The Human Mate

Girl talk

Emerald

After Mateo left to shower for breakfast, I decided to do the same starting with my hair. I combed through every knot and tangle and just when I was done there were three knocks on my door.

“Come in.” With a bounce to her steps and smile on her face Carine walked in. “Hey” I smiled back at her and gave a little wave. I turned back to around to put a little hair oil in.

“Girl, your hair amazes me every time. I wish I had curls like you.” She said as she walked behind me and rested her hands on my shoulders. “No leave it down. You look majestic with it down.” She said as I went to put my wet locks in a bun on the top of my head.

“Its too wet and heavy right now.” I said with a giggle.

“Okay so let’s blow dry it” she said right before darting to the bathroom. I heard a lot of movement and things tumbling around. Then she runs out with a blow dryer. I haven’t used one of those in years I thought to myself. My mom had bought me one so I would stop leaving the house with my hair wet to go into the garden, she said I would get sick like that. Having no wolf meant that I could actually get sick. Carine plugged in the blow dryer and got to work hovering the blow dryer over my hair. She took her time getting my hair done section by section. When she was done, I looked at myself in the mirror and I was shocked. I looked beautiful, my hair was more voluminous, each curl was more defined than the other and shimmered from the hair oil.

“Lun- Emerald, you look gorgeous. Your hair is perfect.” She gushed as she fluffed my hair some more with her fingers. “Not that it wasn’t before” she said in a hurried tone. “But Alpha is going to cream his pants.” She giggled so hard.

“Cream his pants?” My brows furrowed, and I pursed my lips. What the heck did that mean? I turned around in to face her.

“Yeah, you know. When your mate gets overly excited, he… you know” she shrugged her shoulders. She stared at me expectantly and all I could do was stare back because I had no idea what the heck she was talking about. “Come on Em. Are you seriously gonna make me say it?” She continued to stare at me some more. I gave her a shy and awkward smile. I was beginning to sense that everyone whose everyone knows what that is but me.

“I-I- don’t know Carine. I’ve never had girlfriends… to talk abo-” she cut me off. Thank goddess.

“Oh my goddess., you really have no clue do you?” she said with gasp and put her hand over her mouth in shock. “Girl, were you locked in a basement your whole life? Jeez.” Something like that I said in my head. She pulled me by my hands to sit on the edge of the bed.

“No” I shook my head quickly. “So ca-can you tell me?”

“Yeah, so its when a male” she stops mid-sentence and looks around as if someone magically popped up in the room with us. “When a male gets so worked up uh…sexually…”

“Like horny?” I asked.

“Yes when he gets horny and eventually finds his release and he cums.” She shrugs like it was common sense.

“Cums?”

“Ejaculates. But no one says ejaculates unless you’re a doctor or something. c*m is a sexier way to let your mate you going to ejaculate during sex.” She said with a blank stare.

“Oooohh. OOoo. Oh my goddess.” I was putting two and two together. I wasn’t that uneducated about s*x. My mom told me the basics of s*x ed, but she DID NOT tell me about things like creaming and cumming. “And he’ll do that just from seeing me? I don’t think so.”

“Girl, you are his mate and his gorgeous mate at that.” She said as she slapped my knee. “You’re gonna leave him speechless. Trust me.”

“Trust you?” I know I shouldn’t take her saying trust me with skepticism but trusting people is hard for me. I’m always afraid of getting hurt. It’s a trauma I don’t think im going to ever get over.

“Yeah Emerald. I wouldn’t steer you wrong.” She gave me a tight embrace then clapped her hands. “Alright, let’s go steal the words right out of the Alphas mouth.” She said with a devilish grin. “But wait.” She put her hand up. “First let’s get you into something cute.” she runs into the closet, and I can hear her pulling clothes off the hangers she runs back into the room with a little black spaghetti strap t shirt dress. “Here, put this on. It’s cute and not too much for breakfast.

“Okkaaayyy” I say as I take the dress from her hands and walk into the bathroom. I put the dress on and turn to look at the back to make sure it covered the middle part of my back. I wasn’t ready for anyone to see that because it would only lead to having to explain it and it would turn into another lie. Seeing that the dress covered everything necessary I then decided to put a little lip gloss on and some mascara that was stocked in my bathroom most likely by Carine. I have never seen myself so done up. I have never put effort into my hair or make up because no one ever really saw me and usually by the end of the day I was covered in paint or dirt or both. I felt so pretty

“Alright I’m ready” I smiled into the mirror. I slid some leather strapped sandals to complete the look and now I was ready to see my mate.

We made our way down the stairs and to the kitchen. Breakfast was already in full swing; Cody and Aaron were shoving their faces with food while Derek was adding some bacon to his plate. When we walked further into the kitchen Carine went straight to the food and began fixing herself a plate and at the same time, I stood in the doorway awkwardly not really knowing what to do. Sensing my presence Mateo peeled his eyes away from his plate piled high of various foods and stared at me, his eyes widening with shock. Mateo choked on the food that he was chewing; he went into a coughing fit for a few seconds as Derek patted his back to help him. Once he found his composure his eyes traveled up and down my body taking in the view. His eyes still widened with shock and then there was something else, something like lust. He was looking at me like I was the only thing that mattered, like it was just me and him in the room. He let out a growl knocking me out my gaze, he stood out his seat and walked over to me like a lioness ready to pounce on her prey.

“You look so beautiful little one” he said as he caught my face in his hands, sending electric tingles all through my body. My head was bent all the way back so we could see each other fully face to face because of how tall he was. His eyes roamed all over my face as if he was trying to memorize the placement of every freckle. He moved his hand to my hair as he twirled a curl around his finger, which caused him to smile. His eyes wandered back to my face but more focused on my lips. Mateo stared at my lips hungrily as he licked his own bottom lip. “You are so beautiful.” I blushed at his compliments as I stared back into his deep blue eyes that twinkled with pure admiration. His lips were now wet from when he licked them and now, I was the one checking him out. He truly was handsome, I couldn’t find one thing wrong with him. He was perfect and he was my mate.

“Thank you” I said, barely above a whisper. My palms were resting on his chest as he leaned closer as if he was going to kiss me. My fingers curled into his t-shirt as he gripped my head from the sides a little tighter, bringing my face upward to his own. I leaned onto my toes attempting to close the distance. I could feel his breath on my lips, and I swear I let out a whimper. I closed my eyes, bracing myself for my first kiss.

“Ahem” Cody cleared his throat. My eyes snapped open and Mateo let go of my head, stepping a couple inches away, ending our moment and my almost first kiss. Instantly, I was missing his touch, his connection. "Sorry to ruin the moment, but uh you guys were a little lost in each other and I didn't want you guys to start something you couldn't finish here. With us. Here. In the kitchen. To see." he said looking so awkward. Mateo whipped his head in Cody's direction and his eyes turned into slits, looking like he was ready to murder him. Cody put his hands up in defense.

"Come Emerald" Mateo said as he grabbed my hand, allowing me to feel the tingles between us once again, and led me to the seat next to his. He grabbed an empty plate and some silverware. "What do you want to eat?"

"Uhm it doesn't matter" I said as I tucked a bundle of curls behind my ears. He put a little bit of everything on my plate that ended up filling the entire thing. I already knew I wasn't going to finish it, but I didn't want to be rude and stop him. He placed my food in front of me and then sat down to dig back into his unfinished breakfast. Soon everyone was back to eating and light-hearted conversations. Something was telling me to look up and Carine was grinning like the damn Chesshire cat. She then mouthed to me "I told you" and wiggled her eyebrows. I went into a fit of giggles, unaware that I was actually laughing out loud. I stopped when I realized everyone had stopped their conversations and eating to stare at me.

"Uh sorry" I said, shoving a piece of pancake and some berries into my mouth. I knew that my ears and cheeks were red from embarrassment.

"Nothing to be sorry for Luna" Aaron said.

"Please just Emerald" I said. "Or Em."

"Okay Lu-Emerald." he corrected himself. Derek and Carine were chit-chatting while Cody and Aaron excused themselves when they were done eating.

" How are the pancakes? You really seem to be enjoying them." Mateo said as he looked down at my plate. I didn't realize I had eaten all the pancakes, forgetting about the eggs, hash browns and bacon on my plate.

"They were really good. Almost as good as my mom's."

"Well, we did get the recipe from her."

"You did? When?" I was shocked and excited at the same time hearing him mention my mom.

"This mor-"

"Is she okay? How did she sound? Did she sound hurt?" I asked back to back. I probably looked and sounded crazy, but hearing him mention my mom put fear in my body.

"Uh, she sounded fine. I just thought I would call her and ask what your favorite breakfast food was to surprise you." he genuinely looked confused.

"Oh." Thats all I could say. He probably thought I was crazy. I decided to wash my embarrassment down with some tea that he had also prepared for me.

"She also said that you love tea" he said as he nodded to my mug. He called my mom so he could surprise me. I couldn't believe it, it was the sweetest thing anyone had done for me. Well, there was no one around me to even do things like this for me to begin with, besides my mom. But that was motherly love, this was different.

"Thank you so much. This is all really sweet of you. Thank you". I put the tea down and I palmed his cheek with my hand that was slightly warm from the mug. He leaned into my hand and let out what almost sounded like a purr.

"Ahem" he cleared his throat. "So do you want to go on a walk through the gardens with me?" Oh my goddess. He is pulling out all the stops today. I couldn't hide the excitement and I didn't care if I looked like a little kid. Hearing the word garden was like being a kid in a candy store. Shaking my head up and down and already standing to my feet, I couldn't contain it.

"YES"