Two Tails

Chapter Sixteen- "Another Time Soda Fountain"

(A pic of Another Time Soda Fountain above
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I yawn and turn to see a bare chest. I scream and somehow I'm in a bed. Funny. All I remember is running through the woods in my tiger form with Aatu then falling asleep next to his wolf form. So how did I end up in a bed? Next to someone? I try to get up, but an arm pulls me back down. I look at Aatu. He'a still not awake. I shove him off of the bed, and he falls onto the ground with a thud. "Ow! Hey!" Aatu growls and his head pops up from the ground.

I narrow my eyes, "Why am I in your bed?" I growl. "I don't know!" Aatu replies. I growl again. "Of course you do mister!" I say. "I honestly don't! Ian must've knocked me out or something!" He said.

He's telling the truth Petra. Zara woofs. I huff, Then why don't I remember anything either? I question. Zara doesn't reply.

I'm never going to get an answer out of her am I?

I glance at Aatu. "Hey... what's that?" I ask, and look at the base of his neck where it met his shoulder. I look at it. On his neck was what looked like a engraving of two tails, one a striped cat tail, the other a furry wolfish tail. I blink and stare at it before reaching up to touch my neck too. At the same spot on my neck I felt engravings.

Oh crap.

"How dare you?!" I hiss, I can feel Isa creep up on me. "You didn't even ask me!" I spat. Aatu looks at me, confused. "Huh?" He asks.

He's genuinly confused...

I frown. We both don't know how we marked each other.

Great.

Aatu looked at me, and frowned. "Here. Take this robe and go get dressed." Aatu threw a robe to me, I covered myself and slipped out of his room. I made my way across the hall to my room. I opened it, closed the door, then walked over to my dresser and put on my undergarmets before getting my clothes on. I put on some tennis shoes and walked out of my room. I walked over and knocked on Aatu's door. "Are you decent?" I ask. Aatu opens the door. He's just in his boxers. "Decent enough. I'll help you pick out an outfit." I say and walk over to his closet. First thing I notice is an cotten candy machine at the back of the closet.
"You. Have. A. Cotten. Candy. Machine?!" I ask giddily and race over to it. I look at it. "Yeah." Aatu says. "What about this?" He asks and shows me a red shirt. I dont even look at it, I just focus on the machine. "Yeah. It's fine." I say.

Aatu nods. "Kay. I'll be going to do some... uh... Alpha stuff..." He says and leaves me to the cotten candy machine. I look at it for a moment, then turn and walk out of the room.

I go downstairs to see Kassana and Vesta talking. I can hear Vesta's loud and happy voice from where I am. "Did you see them last night? They were sooo cute!" Vesta says. "Uh... since when was Once Upon a Time cute?" Kassana asks. "Actually you'd be surprised at how many cute moments there are. Like when the ice queen wanted Elsa and Emma to be her sisters because they knew magic." Vesta smiled.

"And the ice queen died for their sake. Yeah. We're aware of that." I say and walk up to them. Vesta huffs, "You don't see cute like I do." She says. "You're defining sweet. Not cute." Kassana says.

"Cute is little corgis running around playfully." I say. They both nod at me.

"Soo... Petra... how was your date with Aatu?" Vesta says.

"Yeah. You two were very loud in his room last night." Kassana says. "Wait a second!" Vesta sniffs the air. "Is that the scent of a fully mated werewolf I smell?" She asks, eyes wide. I blush and scratch my nape nervously. "I honestly am not sure what happened in the room last night. I just woke up to see him and I both marked." I mutter. Kassana grins, "And what about before the room thing?" She asks.

"Well... we both went out into the forest to shift. I shifted into my tiger, but he went back and shifted into his human. He pet my fur for a moment before he shifted and we raced to the lake. We shifted, ate a few sandwhiches, then kissed under the full moon." I say. "SQUEEEEEE" Vesta squealed. "Ah, shush Vesta." I scold. "Nah. Let her fangirl. Honestly, I would be fangirling too. We both have just watched out ship sail~" Kassana says with a smile.

"You know what? Why don't we go to Another Time Soda Fountain to celebrate?" Kassana asks. "Celebrate what?" I ask. Kassana flicks my forehead, "You and Alpha Aatu being an official thing silly!" She says with a chuckle. I huff. "Fine." I say.

They giggle and we walk towards the garage door. I open it and go to grab the keys to Aatu's raptor. But they're gone.

Strange. I guess this was part of his Alpha stuff he had to do.

I end up grabbing some random keys and click the unlock button so see the flash come from the car.

Then I realize it's one of the cars from the pack's 'Twilight collection' as I like to call it.

It's the yellow Porsche.

"Looks like we're taking the Porsche today girls!" I say and we race up to it.

I get into the driver's seat. Kassana sits in passenger, and Vesta gets in the back.

The garage door opens and we go out onto the bumpy road.

Now that I've truly realized it. This was a small town. The max of people it had was around seven to eight hundred. And it was surrounded by the forestry in which the pack house was located.

I drove to the old downtown, and parked across the street from Another Time Soda Fountain. As I got out of the car, I saw a strangly familiar black Ford Raptor across the street near the railroad museum. O shrug it off and walk across the street with my gals and into Another Time Soda Fountain.

We walk over to the bar area and sit down. I'm in the middle of the two as we both look at the menu. "Hello ladies. What may I get you lovely ladies today?" A familiar masculine voice asked. "Uh... I'll have the brownie sundae." I say and look up at the guy. He's writing down my order. I reconize the messy natrual red hair and slightly pale skin.

Aatu.... He works here?!

I still don't think he's noticed us yet...

I smile as Kassana orders a brownie sundae and Vesta orders a chocolate shake with etra sprinkles on top, two cherries, and extra whipped cream. I face palm myself once she's done. "Vesta... don't overdue yourself." I told her. Vesta chuckles "And why wpuld I not do that PetPet?" She asks. "PetPet?"

"Your new nickname." Vesta smiles. "I think Tigera is a better nickname for Petra." Kassana says. Aatu's head snaps up when he notices I'm here. "P-petra?!" He exclaims. I smile, "Miss me wolfie?" I ask.

Aatu readjusts his icecream hat. You know those hats they wear at ice cream parlors? Well... that's what he's wearing.

I raise an eyebrow. "How many questions have you gotten about your mark?" I ask. "None. Most of the town is from my pack, either that or they're just a few stray werecats or humans who've wandered down here." Aatu explains. "Ah..." I say.

"So... why are you working here exactly?" I ask. The girls and I lean forward, anxious to hear his reply. Aatu scratched his nape nervously.

"Well... Cole and I made a bet once you first came here. He said that if you fell in love with me I had to work for a week at this place.... And I told him if you didn't then he'd have to record himself saying that he liked My Little Pony, and say that his favorite character was Rarity." Aatu said.

"Huh. I see why he likes this way better." I say. Aatu smirks, "Yeah. But I look rediculous in this outfit!" He exclaimed. "Nah. You look very kawaii~" I tell him.

"Oh come on! Can we have our ice cream already?!" Vesta exclaims. I shrug, "She does have a good point." I tell Aatu. He huffs and turns to make the ice cream.

"Best thing about this place is that you can see them make your ice cream." Kassana says. "True." I say. Aatu gives us our ice cream after several minutes. We all eat our fill and I pay for us before we walk out of the place.

We walked around downtown for a minute, and we even bought a few things from the antique shop before heading back to the car.

Then we went back home.

But I couldn't help but think about how cute Aatu looked in his little uniform. I smiled as I pulled into the pack garage.