~ Rayne ~
Energy had found me again after I’d slept another night. I still felt stupid for bailing on Kayley after a conversation of five minutes yesterday night, but I couldn’t help it. Her moving me around while I never had woken up so early after a turn before hadn’t helped giving me my energy back at all, more like the opposite, it seemed.
I’d truly thought I was dreaming when I saw her beautiful face hang above me, gazing at me with large eyes and a smile on her face. I never expected her to start searching and even if she did, for some strange and amazing reason, how big were the odds she’d find me without any pre-planned arrangements? Close to zero. It had felt so good to have her in my arms, her incredible scent everywhere around me for me to inhale, her drawing circles on my back, though. I had only been half awake or just asleep most of the time, but that didn’t stop me from fully enjoying it.
She had pushed me far with her determination of getting me home. So far that at some point, I had been seriously irritated with her, but then, when I’d woken up and I was in my house, on my warm, soft sofa, knowing I didn’t have to make the usual trip back home, I realized how glad I was she had pressured me.
I stretched and groaned. My muscles were still aging, like I’d had a complete work-out yesterday, for at least five hours. I rolled my eyes. Thinking back on the turn made me sigh. I couldn’t say I didn’t like my few hours being a wolf, because I did, but the bending and stretching before the turn, the muscle pain and the way it felt like you had no energy left at all after it was over was definitely something I wish I could skip. And the hour of your bones breaking… The way you feel your limbs snap the exact other way as they were supposed to and your muscles contracting in an impossible strong way always made my stomach turn in the most horrific way. It didn’t matter how many times I had turned, I would never get used to that feeling.
After I took a shower, made some breakfast and sat down on the couch, my phone buzzed. An instant smile broke out on my face as I saw Kayley’s name in the display. “Hey, haven’t spoken you in a long time,” I teased. She grinned, a light, happy grin, one that was free from all worry, while I had felt some tension when I picked up.
“Are you back to fully awake again? Or have I messed up your complete system by keeping you awake?” she said as she laughed.
“I’m back again.”
A deep breath escaped her, clearly relieved, but I could also hear nerves. She took a deep breath. “My mother want’s to meet you.” I was silent, breath steady, slowly fastening, but I kept it under control. Her mother wanted to see me? Why? When I kept quiet she added, “She said she thought about our fight and she wants to see for herself whether you are the good person I said you are.”
“So you said I am a good person?” I teased, making sure she could hear the smile in my voice to hide the nerves I felt boiling up.
“Yeah… Well… You are…” she stammered.
“Good?” I ended, fully back to teasing, because her embarrassment made me forget my twisting gut.
She huffed out a breath. “More than only that, but yeah, that too.”
I chuckled. “When?” I asked.
“Tomorrow afternoon.”
Well, she certainly wanted to put speed behind meeting. I was quiet for a while before I said, “Tomorrow? That’s… soon.”
“I know,” she said, the nerves high in her voice too. It’s like she was reluctant to what her mother had suggested, which didn’t really make sense.
“Why do you sound like you’re not in for it at all? I thought you wanted your mother to give it a chance.”
She sighed and I could image her lying on her bed, staring up at the ceiling. “I do, but comparing our conversation from this morning to the ones just a few days ago… I wonder what made her think about it so differently all of sudden.”
I chewed on my lip. “It’s not all of sudden,” I said. “The turn came in between.”
“Yeah, but wouldn’t it have been more logical when she thought better about it before, instead of now? It doesn’t make any sense.”
It might not make sense to her, but I could find a few reasons why it was logical. “We’ll see tomorrow,” I said gently, hoping to make her feel a bit more at ease. “It’s going to be okay. What time should I be at your place?”
“Two. She didn’t tell my father yet, so he has to be gone before.”
I laughed. “All right, see you tomorrow then. Bye Kayley.” If this worked out good, that meant Kayley didn’t have to be afraid of my scent on her anymore. We could hang out more often, maybe even at her place.
Holy shit. I would get to know her mother. It made my stomach twitch immediately, in positive and negative ways. I was curious of meeting her, being able to sit in her house for longer than a few seconds, but what if Kayley’s strange feeling was right and it wasn’t about a cosy meeting, but something else altogether? No. I couldn’t think like that.
Kayley always said her mother was a loving person. Why would that be different with me?
Right?
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Fears To Face
Teen FictionKayley Gaines knew werewolves existed all her life, for she lived with one. All her life, she had stayed far away from them, knowing the horrors of their lives. Her mom was enough to deal with each month. But then she meets Rayne, a good-looking, sc...