A Questionable Fate (boyxboy)

Chapter 6

I awoke in my new bed with the softest furs draped over me. I roll over to stretch my body out when my hands touch another body. My eyes fly open to see Nicolai asleep next to me.

I sit up and yawn. I look down at my Bloodrem and take a deep breath. Why is he in my bed?

Suddenly Nicolai's eyes flutter open, "Hey there pup." He says with a yawn. "You want to practice shifting today? Or we can go meet the family? Your choice." He slowly gets up. His chest is bare and I really start to hope he has pants on.

"Umm, how bout both." I need the practice, and I want my ear to straighten out.

Nicolai shrugs, "Okay, sure." He gets up out of bed and walks over to the clothes rack. He thankfully does have shorts on.

"Are we in your room?" I said as I notice the wall color and my missing couch.

"Oh, ya I had Juxo help me carry you over here. We weren't sure if it was a good idea to leave you alone your first night. And honestly it's not uncommon for Bloodrems to share a bed."

"What do you mean, share a bed?" I say. That sounds kinda suspicious.

Nicolai turns to look at me, "I keep forgetting how different humans live than us. Sorry about that." He smiles, "Werewolves don't have gays or lesbians or bisexuals or any of that stuff that defines a person. We have relationships with whoever we want, gender doesn't make a difference. We don't even notice it really. It's just so normal for us- for the same sex to be with each other. I know your use to putting labels to everything, but here your going to have to learn to ignore the labels and just go with what you feel."

"But Juxo said he was gay." I remembered.

He smiled, "Because your human and he wanted to freak you out. He's convinced humans are scared of 'gays' or something. So he was testing you to see your reaction."

"Wow." I said. "I have a feeling a lot of werewolves are going to be testing me. I mean they probably don't even want me here. You said it yourself, you guys don't like humans around."

"Your not human any more. Your one of us, and you've got a strong beast that's beautiful. They'll respect if they see the Alpha respects you." Nicolai grabbed a shirt and some ripped up black jeans and put them on. Then he threw me a similar outfit. "You don't mind sharing clothes right?"

I shook my head. After we were both dressed and ready to go we began our walk to the 'feasting table' as Nicolai calls it. All his family is suppose to be there eating breakfast. I'm nervous as hell.

We walk under another huge archway that leads into a beautiful dinning area. It had a chandelier made out of bones that hung directly over a massive wooden table. There was a huge rug that was made from multiple animal hides, and tons of food layed out across the table. It ranged from raw meat, to French toast an biscuits, to a rare steak. It was the most random assortment of food I had ever seen.

One of the men sitting at the table-I suspect an uncle-got up to greet me. He reached out his hand, "You must Quinn. I'm Nicolai's uncle Adarion, it's good to finally meet you. We've herd a lot from Xylo."

I smiled but before I could respond Nicolai started yelling at Xylo. Something about how he knew nothing about me and shouldn't be talking about his Bloodrem. When he finished I said, "It's good to meet you to. The food looks really good. I wasn't expecting such an assortment."

Adarion and the other uncle I guessed to be Daydron. Thy both had long dark hair and very similar features. The only way I could tell them apart was Daydron had a white streak in his hair and a strange scare on his neck. Then I noticed a girl who was most likely the cousin Valerie. She was sitting next to Xylo who was still yelling at Nicolai about something.