DON'T LEAVE ME LUNA

What are you doing here?

Seb's pov

The moment I thought I would be cherishing forever now feels like a fever dream.

Honestly if someone had told me that day that I would be crying thinking about the same moment in a dimly lit room, I would've fought them.

It's not that I dismissed the possibility of little flights and small differences in our relationship but what I just didn't think would be this soon, our first fight and might be our last.

Before everything might come to an end.

Enough with the depressing thoughts - Venus tries to soothe me but I can feel the strain in his tone, I know how hard this might be on him.

" Seb! " Mom calls me with a soft knock on the door carefully enough to not frighten me suddenly.

I drag myself from the bed taking the blanket attached to my hip along with me to open the door.

" You are already up? " She asks in a whisper with a fond smile on her face, I nod my head before pressing a kiss on her forehead. " Roger is here to meet you" she says pointing down stairs.

" Oh! Is he ? " I crook my head a little to get a peek of the living room, he is sitting there on the couch, only his head is visible from here, if it was any other day I would have jolted towards him with excitement in whatever condition I am in, but I can't show up like this now, my eyes are probably puffy from all the crying last night, the last thing I want now is to make him concerned.

So I decide to stay back and wash my face and change into a fresh outfit before I go downstairs.

He looks up at me, already waving his hand like crazy , so I run towards him taking his hand before it falls off from the force he is waving with and pulling me into a bear hug.

Roger is the only friend I am genuinely happy meeting every time. He has this childish innocence to him which is rarely seen in people here, everyone else looks like plotting something in their heads while smiling at you.

" My name is Roger in case you forgot." He starts with his usual sarcasm separating from the hug and stretching his hand for a hand shake.

I take his hand, " well! It goes the same for you Mr. Roger. I am Sebastian, in case you also forgot. " I counter playing along.

He looks at me with offensive eyes. " I am not the one who ran off to a new pack and did not return for another three months after finding my mate. "

He says putting me in the spot.

" Now that's- , okay! I am the culprit, I agree. " I admit raising both my arms in the air in defeat. He laughs in triumph.

" That's okay though, you are the Luna afterall." He says, the title makes me swell with pride. I wanted to be many things but Luna was not definitely one of them but it's one thing that made me feel complete, like I always was meant to be one.

" How are you doing and Misa! How is she? " I ask about their well being since it's been many days since I saw them. I met Alpha Luke a couple of times in the pack meetings with Caleb but not another member of the pack including Roger.

" She's fine and mom keeps asking about you, You should visit her sometime" He replies with a smile on his face. Luna Rose has always been fond of me, she treated me like her own child, I owe a lot to them.

" Misa asked me to invite you over for some tea and If you didn't budge she insisted that I even go as far as kidnapping you, I even brought some witch's sedative potion with me. " He says too seriously to even consider it as joking, I heard they have shifted to their own place recently while I was away and considering it would be my first time visiting their place,it would be rude to reject their invitation even though I have no strength in me to go anywhere.

"No such threats please, I'll go" I reply feigning a fearful look.

"Thought so" He counters keeping back the glass bottle into his pockets.

We both make our way towards the door after saying our byes to my mom, we fall into our usual conversations including a vast variety of topics until we reach their place.

It is a nice place with decent interiors, walls covered in a monotonous grey tone with black detailings on them giving it a classy look and with a very minimal furniture making the place tidy and we'll keep it. Roger directs me to one of the couches before he disappears into the kitchen and returns along with Misa.

"Hi! Hi!" Misa greets in her usual chirpy tone making her way to give me a side hug. "Hey!" I greet her back with the same energy.

"Took you long enough to visit us Seb." She comments making me click my tongue in guilt, after three of us got seated. Both of them are close enough to have the minimal physical contact and I completely understand the necessity of it better than previous instances as now I have my own mate.

The memory of him bitter on my mind.

"Honestly how are you doing and I can't wait to hear about your mate, Tell me all about him, what he likes and how he treats you, tell us everything." She says with clear excitement in her voice.

I just chuckle in response not knowing where to start. "Uhm... He's a great guy, a bit serious but we get along well" I reply, raising my head to look at them only to meet with expectant looks from them which genuinely confused me. Am I supposed to say more? "And.." They both say in unison.

"And?" I repeat their words hoping they would ask me clearly only to be met with disappointed looks. It clicks.

"Oh! And he treats me well" I redeem my answer making their faces fill with a satisfied smile.

"That's good." Misa says to pat my shoulder before getting up to get us some coffee. Roger fills me in on the recent pack drama in the meanwhile when Misa calls him from the kitchen.

"Yeah babe, coming" he gets up as soon as possible making his way to her.

Babe.. The endearing term sounds so foreign to my ears, He will never call me that. f**k! He doesn't even call me with my nickname instead he uses my full name too, even that rarely happens. Maybe I don't have the fortune of getting called like that in this lifetime.

We chat some more over the tea before I decide to tell them my goodbye as it's almost nearing lunch time.

"Next time you need to be here with your mate, okay?" Misa says already planning for the next time.

"We will"

"I will make sure of it" Roger chimes with a mischievous smile, standing up to walk me out, when we are almost near the door he stops me by nudging my shoulder a little, I look back to see his concerned eyes. f**k did he find out...

"Seb! Is everything okay?"

Shit.

"Umm.. yeah! Why?"

"Nothing, it's just that-, it's just that I don't see your mark and I know it's very personal but I just wanted to check."

Oh..I know where he is coming from, most of the werewolves mated in their first month of finding their mates, some waited to get to know each other until the second but more than that is rare, it's not that it is a rule, it's just unusual.

"We just thought it would be better if we get to know each other well before we complete our bond, for.. you know to lay a concrete foundation for a strong relationship and all" I say as sounding as casually as possible but damn did it tear through my to get each word out.

"I know, I know" He says way too quickly by nodding his as if he is agreeing with every word but I know he is just afraid that he might have said something offensive. He stays silent for the next few seconds before starting again.

"I know what Leonard is like, he has always been a very private guy,he used to maintain his distance from everyone except from very few friends even in the academy and you are not much different either so I guess it works for you guys that way. "

"You both attended the same academy?"

"We did, I thought you already knew that, he didn't tell you? "

"I mean, of course he probably did. It might have slipped my mind " I try to answer in my most convincing tone.

"I'd better get going now before I start getting calls from mom. I'll see you soon." I take my leave before I have to make up some more lies than I did.

I wanted to laugh, with all the revelations I had in the past two days. I realised I know nothing about him and we know nothing about each other. Wow... So much for getting to know each other. My path back fills with the same depressive thoughts, now with a few more adding onto them.

I reach my doorstep just at the right time to be greeted by my mom, she hurriedly ushers me in without a word and my heart almost stops to see the man himself in there.

"LEO."