Calesti POV.
“Hey love,” I say seeing my mate in the morning, I think he has a crush on me, his sister said so more than once already, she keeps threatening me to be careful with her brother, and I’ll be careful with him, he’s my soul and my most precious treasure.
“Hello,” he says with a groan, he wasn’t that happy this morning and I didn’t understand what was wrong with him, but he was mad.
During the ride to school, he refused to talk to me or tell me anything, I tried opening small talk with him but my soul was furious, when we made it to school, he didn’t wait for me, he left the car without giving me a second look.
I walked toward my class but my mind stayed with him, I couldn’t do what Theo likes doing and go to my soul’s class instead of mine, but if I did that I’d be kicked out of his class and it’ll be a mess.
I couldn’t spend the day in my class either, I don’t always skip classes but sometimes I can’t take sitting in a classroom, being confined in one place makes my wolf stir crazy, I couldn’t take it, not today at least, I left the class and sat outside of the school, I’m still near, but I’m out in the open.
The classes were very slow, the time wasn’t passing, and by the time the school day ended I was ready to kill someone, Finn went from furious, to irritated, he too was ready to kill someone, or maybe it’s just my feelings that I’m feeling twice, once that’s mine and the other time that’s his.
“Hey baby,” I say to Finn after he leaves the class, the day is finally over and we can spend some time together, finally.
“Hey Cici, I’m gonna spend some time with my friends, alone,” he says looking anywhere but at me.
“Of course, you don’t need to spend time with me,” I say feeling furious but hiding it with a big fake smile on my face, so that’s what he’s been hiding from me the whole day? He wanted to spend time away from me? I tried to pretend to be okay, but he’s my soul, and we’ve been sharing the same bed for so long now, well he doesn’t know that I sneak into his room every night and cuddle him, it’s the only way my wolf agrees to allow me to get some sleep, just after she makes sure that Finn was warm and okay.
“It’s not like that,” he says but it is too late, I understood what he meant, he doesn’t know that he holds my soul and spending time with an older girl must look so weird in front of his friends, and now he wants to just spend time with them.
I walked away, I got in my car and started driving, but it was not driving that I wanted to do, I wanted to get away from him, from the school and everyone else, I didn’t want to stay and talk with anyone.
I trust Theo, but my cousin and friend have been an idiot and a jerk ever since he found his soul, and he found out that he shares her with the alpha, and there’s Milo’s constant nagging over having me as his beta, I’m good with others, I’m good with the alpha, but I don’t want to be a beta.
And since I didn’t have anyone else to talk to, and anywhere to go to, I went toward my home, maybe I could talk to my dad or mom, maybe call Uncle Jasper the alpha’s beta, it’s part of his job to talk to me, but he’s also my uncle.
I decided against talking to anyone and took off to the woods, I avoided the patrol wolves, I avoided my friends and relatives, I avoided the rest of the pack, I didn’t want to be around them,
I wanted to be alone, I wanted to have some time just for me, what got into Finn, it’s not that I’m against him having friends, but I want him to be mine first.
Finn wasn’t that happy, I could feel his emotions through the bond, he didn’t call me or even call to me, he does that through the bond, of course he’ll do that when he actually knows what he’s doing, but he doesn’t know anything about our bond.
I howled to the sky, the moon wasn’t up yet, but the howling helped my hurt wolf, it helped me feel a tiny bit better, I was devastated and sad, that until my wolf found its way toward Finn’s house, maybe I could go in and pretend to be wanting to spend some time with Stella, she’s my friend too, and now she’s my Luna, I should be able to spend time with her.
I decided against going in and pretending to want to spend time with her, I didn’t want to her anymore wining about my crazy friend Theo, I’d love to call him and talk to him about it, hearing his opinion and have him tell me it’s all going to be okay, but he’s too busy being an idiot to help me or help himself.
“Hey wolfie,” I heard Finn’s voice which made me jump, I didn’t hear him coming from behind me, and he didn’t make any sound, I’m a wolf, I should be able to hear him coming toward me.
Finn, I think to myself, he’s standing behind me with a sad look on his face, what’s wrong with him, I stayed in my place, he should be scared of me, I’m a wolf and he’s a human, even if I’m his wolf, he needs to be careful around wolves, even the pack ones.
“Wolfie, I feel like shit, where have you been? I was looking for you,” he says calling me wolfie again.
I whined, was he out there looking for me? What if another wolf found him and decided to plant the fear of god in him? We love messing with each other, even if it’s messing with another soul, it’s why we need to stay up for each other, and we need to keep the souls safe.
“Wolfie you remind me of a girl I like, but I heard that she doesn’t like me back,” he says, who said I don’t like him back? Unless if it was not me the one who he was talking about, except if he likes someone other than me, I wanted to growl and bite, but I’m not Theo and I’m not that stupid, I held it in, waiting for him to keep going, I gave him a wolf raised brow waiting for him to tell me the rest.
“Are you interested wolfie? Or are you waiting for your chance to bite my head off and call it dinner?” He asks me next, to show him that I don’t mean to eat or hurt him, I get down on all four, laying down on my paws.
“I’ll take this as keep going, so I’m gonna keep going,” he says and I nod.
“You understand me?” he asks me and I nod my head yes, I do understand him.
“Wow wolfie, I knew this place was special, but you understanding me, makes things better,” he says with a sigh, and so I wait for him to tell me about the girl that he likes, do I need to kill someone? I’m not above murder.
“So this girl,” He starts and I turned my head fully to him waiting for him to tell me some more.
“She’s older than me, she’s my sister’s friend, and my friends, the ones who are my age, they called me whipped, they said that she probably has a boyfriend or two that are her age or maybe older, they told me she spends time with them all the time,” he whines, he’s jealous? But of whom? I have my pack and family, but I wasn’t dating any of them, I’m waiting for him all along, he’s my soul.
I whined and shook my head no, how do I tell him that I don’t like anyone other than him, he’s my soul, he was so frustrated and he trusted me already, I knew I should wait longer, but I needed him to know the truth, so I decided to confess.
I got up and looked at him, he didn’t look to be scared or worried about me, about the fact that a grown wolf was standing near him, I started to walk around testing the water, making sure that he was not scared of me.
After a couple of minutes, I managed to gather enough courage to shift in front of him, I looked him straight in the eyes and I didn’t see any fear there, so I changed from being a wolf back to being a human, standing in front of him.
“I don’t like anyone other than you,” I say looking at him right in the eyes, his eyes went wide as he looked at me.
“You’re the wolf?” he asks me.
“I’m the wolf,” I answer him, his eyes rolled to the back of his head and then he fell down on the ground, I ran toward him, and pulled him off the ground, placing his head over my lap instead of the hard ground.
I waited for a couple of minutes before he gained his conscious back, he opened his eyes and looked at me with a groggy look, I petted his head and kissed his forehead, I waited for him to wake up, until he did.
“Calesti, you just shifted from human to wolf, I mean wolf to human,” he says sounding dizzy still.
“Yes, I did,” I say and his eyes went wide again.
“How is that possible?” he asks me.
“Magic,” I suggest, I wasn’t sure if it was the best explanation but it was better than telling him I was the creation of gods who regretted having me and then gave him to me.
“Cool,” he says with a chuckle.
“Are you okay?” I ask him trying to make sure that he’s fine after hearing the news.
“I’m fine, you shifted to wolf, were you the one I heard before?” he says meaning the wolves who are around his home the whole time.
“Me and others,” I confess, he shouldn’t be running toward any wolf he sees.
“We should tell Stella, she’s been terrified of you guys, maybe if we tell her she’ll go insane this time,” he says with a chuckle.
“Stella knows,” I say in a low voice.
“No you’re joking,” he says.
“I’m not Finn, she knows already,” I say, I didn’t tell him about the part where he’s my soul yet, I need to take it slow on him.
“And she didn’t tell me! You told her before telling me? And now you know I like you!” he says his emotions rising with every word he said to me.
“Finn, slow down, let me explain,” I say trying to calm him down.
“NO, CALESTI, JUST NO,” Finn says and walks toward the house pissed off on me