Hey guys. Sorry for the 6 day delay. I wanted to update yesterday, but I literaly fell asleep writing this chapter. Lol, I felt like I rushed it, but I really wanted to start the drama! So once everything is planned out and stuff, I'll go back and add more details to it!
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Chapter 15: I Shall Believe
“Prove it.” I challenged. Eric smirked at me as he came towards me. He crossed his arms across his chest and it took all of me to not let my eyes trail down from this face to his vein popping arms.
“Are you sure about it, Pay?” Kaius asked me with an eyebrow raised. I nodded my head eagerly at him as I smiled.
“It might scare you.” Gabriel scoffed. “Wouldn’t want you running for the hills, now would we?”
“I’m not a baby, Gabriel. I can handle myself. Don’t forget, I did grow up with abusive parents. Throw something at me and I will take it like I’m a brick wall.” I said with my voice filled with seriousness. His face went from a smirk to guilt in a few seconds and felt triumphant as he backed down.
“Or you could just believe us when we tell you that we’re werewolves.” Lana suggested, her motherly tone kicking in.
“Noooo! I want to see if you guys really turn into wolves. Maybe I’m dreaming and someone spiked my drink when I got to the ball and I’m just hallucinating everything.” Everything. Even the part where Tate said that he loved me when he first saw me. “Yeah, that’s it!”
“No, you’re actually here, Pay.” Lana laughed at me a little bit.
“And no, no one spiked your drink because you got to the fruit punch bowl before someone could spike it.” Tate said, as I remembered the events that happened by that specific punch bowl. I could feel my cheeks heating up in emabrassment.
I frowned a bit before looking at everyone in the room. “Well, come on now! Let’s get this show on the road! I wanna see the love of my life, Jacob Black! Haha, no, I’m all for Klaus. He’s the only man I need.” I heard growls coming from behind me as Kaius rushed to my side and gave me a quick kiss before I could walk away.
I started walking out of the room and out to the backyard while I waited for everyone to span out in front of me. I watched Kaius stand in front of me, as well as everyone else. Then, the unexpected thing happened. They. Started. Stripping! I covered my eyes to shield them away from the stripping humans. “What are you guys doing?!” I shrieked, turning away.
“Well, we wouldn’t want to rip very nice clothes, Pay.” Emilia joked.
“Neither would I, because clothes are very expensive, but why are you guys stripping!” I still hand my hands over my face.
“Because when we shift back, we’re going to stark naked, so I’d rather not let you see a whole pack of wolves naked but me. But that’s for another time.” Kaius smirked at me. Oh god, I’m blushing and my face is heating up after Kaius made that remark. Good thing I was already covering my face.
“Watch your mouth, Collins.” Tate growled at him.
“I can say what I want to my mate to make her blush, Tate. Right, Pay? Since you chose me?” Kaius’s eyes shot over to Tate who was shivering. Maybe he needs a coat.
I thought he got whiplash at how fast his head flashed to mine. “What?” His voice broke as his eyes met mine. I couldn’t help but feel guilty at how hurt I had made him. But that’s because I have feelings and he doesn’t.
“Yeah. Lana told me the full thing about mates and I found out that you and Kaius are my mates, and since Kaius and I are sort of dating already, and, and, and, I, um, mhhm, I picked him…” I was about to say that I loved Kaius before he could tell me that he loved me first. I trailed off as I saw Tate quiver with something that seemed like anger as I saw him hunch forward.
“Payton, stand back.” Lana instructed. “Tate, calm down. You don’t want to hurt her.”
It happened so fast, the shift into a wolf from human, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Next thing I knew, I was pinned down on the ground by a huge wolf that used to be Tate as he snapped his muzzle in front of my face, drips of drool falling onto me. His paws here over my shoulders, holding me down, as his hind legs were holding my legs down. The last thing I remember was another person shifting and coming towards me as I drifted off into blackness.
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You know that feeling you get you don’t believe someone and you feel like you’ve just been whacked with a brick in the face, realizing that it was true? Maybe that was a really bad idea. A really bad idea. But no, stupid stubborn me, didn’t actually believe that they really turned into wolves. Maybe I thought that they were just shitting at me first and I played along, but how could I be so totally wrong.
“You’re a dumbass, Tate. You should’ve controlled your anger.” I heard a female voice say.
“Shut up. I know. It’s just, ugh.” Tate’s voice sounded defeated. “I said I was sorry.“
“You could’ve really hurt her. That’s my mate you just attacked.” Kaius’s voice sang through my ears as I heard him.
“She’s my mate, too.” Tate mumbled.
“Enough! Tate, she has chosen. Don’t make it more complicated than it already is. Maybe there’s another girl out there for you.” Lana stated.
“Doubt it.” He mumbled once again.
“Oh God, my head.” I said, waking up in a room full of people looking down at me. I saw Desiree was the closest to me to my right while Kaius was to my left, and Tate in front of me.
“Payton?” Kaius said with a hopeful tone in his voice.
“I believe you guys now.” I said to lighten up the tension that was currently suffocating the room. “Does that mean, since I’m the mate of a werewolf, that I turn into a werewolf too?”
I heard laughs fill the air as I smiled. “That’s good to hear. And no, you’ll remain human.” Lana smiled down at me. “How you feeling?”
“Well, a lot of things happened tonight. I get kissed on the cheek by a stranger, I got serenade by my boyfriend, then I proceeded to get bullets shot at me and being chased, a gun was held to my face, Tate got shot because of me, and I find out that my boyfriend and now I guess mate, and his friends and family, are all werewolves. Other than that, I'm good! And just a little pain in my head. It should go away by tomorrow.” Desiree then put her hand on my head as I felt the pounding in my head slowly go away as she looked tired afterwards. “Whoa, how did you do that?”
“I’m the next pack doctor in line. I heal the wounded by a simple touch. Sorry, you were supposed to wake up with no pain, but I just started to learn how to control it due to it being stripped from me for quite a bit, so sorry, Payton.”
“It’s alright.” I told her. I looked over to Kaius as I sat up straight on the bed. “Drive me home?”
He nodded his head at me. “Let me go get your coat and shoes. Then we can be on our way.”
“I’m going to quickly say goodnight to Kirsten and Dylan. I’ll meet you back downstairs.” I told him as he kissed me on my forehead. He stood up as I watched him walk out of the room.
“You should stay overnight. You might get more headaches and Des can help you.” Tate spoke up, causing my eyes to flicker to his. Looking at his eyes, he wanted me to stay, I could tell by his pleading eyes, but I honestly just wanted to go home. So many things happened today, with the kiss on my cheek, his love confession for me, a gang group coming after me, finding out that my now boyfriend, well, mate, is a werewolf, and being attacked by one too, that happened to be Tate.
“I’ll pass for tonight. I’m sure if it comes back I could just take a few pills of ibuprofen and be done with.” His face dropped as he let the rejected set in. I tried to ignore his presence as I walked out of the room, passing him, and into Kirsten and Dylan’s room.
They were sleeping so soundly, so innocent. I honestly would do anything for them even if it cost me my life. I went over to Kirsten and kissed her forehead as I did the same for Dylan, before walking out of the room and closing the door behind me. “Can you at least think about it before you make the decision?”
I jumped at the voice that spoke as I covered my heart in fright. “Tate, you scared me.”
“Sorry. But really, I know you said you’ve chosen Kaius, but don’t make it official yet until you know for sure that you want absolutely nothing to do with me, okay?” He pleaded.
“I don’t know, Tate…” I trailed off.
“Just think about it.” He came over towards me, closing the distance as I stood there frozen, as he gave me a quick chaste kiss on my forehead.
He walked away and into his bedroom as I walked down the stairs and met up with Kaius who was beaming at me. “I’m so glad that you know now, even if you had gotten hurt in the end.” He frowned but I quickly put my hand on his arm, letting him know that it was alright.
“It’s alright. As long as I know the truth. You know, for a second, I thought that you were hiding the fact that you had a secret girlfriend and you were cheating on me. But I’m so glad that it’s not that.” I nudged him in the ribs as he held the door open for me to walk through. I yelled a quick goodbye to Lana as she waved back, and Kaius closed the door.
“Never.” Kaius said as he pulled me into his arms and planted his lips onto mine. I would never get used to that feeling that he gives me when he does that. Tell him you love him, you idiot! I felt his hands trailed down to my hips as he squeezed them, I couldn’t help but moan at the feeling that was shooting through me. “You shouldn’t do that, Pay. I won’t be able to stop if you do.” He whispered into my ear. I felt the shivers go down my spine as his lips lightly touched my ear lobe.
I pulled away from him, blushing of course, as I quickly got into to the car and hiding my fire hydrant face. I saw him smiling as he came around the car and hopped into the driver’s seat. He started the car and pulled out of the driveway. That’s not that only thing he can start and pull out and then drive in… OH MY GOD! I face palmed myself as I was thinking these dirty thoughts. Oh my god, what is wrong with me?!
“You okay there, Pay?” Kaius tried to hide his amusement as he kept his gaze on the road, but every once in a while he would gaze at me.
“Did I just face palm myself in real life?” I mumbled.
“Yes.” And this time he burst out into laughter.
“Oh my god, okay, I’m just going to die now.” I hunched in my seat, my face beaming with mortification.
“Thinking about me?” He asked slyly as I just turned my head away from him, can’t stop the smile that was forming on my face.
“No, I’m thinking about Klaus from Vampire Diaries. You know, for a vampire, he’s pretty sexy as fuck and how Caroline is so stupid for not noticing the sexual tension between them. I would so become an actress and be Caroline just to make love with Klaus.”
Maybe that was a bad thing to say as Kaius sped up the car, and by the time you knew it, we pulled up to my house. He didn’t even let me open the door as he used his inhumane speed and ripped the door open, pulling me into his arms, and barging into my run down house and pushing me up against the wall spreading my legs with his legs.
“What was that, love?” He said in Klaus’s voice.
My eyes widened as he literally sounded just like Klaus. “…Klaus...” I coughed, “I mean, Kaius…”
“Uh uh uh, my name is Klaus, Caroline. Not some weird name like Kaius. What the hell is a Kaius anyway?” he mocked me. I couldn’t keep the stupid grin off my face as I looked at him with so much awe.
“Now, Caroline, I’m going to say this thing and I want you to listen well, alright?” Oh, how I am loving this Vampire Diaries reference.
“Yes.” I nodded. Could you just be a vampire instead? I think you’d be more of a bad ass if he was a vampire, but I still love him nevertheless.
“I love you.” My heart stopped beating as the words I’ve been dying to hear finally came out of his soft lips. I reeled in that moment, imbedding it into my head. I love you too, Kaius.
“Do you mean that you love Caroline or do you love Payton too?” I smirked at him as his lips were trailing down my jawline.
“Both.” Kaius said before his lips finally touched down onto mine.
I pulled away, realizing that I forgot to say it back. I heard him groan as I pulled away but I planted a quick kiss before I continued on. “I love you too, Kai.”
Moments passed after a heated make out session as we were breathing heavily on my bed. It was probably 4 a.m. by now, my eyes drooping to a close, but didn’t want to sleep. “Payton?” Kaius called me.
“Yeah?” I said, my finger tracing the outline of his pectorals.
“I have something to tell you…” He started, but trailed off.
“I know, you love me.” I said cockily. I kissed his shoulder as he was twirling my hair in between his fingers.
“Not that.” He pulled away from me before pulling me in front of him, pulling my hands into his as he started at me. I waited for him to go on as he continued. “Your parents were let go from jail, being put into a rehabilitation facility for their addiction and their mental state.”
“Oh my god.” I said, stunned into place. “They’re just getting off that easy?!”
“Sadly, yes. They somehow proved that whenever they beat you, they were not themselves and in their mental state of mind where they couldn’t control their actions. My dad was overlooking their case and he informed me a day before yesterday that they were being released.”
“And then they can be free afterwards.” I said, with no emotions etched onto my face. That was the worst news ever. Just thinking about the possibility that they could be free after a period of time, caused my stomach to churn in uneasiness.
“I don’t want them to hurt Kirsten and Dylan, Kai.” I turned my head towards him, tears filling my eyes.
“I promise that they will never hurt you again, as long as I’m alive.” I closed my eyes at his reassurance as I fell asleep on him, feeling his thumbs wipe away the tears falling freely down my face.
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Bzzzz, Bzzzz, Bzzzzzz.
My phone was going off as I woke up from the buzzing noise. “Kai. Get the phone. I’m sleeping” I told Kaius, putting my face back into the pillow.
Bzzzz. Bzzz. Bzzzzz.
“Kai, oh my god, I swear to god, answer it, I’m too tired.”
Bzzzz. Bzzzz. Bzzzzz.
No answer. I groaned, smacking my arm into where I thought Kaius would be, but he wasn’t. What the hell? I sat up in my bed and picked up my phone and I’ve received 7 calls total from someone. Ugh, I’ll look at that afterwards. All that was going through my mind was – “Ahh.” I said as my hand touched a piece of paper that took over Kaius’s spot in my bed. I unfolded it and it read:
To my beautiful mate, sorry I had to leave you here to wake up by yourself. Got a lead on who was in charge of what happened last night. Went to meet up with Dad and Alpha Asher to talk strategies with them. I’ll call you when I’m done. Love you. Kaius
Ah, I hope he catches those bastards. I changed my attention back to the seven missed calls and opened it up to see who called me. 4 calls from the hospital and 3 calls from Lana. Why would the hospital be calling me? And why would Lana call me? I started to freak out as I got another call from the hospital, right before I could call Lana.
“Hello?” I answered, my heart quickening in pace.
“Hello, good morning. May I please speak to Miss Payton Daniels?” The voice on the other line asked me.
Oh fuck. I couldn’t help that someone was wrong. What was wrong? Was it the bills that I was supposed to pay off? Was it Kaius? Did he get hurt by those people and they’re calling to tell me he’s dead? Is it about Dylan or Kirsten? Oh god, I couldn’t help but think the worse. “This is she. Is there a problem with anything?”
“I believe that your sister was in the hospital not too long ago, correct?” They asked, as I nodded my head. I hit myself in the face as I realized that she wouldn’t be able to see me. Oh god, this is about Kirsten?! What more could possibly be wrong with her?! She doesn’t need this happening to her, she’s too young.
“Yes, she was. Is she there again?!” My heart started palpitate and my blood went cold. There was a slight pause but I’m just going to believe that the slight pause was the lagging in the phone. Yeah, that’s a good idea to think! Not.
“No, no. She is not at the hospital again. I just wanted to talk to you about something abnormal that our doctors have found in regards to her blood work.” What the hell is wrong with her blood?! Oh dear god, did he… did my father… do something…
“Something abnormal?” I questioned, relieved that Kirsten isn’t in the hospital. I couldn’t help but think about if she got her period early or not. I’m pretty sure that she hasn’t gotten her period, so that was crossed off the list.
“Would you like to be informed over the phone or would you like to come in person to hear about the abnormalities?” Depends, would you want to watch an 18 year old lose her grips and land myself in a mental ward?
“Would it be important for me to come in? Do I have to take in Kirsten? Uh, I think I should just come in.” I mumbled at the end. It would be better for me if I was in the presence of someone or else it would’ve been bad if I was by myself and did something stupid like run out into the streets and get hit by a car.
“Yes, it would ideal for you to come in, to be informed about the illness. What time is best for you?” Illness. Illness. Illness.
“I could come over in twenty minutes, if possible.” I hopped off of the bed and sprinted towards the bathroom, quickly shoving my toothbrush under the running water and applying toothpaste.
“Perfect. See you in about twenty minutes Miss Daniels.” Did she just sound sad? YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SOUND SAD, LADY! YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPY AND HAVE ME BE COMPLETELY OBLVIOUS TO WHAT IS HAPPENING!
We bid our goodbyes as all that was going through my head was abnormalities and illness. What abnormalities does she have and what illness? I shot Kaius a quick text that I was heading over to the hospital and called up Lana.
“Payton! I’ve been trying to contact you!” Lana answered breathlessly. Oh god, she was starting to scare me. You know something is wrong when Lana is upset about something. “Where have you been?!”
“I’m sorry, but I’ve been sleeping! What’s wrong?! Why does the hospital need me to come in and talk about Kirsten’s illness and blood abnormalities?!” I said, quickly putting my jeans on and fixing up my birds nest of a hair.
“Kirsten, she’s not good, Payton. She’s sick.” Lana said, with a sad tone in her voice. I could hear faint beeping noises in the bathroom, telling me that she was at the hospital doing rounds.
“Tell me what’s wrong with her! Please!” I shrieked into the phone, my voice breaking.
“I’ve already taken her to the hospital, and we’ve been trying to contact you and don’t get mad but since she’s under my care, I didn’t have to ask for your permission to put her in the cancer ward and she’s resting right now, but sorry again.” Lana said in a rushed manner.
“WHAT!? CANCER WARD?! What kind of illness does she have?!” I was already out of my house and running towards the hospital.
“I’ll be there to get you through it, Payton, after we’ve explained to you what she has, okay?”
“Oh my god, why do these things happen to me?!” I cried into the phone. I’ve been feeling so overwhelmed lately, I’ve kept it inside, feeling that I could deal with it, like I had so many times in the past before, but this time is different.
“It’s going to be okay, Payton. You have a support system, okay? Everything will be alright.” Lana tried to reassure me.
“I’ll see you in a bit, Lana.” I said into the phone as I hung up and cried even harder when I was running.
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Cancer. My baby sister has leukemia. I couldn’t believe it that she had cancer. I looked at a sleeping Kirsten in her hospital bed, once again, as I cried to myself. I hadn’t informed Dylan about his sister’s illness yet, as he was still at Lana’s house. Lana told me that he was sleeping when Kirsten had a seizure. They quickly went to the hospital after that and the doctor diagnosed her with leukemia. I should’ve thought more of it. All of the warning signs were there. The tiredness and pale skin, shortness of breath, easily bruising, loss of appetite and weight loss.
There was a small knock at the door. “Come in.” I said, still crying as I held Kirsten’s hand.
“Payton, get something to eat, you haven’t eaten anything all day. The doctors gave her a sedative so she won’t be waking up anytime soon. If you refuse to leave the hospital, get some food in the cafeteria, I will be with her the entire time until you get back, alright?”
As much as I didn’t want to leave, she was right. Kaius texted me later in the day telling me that everything would be alright and he would be there for me no matter what. I told him to be careful when he’s out looking for the people who shot Tate and stuff because I wasn’t ready to lose him.
“Okay, I’ll just be 10 minutes.” I said, getting up from the chair and wrapping my arms around me.
“Don’t be ridiculous, take as much time as you want.” Lana said, putting her hands on my shoulder and bringing me into a hug.
“Thank you.” I told Lana.
“Never a problem.” She smiled down at me.
I walked out of the room as I made my way towards the cafeteria, thinking about all the doctors had told me about treatment. So many things to learn about leukemia, so little time. The only question that I had going through my head at the time was if she was going to be okay and beat it.
“Kirsten’s treatment is fairly simple. She’s going to receive a main treatment, which is chemotherapy, and then she may need targeted drugs and radiation therapy which would be used in special circumstances. If needed, she will need a bone marrow transplant which will be a stem cell transplant that can be used to restore healthy bone marrow in patients just like Kirsten who have leukemia.”
She’s going to be fine, Payton. Kristen is a fighter. She’s just like me, she’s a fighter, and I know she is. If she can overcome getting beat up by our worthless parents, then she can overcome this measly cancer illness, right? Yeah.
“Payton?” I heard a voice call from behind me. I turned around and today is just full of surprises, isn’t it? Tate was standing there, with his hands in his pockets looking at me like I was a piece of broken glass. I don't blame it, I really think that I do look like one, with the amount of crying that I've been doing.
“Tate?” I said, my voice letting out a surprise tone.
“Are you okay? You’ve been crying.” He came towards me as he sat across his eyes never leaving my face. I couldn’t help but shift uncomfortably under his gaze, so I just focused my gaze on my food in front of me. I picked up a fry and kept dipping it into the ketchup.
“I know about Kirsten, and I’m sorry that she has to go through that.” Tate spoke up after a long awkward pause. It was just me and him, sitting at the table, talk about awkawrd after the events that happened last night.
“Thanks.” I said as I felt his hand go on my shoulder and gave me a reassuring squeeze. My eyes quickly went up and met his as he gave me a small smile which I returned back.
“Free smoothie?” A girl came up to Tate and I with a tray full of free smoothies. There was something about this girl, I just couldn't figure out what made the hairs stand up on my back. She seemed completely innocent as she looked just about 16 years old.
“Sure.” Tate and I said at the same time. I went to go grab a smoothie off of the tray, but she quickly spoke up and backed away a bit. Hmm, that was kind of sketchy.
“Mango or Strawberry?” The girl asked. As she placed her hand on the tray sternly.
“Mango.” I said as Tate said strawberry. She handed us our smoothies and I took a long sip from it, loving the burst of flavors that were dancing on my tongue. Okay, nothing was wrong with the smoothie then. It was just my imagination and paranoia kicking in. The girl went to the other tables to ask other people if they wanted smoothies too and did the same thing she did to us. Okay, calm down Payton. She's not trying to poison you.
Okay, maybe I was wrong as the next few seconds went by in a hurry. I looked over at Tate as he was currently unmoving. He looked a little pale in color as he pulled a face before realization hit him. What was it? Did it taste bad? Mine tasted fine. I shrugged my shoulders as he froze mid sip, as he sputtered out the smoothie that he was drinking. It came foward me, as I used a napkin to get the remains off of my shirt. Ugh, I'm going to have to kill him later. “Tate? Are you okay?” I asked him, as he hunched over as a coughing fit took over. His coughing fit went from mild to extreme in ten seconds.
“Wolfs.” He coughed out. “Bane.” He started to collaspe to the ground when I leaned forward and caught him in my arms as he leaned onto me for support. In my peripheral vision, I felt someone coming from behind me as I felt a cold metal object against my back a second later.
“Scream and I’ll shoot.” I immediately tensed up as I held onto Tate for dear life. “Now, if you don’t want to get shot, stand up like nothing is wrong and I will lead the two of you out of here, no scene caused.”
And I did as I was told.
who do you think the shooter is? who do you think poisoned tate? ahhh, the drama begins. MUAHAHAHAHAH..