I should be your Beta, not your Mate

12 - The Lycans

»What do you want?« Cassian asked with an annoyed snarl instead of me.

»I want to listen to Kyran playing. One last time with the band and then I'm going to leave you in peace. You don't need to sing but I want you to stay on the stage with us and play.«

Ethan stared right at me with his blue eyes and made me sigh. »When?« Surprised my friends watched me but I tried ignoring their piercing glares.

»At the Spotlight on. Tonight, 20 o'clock. Give me your number and I will send you the song list, dress code and when I will get you.«

I held out my phone which he grabbed and put his number in, before he wrote himself a short message, to have my number.

»So, if I'm there and play some songs with you guys, will you let me live in peace after that? And I don't need to sing? I get the deal correct?«

»Seems like it.«

Sighing I nodded and then saw that he already sent me the song list and all the other information I needed. And naturally there was the song I always went off to and went into an ecstasy of happiness. He totally was up to something.

»Then until tonight,« I mumbled while I went through the songs in my head. To some of them I really partied on the stage and most of them were songs we rewrote a little bit – covers of original songs.

»And do something with your hair!« Loudly Laughing the purple-haired tousled my hair and walked away after that. Grumbling, I tried to set them right again by running my fingers through my brown hair.

»You're seriously going to do that?« Cassian asked, concerned and I nodded.

»I won't get rid of him otherwise. And as long as I don't need to sing it's okay for one time. One last time.«

Giggling Emi jumped around me and Sean imitated the dark-skinned sorceress.

»And we will be there tonight,« Caleb decided, and the others nodded in agreement.

Great. An audience I personally knew.

I knew that Cassian, Caleb, Lucien, and Kate were at many of the performances where The Lycans played in the past. And I didn't mind playing in front of strangers, but I knew those people and if I made a mistake, it would be really embarrassing.

In some way I was a shy person, but it only showed in some situations.

***

The school ended quickly and now I stood in front of my closet.

My friends would leave before me because the queue was always long in front of the Spotlight on. Ethan would get me later with his scooter, which was the best for me because I didn't want to feel my claustrophobia before an event.

»Ready?« Emily came into my room and made me sigh with her question.

»Well. With the decision on the clothing, I think so because Ethan sent me a color selection and I quite know what he wants and does not want to see me wear. But I have doubts about tonight. I just fear that a trance will hit me again,« I confessed, and Emi looked with pity at me. She was there at the time the vampire brothers needed to hit me. And she was the one that set my jaw back into its place to heal it.

»You want to get rid of Ethan, so you need to get over it. And I'm sure that the brothers will hit you again if something happens or they will hit Ethan if Cassian didn't do it before them,« she said and fell down on my bed after closing the door.

»Juhu!«

Amused grinning, I turned to my closet again and watched myself in the mirror. She wanted to leave my room while I watched me and ran my fingers through my hair.