Chapter 24: Twenty-four.

Stella POV.

"Can I hug you?" he asks me giving me a very pleading look, I just agreed to be friends with him, and a hug won't kill me right? If we're connected somehow, I want to know more about it, I need to find out more about everything.

"Okay," I say, I was rigid as he got near me, as he hugged me, he took a deep breath near my neck, and a smile got on his face as he let me go.

"You smell so good, it's a wolf thing," he says with a smile on his face, he was too happy while I was still worried, I didn't trust him fully yet.

"Thank you, it's a me thing," I say with a tight smile, I'm trying to smile, trying to act as normal, but it's very hard.

"Do you want to go anywhere?" he asks me.

"No, can't we just stay here? I can't really go, mom would get mad," I lied, I did tell her that I'll be around here and I didn't want to go anywhere with him.

"Okay, we can stay here," he says taking a seat, and I do the same, there were no chairs around here, just tree trunks and some big rocks for us to sit on, it's a wood after all.

"How have you been?" I ask him.

"I missed you a lot, all I could think of was you, and it made me so sad," he says with a big pout.

"How does this work?" I ask him pointing to us two.

"What work?" he asks me confused.

"You called me your soul, but how do you know I'm it? And why me?" I ask him, wanting to know more details.

"You're my soul because you were created to be mine, every wolf has a human that holds their soul in them, and you hold mine," he explains, that didn't make much sense, why would I hold a wolf's soul?

"But why is it me? How do I get picked?" I ask him and he shrugs, he doesn't know the answer either, I sigh, and go quiet, he has no answer to my questions, maybe it's all a delusion?

"When I'm in my wolf form and I see you when I do that the first time, my wolf recognizes you as his and that's how I knew you were mine from the first day," he says with a smile, he was too confident for my liking.

"How did you see me on my first day? We met as humans," I say trying to remember, I didn't see him in his wolf form then, I guess I didn't.

"Well, you did, on your first day in school, when you were walking on the other side of the school, the place where we're not allowed to go," he says, he was the wolf that scared me on my first day, he was the wolf, that had me jumping with fear.

"That was you? You gave me a heart attack! Why did you do that?" I asked him with tears filling my eyes, that was very mean of him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you, but we're allowed to shift if needed in that part of the school, and so when I felt the urge to shift, I did that there, and then you were there in my way and I knew it was you, that's why I shifted, I just had this crazy urge, like an itch that wouldn't go away," he says, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"If you didn't see me there, if you only saw me as human, would you have known?" I ask him.

"I'd still feel connected to you, I would feel the urge to spend time with you, to get to know you, we'd probably be good friends until my wolf gets the chance to see you," he answers me, so there's no getting out of this.

"Can a human be like, no this is too much, you can have your soul back?" I ask him, cause if that's an option, I'm giving him his soul and running as far as possible as quick as possible.

"It's not that easy, you can't just give me my soul because you are it," he says, there goes my dreams and hopes, I could still run away, I could run as fast and as far as possible and never look back.

"Stella, it's time to come in," Mom says coming out, it's getting colder out there.

"Oh, I didn't know you had a friend along, why are you two sitting in the cold?" she asks us.

"We needed the fresh air," I answered her with a smile.

"Why don't you come in, it's cold," Mom suggests.

"Nah, I need to get going," Theo says giving mom a big smile, he gives me one last side hug and then he runs off toward the woods, I was happy to be called into the house, I didn't care if she's treating me like a five years old, as long as I got away from the psycho.

I messaged Calesti, well she messaged me first, she asked how things went, and I didn't know what to tell her, was I supposed to hide things? I couldn't help keeping it hidden, I needed to talk to someone, to tell someone anything.

"Turns out I'm his soulmate," I send to her, it's a vague message, I didn't tell her everything, but I told her enough.

"Are we happy about it? Or sad?" she messages me back.

"I don't know how to feel about it," I answered her, I wasn't sure if I was happy or not.

"Having a soulmate is very romantic," she says.

"But he's a bit crazy," I answer her.

"We're all crazy," she says.

"Do you know about soulmates?" I ask her, does she know?

"We'll talk about it later," she answered me, she stopped texting me and I knew I was gonna have to wait until the morning, there were some messages from Theo, just random ones, he asked if I had dinner, told me to make sure I'm warm during the night and finally one that said goodnight, I answered the texts, but only with smiles and emojis, I wasn't feeling very trusting toward him yet.

I went to bed alone, I didn't look out of the window, I knew the wolf that was watching me must have been Theo, and maybe Milo? But no, I doubt that Milo would be looking at me, why would he? Why was he my friend? Or was he just spending time with me to tell me about Theo, I didn't know anything, I was lost in my mind, until I fell asleep.

I woke up with a huge frown on my face, I got ready for school, I hate Tuesdays even more than Mondays, I expected Calesti to be the one picking us up as she usually does, but she wasn't alone today, she had Theo along with her.

"I hope you don't mind him coming along, he's back to school," Calesti says.

"It's okay," I lied, I wanted to talk to her alone, but I couldn't do that.

"Hey, Cici, how are you, why didn't you join the game last night?" Finn asked her and I looked at them confused.

"What game?" I ask.

"Video game, I taught her how to play," Finn says and I nod, I knew he loved playing video games, but didn't know that about her.

When we got to school, Theo walked next to me, he tried to talk to me, and I tried to answer him, I tried to talk back to him, but all I could think of was the wolf part, the part where he called me his soulmates, and the crush I had on him before, and then the part where I had my crush on Milo, and Milo being a wolf.

"Theo," I say all of a sudden shutting him up, he looks at me giving me all of his attention as if I'm the most important person in his life right now.

"Yes?" he says with a big smile ready to answer whatever I had in mind.

"Is Milo like you?" I ask him and he nods with a big frown on his face, I see they aren't great friends.

"Yes," he growls.

"He's the alpha right?" I asked him, and he told me so before, he called himself the alpha.

"Why do you want to know?" he asks me in a growl, a voice that scared me, it felt like he was going to hurt me.

"Because you're wolves, and they live in packs," I whisper to him and he chuckles.

"No need to whisper, most of the school is part of the pack," he says to me in a confident voice.

"Does that include everyone?" I ask him.

"Not everyone, but most of them," he says with a smile.

"Hey, does that include Calesti?" I ask him, my heart skipping a beat, we're friends, and she never told me?

"Calesti is my cousin and packmate," he says with too much confidence and a big smile on his face.

"Why didn't she tell me?" I ask him.

"She can't tell you, the only person who's allowed to tell you is your wolf," he says, meaning him, he did a terrible job telling me though.

"Can I tell her that I know?" I ask him.

"She knows that you know, and you can tell her, and she'll tell you back," he says walking into my class with me, he takes a seat next to me, we had Mr Elijah today, and he saw Theo sitting in his class and he didn't care, he let him sit here.

"Are any of the teachers?" I asked him not saying the word but he knew what I meant, are any of the teachers a wolf?

"Most of them are," he says with a confident smile, he was too happy about this whole thing.

"Including?" I say pointing with my head toward Mr Elijah, he nods his head, yes, so he is, everyone is.

The class was slow, I wasn't paying attention to what my teacher was saying, I was paying attention to him, trying to read him, he looked like a regular guy, he didn't seem to be a wolf, and he wasn't acting any different, he was just like a normal guy, but now I knew better.

We went toward our next class and he sat there with me again, he talked to me, he whispered during the class, and I couldn't help but giggle, he was funny, he was nice, and I enjoyed spending time with him, except for the fact that he's a psycho.

"Do you want to have lunch with me?" he asks me.

"I want to sit with Calesti, if that's okay," I say not wanting to sit with him the whole time.

"Fine, and we'll meet after lunch," he says and goes to sit with the other royals, he was welcomed in with hugs and smiles, I could hear them talking about me, I saw them pointing to me even, but I tried my best to ignore them and went to sit with Calesti so we could talk about everything, she had a look on her face that said she knew what was going on, and she knew that I'm going to ask her about it.

"I know, you have a million questions," she says and I nod, at least she knows.

"Are you going to answer them?" I ask her just to be sure.

"Yeah, I am, come on sit down, we'll talk," Calesti says and I trust her, even if she was hiding things from me, I do trust her still, she hasn't told me since it's not her job, I would have loved for my soulmate to tell me too, if this was a fairytale, but I'm thrown into crazy land.