CHAPTER 3

MIRIAM'S POV

"Um alright guys, break it off." I said when they had suddenly started glaring at each other with their wolves eyes. The combo of red locking with blue was really something but I knew if not taken care of, that something was going to give rise into more. There was no telling with the both of them. Even as I called for them to stop glaring at each other, neither was paying me any atom of attention as they seemed so engrossed with hating each other.

"Jason?"

No response

"Eli?" I called and he turned to look at me with a smile. The very same smile he had on his face back in the days.

"I'm hungry Mimi." he said, calling me by my pet name I could not recall actually when last I had been referred to by it. It was shocking to me as I realized that save for a couple pet names, Jason still had no nickname for me. No, I was beginning to feel silly and seriously needed to snap out of it. I handed him the other sandwich which he ate rather quickly. Jason was pissed and left the plate he had been holding on to as he went straight to the sitting room area and sat down angrily. Something was bothering him and I knew it would definitely be the presence of Eli in the house. No man would be glad should someone else who is more or less a rival shows up to claim their wife. I felt for him and I was hoping for both our sakes that Eli would be joking but something within me knew he was not. There was something I had grown to understand about Eli and I could detect if not easily when he was joking from when he was not.

Perhaps I should fill you in a little on how he had left me. I remember that night like it was only yesterday. 

Fifteen years ago, it had been my birthday and we all were together. My family and Eli's knew well enough about our relationship towards each other and how much we cared for each other. At first it had not been all that close but sometime during our college days just a few days after his first turning, Eli had identified me as his mate. It was funny actually because as at the time, I basically did not know him or anything about him. We were not even in the same classes. So you could start to imagine how I felt when someone suddenly walked up to me one morning as I was headed to class and laid claim to me.

"You are my mate." he had said to me

"Mate? I'm sorry I do not understand. I caused no trouble." I said to him as I started thinking he was one of the bullies and perhaps this was my turn to go through something really similar. I could see some other guys I learnt were his cousins behind him watching us.

He decided to use the lines on me.

"Do you want trouble, Miriam?" he asked, although I never told him my name.

"No." I said as I simultaneously shook my head quickly. No way in the world would I be getting into trouble. I just wanted to study and graduate. It was weird enough being seen as one of the nerds of the school.

"Good. So you'll do as you're told?" he asked me.

What have I done and what did this bully want from me? Who was he even? These were the thoughts streamed in my head. However I agreed to do as I would be instructed as a way to escape further altercations with him. He smiled, the same seductive smile I told you about that I was totally floored. My heart was racing around him a lot faster which I dismissed as being caused by nervousness. He demanded that as soon as I was done with my classes, I was to wait on a particular spot outside. I agreed and then he started walking away.

"Wait, what's your name?" I asked him

"You'll see," he said and started walking away.

For a couple of moments I stood there unable to think as I did my best to catch my breath after the gorgeous young man had left. I realized later that day that I could not focus as I could see him in everything I did looking at me with that seductive gaze and smiled. I seriously must have been going crazy. Eventually school after a long drag as I realized that I could not wait to see him had come to an end. As I picked up my bag and got closer to the spot he said to wait, I wanted to walk away but simply could not. So I changed my mind and went on to sit on the resting bench right there. I sat down there and started playing music with my earphones when someone stopped in front of me on a motorcycle.

"Hey!!!" he called me and I put off my music and came to him. He handed me a helmet and asked me to get on.

"What?" I asked. "Where to?" 

"You'll see," he said.

It was stupid of me and I know it now how crazy what I had done was. I suddenly had the feeling to trust him and found myself getting onto the back. He was a stranger and with all stories of serial killers I should not have pulled that stunt. He asked me to hold onto him around the waist and and I did so shyly but became tighter when he started driving. I reclined my head on his back as he rode off to someplace I have never been. Each time I asked him where we were going, the only answer I got was the I would see and sincerely I wanted to see where we were headed.

We rode through the road and were circling a hill until he eventually came to a stop where we got off and started walking a little more and we were up. I became scared that I might have encountered a killer and stood still but he went forward and sat down clearly waiting for me. I eventually went to sit beside him.

"My name is Eli. This place is my favorite spot of the city." he said answering my questions

"Um so why are we here?" I had asked him

"Because I need to get familiar with my mate." he said

"What's mate?" I asked

"Soulmate," he said to me.

I became more confused. I had a dozen and one question on my mind as to what he meant by soulmate when I didn't even know him. Besides, how could he tell I was his soulmate? I thought it was supposed to be a two sided thing when two people fall in love. I have not even had a boyfriend all my life but somewhere within me, I told myself that day that if this handsome jerk was my soulmate then I would be overly obliged to be his own.

"You have questions. I know." he said

"Would you answer them?" I asked

"Only until sundown." he said

"Why?" I asked him

"Because Miriam, your parents would be worried," he said.

Damn it. I had completely forgotten about home and my parents to follow this stranger. How easily I had forgotten scared me actually.