Mates with the Enemy

CHAPTER TWENTY

Sophia's POV:

I woke up much earlier than Elle and J again. Rayden and the other dudes wouldn't wake up for another hour, which sadly meant that I had to stay hungry until then. I opened up the notebook to go sketch something but then Jia mind linked me
"Are you guys awake yet?"
"Yeah, but why are you up so early?" I questioned
"I couldn't sleep in this stupidly annoying hard chair. So I stayed up trying to plan our escape. But unfortunately for us, most of my plans probably won't work. Have you found anything that could help us got out of here?"
"There are no metal detectors in this pack house. The walls have eyes, and maybe ears too." I replied. This was the most I was able to find out in the short while that I've been here.
"What on earth is that supposed to mean? Stay focused Sophia! I need to hear things that will actually help us, not some random mumbo jumbo" She yelled in my head.
"Fine!" I yelled back "if you don't want my help then you won't get it!"
"Stop fighting guys!" Elle mind linked "you woke me up!" She said grumpily "now what were you trying to say Soph?" She asked softly.
I smiled to myself, Elle somehow always knew the best times to show up.
"I was saying that we haven't passed through any metal detectors, which means that I still have my knife on me"
"Knife?! Why were you carrying a knife?!" Elle interrupted
"Good job Soph!"  Jia said. I could practically hear her smirk as she mind linked that. J was always telling us to be prepared because one can never know what's gonna happen. Elle and I usually ignore her warnings to always carry weapons. Technically what I was carrying was not a weapon, and I would probably never use it as one because I wouldn't want to damage it but if I had absolutely no other choice, maybe I would use my knife for something other than art.
"Don't worry, it's just my carving knife." I replied before continuing "and I also said the walls have eyes, which means that the dudes can see us without being in the room. But I'm not sure if they can hear us.."
"How did you find out all this?" J asked incredulously
"Well I can feel my knife still in my pocket, and yesterday the dudes had walked into my cell already knowing that I was awake before they came in. They also knew that you two were asleep and since Elle's a light sleeper that means they hadn't come into her room. I haven't found any proof that they can hear us or not though." I explained
"This is great Soph!" Elle cried out "Thanks for finding all this out!"
"I'm sorry for shouting earlier.." Jia said softly.
I smiled, J didn't usually apologize but I knew she felt bad for lashing out at me since she was just being cranky from the lack of sleep
"You're welcome, and it's fine. I forgive you." I replied

Sean's POV:
I felt miserable. It's already been three days since Soph, Elle, and J went missing.
Felix is going crazy because he thinks it's all his fault. Sarah has been trying her best to comfort him but as a future alpha, he feels terrible that something like this happened. Especially because it happened to his sister and closest friends.
I felt even worse than he did. A future beta should be able to foresee incidents like this and find a way to avoid them. I was too reckless, so I didn't even think about our opponent's battle strategies before rushing behind Felix to fight.
I can't block all the scary thoughts that come to me in my dreams. I can't help thinking that I might never see Soph again. I feel like our moment on the roof was the universe's way of letting me have one last memory with her before she disappeared forever. That thought scares me more than anything I've ever known.
All the What If's were eating away at my conscious. What if I was a terrible brother? What if I never saw her again? What if she was already dead?
I shook myself out of my thoughts. I shouldn't be thinking like that. I know she's still alive. She has to be.

I walked to her room and opened up the door. Unlike the basement and attic, she didn't mind me coming in here without permission. As long as I knocked first, but there was no point to knocking when she wasn't even here.

I've always loved her room a lot more than my own. The way she decorated it was so creative. When the lights were on, her room was plain and everything was just different shades of dark blue with black and grey accents, but once you took off the lights her whole ceiling and all the walls were covered with different drawings made with glow in the dark paint. It was absolutely breathtaking to look at, and I would always sneak in here as a kid to find different objects among the painting.

I flicked the lights off and flopped down on her bed. The big picture was different scenes of me and her friends but when you looked close you could find a bunch of random doodles in there.
I looked at the wall on the left side of her room. It was a picture of me and her on her birthday. Because she was shy, she didn't have many friends, excluding J and Elle.  She had gotten close to the rest of the girls in their "Squad" so birthdays had become different after her  8th grade. So after Soph's 8th grade year, me and her would have three birthdays; her actual birthday where she hung out with the squad, me and Felix. Then their would be my actual birthday where I had a huge party with all my friends, and one for the both of us where only the two of us hung out and exchanged our gifts and had a fun day out with no other distractions. 

Our birthdays were 2 months apart so the shared one was a week after her birthday because I was usually way too impatient to wait for my birthday gift. Jia, Elle and Sophia's birthdays came consecutively. So we would have a proper party on Jia's birthday because it was the one in the middle . It would always only be them, the squad and Felix and I for their birthdays, but this year they were turning 18, so we had decided to have a gigantic party. 

The scene I was looking at was of us two hanging out at one of her secret spots in the forest, so we would be undisturbed as we talked about everything and anything and went swimming at a close by lake. I honestly didn't know how she ever found these places, but I loved it when she did because they were always so awesome.

Her birthday is coming up really soon, and the thought that I might not be there to celebrate it with her made my chest hurt. I had never missed any of her birthdays, no matter how important my other business was. She always had terrible nightmares on her birthdays because of past traumatic events, and I usually stuck close by her side to help console her every time something like that happened. She didn't like to show her emotions to other people, so I am the only person that's ever seen her cry. This year, I might not be there for her if that happens and it worries me so much.

'Sean, where are you?' Felix mind linked me, breaking me out of my thoughts.
'I was in Soph's room. What do you need?' I answered getting up and leaving her room.
'You need to help me with some of my alpha things. Meet me by my house." He replied. As much as I would like to spend all my time trying to find Soph, I still have some beta duties to do. I sighed to myself as I shifted and ran off to Felix's house.