The Moon's Warrior

Chapter 17 Elle's First Heat

Elle's POV

I wake up feeling weird, my lower stomach is cramping, and I feel slightly nauseous. I get dressed and walk down stairs to eat some breakfast…..nobody is down here. Hmm this is a little strange, but I shrug it off and pour myself a bowl of fruit loops. I look outside and it is still very dark, I look at the stove and the time says 3:00. That explains why nobody is down here, it is super early in the morning. I decide that I want to workout a little, I follow a set of stairs down to the basement, it smells like sweat so it must be a way the workout room. Sure, enough when I reach my destination it is a workout room. I look around at all the equipment, a treadmill, bench press, and punching bag. I warm up with some stretches and get on the treadmill for about 20 minutes. I then decided to go at the punching bag for a little bit. I worked out for good hour and a half, it is now time for a shower I say to myself as I head up the stairs. Once I make into my room, I pick out my clothes that I want to wear for the days and then get in the shower. “Good Morning Elle” Bellona links me. “Good Morning” I replied. “I hope you enjoyed your workout but now it is time to talk about something important.” She says seriously. “Okay” I reply questioningly. “You will start your first heat this meaning. You probably already feeling the cramping and some other symptoms. You will start to bleed tonight, and the bleeding can last for a few days up to a week. Then after the bleeding you will start ovulating.”  She tells me. “Damn I forgot all about heat” I say. “We will need to get some sanitary napkins and stay from all males especially Jax after you stop bleeding. You will want to mate with him, and he will want to mate with you. Unless you are ready to be marked and mated?” She asks. “I am not and why do we have to stay from all males? I ask her. “Since you have not been marked yet, your scent will affect all males that are unmated.” She tells me. “Oh, makes sense, So I am going to be stuck in the house all week then.” I say sadly. “Yes, but we will be fine, and Marissa will be here to keep you company also.” She tells me. “How do you know this?” I ask her curiously. “Oh, I talked to Hercules, Jax’s wolf. I let him know that we will be going into heat soon, but you are not ready to be marked or mated yet.” She tells me. “Great” I say embarrassed. “Nothing to be embarrassed of it, it is just a part of being a female wolf” she tells me. I finish my shower and I get dressed and brush my hair. I really want a hobby or something else that I can learn. I head to Jax’s library and find some books about cooking and decide that I might try a few of these recipes. Jax opens the door and walks in and says, “Good Morning baby girl.” I blush and say, “Good Morning back to him.” “Why are up so early love” He asks me curiously. I look at him and notice his strong jaw with some stubble outline it, his emerald green eyes with curiosity in them. I look down and notice that he is only wearing his gray sweat pants. His abs are perfect sculpted and the V line that leads down… is just so…. He coughs and I look back up his eyes notice they are dark, and lust filled. “Love I asked you a question” He says huskily. “Oh sorry, I woke up early and decided that I need to find a hobby, so I came here.” I mumbled. I noticed that his eyes are back to their normal green. “Do you have anything that you like to do?” I ask him before my mind starts to wonder again. “Well I do enjoy working out, running, but honestly my favorite is playing the piano. He walks over to the big black grand piano on the other side of the room. I follow him over there and he starts to play. It sounds very pretty. He finished the song he was playing. “What was that you were playing?” I ask him “it was Beethoven’s 5 secrets.” He tells me. “It was beautiful.” I tell him. “Not as beautiful as you love.” He tells me and grabs my hand. I blush and mumble a “Thank you.” “Darling, I will be staying at Kai’s this week. I will be just a phone call or text away if you need me. Since we cannot mind link during your heat, this will have to be our communication and Marissa will also be here with you.” He tells me. He sounds a little sad. “How will I call or text you, I don’t have a phone. Also, why can't we mind link during my heat?” I say to him. "we can't mind link during your heat because our wolves, they will want to encourage each other to mate, so during your heat I will be blocking the link from mine and your wolf, so they won't be tempted to rush things." He says before walking over to his desk in there and pulls out a box that a pastel pink with a hot pink ribbon wrapped around and tied in a pretty little bow on top.” This is for you love, go ahead and open it.” He says and he gives the box to me. I take and open it and is the newest iPhone in a blue camo case. “Thank you” I say shyly.  He turns it on for me and shows how to text and make phone calls. He also shows me the contact in my phone. He kisses me on my forehead and heads back to his room to pack. I text Marissa and let her know that I have a phone now and I am ready to spend the week with her. I have some recipes I found in the book that I want to try. I head to the kitchen and start finding the ingredients to make a strawberry pie. Jax comes into the kitchen and watches me.  He walks over to me and kisses my head before saying “I am leaving love. Marissa should be here any minute. Text me and let me know how your hobby finding goes.” I reply with a smile on my face “I will.” He grabs his suitcase and walk out the door. My heart hurts seeing him leave but I know that he is not very far. Marissa comes in the door a few minutes later with several bags in her hand. “What do you have there?” I ask. She holds up a finger and says “Just a sec.” before she walks out the door and returns with a few more bags in her hands. “I got us some stuff to do and make. Jax told me that you are trying cooking and starting your first heat. So, I also brought you some sanitary napkins and chocolate and lots of ice cream.” “Okay” I say and get back to making the pie. “So, what are you making and let me see your new phone.” I point to my phone on the counter and tell her “I am making a strawberry pie.” “Oh yum. Look here and smile.” She says as she walks over to me and smiles next me. I see myself and her on the screen of the phone. The phone makes a clicking sound. She turns away from and then turns back around shows me. “Her and I are on the screen of the phone smiling. “How did you do that” I ask her and stop what I was doing. “You take a picture just like this.” She shows me. “Okay” I say with a smile as I put the phone back on the counter. Time goes by and well my pie wasn’t to bad. It was uh very runny and sour... I accidently put salt instead of sugar in the pie. Marissa says wasn’t horrible and eats a few bites before we through the whole pie away. We grab some ice cream and turn on a movie. In the middle of the movie I feel something warm and weird come out of me. I jump up and run to the bathroom. I must be bleeding, Bellona told me it was going to happen tonight, and I forgot all about it. Marissa also follows after me, but I have already shut and locked the door. Goddess how embarrassing. “Elle are you all right!” She yells at me knocking on the door. “I’m alright just bleeding” I say embarrassed as a silent tear rolls down my cheek. “Okay, unlock the door and get into the shower I will be right back. I do what she says, and I see the blood all over my underwear and pants and it starts to run down my leg. I jump in the shower before the blood reaches the floor. She knocks and says “Hey Elle, it is just me. I grabbed you fresh clothes and the box of pads. They are on the counter. I turn the water off and grab the fluffy towel and wrap it wound myself before I get out. I grab the box of sanitary napkins and read the instructions. I put them on my underwear like it showed. I put on the soft fluffy purple pajama pants and Jax’s black T-shirt. I grab the ruined pants and underwear on the floor and go to the kitchen they won’t fit in the bathroom trashcan. ‘What are you doing Elle?” Marissa asks me. “I am throwing my ruined clothes away.” I say with a tear rolling down my face. I really loved those pants. She grabs the clothes away from me and says, “Oh honey, they are not ruined, we will put them in the washer.” She grabs my hand and lead me to a small room that is white with grey wood that goes around half the bottom of it. “This is the washer and dryer.” She points to them. She puts the bloody pants and underwear and some soap in the washer and presses a button that starts it. She turns around and hugs me “It is okay to cry, and I understand it.” She whispers in my ear. I start crying even more and tell her “I don’t want to cry though but those are my favorite pants and I didn’t want to throw them away.” She pulls back from the hug and grabs my hand and looks me straight in the eyes. “It okay, you are going through a big hormonal change right now. Your body is getting you ready to reproduce and when it does that our hormones go all sorts of crazy. It will be okay, I promise.” She tells me sincerely. I take a breath and calm down. “Let’s go finish the movie and eat more ice cream.” I tell her.