My Beautiful Nightmare

Chapter Five

I felt... sick... Every once in a while I would wake up and see faint lights. Everything was hazy. I don't know what happened. I open my eyes slowly. " Katherine?" my dad calls. " Mmmm?" I say. " Oh Katherine you're awake!" he said hugging me. " Why wouldn't I be?" I laughed. " You fainted and you were sick for days!" he said. " I feel sick," I said. He put a warm cloth on my forehead. Wait? Days? Oh boy. Then it all rushed back to me. Werewolves. They exist. Probably everything exists. I have two stalkers now. They're werewolves. They claim to be other things as well. I widened my eyes in shock. There was Luke sitting in the chair on the other side of the room. He's sleeping. Werewolf. " Honey I'm going to go make some of gramma's old soup. Rest," he said. How could I rest when a werewolf was in my room?! He shut the door and Luke shot awake. He looked at me. " Katherine!" he said, sounding relieved. He got up and moved towards me. I shuffled away. " Katherine, don't do this," he said holding his hands out showing he wouldn't harm me.

" You lied," I whispered. His cover lied. He lied. His body lied! Making me think he was something I could deal with and understand. Maybe even grow to love. Now I know how he killed my mother with that strength. " Lie? How could I lie? To you?" he asked, pained. " Well tell me, how could you tell me you love me, but say nothing of what you really are?" I spat. " How could you say I was yours? What do I supposedly belong to? A monster? Who am I to trust? I mean I am so naive to believe the little act you threw here," I said. He looked sad and angry at the same time. " Little act? I was hardly acting. You obviously can't deal with reality, or pain," he said. I cut him off. " I can't deal with pain? Reality? Werewolves were not apart of my reality a few weeks ago, or even yesterday! I've dealt with pain my entire life! And you tell me I can't deal with pain? Leave me alone I want nothing to do with you!" I yelled at him. I was so angry! So angry I ignored the way my heart broke when I said those last words. " Do you, my mate, reject me?" he asked, silent tears rolling down his face. Me being his mate must mean a lot to him. " Please," he said, getting down by my bedside in a pleading position. " Please, don't leave me, I promise I won't hurt you! Ever! I love you!" he begged, and cried. ' Dummy you being his mate is everything! To you and I right now, it is nothing. Soon Katherine you will know what it's like for us to have two mates,' something in my head stated. It didn't hurt like all the other times. It was like an old friend talking to you.

" Please! Katherine I'm begging you," he cried. Finally I felt it. His pain. It sliced through my heart and into my head. " Luke!" I said holding my head, squeezing my eyes shut. He jumped up and hugged me, then the pain was gone. The tingles of his arms around me dulling it little by little till none remained. " Katherine," he whined. " Can I just be left alone," I mumbled. He lingered. Hugging me for a few minutes. Not saying anything. " Katherine," he said again after a while. " Please don't do this to me," he said, his voice breaking.

" Leave," I ordered. He let go and looked at me. " My beautiful Katherine...." he said quietly, holding my chin. He then blinked and tears fell. He got up, turned around and left. Not once looking back. Tears began escaping my own eyes as I sat there. I shouldn't have done that. I shouldn't have. Hours passed and I walked down stairs. The pot of soup on the counter with two notes beside it. " Katherine, Sorry honey there was a fire call, had to run, love Dad," I read. The next note had water stains all over it and the hand writing was sloppy. " My dear Katherine, please. Forgive me for not saying anything earlier. It was wrong of me. You deserve better. The reason you have two mates is unknown but hopefully Prince Michael will make you..... relatively happy.... As I wanted to make you happy. Now I have to go, for you to live a better life. With a prince. Not me. I will live with your eternal rejection for as long as I can but even now it kills me. So I will do just that. Don't blame yourself for anything. I love you," I gasped. The water stains were tears. He was going to kill himself! I never rejected him. I am just.... just angry! I ran out the door. Screams erupted from the woods. " Luke!" I yelled and ran towards the woods. Tears streamed down my face as I was tearing through the trees of Pine Bridge Woods with one thing on my mind. Save him. I ran cracking twigs and dead logs beneath my feet and pushing branches out of my way. I ran and ran to him. Screams erupted in the distance and my heart was pained. Don't leave me! I ran faster and made it to a clearing to see the unthinkable.