Jamie's POV

I woke up on the floor of a bathroom between someone's legs. My head was pounding and my stomach was starting to settle. I tried to move, but my backside was burning in pain.

"Jamie, how are you feeling?" Alex whispered to me.

"I feel like I'm dying." I whispered back.

"Do you want to try to eat something before we have to go to school?"

"Shit, we have school?" I asked.

"Yeah and we have to go because we've missed too much lately."

"Darling, please, let's skip." I begged him.

"My mom will kill me and I believe yours would too." He said, running his hand through my hair.

"Alright, fine. I honestly don't think I can eat though. I'll just end up throwing up again."

He nodded and helped me stand up. Once I was up, Alex had to catch me so I didn't fall over. "You good?"

"Y-yeah, just dizzy." I whispered.

Once my head felt a little better, I grabbed Alex's hand and pulled him out of Matthew's bathroom. I followed the voices in the house until I found Matt and Jack in the living room. Jack had a trash can in front of him and Matthew was running his hand up-and-down his mate's back.

"Hey, we thought you went home last night." Matthew said, which made Jack look up at us.

"No, we didn't. Jamie wasn't feeling good, so we camped out in the bathroom." Alex said, which was a lie because we totally went into the bathroom to have sex.

"Oh, okay. I think we're going to skip school today because Jack drank way too much last night."

We nodded. I wrapped my arm around Alex's waist. "Okay, just get some rest."

Matthew nodded, giving us a smile as we left. We went to my house and Alex kissed my forehead as I sat on the bed. "We have to leave in 30 minutes."

"Should I shower?" I asked him.

He chuckled, sitting next to me on the bed. "We both need to shower. We smell like alcohol."

I opened my mouth to say something, but my stomach started to turn on the spot. My hand went to my stomach and Alex's eyes widened.

"Okay, come on." He whispered, helping me off the bed. He helped me to the bathroom and pushed my bangs out of my face as I threw up.

Once I was done, he turned the shower on and helped me undress. I gave him a grateful smile. "Thank you for taking care of me."

"We're not drinking again anytime soon because of it, but you're welcome."

I sighed and stepped in the shower with him.

Alex and I walked into school. He walked me to my locker with his hand clasped around mine. When we reached my locker, Gavin and Benji were standing there.

"Hey, guys." I said.

"I feel like your hungover because you didn't call me a bitch this morning." Gavin said.

"He's extremely hungover." Alex said for me.

"Great, now I have to deal with him complaining all day."

I felt my phone vibrating in my pocket and groaned. I pulled it out and when I saw who it was, I handed it to Alex. "Answer it for me, please. Say I'm dying or whatever the fuck you wanna say."

Alex chuckled and pressed the green button. "Hi, Ms. Nance."

Benji came over and opened his arms for me. I smiled and threw myself at his tiny body. He held me to his body and away from the lights, which were making my head pound even worse. He knew that I loved affection when I wasn't feeling well.

"Yeah, we're okay. It was just a hard day for him, so we went over to the alpha's house to hang out." Alex said to my mom through the phone.

"Do you want some Advil, Jamie? I have some in my locker." Gavin offered.

"I already took some and it's not helping at all." I whispered, pulling away from Benji's hug. I gave him a soft smile as his mate wrapped his arm around his waist.

"Maybe you should go home." Benji told me.

"I wanted to just skip, but someone," I said, motioning towards Alex. "wouldn't let me."

Alex hung up the phone after saying some other things to my mom and put it in my pocket for me because I was rubbing my eyes.

"Do you feel even a little bit better?" Alex asked me.

"No, honey." I whispered.

"Alright, let's see how first block goes and if it goes well, then we'll stay. I have a test, so I have to go because I already missed the makeup last time."

I nodded, going over and hugging my mate to help myself feel better. He ran one hand through my hair and the other gripped my waist. "Okay."

"Come on, let's go to class." Benji whispered to me.

"We have class together, Alex, let's walk." Gavin said, then kissed Benji softly.

"I love you, Jamie." Alex said and kissed my temple.

"I love you too."

I walked with Benji to English, which I knew I wouldn't be able to focus in. It just made my headache worse. Benji copied my notes down for me and helped me with the worksheet at the end of class.

"How're you and Gavin?" I asked, being nosey.

"We've been really good actually. My mom really, really likes him and she lets him spend the night a lot." He said, excitedly.

When Gavin had first met Benji, I was scared of what was going to happen to them. I thought that Benji wouldn't be okay with him being a werewolf because he's always been scared of lots of things.

I made Gavin tell him after a couple of months because I didn't want them to have sex and then Benji just be blindsided by a lot of things. When he told him, he was actually okay with it. He seemed skeptical at first, but once I helped explain it too, he was okay with it.

"That's really good, Benji. I'm so glad that you're happy."

He smiled at me before looking down at the worksheet. I pulled my phone out of my pocket and realized that I had a text from Alex.

How're you doing?

I looked over at Benji and he was texting Gavin at the moment because I saw his name at the top of the screen. I started to text back.

Headache got worse but my stomach is better

The bell rang and I groaned as my head started throbbing again. Benji helped me up with a smile. We walked to his locker because he needed his trigonometry textbook.

Gavin and Alex were standing there already while having a conversation that I couldn't hear. Benji went over to his boyfriend and gave him a surprise hug. Gavin kissed the top of his head.

"Hey, sweetheart." I said to Alex.

"Hey, how was class?" He asked.

"Benji did all my work for me, pretty much, so it was good." I said, chuckling.

Gavin chuckled and gripped Benji's waist. "That sounds like my boy."

Benji blushed and looked down at the ground. "He needed help and he wasn't feeling good, so I had to do something." He whispered.

"We know, baby. We're extremely grateful of you helping him." Gavin whispered to him, brushing the hair from Benji's face.

I turned towards Alex and he looked down at me with a small smile. "So you feel better?"

"Yes, darling." I whispered, leaning up and giving him a kiss. I meant for it to be a little kiss, but he deepened it by putting his hand on the back of my neck and pulling us closer.

I smelt his arousal as I pushed our bodies closer. His tongue plunged into my mouth and I moaned a little bit when his hand slid down my body to touch my ass.

"Hey!" I heard Gavin yell. Alex and I broke apart with groans. Gavin rolled his eyes. "We have to get to class, come on."

Alex slapped my butt, lightly, making me jump. I turned towards him. "Down, boy."

He pouted and I chuckled, taking his hand in mine. I leaned up, kissing his cheek before pulling him to class. We had second period together, but he always sat with Matthew and Jack and I sat with Gavin, Caelin, and Benji.

Once we got to the classroom, Alex looked around the room, realizing that Jack and Matthew weren't here today. He looked down at me with a questioning look.

"You can sit with me, baby." I whispered.

"Would your friends be okay with that?"

"Even if they aren't, you're my mate and they need to be okay with you being around me now."

He smiled, kissing me. "Okay."

I pulled him to the table that I usually sat at and the three of my friends looked up at us. "Can Alex sit with us today?"

Caelin sighed, leaning back in her seat. "This isn't going to be a daily thing, is it?" She snapped.

I glared at her. "It will be if I want it to be."

Caelin stood up with her bookbag, glaring at Alex. She snickered. "You've fucking changed my best friend. You've taken him away from me and I'm done with it."

I tried to follow Caelin to give her a piece of my mind, but Alex pulled me back when I took a step towards her retreating form. "Let me go, Alex."

"No, you're angry and you'll say something you regret." He whispered to me.

"I'm perfectly fine with that. She was a bitch to you."

Alex scoffed and let me go. "I don't need you to stand up for me, Jamie."

"Yeah, you're right. You don't need me standing up for you, but I'm going to anyways because you're my boyfriend and that's my friend."

"Jamie, I don't care about your fucking friends." He snapped.

My eyes widened. "What?"

He sighed. "You know I didn't mean it that way."

"Then how else did you mean it?" I snapped.

"I meant that I don't care what they say to me and even if I did, you shouldn't speak for me. I can stand up for myself."

"Why do you have to be in control of everything?" I whispered to him.

"Because it's my personality, Jamie. I can't change it even if you wanted me to."

"Why won't you let me take care of you though? Why won't you let me help you be safe and happy?"

"I will let you, but I don't need you protecting me. I'm not powerless!"

"They're my friends, Alexander. They should like you because I do. I'm not just gonna stand by your fucking side when I can tell that what they say affects you!"

"Jamie, I like being in control. I can't help that. Yes, Caelin isn't my favorite person right now, but I don't want you standing up for me because I can do that myself."

"You're my boyfriend and I wanna protect you. Why can't I?"

"Because I can do that myself!" He yelled and the entire class looked over at us.

"Go fuck yourself." I snapped and walked out of the classroom.