Twin Mates

Great. Just freaking great.

Its my 16th birthday, and I am having the worst day of my life. Today was supposed to be magical. It was going to be the day I found my mate. The day my life started. If you haven't figured it out yet I'm a werewolf. No, not the full moon bullshit. I can turn whenever I want to, and my wolf is an everpresent consciousness in my mind. We are not the same entity so she has a different name than me. Hers is Austina, but I call her Austin.

Back on track here, my name is Alexandria, but like my wolf I prefer the more masculine version of my name. I don't dislike my name, I just don't want to seem weak and girly.

Here I am, on my birthday, walking to school in the rain. I actually tried to look nice this morning, and the rain is ruining my makeup. I put on a brave face and keep walking. My mate will like me, makeup or no makeup. I pull up the frayed strap of my old backpack up on my shoulder. I could have a new backpack, but I love this one. We've gone through so much together.

Finally I round the corner and catch sight of my school a few blocks down. Because of my super hearing I can hear the warning bell ringing. I start to sprint to the school, the entire time in my mind running through profanity. Well, at least it stopped raining, I think glumly to myself

I hear a loud engine gunning towards the school from behind me. I don't take much notice. Big mistake there Alex. If I had taken more notice I would have had time to dodge away from the well aimed wave of rain water that splashed down on me.

I looked down at myself, grabbing a hold of the bottom of my now drenched shirt and slowly peeling it away from my skin. I look up in time to see Vanessa look back at me and laugh. She flips her blond hair over her shoulder as she turns into the school parking lot in her light blue convertable.

I start shaking. Whether from rage or embarrassment I don't know. I take a few deep breaths and start walking back towards the school. Well, this day cant get ant worse. With that thought I start to cheer up. Just as this goes through my head I hear the thunder. I look up to see the accompanying lightning, just as it starts to rain again.

I audibly groan and slump over. I waddle the rest of the way to school not caring that I'm only getting more wet. I walk up the few stairs into school and quickly turn to head to the office, not bothering to put my stuff in my locker.

I walk in, and the secretary says in a bored voice-

"How may I he..." she starts before looking up and seeing my pathetic appearance.

"Oh baby girl! What happened! " my aunt Sherry says. She works at the school. Mainly because this is almost an all werewolf school. She quickly scurries around her desk and grabs my shoulders, holding me at arms length.

"Oh and on your birthday too!" She all but groans. This much sympathy from her almost reduces me to tears. I wont cry. I cant cry. Feel that tingly feeling in the back of your eyes? No. Exactly, I tell myself.

"Do you want any help?" My aunt asks. I numbly nod no.

"What can I do babe?" She says sympathetically.

Mustering up the strength to talk without cracking I calmly tell her

"Please pull miss Rebekah Trevor out of class if you will." Now you must be thinking 'wow, you're so arrogant. They wont pull a girl out of class for your minor fashion emergency.' But what you don't know is that they will. That's what happens when you're the King's daughter.

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I quickly sit up on the sink in the girls bathroom while Rebekah pulls out her emergency makeup kit and spare outfit she has for situations like this. She pulls out a teal green top with a lace back, a black tank top and some black skinny jeans with white stitching along the sides. Good thing she also has black flats with her.

I tell her to go light and natural with my makeup, like she needs any reminders. I rarely wear makeup. So obviously I don't want her caking on 30 pounds of makeup. And she knows this.

We've ben in here a while so I start to get figity. She finally announces "done" with a self satisfied voice and when I turn around I send her a grateful smile from the mirror. Its perfect.

"Thank you so muck Rebekah." I mumble into her hair, as I hug her.

"No problem sis. I'm always gonna be there for you girl." She pulls me back and holds.me at arms length, like aunt Sherry did. She admires her work and then starts to propel me out the door of the bathroom.

As I exit she calls my name and I turn around to face her.

"Whoever your mate is, he is one lucky son of a bitch." She smiles. I weakly smile back at her because it fells like the butterflies in my stomach got caught in a tornado. I wave at her. As I turn away I feel a painful slap on my ass. I turn around wide eyed to look back at Rebekah. She loudly guffaws at my expression and then turns away to walk back to class.

Shaking my head slowly I tun away to head to second period. Well here goes nothing, I bravely think. Today's the day. I have five periods, lunch, and after-school library time to meet my mate. Today's gonna be awesome.

God, if only I knew then...