Claim your fate

chapter 21

"Tell me again why we're mated?" Felix snapped, crossing his arms over his very pregnant belly.

Hyunjin shot him a glare and put his finger to his lips. "Sh, for just five seconds. Damn."

"Do not get salty with me, Hyunjin," Felix sassed. "Just because I am carrying your baby does not give you control over me—"

Hyunjin slapped his hand over Felix's mouth and focused on the voice coming out of the other end of his phone. He mhm'd when appropriate, and then began to speak. "That's great. Really, we'd appreciate it." He mhm'd again and glanced at Felix, who was seething beside him. "Very pregnant. Yes, thank you. Thank you! Yes. Okay, sounds good. Alright, four o'clock? Great! Thanks, bye." He removed his hand from Felix's mouth.

"Why the hell did you put your hand over my mouth?" Felix asked, adjusting his seat back and forth. "And did you break this thing? The leg thing won't come up." He huffed and stood up. "Let's get a new one. This is more trouble than it's worth."

Hyunjin closed his eyes and leaned his head against the back of the couch. "Just please sit down, love."

"I can't, because the stupid chair that you broke is uncomfortable and we need to get a new one," Felix replied, staring at the offending chair (which really wasn't broken).

"I just spent the past hour on the phone making sure that the very expensive baby furniture you asked for would be here by four. I am not spending another three hundred dollars on a damn chair when that one works just fine," Hyunjin bit out. His head was already starting to hurt, and he was stressed to the max. Felix had just reached his thirty-fourth week and he was huge. Everyone thought he had more than one baby in there, which he didn't, and the doctor expected him to deliver within the next few weeks. On top of that, he'd been snarky and on top of that, he'd been experiencing Braxton Hicks contractions.

"What am I going to sit in when I have to rock the baby?" Felix challenged.

"How about the rocking chair I just spent four hundred dollars on?" Hyunjin replied, anger lacing his tone. "Or maybe carry them in that damned baby sling you just had to have."

"Excuse me for wanting the best for our baby."

Hyunjin's headache had reached maximum pressure, and all he wanted to do was sleep. "Just-stop talking for five minutes. I have to listen to you talk all day about nothing. Give me a goddamn break."

"Oh," Felix said, dripping with sarcasm. "I'm sorry for talking. I'll just start communicating in fucking morse code or something. Maybe that will—" He stopped when Hyunjin stood and kicked at the coffee table, turning it into splinters.

"Just shut up," he growled. "I can't stand being near you. There, I said it. You're annoying as fuck when you're pregnant. You nag and you pick fights over the stupidest shit, and you're so fucking ungrateful. I just spent three grand on shit for that baby and you haven't even said thank you. You ask why we're mated? I don't fucking know why we're mated. God only knows why I decided to put up with you for the rest of my goddamned life," he yelled. His vision was hazy and his heart was pounding in his ears. He needed to change and he needed to do it quick.

He turned on his heel without sparing Felix a look and rushed outside, slamming the cabin door shut. Only, in his strength, it came off the hinges and crashed to the ground. He didn't even notice. He just had to get to the edge of the woods and change before he hurt someone or himself. He shed his clothing and let his wolf overcome him.

"He just—I can't—" Felix sobbed into his hands. He was aware of the fact that he couldn't even form coherent sentences, but he didn't care. Jisung was there, and Jisung would listen no matter what.

"There, there," Jisung encouraged. "Let it all out."

He, Minho, and Eunji had come straight over, mainly because Minho heard Hyunjin's yelling, after Felix had called, bawling his eyes out. Jisung couldn't understand what he was saying over the phone, and sitting next to him he still couldn't tell. Minho was pacing angrily outside. He was very angry with Hyunjin right now.

The front door, which had been put to the side, creaked when Minho stormed past it and into the house. Felix looked over, hopeful that it was Hyunjin, but it wasn't. It only made him cry harder. Jisung rubbed circles on his back in sympathy.

"How dare he?" Minho seethed, clenching his fists. Minho was scary when he was angry. Hell, Minho was scary when he was helping old ladies cross the street and knitting sweaters for homeless animals. "I can't believe he just left—"

"Minho," Jisung interrupted, nodding his head towards Felix, who was crying his eyes out in Jisung's shirt. Minho hesitated but nodded, closing his mouth. He opted for a different conversation.

"We'll be staying with you until I can fix the door," he said to Felix. "And we'll help sort the baby stuff out when it gets here."

Felix nodded and wiped his eyes. "Thanks," he said in a shaky voice. He had no doubt that his eyes were red and his face was puffy. "I think I'm going to go lay down."

Minho nodded at the same time. "Should we wake you when the furniture gets here?" he asked, standing.

Felix shook his head and made his way to the bedroom. "No, please. Can you deal with it?"

Jisung's face had a soft look. "Of course," he nodded. "You sleep."

When the bedroom door closed and Felix was out of earshot, Minho growled again. "I'm seriously going to murder him when he gets back. How dare he say all of that to Felix? How dare he say that?"

Jisung stood and picked up Eunji from her carrier. "If I were Hyunjin, I'd be scared," he said, rocking her back and forth.

"Why's that?" Minho asked, sitting down on the couch and sighing.

"Because he said all of that shit to Felix and then just fucking left. He's not going to get out of all of that quickly. And the baby is expected in the next few weeks. It's going to be hard."

"If he ever comes back," Minho grumbled under his breath.

Jisung sat down next to him. Jisung placed his hand on Minho's knee. "Hey," he smiled. "Hyunjin'll come back."

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Hyunjin didn't come back. Not at three. Not at four when the delivery people came. Not at five when Jisung started making dinner. Not at six when everyone (minus Felix) ate dinner, and not at seven, eight, or nine. Minho's anger had increased and Felix still hadn't come out of the bedroom. They knew he wasn't asleep by the sounds of sobbing coming from behind the closed door.

At ten, Jisung, Minho, and Eunji took the upstairs bedroom and slept, while Suho stayed on the couch. If Hyunjin wasn't going to come home, Felix was going to go and get him.

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"This is fucking ridiculous," Felix grumbled to himself, steadying himself against a tree. The forest was thick, and the moonlight barely peeked through the trees enough for Felix to see. He cursed the eyesight omegas had. Alphas had much better eyesight; they could practically see in the dark. It wasn't fair.

After resting for a bit, he continued to walk. He had his apology already on his tongue, and now he just needed to find his alpha and make everything better. And he needed to find his alpha because the woods were pretty scary at night, especially for a pregnant omega who could hardly see.

"Hyunjin," he called, stepping over a thick root. "Where are you?" His voice echoed through the woods, so hopefully, Hyunjin would hear him and take him back to the cabin. "You said I would never be alone in this pregnancy. Well, guess what? I'm pregnant and alone."

A limb snapped behind him, and he froze. And then—

"Oh, no, you're not."

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Sorry for writing a short chapter i will make up for it