Wild and Free

Chapter 47: Sweet Dreams

(Auden's POV)

"I'm so happy for you,"

"I told you so,"

Kenzie and Cassie said at the same time, one smug and the other prideful.

I shot a look at Kenzie who put her hands up in surrender, "I'm not going to lie! I called it from the beginning."

I raised an eyebrow at her, "If you knew then why didn't you tell Mason and save him all that pain?"

She shrugged, putting a hanger with a yellow dress up against herself and looking in the mirror, "I didn't know for sure. But he talked about you all the time. I only knew for sure at the fight after you shifted. It was written all over his face."

Cassie rolled her eyes, "Well whether you called it months ago or not, we're both very happy for you."

I buried my face in my hands, still refusing to believe that this all wasn't just a dream.

"Auden you don't have to be embarrassed for it," Kenzie said, setting the dress on her mattress and sitting down next to me on the bench at the foot of the bed. "You found your soulmate, that's amazing. And even in the five minutes that I saw him this morning, you made my brother happier than I've really seen him since our mother died."

I looked up at her, "Really?"

She nodded and gave me a sisterly side hug, "Really."

"I've just never felt things like this before," I rubbed my hands together nervously. "It's not who I am, w-what I know."

Cassie shrugged and sat on my other side, "It wasn't really for Kenzie or I either but you get used to it. You just have to get out of you own head and let it happen."

I smiled at the thought, "He said almost the same thing."

"Well he's right," Cassie said.

They both stood and looked down at me, "Now stop worrying and come on, we have to finish getting ready before the boys come in here and break down the door," Kenzie joked, holding a hand out for me.

I sighed and took it, letting her drag me over to her enormous closet.

I had showered a little before our catching up conversation just then and just needed to finish getting ready, same as the two of them.

"Pick anything you want," Kenzie said, presenting the rows of clothing to me.

I laughed, "I wouldn't even know where to start."

"Fine Cass and I will pick for you," she proposed. "Why don't you go and do you hair. I've seen the insane braids you do to your sometimes and I definitely want one too."

I smiled, nodding before doing as she said.

After brushing through my now dry, long brown hair, I sectioned it off, leaving half of it down in its current straight state. The other half I spilt into two strands. I did a four small strand plait on either sides of my head before I tied them together at the back. I finished it by fishtail braiding it and pulling it out thicker in some place. It looked complicated but not overly crazy.

Cassie called my name and I came out of the bathroom to see three outfits laid out on the bed.

The first one was most definitely Cassie's and I knew because she could never pass up the opportunity to wear some kind of glittery element, whether it was a hair clip or full on glitter shoes. In this case is was a no sleeved, lilac colored dress with a black sparkly belt and black flats with bows that matched the belt.