CHAPTER 4 " The Talk With Mum"
Autumn P.O.V.
After I kicked him, I ran away to avoid being late for my parents' dinner party. I know I would just run and hide in my room, but they want me to join them. I don't know what they have up their sleeves; I do know if I don't go. I know they would be mad at me. I don't want my parents to get mad at me. I have never got them upset with me. I barely get punished by them. But still, I am going to go. When I started running there. I didn't want to look back. But if I did, I knew I would go back there and see if he was okay.
Winter is angry at me. She is telling me to go back there to see if my mate is hurt!
"No! We must go back!
"We have to get a mate."
"He hurt," She kept repeating inside my mind.
I wanted to tell her to shut up, but I knew she just wanted to be close to him.
I know I wanted to be with him right now. But I don't want her to know I am hurting too, knowing he doesn't want us.
"Mate!"
"He"
"Is."
"Not"
"Mad!"
"Please!" She keeps begging me.
So, after so much begging, I could feel my feet stop, and she made me walk backward toward him.
I jerked away, and I took off towards the back door.
No! Winter, that's enough!" We are not going back." I told her in a stern voice.
"Fine!" she growled, angry. I know she is upset, but it will be fine when she is ready to calm down and talk to me later.
She turned away from me inside my mind. I could see her pouting, but she stopped talking to me altogether for tonight.
Hey! Winter, don't be like that?" I am sorry." But he doesn't want us. I am not going to beg him." Am I not that way, remember? So, sorry." I told her, but I knew she was quiet, and she blocked me out.
I sighed. I started walking inside the door. I was halfway in the door when I smelt the food in the air. I heard something, and that was when I knew my stomach was growling.
I have not eaten since breakfast this morning. So instead, I had stacks of cakes and sausages. I know that seems a lot, but we eat a lot when you're a werewolf.
I chuckled and shook my head, and I walked through the kitchen, and I saw the services running around getting the food and silverware, and they didn't see me. So I guess they are too busy to notice me.
Before I left the kitchen, I grabbed a banana and water on the counter before climbing up the stairs to my room.
An hour later, I heard a knock on my door. I was already showered and dressed, so I had a little time, so I got some reading in before I would have to go down to dinner at seven.
"Hey! Autumn, you in there?" I heard my mother outside of my door.
"Yes," I am in here," I told her.
"Okay, well, sweetie, can I come in?" She asked me.
Of course, I was going to say yes, I thought with a slight smile on my face.
"Yes, come in, Mom," I told her, still with a smile on my face. Then, I shut the book I was reading.
I enjoy books with hate and love series with characters and love stories in which they hate each other and then start falling for each other and being together forever.
The door opened, and my beautiful, sweet mother stood in the doorway.
I saw her face when she stared at me with awe on her face.
"Oh! Autumn, you look breathtaking." I heard her say with a smile on her kind face.
"Oh, thank you, Mom."
"You look beautiful, Mom, too," I told her.
She walked closer and sat on the bed beside me. I know it was not lying but sitting up on the end of the bed with the book behind me, laying there with the page I had left off.
"Thank you, Autumn; I appreciate it." She tells me with a sweet smile.
Once my mom and I were done talking, she asked me things. I wanted to tell her what was going on and what had happened, but I could not do it. So, I told her I was fine, and she didn't worry about me. I found my mate soon after I told her. That made her relax, and I saw a relieved expression.
But once the time went by. I saw it was six 'thirty, and the guest would be here at seven o'clock.
"Well, she said, hit my leg. I will go ahead before your father burns down the house." She said, and we both started laughing.
I know my parents joke around. However, I am happy they found each other and that they are mates.
They were always telling me how they met, and I always hoped Atticus and I would have the same love my parents do.
She said, "Okay, well, I'll see you down there, she said.
I nodded, and she got up and walked to the door. She walked out.
I am sitting there staring at the door, wondering who is down there we are having for dinner.
I didn't know that whoever was down there, I hope everything goes well, and I wish it in my heart that Atticus would come and take back what he said to me on my birthday. His present, I thought with so much hurt and pain in my heart. He not just crumbled my heart but shattered it!
What are you kidding? He is not your prince charming and will take you and sweep you off your feet and to la-la land.
I felt the tears clouding my eyes. I wiped my eyes, and I told myself no!
Do not cry. You need to quit it and be strong. So, I got off my feet and walked towards my door. But before I opened it, I felt this heat sensation move up and down through my body. What I thought wasn't possible was...
I sigh because it will not happen. I could feel butterflies in my stomach.
You can do this, and I told myself before I opened the door, put up a front and smiled, and started walking down the stairs one foot at a time.