Taken

8-Sleepover

Madi told me that Jack was always barging into her room like that. She said he uses the excuse that he's aloud to do it because he's the Alpha. That excuse wouldn't have been enough for me to restrain myself from kicking him where the sun doesn't shine, but I guess Madi's better at controlling her temper than I am.

That night Madi let me borrow some of her clothes to sleep in since I had nothing of my own. She gave me a fresh toothbrush and promised me that we'd go shopping for some things of my own soon. I just smiled and nodded my head at this. I was really never much of a shopper, but Madi seemed to be, and she'd be my first friend at this pack. I didn't want to upset her.

"So, what do you want to do?" I asked Madi. (A/N I just realized that Mandy and Madi are almost the same. Hehe, I am such a loser).

"How about a movie? I have comedy, action and horror. And listen carefully, because I am only going to tell you this once, there is no way that I am ever gonna watch a rom-com." She said, completely serious.

"Sir yes sir!" I replied with a mock surrender.

Madi faked a hurt look on her face. "Well, I am officially offended! I am a girl."

"Sure, sure. How about we watch a horror movie?" I asked. I was personally fine with the 'no rom-com' rule. I hated those movies. Although, my mom loved them and my dad and I would always get stuck watching them with her. I missed my family.

"Do you think you can handle it? I don't want you screaming the whole time." She asked with a dead serious look on her face. I guess she really didn't like to have people talking during her movies. I was a lot different from her in that aspect. I couldn't shut up during movies.

"Yeah, yeah. I think I will be fine." I said calmly.

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So it turns out that Madi had screamed for 90% of the movie. Me, on the other hand, had been completely disappointed. The special effects were awful, and the characters were stupid.

"Oh, come on! Don't just call out for the killer! It's not like if you say, 'is anyone there?' the guy's gonna be all like, 'oh yeah I'm in the kitchen. Want a sandwich before I murder you?!'" I shouted at the scream, throwing popcorn at it.

I was immediately shushed by Madi, as she threw a pillow at me with such force I flopped off the bed.

A few scenes past, a few more complaints from me, and lots more screams from Madi. So far the night was going good.

A half an hour later, the ending credits were rolling in. I was not impressed, but Madi seemed to enjoy it. We decided to watch a comedy movie next. It was pretty funny. We started a pillow fight and watched more movies. After our last movie, it was 1:00 in the morning.

"So, what do we do now?" I ask Madi. She yawns.

"I was thinking we could sleep." She mumbles. Her sentence was barely audible because of the fact her face was buried into her pillow.

"Amen to that!" I yawned. I slept on the ground while Madi took her bed. Earlier she gave me a blanket and a pillow, saying they had no air mattresses at the time. I was okay with the sleeping arrangements though.

It was probably 2:00 a.m. when none other than Jack himself came barging into the room waking Madi and I up. I groaned and threw a pillow at him.

"Evangeline! This is no time for games. You have some people demanding to see you so if you don't get your ass out here, I will carry you downstairs!" I could sense that he wasn't kidding so I got up, and walked right past him downstairs. I most likely had a carpet imprint on my cheek, but that was okay. Whoever demanded to see me at 2 in the morning could deal with me not looking drop dead gorgeous.

I thought about who it might be. I narrowed it down to anyone who survived my pack's attack, my other uncle from another pack, or an alien.

They are real, don't judge me.

I was walking aimlessly around and bumped into something. Warm arms were immediately wrapped around me in a hug.

"Eva, I missed you so much." I recognized that voice instantly.

"Dad!" I wrapped my thin arms around him. As I hugged him, he seemed skinnier than usual. When I looked at him I noticed that he had purple bags under his eyes and his hair seemed thinner.

"Are you okay? How have they been treating you? Who is this cranky guy behind you?" My father asked, glaring at Jack.

I opened my mouth to say something but someone beat me to it.

"This guy back here is her mate, and my brother." I didn't even realize Madi had come downstairs. I noticed how Jack's eyes got a hurt look whenever they saw her scar. It made me sad, much to my dismay. But it was cute at the same time. I always wanted an over-protective older brother. Many of the pack males were protective of me, but it wasn't the same as having a brother.

"Oh, I see. Her mate." He said the word tauntingly, as if it was a joke. He sighed. "Well, I see that you have been kept in good shape, but Eva, if you are to stay here, you must give me a valid reason unless you want to go back to what's left of our pack," He told me. I knew that my dad understood that I needed to stay with my mate.

"I can't survive without a mate," I said. We all knew it was true. It is impossible after you meet them to live without them. No matter how much you hated them, mates were important to werewolves.

"Okay. Our pack is still running so you better call a lot. Your mom and Mandy are worried sick."

"I will," I promised.

I asked him how the pack was doing and he said they were weak, and we lost some wolves, but no pups were harmed and the female casualties were low. Before he left, he told me to be careful.

"Okay, I will. Goodbye dad," I said with a final hug.

"Bye sweetie." With that, he left. My dad and I were never good with conversations, so this was as deep as it got. If you wanted to talk with one of my parents for hours about anything and everything, my mom was the one to go to.

I sighed and turned around Jack and Madi looked at me with eyes as wide as saucers. Jack spoke first.

"You, you can't live without me?"

"We both know it's true. I can't do this right now, though." Honestly, I couldn't. I was happy that my friends were okay. But I was sad, they were doing okay without me. It probably sounds selfish, but I wanted them to need me, like they used to.

I walked back to Madi's room. My night may have been weird but it definitely wasn't over. I fell asleep instantly.

Hope you liked the chapter. Sorry if you thought that Eva's dad let her off the hook too easily, but in other werewolf books I read the dad got mad, I just didn't want to seem like a copycat.