Mutt ~GxG~

Chapter 20

Bridgette's POV

Be still my beating heart, I shall die if you do not, I shall have a heart attack because why else would you be beating that fast. Oh yeah. Because I told Leah I love her. Was it too early? Probably. Do I regret it? Most definitely. Not today, though. Today I sleep and tomorrow I deal with whatever bullshit I've caused. Haha, good luck future me, I just need to sleep.

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I groan as sunlight hits my shut eyes.

"Rise and shine sister dearest!" My brother says in a singsong voice as he tugs the blinds open. I swat the idiot's hands away from me.

"What do you want, you fuck."

"What are you talking about, beloved sister?" I can practically see him batting his eyelashes.

"You wake me up at-" I open my eyes to look at the clock. "7am. For what reason?"

"Ah, you see, my beloved girlfriend is in a most terrible mood right now, directed at me and I require someone else to handle it while-"

"You pissed Mia off again." I deadpan as I pearch myself up on an elbow.

"Okay, hear me out, this time it wasn't my fault. I just accidentally killed the neighbour's rabbit."

"WHAT!" I exclaim looking up at this absolute imbecile.

"My cat did it! I didn't have any control over it!"

"You have control over your cat!"

"Not fully! Plus, how was I supposed to know it was their rabbit?" I sit up with a groan and massage my temples.

"Where did you even kill it?" My brother blushes.

"Listen, I also didn't know it was the wrong apartment that I broke into." My jaw drops at his absolute stupidity.

"Let me get this straight. You killed the neighbour's rabbit in their own home?"

"To be fair-"

"What else do I need to know?" I interrupt tiredly.

"The door to the cage wasn't locked." I nearly slap him.

"You're 22! How do you not have control over a single animal? I can keep control over four!" He massages the back of his neck sheepishly.

"Can you please just deal with Zoe for a bit while I get my cat under control?" I sigh and nod.

"Just while you get him under control. Don't kill any more domestic rabbits." He grins boyishly and dashes out of my room. This fucking idiot.

I get dressed and walk out of the room. I only had around an hour before school but ah well.

"Soooooo Guel fucked up!" I say as I swing around the corner of the room in a false excited tone.

"How the fuck do I say 'Hey, I'm your neighbour in 107 and you seem like great people. Anyways my boyfriend couldn't control his cat and stop him from killing your rabbit. I'm sorry about that, here's Fluffles body by the way. Have a nice day!' in a tone that stops them from suing us?" Zoe snarls, hunched over her macbook. I snigger involuntarily which earns me a glare from Zoe. I raise my hands in surrender.

"You could bring up the shifter laws and facts, the fact that no human has complete control over their animals is a good point." I point out with an awkward chuckle. She types something out on the old computer before meeting my eyes again.

"Anything else that might be of help?" She says in a bored tone that reminds me a bit of an underpaid secretary.

"Uhhhhh..." I scour my brain for laws that would help in this situation. Sure, I took Basic Law Study in 9th Grade but that doesn't mean I paid attention. "Animals are separate beings from their humans and should you try to sue the animal component of the shifter it would be like suing an animal." I say, stating it word for word from my ninth grade textbook. She types another thing down before exasperatedly shutting her computer.

"I'm going to kill that man." She sighs before jerking her head towards the quartz countertop by the fridge. "Breakfast is in there, it's some leftover Tilapia Escabeche from yesterday. I snigger at her pronunciation. "I pronounced it wrong again, didn't I?" She sighs.

"You're over white saying it. You're saying it like Ez-ca-beach-eh. It should be pronounced Es-ca-betch-eh." I explain, chuckling softly. (AN: I am Chinese and I'm learning French if anyone here speaks Spanish help me because I have no clue if this is correct or not. I searched it up at 3am. I don't even know if you can eat it after you've refrigerated it.)

"Just eat and leave." I full on laugh at that before I do a sloppy salute.

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I walk into the school, automatically looking for Leah, only to be disappointed when I, instead, come face to face with Laith.

"O-oh, hey Bridgette." I'm surprised at her stutter. She's a lot more soft spoken at school in comparison to at her home.

"You wouldn't happen to know where Leah is, would you?" She tilts her head to the right before letting out a light smile.

"She's in the hospital." Wait wait wait wait. Back the fuck up. She's what? My eyebrows furrow in concern.

"Wait, what? Is she okay? What happened? Which hospital, I'm gonna go see her." I panic, only when Laith tentatively brushes my hands off my shoulders do I realize I'd been shaking her. She laughs lightly.

"Calm- calm down Bridgette." She stutters with a soft smile. "She's at Denver Health, it's not for her either. She's just visiting someone because of some pride drama." I let out an audible sigh of relief, thankful that my mate wasn't in any danger. My animals all make their respective signs of joy at the words 'my mate'. I also smile softly. She's my mate.

"Oh thank goodness." I hesitate for a moment. "Wait, if it's pride drama, why aren't you there?" She chuckles at that.

"Rank, remember? I'm a delta. Leah really should get you a graph or something."

"Yeah..." I trail off. I should probably get a graph, I mean Leah is an Alpha, so I'd be her Luna or whatever Lions call it. "What are the ranks anyways?" I cock my head to the side. Laith sighs.

"It'd take a bit to explain so I'm better off telling you at lunch. See you then?" I nod eagerly. I really hope to make Leah proud when she comes back. Until then, I'll do some research.