Inevitable Calling

Standing in the middle of the woods, in the pouring rain, I feel cool breezes fan against my very hot face. You see, being a she-wolf I tend to get very warm.Looking down at my bare arms and legs, I see my skin glisten from the rain. Taking in a very deep breath I decide to take a run back home. Cutting through the trees, I dodge every branch that stands in my way. Every step I take, I keep my eyes on the grounds since I’m such a clumsy person, despite the fact that I’m a she-wolf and have strong senses, I would fall over and injure myself. Five minutes later, I return to my house, I open the door and I run upstairs; after walking into my bedroom, I drop my clothes and then I wrap myself with a towel. “Honey?!” my mum calls out to me. “Yeah, Mum?” I reply to her while continuing to dry myself from the rain. Once I was dry, I put on my pyjamas and there was a sudden knock on the door. “Can I come in, Sweetie? Are you decent?” I inhale and glance at the sound. “Yes, you can come in.” Still looking at my bedroom door, my mum walks in. “I did your laundry, it’s raining outside, are your clothes wet?” She asks me, scanning my room looking for wet clothes. I pick the clothes up and launched them at my mum. Standing with my hands on my hips, my mum stands there ogling me. “Don’t forget to brush your teeth and go to bed early so your dad can drop you off at college tomorrow morning.”She orders me. I rolled my eyes at her. “Yeah, yeah, I know, Mum. I haven’t forgotten.” She raises her eyebrow at me then storms off. After brushing my teeth and having a quick video call with my best friend, Muffy, I jumped into bed and listened to the rain beating down on my window. So heavenly, I think to myself. Within minutes, I fell asleep with a smile on my face - also thinking about Joel, my mate. Thinking about Joel helps me sleep, makes me feel safe and content, knowing there’s someone to look forward to seeing. Someone I get to spend the rest of my life with. Or so I thought. But that comes within time. ***** “We’re going to miss you, with you going back to college.” My dad says in the car on the way to college in the following morning, unaware he’s actually talking to me. “It’s a big moment for you too, you’re going to be eighteen! Are you excited?” A few moments later, silence fills the car… until my dad spoke again. “Lexi! Are you listening to me, Hun?” He raises his tone a little, snapping me out of my thoughts. “Sh*t, sorry yeah.” I reply, I felt him c*****g an eyebrow at me while shifting his head to face me. “I- I mean sure, Dad.” I stammer, feeling awkward that I’ve sworn in front of my father. He laughs at me and looks back at the road. My dad is pretty chill, so is my mother really. They don’t really like it when I swear but they’ve accepted that today is the modern age and everyone swears. They are pretty protective of me given that I’m an only child. I get freedom, they let he make my own choices despite that I’m not fully eighteen yet but I will be in a week. But of course I respect my parents, I’m well behaved and I look after them just as much as they look after me. I believe in equality. Besides, I’m at that age where I want to experience and do my own thing. “I’ll miss you too.” He laughs at me again. Chewing my lips, he looks at me again. A few moments later he said, “Listen, Sweetheart, your mother and I know that you’re getting to that age where thoughts will be running through your head and since you haven’t fully mated with Joel yet, soon you’re both going to be-“ “Argh, Dad. I know what you’re about to say.” I exclaim, cutting him off. I could feel him getting shifty as the conversation progresses. “I think I’m mature enough to know to be careful. We can skip the s*x talk.” I mumble, looking down at my fingers. I could hear my dad let out a awkward sigh. “It’s awkward for me too, you know? Me and your mum are just looking out for you.” “Even though you’re becoming a young woman, you’re still our baby and you’re vulnerable.” He says, parking the car into a stop since we arrived at my college. For a few moments it’s was really quiet. He cranes his neck to look at me one more time and I smiled at him softly, planted a kiss on his cheek and said’ “I know, Dad. I appreciate you both looking out for me.” “But I gotta learn the hard way, I’m gonna get heart broken at some point in my life it’s just life.” I shrug as I speak. I then smile again. “It’s okay, do you know why? Because I have you to pick up the pieces.” I could see the love my dad has for me in his eyes, we gave each other a huge hug before I grabbed my college bag and left his car. “Bye, Daddy.” I say waving at him. “Stay safe, Honey, we love you.” He calls back at me, driving off once I greeted Muffy. “Hey, Girl.” I say to her. She put her arms around my neck and gave it a peck. “Hey, Sexy Lexi.” She says back, giggling knowing full well I don’t think I’m sexy. “You gotta stop calling me that, I’m far from sexy.” She shush’s me and elbows me in the waist. Walking into the building, I scan the hallway and saw Joel leaning up against the wall. He was texting on his phone, lost in his own world. “I’ll see you in class.” Muffy projects. With Muffy giving me some privacy with Joel, I walked towards him and gave him a kiss on the lips, breaking him out of his texting session. “Oh hey, Babe, I didn’t see you there.” Hey said, grinning. “Who was you texting, ey?” I ask him, making a light joke. He giggles at me and caressed cheek. “No one, Babe. Was just looking through social media.” He grabs my hand and starts circling my palm, staring into my eyes. We stood there smiling at each other, like a pair of goofy love birds. There’s been some awkward moments between us both recently and I think it’s because he wants to finally have s*x with me. Even thought we’re mates I just don’t feel ready for it yet. As if he could read my thoughts, he broke the silence. “So, Babe, I’ve been thinking.” He starts to act all sheepishly. “You’re almost eighteen now and I was wondering if that meant you might be ready to…you know… make love to me.” Not knowing what to say to him I just look across the hallway, chewing my lips again. “I-I’m still not sure, Baby.” I look back into his eyes, I buried my face into his chest. His breathing was quite rapid. A low growl came from his throat. “I don’t want to pressure you, it’s just we’re mates aren’t we? And, well… I love you.” I inhale a deep breath, take a few moments to think. He sighs then grabs my face. “I’m sorry for asking., we both better get to class.” I nod at him and we set off for our classes., hand in hand. ***** Later on that day everyone seems to be staring at me, not knowing why I sauntered towards Muffy and Aria, Aria is my dorm mate. They gave me sheepish looks as they saw me coming. Weird. Why are they whispering? “Umm, Guys, why are you whispering and looking at me like that? What’s going on?” Few moments later… silence. Aria was the first to break it. “We’re not sure, people seem to be talking about you and Joel.” She says, rubbing her neck. “What do you mean “people seem to be talking about me and joel’?” I ask, feeling anxiously. “All we hear is ‘Lex doesn’t…’ ‘But Joel does’ ‘I think he’ and that’s all we hear.” Muffy adds, shrugging her arms. I fold my arms and look sternly. Trying to make out they might be saying and look back at my conversation with Joel earlier. He did seem to be… anxious for us to… have s*x. Taking a deep breath, I start munching on the yummy pizza that was sat staring at me on the plate in front of me. With the girls looking at me shifty, I could feel eyes on me. Once my mouth was clear of the bite I took, I looked around the cafeteria and saw Regina Foe glaring at me, giving me smirky smiles. I shook my head while saying, “What the f*ck is Regina staring at? The girls looked over at her then looked back at me and sighed in disappointment. “Ignore her, she’s a piece of work.” Muffy said to me, rolling her eyes. “You don’t think that… Joel…would cheat on me. Do you?” I said slowly eating another bite of my pizza, the girls gasped in dismayed. “He better not do or I would rip his head off his body!” Muffy pointed her fingers at me, expressing her loyalty towards me. With my hands shaking, I’m now worried. I look around and neither Joel or Regina are in sight. Normally mates should feel what their other mate feels but I don’t feel it with Joel, just his attraction towards me. I’m starting to wonder if Joel really is my mate. If Joel did cheat me knowing we’re meant to be mates, he would have to serve a death penalty as it’s against the law for werewolves. With my hands feeling sweaty and shaky, I stand up scanning the room some more. Muffy and Aria just sits there, returning the worried concern look on their faces. I go to speak but words don’t come out. Turning on my heels, I decide to go hunt for Joel. Ten minutes later, I don’t find him. Where are you, Joel? I think to myself. Something doesn’t feel right. Standing outside the boys bathroom, a herd of boys come rushing out. Amongst them was Joel. To my relief, I let out a exasperated sigh. With me stood planted on the ground, hands still shaking, Joel sees me and walks towards me. “Hey, are you okay, Baby?” He asks me, kissing my forehead. Little butterflies fluttered inside my stomach at his affection. “Y-yes... Sort of.“ I managed to choke out. “I thought something was wrong… I heard that people are talking about us.” He looks at me blankly, staring into my eyes. For a few moments he then shakes his head and chuckles. “You’re super cute when you worry.” Still grinning like a love puppy, he cups my chin and kisses me tenderly on the lips. He then sighs and rubs his hand across his face. “It’s the boys, they’re making fun and telling everyone that I told them I was ready to make love to you and you’re not. I told them to grow up but you know what they’re like.” “I’m so sorry, Babe, for making you worry.” He says, folding his arms. I take in another deep breath, contemplating whether or not I believe him. I mean it’s a bit strange that people are talking about our situation and that Regina was stood smirking at me then disappears. You see, this world is full of werewolves of all kind, and even the humans know about us. There’s a law that humans accept us as long as we agree to not harm them. Humans even research and study us. Amongst other monsters out there. So obviously other werewolves understand the process of the mating bond. Everyone knows that me and Joel are together but they know we haven’t started the mating process. Which makes it difficult for me, because even though mates that haven’t been mated properly could mark another. Which would still leave an affect on me, my wolf would be heartbroken, feel rejected, hurt. Which would hurt me. So whatever I feel, my inner wolf feels too and vice versa. Even Dollie is feeling suspicious of Joel, Dollie is what I named my inner pup. “I promise you have nothing to worry about.” Joel voices, filling the silence. I take another deep breath and see no other choice but to trust him. “Okay, my love.” I say. ****** A couple of days later, things didn’t get better for my concern. Joel started to distance himself from me, leaving both me and Dollie feeling lonely and sad. She’s not talking to me at the moment, I try to reach out to her but she’s not there. Washing my hands in the sink of the girls lavatory, I hear a toilet flush. Out comes a jolly, snaky Regina. She walks over to the sinks and locks eyes with mine in the mirror, suddenly Dollie peeks through to look at her. She can smell her and she’s not happy. Something about the scent of Regina throws Dollie off, which makes me feel uneasy. I trust my wolf, she’s like my instinct. You know that saying ‘trust your guts, trust your instincts because they’re always right’? Well, I always listen to Dollie. And right now, Dollie is telling me to keep an eye out on Regina. Plucking up the courage, I swiftly turn towards Regina and look at her dead in the eye. “Is there something you’ve got to say to me with all that smirking you’ve got going on, Regina?” I spat at her, her pretentious attitude towards me is starting to piss me off. She laughs at me and snakes her fingers across the sink counter. “Your naughty doggy needs putting on a leash. Watch out for him.” Raising my hands to my mouth as I gasp, she giggles and wanders out of the lavatory. Stunned with horror, I wonder what she meant by that. With my anxiety coming back to surface I don’t know what to do, I reach out to my wolf to see her how she feels. And she’s not feeling confident at all. After a few moments standing there, shell shocked, I run for my dorm. When I got to my dorm it was quiet, no one was there. Thank god. Tears started running down my face because I hated how Dollie was feeling. I hated how I was feeling myself. Regina is a bully and wants to destroy me. After about a hour of pacing, gathering thoughts into my head, Aria and Muffy wanders in. I paused my pacing and looked at them, once they could see that I had been crying they ran to my comfort and sat me down on my bed. With Muffy to my right and Aria to my left, they both rubbed my back to soothe me. “Alright, who the f*ck has upset my girl?” It was Muffy to end the silence. This is what I love about Muffy, she’s so loyal to me. She always without fail come to my defence, she always know how to cheer me up and how to make me happy. She also knows when to leave me alone and give me space. She knows when to make me laugh and when to just sit there, comforting me without saying anything. This was one of those moments where she demands to know who dares makes me cry. “Tell me, I’m going to go find the b*st*rd!” She howls at me. “Regina.” I say, throwing my arms up in defence. “What did she do to you?” She says, eyes looking vengeful. “She said my doggy is naughty and needs to be kept on a leash, told me to watch him.” I answer, looking at my fingers while twiddling them. A gasp escapes from Aria while Muffy shoots to stand and clenches her fist. Steam coming out of her ears, she looks like she’s getting ready to murder. “That f*ck*n* sly, rotten toe-rag!” She is beyond screaming, feeling overwhelmed I try to calm her. “Relax, Muffy, she’s not worth the anger.” I say standing up, lightly squeezing her arm. She inhales twice and relaxes a bit. “Sorry, it’s just that her face makes me want to punch it so hard.” She emphasised the words “so” and “hard”. “But what does she even mean ‘your doggy is naughty’?” Aria finally chimes in. We turn around to face her and she’s looking at us in thought. “I’m not sure but it doesn’t sound good.” Muffy answers. With the need of fresh air, I turn on my heel and reach of the door. “Where are you going?” Muffy asks, sounding pissed. “For fresh air.” I answer, not turning my back. And then slammed the door shut behind me. ***** It’s coming close to my birthday now, just a day before. I slept over at Muffys’ since it’s a Saturday. I’m awake but not having my eyes opened, I hear squeals with excitement. It’s Muffy. “Wakey wakey, Sunshine.” She coaxes me to wake up. “No, I’m asleep.” I groan, lying of course. “No, you’re not. Come on, B, get up.” “It’s your birthday tomorrow, we’ve got stuff to do.” I open up my eyes and see her sitting up in her bed looking at me, she claps her hands together and smiles widely. I roll my eyes at her giddyness. “Just because Joel is being a massive d*ck, doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your birthday with me.” She says, arching her brows. I sigh and get up. “I just don’t get it, why act all lovey dovey with me and then go all distant?” “Especially before my birthday!” I exclaim, wafting my arms about. “Honestly, Lex, I have no idea.” She answers, looking sympathetic and biting her lip. “It’s because I’m not ready to sleep with him.” I state as I walk towards her bathroom. I undress as I flick the shower on. Once the temperature is to my liking I step inside, hearing sighs coming from the other room. I soak myself with lavender and cherry shower gel, it smell so yummy. I scrubbed my sweaty body to clean and I then lather my hair with Shea butter conditioner, my fave. Once I rinsed my hair I stood deep in thought, enjoying my hot steamy shower. Thoughts went onto Joel, then Regina, then Joel and Regina. I suddenly feel uneasy. I wonder if something is going on between them. I think to myself. No, you would know. But then again something does feel off. I can just feel it. With a deep breath, I switch the shower off and step outside of the bath and wrap a towel around my wet body. I walked into the other room and got dressed. “So what would you like for breakfast, Girls?” Zoe, Muffys’ mother, graciously asks us. “Sausage and egg butty please, Zoe.” I say with a flashing grin on my face. Zoe turns to her daughter. “Same.” She says, also with a smile on her face. Zoe turns to the cooker and starts making our breakfast. “So, are you excited for tomorrow?” She asks, directing it at me. “Meh, it would be nice to feel grown up.” I answer, sipping a glass of orange juice. “Eighteen is a big number, you should be excited.” She turns around to wink at me. I giggle at her and then sigh, placing my chin in my palm. She looks at me with unsureness before turning back to the cooker. Muffy tries to lighten my mood by explaining that I’ve got a surprise that will cheer me up. “You’ll sure be excited about your birthday once the night is young. We’ve got a surprise for you.” A smile creeps up on my face. Not sure what it is but I like surprises. Zoe finishes off the sandwiches before presenting them to me and Muffy. My wolf senses picks up the smell and my nose turns in approval. Damn, Zoe can cook. Zoe places herself down with a cup of coffee in her hand, watching her daughter and her daughters’ best friend munch on such heavenly food made by her hand. “This is the sh*t.” I moan through chewing, not caring I swore in front of my best friends’ mother. She giggles at me and waves her fingers about. “I love having you here, I love cooking for people.” She says, laying her cup down. Zoe has a lot of love for me, she always lets me sleep over whenever I like. Sometimes she even opens the door for me if I’m ever in trouble and my parents are busy. She’s like a second mum to me. Zoe spends most of her time alone when Muffy isn’t here, her dad, Alex, had died a year ago due to a train crash. The injuries were that fatal he sadly couldn’t pull through. Once Muffy and I ate our breakfast, Zoe took us to the mall… to buy a dress… for tonight. Whatever is happening tonight I don’t know. But I just go along with it. It doesn’t surprise me that people are planning a surprise for my birthday. My guess is a party. Dollie perks up at the thought of a party, which means she believes it will cheer us both up. As long as I’m happy she’s happy, it’s crazy to think my life depends on Dollie’s choices. You must think why I let her guide me, well she’s like my inner fairy godmother. Nothing comes close to the bond I have with my inner wolf. I love her and she loves me. Flicking through the clothes rack, I find it hard to find a dress that catches my eye. The shop is pretty empty, which is fine by me because I feel like being on my own for the minute. Continuing to look for the perfect dress, my eyes find themselves glued on this hot pink mini dress. I walk over to the dress, pick it up and walk over to the changing rooms. Once the dress was on I walked out of the cubicle and looked into the wide mirror with shock on my face. The dress comes up just above my knees and has very thin straps, the cutline on the chest is a v shape giving me the perfect cleavage. I might be average looking but luckily I have a great pair of boobs. The dress is so tight against my body it shows off my curves. I’ve always hated my figure but looking at myself in the mirror makes me smile massively. After admiring myself for a while someone comes up behind me. “My, you look absolutely gorgeous in that dress. I envy you so bad!” Muffy says staring at me as I turn around to face her. Feeling embarrassed my face flushes. “It’s a bit… risqué…” I explain. “It is but the dress suits you, I do hope you get it.” She exclaims all gleefully, clapping her hands on her face. “I dunno, it’s a bit too much. I mean I doubt my dad would let me out looking like this.” I say sitting down, resting my face in my palm. “Oh nonsense, it’s your eighteenth birthday! You’re old enough to wear what you want!” She argues, pointing her finger in the air. Zoe appearing out of nowhere, gasps as she sees us both in our “surprise event” outfits. “Oh, my God. You both look absolutely breath-taking.” With admiration, she places her hands on her hips. With some thought and speaking with my inner wolf she agrees with buying the dress. So I decided to. ****** Later that night, I was back at Muffys’ mother’s’ house getting ready for the surprise. My face was beaming with make up that made my face somehow looked more attractive, my light-blonde, curly hair was dangling down to my hips and my body was laced with the pink hot mini dress that I bought earlier on that day, to finish off my look my feet was inside the most beautiful, pink hot glittery heels to match my dress. My icy blue eyes glowed as I looked into the mirror after my last touch, Dollie was looking at her human reflection and Loved what she was seeing! Her tail was wagging and she was panting with her tongue out, she started dancing at the joy she was feeling. Knowing my inner wolf was happy made me happy. ****** After getting a taxi to the destination we were supposed to be at, I stood outside the building. We were at a club called Pacha. A surprise party, just as I thought. I inhaled three very deep breathes before plucking the courage to walk inside. As I reached to the VIP room everyone’s head snapped in my direction, with their jaws dropping. And by everyone I mean: My parents, my grandparents, Joel, Joels’ family, Muffy, Zoe, Aria, and a few of my parents friends. Suddenly I felt rather naked, my face heated up instantly and I started shifting in my spot. Joel was there in the middle at the front of everyone, staring at me with his eyes wide open and his jaw to the ground, I feel giddy and Dollie is still wagging her tail. With my head held up high, I confidently walked towards my parents, who are looking at me gobsmacked. “I am not happy with you looking like this, Princess.” My dad says to me, looking protective. Both my mum and I roll our eyes at him. “Don’t listen to your father, Honey, you look amazing.” My mum squeals at me with excitement. “Thank you, I can’t believe you’ve done all this.” I say in a high pitched voice. I look towards Joel; he’s still staring at me with his jaw dropping, I walk over to him giggling. “Hi, Baby.” I say to him in a sultry manner. He stands up, wraps his arm around me then plants a kiss on my lips. His tongue makes it’s way into my mouth as his hands grope my waist. “Steady on, Tiger.” I mumble through his teeth, chucking. After a few minutes of us kissing we pull away breathless and he looks at my shyly. “Wow, you are breath-taking.” He manages to choke out. I batter my eyelashes at him. “Wanna dance?” He asks me, extending his arm towards me. “Of course.” I answer, flashing him a devilish smile and grabbing his hand. As I led Joel to the dance floor, I could see Muffy giving a suggestive smile and notions to me and Joel. I mouthed ‘shut up’ to her and we both giggled. “What’s funny, Gorgeous?” A whisper in my ear asks. I turn to face my mate. “Nothing, my love.” I answer sweetly. Five hours later the clock strikes midnight, it’s officially my birthday. Everyone sings happy birthday to me and the cake is being brought out. It’s extravagant, the cake was laced with pink icing and a shape of champagne bottle. There were two numbers of my age written in icing, with a ‘Happy birthday Lexi’ underneath it. Around the writing there was raspberries and glitter as decorations. With my mouth watering, my dad cuts a slice for me and since it’s my birthday I get the honours of having first slice. “Here’s some birthday cake for the Birthday Girl.” My dad announces with a smile on his face, looking proud of me. I take the plate and grab a fork then dive into the cake. Chewing on this divine masterpiece, is making my mouth tingle. I spend the rest of the night dancing with people, forgetting my insecurities. I am in fact having a very good start to my birthday. Not knowing what’s yet to come. As it got late, my parents got us a taxi back to theirs. Feeling a bit wobbly, my mother helps me out of the dress and helps me into bed. Werewolves are meant to have high tolerance to alcohol but I don’t unfortunately so I get drunk quicker. Once I hit the pillow I fell deep into sleep.