The Prince
All I wanted to do was enjoy my birthday,
that's all. So why does Jayden have to be sitting on my desk staring me dead in
the eye with a cruel smirk on his face like I just gave him a loaded gun to shoot me with? I don't know but that terrifies me and I couldn't be happier that he isn't my mate. That would just make everything so much worse, that and he would probably reject me anyway just to try and make me feel pain.
I stare up at him with eyes full of fear because I know what he is capable of and of the many
things he's done to me since we started going to school here.
"Come on little pup, let's play a game," he orders me to stand up which I willingly do because I know what he's about to do will be worse if I don't do as he says. He has a
pair of scissors in his hand and somehow, I know exactly what he plans on doing with them.
"Jayden! Don't do it! It's his birthday for goddess's sake, leave him alone. Put those away and go sit down, class is about to start. Dumbass." Luke yells at him taking the
scissors away from him causing Jayden to jump off my desk and almost fall to the ground.
"Jackass! I was just trying to give him his birthday present no need to be so rude. Come on guys let's get out of here." Jayden growls as he gives me a dirty look before he and his little crew leave the room and our teacher walks in.
"Everything okay boys?" Mrs. Lanchester asks as she closes the door behind her and looks at Luke and I.
"Yes, just teaching Jayden a lesson, he came in here with the intent to hurt Kenai, again. This time with scissors." Luke tells her as he goes up to her and hands them to her.
"That boy, on your birthday too. You're not hurt are you Kenai?" She asks me and I shake my head saying that he didn't.
"Good, one of these days that boy will learn. Just hope that it's sooner rather than later. Anyway, take your seats, in honor of it being Kenai's eighteenth birthday we will have
a rest day. So, talk and play games if you like. We also have a transfer student coming in today in a few minutes, until then, have fun."
Luke, Sally, Lyra and Jared all come over to me and we talk about what will take place tonight at the pack house for my birthday party.
"Do you think the Alpha and Luna will invite Jayden and his lackies?" Lyra asked sounding disgusted with the sound of them being there.
"Probably, they are part of the pack and their parents are nice. I just hope they won't act out in front of the Luna, as fun as it seems she can be really scary when she has to be or when she's mad." Luke says shaking at the thought of my mother being mad.
"Very true, also, I wanna know who the transfer is. Do you guys think they'll be a guy or a girl?" Jared wonders with a curious look on his sun-tanned face.
"Maybe they're Kenai's mate! That would be so cute! Kenai meeting his mate the transfer
student. Though it would suck if they aren't old enough to know it." Sally says as she pushes a strand of her light brown hair behind her ear.
"What if they're human? This might be a school for werewolves but we do get human transfer students sometimes, though they don't stay for very long." Jared says; though
he does make a good point it's rare for human students to get accepted here and when they are here one student, mainly Jayden, screws up and reveals what we are even if it is unintentional which it never is, with him at least.
He's always making some kind of mistake every day here, never in front of his parents who would most likely scold him and teach him a lesson if they ever found out what he
does to me every day or atel least tries to do.
"I can't wait for him to get his butt kicked for being such a dick, not just to Kenai either. Literally everyone wants to see him beg for mercy by his parents or the Luna and Alpha
who are over protective of Kenai." Lyra goes on to say right before Mrs. Lanchester claps her hands and tells everyone to quiet down.
"Alright everyone, welcome your new classmate, Ayami. She will be starting class with us today." Mrs. Lanchester gestors over to a girl who seemed to be a foot shorter than me with long black hair that seemed to be painted by the night sky itself that was
set in beach waves and olive brown skin with bright almond shaped teal blue eyes.
"Hello, my name is Ayami Kuroshima. It's nice to meet you all." She whispers softly, her voice sounding like Spring rain just starting to fall onto leaves. Her scent was intoxicating, it smelled like strawberries and honey mixed with a bit of pine leaves.
"MATE!" My dragon,
fae, vampire and wolf shouted in my head in unison.
"We have a mate! Finally! We don't have to wait for the next full moon run to find them
anymore!" Ares bounced around in my head shouting, happily wagging his tail.
"She's human, I hope that won't be a problem. Humans can be such fragile creatures, albeit physically more than mentally but fragile nonetheless." Worries Rowan as he paces around getting the others worried as well for when the time comes for us to explain to her what we are.
"Yeah, maybe we should just be up front with her or should we let her get to know us first and then tell her?" Aragon agrees as he sits down and worries.
"Maybe it won't be so bad, maybe she'll love us regardless of what we are. Aren't humans starting to like our kind now? What do you think Kenai?" Vlad inquires making the others
give me questioning looks.
"I can only hope she loves us no matter what, the goddess chose her for us. There has to be a reason for that, right?" I worry making the others worry more. Being a Sardothien, I
can't tell an untruth, hear the word(s) or even say the word(s). It's both a blessing and a curse, but it means she would never have to worry about me telling her something I don't mean, which I wouldn't do anyway because she is my mate.
"I just hope she accepts us," I whisper to them as they nod their heads in agreement.
"Ayami, you can sit next to Kenai in the back. He's the one with long black hair and bangs in his face. Hard to miss him," Mrs. Lanchester winks at me which tells me she knows
what my new classmate is to me and isn't wasting any time to make us get to
know each other as the rest of my classmate's give me knowing looks while
smirking or giggling at me which makes me shrink into myself and hiding my face
to keep them from seeing just how embarrassed I am.
As her scent gets closer,
I can tell that she's taking our teachers advice and going to sit next to me. Which makes me more embarrassed and wanting to crawl into a hole and die there.
Once she sits down in the seat next to me, I can tell that she's shy but she turns to me anyway and holds her hand out to me. "My name is Ayami, as you already know. You must be Kenai, it's nice to meet you." She says shyly making me melt internally.
I sit up in my seat and look at her before shaking her hand which is incredibly soft like a baby's skin. "It's, nice to meet you too, I'm Kenai. These are my friends," I point
out to Jared, Sally, Luke and Lyra each. "Jared and Sally are the oldest in the
group with Luke, Lyra and I being the three youngest." I tell her.
"Hi, it's nice to meet you all, I hope we can be friends." Ayami says softly and I can't keep my face from turning red at the sound of it. Not only does she look beautiful on
the outside but she's beautiful on the inside too which makes us want to be with her even more.
"Hiya! Sally here, did you know that it's Kenai's birthday today? You going to the party tonight?" Sally asks making me blush and glare at her but in return all I get is her
sticking her tongue out at me making Lyra, Luke and Jared laugh.
"Oh, well, happy birthday Kenai. I don't think I am; my parents and I are still unpacking the
house, so I'm afraid I'll be a little too busy to attend. Unless my parents are done by the time I get home and I ask them about it. How old are you Kenai?" The second she asks me how old I am, I start to panic a little.
"Um, I'm eighteen today, and thanks. It's not a mandatory thing, if you can't come it's not a big deal. Though I have a feeling my parents will insist that you come, they really
like showing me off even though I'm not very good with people." I whisper shyly tugging on my bangs a little.
"I'm seventeen, I turn eighteen this week on Halloween. My parents always give me Halloween related presents because of it and they always tease me about how I like
werewolves and vampires, saying that I could be one of them for how much I like
them." Hearing her say that she likes wolves and vampires lifts me, Vlad and
Ares up because that means she'll accept us easier.
"I hope she likes dragons and fae too, that would make explaining all four of us easier." Aragon hopes as he lays down and pouts.
"That's so cool! You're three days apart from each other! Like Irish twins!" Lyra jumps up and down clapping her hands along with Sally.
"You should def come to the party then, you can celebrate your birthdays together! A double party!" Luke shouts in excitement making Ayami smile and giggle. When I say she has an adorable sounding giggle, I mean that wholeheartedly. It makes Aragon, Rowan, Ares and Vlad want to come out and make her giggle and laugh themselves and
they all growl in jealousy because it was Luke and the girls who made her giggle instead of us.
"I will tell my parents about it. Any plans for Halloween though? Is trick or treating a thing
here? I always heard that Americans loved doing that. We don't really do that in Japan. In some parts anyway." Ayami questions as she looks at me.
"Not currently no, though I'm sure I would get dragged into something with these guys anyway. We love trick or treating, it's fun, but the best part is getting to dress up." I say with excitement.
"Oh yeah, you should've been here last year when Kenai dressed up! He went as a vampire prince and wore it like a champ. How he didn't get hot in that silk shirt I will never know." Jared says as I playfully punch his shoulder making him pretend to be hurt making me roll my eyes at him but laughing at the same time.
We continued talking until the bell rang for the end of class. We all got up and walked out the classroom together before going our separate ways, well, all but Ayami and I.
Turns out she has all but two classes with me and even lunch, which got the boys excited because we got to talk to her more and each class was pretty much the same as homeroom, with everyone telling me happy birthday and giving me presents and the teachers letting us do what we wanted. Lunch was even better because the principal had the entire school play games and sing me happy birthday which made me embarrassed.
"Happy eighteenth birthday Kenai!" Everyone shouted and laughed as I hid my face. Even with all the embarrassment I was happy. Ayami sat next to me the entire day and we talked and laughed until we had to go to our last two classes that weren't together.
"I know we just met her, but I already want her to bare our children. She's amazing!" Ares shouts wagging his tail in excitement before whimpering. I knew he wanted to do that
because he's a wolf and werewolves tend to, well, get horny when first meeting their mate.
"We're also not old enough, Ares. We can't go making babies yet, we don't even know if she'll reject us or not. Let's wait until we're nineteen, we'll mark her and make her our Luna and princess and then we can have
children. If she wants children that is, what if she doesn't want children?" Rowan scolded him making Ares whimper with sadness as he started to worry.
"Well, then that's her decision and we'll respect it. We do live forever, so one day we'll be able to have children with a mate who does want them." Vlad says crossing his arms and glaring at Ares making him whimper more.
For a big bad wolf, he really is sensitive when it comes to these kinds of questions and being scolded by the others.
"They're right, we can't just assume that she'll even accept us. We might scare her off, we can be pretty possessive. Guess we get that from our father," Aragon reasons as we all think about father. He was a kind man; I remember he would always read to us at
night when I was younger and I slept like a human baby would before I turned five. He had light brown chestnut colored hair that fell to his shoulders much like mine does but it goes a little below my shoulders.
He and I share the same body build, a lean but strong body, a six-pack set of abs with big biceps and what my mother would always say a nice ass that would have her fawning over him any time he wore grey sweatpants or just his boxers. I, as their child, always
disliked how they acted around each other but I also admired them. They never
stopped showing their love for each other, not even when he made her mad for whatever it was, he would say or do.
He wasn't perfect, but I always thought of him as my hero because he would take care of her like the queen she is. Which is why I always looked up to him and wanted to be like
him so whenever he was doing something for mom like getting her flowers, I would help him and do the same.
I loved my father; I still do even though he isn't here anymore. I want to be the kind of man he was, so that's what I'll do, for my mate.