Turning The Tides - Bugz Rox (year 7 reading list .TXT) 📗

teach you to try to tell me what to do. A'member what happened last time?" She asked.

"Whatever, Alpha." I turned to Charlie, "Belive me?"

"No." She is stubborn! I heard Pluto snort.

Told ya so, she said smuggly through the chat.

Ass, I replied as I finished taking off my shirt, sighing.

"Hey, you know Sammy doesn't mind being nechid. Wanna ask a brother for help, little brother?" PLuto asked with amusement in her voice. I knew the amusement would fade if Charlie rejected me.

Hey, Sammy, wanna help a brother out? I asked through the chat.

Sure, watcha want? Thank the goddess for four-year-olds.

Can ya shift please?

Sure thang. In here?

Yes please, I thought.

Suddenly the bright red wolf was a bright red haired child with muddy brown eyes, "Charlie!" Sammy squealed as he jumped into a very shocked Charlie's arms. She turned beet red as she held the naked child in her arms.

"I wasn't lying, we're werewolves, and you're my mate. A wolf only mates once, sorry," I told her as I took Charlie and gave him to Pluto.

"Take me home, please," She said weakly, I went to steady her but pulled my arm back when she flinched away. My heart broke a little.

 

 

Pluto

My heart broke with my brother's when Charlie flinched from Liam. He led her away without trying to touch her again.

"Are we going home now?" Sammy said from my arms.

"Lets clean up the blanket first then we'll go home," I told him.

"Can we go see Lizzy?" He asked before I'd even finished the answer to his last question.

"Tomorrow, 'kay?" Jenna's mom had gotten used to us showing up with Sammy, he loved her like a sister right now, later he'll be a body guard, then someone to tell her secrets to, and finally a lover. That's how it happens when a young wolf finds his mate. If they're older when they find each other like Liam, they'll go straight to lovers.

Three of us trudged home in low spirits, while a four-year-old nearly skipped the entire way home.

Chapter 9

The weekend was horrible and tense. Nobody but Liam and I talked about Charlie, only once though. He was short tempered and mopey all weekend. The whole family steered clear of him. It was finally Monday morning, we got ready quickly, even the kids feeling the mood and hurrying.

"Mom! You don't work Mondays, can you take these three to school?" I called as I headed out the door with Liam.

"Yeah," she called back, but we were already on our bikes starting them.

We sped like blind people, narrowly avoiding collisions and getting many honks, all the way to school. At school every head turned our way and I realised that I hadn't put on a hoodie over my usual t-shirt. Neither had Liam, who went to mope with his friends. I looked at Charlie and started over. She shook her head so instead of stopping I went past them to my first class, hating the stares I earned with my tattoed arms showing.

Conner burst in as soon as the bell rang, he got out a peice of paper and hurridly wrote, "What happened Friday? What about 'Sisters before Misters'? What did your brother do to her? Why aren't you guys speaking? What's up with the new fashion sense? Do you know how many stares you're getting? Why are you riding your bike?" He handed it over to me.

"My brother took her out Friday. Less about Liam, more about me and Charlie. He only told her a secret. I need to speak to Charlie, she's avoiding me, I'll corner her after school. I forgot my jacket in my hurry this morning, can I use yours? I know how many stares I'm getting and it's bothering me. I rode my bike because we didn't have to walk the littles to school and I'm pretty sure if you put the five of us together right now we'll blow," I wrote back.

"Tough weekend?" He asked.

"You've no idea! I've never seen a family so tense! Though it was only the kids," I answered.

"What happened?"

"Charlie! I don't blame her that she freaked, but if she spills our secret than depending on who she tells, we're dead!"

"What secret?"

"Not up to me to tell, it's up to everyone."

"And everyone agreed to tell Charlie?" He wrote.

"Yup, she's a part." I wrote back.

"Would you two like to share your note?" Mrs. Timothy asked, making us both jump.

"Uuuhhh, not really," I said, smiling weakly as I crumpled the paper.

"I have had more trouble with you two than anyone else. Ms. Johanson! Would you like to stop trying to shove that paper in your bag and come up here and do this problem?" Mrs. Timothy asked as the kids, mostly werewolves, snickered.

"Not really, but, for you? Anything." I said gaining more snickers, these directed to Mrs. Timothy. I got up, moving towards the front white board where the problem was written; 5x+7y-8z/sin(40986)+(e-k+[-b+4ac/2a]-789-[f(k)+4(g)+{5^7-20%+A}-Bh]+1337-69)+5e-4x+5y+12z-4^29+6.02X10^23+cos(5.63)=. I knew the answer, but I didn't feel like being the teacher's pet this year. I walked up to the board, confidence radiating off me as I started to write. I wrote one of the simplest answers on earth; I'm Batman, in big letters. The whole class could see the answer when I sat down. People started laughing because the teacher hadn't turned around to check my answer, knowing it was wrong by the smug smile on my face.

In reading, Charlie sat as far from me as she could, sitting in an already surrounded desk. She doesn't want us speaking to her, my wolf said.

I know, I can't tell if she's afraid or angry, I told him.

I think it's a little bit of both.

Probably, angry for dragging her into this, fearful of the monsters that we are, I said, on the verge of tears.

Don't cry, my princessa!

I'm not crying yet! But she's right to fear us. Me personally, I'm glad that the chance of my finding a mate is slim.

Not slim enough, I fear.

What's that mean?

That there's still a chance you will find him, he told me glumly, hoping as much as I was that the day wouldn't come.

I was pelted with questions about everything for my next two classes, at lunch I went to see how my brother was faring, he was still grumpy and short tempered. I flopped down, "You wanna ditch?" I asked softly.

"Ditch where? Mom'd kill us if we went anywhere. Who said I wanted to ditch anyway? Huh?" He asked angrily, stabbing his lunch box with his pocketknife, probably wishing it was my head.

"I dunno! That was the point of asking genius," I snapped, my patience for him was used up. His friends looked at us questioningly.

"What's up with you two? Aren't you like best friends as well as siblings?" One girl asked.

"Yeah, but problems are running around in our family right now, it's got us all tempermental," I answered, trying to be nice. "Well, nice seeing ya, bro. But I have the feeling that if we don't walk away from each other now, we'll end up tearing each others' head off. See ya."

"See ya," He mumbled. I went to the tree that we usually sat under, knowing that they probably wouldn't be there. I was right. I started climbing the tree, trying to get some of my extra energy and anger out. Anger at who though? Charlie for rejecting Liam? Liam for telling Charlie too soon? Myself for not being able to patch anything up? Myself for talking Charlie into this? Liam's wolf for imprinting on Charlie, of all people? I don't know.

"Hey! Pluto! You up there?" An achingly familiar voice called from below, startling me enough that I slipped, tumbling off of my perch on the tree's top branches. Strong, firm arms caught me and slowed my plumet to Earth, I caught myself staring into the breathtaking grey eyes of Brandon, and I fell, fell hard for him. Is this what it feels like to find your mate? Well, I don't like it. At all. "Well, that answers two questions."

Chapter 10

"Uumm, what questions?" I ask as I realise I'm still in his arms. My mate's arms. Brandon's arms. Shit. My wolf wants out, now.

"Are you up there and are you my mate, yes and yes." His amused attitude snapped me out of my inner war with my wolf.

"Let me go!" I yelled and rolled when he abruptly let me go, "Jesus, is that why you were staring at me when we were wolves?" I asked when it clicked.

"Yup, now we need your brother's help," He said.

"'Kay, watcha need?" I asked, slightly wary.

"There's rouge vamps going haywire downtown, we're outnumbered," He answered, "They're pulling all of us out we figured that your brother's strength and tactics may help."

"I'm coming, we're stronger as a team of two, not alone," I said as I jumped up.

"No! You're gonna stay here and be safe!" He yelled.

"Oh no, you did not just tell me to do something. You can find out from my brother that that doesn't go over well with me," I said as I bounded towards where I had just met Liam, Brandon spouting excuses as to why I shouldn't come as he followed. "Liam! Come'n we gotta go, Superman."

"Why?" He groaned as I dragged him off the ground.

"A'cuz, so come'n. Come on! You big lump of dead weight, if you don't come now and if Brandon doesn't stop spouting excuses like a fountain does water than I will go alone!" His friends looked at me like I was crazy. "Come'n! You wanna cookie to go with that wine? Jeez, you two would be better off than who you actually got." I said, goading them by saying they'd make great mates.

"Shut up, we're comin' I just wanted to know where," Liam said, pride wounded.

"You'll see, actually I don't know where it is, lead the way," I directed the last bit at Brandon.

"You're not getting out of this are you?" He asked as we walked away with a sulking Liam in tow.

 

 

Liam

"You'll see, actually I don't know where it is, lead the way," My sister said in false cheer.

"You're not getting out of this are you?" Brandon asked, so he's let the beans spill that she's his mate. Thinking about mates made my heart hurt as I looked around for mine.

There, my wolf said, directing me to Charlie, walking out of the lunchroom. She looked our way, I looked away quickly, trying not to show how much I was hurt as I looked forward when passing her.

I'm so sorry, Bubba, Pluto whispered through the chat.

S'okay lil