Shay's Point of View
I laugh and shake my head at Zane and Zayde, chasing each other around while we head over to the ice cream shop.
"Come and get me slow poke!"
Zayde yells at his father, running away as fast as he can.
Suddenly something slams into me, almost knocking me on my ass.
I look up, to see Lisa sneering at me.
"Can't you ever just watch where you're going?"
I frown, folding my arms over my chest.
"You slammed into me, maybe you should watch where you're going."
I say coldy, she opens her mouth to answer but suddenly her entire expression changes and she smiles at something behind me.
"Is there a problem here?"
I hear Zane asking behind me, stepping closer and putting his hand on the small of my back.
Lisa shakes her head with a big smile.
"No, of course not. She just ran into me, knocking my things out of my hand. I was waiting for an apology but it doesn't seem like I'm getting one. It's fine though. She is the future luna."
She says sweetly, loud enough for people passing by to hear. I see them looking at us, whispering and I frown.
"I didn't run into you. I don't owe you an apology."
"Of course not Luna, I'm sorry what was I thinking."
She says meekly, bowing her head to me and I feel anger bubbling up in me.
I turn to Zane who is looking between the two of us with a frown and I arch my brow.
"Are you buying this? She slammed into me, almost knocking me on my ass and then sneering at me to watch where I was going. Just like last time. She should be apologizing to me, not making it look like I'm the bad guy."
Zane looks at her.
"Lisa, apologize to Shay."
Liza looks around, frowning but then nods at Zane with a smile.
"Of course Zane."
She says placing her hand on his chest, before turning to me with a sickly sweet smile.
"I do apologize Shay, I hope you can forgive me. We wouldn't want to make you feel uncomfortable while visiting our pack."
She puts extra emphasis on the word our, and leans closer to Zane her hand still on his chest and I narrow my eyes at her.
She is still looking at me with that fake smile.
"Normally if someone apologizes, you accept the apology, Shay."
Zane looks at me expectantly.
Is he really expecting me to accept her fake apology?
I scoff at her, rolling my eyes and Zane frowns.
She looks at Zane with a small frown.
"I did my part Zane, but again it seems the Luna isn't going to do her part. But it's okay. I will leave you to enjoy the rest of your day. It was really nice seeing you."
She give Zane a big smile, removing her hand from his chest and saunters away. Throwing a last glance and smile at Zane.
I frown staring up at him, to see him already looking at me with a frown.
"Really?"
"What? I didn't do anything wrong?"
I say flabbergasted and Zane shakes his head.
"I'm not doing this right now. I promised Zayde some ice cream. We can talk about this later."
He stalks into the ice cream parlor with Zayde on his hip, leaving me standing outside, confused about what just happened.
I shake my head and sigh, heading inside after them.
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Zane's Point of View
I stare at Shay, talking and laughing with our son and my mind drifts back to the encounter with Lisa.
I know Lisa probably started it, but Shay shouldn't have let herself get baited like that. Lisa knows how to play people, and she did a good job trying to make Shay look like a bitch.
I need to talk to her. Well both of them. Shay needs to learn how to better handle herself in situations like that. And Lisa needs to learn her place.
Eventhough people know how Lisa is they don't know Shay, and it's going to be hard for her to win the pack over if they have a bad first impression of her.
'What is it I'm hearing about Shay thinking she's to good to apologize to a pack member?'
My father's annoyed voice pops into my head and I sigh.
'That is not what happened.'
'Well it's what is going around the packhouse. Lisa is making sure of that. What happened?'
I grit my teeth and relay the encounter between them to my father.
I hear him sigh through the mindlink.
'You need to fix this, before people start to get the wrong impression about their future luna.'
'I know. I will.'
I say shutting of the mindlink, running my hand over my face.
Shay looks over at me with a frown.
"Is everything okay?"
"We'll talk later. Are you two finished?"
Shay nods at me frowning while Zayde just smiles at me.
"Good. Let's head back. Dinner is in about an hour, so we can head back and shower before then."
I put money down on the table, nodding my head at the shop owner before I lead Shay and Zayde outside. I see Zayde trying to hide a yawn, while telling his mother he is not tired and doesn't need a nap.
I laugh and scoop him up.
"We can see you yawn buddy. Just take a quick 20min nap, that's all. You haven't slept all day. You are going to be cranky later."
Zayde nods with his head against my shoulder, already dosing off.
"Fine, I'll take a nap. Eventhough I'm not even tired."
He mumbles and Shay shakes her head smiling.
"Thank you."
I nod.
"Of course."
We walk in silence for a while before Shay touches my arm.
"Zane?"
"Hmmm?"
"Is everything okay?"
I sigh and give her a small smile.
"Let's get back to the packhouse. We can talk once we get him settled."
Shay nods at me, not saying anything and we walk the rest of the way in silence.
As soon as I lay Zayde down and Shay tucked him in I motioned with my head for her to follow me outside.
She pulls the door close after her, looking at me expectantly.
"Meet me in my office in thirty minutes? We need to talk?"
She nods again, not saying anything just moving to her door and shutting it behind her.
I sigh and make my way over to my own room.
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Shay's Point of View
I sigh as the warm watet runs over my head. The three of us had a great afternoon, that is until we got to the ice cream shop.
I wonder how many run ins with her it would take for her to leave me alone.
Everything she did today she did on purpose, I sigh. She was trying to paint a picture of me, that would reflect badly, and I fell for it.
I know Zane is annoyed with me, probably about how I handle the situation. But she irks me.. And the fact that she kept touching Zane.. and tried to make it seems that she was somehow important to the pack. It bothered me. I feel annoyance flare up inside me just at the thought of Lisa.
I sigh again, rinsing the soap out of my hair. I know I didn't act the way a Luna should, but still. Zane didn't immediately take my side and he expected me to accept her obviously fake apology. While allowing her to touch him and stand so close to him..
I scoff, annoyed and shut of the shower. I better get dressed so we can have this talk.
After getting dressed and lightly towel drying my hair I make my way over to Zane's office.
As soon as I reach the door, I frown, a now all to familiar smell greeting me and I frown. What is she doing here?
I open the door and there she is, in barely there exercise clothing, once again touching Zane's chest, smiling up at him.
I clear my throat and arch my brow at them. Zane looks over at me and takes her hand, quickly removing it from his chest.
"Leave."
He says coldy and Lisa smiles.
"Sure handsome. I'll see you around."
She smirks at me as she brushes past me. I stare at her until she dissappears around the corner at the end of the hall.
Turning back to Zane, I fold my arms over my chest, arching my brow at him.
He sighs and runs his hand through his hair.
"I can explain."
He says, motioning for me to come inside.
I nod, heading for the sofa, sitting down and crossing my legs, waiting for him.
"Of course you can. So let's hear it. What is going on with Lisa?"
He sighs again but closes the door and heads over to his chair.
"For now, let's forget about Lisa. Let's first talk about you and your behavior today. Do you know in what light it put us?"