Rejected.

A note from me to you:

Guys and girls, I just wanted to thank you for reading this story it means so much and it's amazing that you guys have gotten me 384 reads. It seriously makes my day when I check my story and see that people are actually reading!!!! And the fact that I got a vote AND comment for the last chapter, let's just say I went ballistic and my sister was kind of weirded out by me because I just sat there smiling at the computer screen. Hopefully I will continue to weird my sister out:).

- princesswho.

Once again Neena spun the bottle and this time it landed on Will

"Truth or dare?" Neena asked, I don't know if it was my imagination but I think I saw a rather dangerous glint in her eyes

"Dare" Will being the idiot that he was, would obviously be oblivious to the evil ways of Neena

"I dare you to...." Neena hesitated, thinking long and hard about what she was going to get him to do. I needed to intervene before Neena made him do something that would only end in disaster

"I dare you to jump into the lake" they both looked at me in surprise, obviously wondering what lake I was talking about

"I saw a lake when I went on my walk" I lied through my teeth but they didn't push me to explain further, for which I was grateful because I wasn't really in the mood to delve into things that had happened in the past.

"So I just have to jump into the lake? Easy" being the athlete that he was, Will would breeze through this dare

"But" Neena added "you have to swim across the lake. With Shanan and beat me to the end" great, just great. Neena knew for a fact that I couldn't swim and Neena on the other hand swam so well she topped some of our best wolf swimmers

"Game on" Will said, loving the challenge. I eyed them both wearily and Will, sensing my unease, turned to me tauntingly

"Your not afraid are you?" I shot him a glare and made my way to the lake. Maybe if I feigned not remembering where the lake was they would let me off the hook but then again Neena could be pretty determined when she wanted to. With a sigh I discarded all futile ideas of getting out of this.

I led the way through the dark, gloomy woods. Using my wolf senses to see better in the dark. The cold was feverish, seeping into my thin layer of clothes, the cold only added to my dread of what awaited. Finally the lake came into view and under the moonlight it was breathtaking. Neena had been right about one thing, these woods had the ability to seem as romantic and alluring as they did brooding. The water shimmered and reflected the scenery. As I neared the pristine water I saw my own haggard appearance reflected in the water, next to me was Will, his tall frame towering over mine. His green eyes shone in the light and my own blue eyes were fixated on him. I felt a wave of irritation as the wind blew my hair into my face, I pushed the blond tangled mess away frustrated that my view of Will was being obscured. I couldn't help but notice how well his features complimented mine.

I was overwhelmed with a sharp desperation to be closer to Will, I was left slightly breathless with it's intensity. Out of my own accord I took a step closer to the water, towards the perfect picture it held of Will and I. I wanted us to be together more than anything else in the world, I wanted- Crap I wanted these crazy thoughts to disappear. I jolted suddenly, shocked at the direction of my thoughts I couldn't like Will, I just couldn't. But I did. I knew I did because this was phase two of the mating bond, the feelings I kept repressed within me and fought with all my might to hide and deny would slowly begin to surface and if I was thinking of a perfect world where Will and I could be together without the complications that never seemed too far behind, then it meant deep down that was what I wanted even if I didn't want to admit it. I remember someone once said that the great loves are the ones that are unrequited, but it's also the kind of love that hurts the most, the kind of love where one person remains blissfully ignorant and the other drowns in a torrent of their own, unrequited, emotions.

I couldn't force Will to have mutual feelings for me but I couldn't be a hopeless romantic and hope that one day he would fall for me, either. No. What I could do, though, was re-bury these surfaced feelings and act as though they had never existed.

I often got told that I didn't know what I was missing out on by accepting my mate's rejection and they were right I didn't know what it was like to be so fiercely loved by someone that they would lay their life on the line for you, or tell you how much you meant to them everyday, or make you feel beautiful when your hair resembled a bird's nest and your morning breath was bad enough to make ogres cry. I didn't know what it felt like to have someone love me more than life itself and I had no regret. For how could I miss something that had never been mine? The same thing applied to Will. I didn't yearn for Will's acceptance because I had never had it. There was a part of me, so minuscule it hardly mattered, that objected and said that I did yearn for Will's acceptance. Maybe I did maybe I didn't, the wonders of love would always baffle me but right now I had to think of what I wanted.

Did I want Will? No.

Did I want to beg him to accept me as his mate? No.

Did I want to deal with the pain of being rejected, once more? No.

Was I falling for Will?....

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A note from me to you:

So I was thinking of what kind of a mate I would want, if I were a werewolf and I'm kind of curious as to whether my choice is crazy or if other people share my opinion, so I wanted to know that if you had a mate would you want to be in love from the very start or would you enjoy the struggle. Basically would you choose "love at first sight" or "love at first fight"????

- princesswho.