The Most Wanted Luna novel Chapter 2

Kayla’s POV

I cursed as I wiped away the tears that poured down my cheeks. The men’s room smelled awful but I wasn’t ready to face April’s confrontation. I couldn’t believe that I lost control like that, why was I so aggressive?!

“ Our mate is currently in the arms of another woman and you’re just going to stay here and cry about it?” my wolf Sapphire barked in my head and I bit my lip in frustration.

“ Just shut up Sapphire! You’re the reason everyone is never gonna stop calling me a freak – just…please stop taking control like that!” I begged, holding my head in my hands as I remembered how everyone stared at me when they saw my outburst earlier.

“ It’s not my fault that they’re ordinary.” She muttered and I took in a deep breath and instantly recoiled because of the stench. The ladies room was occupied and this was the only place I could go.

Knowing full well that there is nothing I can do to hold Sapphire back and that I couldn’t just stay in the rest room all day, I decided to leave.

“ It reeks of everything bad in here,” she said as I stepped out of the restroom.

“ Hey!” someone said from behind me, startling me.

When I turned around, it was Becka. Her big brown eyes had become a little smaller as she smiled from ear to ear upon seeing me. I laughed when I saw that smile and then I hugged her.

“ Woah, you really missed me that much?” she asked and I nodded.

“ That’s okay because…guess what I got you for your birthday.” She said, handing me a pair of Nike shoes that she didn’t bother to package.

“ I just know that your toes are literally burning in those.” She pointed at my shoes and I laughed because she was right. She knew about my growth spurt too.

“ Thanks,” I said simply as I wore the shoe she got me and threw the old one in the trash, they were quite embarrassing now that I thought about it.

We both headed to class in silence for a while before she finally said what I feared she would, “ So… I’m hearing some whispers about you finding your mate.”

“ No, that’s a misunderstanding. I don’t know why I did that.” I lied but she knew that I was lying. Even though we just became friends a few months ago, she knew me better than anyone else – except Aidan of course.

“ Yeah, a misunderstanding,” she said while suspiciously looking at me through the corner of her eyes.

When we got to class, Aidan and his friends were already seated and they were chatting animatedly, except…Aidan wasn’t talking at all. He was quiet and he looked upset.

“ Why won’t he just talk to you?” Becka asked as we stood by the doorposts.

“ Because, he’s probably confused and doesn’t understand why I would say what I said outside.” I said, it was no use acting like Becka didn't already know the truth.

“ No he’s not. He knows you’re his mate – now that I think about it, it seems he has known for quite a while now.”

“ There’s no way Becka. He’s turning eighteen in two days, he doesn’t feel the things I’m feeling right now.”

Becka paused and gave me a very questioning look, it was as if she couldn’t believe what I had just said. “ Are you sure you even know Aidan?” she asked, her eyes widening in surprise before she pulled me aside so no one would see us at the doorposts.

“ What do you mean?”

“ Wait…you think that you’re older than Aidan with two days?” she asked, looking at me crucially.

“ Yeah, my birthday is today and his birthday as well as…April’s is in two days.” I said, rolling my eyes at her. How could she think I wouldn't know his birthday?

“ Well that’s true…only that he was born a year before you Kayla.” She said, giving me a pitiful look.

“ There’s no way. He said he was my age, he’s always said that…”

“ What? That one argument you guys had when you were what- six year olds? He said that to make you happy and I can’t believe you really believed that till now!”

“ Well w-we…never actually talk about birthdays or celebrate birthdays because of me. Maybe I would’ve realized sooner… I –“

“ – Kayla, Aidan has known about you being his mate yet he didn’t tell you, instead, he dated April. Think about that!”

This was the side to Becka that I didn’t like. The side where she slaps me with the painful truth even why I try to be hopeful but I couldn’t deny that she was right.

I paused to think about it, if what she is saying is true then Aidan will be turning nineteen in two days and that means last year when he told me that I get more beautiful whenever it's my birthday, he was already aware that I was his mate – which was why it looked like he wanted to kiss me! I didn't imagine it!