Chapter 5

The next day I contemplated not going to school at all, playing the wedding exhausted me to much and I need another day of laying in my bed card would be a good decision. I regretted kissing Paul because I was still with Toby, I was no better then Paul was two years ago. No matter what I did I would have to face him another day if it was not today.

I got ready for school after five more minutes of contemplation and got into my car to school. My thought was if I got there early and pretended that I was busy with writing he would not come up to me and decide to talk to me. Although it seemed that Paul had other ideas. As soon as I pulled into the parking lot I realized that Paul's truck was already there waiting for the doors to be opened.

As soon as I pulled up he got out of his truck and walked towards me. Without thinking I opened the door and started walking to the school doors.

"Come on Rachel we have to talk about last night, about the imprint, the kiss, your werewolf side you never mentioned and our future. The worst part is I was trying to explain what imprinting was and here you already knew everything. It made me look like a fool"

"There is nothing to talk about, no future, no more us and I will always be the fool when it comes to you because you cheated on me on my birthday. Nothing I will ever do to you will compare to what I felt that night"

"I know that I messed up but Asa told me that she imprinted on me and I foolishly believed her. I did not realize that you could not imprint on someone until you are both 18 until a few days ago when I asked your father the rules. I felt so stupid that I listened to her when I had you, the most perfect girl I had ever laid eyes on. Can you not see that this is our second chance to finally be together. It is our destiny"

"You may have imprinted on me but I did not imprint on you and besides I have a boyfriend back in Florida who loves me and would never do what you did to me"

"But don't you see if you felt the pull towards us you already did imprint on me and if you really have a boyfriend at home then you are no better then me" I frowned at that statement. As much as I wanted to deny it he was correct. We had both cheated the only difference is that he was deceived into thinking he was kissing his soulmate and I knew exactly that I was not Toby's soulmate the minute I started dating him. The only reason I kept it up this long was because I did not want to feel alone or admit the fact that maybe Paul was my one true love.

"You are right, I am no better than you but at least I have the guts to admit when I have done something wrong instead of waiting two years to admit it."

"That is not fair, I was going to explain but you ran away from your problems like you always do."

"I do not now if you excuse me I have a class to attend"

"Right here right now you are proving my point by walking away instead of facing this problem and solving it. When will you stop running and realize that I love you have always loved you and I will make you love me again because even if you do not want to the imprint will make you"

"I can never love you after what you did and we will never be together." With that comment I stormed into the school leaving Paul speechless behind me. I don't even know why I came so early in the morning. I knew that today I had a free period first block to do whatever I wanted but I still showed up this early when I could have been sleeping in my warm bed, if that was so I would never have had a chance to have that conversation with Paul. He was right about one thing though. Toby had the right to know what I did. I had explained imprinting to him many times and he always thought that one day I would imprint on him but now I knew that his wish would never come true. The only thing to do now was to let him go to find someone who could really love him as much as he deserves instead of a girl who wanted to feel anything except the suffering she was feeling only to realize to late that she was stuck in a problem that would never get solved. Using the small time before everyone else rolled in I took out my phone and rang Toby.

"Hey babe why are you calling this early"

"I have something important to tell you"

"What is it?"

"I imprinted on someone"

"Wow okay well I guess you can not run away from your destiny"

"It was Paul" Toby knew very little of my past but he was the first to know about what happened between Paul and I. I had trusted him with this information so that he would never do what Paul did.

"Oh wow gosh that has got to suck"

"Why are you taking this so well"

"Rachel as much as I wanted you to imprint on me I knew that it was going to be someone in your wolf pack. I may have searched it up. I knew that our love was an ending battle either way but I wanted you to know what real love was before you met the man you were destined to be with so you knew what you deserved"

"I also kissed him last night when I realized I imprinted on him. I don't know what came over me but I thought that you should know"

"I kind of suspected that would happen even if you did not imprint on him. You both have so much history together I am surprised that it took you a week to break up with me. I honestly thought that you would have broken up with me the moment you saw Paul"

"I just want you to know that I am truly sorry, I know the pain that comes with getting cheated on and I never wanted you to know that feeling. I hope one day you can forgive me"

"You are already forgiven. You are my best friend I can never be mad at you for being with your soul mate. But when you guys get together I want all the juicy details please"

"I do not want to get back together with him though"

"But he is your mate"

"And that means I should just magically forgive him for what he did two years ago"

"You should at least try"

"I don't know maybe but not today."

"Okay that good. At least you are saying in the future. That is a great step up"

"Well thanks for the chat and I am truly sorry about everything"

"Hey I knew that it was going to happen either way but I still want my best friend so you can not get rid of me that easily."

With that I hung up and started pulling out my laptop to start writing new ideas for stories. I had not had much luck finding some lately with all the commotion of returning.

The rest of the day went by extremely fast as I hid in classrooms to avoid Paul. When it was time to go I walked to my car to find a note on it. It read:

Hey Rachel,

I know you do not want to talk to me but we need to figure this out. We can not just avoid the fact that we are meant to be together. I am not saying that you have to forgive me right away but please do not avoid me, give me a second chance, I will make it up to you.

~Paul

Reading this was shocking and hard. I knew that one day we would be together but right now it was way to hard to just rub off the two years of emotions. I spent the rest of the day in bed trying to fall asleep, to enter a world that I could control but when I did fall asleep I only dreamed of Paul.