How far will love take us?

Chapter 4

I hear the gentle knock on my door before I bolt out of bed and come and open the door. She has a bag over her shoulder and a pillow and blanket under her arm. I grab the bag and ask her to please come in. She looks around our teeny room. It has two beds in it. One on each side. A dresser beside each that has its own flair from each of our personalities. The best thing about our room though is the window. We have a Country style full bench window seat. Not just that long pad and you lay with one person, but the full around hexagon seats and pillows with amazing drapes window. 

She immediately goes over to the window and sits down staring into the forest. I go over next to her and smile seeing the same look I had when dad told us this was our room years ago. It is an amazing view. The treeline never ends. We are so high in the mansion that we get to see as far as the view will let you see. There are mossy oaks and more as far as the eye can see. When its spring and fall we open the windows to let the cool breeze the trees give us in. The smell is amazing as well. 

She turns to me and just smiles. 

"So, what would you like to do? Make over? Please say no. Talk? I can do this. Or maybe even just 20 questions til we fall asleep or go off on tangents?" she just laughs as I finish.

"Not much of a girly girl are you?"

"Heck no, that is all for my sister to love."

"Well, we can start out with the 20 questions then. You start!"

"Sounds good. ummm... let me think... how old are you?"

"19, you?"

"20. Favorite color?"

"Green. What about you?" 

"Red. Did you really come with your mom just to find your mate?" I snicker at her favorite color, but I don't think she even catches it. 

"Yes, I am already over the curve of how old I should be. I have gone to a few other packs, but I just seem to not be lucking out. It actually hurt my feelings knowing that your sister mated our Gamma. I really liked him."

"Well, I am older than you and I still haven't found him either. But, to be honest I haven't tried. I just figured he would find me. Now here I am an old maid in our community and still no mate. My parents are just fine with it. Keeps me home with them. But, now we are dealing with this war brewing and I feel weak." I sit back and just close my eyes.

"I dunno if you would be interested, but I have heard a rumor. Its something that I still haven't gotten a lot of proof from and when I ask my mother about it she flips and tells me to forget about it. I am desperate and if you are two maybe we can work together and find our mates?" She scoots closer to me to wait for my reaction,

I open my eyes look at her and think about what she just said. If we can go somewhere to find our mates, bring them back with their packs and help our families it would be a bonus. But, how could we get away with this with my body hunks following me around all the time. I never get a moments peace. If we run off together how will we protect ourselves from the Rogues if we happen to come across some. 

"Okay, what do you know?" I open my eyes and get serious with her.

"I was told by another she-wolf who is now mated and happy that once a month wolves come together from everywhere trying to find their mates. The meet in the same location every time so that you can come around and if you smell your mate... you've done it, but if not then you try again next month. It is a way for us to go far and wide to find them. I was told where and when I just don't know how to get there!!!" She stared at me with the most intense eyes. I wanted so bad to help her and myself.

"Okay, well how long do we have until the next meeting?" 

"A week."

"Crap. Okay. I need you to do something for me. Write down where and when it is happening. There are ears everywhere."

She walked over to my vanity and grabbed a pen and paper and wrote it down and put under my alarm clock. She came back over to the window and sat down.

"So now what do we do?" She asked with longing in her voice.

"We need to see if my body hunks will help us train. They will just think we need to defend ourselves. They will just think its in preparation. So we can be prepared if we come in contact with any rogues. After that we can start to plan how we will get out of here. I am not sure where you are sending us, but if it is far enough or even close we can shift and run. It will get us anywhere fast enough. We will pack a bag and Ill carry it for our clothes and food. What do you think?"

I can see her smile growing as I am explaining what we need to do. She seems to be on board. I listen out to figure if I hear anything from the door where Devin is posted right now, but it doesn't seem like he is listening to us. So I look back at her and she just has a huge grin on. So I get up to go grab my pjs and she just grabs me in this huge hug. I smile knowing that I have made her night, but what she doesn't know is she has made me even more happy. 

"Thank you!" She whispers in my ear. She lets me go and gets her bag and starts to unpack. I slip into my pj bottom pants with Hello Kitty all over them and my white tank to match. She puts on some plain black pj bottoms and a button up fronted one to match. I curl up on my bed and she hops onto Melanie's. We just look at each other and as if we have been friends forever just start laughing in excitement. 

"I cant believe I might finally find my mate and all because I crashed into you!" She fell back laughing.

"Well, thank you. But, we haven't gotten there yet. We are just at the beginning of our plans. Tomorrow will start the steps to get us where we want to be."  Just as I finished what I said Devin stepped in. 

"Hey girls, just doing my checks. Do you need anything before I close the door again?" He eyes us both up just missed our giggle spurt. 

"No Devin. Thank you for checking up. We are great. Hopefully the next time one of you checks us we will be fast asleep. So could you please be a little quieter about it next time? Huh?"

As I finish saying this his cheeks blush a bit and he closes the door. That starts me and Trish giggling all over again! It great to know that you have a friend here and one that wants to help with the same thing you do. 

Eager to get the next day started again we both start to daydream into our pillows and fall fast asleep. I heard Trish snoring lightly before I was out and it made me grin. I wasnt asleep long before a dream crept into my mind. 

I am sitting next to a large tree. I cant even see the top of it if I wanted too. I look around and recognize the forest. Its the one right next to our home. I look around afraid that one of the rogues was close and hid behind the tree. Suddenly a flicker caught my eyes. I look over to the bright light and see a pond. Not thinking anymore I just walk over to the pond. I don't get to close you never know what could be in it, water moccasins, gators, and other water beings that love to bite. 

Suddenly I hear my name being called "Jennifer, oh Jennifer come to me please....."

The voice knows my name and seems to be hurt? Or wounded... But, its a mans voice. Its not like any voice I have ever heard before. I start to sniff the air to see if I can find where he is... but I can not seem to find him. I start to get upset. I can feel his pain, pouring through my body and it starts to tear my heart to shreds. I am running frantically around the forest until finally my wolf breaks free and starts to run. She is just as upset as we are and needs to find him.... 

We need to find him because the smell of him has caught us and we know why he knows our name. Its our mate... we need to save him.... help him... but something is mixed in his smell that we have smelled before... what is it... in my white and orange wolf form I run around the forest searching for him... not finding him... only knowing his smell and it is everywhere.