Moonchild

Two

It takes him all of two seconds to have me trapped in his boa constrictor arms, pinned and averting my eyes as he stares at me. I'm going to faint. Or worse throw up from nerves.

"You were trying to leave..." I can hear the frown in his voice as he nuzzles my hair again, scenting me.

It wasn't a question, so other than a quick nod I don't have an answer.

"Why?"

And just like that, I can't breathe. What the hell does he mean?

...
Lukas
...

I can practically taste Aurie's fear as he tenses at the question. I let him take his time though, letting my hands wander up and down his back attempting to soothe him. He leans into the motion and a small smile settles on my lips.

"...I..." I try and take a peek at his face when he starts to speak and he hides from me in the crook of my neck, sending shivers down my spine, "... wanted to leave before you found me."

The answer sends a very real pain through my chest. Why would he want to leave before I found him? Was he planning on rejecting me? He didn't even know me! He can-

"TOO TIGHT!"

I release my little mate with a hiss of an apology, I hadn't intended to squeeze him, I know I had tightened my grip a little, but it shouldn't have been enough to hurt him.

The look in Aurie's teary eyes makes another bolt of pain plow through my chest. He looked like he was on the verge of having an emotional breakdown. What did I do to stress him out so much?

"It's not you. None of it's about you. I just can't..." sobs were beginning to push their way out of his mouth and I could see him physically trying to swallow them. He's overwhelmed. I just don't understand why.

I reach for him again and he shies away, still choking on his sobs. If I can just hold him I can make it better, but for every step, I take forward he takes two back, carefully staying out of arms reach.

The back door opens and Cricket hesitates but eventually pops his head out, eyeing me, and I nod that it's okay for him to come out. I had felt him trying to poke at the back of my mind through the pack link but had ignored it.
"Aurie!" Cricket sighed, approaching my mate slowly, carefully keeping an eye on me. My wolf was still near the surface, but Cricket isn't much of a threat. As long as he goes slow everything will be fine.
I watch as one omega comforts the other, wrapping one arm around him and gently pulling him up the porch steps and inside the house with me right behind them.

Cricket guides Aurie to the couch, making sure to get him comfortable, my mate still doing his best not to break completely. 

When I take a step closer to the couch Aurie's sobs get harder and Cricket holds up his hand to me before perching next to my trembling darling and takes one of his hands.

"Talk to me Rie."

"...Mates..", Aurie's sobs were becoming the bone-deep kind, and it was absolutely the tearing me to pieces not being able to do anything about it, yet being the cause of the distress.

"Is Alpha Lukas making you nervous?" Cricket questions.

A nod with even harder sobs after the word alpha came out of Cricket's mouth.

"Do you want to lay down for a moment? Just to rest? We don't have to talk about this now."

Cricket might not feel the need to discuss it now but I sure as hell do, but before I can even open my mouth to tell him so I can feel him prodding the back of my mind,

'I think I can explain, but he'll just end up crying himself to sleep if he tries.'

I size Cricket up as he tries to help my still crying mate decide, and notice for the first time the tiredness around his eyes at the situation. How many times had he calmed Aurie down before?

".. I.I d-don't want to b-b-be alone."  It was the first somewhat clear sentence Aurie had managed to muster since the tears had started.

" I can come with you, it's okay." Cricket smiles.

Aurie tries his best to push his hair out of his face and wipes under his eyes with his sleeves. He still doesn't seem calm, but the tears are slower.

"Cricket we won't be able to be friends anymore..."

"What?"  The shock on Cricket's face would have been funny in any other situation, but even I'm confused. Aurie becoming mine had nothing to do with their friendship.

"W-when Lukas rejects me the two of us will end up getting split up at school. I'll b-be...I...I'll be... all..." he can't finish the sentence, a sob choked him first and the floodgates finally break.

.....
Aurie
....

The growl that erupts from the still very naked man behind us only serves to fracture me even more and I curl into Cricket. I knew this was a bad idea. I knew it. But before I could wrap my arms around the only friend I've ever known to hug him goodbye, I'm grabbed from behind and smothered into Lukas's bare chest. I have to scramble to wrap my legs around his waist to avoid slipping.

The man doesn't say a word, just turns with me in his arms and starts towards the staircase Cricket had mentioned earlier, taking me Gods know where.

....
Lukas
...

He thought I was going to reject him. For no reason. It's absurd.
I didn't think before I acted, just scooped him up in my arms, still crying and started towards my room. 
My little mate needed to be shown exactly where he belonged, and in the process, I'm going to get down to the business of him assuming that I'd reject him right off the bat.