I sat on my bedroom floor criss-cross applesauce, rocking back and forth. I kept asking over and over: what have I done wrong, both with Abel and Oak. Maybe it’d be better if I did get involved with Abel, maybe if I just get involved with him I’d be able to save him from making mistakes. Maybe I could get Oakley to realize what he is giving up, I could be the next Alpha’s mate. Ew, I forgot, I’d have to mate with Abel.
I grabbed some paper out of my printer and started making a list of all of the reasons to be with Abel and not to be with him, number one on that list Oakley.
I could smell my mom at my door. “Come in mom.” I said before she had a chance to knock.
“That was a little intense huh? Have you figured out what she meant?” Mom asked as she crossed the room pulling back my curtain and looking out the window.
“Yeah, it was intense. You’re the mom! You’re supposed to know what that was about.” I leaned back against the wall, thinking how a normal life would be so much easier. “Did you call 9 1 1 back?”
“I did, but an officer came anyway to check in with us to make sure everything was okay. He just left; it was that Officer Griffith, the one Parker had issues with last year.”
“Who didn’t have issues with Parker? Have you even heard from him?” I brushed the hair off of her face and tucked it behind her ear, again thinking about how beautiful she is.
“No, I haven’t but your dad got a message from him letting him know he didn’t go rogue and he’ll be back.”
“Whatever. You know as well as I do he’s just trying to keep from being hunted. I don’t trust him. Did you know he was going to Abe’s every night?” I lit some incense to help clear my head.
She let go of the curtain letting it fall back into place. “Pru, I don’t know what’s going on with Parker but he’s one of our best, and if he says he’s okay and hasn’t gone rogue, I have to believe him. If I don’t believe my Pack members, who do I trust? Listen Prudence, I know how you feel about Oakley and I know that is why you’re in here sulking, but you can’t force it with him. If you’re meant to be together it will happen. We don’t want to see you hurt, trust the life path, I do.”
“I know, trust me I do, but it’s hard having to trust our life path. I feel like there is so much pressure put on me to complete the task with Abel and then we get all of the crazy things that happen in between. I don’t understand why we let Josie leave. I don’t get it. Really I don’t, and I’d like to be enlightened but of course I have to trust my Alpha making it impossible to go against his wishes. Why did we let her leave? Is she in some type of trouble? We’ve cast how many circles over the course of our training?” I say, struggling to keep my emotions in check. “I think this is bunk! I have one week before prom and I know Allie will be there at their house. How am I supposed to stand there with someone who may have the vampire virus? How am I supposed to pretend everything is just fine and leave her with their parents? Really. This is just insane. I have to go see her, I have to know the answers. I’ll take Oakley with me, is that okay with you and dad?” I hated sounding so, so, oh so freakin’ whiney but everything seemed to be falling apart.
“No Pru, you’re not going to go interrogate Allie until we have more intel on her.”
Great, just what I need, another’ direct order that I can’t go against. Total crapfest. My cell phone buzzed. “I’m going to go out 4 a while, I will c u at schl 2mrrw” the text from Abe said.
Bologna, he is up to something. The entire time I’ve known him he has never sent me a message like that. I may not be able to go find Allie myself, but I was pretty sure my little friend Abel was about to go see his sister, and the Alpha can’t do anything to me if I followed Abel and he ended up with his sister. I’m just protecting my student. Perfect.