THE LOVE BITE & CONCLUSION

I came to on the sofa in the games room. Sitting up, I felt a leather jacket fall off my shoulder and onto my lap. Jonah's jacket.

Savy put aside a small wet towel into a bowl of red water. Was that blood?

I blinked at my best friend. And then at Jonah and Ben who were both standing cross armed. Jonah was frowning.

Was it just the four of us?

"See, she's fine." Ben said to his best friend.

"I thought I killed her." Jonah groaned miserably.

"More like you marked her." Savy smiled.

What?!?

Was I marked?

I touched the space where Jonah bit me gingerly. It tingled.

"Noob." Ben chided his buddy.

"You marked me? Are you crazy? What did you think you were doing?" I stood up and yelled at Jonah.

He held up his large hands to ward me off, "I thought it was a love bite."

"I'll show you a love bite!" I growled.

"Show him in your room, Lizzy." Ben smirked, "The guys outside are asking I left my Lambo running."

Jonah looked embaressed, "Uh yeah."

He gave me a fugitive look.

"He's got his own internal motor, so he doesn't need a loud car like someone I know." I shot back at my brother.

"Don't bring my car into this!" Ben warned. Ben was so protective over his car that sometimes I suspect Ben's mate WAS his car.

"You started it!" I yelled back.

"It's true that Jonah's truck is really quiet." Savy seemed to realize.

"There is no correlation." Ben fumed.

"I guess that makes it an opposite correlation?" Jonah hazzarded a guess.

In all effect, it was just something an idiot would say.

Ben growled his warning very quietly.

Jonah made a chuffing sound, "What? Is that the loudest you can do?"

Jonah was so proud of his internal motor that Ben felt he had to punch him.

So Jonah ran for the door, "See you tomorrow, bunny!"

Ben was quick to give chase.

It's like part of them would never grow up.

I thought of a new pair of nicknames for my brother and his best friend to add to the list.

1. SpongeBob Squarepants and Patrick Starfish

2. B1 and B2

3. Dumb and Dumber

4. Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum

5. The Rake and the Rascal [New!]

"Bunny?" Savy smiled at me. She looked way more calm and amused than I felt was warranted.

"Don't mind him, he's just being an idiot." I huffed.

Savy took no mind at my bad mood. She helped me put the room back in order. Jonah had apparently freaked out when I passed out and SOSed Ben and her.

"It's late. I need to go. But I'll clear this first." Savy picked up the bowl of water and the towel.

"Thanks Savy." I sighed.

Savy smiled, to the effect of an angel, "That's what BFFs are for. Enjoy the rest of the night. We can go on our double date when you feel ready."

I felt myself smile at her touch. Whenever she was near, it feels like all the stress and worries disappear. And the moment she left, they all came back.

I sat down in front of the box of letters. What should I do now?

I touched the mark my mate had left at the base of my neck. It tingled.

OMG. My mate. Mine.

But my wolf hadn't seemed surprised in the least.

List of things my mate was:

My mate was Gamma Jonah of the Night Leaf Pack.

Captain of our highschool football team.

My brother's best friend.

My childhood friend

Whom I always thought was an idiot

But turned out to be a rascal in disguise

And my mate.

I wondered how was it that I never saw that coming.

The box of letters was proof that everyone else saw it! Whoever said "Love was blind" wasn't lying.

I touched the newly formed mating mark. It still tingled. I hadn't seen this coming either.

The next few days, it felt like I was run over a truck named Jonah, but not in a bad way.

List of things I had not expected Jonah to do:

Jonah kept his word and really didn't send me to school for the rest of the week. Actually, we didn't even go to school.

Instead we "homeschooled" on "how to do it like they do in the romance novels" I'm "always reading" (Quotes are Jonah's exact words). I actually tried to explain that it was all fantasy and wouldn't actually work that way, but Jonah didn't believe me.

After we "took all that trouble to figure it out, we might as well practice". Jonah just had to "catch up" with his peers, for example, his best friend, Ben.

"Ben is over-practiced." I informed my mate.

"Practice makes perfect!" Jonah grinned wolfishly. The idiot!

Jonah also showed me an apartment in the packhouse, "Do you like it? It's mine, but I'll let live with me if you like."

Now that I thought about it, that would make sense, since he was already 18 and a full warrior.

He had earned the right to own the apartment earlier this year when he placed in the elite warrior ranks in the summer. But he didn't live in it, "I'm afraid of the dark so I need to hug a bunny to sleep at night."

Yeah. Right. More like he didn't like having to clean house.

The apartment was small, clean, and simple. Just right for the two of us.

"I didn't know how you'd like it. Uh, my mum, she helped stock it a bit." Jonah admitted. Explaining the presence of soap and clean sheets and towels.

So if anyone asks, our official reason for skipping school was that we were busy setting up our new home.

I heard from our new neighbors about the radiators making a loud sound in the first week. I must have heard it too, right? Uh, yes? Was that the radiator? Hahaha...

But it got "better" later on, and only random times in the night. No one could figure out what was wrong with the heating system, and in the end we all had to live with it.

Hahaha...

In the weekends, we all go home. At my parent's on Saturdays, even Ben will show up for dinner on Saturday nights now. Jonah takes me over to his parent's place on Sunday evenings for dinner.

Our parents were moving on too. Part of me felt they were a little too happy to get us out of their hair.

Dad was starting phase two of the retirement plans and expanding his apple cider works - although I'm not entirely sure what his plan entailed.

Mum continued working and making a difference as much as she could before Dad dragged her off on "another crazy adventure".

I heard Laura had started an events photography business. And Gammy Harry, Jonah's dad was still working. A Gamma's work is never done.

"My dad tried to look for a hobby. And then he found out he likes to work." Jonah explained to me, "So now working is his hobby."

Savy and I wasted no time in bringing our mates out for the double date we've planning since we were in middle school. Since we planned for so long, we had a very long list of things to do. Her poor human mate was quite exhausted by the time we hit the third location.

"It's getting dark. How about we just continue another date?" He had asked.

"Yeah. Or we can split up the tasks to make it more efficient." Jonah agreed.

He took my list and showed it to Savy's human, "You do the first part of #4. I'll do the second part..."

"What's the first part of #4?" The human frowned at "#4 Walk along the riverside."

"The Part 1 of #4 is what is written." Jonah grinned wolfishly, "Part 2 is what she didn't write."

I hit him. Idiot!

After that though, Jonah went around inviting other couples to join us. We triple dated with a lot of friends. Even Sam and her Luna Bell along with his badass attitude.

"I had no idea dates were so fun!" We were there for the Ferris Wheel but Sam clearly enjoyed the roller coasters more than anyone else.

"Come join us again." Jonah was quick to invite, "Lizzy and Savy has lots more fun activities on their list."

"What list?" Luna Bell frowned, " Like a bucket list?"

"It's our dream date list." I informed them.

"We might die before we finish though." Jonah quipped so that I had to hit him again.

Luna Bell smirked, but his smirk was promptly whiped off when Sam said, "Cool. May I have a copy of the list too?"

Jonah laughed till he fell off the chair because he "just remembered something funny." There was "nothing funny about Luna Bell enjoying the 302 activities on the list at all."

"I will forward it to your betas immediately so they can schedule for it." Jonah was very quick to offer too.

Hahaha. I think Luna Bell would have shifted and bit off his head right then, except Jonah was just an idiot trying to be helpful right?

And then the idiot said with his usual wolfish grin, "Part 2 of each activity makes it worth it though."

OMG, my mate was an idiot!

THE END