Another Choice

6

(Selina)

Damn, he is going to kill me! I don't care it's what he needs. And it's not like he could really kill me. I mean he's only a werewolf and I'm a Lycan. But am I ready to lose a friend? But I'm his friend and I need to help him. It's what real friend do and if that is not working, I will give up and let him leave his life as he wants. Still, I don't think all this anger against Melissa is healthy. Yeah, her name was Melissa, Tom's mate.

"Hey S!" Tom says entering my apartment without knocking as he was at home. It's not as if I didn't try to make him move with me.

"Hello, Stranger! Long time, no see." I reply.

"We met two days ago and why do you keep saying to me that?"

I shrug: " Because I want to."

"So what's up? Why did you want to see me?"

"We need to go somewhere..." I say, evasive.

"Is it a new mission?"

"Sort of... Not exactly."

Let's do it before I'm chickening out. I sent a message to Lana to ask her to send her in the Dark Shadow Pack. We are an old cinema.

"Where are we? Why a cinema." He asks me.

"Because I need to show you something and you would have come if I have told you."

"Today is her birthday, Melissa. She would have been 24 years. Today there is a tribute for her and we are going."

"You can't force me!" He hisses, angry that I trick him.

"I will if I have. It's time to face it."

"I hate you!" He says in fury.

"And I love you enough to sacrifice our friendship if that means you start to leave again. So do I have to order you?"

"Fuck you! And don't you ever dare to speak to me, ever!" He says entering and sitting in the back of the room.

Come on, Selina, it will worst it. I tell myself in reassurance. A movie of her life is projecting with pictures, videos of her and testimonies from her family and friends. It's very well done and very touching. There a video of her where she speaks directly to her future mate, Mister imperfectly perfect as she called him. She was a great girl with a gold heart. She would have been a great Luna and would have made Tom, the happiest man in the world. This is so sad, my heart broke again for him but hated her with no reason was not the solution. She had a voice and he needed to hear it. I know I forced him but it was almost 7 years ago.

Tom leaves the cinema ignoring me totally. Hopefully one day he will forgive me. Mom always says that be the Queen means to take the right decision even if it's difficult and it's isolated you. You have to do what you have to for the best. And I know I overstep our friendship, it was the right choice. I can't be sorry for what I have just done and I'm not. I don't think I should wait after him, so let's go home.

I'm in the castle for dinner. My big brother Duncan and his mate Harper just announced their pregnancy. Mom and Dad were so happy even if dad complained about the fact he is too young to be called grandpa. There are still tensions between them and me but it always has been family first. So tonight we forget everything and act like everything is fine. And this is so refreshing. It's nice to have all the family here, my sisters Adele and Angelina and brothers Ducan and Anakin.

There is also Grandpa Chris, uncle Darius, and aunty V and their children Emily and James. James who is Adele's mate. Darius is my mother's adopted brother and when they discovered that James and Adele were mates, Mom and Grandpa Chris laugh so hard that I thought they would never stop. Something about Karma apparently.