Marked From Birth

Chapter 7

Chapter-7

still,still Alec's P.O.V._

  "So are you going to tell me what you were,and still are,thinking about?",continued Kayley after we got to my home.She always took me home on Fridays to help me.Whether it was for school,work,or house chores,she always came to help me.She was like my best friend.I was so thankful she was my cousin.I would never say it aloud,but sometimes it just got hard living by myself.

"Can I ask you something Kayley?",I say instead of answering her question.

"Only if you answer my question first.",she said.

"That's sort of what I wanted to ask you about."She raised her eyebrow at that.So I said sheepishly,"What is it like when you meet your mate?"

   She rolled her eyes at me."Weren't you paying attention when the Elders told our generation about that?"

I shook my head,"Nope."

She laughed at me."Of course you didn't."

    I waited a few minutes till she was done."So are you going to help me out here or what?"She immediately sobered up.

   She just looked at me with a calculating frown.Then after a moment she figured out why I was asking and her eyes became huge."OMGOSH!!!!You found your mate!",she squealed.I just stared at her."OMG!OMG! Is it the new girl,Annalie?"My heart jumped at the sound of her name."IT IS!"I didn't think her eyes could get any bigger. Yet there we where.

She squealed for a few minutes,practically jumping up and down."Sooo.."I said.

  She rolled her eyes at me."Anyway.Hmm..I guess i'll start at the beginning.Ok so first of all you've got all the usual signs when your in love.Heartbeat,sweat,butterflies...All that jazz...And your wolf will acknowledge your mate.Often times it might even say something."I blinked at her."Such as..mine or something."



"Is that all?",I wondered.

"Well pretty much...",she said."Except it usually takes some time,and a lot of that time with that person,before you realize that they are in fact your mate.But every once in awhile its instant."



"Really!?",I say excitedly. My reaction seemed to surprise her.

    "Yea. We call them Soul-mates & there's a big difference between that and regular mates. For instance,if you have a pair of mates and you kill one off,though the other one would feel like the were dying,but they could live. Not to mention you'd have one seriously pissed off werewolf."she said.

"And if you had soul-mates?"I had to know.

     Her expression darkened."If you were to hurt one the other one would feel it. If one were to die the other one wouldn't just feel like they were going to die too. They really would die without the other one. And there's nothing anyone could do about it."

Annalie's P.O.V._

   After I shut the front door behind me,I stopped and leaned my back against it. I finally managed to take deep breath in and let it out in a sigh,clearing my mind. I couldn't get my mind off Alec..and what he said. I had been so hung up on what he said to me that I almost ran a red light and didn't stop at a stop sign.

Mates. I tried saying it aloud."Mates."I didn't really get a chance to figure out how that made me feel when my mom called my name.

"Annalie. Is that you?",she asked suspiciously. I rolled my eyes. She was probably the most paranoid person you could know.

"Yes Mother. Its me."I said.

Then she walked in the hall,"Hi darling how was school?"she said pulling me into a hug.

" It was good."I hugged her back.

"Well that's certainly different. Usually its 'It was school.'"She said quoting me.

I pulled away,"What I can't have a good day at school?"

"Well no that's not it..."she trailed off.

I smiled and said,"Well I gots lots of homework and some unpacking I still have to do so i'm goin upstairs."

"Ok darling. I'll yell when supper is ready."she smiled back.

"K,thanks Mom."I said as I walked up the stairs.

   When I got to my room at the end of the hall I threw me stuff down then fell back onto my bed.I closed my eyes and tried it again."Mates."I lay there for a moment to let it seep in.It felt great.It was practically indescribable.Though something wasn't quite right.And I couldn't put my finger on it,but the word mates just wasn't good enough.

   I opened my eyes and bit my lip. After a few minutes I gave up. I got up and grabbed my physics notebook and did some of my homework for the weekend. That took a little longer than I thought it would take and I didn't even get a whole box emptied before I hear my mom calling me to supper. I jumped up and ran down the stairs. Tonight we were having my favorite. My mom's spaghetti.

Alec's P.O.V._

   Later that night,as I was watching TV,I thought about what Kayley told me."Soul-mate."I said questionably.I pondered that possibility for a moment.Then I remembered that soul-mates would literally die without the other.I tried to imagine what would happen if Annalie died.And got the feeling like some one was taking a sword and slowly pushing it into me.So I immediately banished that thought from my head.The pain left me so suddenly it left me dizzy.Whoa.Kayley wasn't kidding.If that's what happens at just the thought...Then...what must it be like to lose her.I shuddered.I don't want to find out.