Chapter 2 - Out of Character

Chase POV

Isabella is sitting on my lap while we all chat with each other. Colt and Danica are making out, but when Amy walks past us, pulling a girl I’ve never seen before, automatically, my wolf Asher starts to move around while my vampire side tries to get him under control. I have learned to keep my emotions in check and never let any of my wolf or vampire side take over. I keep myself as grounded as I can. I know that Colt has a lot more control over his wolf and his vampire side than I do. He is a lot quieter, and he has the self-control I lack. 

She smells divine, and I automatically feel my fangs grow. Fuck sake, keep it together Chase, I mind link Colt, and he glances at me while her image flies from my mind to his. We share a connection that most twins don’t share. We can read each other’s thoughts if we want to, we can connect our wolves and let them talk to each other, but when our vampire sides come out, there’s no coming back. We have learned to feed on blood bags that we get from our local morgue, and we freeze before they go wrong for us. 

The new girl looks at us and smiles as she walks by, Isabella and Danica become too possessive, and they start to kiss our necks and hold on to us. Isabella has been insinuating that she thinks we are mates, but we are too young to know, we are only seventeen, and we won’t find our mates until we turn eighteen. I know that Danica has been saying the same to my brother, and I can see him mentally roll his eyes. What they don’t know is that if we don’t share a mate, one of us will die. At least that’s the story we hear from our grandmother Olivia.

Dad’s first mate died because she didn’t share a mate with her twin sister. Dad is petrified with that fact, but he hopes that because we have the vampire side and control our mate bond on that side, we might survive, both of us. 

We all start playing truth or dare, and because she is the new girl, everyone keeps bombarding her with questions, and she never falls for the dare. Good on her, our friends can be relentless, and they could do something she would disapprove of. I wouldn’t mind sucking her neck for a little while. Automatically Colt scolds me through our link. 

“Keep your mind out of the gutter, will you?” he asks, and I can’t help but look at him. We look the same, and most people can’t tell us apart. The only way they can is when we are at school or parties because we dress very differently. I usually wear black while he wears blue, I can’t lie, we had swapped places a couple of times before we got serious girlfriends, we used to mess around with each other’s girlfriends, but who knows, they could be our mates now, and we don’t want to be messing around with the bond. 

Our parents taught us better than to mess around with it.

The new girl gets up from the circle on the floor and walks out of the room, and I pull Isabella away from me, excusing myself, saying I need to take a leak. I walk after the new girl, and once she tries to close the bathroom door, I stop it with my foot.

I have a feeling I’ve seen her before, and I just can’t pinpoint where. I take a couple of steps in, and I lock the door behind me. I also lock my mind to my brother, and I don’t need his condescending ass telling me to stop. She smells way too good, my teeth ache, and my throat is burning. This was the first time I’ve ever felt like this. She looks me up and down, and I clear my throat, letting out my name. She tells me that her name is Arya. Arya is such an unusual name. I like it, unusual like her. She asks me to leave, and I tell her I won’t; instead, I take one step closer to her, and I can hear her heart beating as fast as mine. She is as turned on as I am. I can smell her arousal.

I lift her petite body, and she sits on the sink, where I rest my hands to avoid wrapping them around her body. I get my nose closer to her neck, and I take a sniff, Arya opens her legs, and I position myself between them while I tell her how good she smells. I sound like a creep, I know, but I can’t resist. 

My eyes fall from her eyes to her lips and to her voluptuous breasts, and she tells me to look into her eyes as she lifts my face, her touch sends a jolt of electricity down my body, and it reacts accordingly. I close my eyes, and I take her lips on mine. Slowly I lick them, and she opens them for me allowing me in. I take her in, and for a split second, I let my guard down. I can feel Colt’s anger straight away, and I pull away from her. 

She is panting for air as much as I am, I look at her and smell her arousal, but I turn around as soon as I unlock the door. Colt is waiting for me. Shit. He pulls me by my t-shirt out of the bathroom, closing the door leaving Arya alone. He keeps pulling me into an empty bedroom.

“Are you out of your fucking mind?” he screams at me

“Calm down, will you? It was just a kiss”, I say, trying to play it cool.

“You have a girlfriend downstairs. How could you do this?”, Colt asks shoving me against the wall. His anger is starting to take control, and his vampire side is coming out. I can see it in his eyes.

“Colt, chill, you’re losing it”, I say, and he shakes his head, walking out of the bedroom and running out of the house. When shit gets tough, he runs, lets Grey out, and allows himself to sit back and thinks about his actions. 

I walk out of the house, and I change into my wolf form, I link with him and follow his scent, we never leave each other alone, we always keep each other grounded, I know I fucked up, but he lost it way too easily. He’s never done it before. Asher links with Grey, and I sit back while they sort their shit out. Our birthday is in two months, and both Asher and Grey think Arya could be our mate. It is the first time they manifest that a girl could be our mate, and they both agree on a weird pull they feel for her. Her scent navigates through my mind, and it starts to get Colt all riled up again, so I push it to the back of my mind and lock it away.

It’s been ages since the last time we were here, and Colt came to the lakeside. I think we were around thirteen the last time we came here with mom and dad. Colt changed into his human form, and I follow him. We both sit ass naked on the rock we used to sit on when we were kids, and we look at the full moon. The full moon does not affect us at all. Every werewolf goes crazy, but we control it easily.