Andie and I made our way down stairs and into the hallway that leads to the event hall, bumping into Aiden and Jaylee on the way.
Jaylee instantly drops Aiden's hand like a hot potato and rushes over to my girl grabbing her in a bear hug.
" I made this for you last night." Jaylee squealed all excited and shit holding out a piece of braided yarn with colorful beads on it.
" Oh! a friendship bracelet. I love it " My girl squealed just as excitedly dropping my hand just as fast as Jaylee had dropped Aiden's.
" Don't forget about me." Jaylee whined, with exaggerated pouted lips,a bit too dramatic if you ask me. But it did remind me that everyone was leaving today and I will need to find time to spend with Andie's family before they head out to California. I can't have my girl getting homesick on the first day with out them here.
"Gosh Jaylee, I won't forget about you.We can text and call each other as much as we want to." Andie replid, patting Jaylee's back to comfort her.
" Jaylee do you know what time you're leaving today?"I ask, thinking maybe Andie and I should eat breakfast with her family this morning. Their helicopter has already been fueled and the flight plans have already been set up. It's a good possibility Alpha Lucius was planning to leave right after breakfast.
" Yeah, I think we're leaving this morning." Jaylee replied, all sad and shit her brows pulled together pouting her damn lips again.
Ignoring Jaylee's dramatic ass, I snatched my girls hand back and ask "Babe would you like to eat with your family this morning?" I spun my head around Inviting Aiden also "You can join us if you want to." Hoping to pacify the dramatic Jaylee it seems to make Andie happy for me to do that shit.
" Yeah, l know my dad and mom would like that."Andie replied, dropping my damn hand again to grab Jaylee's. " Come on" she said enthusiastically dragging Jaylee down the hallway towards the event hall.
I shrugged nodded towards Aiden wordless telling him to join me. We followed behind the two chattering girls casually chatting to each other on the way.
" So tell me do you feel any different?"Aiden ask, cocking one of his eyebrows up in my direction.
" Honestly yeah, I don't know if I got that all mighty power boost like all those old timers said we will." I chuckled knowing that was what he was asking about and continued. "But I can tell you for sure, I did get the connection with my pack they tell us about. And you're going to be amazed by how much more connected you'll become with your Beta. My Beta is my best friend and I never thought we could be any closer than what we always have been. But after the acceptance ceremony l can almost feel his emotions just as well as I can feel Andie's."
"I don't have a mate so I'm not really sure how well you can feel her emotions. But I'm pretty tight with my Beta. We have been hanging out together every since the day we were born. Hell I never even need to ask what he's thinking." Aiden shrugged "I just know".
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Aiden's response was exactly what I expected to hear because that's how I used to feel about Skyler.
I grinned " You just wait you're going to be amazed by the difference the ceremony makes."
"Well I guess that will be cool too, but I was really hoping you could shed some light on that power boost." Aiden said wiggling his eyebrows comically.
" After I spar with Skyler on Wednesday I'll give you a call and let you know. We have always been a pretty close match. It usually takes me about thirty minutes to pin his ass to the mat." I responded, but Aiden shook his head.
" That won't work, your Beta was supposed to get a power boost too." He reminded me.
Fuck ! You're right," I agreed "I'll need to set up a time next week for Skyler and me to spar with some warriors."
Aiden bobbed his head in conformation" That should work, but you need to pick warriors you have spared with in the last couple of weeks."
" That's no problem all my top warriors want to spar with me and Skyler almost every day."I said honestly, the Starlight Pack has some of the strongest and most skilled warriors out of all the Packs in North America.
Everyone of them are super competitive,they love it when one of them can land a hit on me or Skyler.
And to be honest, I love it too. Not to brag or anything but me and Skyler are super fast and agile with pure Alpha and Beta bloodlines giving us an advantage over all of my warriors.
Most of my warriors are big and brawny which gives them a disadvantage when they spar with us. Our Alpha and Beta bloodline gives us the power we need to bring down our opponents and our lean muscular bodies gives us the speed we need.
We are both over six foot tall with an incredible reach for landing a punch without getting to close to our opponents.While our lean bodies makes it easy for us to move quickly letting us dodge their attempts to land a punch on us.
So if one of my warriors can so much as to touch me or Skyler it's a good day to celebrate. And that is exactly what we do. I take all the guys out for Pizza and beer after we are done training for the day to reward them for their hard work and a job well done.
When we stepped into the event hall it was crowded, I pulled Andie away from Jaylee's side and in front of me. Placing my hands on her shoulders while I scanned the room for her parents. I spotted them at a table towards the back of the room having coffee with Jaylee's parents.
Leaning down I whispered in her ear while pointing in their direction " They're at the fourth table from the back wall, come on let's go on over and visit with them before they have to leave."
Thankfully when we got to the table there was room for all four of us. Jaylee's sister and her friend was setting at a different table and so was her brother and his future Beta.
" Good morning." I greeting everyone at the table with a smile.
" Good morning, Zack " Alpha Lucius greeted me back while everyone else just nodded." Did you decide you didn't want her." He ask teasingly.
I chuckled " No Sir, I'm definitely keeping her but I did think she might want to spend some time with you and her mom before you leave."
" Have a seat " Alpha Lucius said, gesturing towards the empty seats around the table.
I pulled a chair out for Andie and Aiden pulled one out for Jaylee. After we settled down at the table,everyone's focus was immediately pulled to Jaylee and Aiden. Leaving me and Andie out of the limelight for the first time in the last three days.
Beta Tyler directed his curious gaze towards Aiden not cutting the young Alpha any slack he straight up ask. " Young Alpha Aiden what have you and my daughter been up to these few days. I hope it's nothing that could get the two of you in trouble."
Everyone one at the table shifted their gaze towards Aiden. Aiden paused his hand that was holding an orange slice headed for his mouth. His face slightly paled and his eyes grew wide making him look like a dear caught in the head lights. It was such a comical sight I had to stifled a laugh behind my palm,as Aiden's silence stretched a bit longer than expected for such a simple question.
Aiden blinked a few times and cleared his throat gathering his composure. Then like the true Alpha he is, young Aiden straightened his back and squared his shoulders responding to Beta Tyler's question diplomatically.
" No Sir, nothing like that,Jaylee and I have just been hanging out and dancing. I usually don't enjoy functions like this very much the atmosphere is a bit stifling for me. However It's been a true pleasure to be in Jaylee's company for the last three days. She's easy to talk to and has a very pleasant personality."
Beta Tyler bobbed his head at Aiden, seemly satisfied with his response. Right now Aiden and Jaylee are like any other teenagers they're too young to recognize their mate. However dating in group settings is totally normal for werewolves and humans alike at their age. So Aiden's replie was perfect, representing himself and Jaylee in a respectful manner with no hints of any hanky-Panky going on.
I got to hand it to the boy, he's either too good to be a young Alpha or he's the smoothest operator to ever play the game. I know if I was ever put in that same position when I was his age I would have failed miserably. Lucky for me all the girls I hooked up with when I was sixteen were a lot older than me. Hell their fathers was probably the ones telling them to seduce me.
Come to think about it, I don't believe I have ever been out with a teenage girl before or even had a date for that matter.
Skyler and I have always went out together and hooked up with who ever we ran into.
Werewolves or humans it really didn't make a difference to us.
"Zack" I heard my name called from behind me. I spine my head around and see Skyler approaching the table with Andie's bitch sister and the blonde chick following him. I guess he ditched the doublemint twins already.
" What's up?" I ask all nonchalant and shit giving him no clue that the damn balloons invasion disturbed my sleep last night.
"Good Morning , I hope you slept well last night." The fucker ask all smiles and shit.adding through the mind link.' These two chicks ask me to spy on you and Andie.'
" Like a new born baby" I responded, adding through the mind link ' I hope you got some pussy for listening to their bullshit.'
That's good, We seen you and Andie over here and Miss. Abigail didn't want to leave today with out spending some time with her little sister." He said, pulling out the chair beside Luna Carolina for Abigail. Adding through the mind link. 'Both of them were quite generous last night.'
" Wonderful the more the merrier."I chuckled, pun intended.
" So Zack, When will Andie start back to school?" Abigail started her questioning right off the bat.
" Our fall semester starts at the end of this month." I replied a bit distracted by the food that just arrived spotting my mom's banana bread French toast right off the bat . It's fucking delicious.
" Robin, bring another platter of the French toast." I said grabbing two slices from the platter placing them in Andie's plate." Babe, you have to try this it's my favorite."
Robin sputtered a playful laugh " Alpha Zachary, Beta Skyler, I didn't see the two of you setting here. If I had known,I would never have left the kitchen with only one platter of Luna Melinda's famous French toast."
" Extra honey maple syrup please." Skyler chimed in, flashing Robin his panty melting smile. I groaned internally, he's such a fucking flirt.
" I got to try this stuff, give me a couple slices." Alpha Lucius said, shoving his plate towards me.
"I like it best with regular maple syrup but Skyler swears it's better with the honey maple."I murmured, passing the plate back to Alpha Lucius.
" Well I guess I need to try both." Alpha Lucius chuckled good heartily.