The Road To Your Heart

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Eliane POV

I don't know how we slept through the night but somehow we did, it felt as if the wolves observing the house were guarding us instead. Maya was up first and headed for a long shower so I went to my room. My room is so amazing, way bigger than my old one and even bigger than Maya's but she didn't mind, actually, she insisted that I take it since my in-suite bathroom had a bathtub and she knew how much I love taking baths.

I was already thinking about redecorating the plain gray walls, painting them in pink or purple or just picking a nice themed wallpaper, I had so many ideas running through my head that I started feeling intoxicated.

I went rummaging through my bags for a clean outfit then took all my dirty clothes collected through our road trip and put them apart, I added machine detergent in my list. I always make a list of all the things that we have to buy every time we move from one house to another. At first I didn't dare add my input concerning groceries, since It was Maya's money. She asked me so many time to buy anything I wanted, but at that time I didn't want to add to her burden. But after seeing what the trash she ends up buying, I stepped in. One day I'll pay her back for sure.

While going through my business I never looked from the windows, I could accidentally make eye contact with one of the wolfs watching us from the woods, we're supposed to act clueless. They don't seem to realize that I could feel the presence of every single one of them around us. I finally went for a shower too, taking my time washing my hair and my body. When I was drying myself, I heard Maya coming in my room and jumping on my bed, I smiled and finished putting my clothes on.

I walked out of the bathroom expecting her to be sleeping on the bed but she was standing by a now opened window. She was dressed to go out, black bootcut jeans with her gray converse and a cute XXL gray mid-thigh hoodie. Always dressing to camouflage her curves, Curves I would die to have. While I was a small 5.1 foot girl with no particular trait that could distinguish me from the crowd, she was a 5.5 foot woman with all the needed curves in the needed places. The funny part is, despite the fact that she tries so hard not to attract attention to her self, there is always eyes following her movements.

"Let's go out for breakfast" she was very excited, "You mean brunch right" I said rolling my eyes, "Whatever gorgeous, we could explore town and go shopping, maybe watch a movie too, how about 'Frozen II' it's out", I threw a pillow at her, "I'm not a kid anymore, stop being treating me like one" She dodged it then laughed, "Really, and who's the one who was singing 'let it go' in the shower few minutes ago", she was teasing me hard while they were listening to our conversation, I could feel my face burning from embarrassment, she laughed harder. "Sorry, gorgeous, come on get ready" I playfully pushed her toward the door, "You're not sorry at all, you're a bully", she kept laughing and walked out.

We parked the car and walked around town looking for a place to eat. Me, I wasn't thinking about food at all, being around so many pack members made me very nervous. She held my hand and led me to a small dinner. We walked inside and chose a table by the window, there was a couple of teen werewolves sitting there probably mates, I could tell from the way the boy put a protective arm around the girl and glared my way the moment our eyes met. I looked away feeling hurt from their rejection, I kind of anticipated this kind of reaction but it still hurts to go through it.

"Why don't you go and say Hi?" Maya whispered to me, I looked at her with wild eyes, is she serious, I kept staring at her but she didn't seem to be joking. I looked back at the kids and they were staring at her too, the boy had a frown on and the girl was mirroring my reaction. The boy stood up and dragged his mate out. "I don't think they want to be friends with me" I whispered back, somehow my voice broke at the end, it's been a while since I've been around kids my own age and their reaction threw me back into anxiety.