CHAPTER FOUR
"Are you okay?" Lisa asked when Stephanie, the neighbor lady in front of her with wide smiles staggered and held her chest. She was astonished to know that a neighbor actually came to wish her a happy birthday. It was admirable.
"Son of a b-" Stephanie almost cursed Ryan.
"Say it" she could hear Ryan laugh.
"Yes I'm okay" Stephanie replied Lisa with another smile but Lisa wasn't even looking anymore. Lisa's heart had skipped to see who was at her door, present at her party, she turned back to look at her friends and she was glad they also noticed, they urged her to go and welcome him and she smiled.
"If you don't mind, excuse me?" Lisa said to Stephanie and walked out of her face as she approached the tall, slender but built masculine finesse at her door. Lisa didn't know how to describe how she felt seeing the basketball leader in school at her party without the witch with him. It was heaven to welcome him alone.
"Thought you wouldn't come" Lisa grinned at him, flickering her brows a bit, she was shy and nervous. She offered him a shake and he received it warmly.
"I wouldn't miss it for anything," Dan replied to her with a sweet smile. She had especially given him the boffo invite after watching him play with the highschool seniors and as usual he had won. Running to hand him a towel before the witch did, she was opportune to finally have a direct talk with Dan approaching him with her birthday offer. She had dressed her best to watch him play that day and luckily Dan promised to be at the party. He was so easy and friendly to talk to that she started regretting why she hadn't taken the courage to talk to him all this while.
She had remembered the witch had seen her hand him the invite and that moment she felt on top of the world seeing how furious the witch's eyes were.
Dan looked around and searched the room with his eyes like he had misplaced something. "Only a few people?" he asked, noticing how empty the party looked. He was expecting to see the whole school turn up, well so was Lisa.
"Yeah, yeah. The party is just starting" Lisa replied defensively, her palm sweating from too much anxiety. What if no one attended? A part of her was still rest assured though, since the highschool Dan was here, why wouldn't anyone want to attend.
"Guess I'm early then." he said.
"-which gives us time to get to know each other" Lisa chipped in immediately and grabbing his hands, she welcomed him into her house, directing him to a single couch just at one side of the room. Letting him take the lead, she turns over to her friends who had been staring and in unison they give her a thumbs up and she winks back at them giddily, rushing to meet up with Dan. She was with the most popular, finest and intelligent highschool champ. What a great way to start her 18th new life.
"Highschool" Standing akimbo, Stephanie clicked her tongue and shook her head after carefully watching the scene. "I've been there," she said confidently to no one. She looked around again, it would be wasted effort if she stayed and requested for the music to be turned off. Ryan needed to bear a little longer, maybe throughout the night, this was a party and music is the life of a party. What's the worst that could happen? A pool of blood?. He could handle it. Thinking back to Ryan, she frowned, he almost ripped her heart out when he suddenly mind linked her in front of the birthday girl almost making her look stupid. After several warnings, she was certain Ryan could never stop mind linking her without her permission.
Walking out of Lisa's apartment, Stephanie goes back to Ryan's room and enters, she closes the door behind her. But the room was dark and she wondered why Ryan kept deliberately pissing her off every single time, he knew how much she hated the dark! This was probably revenge for not convincing Lisa at all. Moving slowly to the side of the wall, she switches on the light back.
"Ryan?" she called out to him walking slowly and suspiciously, looking around the room. "If you meant to scare me by switching off the light, then you failed, ha!" she says again backing it up with a laugh. It appeared this wasn't the first time Ryan was playing pranks. She didn't hear any response from him. "Seriously Ryan, not now" she said carefully watching her back, she finally reached his bed and no one was there either. "Where are you?" She frowned.
"In the bathroom '' Using his mind link to communicate again, he replied to her, although his voice was calmer this time which was the normal Ryan's voice, but Stephanie was still worried he was hurt since the music was still at its peak.
"Well, Thank God, you hadn't bled to death, why are you not talking? Are you okay?" She sits on his bed, tapping her legs on the floor continuously while waiting patiently for him to get out of the bathroom. "Do you want me to come in? There's nothing surprising anymore by the way-" she stifles a flirty laugh.
The door creaks and Ryan immediately pops his head out of the door, Stephanie stiff seeing Ryan in his wolf form, his long hard nails clenched to the bathroom door that would surely leave a scratch with that grip, his eyes hot red and there was a burning glare from each corners, his fangs were longer than his previous turns that Stephanie had witnessed and surprisingly he growls harshly at her.
"Ryan?" She called out with a whimper, holding the sheet of the bed tightly as she adjusted herself.
"Run!" She heard him mind link her.
My next door mate 5"Run!" She heard him mind link her."Ryan, are you okay?" Too scared to say a word she mind linked too, moving backwards on the bed. The bathroom door was creaking louder now as he opened it up slowly and slowly. She could see his three long sharp nails scratch the door and his other hand piercing the wall. She gets to look at his body and her eyes grow to see Ryan in a full transformation, hair sprouting insuperable on his bare chest and the loud crack of his knee bone could be heard as he involuntarily squat backwards, falling on his cubitus. Like an animal on four legs, he growls loudly at Stephanie, his nose sniffing furiously and awkwardly.Throughout her years of friendship, Stephanie had never seen Ryan fully transform on a normal night and to be honest, Ryan was not a fan of the werewolf transformation since he left the pack. She didn't understand the sudden hot and angry glare he shot her fro
My Next Door Mate 6"Cagna!" Gianna spat on the witch's face after standing in front of her. She was certain she didn't understand her Italian language for 'bitch' and it felt good saying it without getting a response. "As far as I can remember, you were not invited to this party""Gianna" Lisa called and raised her hand to stop her from going further, she loved how Gianna stood up for her, but making a scene? Nah. She wasn't ready for that. She could see some of her guests stylishly raise their phones to record the scene and she had to interfere immediately. Everyone knew how the high school witch was, it takes her just a few seconds to make people dance to her tunes.Stephanie was surprised at the sudden switch of attention, the way all eyes went to the new girl that entered awed her. The air was tense and with the grand entrance the girl made, Stephanie already figured out Lisa didn't like her, they probably had a rif
My Next Door Mate 7Olivia - The popular high school witch, the pretty prom queen, the rude snub every student was afraid to have a clash with at school was leaving Lisa's party humiliated and it was Lisa's duty to remind her who was taking over now.Lisa stops in front of Olivia as they both glare at themselves. Olivia was a girl of confidence and that made her come out of the elevator just to listen to what Lisa had to say with no embarrassment of what happened a few minutes ago."A party like this isn't going to take me off my position at school Lisa" Olivia spoke first with a slightly offending tone."I know that. But you already know my name, that's a great start for me" Lisa replied with a smirk."This isn't going to be easy for you Lisa" a scorn at the side of her head. "You don't have what it takes to be the face of the school. Getting a rented apartment all b
My Next Door Mate 8 Lisa's arm stretched widely and hit Sofia's face as she yawned loudly. Sofia pushed her arm away and blinked her eyes open, she looked around the room to see her and her friends sleeping scattered on Lisa's bed, her eyes moved over to the clock on the wall and seeing what the time says, Sofia screamed. These woke all the girls up! "Mum. Mum is going to kill me!" Sofia jumped off the bed in search for her bag and other stuff she brought to Lisa's apartment, her face wrote confusion as she tried to figure out where all her things were, she rushed to the mirror and takes a wiper to wipe off her makeup from last night, at the same time she struggled to put off the heels she was wearing and she almost tore the clothes she was wearing too. "Just cool down Sofia. We still have time to…" Lisa yawned again and was stiff when she fixed her eyes on the clock. "Oh my God!" She jumped off the bed too seeing
My Next Door Mate 9"Erhm. What are you doing?" Stephanie tried to push Lisa from the hug. She didn't like the idea that Lisa was suddenly friendly, the outcome of it might not be nice. What was the hug about?"Bye" she heard her friend- Gianna say too as she rushed to the elevator and left. Stephanie pushed Lisa away from her and Lisa pouted her face. Stephanie rolled her eyes. "When did we become friends again?" Stephanie asked, needing a reminder on when all this started."We could be friends from now" Lisa pouts her face in a playful manner. ""You ruined my party yesterday. That's the least you could do for me" she said again. "I just need your help with something"Stephanie hit her palm on her forehead and sigh. "You've done enough by ruining my night Lisa. I don't want to be friends with you." Stephanie walked out and then stopped. "By the way, we're not in the same age group." She clicks
My Next Door Mate 10 The doorbell rang continuously and Stephanie and Lisa had no idea it was ringing. The loud music complimented their playful chore scene and they were so distracted. Ryan kept ringing the doorbell with his now long sharp nails, a part of him was still conscious of himself and a part of him was not. His change was faster than the previous one. This time around, immediately Lisa had started the music, he was already growing longer teeth. He tried controlling his shift, but to no avail. His knees crack and his hair sprouts, and with glowing red eyes he made way to stop where the music was coming from, tracing it to Lisa's apartment. His conscious mind rang the bell, he wanted at least Stephanie to show up and help him stop this, but no one was even answering him. He fell on his knees and his eyes went to his toes which were already enlarging along with his feet and then his legs, tearing the trouser he wore. Ryan howled out loud in frustration
My Next Door Mate 11The pack members had gathered around in her house. It took her by surprise why they were all here this morning without informing her earlier. Helen Maldives got up from her bed immediately after her maid had informed her of the guests in the waiting room. She put on her slippers and tied her loose nightwear as she walked to the waiting room. She receives a bow from all of them as she sat down on the high chair in the room made specially for her."It's a surprise to see you all here" Her deep tyranny voice filled the room, but she still had wrinkles settled on her forehead. A meeting without a previous announcement meant something was wrong somewhere."A dead body was found in the woods yesterday" One of them spoke up, he also didn't seem pleased with the news.Helen sighed heavily. "I heard about that too" she said, that news spread over the whole town yesterday and she had been
My Next Door Mate 12Helen Maldives and Justin Maldives, parents of Ryan Maldives. Legendary Alpha and Luna, hoping for their son to keep up their title till the end, had already figured everything out before the death of Justin.When Ryan was 18years of age and had not found his mate throughout the whole town, his mother and father had discussed things between themselves on the solution to it if the problem persisted.And it was their traditional way of finding a mate.For past rulers that were late bloomers, a mate was arranged for them and these mates were either also late bloomers or had dead mates. A ceremony is then organized on the day of the mates revealing where some rituals were done to seal the new couple, such that if they got to the age where they would find their mate, they could either discard it or marry again. This law was old and had not been placed in use for a very long time.