I reach the table where Aaron and Melissa are talking. Then she spots me, "Oh hey Aphmau! Aaron! Look who it is!" Her acting isn't the best. Aaron looks at me for a sign of help then his expression softens. I think he notices what I have on.

Just to clarify, it's just an light orange shirt that has "Live life" in white ink and a pair of dark blue skinny jeans and she gave me a pair of black and white converse. "Hey, you guys." I take a seat next to Aaron in his booth and Melissa hands me a menu.

"So nice of you to join us tonight. Hey, Aaron, you see Aphmau right there, right?" I was holding in my laughter as Aaron rolls his eyes.

"Yes, I know she exists, Melissa." He turns to me. "It's nice to see you again, Aph."

"Always a pleasure to see you, Aaron." I greet him and I start to review over the menu. "Do you guys have any idea of what I should order? I haven't exactly been to this place yet."

"Well, I personally think you'll like this." He points to the menu. As he gives me a list of ideas, I feel something warm resting on my thigh. I look down in the corner of my eye to see Aaron's hand on it. The blush I am hiding right now is unbearable. "Like any of them?"

"Beef sounds pretty good right now." I hope Melissa doesn't see that I'm flirting with him. He starts rubbing my thigh as an inner response.

"Perfect. So you're ready to order." He closes my menu and puts it in the middle of the table. Melissa squeals.

"Aw look at Aaron helping Aphmau out!" She teases him. He glares her down.

"Mel, shush. I'm helping out our friend." Ouch that kinda stung. I know he doesn't mean it but still. We only made us official a few hours ago and it still hasn't hit me yet. That's why Aaron's hand is really distracting me. "Why are you excited anyway?"

"I'm just happy to see my baby brother making friends." Ouch there it goes again. Am I just nervous that we might get caught? Yeah, I think that's it. "So how have you been, Aph? I haven't seen you a few days."

"Oh! You know, just chilling in my room, hanging out with the kids, all that fun stuff. I didn't want to bother you or Aaron with the whole Alpha thing going on." There goes the excuses I make. "But how have you been?"

"Meh, it's nothing. You can bother me, I need it. But you can definitely bother Aaron." She winks at him. Does she knows something.

"What are you doing?" He speaks through his teeth and glares down Melissa. She giggles,

"Nothing! I'm just saying if Aphmau needs someone to talk to, you're available." How long has Aaron liked me? Because it's clear she knows and she's trying to get us together. Aaron doesn't make eye contact with me. Awwww he's shy!

"Maybe I will." That grabs his attention so fast. Melissa squeals as the waiter comes over with a notepad. 

"Is everyone ready to order their drinks?"  

"Yes, I'll have a water." Melissa responds.

"I'll have water." I respond.

"I want a poopsi. Not too many ice cubes but don't give me three or four either." Aaron orders. Me and Melissa just stare at him. "What? I'm picky."

"And are you ready to order something?" The waiter asks.

"I want a few more minutes to review over the menu." Aaron says as he opens his menu right back up. This'll take a while.

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We finish our food and we decide to sit there and chat. Me and Melissa are dying laughing. "Brother, you're afraid of ducks? You've seen them only a few times in life!" We keep wheezing as Aaron gets all flustered.

"Hey, those little shits are scary as hell! Have you ever been attacked just for breathing?" He defends himself poorly. Me and Melissa are a mess. "Melissa's scared of spiders!"

"Okay but isn't everyone?" Melissa starts protesting.

"We live in an underground city."

"We live where spiders live. I'm sorry something with a million eyes and eight legs scare me. Aphmau's afraid of clowns."

"Hey hey don't drag me into this. Clowns are freaking bastards and we all know it." This was so much fun. Just talking to someone without having to pretend. I wish it could always be like this.

But sadly, it can't. I know Mom and Dad and a bunch of people are probably freaking out and searching for me, but the more I stay here, the more reasons I don't wanna left. Like Aaron.

He's one of the main reasons I'm still here. I know we just started dating, but I don't wanna leave him. I feel safe and happy around him, something I haven't felt in such a long time. He's amazing and I don't wanna lose him anytime soon.

"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm tired so I'm heading up to my room." Melissa stands up from her side of the booth. "I'll see you both later." She winks at Aaron again before walking away from us.

"What a weirdo." He rolls his eyes and I interwine our fingers together. 

"That weirdo is awesome." I defend her and he rolls his eyes playfully.

"So. Beef huh?" He wiggles his eyebrows at me. I hit him in the shoulder softly and start laughing.

"It was a joke, chill." The restaurant was empty except the workers in the back so I lean my head on his arm. "Tonight was really fun."

"Even if Melissa embarrassed me in front of you." Oh my Irene, she kept telling me childhood stories about how Aaron would embarrass himself in front of the entire pact. One time, he was- no. I shouldn't blab more.

"Come on, you were a cute kid!" 

"You think so?"

"I know so." Then our moment is interrupted by a woman screaming. Someone has her lifted into the air and she's screaming for mercy. Then I realize something.

The man holding her was wearing a GF uniform.

Oh crap.

Shit.

"Put me down! Please!" She screams as more GF members start flooding the place.

"Come on, move, move!" They yell and start catching the werewolves one by one, even the children. Aaron looks at me and grabs me by my legs and throws me over his shoulders.

"What are you doing?!" I exclaim as he starts running. 

"I'm saving you before you get caught in this mess!" He's outside of the restaurant, making him way for an exit. "I can't risk you getting hurt."

"You need to save your pact! They're more important."

"And I will, but you're important to me too!" Boom! Aaron falls down to the ground and starts yelling in pain, dropping me in front of him. He was shot in the leg. 

"Oh my Irene!"I run over to him in a panic, pulling his head onto my leg. "You're going to be okay! I'm going to stop the artery from spilling more blood." I rip off the bottom half of my shirt and I start typing it around his leg.

"Stop in the name of the law!" I don't back away from Aaron. He's still on my leg, wincing in agony and I'm still holding onto him. "Aphmau?" He recognizes me immediately. "Get the boss!" He yells at another GF member and that one starts running off.

"I'm not going with you." I protest.

"Miss Aphmau, I have to-"

"No. I said I'm not going. Not while he's in this state." I refer to Aaron, who's biting his lip so he doesn't scream or wince or make a sound. "You hurt him. You hurt him!" I feel the tears running down my face. My dad and Michael comes running with that GF member.

"Mi hija!" He exclaims, running up to me, but then notices what I'm doing. He sees Aaron on the ground, his leg bleeding out and me, caring for him with everything I can right now. "Mi hija, what are you doing?"

"Trying to help Aaron." I say, backing away with Aaron in my arms. He's crying as well because his gunshot wound hurts so much. It hurts to see him like this. 

"I've seen that face before... your grandfather killed my father... men, get him!" The two GF grab Aaron's arms and pull him off of me.

"NO!" I stand up and try to get Aaron back, but Dad stops me by standing in front of me and holding me back. "Daddy, stop! You're hurting him!" I scream but he still holds me back.

"His grandfather killed your grandfather! Don't you see it? He's the Ultima!" I don't believe a word coming out of his mouth. Aaron looks so defeated to the point where he can't even look at me. Other GF members are catching the other werewolves and I can't do anything about it!

"Stop hurting all of my friends, they have done nothing to you! Also, Aaron can't be an Ultima if they don't even exist!" I argue, fighting my father but he's still holding me back. "Let me go!"

Dad faces Aaron. "Tell her what you are. Now!" He yells.

"Stop yelling at him!" 

"Tell her who you are before I make you!"

"Aphmau." Aaron speaks. "I am the Ultima." He's just saying that. He's being held at gunpoint, of course he's making that up! I don't- I can't believe that.

"You don't mean it. You aren't an Ultima, they don't exist! Aaron, I know you and I know you are nothing like my dad says the Ultimas are like!" 

"Aphmau look at me. I am the Ultima." He looks serious. Like not acting serious, but he looks like he may be telling the truth. 

"No you're not."

"Yes I am. I'm Aaron Lycan, descendant of Liam Lycan, the first werewolf to walk the Earth." No. No no no. He isn't. He can't be. There's no way. He looks down at the ground- he can't even look at me. Then it's true. He is an Ultima.

"I don't care." I croak out. He looks at me and my dad glares at me. "I don't care that you're an Ultima. I wouldn't care if you were a vampire. You're you, Aaron, and being an Ultima doesn't define you. I like you for you and that's not going to change."

Under all of his pain, he still was able to smile at me. "Aph..."

"Arrest them all." Zach orders, "I'll take my daughter home. I want all the werewolves in cages but the Ultima will get his special cage. We'll figure out what to do with him tomorrow." The two men start to take Aaron.

"Daddy, don't do this. Please." I beg him but he doesn't change his mind.

"Your mother is worried sick about you. Let's get you home-"

"I'm not going with you." Today is the day I stand up for myself. I am TIRED of living like this. I'm so tired of living my father's life and not my own. "Be brave and fight for what you want is what you reminded me everyday. Well, now I am. I don't want to live the life you planned out for me because you can't handle the truth! These people wouldn't hurt you and yet, you make them seem like the bad guys! For what?! Money?"

"What happened to you, mi hija?"

"You happened," I respond, "You care more about your public image and your job than your own daughter! You are so caught in the past, you can't realize that times have changed! When was the last time you've heard of a werewolf attacking anyone?"

"These people killed your grandfather- my father! I've spent YEARS preventing them from attacking you or your mother!"

"Bullshit! You didn't even know Mom before this entire thing went down!" I exclaim. "You're just mad that I have feelings for him."

"I'm mad because it's the Ultima. I taught you better than this."

"You haven't taught me a thing! The only thing you've helped me with was standing up for myself and the werewolves. Let them go, Dad." I plead him again.

"We're going home." He picks me up and starts walking. I kick and scream but he's unfazed. This is so unfair. We make it to the surface and I see the werewolves getting jammed into jail cars. They look at me with watery eyes as I pass by.

"I'm so sorry." I mouth to them all. I've failed them all. I failed Aaron.

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