Play Hard

Chapter 23

Last chapter you guys! I can't believe it. I really hoped you all enjoyed it! <3

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Evan pov.

"WE GRADUATE TOMORROW!" Craig yelled and ran around the park like a maniac. Ohm flew around too from happiness, he could finally control it all again. I looked over at Jonathan who stood under Ohm, jumping up and down, trying to catch him, laughing at each other. I suddenly got a turn in my gut when I looked at them. Calm down Evan, it's okay, they're just friends! But it was hard when everything in your body tells you to push the other male away. I turned my head around to take my mind off it and looked at Tyler and Craig. My pack and I agreed to hang out at the park today and play some games, just being brothers and have fun before we would graduate tomorrow. We all sort of knew what we wanted after high school. Ohm wanted to go to medical school, Craig and Tyler got into the same college, but different degrees and Jon, well he wanted to take a gap year just to work, earn some money. Me, I got a job at a big company. It's not a big position, but I would work my way up and it's my dream to own my own company one day. Every fiber in my body wanted to be with Jon, but it was hard, we don't even live together. We should have waited, like Craig and Tyler, but I guess we got caught up in the moment. It would be near impossible for me to get a new mate, not that I wanted anyone else but Jon, but owls stick with one mate forever. Like my parents, they met in high school too, young and dumb, but they loved each other, just like us.
My mind was snapped from my thoughts when a soccer ball was thrown at me and having fast reflexes as I do I caught it without looking. "Come on! Let's play!" Tyler yelled, assuming it was him who kicked the ball over at me. "No powers!" Craig yelled and I could see why it would be unfair for him since he's not super fast like me or really strong like Jon and Tyler. "Can I use mine? Or else I can't see anything!" Ohm yelled as he ran out onto the field. "No powers, except Ohm!" I yelled to all of them as I kicked the ball. It was me and Jon against Craig, Tyler, and Ohm. "But we're uneven!" Craig said but suddenly I looked over at Ohm who rolled on the grass holding his hands to his head. "We're not uneven now!" Ohm grunted out while I looked on his face that his head was going to explode. I looked behind me as I caught a familiar scent and then I saw Luke casually walking towards us, hands in his pockets and his horns out. "I should've guessed it was you by Ohm's reaction!" Jonathan yelled with a smile going across his face. "Please, stop! It hurts!" Ohm said in a low voice, still laying on the grass. "Sure, I'll stop. I just felt like announcing my arrival with a little pain." Luke said and crossed his arms, giving us a big smirk. His horns grew back in and Ohm finally relaxed. "I'll be goalie then. Who's their goalkeeper?" Luke asked me. "Ohm is theirs." I said and pointed at them. "Then it's gonna be easy!" Luke said and cracked his knuckles. "Rules are, no powers, except Ohm!" Craig yelled to Luke from the other end of the field.
As the game was going on with full force, we all put our heads into it, no one wanted to lose, being the alpha I definitely didn't want to. Both teams had scored two goals, so we were even after we had played for an hour or so. I shot the ball to Jon, hoping he could score but he didn't react quickly enough and got tackled hard to the ground by Tyler. My eyes lit up as something in me got angry by the sight of Tyler on top of Jon. "GET OFF HIM! NOW!" I growled out loud, not noticing my claws and fangs were out. Their smiling and laughing faces turned serious right when I yelled at them, Jonathan's adorable smile was gone from his face. This was truly a downside to being mated. Stop ruining everyone's fun! You're ruining it with your stupid hormones! "Calm down dude, I didn't touch him, I swear!" Tyler apologized to me as he backed away from Jon, fright filling his eyes. Jon crawled on all fours behind my legs and he looked scared like he had done something wrong, which he hadn't, I was just being a dumbass.
I sat down on the grass. Jon crept up to me and hugged me from behind, giving me a small kiss on the cheek. "I'm so sorry guys." I said and sighed. Tyler walked over to me and reached his hand out for me to grab it. "It's okay, it's not totally your fault." Tyler said as I grabbed his hand and he helped up from the ground. I rubbed the back of my head and looked down at my feet. "Thanks. I just wished I wouldn't react that way around you guys. You're all my friends, brothers even! I don't get it!" I said and sighed again. Ohm flew over to me and punched me lightly on the shoulder. "Don't sweat it, man! I noticed the way you looked at me and Jon earlier and it's okay, I know you can't help it." He said and landed right beside Tyler. It was getting dark, so we group hugged and called it a day, said our goodbyes and walked home.
I walked home with Jonathan, hand in hand and with Luke walking right behind us. "I'm so fucking happy that I can't hear your thought constant anymore!" Luke said loud and it made us both laugh. "Yeah, I'm happy for that too and especially now!" Jon said and squeezed my hand tighter as he looked up at me with a grin on his lips. "I still can't believe that my little brother has mated already and you're both only 18! It blows my mind." Luke said and made explosion sounds with his mouth. "Hehe, yeah, I can't believe it either..." I said and looked up at the night sky. I knew Jon was looking at me but I didn't bother to look because I knew he was wondering why I said it like that.

I was too tired to walk to my own place and I wanted to stay the night with Jon because he acts like he wants to talk to me, serious talk. I took my clothes off and laid down on his bed. Jon crawled over to my and laid his head on my chest, holding me tight. "Why did you say it like that?" he asked me with a very low voice. "I knew you would ask." I said and squeezed his shoulder. Suddenly he sat up quickly and gave me a sad and confused look that I didn't like. "Do you even wanna be with me? you act like it's the worst to mate with someone!" He almost yelled at me and I could see tears forming in the corners of his eyes. I didn't expect him to be so forward, so I sat up too and took his hand in mine. "Yes, I do! You're mine, remember? But don't you think we're too young for this?" I asked and looked him directly into his cornflower blue eyes. "So, I'm yours but you don't wanna be with me?" He said and finally, the tears came running down his red cheeks. "NO! that is not at all what I'm saying!" I pulled him into me and he kept crying on my shoulder. "Please, stop crying." I sniffled out to him. I arched my back and I folded my wings out with force, so I folded them over him, covering him in my scent for comfort. "Please, don't leave me again." He stuttered out through the tears. It finally hit me that he would literally die without me, thinking back to when I was in a coma where he almost did die because of me. it wouldn't be a live or die situation for him. He finally sat up and dried his tears away. "Yes, we're young, but if you ask me it would have happened sooner or later, so don't let me down, I would lose it. You have no idea how many times you've saved me, so I would be lost without you, you know that!" He said still with some tears streaming down his face and it got me really emotional. He grabbed my hand tightly. "Evan, please, we're forever, young or not." He said with much confident in his tone. I pulled his arm so he landed on me. "Remember what I said?" I asked. "What?" He said confused, so I grabbed his face and pulled it up to mine so our noses were touching. "You're mine." I said in a much sweeter tone this time and kissed him deeply. 

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