Ava's point of view
After placing Darien's plate on one of the side cabinets I walked over towards the left side were I woke up this morning.I remember leaving the bed unmade so maybe somebody came in and made it whilst I was gone.I sat onto the mattress letting my butt cheeks relax before taking off my wedges and placing them onto the floor next to my feet.I sighed as my feet felt the softness of the black soft carpet underneath them.
A couple of minutes passed before I snapped out of my dreamy daze at the sound of Darien's bathroom door being pulled open and out walked a shirtless Darien with only man boxers covering him up.My lips parted slightly at the sight of his sculptured ab's out on display.I shuddered as my eyes moved from his ab's onto his firm chest and up his shoulder blades.I giggling a little as my eyes stayed glued onto the part where his neck and shoulders met,viewing what looked like humps to me.They kind of remind me of one of my grandmothers male cows from back home that I was afraid of as a child.
The image of that animal still clear as daylight in my mind.It had black fur with long horns and a fit body.At the top of it's shoulders up till the back of it's head lay three huge humps.My cousins always made fun of me because whenever it was done grazing down the hill by the river in the south it would always come back earlier than all the other cows and it was always alone.Whenever it appeared by our neighbors gate I would always run and leave the gate to the kraal open and wait for it to enter and walk towards the middle of the kraal before I went out and closed the gate again,but sadly it was slaughtered for a pass over ceremony for my late grandfather.
I once again I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard a chuckle coming from Darien and only then did I actually realize that he was standing Infront of me with all his mighty glory out on display.Embarressed that maybe he'll see me checking him out I resorted to staring down at the floor only to feel my nose brushing past something hard.I jumped back and shouted 'oh' when I realised what it was.
Instead of him chuckling like he always does I pushed myself further more into the bed as I watched him clutching onto his stomach whilst tears pooled out of his eyes and his laughter filled the whole room.Deciding then that enough was enough I sat up,straightening my back and crossing my legs one over the other and cleared my throat.That act alone didn't seem to catch his attention so I decided that the next best thing was to throw one of my shoes at him.
As soon as my wedge made contact with his forehead he suddenly stopped laughing and stared straight at me.Out of habit I looked down nervously scratching my left arm with my right waiting for some sort of response from him.When I felt the bed dip I looked up and found him staring at me.He cupped my face with both of his hands and leaned forward.Me being me I thought that he wanted to kiss me so I closed my eyes and parted my lips slightly,waiting to feel his warm and hungry ones on mine but they never came.
Instead I felt warmth spreading across my forehead before Darien's warm hands left my cheeks.My eyes followed his every movement as he rounded the bed and sat on the right side.I watched his back as it moved whenever he dug into his steak or well what I thought was steak and ate it.Me staring at him for such a long time seems to have worked as he sighed placing his knife and fork down before turning around and looking at me.I shrieked as I felt cold air moving past me at an incredible speed before I found myself on Darien's side with me straddling his hips.
With one hand on my lower back the other continued digging into his now cut piece of meat.I felt my vomit rising in my throat as it threatened to come out and coat Darien's face but I quickly swallowed it back down before looking away from his plate and mouth.Out of boredom I started humming to myself as my fingers tapped his shoulders going to the beat of Basic by NIGHTS.
A couple of minutes passed when I suddenly heard his utensils cluttering against his plate.He took a wet cloth from besides the plate and wiped off the remains of that weird red stuff.Somewhere deep inside of me, I knew that that was not blood from the steak or animal blood but from somewhere else or rather something else but the only thing was I didn't want to find out or maybe I did,I just don't have the courage to do so.
I followed his arm movement as he reached down towards the last drawer of his side table and pulled it open.I watched curiously as he pulled out something only to realize seconds later that it was my cellphone.No amount of words could truly describe the joy I felt as I quickly lunged for it,snatching it up from Darien's hand and holding it close to me,feeling how cold it actually was but I didn't care.
I suddenly remembered that I had apparently been missing for a whole day now and Sophie had no idea where I was.For all I know she could have called the police or filed a missing persons report.If she did any of those two then most probably the police are looking everywhere for me and might end up finding this mate house and all these err...people in it.How will we even begin to explain how a bunch of people who apparently have things or rather people called mates and can turn into giant wild wolves and also eat stake with red thick blood oozing out of it live here.We would be made fun of or worse used as experiments in the classified sectors in the government.
Realizing that I had to get hold of Sophie soon I tried switching it on but failed.Turns out it was actually battery low,well low was better it was at zero percent exactly.I grumbled and looked up meeting Darien's eyes.I held up the charger and with a knowing look he took it and charged it with his charger.
Once he was done he picked me up and placed me on the bed whilst he got up and walked into his walk in closet.He reappeared minutes later with a black t-shirt on and some khaki shorts with black sneakers and a watch on his right hand.I noticed that in his left hand he had some white all-stars and as he brought them closer I noticed that they were actually brand new.I was just about to ask if he bought them for me or they belonged to someone else when he locked his eyes with mine and faintly shook his head just like Cook did when I asked about the red substance in Darien's food.
Without causing a scene or throwing a tantrum I put them on and found out that they were a little bit big but not too much. I looked up and found Darien's hand extended for me to take. I slowly put my hand in his just like before and got up clasping our hands together.
"So where are you taking me."
A lazy grin appeared on his face before he opened his bedroom door and let me get out first.Once it was closed he took my hand in his again and led me down a different flight of stairs.
"Your taking me out for a walk."