"Bye Ashley." He walked around to the driver side of the car, he looked back at me once before getting in and pulling out of the driveway.
"What are you doing here?" I ask Blake as he follows me to the front door.
"Lizzy told me you were with some guy, I needed to make sure you were Ok." Needed to make sure I was ok or get in my business? If someone told me he was with a girl I wouldn’t bother hunting him down.
"Well I'm fine so you can go now." I say, crossing my arms over my chest. I'm still mad at him about the secret mate thing, and plus I would like some time to myself.
He sighed. "Ashley-" He starts but I cut him off.
"Blake we'll talk about this another time, but right now I'm tired so please just leave." He stares at me for a moment then walks away. I sighed walking in my house. I walked upstairs and flopped down on my bed still thinking about the impossible. How can I have two mates, and what is Dylan??
Chapter 5
I woke up around 12:00p.m to my cell phone ringing. Reaching over to my bed side table I answered. "Hello?"
"Ashley are you up?" I sighed. Figures it would be Lizzy calling.
"I am now."
"Good, I want you to come somewhere with me." I really didn't feel like doing anything today.
"I'm sorry Lizzy but I really don't feel like it today." I just wanted to stay home, and binge watch a Netflix show.
"Ok Ashley another time." She hung up sounding sad. I felt bad for not going so I decided to call her back and invite her over. She picked up on the 3rd ring. "Hello?"
"It's me, do you want to come over instead?" I asked nervously. Hope she doesn't reject me like I just did to her.
"Sure, I'll be over in an hour!" She hung up sounding much happier.
**
"I brought games and a make-over kit." Were the first words Lizzy said when I opened the door for her. Right now, we're sitting on my bed playing Uno. Pretty sure she's cheating.
"So, what have you been doing all day?" I asked her.
"Derek and I met Kelly and Caleb at the mall."
"What did you buy? And when do you plan on telling Caleb that you like him?" Her eyes widened at my question.
“What are you talking about?’ She wouldn’t look at me, proof that she liked him. Lizzy always made eye contact when she talked.
“I seen the way he made you blush at school, so spill.”
“Ok ok, I guess I’ve had a crush on him for a while.” I squealed at her confession. They would look so good together.
“Why haven’t you made a move?”
“I believe that the guy should make the first move, so I’m waiting.” I rolled my eyes. If less girls thought like that life would be much simpler for us. "So, tell me about this Dylan boy." I felt my heart beat over time just hearing his name. Play it cool don't give anything away. Alright now answer deep breaths.
"What about him?" Dang too high lower the voice try again. (Deep voice)"Dylan who?" Oh no. Lizzy was staring at me weirdly.
"Ashley I can tell you're lying, your voice got high then deep." Busted!
"There's nothing to tell really, he just almost hit me with his car." I watched as her eyes widened and realized I shouldn't have told her that.
"Not like that, I was running out of the woods at an inconvenient time." I tried to explain the best I could.
"Ok what happened after that? And why were you running out of the woods?" She asked.
"No reason, and I passed out."
"Then?" She clearly wasn’t about to drop this.
"I woke up at his house, he took me there."
"How does he look?" Hotter than hell.
"He's cute." I decided to say instead, play it cool.
"Just cute, I was hoping for something better."
"Alright he's my second mate." She stared frozen for a moment then,
"WHAT?" She screamed. "Wait what do you mean second? Who's your first? You have two!?" The questions were coming full speed.
"I know, I don't know what to do." I frowned. "Blake is my first mate but he doesn't want to tell anyone to keep me safe."
"Blake as in my brother? Does he know you have another mate?"
"No, I can't tell him yet, he'll try to keep me away from him before I even get the chance to know him. If I even see him again, he gave me his number though." The thought of never seeing Dylan again made me sad, I mean he was my mate. Lizzy saw the look on my face and sighed.
"Fine Ashley but you're going to have to tell him yourself eventually."
"I know." I sighed sadly.
"When are you going to tell him?"
"I don't know."
"Ok." There was silence after that, both lost in our own thoughts.
"So, you want me to call Dylan and arrange for you to meet him?" I asked. It would be nice for them to meet each other, and it gives me an excuse to call and hang out with him.
"Sure."
I grabbed my cell phone and dialed his number. As it rang I started to get nervous, questions popping in my head. What if he doesn't answer? What if he doesn't-
"Hello?" Oh my gosh he picked up. I shot a panicked look at Lizzy, she just smiled, giving me a thumbs up.
"Hey Dylan, it's me Ashley..." Did he think I was clingy calling him already? I just seen him 24 hours ago.
"Oh, hey is something wrong?" He asked worried.
"No, I was just calling to ask if you wanted to hangout, so you can meet my friend Lizzy if that's ok? Or is that weird?"
He chuckled on the other end. "I would love to meet your friend, when do you want to meet up?"
"When are you free?"
"Um right now actually is that cool?" It’s like he read my mind.
"Yeah, we can meet at the arcade on 12th street, do you know where that's at?"
"Yeah I'll see you there in an hour." He hung up. I looked over at Lizzy to see her grinning at me.
"Well he even sounds hot." She said, I let out a small growl. She rolled her eyes at me. "Relax I was just saying." I blushed when I realized what I did.
"Ok whatever let's just get ready." Lizzy laughed and grabbed my arm, dragging me over to my closet.
"I'm going to make you look fabulous." Oh boy.
An hour later she had me dressed in a black skirt that flairs out, and a white blouse with a black leather jacket on. She did my hair in loose curls and applied some mascara and eyeliner to my eyes. I had to admit I looked hot.
"Ok you ready to go?" I nodded, grabbing my purse as we made our way down the stairs.
When we got there we walked around looking for him. He texted me on our way here that they already made it. I didn't know exactly who 'they' was. I spotted him standing in a corner with another guy and a red-haired girl. I grabbed Lizzy hand and dragged her over there.
"Hey Dylan!" He looked up when he heard his name and smiled before coming over and giving me a hug. The tingles flared up as soon as he did that.
"Hey Ashley, you don't mind I brought some friends do you?" He asked pointing to the people behind him.
"No, it's ok this is Lizzy." I introduced them.
"Hi Lizzy, these people here are Emily and Caleb." He said. The red head glared at me, but Caleb waved. What's her problem? An old flame maybe? Get it? Because her hair is red?
"What's up I'm Ashley." I gave them both a polite smile. After making the introductions we all headed over to a table he booked. We waited as Caleb went to get us all game cards.
After about twenty minutes of playing games with the gang, Dylan and I decided to break away from them and go get some ice cream.
The man at the stand was old and fragile looking but greeted us with a warm smile.
"Hey kids how's your day going?" He asked us.
"It's going well, we've won a few games." I told him smiling as we looked over the menu. Hmm chocolate mint or vanilla?
"You two lovebirds decided on what you're getting yet?" That wiped the smile right off my face, but Dylan grinned widely at the man.
"Ye
s, I think my wife is ready to pick." He told him putting an arm around my shoulder. I gave him a confused look, but he just squeezed my shoulder encouraging me to play along.
"Married?" The old man repeated looking bewildered. Well we did look too young to be married already. He probably thinks we ran away and got hitched in Vegas or something.
"Yes." Dylan answered placing a small kiss on my cheek. I felt my face heat up. The old man didn't say anything after that just looked at us weird.
"I'll take a vanilla ice cream please." I ordered, before Dylan gave this old man a heart attack.
"And I'll take mint chocolate." Dylan ordered. He handed the man a five-dollar bill as he gave us our ice cream.
"What was that for?" I smacked him on the chest as we walked away.
"It got a smile on your face." He told me, turning to wink at me.
I blushed under his gaze and rolled my eyes. "Hardly." We walked over to our booth, sitting on opposite sides.
"How's that vanilla ice cream?" He asked me.
"Very delicious, I couldn't decide between that and mint though." I shrugged.
"Here have some of mine," He held the ice cream cone out to me and I reached for it, but he snatched it back. "I'll hold it." I blushed realizing what he was suggesting. I leaned over the table avoiding eye contact with him as I moved forward to lick the ice cream, only for him to smash it in my face. I stared at him in shock while he burst out laughing. He was laughing so hard his face started turning red, while I on the other hand was not laughing.
"You jerk." I licked off what was around my mouth and grabbed a napkin to get the rest. At least I still got to taste it.
"I'm sorry, you should've seen your face though."
I rolled my eyes. "I'm sure it was very entertaining." This set him off in another fit of laughter. An eternity later he finally calmed down.
"Ashley, we need to talk about this mate thing." He blurted out.
"What mate thing?" I asked, licking my ice cream cone.
"I know that guy from the other night is your mate." He said with an edge to his voice. I was speechless. How'd he know Blake was my mate?
"I don't know what to say Dylan, I didn't ask for this it just happened. I just found out I was a werewolf like two days ago."
"Wow really? So, then you don't know about choosing?" He asked softly.
"What do you mean choosing?" I asked confused.
"Ashley this isn't the first time a werewolf has had two mates. Your kind and my kind have been mating for centuries. You have to choose rather you want me or the other guy as your mate." He informed me.
"If you're not a werewolf then what are you?" I asked quietly.
"I'm a cat shifter Ashley." I had no idea what a cat shifter was, never even heard of the term.
"Oh." Was my awesome response, he chuckled.
"Do you know what a cat shifter is?" He asked me.
"Of course I do! but maybe you should just refresh my memories." He rolled his eyes.
"Cat shifters are complete opposites of a werewolf, while you guys shift into to oversized wolves, we can shift to any feline and will be the same size as a werewolf. It's rare for us to find a mate unless you're an alpha, and even rarer to mate with a werewolf."
I was about to ask him more about his kind when Lizzy suddenly ran over.
"Ashley, Blake is on his way here." She said out of breath. I jumped out of my seat and so did Dylan.
"What do you mean Blake is on his way here?"
"Who is Blake?" Dylan asked.
"He was looking for you in the mind link and found out you were here with me at the arcade." She said sounding scared. What was she so afraid of?
"Does he know Dylan is with me?" I asked looking over at Dylan, he looked annoyed with the situation. That makes two of us. "Blake is my other mate." I told him.
"Yes that's why he's coming, we have to leave now!" She grabbed my arm and started speed walking towards the door. I looked back to see Dylan following us. We were two feet from the door when Lizzy suddenly stopped making me run into her.
"Why did you stop?" I asked out of breath. I'm not the fittest person and speed walking is basically just running slow.
"Because it's too late, he's already here." She moved behind me. I looked up at the door and sure enough, Blake, Derek, and some other guy were standing there looking around. Blake spotted me first and started walking towards me, not looking happy at all. Then I noticed he wasn't looking at me but more behind me. I turned to see Dylan standing there with guys looking ready to fight. Where did those guys come from? Have they been here the whole time? I have a feeling this isn't going to end well.
"Ashley what are you doing here?" Blake asked walking over to us, but keeping his focus on Dylan.
"No what are you doing here?" I shot back.
"I came here to get you." He said, not taking his eyes off Dylan.
"Why? I didn't ask you to come get me." I crossed my arms glaring at him. Blake finally took his eyes off Dylan to glare at me.
"Ashley we are going now. I'm not going to let my mate hang around some cat shifter." I was shocked by his words. He must really be mad to call me his mate in front of all these people.
The guy that showed up with him let out a gasp. "She's your mate?"
"Not now!" He shouted. The boy bowed his head. Derek looked just as shocked but decided not to say anything.
"Blake I'm not leaving with you and that's final." I told him. He reached out as if he was going to grab me, but stopped half way looking at something behind me. I turned to see what caught his attention and noticed Dylan had moved closer, and was now standing directly behind me.
"She said she doesn't want to leave." He said. Very calmly I might add.
"I don't believe I was talking to you pussycat." Blake snarled at him. Seriously what's his problem? He doesn't even know Dylan.
"Listen dog, back off now before you regret it." Dylan lightly pushed me to the side, to get closer to Blake.
"Oh yeah? Who's going to make me?" Blake moved even closer. Now they were chest to chest.
"Hold on, both of you stop." I said coming between them.
"Ashley stay out of this." Blake demanded without even looking my way. Rude.
"Someone needs to teach this mutt some manners." Dylan glared. Before I could say anything else, Dylan punched Blake in the face. I screamed, I don't know why but I did. Blake moved back, and I knew he was about to shift. Just as I was about to run forward to stop him someone pulled me back.
"Let me go!" I cried watching as Dylan shifted into a tiger and Blake into his wolf. They were equal in size and both looked like fierce fighters.
"No Ashley it's too dangerous." The person holding me said, who I just realized was Derek.
"Please, you know they won't stop." I pleaded with him as he dragged me away from the fight. I couldn't just sit by and watch my two mates fight.
"Ashely no." He said. I stopped struggling long enough for him to loosen his grip, so it was much easier for me to break free. "Ashley get back here!" Derek shouted after me as I ran across the room to where Dylan and Blake was. Once I got closer I could tell the fight was worse than I thought, there was blood everywhere.
"Guys stop this right now!" I screamed. They froze for about a minute then went back to fighting. I couldn't take it anymore, so I shifted. I jumped across the room right between them. The last thing I saw was a paw flying towards my face.
***
I opened my eyes to a very bright light. I groaned putting my hands over my eyes. Where am I? What happened? Where is everyone? Oh my god the fight!
I shot up looking around the room, realizing I was in some kind of hospital bed. Just then a lady walked in with a clipboard.
"Hello Ashley, nice to see you're finally awake. I'm Jade, Dylan's mom." She said holding out her hand to me.
"Uh Hi." I couldn't help but feel a little shy around her as I shook her hand. She's my mate mother for crying out loud. Possibly my future mother
in law.
"Dylan was right you are a sweet girl. I'm going to step out for a minute, I'll be right back." I blushed at her statement about what Dylan said. I should have asked her where he was. Speaking of Dylan, he walked in the room just as she was walking out, looking tired and worn out, his arm was bandaged.
First Born_One Of A Kind Page 5
