The Power Of Choice

Chapt 4

~Damien~

I watched as the door slammed in my face. The sound echoed down the hall and as I stood there in a stupor. I didn't know what to do, so I just stayed there, stunned.

I could still feel the sensations from the brief moment of physical contact. The sharp tingling in my palm and the warmth that came with it. It had spread throughout my body from the tips of my fingers to the bottom of my feet.

His scent had assaulted my nose like a slap to the face. He smelt of the forest after a rainstorm. The rich earthy sent of the fertile soil. The sharp nose tingle smell of pine needles littered along the forest path. The sweet scent of blooming wildflowers growing in the bushes, their bright colors sprinkled around the canvas that was the forest floor. It was like a breath of fresh air, and I was intoxicated.

I'd felt my wolf running in circles, rolling around happily as he shared in my bliss, I'd be a happy man if this is what awaited me every day from now on. All I wanted to do was to hold him close and lose myself in his sent.

I had returned to my friends after losing the sent outside the cafeteria. They'd been confused by my actions till I'd2 told them I'd smelt my mate nearby, only to lose the sent. They'd given me sympathetic looks but told me to cheer up. At least now I knew for certain, that my mate was here at school, and it was only a matter of time before I found them again.

I was comforted by the thought that it was only a matter of time before they'd be in my arms, but still nervous about the fact that they were hiding from me. But the more I thought about it, the stranger it seemed. How would they even know I was here to hide from me? They shouldn't know I was looking for them today, so why did it feel like they were hiding from me? Unless they always hide their sent? But then, why would they even need to do that in the first place?

Those thoughts were running through my mind for the rest of lunch and even as I left the cafeteria with my friends. It had been time for us to head to our next class and we were making our way out of the cafeteria when I suddenly caught a whiff of the scent again and I literally purred along with my wolf. My friends were looking at me funny but I didn't care. I'd caught the scent and I wasn't going to let them run from me again. I sprinted down the hallway turning corner after corner, the scent getting stronger with every step I took.

As I rounded another corner, I knew that they were right ahead of me, the scent was so strong it was practically suffocating me. My wolf was so far gone at this point, that all he could do was howl and growl, he'd seemed almost to have gone feral.

Then, I spotted them, two persons standing in the middle of the hallway talking to each other. I didn't know who one of them was, but I did recognize Jackson. At first, I thought the other guy was my mate, afterall I'd interacted with Jackson plenty today, but I hadn't gotten anything reaction from being around him at all. Yet the longer I stood there the more I realized the truth of the matter. I could feel my heart sink lower and lower and the cold sweat dripping down my back only seemed to get colder and colder. This had to have been some kind of mistake. I didn't want to acknowledge it, I refused to acknowledge it. My mate could not be Jackson.

My mate being a guy wasn't an issue in and of itself. It'd happened to other wolves before I was even born, and it would continue to happen long after I'd have passed on as well. Not to mention, me being Bisexual and all meant that there was a 50-50 chance this was going to happen either way. Yet the idea of my mate not only being a human, which definitely complicated things already, but a human that I had been a complete dick too for the last few years was going to a be a much bigger issue for me to deal with. Heck, I'd practically just embarrassed him in front of the whole school for crying out loud!