Fearless

Sounds Like you Did

Chapter Fifteen: Sounds Like you Did

"We're missing so much school," Sam commented as we read at the library tables. 

"It's not like we need to be there. We have all we could ever want to learn here." Rebekah said. She happily flipped to the next page in the lore book she was reading on hunters and werewolves. "I've learned a lot about my kind from just this one book, and there are at least a thousand more books here that I could read that would give me even more information." 

"Listen to this, apparently we mate for life, like real wolves do. We sense a 'special connection' when we first look at them. Emotions and hormones run wild, and we feel the need to reproduce. Hey Aaron, do you think that's what happened when you looked at Sam? You seemed awfully excited when we talked to you for the first time." Rebekah teased. Aaron rolled his eyes at her. 

"Of course that's not what happened. If it had, then we would have-" Sam elbowed Aaron in the ribcage to get him to shut up. "which we totally didn't do. Nope, we totally didn't do what I know you're thinking we did." Aaron rushed out. 

"Sounds like you did," I muttered lowly so only Rebekah could hear. Rebekah's cell phone buzzed. She picked up the metallic device. 

"Shit, it's my stepmom." she said. "I better take this." Rebekah got out of her chair and headed off for the rooms. 

"Wonder what that's about." Aaron said. Sam scoffed. 

"I bet it's about the fact that she packed a bag and took off without even leaving a note. You better be glad my parents don't give a shit about me," Sam said. "Well, my younger sister does, so she's probably worrying up a storm, but other than that, no one cares where I am except for you guys." At this, I gave Aaron a pointed look. 

'He is obviously your mate,' I mouthed to him once Sam had gone back to reading. Aaron just shook his head. Rebekah walked back into the room, bouncing up the stairs with her phone in her hand. 

"She just wanted to let me know that if I ever come back she'll kick me out herself," Rebekah said with a sad sigh. She sat back down next to me and put her head in her hands. I put my hand on her back and rubbed soothing circles against her skin. 

"Your dad would let you go back, right?" I asked her. She nodded. 

"Yeah, and I bet he just threatened to divorce her because of what she said," Rebekah told me, a breezy laugh escaped her. "She doesn't understand why we had to leave. Well, she does since she knows there are wolves out there, but she thinks they're monsters, that we should be hunted until extinction." 

"Your dad doesn't think the same thing?" Aaron asked. Rebekah shook her head. She flipped her phone around in her hands until it slipped and fell to the table. 

"No, he cares about life. He wouldn't kill something if he didn't have to. But I know that my stepmom doesn't think the same about life. She thinks humans should control what gets to live and what dies." Rebekah picked her phone back up and turned it on. She stared at the lock screen. It was a picture of her stepmother, father, Clarence and herself. 

"Do you know if she raised Clarence to hunt as well?" I asked her. 

"I'm guessing she did. He always goes hunting with them on weekends. They train all the time." she sniffed a little bit. "My dad has been teaching me to fight since I was around eight, but when he got remarried, my stepmom forbade him to continue giving me lessons. We haven't trained in a little over  a year. I hate that she controls him so much. He was such a better dad when it was just him and me." 

"What do you think your dad would do if you told him about your 'condition'?" Sam asked Rebekah. She looked up from her screen saver and at Sam. She looked away from him for a second. 

"I think he already knows, or that he's suspicious. I mean, I left the day before the full moon, I got attacked in the woods, who knows what else he could have picked up on." Rebekah glanced my way before turning back to Sam. 

"He would be accepting of me. He would help me control myself, and maybe even help me find a pack to go with during the full moon." 

"He doesn't have to worry about that, you've already got a pack," I told her. She gave me a small smile. Charlie ran up the stairs with a plate of sandwiches in her hand. 

"Alright, after you guys finish these off, I want to go stretch our legs. I have been dying to get out since we got here." Charlie said. Aaron did a little celebratory dance before he shoved a sandwich in his mouth. 

"Do you think it's safe for us out there?" I asked. 

"We're far enough away that we'll be fine. And if they find us, why don't we take a couple down?" Charlie said. Rebekah half-choked on part of her sandwich, but didn't say anything. 

"Alright, well while you guys are out, I'm going to go and meet my sister somewhere. Do some shopping, buy her something nice, make sure she knows that I'm alive and well." Sam said 

"That's a good idea, I know how much she misses you." Rebekah said to Sam. "Alright, well I'm not hungry, so I'm going to grab a bag for our clothes and head outside." Rebekah said before she left her seat at the table and trotted off to grab a backpack from one of the closets by the staircase. 

Sam gave Aaron a quick peck on the lips before heading up to the garage. Aaron sighed quietly to himself after Sam had gone. We all headed to the stairs where Rebekah was waiting for us. "Before you leave I want to ask all of you something. But Rebekah it's mainly for you." Aaron said. 

"You know how you were reading about mates?" Aaron asked her. She nodded. 

"Oh, did you decide to come clean about Sam being yours?" She asked him. 

"No, I wanted to ask if you think it would be okay if I bit him, if he wants me to." Aaron said. Rebekah stopped in her tracks on the black staircase. She turned around so she could look at Aaron. 

"If he wants to spend all that time with you, then who am I to tell him he can't? He obviously loves you as much as you love him. It would be wrong of me to say no and deny him of getting to spend practically forever with you. But, before you ask him, I want you to tell him exactly what he would be getting into. The risks, the perks, everything." Rebekah said. 

"Of course, I'm not going to just leave him to figure things out the hard way. He'll know everything there is to know." Aaron assured her. Rebekah pushed the heavy steel door open and let us out. She slammed it closed and we were off. 

"Shove everything in the bag. We'll hide it in a hollow log in the woods before we run off." She said. I shoved my jeans, leather jacket, t-shirt, converse and belt inside her backpack. My hand brushed hers while I put everything inside. As I waited for everyone else to do the same, I wondered why I didn't get the same reaction that a mate got when they touched theirs. 

Was she not mine?