APUI: Volume 1 - My Life as a Werewolf

Chapter 5: Do We Have To?

GRACE

I got home from school and told my brother everything. He kind of needed to know and there is no use keeping anything from him. "What?!?" he screamed when he heard that I rejected my mate. I explained to him that, technically, I didn't reject my mate because I didn't do it properly, but Jackson did reject me ... properly. So it wasn't my fault at all. My brother then inquired into everything about Jackson. During school I had managed to learn that Jackson was in grade 11 like me (He was in my Maths B and Maths C classes) and that he was, as I guessed, a playboy. He hung out with the entire popular crowd and occasionally dated a girl called Amili.

Chris told me that we were having dinner with the Alpha and Alpha heir at the pack house. Ash and Tara were going to be there too. However, I had a super bad feeling about it. Chances were, Jackson was going to live in or near the pack house and the last thing I wanted to do was run into him. My brother noticed my face and said "This is about your mate, isn't it?" I just nodded. I have never felt this helpless in my life. I am usually strong and don't give a fuck about other people, but here I am, declining dinner with the alpha, because I might see some dickhead who happens to be my mate. I wanted the old me back ASAP.

Emily was still scared though. 'Suck it up, princess' I said to her. We can't let one fucking guy get us down. I took a deep breath "I'll come" I said. Chris looked at me with his eyebrows raised. "Okay then" he replied. "Wear something nice."

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It was 6pm when we drove to the pack house. I was dressed in a skirt, singlet and connies. I usually don't wear skirts and dresses, but this is kind of a special occasion. It's not every day you get to meet the leader of your new pack for the first time. The door to the pack house looked very ominous as we walked up to it. Chris gulped and knocked quietly. I heard the sound of feet running down some stairs and the door was opened by Ash, who enveloped me in a hug. Of course, she knew that my mate was an absolute bastard who had rejected me. She dragged us through the house and into the kitchen.

"Would you like any drinks?" ash asked. Chris and I both just got water. As we sat around making idle chit-chat, Tara ran down the stairs. She was wearing a skirt, like me, with a crop top. Seriously? She's 13! What is wrong with the world now days? I'm 16 and I'm not showing my whole fricking belly to the world. Jeez... Maybe I'm being abut overprotective but still.

For some weird reason Tara idolises me. She ran up to me and hugged me, just like her sister did. We continued to talk and laugh for another few minutes until we were called into the dining room. We sat down at a very grand and long table, with the alpha, Luna and their daughter. Their son, the heir to the alpha title did not appear to be in attendance. I breathed a sigh of relief and let my guard down a tiny bit. Luck was on my side and I had not seen Jackson.

"Sorry I'm late" a voice called from down the hall. It sounded eerily familiar. The door opened and the alpha heir entered the room. The heir to the alpha was Jackson Collins! (A/N I'm sorry it's cliche! 😔)

"Shit" I said really loudly. My rejected mate was the almost alpha! Scratch what I said earlier, luck is holding a very large grudge against me.

Jackson smelt so good. His blondish brown hair was tousled and his storm grey eyes made me want to never look away. I tore my eyes away and refused to look at him for the rest if dinner. There was so much tension in the air; I reckon I could have got a tightrope walker to walk across it.

Jackson kept scowling at me or glancing adoringly and I kicked him in the shins underneath the table. I love kicking people in the shins, especially in my converse. Half of the time I felt like breaking down and bawling my eyes out and the other half of the time I felt like punching Jackson really hard in the face.

OMG, I have just realised a horrible statistic! I have never punched someone or trained for fighting as a werewolf or human. This really needs to change!

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After dinner I forced ash to come home with me to discuss my mate. We discussed every werewolf book we have ever read, well, I did. ash discussed what I had told her about all the werewolf books I have ever read. We came up with 5 unfortunate options:

A. Ignore Jackson completely and find someone who truly appreciates me.

B. Run up to Jackson ASAP and kiss him. Then mark him and mate with him.

C. dress up super hot and make him jealous and want me back

D. run away for a year or less and come back looking cool and hot.

I don't want to do either. I don't know if I could do plan a and plan b is just plain gross. I have never been kissed so there's no way in hell that plan is working out. Plan c is sooooo cliché. And plan d would involve me missing my education.

Ash and I discussed things for a bit longer before coming to a decision. I said goodbye to her and went to bed.

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A/N Lol I wonder what she is going to do...yeah.... well... I will post a better authors note later with a character profile but it's late and I am dancing all tomorrow so I need to sleep.

Bye,

Gracie XOXO

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Better A/N

Hi! If I had readers, I have 2 other than me now!😊, you guys would probably be commenting plan a! or plan b! etc. so I just wanted to say that I already know what she is going to do and... spoiler... it is not plan a, b, c or d. in fact it's plan e, also know as plan i! that's why is says they made 5 options but it only says four... see, I'm smart...

Well anyway character profile for

Name: Jackson Collins

Age: 17

Eye colour: storm grey/ blue

Hair colour: light brown / blond

Height: 6 foot 3 ish

Build: muscly(he's an alpha!)

I never gave you a character profile for Chris- that'll be next A/N!

Luv ya guys,

GRACIE!!! XOXO

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Ps if you see fire at the start of the chapter it means it is in Jackson's pov... 🔥🔥🔥🔥 (it does not have anything to do with the hobbit! you know... cause of the song... do you get me... I should stop.)

But u can't see it on the computer so I'll say: J POV 🔥

Actually bye this time 😊

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