The Mate

Chapter 7

* Saints PoV *

I took a deep breath in before slowly exhaling, looking at the faces of my friends that were assimilated in the living room of Mew and Gulf. The place that I had stayed in for the past few days, after I having collapsed.

Though I started going back to classes two days after the incident, my friends requested of me to live here for the time being, so that there was someone around if anything were happened. Without much other options I agreed to it, knowing that this was really the best for the current circumstances. And now, a couple of days later, all had come over to share the first results of their search for my mate.

"Thank you for helping me", I said softly, looking around at my friends, grateful for the lengths they were going to, just to help me.

"Of course we help you."

Earth clang onto my arm, smiled at me warmly and we ended up snuggling a bit until we sat comfortably. The others were just laughing at the sight.

"I want to tell you all how I met my mate back then."

Silence started embracing the room, most of it due to the surprise my friends were feeling. I never really had talked about it, all the others knew was that we met in a bar and that I was too drunk to remember anything. Well, MewGulf and P'Tong did knew that this was a lie. But who would normally just go around and tell the embarrassing original to others?

I looked at P'Tong, who had also come today. After an encouraging smile from him, I opened my lips to start the story.

"Um... I guess to explain everything I first have to say something different", I exclaimed, taking a deep breath.

"P'Tong, P'Mews older brother... used to be my Dom. Back then when Gulf met Mew. And also, when I met my mate."

Mean and Milds eyes widened in surprise, looking between the older one and me. Kao in contrary had a calm expression, just slightly nodding about this new information, but Earth....

"Is he big??", my friend asked, whispering it into my ear.

I felt my cheek heat in embarrassment, slapping his  knee softly while biting my lip. After a minute, I realised that there was a story to tell so I tried to focus back on the topic, when P'Tong and I exchanged a glance. Though I wasn't 100% sure about it, I gave him a small nod, before he started talking:

"That day.... Nong Saint and I were going to have another session. But there was some trouble with our assignment so I could only stay until midnight. We had planned this meet u p for two weeks, not having been able to find any other time because of his parents. And when the other people in my assignment group said they hadn't done anything at all and needed help to complete our assignment... it was 6pm, only two hours before our meeting time. And I would have had to leave at midnight. So I gave Saint a call and told him about this problem."

"It was... hm... a bit hard that we didn't have any session so long. Because it helped me relax and would normally take the stress and pressure off my shoulders. Phi probably heard the disappointment and sadness in my voice and came up with an idea: the bar we go to has caretakers you can normally rent for a couple of hours. Like when you had an intense session or when you won't have time for aftercare when finishing one. You can rent them and they will take care of the sub until they are okay again."