The Unforgettable Rejection (Book One)

Chapter Twenty Eight

            Five hours later there is a noise, a commotion coming from the kitchen downstairs, we both jump out of bed looking rougher than we usually do during the day.

Nicole's POV

            Somewhere along the lines, I wake up in the middle of the night and head to the kitchen to feed my stomach which had been giving me hell. After deciding to grab some ramen, I fill up the kettle and turn it on, as the kettle is boiling I go ahead and go to the cupboard to get a cup of my noodles. The guys hear the commotion and walk downstairs sluggishly, annoyed from being woken up by all the ruckus I'm making in the kitchen while waiting for the water to boil.

"Nicole, what are you doing?" He grunts

"I'm hungry."

"It's three in the morning." He says rubbing his eyes of fogginess./

"So sue me."

            They glance at me then at each other, shrugging and keeping me company. After a few minutes later the kettle has reached the necessary temperature, letting out a high pitched screech to let me know it was done. After grabbing the machine, I fill the noodle cup with hot water and wait for the water to cook the noodles, which takes about five minutes.

"What's so great about ramen?"

"It's so much better than mister noodles."

            Once the five minutes are up, I empty the water out and then reach into the upper drawer of the utensils, where I pick up a set of stainless steel chopsticks. A little while later, when I'm just about halfway through the bowl, I took a deep, sharp inhale and started choking on them.

"Cough, cough." After I finish choking, Jarred laughs then he looks over at Jake saying.

"She chokes on those like she chokes on my dick." When he says this, Jake's eyes go entirely black, and both he and his wolf explode with wrath. However, I diverted Jarred's attention back to me by hurtling a chopstick at him before anything else could happen.

            In throwing one chopstick at Jarred, my face is contorted into a furious expression. Jarred is taken aback as he successfully avoids the stick. Jake suddenly stops being upset with Jarred and starts laughing at him. He also seemed astonished that I would actually throw something at him for giving that reaction. A moment later, not saying a word, I simply go get another set of chopsticks, take my food, and leave the boys alone in the dining room. In the meantime, I'm quickly consuming the rest of my noodles.

            With me leaving them alone, they started interacting with one another. Jarred goes to say something but Jake interrupts him before he could get the words out.

"Say one more thing and I swear to god..." He says glaring. Jarred puts his hands up in defeat, smirking the entire time, proud of his comment.

"You two are going to have to learn how to get along sooner or later, because we are going to be stuck with each other for a long time, some more than others." I say as I make my way back upstairs to bed in order to catch up on a little more sleep before needing to get back up again for breakfast at roughly seven in the morning. As I get to my room and lay in bed, when I'm about to fall asleep I feel someone else lying to my left and then someone else to my right. I knew exactly who it was that climbed into bed with me, I knew then and there that I wasn't going to get any more sleep through the night. While laying on my stomach, Jake tries to touch my ass since he believes that I'm asleep. Then Jarred follows suit, but instead of touching my ass, he touches Jake's hand and remarks...

"Get your muddy paw off of her."

"Do I look like a wolf to you?"

"Not right now but sometimes."

"SHUT UP!" I let out a scream at them through my pillow. As soon as they both turn to face me, I sit up. "Just go to sleep for fuck sake, you two are driving me insane. I just want peace and quiet, can you do that for me? Can you? Please."

"Yeah." They both speak quickly.

"Thank you. And don't touch me." I then laid back down and went to sleep.

            As the morning sun started to rise and shine through the curtains, I was woken up by the sun caressing my face. When I opened my eyes to no one in my bed but myself, I stretched out my arms and legs, while sitting up, then I slipped out of my blankets and I went downstairs. Merely halfway down the stairs I detect the aroma of food. Upon reaching the bottom, I turn and observe the kitchen table, surrounded by people who are anxiously waiting to dig in.

"Were you all waiting for me?"

"Yes, we were. Only because Jake wouldn't let us eat until you were up."

"So how long have you been waiting?"

"Half an hour."

"Seriously." Is all I say before walking over and behind Jake, then slapping him upside the head continuing to say... "I'll eat when I'm well and ready to, now the food might not even be warm enough for them to eat."

"I didn't want all the food to be gone before you had a chance to eat."

"Set a plate aside for me next time so that you don't starve them half to death waiting for me."

"I tried to tell him that you'd even understand if there wasn't any food left when you woke up."

"No you did not, you're th-" I look in his direction which makes him shut up before saying something that makes me hit him.

"That's exactly what I thought."

Jarred's POV

"Haha." I laugh then a second later Nicole smacks me in the back of the head.

"To be honest, you two make my life more difficult than it needs to be, but what can I do? I'm stuck with you."

"Like you're easy to live with." We both add.

"Really, now you fuckers agree with each other."

            We turn and look at her with shock plastered across our faces.

Nicole's POV

"What? I've got a mouth that knows words." The others, who were famished, paid no attention to us as we three bickered with one another. They grabbed what they wanted and started eating the cold food.

"Nothing, just forgot that you had a mouth on you."

"Because it's been a while since that mouth was used."

"Awe finishing each other's sentences, how cute."

"Shut up."

"Excuse me!"

"It's not cute, it's weird."

"No it's fucked up."

"No, it finally shows that you two are starting to tolerate each other better." I say, leaving the boys to get dressed, as I'm still in my pajamas. Unaware that I was being followed by one of the boys.