Chapter 19

Hi :)

So you guys have literally got the votes for 18 and 16 at a tie. Thanks so much -.-

Nah, but thanks for your opinion anyway, I appriciate it. EVEN YOU WHO VOTED FOR IT AND DIDNT COMMENT. YES I KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

I think I'll leave it for now, because of course werewolves obviously have a different way of living, and we shouldn't be bringing in our human age gap things :P Maybe later.

I'd like to shoutout to thepandalova! (I hope you guys all know my shoutouts are like dedications, cause I can't dedicate. I pretty much only use my phone for wattpad)

Anyway, thepandalova I'm sorry your pillow is soaked with tears. I'm sorry its my fault. I think maybe you should steal your brother or sisters pillow, or sleeping may be quite uncomfortable tonight.

And why are you crying? I'm really sorry that this book is so bad that you had to.

Here's a chapter anyway :)

Btw, shit's gonna start to get real really freaking soon in this story.

Enjoy :D

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-Jesse's POV- (I don't even know why I bother writing this up here anyway?)

'Kaiiiiitttlllyyyyynnnn' I knocked on the door again, checking the time on my watch for the 5th time.

It was already 3 in the afternoon, and she was still sleeping. I mean, I like to sleep but... not till 3 when I have plans with someone that afternoon.

'Kaitlyn if you don't answer I will pick your lock! We need to get going!' I yelled again, knocking harder.

I didn't want to invade her privacy, but I've been trying to wake her up since 12.

'Thats it Barnes! I hope you like cold baths in the morning!' I yelled, going down to the kitchen.

I knelt down and grabbed a bucket from the bottom of the pantry, holding it under the tap. While the tap ran, I went to the study to grab a few paperclips to pick open the door.

The bucket did take longer than I thought, so I checked my messages instead.

There was one from Jake.

From: Jake

Tomorrow night yeah? And should I go for a red or blue tie? Because its formal right? We're going somewhere after right? What if I do the wrong thing, we don't know each other!

There was also one from Izzy.

From: Izzy

Its Tomorrow night right? And should I go for a red or blue dress? Is it formal? Should IJ wear a dress? We're going somewhere after Starbucks right? Jesse I'm freaking out, I don't even know him!

I laughed, and messaged them both the exact same thing.

To: Jake; Izzy

Yup. It is Tomorrow night, and you should go for red. It is formal, Ill message you the details for after. I hope you aren't vegetarian, and like steak. And don't worry, you two would be perfect x

From: Jake

You are honestly the best. I love steak :D

From: Izzy

Dude who doesn't love steak? I'm so excited!

I then booked reservations for this really good steak restaurant I knew that was downtown, messaging them both the details before putting my phone down on the table, noticing the bucket of cold water was overflowing.

I filled the bucket with ice cubes, before taking both the freezing cold mass of water and the paperclips down the corridor to Kaitlyn's room.

I stopped outside the door, putting the bucket down with the paperclips in my hand.

She did mention she wanted to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

I opened up the paperclip and twisted the lock open by force, before lugging the bucket of ice cold water in the room.

I took her IPhone from her bedside table, opening up the video recorder.

This was definitely going up on her YouTube channel.

I held the phone above me, before pressing record.

'Hey there everyone. I'm Kaitlyn's friend, and here today she is going to be doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. She'll add the details later, but she has been tagged by CasparLee, so here goes. Oh and by the way, she doesn't actually know this is happening. She is so bloody lazy that this is the only way I can wake her up'

I turned the phone away from me and set it on her dresser, making sure the angle could see the whole room. I did a thumbs up to the camera, before holding up the bucket.

'TIME TO GET UP!' I yelled, lifting the bucket over my head and pouring it on her sleeping figure.

She shot up out of bed and let out a high pitched scream, making me laugh out loud.

I ran over to the camera, turning the video off.

'WHAT WAS THAT?' She shrieked, pushing ice cubes out of her hair, attempting to rub her hands across her arms to keep warm.

Her goosebumps were prominent, she looked like a shaky wet dog.

Just then the bedroom door opened up, revealing a shirtless Luke with a toothbrush between his lips. He had a towel slung over his shoulders and some shorts on with wet hair, which made me assume he had just showered.

His mouth formed an "O" as he stared at a soaking wet Kaitlyn.

Everything was silent, till he burst out laughing.

'Oh my God! You are officially my idol and new best friend Jesse!' He said with a mouth full of foamy toothpaste, holding up his hand for a hi-five.

We hi-fived in the most epic way possible, a fuming Kaitlyn beside us. All her exposed skin was flaming red, literally.

'Are you freaking kidding?!? Its-' She stopped her yelling to look over at the time.

'Oh. I guess I kind of deserved that. Let me have a hot shower and we'll leave yeah?'

She waddled past me in coldness, tugging the towel off Luke's shoulder and walking out the door.

Luke pulled a Nirvana shirt on, while I went to take the phone off the beside table to open the video.

'You videoed it? Dude you're amazing!' Luke hovered beside my shoulder as I nodded.

'Yup, and I know. I've been told various times on various occasions' I grinned, moving the phone so we could both see the video.

Watching Kaitlyn shriek and jump off the bed was funnier every time we replayed it.

'You know what we should do? We should edit this to dubstep' Luke said.

So by emailing the video to myself, and using Luke's powerful skills of editing that he learnt from Kaitlyn, we ended up making a constant replay of the best bits, along with a whole lot of dubstep.

We ended up huddled against the laptop, laughing our asses off at the video.

We kept making jokes in-between, to the point where we searched up "Cheesy bad jokes for Dads" and laughed to all of them.

I found out Luke liked playing the guitar and writing music, and he was about as awkward as a penguin.

He was glad that I liked the bands that he did, and thought it was cool I was almost a girl version of him.

I felt like we related on a danisnotonfire and sprinkleofglitter level.

(A/N if anyone got that ^^, I love you)

'And... send' I clicked on the send icon, so our attached video would be sent to Kaitlyn's email.

We both raised our hands for a hi-five, before I stopped, putting my hand down.

'We shouldn't just hi-five. We should awesome-handshake' I said.

He looked at me curiously, as I typed up "Awesome handshakes".

We just about completed making the coolest handshake ever, when Kaitlyn came back inside with makeup and curled hair.

She looked really pretty, as always.

'Well come on then, its already 4! The music store closes in an hour and it takes about 15 minutes to get there! Not to mention the grocery store closes in an hour after that!' Kaitlyn pulled me up from my seat.

'You got the list?' I asked, knowing Theodore had given it to her.

It was Kaitlyn's turn to do the grocery shopping, and I offered to be her partner in doing so.

'Yes! Now come on! Why must you take so long?' She said, shoving me out the door.

Says her!

She quickly rushed back and kissed Luke on the lips lightly, before continuing to push me down the hallway.

We walked down the long driveway, to Kaitlyns car.

Why don't I have a car?

Oh yeah, it's because I havent got a license.

I need to get a license.

We only took about 8 minutes to get to the store, because there was no traffic out yet.

Kaitlyn parked the car outside the Music store, and we both got out.

We saw the sign taped to the shop window, saying in a bright WordArt red "Help wanted- ×2"

'At least we know we're at the right place' My voice came out as an almost squeak.

We both hesitantly walked to the door of the music shop, opening the door to hear a small bell ring lightly.

The place was small, yet so well organized.

The view from the doorframe included the large 2 ceiling high shelves running across both the left and right side of the room. They were stacked with rows of all different types of guitars, including a whole section for the bass. There were so many instruments placed neatly, cleanly and well organized that you could easily see the woodwind separated to the brass.

At the back of the room there was a counter with a top decorated with different types of music notes and symbols, with a cash register placed on it.

The place should've felt homely, because I usually love music stores but the aura of the place just felt.. too clean. It felt like some sort of movie set.

A walker popped out of a back room door, a man following along with it.

He looked beyond the age of owning a shop, his back hunched over the walker. He looked up at the both of us, his white hair and beard shining in the bulbed light. His legs looked frail, and as his grey eyes moved up towards mine, they looked slightly surprised.

I felt like I knew him; I don't know how.

I could sense from here he was a wolf, and maybe once was an Alpha? The Alpha radiated off him, but not too strongly.

Maybe it was his crooked smile, or his features. He was a face that I had once seen, or maybe I was over reacting?

If I known him once, I would've known for sure I had seen him before.

This was just a hunch, maybe I had seen him in passing once.

'Why hello there, welcome to my store. How may I help you?' His rusty voice rang out, shooting off the sensors in my brain.

That voice.. Now I knew that I know him somehow.

Nah. I'm just over reacting.

'Is the "help needed" sign still valid for 2 places?' Kaitlyn asked, smiling her brightest.

She seemed fine and didnt seem to know him, so he can't have been someone from our pack.

'Yes! Thank the Moon Goddess! I am getting old, so I could use a few extra hands around here.. If the hours of 11-4 on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday would suit you both. I'd pay you say, 30 pounds an hour?' He suggested.

His beard moved as he spoke, his face giving seemingly happy and relieved emotions.

'That seems perfect, right Jesse?' I snapped out of my daze, meeting with the old man's eyes.

You could always read people by their eyes. Their emotions and fears, just by looking into their iris'. But I got nothing from him. His deep grey eyes were too well structured, too well made. Too emotionless and glass-like.

Glass-like.

'Do you wear contacts sir?' I spilled out, watching as a small smile creeped onto his lips.

Kaitlyn nudged me, her eyes screaming "What are you doing?".

That must've sounded awfully rude to Kaitlyn, she isn't thinking what I am.

'Good observation, and yes. Unfortunately one of my eyes are glass, and the only colour of contact they had remaining at the poor hospital I was at only had the grey remaining. So instead of having two different coloured eyes, I now wear grey contacts' He said in his rough voice.

Suddenly I was thinking so hard about who he was truly that a loud high pitch pierced my ears, making me shake my head lightly.

It didn't feel right.

His smile shouldn't make me uneasy, his voice shouldn't make my stomach flip in fright. He shouldn't be ringing the bells in my head like its midday.

'And what's your name Sir?' I stared at his eyes, trying to capture everything.

'Smith. Mr. S-Smith' He stumbled lightly, his smile faltering for the smallest second.

"Jesse..  what's going on" Kaitlyn's voice rang through the sirens in my head.

I didn't reply.

"Rae? Rae help me, please" I called out to my wolf.

Trying to decipher who the man was without her was like trying to draw a realistic stickman.

I felt her presence whimper in a corner on my mind.

She was afraid.

She was only afraid of people from the past.

She knew him. And goddamn, that means I know him too, and not in a friendly way.

Besides, what kind of old man has no wrinkles?

'Well.. thankyou but no thankyou Sir. The hours don't work too great for us. Maybe we'll pass each other some other time, but now just isn't the moment. Goodbye' I chirped out rapidly, taking Kaitlyn's hand and power walking out of the building and back into the car.

Kaitlyn sat beside me, and shut the door.

She looked over at me.

'What was that?' She exclaimed, throwing her hands up in the air in frustration.

'It wasn't right.. Just drive home please' I tried to recollect my words, but my mind was only focused on trying to get to Rae.

"Rae? Rae talk to me! Please! Who is he? You know you're the pathway between me and those memories, when you block them I have no clue!" I pleaded with her, but her fear overcame my pleads.

I could feel her quivering in fear in the corner of my mind.

Which made me feel even worse.

I felt the car start to move.

'Jesse can you please explain to me why we left?' Kaitlyn's voice broke my train of thought.

'He isn't what he seems Kaitlyn. When I figure it out I'll tell you, but he is someone from my physco past as my wolf is kindly noting by hiding away in her dark corner. It wasn't worth risking. Ill get you another job, but it wasn't just a gut feeling telling me that place wasn't good'

I ranted out, letting out a breath.

'Okay. I trust you. Lets go home'

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Okay so. Hi.

I used an IPad and checked up the progress on my book and do you know what I found?

MORE THAN FREAKING 72K READS, AND A LOT MORE THAN 1000 COMMENTS. ON THIS!!

Oh but that's not all.

I know this may not sound like much, but I have a freaking number rating.

This book is #739 in the category of werewolf. So if you scroll like, I dunno, 70 something times you see this story. Now this sounds horrible, but I bet you scroll through your tumblr feed a whole lot more than just 70 times per hour.

So really, all I have to say is:

-What? I don't even update that often so WHY?

-I love you all so freaking much

God I want to get to know each and everyone of you, so private message me sometime yeah?

SORRY FOR THE LONG A/N'S DO YOU KNOW WHO THE OLD MAN IS? IS HE ACTUALLY SOMEONE ELSE OR HAS JESSE JUST BEEN DEPRIVED OF HER MATE SO LONG SHE'S BEING TOO SUPERSTITIOUS?

Lemme know in the comments :)

-Naya xx