- Rory's pov -

"Hey there, roomie," I looked up as I heard a voice call out from my new apartment that I was given. I looked up and met a pair light green eyes and I hid my angered sigh with ease. Amber was sitting on a chair that was in the opening room of the apartment. I narrowed my eyes on her, questioning why Esther Tate would room me with her. I was perfectly fine with my dorm room that I had. I didn't need an apartment and I didn't want to live in a place with Amber.

I grumbled under my breath and walked into the apartment, closing the door behind me. This apartment was in a separate building than my dorm room was. This building was right beside the Lycan's house's, and was much nicer than the dorm rooms. This place was like a house, with it's own living room, kitchen, and bedrooms.

"What's with such the down face? Not excited to share a room with me?" Amber had a teasing tone in her voice as she looked to me, a smirk on her face as she watched me. So, she knew I disliked her. Good, because I didn't want to pretend I like her.

"Honestly, I'm not," I murmured to her, raising an eyebrow to her. "Why do we even have to share a place anyways? This building seemed vacant to me other than you being here. Or I could have just kept my other room."

"You're correct on assuming this building is pretty vacant. I was the only one living here. Well, until you," Amber told me thoughtfully, standing up from the chair she had sat on. "You and I are sharing because we are in the same curricular. We both learn one-on-one with the teachers." She said to me before walking over to me. I gave her an odd look, but as soon as she approached me, her hands grabbed onto my face and she looked at me.

I tore my face from her grip, giving her a weirded out look, "What the hell? Don't touch me," I told her, taking a step back from her.

"Marvelous!" She said happily, looking like she hadn't heard me as she looked to me with a wide smile. "You are definitely a first and I am enjoying it. Normally if I even brush by someone, I see their future and it gets rather annoying. But you're different, Bambii. I could probably touch you all over and not see anything."

I slowly nodded, not sure what to say. I'm sure having that power was a horrific one. Touching one person and seeing every single, personal detail about them. I can't believe I was starting to feel sympathetic about Amber. I thought about something and gave her an eyebrow raise, "So, when you said that stuff about Melissa, you weren't lying?"

"Words can be twisted to one's own desire, but that doesn't make them a lie. Yes, I told the truth, but she turns out fine. Her imprint loves her and their children will be fine," Amber said, rolling her eyes. My nerves shifted away and I relaxed. I was definitely going to tell Melissa this relevance. "Anyways, let us not dwell on the past. I want to show you your room."

I nodded and followed her to one of the doors as she opened it. The bedroom was much bigger than my old dorm room. This bedroom was filled with my things, each put up nicely. I liked the way it looked. "I like it."

"Thank you, I took the liberty in decorating," she said and I could hear the smugness in her voice. I rolled my eyes before I ventured into the room, throwing my folder that one of the people Esther Tat sent to me, gave me. It had all of my new class details as well as things to help me prepare for tests. I was definitely on a whole new level than others. "I heard that you like blue, so I decided-" she started, but was cut off from knocks on the door.

I gave her a curious glance, however she held an annoyed look as she waved for me to follow her back to our living room. She walked over to the front door and opened it, exposing Anya and Clancy. Anya shared an annoyed look with Amber as she stomped in. Meanwhile, Clancy seemed to be talking nonstop about anything as he looked around with big eyes. "Rory, I'm so happy to see you." She breathed out as she sped walk to me, throwing her arms around my neck. "He is so annoying. He won't stop asking questions." She whispered into my ear.

I wrapped my arms around her quickly in a hug and chuckled at her words, watching Clancy as he continued to talk and look around in awe. "Reminds me of someone who used to bug me about werewolves," I say to her as I pull away from the hug, raising an eyebrow to her. She furrowed her eyebrows to me, hitting me lightly. I chuckled and shrugged. "What? It's true. Clancy is just like you. You cannot be upset for him being curious."

"Don't touch me," Amber growled and I looked to see Clancy had outstretched his hand to shake hers, but she gave him a mean glare. He backed away from her, giving her a sheepish smile. She rolled her eyes before looking back to me. "They're gonna be here for awhile. Why don't we take this to the couch?" She suggested with the raised of her eyebrow.

I nodded and we all went to sit in the living room of our apartment, with Anya, Amber, and I on the couch while Clancy sat across from us in the love seat. It as silent for a moment before Anya let out a squeal and tugged on my arm. "Rory, you have some tea to spill."

I tugged my arm from her, "What?" I grumbled.

"Don't 'what' me. You have to tell me all about Alex. I know you've been shacking up with him and don't lie, because I called the other day and he answered. He said a few things about Grant that made me worry, but I just saw Grant, so I know he's okay. Anyways, who's the lucky guy?" Anya rambled on. I glanced to Clancy, kind of feeling bad because I had agreed to go on a date with him, but he seemed to be listening with fascination.

"Well," I cleared my throat, feeling my face getting hot. I didn't know he had answered my phone and kind of worried what they had spoken about. I'll have to remember to ask her later. "Alex and I have been kind of seeing each other, but you have to agree to keep it on the DL. No one is supposed to know, that's what Lycan Esther Tate said. It's because he is the Lycan-"

"I knew it!" Anya squeaked out, doing a happy dance in her seat. I watched her with amusement, never having seen her this happy before. "I knew it was the Lycan. I was skeptical, but now that you confirm it, it makes this all so much more romantic. Why didn't you tell me you were his-"

"Don't tell her yet," Amber spoke up suddenly, a teasing sound in her voice. I furrowed my eyebrows and looked to Amber. She gave me a smirk, looking over to Anya. "I want her to figure it out for herself. I want to see how all of this pans out."

"Don't tell me what?" I ask, wanting to know what they were talking about.

"Oh my goodness, she doesn't know?" I turned back to Anya, seeing her eyes were wide with her smile resembling the cheshire cat. "Rory, I thought you would have realized by now. Oh, this is definitely going to be fun to watch."

"What?" I said, growling under my breath, becoming annoyed no one was telling me.

"She's so clueless and innocent. Poor little Bambi," Amber cooed as both of the girls at my sides burst into giggles. I growled out, hunching over, crossing my arms over my chest angrily. I glared at Clancy, who offered me a shrug.

"I have no clue what they're talking about either."

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I awoke from my sleep as I heard my door creaking open. I thought it was my imagination until I felt arms wrap around me and start to pull me from my bed. My eyes flung open and I growled out, fighting whoever was attempting to take me. I kicked the person off of me, which made them stumble back. I fought my covers and turned my head quickly to see who had tried to take me.

The man growled in a familiar way and I relaxed as I looked up to an angry looking Alex. He narrowed his eyes on me, his eyes seeming to be getting darker. "Why did you do that, Aurora?" He growled lowly, stalking back over to me. I didn't push him away this time as he grabbed me by the hips and pulled me to the edge of the bed so that he was standing in between my legs. "Mine," he said, his words sending shocks through my body and my wolf purred at the sound. He towered over me and I had to crane my neck to look up at him.

"You tried to take me in my sleep, Alex. What did you expect? I thought you were an intruder," I say quietly, wanting to scold him, but I couldn't. My body was buzzing at his touch and I now realized how much I missed him.

He let out another angry growl. "You never came home; so I came to take you home." With that said, he scooped me off my bed and pulled me out of my room.

"Alex! Put me down!" I whisper-yell at him, not wanting to wake up Amber from her room. I hit him hard on the chest, but he ignored me and walked out of the living room and out of the front door. I growled as the cold air from outside hit me and I had to cuddle deeper into him. "Alex, I have new classes tomorrow and I was trying to get sleep." I tell him weakly, though deep inside I was glad he had come to get me.

"You will sleep much better with me in our bed," he grumbled, though I felt funny at his words. 'Our' bed. I tried to hide my smile as I placed my head in his chest, breathing in his scent and closing my eyes. God, he smelt so good.

I stopped struggling in his grip, feeling my sudden adrenaline rush go down as I yawned out. I sleepily placed my lips onto his neck and kissed feverishly. I felt him tense up and his chest vibrated. "Let's go home." I murmur into his skin before I fell into a nice and blissful sleep.

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A/N I would like to apologize for such a long wait on this chapter. I've been in a rut lately and have not had the will to write this chapter.

Writing means so much to me and I really try to make the best chapters that I can, but when my books become more noticed, it means people will think higher of me and expect good updates in short time periods. I really want to be one of those authors who can do that, but that would be giving myself too much credit. I'm trying to better my capabilities, but I'm not there yet, though I'm trying my hardest to be my best.

Furthermore, I apologize for this chapter not being the longest, but I didn't want you all to wait any longer. I've had a rough few past weeks, so hopefully I'll be out of this rut soon and be back to better updates in a better time frame.

Yours always,
- LJStacy