12 Chapter 12 - The Night Before the Date

Reina POV

I can't believe I agreed to Derek on a date. But, I guess we have to take a break from all of the events, that happened from last few weeks. I could also sense from him that he needed to relax a bit, from working too hard on so many issues going on his kingdom.

So, here I am now, in my bedroom, it is now almost 12 midnight.

"Urgh! What should I wear ! " frustrated for being indecisive myself, looking at the pile of dresses and other clothing materials in front of me, some were brought by Grace. Every week, she always give me new clothes tailored by her mother, and Im surprise, they all fit perfect to me. I might visit their tailoring shop soon, I really wanted to meet her family.

I lay my back to the big soft mattress of my bedroom, staring up at the square framed wooden ceiling with some flowery designs,

"You're just too excited, that is why you cant decide what to wear, relax, you still have time to prepare" said by Tas, my wolf, whose running around in my mind knowing that we're going to have a date with our mate.

Tas is a strong wolf, I can sense it, but there's something in her that keeps on bothering me, I feel like I didn't know much of her capabilities just yet. I remember during my fight with Zander, when my eyes were glowing, I still dont have an answer to that, and she wont say a thing. Despite of being strong she is somewhat a shy and quiet one. As I was thinking about my own wolf, I sat up from the bed and started to stare again at the pile of clothings.

"Looks whose more excited than I am" I roll my eyes on her in my mind, as she keeps on running around in my head. I sighed and face palmed myself, "What I'm gonna do" I thought to myself. To be honest, this is not my first time having a date with the opposite gender, like I told you before, I had a boyfriend back in our pack, and we may not last that long but we do have many dates, outside, especially near the human village, going out to a mall, seeing movies together and have dinner to some restaurant, due to that, I agreed this time for Derek, confidently, because I thought I could pull this out fine with out any feelings attached or something. But, today, I am filled with a lot of emotions, nervousness, excitement, and worried, just having thoughts of being alone with him tensed me and gives me a chilling effects on my body. Is it due to the mate bond?. Well, some I guess, but partially because of what happened back in the hospital, I guess being with your mate alone and not claiming one another yet will just heightened your desire for each other. And I'm afraid that I might give in.

"Earth to Rey please, hello" Grace said as she snaps her fingers in front of my face.

"What does he tell you about the date by the way?" Grace ask, while walking towards the walk-in closet to look for some dresses. She's been helping me since since afternoon when I told her that I will have a date coming with the King. She was thrilled at the news and she's very excited as well.

"I mean, are you two going in some place?" She Added.

"I dont know, he just told me to go to the botanical garden by 9 in the morning tomorrow"

"So, you two will plant some flowers and trees in a middle of this winter season, I'm guessing? " She chuckles at that idea teasing me.

"Wow, I cant believe that a date will suppose to happen tomorrow, will make you a mess in hours before it, just to look for a good dress, aren't you an excited one" she teases me while walking out from the walk in closet holding a bunch of clothes.

"You know, I've known Derek for 3 years now since I'd mated with Andrew. He might look gorgeous and uptight due to his title, but simple things can make him happy, I dont think you needed to dress perfectly, but it is a date anyway, so I guess there's nothing wrong with dressing beautifully...hmm why not try this" she said before handing me a long sleeved turtle neck sweater dress, it has a grey color and just above the knee length.

"Wow, this is good..." I uttered slowly as I am in awe, looking at the dress in my hand. Back in my pack, I just dress casually for any season, I dont give any second thought about dressing, well, who cares about dresses anyway, I just cared about my training and helping out my dad at those times. But since I met Derek, I am very careful on dressing myself, well, maybe because I wanted to look good with him, I mean, he's just a beautiful man and I have my insecurities with my looks and body. Knowing how he treated himself with care despite having a lot of work, inspired me to do the same with myself.

"Yep I know... hmm, now to complete the outfit, lets combine with this..." She slowly turn around facing me showing the grey color wool beret hat that matches the outfit, together with a tassel flat heels ankle boots and leggings.

"try it on !" she smiled happily and proudly pushing me to the restroom for me to try the clothes she picked for me.

I come out from the restroom and she squeak while clapping both of her hands and hopping. She immediately comes closer to me examining my whole body.

"Do you like it" she ask

"No... I love it" I return a smile to her and embrace her,

"Thank you a lot for helping me to get through this"

"Sure, always count on me Rey, you know how much I love dresses, especially when it comes to you" she giggles still eyeing my body. She sometimes come at me, making me a model to some of her mother's new tailored dress, and I could see that she also loves making it, so I just go with the flow, this also helped me to learn about new little things. Besides, dressing beautifully is one of ways on taking care of myself. I'm a woman after all, there's nothing wrong in treating myself one beautiful dress.

"So, if you please, I like to have a rest now, I could see now that you're okay with it, anything else just call me right away" she still smiling, while heading towards the door.

"Oh, leave those things there, okay, i'll come back later to fix it" she gestures her hands pointing the dresses piled up in the marble flooring, then she headed out closing the door behind her.

I nodded to her and wave my hand to her as she walks out from the room, leaving me standing in front of a full body size mirror. As I look at myself, I notice some difference. I seemed to glow up here, I thought to myself.

After I arrange the dress for tomorrow and settle it in the dressing room, I also pick up the dresses that were not use and brought them back myself to the closet. I know Grace will be mad at me for doing this, but I cant just rely to the gammas and omegas doing stuffs for me, I have two hands you know. Back in our pack, each and everyone of us, do some chores, even the young. We always set a schedule for general cleaning and everyone of us work on it.

We just dont labelled an omega to do the chores because they are people and wolf too, they too, need to train themselves some fighting skills instead of doing house works all day.

After I have done to fix the closet, I wash myself with warm water and headed to my bed and sleepiness visit my eyes. Before I could close my eyes, I am thinking on what to do for tomorrow. I wonder what we are going to do tomorrow, or perhaps later, I said to myself as I look at the wall clock almost closing to 1 AM. I hope tomorrow will be fine, I said to myself. I think of Derek and his gorgeous look, thinking how I can repay him for helping me, I know he said a date will do, but I dont think its enough, after a few moments of having these thoughts, I got deeper into my sleep.