Lost & Found

You can tell me

Thankfully we had our next classes together and the best part was, that it was without Kyle. I needed to think. I desperately needed some guidance. Dalia used to be my savior, when I couldn't decide.

Not very good one, her advices usually led us right in the middle of some trouble. But I always listened anyway, because these were the things that ended up as our best memories. But what would be her advice now?

Last time, she told me to go away, to run. And deal with it later. Together. But now it was already too late. And she wasn't here for more instructions. Maybe if I could found more about this whole mating thing. We couldn't have been the only ones. It had to happen to someone before it happened to us. Right?

After two classes I headed to principal Cornell's office. When I knocked on his door, he was already waiting for me. With his wife.

"You don't have to worry. It's just normal procedure after accepting new student." he said and started with explaining. I had to sign some papers. I was informed about rules, about curfew and about what would happen if I would break some of it. They even gave me my own copies, so I would still remember it.

"Now. You already met my wife, she is your teacher in art class. Am I correct?" he said, now little bit nervously.

"Hello, Alicia." she smiled friendly. "I just wanted to talk to you a bit about your situation. As I said in class before, I'm always here for any student in need."

"Are you also a guidance counselor?" I asked.

"I will let you talk privately." Mr. Cornell left us alone. I got nervous.

"Look, Alicia. I'm not gonna go around this. Henry told me about what happened to you and to your friend. It is just tragic. We are not used to these situations." she was really talking about it and I was panicking. "You know, werewolves heal really fast, there wasn't much students before...who would..."

"Die?" I said.

"Yes." she answered. "And for you, as her best friend, it must be even worse. I don't know exactly what happened, but I wanted to let you know, that you shouldn't blame yourself."

I had tears in my eyes before she finished this sentence. It was exactly what I wanted to hear from so many people, but no one told me this. And even if they did, I still wouldn't believe them.

I wiped away my tears and stood up: "Thank you, Mrs. Cornell. Can I go now?"

"I can see it is really bothering you, hurting you, sweetie. Are you sure there's nothing I can do for you? I can be really good listener." she was nice and deep down I just wanted to hug her and tell her everything I knew, but then I would be crying even more and I'm not sure if I would be able to stop. So I just shook my head.

"You can go then. And you can return when you'll be ready." that's all I needed to hear. I headed back to my room, not really caring about lunch or anything. I was running up. And of course when I reached stairs I had to bump right into him.

"Sorry...wow, what's going on? Are you alright?" he looked really concerned but I didn't care.

"Could you just finally let me be? None of this would've happen if I didn't meet you in the first place." I shouted at him and desperately wanted to leave. But he wouldn't let me.

"What are you talking about? Calm down." he grabbed me into his arms.

"Let me go!"

"NO! Calm the f*ck down." his voice was like a slap. It made me stop with all the yelling. It made me stop with panicking. I could just stand there and let the tears continue. He came closer and carefully hugged me. He let me calm down in his arms.

Kyle's POV:

When she finally stopped crying, I slowly released her from my arms. She was standing there, not really sure, what to do next.

"Sorry. I just... kinda lost my head for a second." she wiped her tears.

"Look, if it really bothers you so much, I can try to give you more space. But I really need some answers. First of all I honestly have no idea what so terrible have I done or what happened to you. So I have no idea why are you still trying to run away from me."

She was thinking about something. "I really can't explain it right now. Can you just trust me it's the right thing to do?"

I really didn't get her. She was definitely feeling the same thing as I did. And normally, she should be not only happy but over the moon as any other she-wolf in her place. Not because of me. But because she got close to her mate so easily. All she needed to do was let me get closer to her and try to do the same thing. Literally everyone of our kind would do that. We were practically programmed to do this. This just didn't make any sense.

"No! Not without explanation." I answered, trying to sound calmly. I didn't wanted to scare her off. "You are feeling it, you can't lie about that."

She wanted to argue, but I stopped her: "Don't even try it again. It really pisses me off."

She stubbornly talked back: "I won't admit it."

"You already did."

"No I didn't!" she was getting so angry once again. She looked beautiful even after crying. She walked around me and headed up.

This wasn't over, I had to follow her. "Alice, come on! What's so bad about us being friends?"

She didn't even stop, she headed straight to her door, the ones she disappeared two nights ago: "I told you already."

"No, you didn't." Let's see which one of us is more stubborn.

"I told you. You don't want to be my friend and I don't want to be near you."thankfully she couldn't find her key.

"Okay, one of it is true. The next one...who are you trying to fool with that?"

She signed: "Kyle, could you be so nice and let me go?" I was so surprised that she said my name, that I practically froze.

"Thank you." she said, unlocked her door and hid behind them.

And I was left there as motivated as ever to get close to her. Before it was because of our bond and even that was strong enough. Now I was ready to take down her stupid walls. I took pen, tied to the board on their door and wrote my first note to her.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED LITTLE MATE

K.