The Mystic

5- The Cunning

Everett

"HE DID WHAT?!" Maya was angrily pacing the perimeter of my room, while Jordan failed miserably at calming her because of his own anger. Apparently, Sorelle was kind enough to tell them that something was up today while I was in the woods, late to my own party. So, now I had no choice but to tell them the truth. After explaining to my parents that I had fallen asleep in my hammock after going for a run, and apologizing profusely, they forgave me and quickly forgot about it. I'm pretty positive the only reason for that is because it's my birthday

Now a couple hours later we were sitting my room and I was telling them about the douchebag, I hadn't gotten to the huge wolf yet.

Sorelle scrutinizes me, "Did Alexander give you those?" She asks, pointing to my neck.

Maya storms over, furiously, and after seeing them says, "I'm going to kill him" She starts pacing once again, nodding "Yup, I'm going to kill him".

Jordan grabs her arm as she passes him, "Maya, you can't kill the future Alph..." He stops as Maya raises an eyebrow, "You can't kill him so let's just let Eve finish, and see what we can actually do, okay?" He finishes hurriedly. Maya nods, sitting beside him on my bed and gestures for me to continue.

I quickly throw on a hoodie so I don't have to worry about the hickeys and sit back down on the floor, leaning against my dresser. I sigh quietly, "Throughout the whole thing basically the only thing he said was 'mine' over and over again-" The three of them throw shocked looks at one another but I continue, "I have not once spoken to him in all the years that we have been attending the same school, but all of the sudden he decides to completely violate me, on my birthday no less?" I shake my head as they openly gape at me, "It doesn't make any sense. After I pushed him away, I slapped him and his eyes got all weird. And then with the wolf in the woods, today has been nuts..." I trail off getting lost in my own memories.

"Woah, woah, woah-" Maya starts pacing once again, "-You slapped him?!" Giving me an incredulous look.

I nod, "It's not like he didn't deserve it" I say shrugging.

She smiles menacingly, "You're one badass bitch-" She puts her hand out to me, "Put it here". I laugh, high fiving her.

Sorelle watches us in shock, "Yeah, so that was definitely not the most important thing that she just revealed." Jordan nods along with her, "What wolf in the forest?"

"Ohh yeah!" I laugh excitedly, "So while I was sleeping this insanely huge wolf came up to me, surprisingly didn't kill me and then walked me home after. It was crazy." Worry and confusion cross their features as they work through what I just told them.

Jordan folds his arms across his chest, "And what color was it?" the others stayed silent, waiting for my answer.

"He was grey and had white ears..." I'm cut off as they verbally react to the new information all at once.

"Fuuuuuckk"

"Oh god"

"No way"

My eyes widen, "What? What does that mean?" They glance quickly at each other before Sorelle answers.

"Well-" She shifts nervously, "it's just crazy that you didn't get hurt, you must have been terrified." Jordan and maya nod along with her words.

"Oh," I furrow my brows, "Okay." What is up with them? They have to know something I don't.

"Hey Everett," Maya gets my attention, "I'm super thirsty, could you get me a water? She asks innocently.

"And while your downstairs could you grab some snacks?" Jordan adds.

"Sure." I stand, thankful to be out of the center of questioning. "You want some, too, Sorelle?" She nods quickly, lost in her own thoughts.

I take my time getting to the bottom of the stairs, and making my way to the kitchen. I grab four waters from the fridge and decide on chips and salsa. As a last minute thought, I cut up some more cake, I know how these people can put it away. With my arms completely full, I slowly struggle up the stairs, careful to not drop anything.

When I get within earshot of my door, I hear their quieted voices.

"... said his eyes got weird which means he couldn't control his wolf and then he goes and walks her home from the middle of the forest as it's getting dark out?!" Maya pauses, "Plus it's her birthday and he's already 18. Let's face it, they're mates". His wolf? Mates? Wtf?!

"And she was shivering all day, that had to have been the mate pull" Jordan whispered. I inch closer to the door, trying to control my breathing.

"That doesn't make any sense though, Alpha's can only have werewolf mates, and she's very clearly a human!" Sorelle quietly yelled at them. What. In the actual fuck?!

"We're just going to have to ask-"

I slowly lean forward and before I can stop it, a water bottle slips out from under my arm, hitting the hardwood indiscreetly.

Maya whips the door open immediately and before she gets the chance to question me I say, "Hey Maya, could you do a favor and pick that up?" She narrows her eyes as I laugh nervously, "I probably should have made two trips!" I say in too high a voice, and rush around her, into the room.

They don't seem to suspect anything amiss and I decide not to ask about what I heard. I'll do some research after they leave and confront them after I actually know something concrete.

***

After wishing me one last happy birthday, they each go the their cars and drive off. Sighing, I go back up to my room to take a shower. Undressing quickly, I walk into my connected bathroom.

Glancing into the mirror, I gasp. Shifting my body in both directions, I gingerly run my fingers across the dark purple and black bruises scattered from the sides of my hips, up to my ribs in handprint-like shapes. I didn't even feel it. Tears start dripping down my face as I stare in horror at the reminder of the beast taking what he wanted. With no hope of simply forgetting what happened, I step into the shower to scrape the filthy feeling from my skin.

After finishing in the shower and getting dressed, I grab my phone for the first time in hours. Ignoring the many missed calls and texts from my parents and all three my friends from earlier, I see another text from the unknown number.

Happy birthday Everett.

First of all, how do they know who I am, and second, how do they know it's my birthday? Maybe I forgot to save their number. I type out a response and send it.

Thanks! Sorry, I don't have your number saved, who is this?

Shutting the lights off and crawling into bed. I close out of that screen, open Google and search 'werewolf'. Seeing only TV shows and movies, I then search 'werewolf alpha". Again more movies but this time some articles about wolf pack alphas, but no werewolves. Letting out a frustrated sigh, I try one last search, 'alpha mate'. Still no success.

I plug the charger into my phone and after making sure that my alarm was off for the weekend, I roll over and very slowly fall into a fitful slumber filled with dreams of certain blue-eyed beast.

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