get it, we got caught up in a sweet moment. I know you still need time.” I gave him a small grin and squeezed his hand and my eyes shut simultaneously as the needle went in and blood started coming out.

Did I really need time? I know the urge to be near him is the mate bond but I don’t think I can entirely blame that for what happened in the hall. Ever since that night, I cry myself to sleep from not being able to just hug and talk to him the way I always have. Maybe Harmony was right and this is a good thing.

“All done. We should have the results in about a week.”

“Thank you, nurse.” I spoke softly. As I went to stand I noticed that I had some blood on my arm. Jett had started walking towards the door but turned when he heard me stop. “J-“ was all I could get out before I passed out.