This Mate

Part 5

Desiree

"You know you cannot avoid him forever." I recently made a friend in this, pack of wolves. This happened shortly after waking up with a giant wolf's head on mine and I ran into the town to hide.

His name was Mathias, but I have gifted him the name Mesh. It suited how he talked when he meshed together sentences and didn't stop talking. When I first met him, outside the little food hut, I thought he was going to pass out.

"I can try," I answered stiffly then sat back on the black and brown modern couch stuffed in the back corner of Mesh's house. It was a small one person living area, but roomy as it held the comforts of the outside world with PS4 and Nintendo, and the woodland feeling with the furniture. I've been staying here for a couple of nights. Mesh has been patient towards what I wanted to do, so he hasn't been forcing to push me out. "No you can't, Tate is your very own and very true mate that loves you. He was picked out for you by La Luna, and god dammit. I'm sick of you been mopey on my couch. I'll watch Frozen again with you once more then, tomorrow we are going to go towards the training grounds. Little Desiree is going to train with her mate, and happily ever fucking after will you two live because you need to get laid!" Mesh progressively yelled towards me, but didn't take a breath.

"Ok, we'll do this your way," I sighed then grabbed the remote before flicking through the on-demand movies. Frozen was in the kids sections, and had a total of 20 watches since being here. The first time was plenty for Mesh, but Frozen was my favorite in theaters, and so he had to endure me singing along to all the songs, and mimicking the voices to all the characters for the next 19 watched. And I'm so dedicated to Frozen that I have watched the Movie Theory, both of them, and I agree that something happened to Hans off camera.

Judging by the disgust on Mesh's face, he was definitely done with Frozen. So one more watch and I was done too. Leaning back on the comfy couch, I drew back the blankets to my chin, and enjoyed the movie. Leaving it at ear-deafening volumes so no one could bother us.
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'Wake up you little shit.'

'Don't talk to her like that Theo! You know damn well she is your daughter as well!'

'She isn't my fucking daughter Grace! She doesn't look like me!'

Desiree woke up to her parents fighting in her room. Her mother came over, smelling of alcohol and some substance she couldn't make out. 'How did you sleep honeybee?'  Grace, her mother, asked her. Desiree, just a small child nodded her head. 'I slept well mom, thanks for asking,' Desiree placed her thumb into her mouth while cuddling with her blanket.

Theo glanced at his disappointment of a daughter, and saw her thumb in her mouth, again. 'What did I fucking tell you about that!' Theo came after her quickly with his fist raised. Desiree scrambled to the edge of the bed, then ran out of the door. Her father wasn't always like this. 'I'm sorry!' Desiree screamed.
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"The end. Finally," Mesh got up from his little cocoon and turned off the TV. I blinked back to reality with a single tear rushing down my face.

"Want to play on the Nintendo Wii U until 1am again?" I suggested as Mesh shook his head with a grin. "You ain't getting out of training missy. It's tomorrow at 5am and goes until 9am, which means bedtime is now." Mesh gathered up the small pile of blankets and pillows we left on the couches while I gathered up the courage to fluff up the pillow under my head. The courage part was just to have in order for tomorrow. It was going to be a long and painful day, but thinking of it being long and painful, it'll just make it so. Maybe my 'mate' won't show up, and I'll train with Mesh.

With a light sigh of encouragement, I fluffed my pillow, laid my head down lightly, and thought of happy thoughts. I needed them for tonight to get to sleep. Sleep had been the bad parent and abandoned me at the time I needed it most. Tonight though, exhaustion seemed to take the cake, and my mind shut down. Which basically meant I went to sleep.
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"Wakey wakey eggs and bakey!" Mesh threw the covers off of me and let me shiver to basic death! That fucking bitch. "I'll kill you in your sleep," I muttered while squinting at the flashlight he held up to my face.

"That's NO way to talk to your only friend, now up and at'em! We have a very big day and you need to put on some of that girly shit on your face!" Mesh grabbed my two feet and pulled me out of the couch. I latched my nails onto couch, but then let go. I didn't want to loose a nail over getting up.

"Fine!" I shouted then got up off the floor and went to my bag. It was stuffed in the corner of the room next to the shelves upon shelves of every single type of video game or action movie known to man/woman. It was really cool, and definitely a centerpiece of the room, with an aquarium in the center of the giant shelves. The aquarium held a turtle with some neon tetras, and it held a background scene of a war trench. Just a cool little feature of what Mesh liked and it fit the rest of the living room's forest theme. This was my favorite place to look at the turtle, that I declared it's name was Mesh Jr my third day here.

I got done being ready when the clock hit 4:58am, and Mesh was yanking me out the door. "I'm coming! I'm coming!" God dammit he was pushing my early morning buttons. Mesh was dressed in a very appealing muscle shirt with the Guns N Roses logo and track shorts, his hair was swept to the side, and his tennis shoes were worn and torn, but still rocked them with a Nirvana logo that was just pressed on the side. He looked good. My gear was just regular shorts and a plain grey tank top. My long hair was pulled into a bun away from my face, and I was ready for a workout.

"So, this workout is extreme, be ready for fighting, running, and probably dying," Mesh warned and stepped out of the cabin. His house was directly in the wooded area of the little town, and even in the darkness of the early morning, you could see everyone gathering in the field of nothing with more stronger looking men and women lighting candles around the circumference of the circle. It was like little lights that seemed to fade in and out of existence at certain spots.

"Wake up everyone! Time for partner training," I groaned gently when I glanced up at the front of the group. My mate looked at everyone in the crowd. When he glanced around the direction I was standing, his eyes pierced me. "I'll be training with my mate, and I suggest that everyone does the same," my mate said then walked towards me. The crowd parted like Moses and the Red Sea while I tried to escape, but Mesh kept to his promise towards me and held me steady while Tate came up to me.

"Alpha," Mesh bowed his head in respect and nudged me a bit to do the same. I slowly lowered my head, but Tate put his rough finger under my chin and slowly put my head right up again. "You don't need to bow your head, you are my equal. Come on. Let's train."