The Hidden Gem

Chapter 17

Ashlynn POV

The rest of the morning was completely and utterly normal. There was a few stares and whispers but it was more bearable with Danny at my side. I made it almost the whole day. I was sitting in study talking to the girl's, when things started getting more entertaining. Mia finally arrived at school, only two hours late. "So you never answered us yesterday, are you going to the dance?" Mia gushed. She was ten times hipper the usual and it was sort of scary. "Danny, are we going to the dance?" I asked looking up. I was leaning against his side. He was busy talking to the guys and i was talking to the girl's. It was the perfect system. "Of course." "Oh my gosh! We should go dress shopping tonight, the four of us!" Mia screamed excited. "Four? There's only three of you guy's." Laurens added. "Well, you need a dress for the dance too." Elissa said with a smile. "Yeah, but I'll just go by myself. I don't want to impose on your friend time." "Don't be foolish, you are coming. You are our friend, so why wouldn't you come." She seemed to relax into Conners side at the reassuring smile I gave her.

"Good, so we are going dress shopping tonight!" Mia chirped. "No, I'm making pasta tonight." "Yeah, and I have my detention today." Elissa added with complaint as she glared at Mia. "Your detention is tonight, I thought it was tomorrow." Tyler broke into the conversation. "I have a meeting tonight." "I can bring her home." Brandon added. Tyler's eyes flickered from Elissa and Brandon to Danny and me. "Can she just stay at your pack house again?" Danny rolled his eyes before looking at him seriously again. "Sure, she can move in for all I care." "Oh, yeah that's great security skills." Tyler joked. "Elissa, do you have anything against, my pack or me?" "Of course not." "Have you ever even touched a weapon?" "No." She answered bewildered. "Yeah, Tyler I think she a big threat." Our table broke into laughter from Danny's comment. Elissa caught onto Danny's sarcasm faster then I would have expected.

Our laughter was met by a supervisors glare. "This table needs to quite down." We didn't have time to respond because of the loud bell singled it was time to switch classes. Mia jumped up excited. "Yay it is time for art!" She gushed. Elissa groaned while standing up. "Hey, no funny business." Tyler growled at both of them with a pointed look. "I know." Elissa said brushing him off. That wasn't one of her best idea's, he step forward with another low growl. "I mean it Elissa, if you get in trouble, again your barely going to see the light of day, for a month. Do you understand me?" Elissa nodded and bowed her head in submission. "Good. I'll talk to you later." He said cracking a smile. Then him and Alix turned leaving. We all began walking to the art room. Conner and Brandon tagged along because it looked like neither of them wanted to leave their mate's, ever.

Mia, Danny, and I went into the class room, giving the two sets of mate's time to say good bye. It was kind of fun thinking that they were only going to separated for no more then an fifty minutes, but I understood. It felt impossible to say goodbye to Danny, even for five minutes. "I hate all of you couples." Mia mutter as she sat down at the table farthest away from the teacher. "You are a where you have a boyfriend too, right?" "Well yeah, but I don't get to be with him now. Stupid boy already graduated." Danny laughed as he wrapped his arms around me and pulled my stool as close to his as possible. "I think you can survive. You are all over each other at home." Danny brushed her off. Her gaze turned pointed as she stared at us.

"Look who's..." Mia was interrupted by the teacher slamming a water bucket down on the table. "Oh, look at how decided my class was worth her time." The teacher hiss at me. Danny grew tense and managed to pull me closer to him. I just shrugged at her not caring about her attitude. It was just Art and I had an A+ in the class, so it didn't really matter to me. "I'm sorry, baby. Its my fault." Danny cooed looking down at me. He's eyes held concern and worry. "It was definitely worth it." I said only to cause Mrs. May to growl even louder when I pulled away from kissing Danny. He shook his head with a deep chuckle. "I'm glad you enjoyed yourself, sweet pea." His new name for me only caused me to laugh. Don't get me wrong to was sweet and cute, but it made me feel like I was five and he was my grandfather. See how creepy that is?

Lauren and Elissa made there way into the class room right as the bell rang. Mrs. May's eyes flew over to the two stragglers with a deadly glare. "Why is it that you two ate late?" She hissed. Lauren looked uncomfortable and tears sprung to her eye's. Suddenly the necklace around my neck began glowing a warm motherly purple and a urge to protect them washed over me. "That was my fault, I forgot that I had to show Lauren around, because she is new and all. So when I realized my mistake I sent Elissa to go find her." Mrs. May's glare fell onto me. "And you are suppose to be running a pack, when you can't even remember a simple girl." Her comment forced a growl to roar out of Danny. Lightly I put my hand on his shoulder telling him to relax and that everything was alright. "Well...She was busy with pack businesses to worry about, so it wasn't her fault." Elissa defended me like I defended her. Mrs. May wasn't buying it, but suddenly a smirk appeared on her face. "Fine...that's fine." She didn't say much else and walked over to the board.

Danny looked down at me with his brows pulled together. She was acting weird and insane, but everything went back to normal after that. She surprisingly trusted us to paint and gave us an assignment to paint the first picture that came to mind. I closed my eye's and leaned back into Danny's chest preparing for what ever would come into my mind. Suddenly a photo popped in my head. Blocking everything else in the world out, I focused souly on the picture. My hands worked non stop and furiously as I created the seen. I got so caught in my work, I didn't even realize that the bell rang. Coming back to my senses I looked down at what was suppose to be my master piece.

It was a picture of three wolves in muted colors. One wolf looked exactly like Danny's with the sliver coat and huge size. The wolf even had the crooked smile his wolf always seems to wears. The other wolf looked exactly like mine. It had the gold fur and black paws just like my wolf. Standing in between us was a little wolf. He was nothing more then a pup, and defiantly a young child that shifted early. The pup had a mixture of silver and gold fur. His ears looked like they were dipped in black paint, much like my paws. The background was odd though. It was the woods, but a castle like building was in view and in the far background their was a man's face creeping around a tree with a red bleeding dagger in hand.

I stayed still staring at the photo in front of me. My wolf stirred at the picture and began to become restless. She was going more and more crazy the longer I looked at the painting, especially when I was looking at the pup. "Baby, are you ready?" Danny asked from behind me. All the painting supplies and everything was cleaned up, he even packed my bag. I finally pulled my eyes off the photo and looked up at Danny. I didn't quite realize there were tears in my eyes until, he lightly run his thumb across them hiding back the tears. "Baby, what's wrong?" I didn't have to say a word, just moved over enough for his eyes to land on the painting and the man with the bloody dagger. A window shattering growl roared through his chest as he pulled me tightly against him. "Nothing ever will happen to you, to us, to our baby."

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Note: yes, I am aware that it is short. I was thinking about making it longer, but this is the way it needs to be for later on in the story. Plus, it makes you think, which is always good. I hope you like it and it's not too boring for you, because I am aware that it it has it's moment's that are highly boring. While writing I am realizing that this story is full of drama, there's points where I've stopped writing and need to stop working on it because all the drama became ridiculous. That is why there are sections that seem like fillers, but honestly I'm just trying to lighten up the drama. I have seriously made character's all based on lightening the mood, they weren't in the original idea, but the story would be too much without them. If there's any question or confusion just comment or PM me! Thanks for reading it means the world!!