Star-Crossed Mates

Finally Eighteen

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(Stormys dress above)

"Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to my babies! Happy Birthday to you!" My parents sang loudly as they each banged on our bedroom doors waking us up. I groaned loudly wrapping myself in my comforter like a cocoon.

"Stormy Renee get your ass out of bed and get ready for your birthday party! Today is the big day!" My mom sang happily waking my inner wolf. She started growing wrestless with anticipation and I knew that no matter how hard I tried to go back to sleep that that was not an option.

"I'm up!" I yelled and crawled out of bed and made my way to my bathroom. I turned my shower on steaming hot and stripped down and I scrubbed and shaved my body until I was clean head to toe.

Once I was out of the shower I wrapped myself in a towel and made my way to my closet to find something to wear to this damn party. My sister decided to have a masquerade ball, leave it to her to want to go overboard for turning eighteen.

I had almost tried on every damn dress I had. I stood there in the middle of my room with dresses thrown all over the floor.

A knock on my bedroom door brought me out of my hopeless attempt to find an outfit.

"I'm getting dressed!" I yelled in aggravation.

"Open up, I have something for you!" My mom cheekily squealed on the other side of my door. I walked over and opened the door. She dashed in with a dry cleaning bag in tow.

"I knew you didn't have anything to wear so I got you a little something." She pulled the cover off of the most beautiful dress I had ever seen. It was a charcoal grey color floor length halter top dress. Lacy bead designs spread all over the mesh covered chest, and a slit that went up to mid thigh.

"Mom thank you! This is absolutely beautiful!" I gushed breathlessly as I held the dress up to my body and twirled around.

"You're welcome babygirl, there's a matching mask inside the dress bag now hurry up and get ready the party starts in an hour." She kissed me on the cheek and left me to get ready.

I curled my hair in loose curls and pinned some from both sides of my face back and left the rest down. I applied a dark but suttle smokey eye, eyeliner, mascara, and a blood red lipstick. I spritsed myself with some perfume and looked myself over in the mirror and was happy with how I looked. I felt beautiful and confident and that helped ease my nerves.

Music started bumping from downstairs signaling the party had already started so I knew I needed to hurry before they sent a search party after me. I grabbed the mask from the bag and carefully put it on without messing up my hair and made my way downstairs.

Pack members flooded everywhere throughout my house, with masks on it was really hard to tell who was who. As I made my way through the crowd a scent overtook my senses. A manly scent mixed with pine, cologne, and mint. My wolf was antsy and scratching to get out and I knew why, our mate was here. I put my nose in the air and tried to follow it, even though my senses were heightened some they weren't strong enough to figure out where the scent was coming from, they wouldn't be fully developed until after I shifted. I dodged through the groups of people, some were already drunk and grinding on each other and some were just standing there talking.

"Stormy you look amazing!" I hear from beside me, I froze in my tracks and turned to see my friends all standing there looking at me with proud eyes.

"Thanks.." I trailed off still trying to follow his scent which was long gone now.

"Earth to Stormy!" Olivia snapped her fingers in front of my face to get my attention.

"Oh sorry! My mate is here-" I couldn't even finish my sentence before they all bombarded me with questions.

"Who is he?"

"Where is he?"

"Is he hot?"

"I don't know the answers to any of those damn questions!" I groaned in frustration, I felt like a dog chasing his tail. My wolf was literally scratching my insides to where I felt like I was on fire.

"Are you alright Stormy? You don't look so good." Lisa asked with her voice full of concern.

"No I feel like I'm on fire!" I snapped and started fanning my face with my hands.

"You're about to shift, your wolf is scratching to get out. It won't be long now." Alaina smiled sympathetically as she tried to rub my arm in a comforting way.

"How in the hell am I supposed to shift without my mate? He's supposed to guild me through shifting." I started panicking, fearing that I was going to have to shift alone.

"Don't worry, I'll help you. It's okay." Alaina rubbed my shoulder again and oddly enough it actually calmed me and my wolf down.

"Attention ladies and gentlemen, all members of The Blue Thorn and neighboring packs, may I please have your attention. Thank you all for being here to celebrate my daughter's shifting day with us. It won't be much longer before the shifting starts but in the mean time can I have both of my daughter's and their chosen friends on the dance floor for the ball dance." My dad spoke from the podium on the stage in the livingroom. The ball dance is where there are ten girls and ten guys and you dance slowly and spin in circles across the floor and every so often you switch partners until the song is over and you've danced with every guy.

It's an old pack tradition and frankly I wasn't in the mood to dance or touch any other male except for my mate. My skin was starting to burn again and then it hit me again, my mates scent. I followed it like I was hypnotized.

I followed it and it led me to the dance floor. I looked around and tried to follow it to pin point where he was but the other guys and girls scents masked it making me groan in frustration.

The music started playing signaling the dance was starting. My first partner was Alainas mate Zach. I put my right hand against his and we spun around, and then did the same with our left hand. We waltzed across the floor and he passed me on to my next partner. My wolf was growing more and more anxious and the burning sensation came back tenfold.

My mates scent would get closer then further the longer the dance continued and I was seconds away from ditching my current partner to find him but then his scent practically knocked me on my ass when we switched partners for the last time.

We placed our hands against each other's and tingles shot up my arm drawing me towards him like a magnet. He could feel it too, I could see it in his body language. He tensed up and then immediately relaxed. His eyes were the most beautiful blue eyes I had ever seen, so captivating yet so familiar. His hair was dark and gelled neatly to perfection. I couldn't see the rest of his face because his mask covered it. He wore a black suit that was tight on his muscles and in all the right places.

My wolf was abnormally calm, calmer than she had been in months, it was very relieving and for the first time in a long time I felt at ease. Our eyes stayed locked the whole time. He looked at me with intensity and determination which made my stomach flutter.

The dance ended faster than I would have liked but me and my mate stayed frozen in place as if the rest of the world didn't exist.

An ear piercing scream echoed throughout the walls of my house and suddenly everything turned chaotic.