What's That Supposed To Mean? - 12

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Cliffhanger last chapter, huh? Sorry, hehehe but here is the next chapter! I'm not going to write much here just, ENJOY! :)

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Chapter 12

I snapped my eyes open, immediately backing away at the same time as Tyler and found Noah right behind us, just a few feet away, smirking.

“Well, well, well,” he repeated. “What is going on here?”

“None of your business,” I said, anger clear in my voice. This guy was everywhere! First he couldn’t leave my head with his stupid idiotic things and kisses and now he was interrupting my date night!

“Ooh, getting a little spicy here, aren’t we?” he said, still smirking. Did he plan on doing this? I took deep breaths, trying to calm myself down. But he knew how to push my buttons, he knew them as clear as I did and I knew he’d get me to explode sooner or later.

“Hey, why don’t you just tag along and let us do our own thing, huh?” Tyler said, standing up. I watched as Noah’s face changed; the smirk was replaced by a sneer and his eyes turned even darker than they already were. Hands in his pockets, he slowly took a few steps towards us. He scoffed, pretending to let out a small “laugh.”

“Why don’t you just tag along?” he said calmly. Right that moment, he looked dangerous. A calm furious Noah was never better than a screaming one. This was far worse and Tyler should not have interrupted. I knew Noah inside and out; he couldn’t handle guys that talked back to him. Especially like in this situation when they tell him to back off or leave or something. He explodes inside, I know that.

“I was here with Samantha and if you can’t handle that, you should go find another one of your toys and play,” Tyler said back, just as calmly. Noah was just coming closer to him and the only thing in the way was that plastic chair. I immediately stood up, pushed the chair aside and stepped between them, facing Noah. His face was only inches from mine; I could feel his breath on my neck and my cheek.

Suddenly, all I wanted to say seemed to be gone. My mind was empty and all I could feel was this tingling between us. My heart was beating hard and my hand even slowly started to move up to touch Noah. I came back to my senses and pushed it back down again. I looked him in the eye, ignoring the feeling it gave me.

“I don’t need you to ruin this as well,” I said quietly. His eyes went slowly down from my face to my legs and then back up. He had literally checked me out, right in front of me but like I always, I wasn’t surprised. It was Noah we were talking about.

“I don’t believe I’ve ever seen you in a dress, Riley,” he quietly said back in his husky voice that gave me goosebumps. What the hell was going on? Right, hormones. Of course my body liked this; I was a confused seventeen year old with hormones flying around all the time.

“Well, now you have,” I said. “And you can leave.”

“What if I don’t want to?” he whispered, coming even closer. His breath was a mixture of fresh mint and something more I couldn’t quite put my finger on. I didn’t mind at all and it scared me.

“I’ll make you,” I replied.

He smirked. I had totally forgotten about Tyler behind me, waiting for Noah to leave and for us to finish what we were doing. But I didn’t want to anymore; I felt bad, but I didn’t want to and Noah was to blame. I wanted so badly to know why he had kissed me the other day. It made no sense; we both hated each other and he had made it clear that he didn’t want anything to do with me, that he was disgusted with me and that he was cold towards me. So why?

“Can you feel that?” he whispered in that husky voice again. Somehow, I knew exactly what he was talking about but I asked anyways.

“What?”

His eyes went down to my lips, his own slightly parting. I froze as he came even closer, so close that our lips almost touched. Almost. But he knew that I knew exactly what I was supposed to feel now. That feeling that had rushed through my entire body in one second as our lips almost touched told me that this was so dangerous and so amazing.

He knew I was feeling it and he backed away, a smirk on his lips again. One last look and he was gone, back inside his house.

I just stood there, frozen and speechless. Tyler came around, eyes wide.

“Samantha? What just happened?” he asked. When he saw that I was completely gone, he asked, “Are you alright?”

I looked up at him, as if I just realized he was there and blinked. What did just happen?

“I’m sorry,” I mumbled. “I have to go.”

I wanted to beg for forgiveness for leaving him, I felt so bad, but I walked like a robot straight home and straight up to my room, ignoring my father and Liz’s questions.

I lay down on my bed immediately, staring up at the ceiling, my face blank. What wasn’t blank, though, was my mind and I felt as if I was drowning and suffocating in all the questions that were forming and flying around all the time. That thing that just happened between me and Noah, that feeling, that wasn’t nothing. It was something new and strong but I couldn’t figure out what.

I mean, all these conclusions came to me but I pushed them all away because there was no way in hell that any of them were true. This was something different and weird and confusing. Even though I liked it and my wolf liked it and my body liked it, I had to and needed to forget about it. But I also wanted to tell someone, like Ari or Mason. Maybe Ari but she’d never let it go and Mason was Noah’s brother, he’d probably take the matter in his own hand and just make Noah upset and I didn’t need a pissed Noah after me.

A knock.

“Sweetie? Is everything alright? Tyler said that you were a little bit upset because of Noah,” my dad said on the other side of the door. I sighed; of course Tyler would say something.

“Dad I’m fine,” I half lied. “Noah didn’t do anything; I just need to be alone.”

The less they knew, the better.

“Okay. Liz and the kids are heading out, just so you know. They’re going to stay at the motel in town one or two days because they want to continue visiting different places. They’ll be back, though.”

I heard his footsteps as he left.

Sigh. Did he know something I didn’t? He knew and he felt and then asked me if I felt it which he obviously knew I did. He knew it was something more than hormones. He knew it was a feeling that would otherwise never show, he knew it was different and new and strong, just like I did now and-

Oh my God.

…..

It couldn’t be.

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“Arianna, can you please calm down?” I asked quietly, hoping no one in this house heard our conversation or Arianna’s shocking noise. She was doing her usual; speed talking to herself, trying to get an answer. It freaked me out even more because I hadn’t even told her about the possible answer to this. I had just told and explained to her about the two kisses that happened and what had happened just a few hours ago outside on our front yard, possible for anyone to see. And poor Tyler that had to be there on our date even. Must’ve been mean. It was mean. And I felt really bad.

But Tyler wasn’t what I had to fix now. Noah was and his weird mind games.

“You know, I would never ever in my life think about you and Noah like that but at the same time it’s so obvious! I mean, you know? It’s perfect, it makes perfect sense! You hate each other but there is so much attraction and sexual tension between you two. You know everytrhing about each other and you want to push each others buttons, you want the attention. And now this. I mean, it’s obvious that he-“

“Arianna, please!” I said, raising my voice a little. She stopped, both the talking and the pacing. She took a deep breath.

“Sorry. I’m not helping much.” She came over to the bed and sat down next to me.

“I… I was thinking about this earlier, like I told you,” I started,” and… while doing that, something just… kind of came to me. Like a quick answer to all of this, you know? But I don’t want to believe it and I wont until an expert tells me all of this.”

“Spit it out,” Arianna said after I became quiet. I just couldn’t say it out loud. It made absolutely no sense to me.

“I mean, you’ve probably already thought about this but I’m not saying this is right, it’s just a possibility. So don’t start to-“

“Spit it out,” she repeated.

I took a deep breath.

“What if all this,” I said, “is because we’re mates?”

It may sound like overreacting but this was a big deal. Finding your mate is a huge deal in the werewolf community and knowing who Noah was and what past we had, I just couldn’t imagine it. I’ve never thought he was unattractive, if you ask me about that part. I think Noah is the most good-looking, hottest and handsomest guy I’ve seen, together with his brothers behind him. The guy is chamring and everything a girl wants but the way he had treated me and still did stopped me from thinking about that. The personality is what makes you leave or stay and his just pushed me away. He wasn’t like that for real, only to me, and that made me even more upset back then so I kept away. I liked trouble, though, so I provoked him.

“Arianna?”

“This is it,” she whispered. “Sammy, you guys are mates. There is no other explanation!”

“Ari, we can’t be sure and just walk around and think that now-“

“But it has to! I get it now! You guys have this… this bond and you said yourself you both felt something earlier. That’s the skin contact, the sparks that fly around because your wolves haven’t realized that you’re mates yet! Trust me I know this, my mother told me everything about this.”

“My mother told me everything about this, too, Arianna but I don’t want to believe it. It can’t be true! It’s me and Noah for Christ Sake! We don’t go together; we’re two opposites, like two unmatching puzzles. It can’t be!”

“Sam, you know yourself that it’s a 99% chance that this is the answer. Oh my God, I hate Noah but now I think this is so exciting! We have to talk to Mason! What if Noah already figured it out and is waiting for you?”

“Arianna! Stop talking so fast and no, he’s not waiting for me because he hates me! He would never want me to be his mate and even if he’d figure it out, he’d never tell me because none of us wants each other! We hate each other, he is disgusted by me and I’m disgusted by his behavior. There is no use in talking to anyone.”

“Sama-“

“No,” I said firmly. “We’re going to keep this to ourselves until we know for sure, alright? Promise me this. Seriously, Arianna.”

She sighed, shaking her head.

“Fine. But I don’t like this,” she said.

There had been too much talking and thinking, I felt exhausted just from that. This freaked me out, come on! I wouldn’t mind having Noah as my mate if he’d change and yes I still believe he’ll change but still. You never know! I’ve always felt sorry for his mate. Now it’s possible that I’m that mate!

“I have something, though…” Arianna suddenly said, an evil grin forming on her face. “You know how I love to have fun, to tease and just get some reactions from people?”

“Yes…,” I said slowly, already scared of what she was thinking.

“Well, I have an idea… Let’s beat Noah at his game. Let’s just go their house, pretend to hang with the boys and then, we’ll go up to Noah’s room and play the heck out of him. What do you think?”

“I don’t know… I’m not sure it’s going to work,” I said, hesitating. Sure, I loved having fun, too and especially when it came to these things. Sometimes boys had to be played and teased and it sounded like fun. But the fact that it was Noah and that we could be mates made me a little bit unsure.

“Oh it’ll work, honey,” Arianna said, smirking. “Did you forget who I am? I’m the expert. You just have to be in on it a hundred percent and not chicken out. Imagine leaving him speechless and shocked just like he left you three times!”

“Now we’re talking,” I said, grinning. “I’m not feeling the mate thing but this sounds like something fun that you can’t miss. Let’s do it.”

“Yes! Love you! Okay but you’re leaving the dress on.”

“What?!” I laughed; I was going to “hang out” with the boys in a tight dress and heels? Good luck pretending, Arianna.

“Yeah, you look like a goddess in that and it will help us break him.”

“Okay, let’s just do this before I regret it.”