Chapter Eleven

We get to the house then the moment we pull into the driveway, Jake runs out of the door making me jump out of the car to hug him "Lil sis" he says as his arms are wrapped around my waist

Boy, I missed him.

"I missed you so much" I smile with tears in my eyes "I missed you too and I can't believe you've been alive all these years" he pulls away "And that you two are mates" he smiles and puts a hand on Caleb's shoulder,

"Who told you that?"

I don't remember telling him that on the phone yesterday

"I called him while you were still asleep this morning" Caleb says then kisses my cheek and walks inside with a box in his hand and Jake leads me into the house.

It's been about a week since I moved in and the three of us have gone back to our old ways as if the past three years never happened, the past week has been amazing I missed these boys.

Caleb and I haven't made our relationship "official" but we are definitely together and I couldn't be happier, I dreamed about this day for two years and it has finally happened.

*Ember's P.O.V*

I went home two days after Caleb and Hazel left, she's been texting me every so often and telling me everything, and for some odd reason, I feel kind of guilty because I've been hanging out with Ryan since they left.

I know I really should be angry at him and I am but it's fading away rapidly,

he has so many insecurities I am on high alert around him but I'm giving him a chance, he seems like he really needs to talk to someone and I'm the only one that is willing to.

I wonder if Hazel would be pissed at me if I told her that I've spent the entire week with him, "Ember are you alright?" Ryan comes around the corner of the pack meeting hall

"I'm fine...how was training?" I turn to him while we sit outside of the room where the meeting about finding your mate is held

(All kids from fifteen to eighteen and in my case nineteen go to these meetings until a few weeks after we find our mate),

Ryan was at his training to become our new Alpha in a few short months "It went better than yesterday how was the meeting?" we started to walk out of the building "Same as always everyone around me has a mate" I say as we reach the stairs towards the parking lot,

"Oh come on what about that guy that's seventeen in the high school chess club?" he asks as we get into the car

(He decided to take me because we were going to hang out afterward anyway).

"He found her yesterday-the boy just turned seventeen and found his mate while I'm here at nineteen and I still don't have a mate" I get really annoyed about this topic "Ember calm down you'll find him" he starts to drive

"Ha yeah right" I take my phone out of my pocket "I'm serious you'll find him one day" I roll my eyes and read the message it's from Hazel

'Hey so Caleb and I have been talking and we're trying to see if I can join his pack'

I'm a little upset by that, this pack is what brought us together but I understand why she wants to leave

"Are you alright?" he asks me pulling me out of my thoughts "Huh-oh yeah I'm fine" I tell him, he looks at me real quick then back at the road "Ember something's wrong and I know it now... tell me what's bothering you?"

I'm afraid to tell him, I don't like seeing him upset and he's so stubborn that he's gonna keep bothering me about this until I answer him

"Hazel just texted me saying that she's trying to join Caleb's pack" he looks confused but still focusing on the road "Who's Caleb?"

Oh I forgot he went by something else

"Oh uh Erik- Caleb is his first name" he nods "So what do you want to do today since we've practically done everything in the past week"

he's not wrong we really have

"Um we could go back to my house, to hang out and watch movies" he nods again "Hey that's something we haven't done yet"

He's such a smart aleck but he always manages to make me laugh and that's why I haven't hit him yet I just realized that his reaction to Hazel (possibly) leaving the pack didn't affect him the way I thought he would.

Before I knew it he was pulling up into my mom's driveway, we step inside and head to my room (For one we aren't going to have sex if he tries anything I would kick his ass and he knows it and two I'm nineteen I can do whatever want)

we get in and I close the door behind him "Wow you're bringing me to your bedroom-who the hell are you and what did you do to Ember?" he says while holding fingers up in a cross at me "Oh please you wish"

For some reason it made me think of Halloween night and how I freaked out about Ryan being there I thought he was the hottest guy what am I talking about I still think that god what is wrong with me? "What's going on you seem off today?" he steps closer to me and I look at him

"I'm fine I just thought of an old memory but it's nothing" I sit down on my bed

(I forgot to mention that I live with my mom and she works full-time at the hospital with Hazel's mom)

"I can tell there is something bothering you-whatever it is you can tell me" he looks worriedly at me,

I sigh not fully sure if I want to tell him but he's worried and there's no stopping him "It's just that on Halloween night when Hazel and I got to the party, I saw you and kind of freaked out because I thought you were very much attractive" I look down at the floor

"Why is it bothering you it's just a memory?" he asks

This is a stressful conversation

"Well I thought you were hot and then the whole thing with Hazel happened then I hated you up until last week-you are such a sweet and kind person that is very misunderstood and I know how it feels to be like that" I get frustrated because I can't really explain everything I feel and a lot of times I get so upset I start to cry at times like this,

I stand up and grip my hair in my fists "Ember it's okay" he says pulling me into his chest causing me to just cry harder as he gently runs his hand over my hair "Everything's going to be okay...I promise" he says calming me down almost instantly.