Chapter 0078
“Thank you for your time, Miss Banks, I’ll have your new phone and clothes delivered to your room shortly,” Mr Collins nods and walks out of my room. I blink in confusion. Why did we have to be in my room for that chat? I hear Theo shouting in the living area and 1 rush out to see what’s going on. Mason has Theo in a bear hug from behind and he’s struggling, Mr Collins whispers something to him and he suddenly goes still in Mason’s arms.
“What’s going on?” I demand.
“Compulsion training again,” Luke explains spinning me to face him, “Are you hungry?”
“Yes, I’m starving, but I want to see Theo act like a chicken” I laugh, trying to look over my shoulder to see the show, but I only catch Mr Collins leaving.
“You know I’m starting to think that guy is a bit of a creep. I know he’s our headmaster and is supposed to help us but don’t you think he helps us a little too much?” Theo asks with a frown.
“We are a special case,” Luke shrugs.
“Can we finally eat now?” Mason huffs.
“I think I lost my appetite,” Axel growls and I notice that his fists are clenched as he walks into his room and slams the door behind him.
“Did I miss something?” I ask, looking between the guys. Theo frowns, looking just as confused at Axel’s mood as
- mc.
“He’s just tired,” Luke smiles and Mason grunts in agreement whilst he loads a plate up with breakfast pastries.
I take a plate, grab a few of the pastries and head to Axel’s bedroom. “Axel?” I call as I knock on the door. “Can I come in?”
The door opens and Axel steps back, allowing me in before he slams the door behind me making me flinch.
“Sorry,” he mumbles.
“It’s okay. What’s wrong?” I ask, following him to sit on the edge of his bed.
‘Nothing, I’m fine, just in a bad mood,” he sighs and points towards the door before tapping his ear, indicating the others might be listening. I nod in understanding.
“Then it’s lucky I’m here to cheer you up then isn’t it,” I grin, “eat,” I offer him one of the pastries, and he shakes his head.
“You eat,” he half smiles.
“Only if you do,” I challenge.
“Fine,” he grabs one of the pastries from the plate and takes a massive bite, making me giggle as he struggles to
chew it.
“So what should we do today?” I ask as we eat.
“There’s not much we can do,” he snorts.
“Oh I don’t know, I was thinking we could get an Uber into town, maybe visit a restaurant and go to the cinema or bowling,” I shrug.
Chapter 0078
“Do what?” he laughs, clearly having no idea what I’m talking about.
“Ugh, what do you guys do for fun in this realm?”
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“We have parties with dancing, but they’re not really my scene. We watch TV, play video games, go for walks or a swim, run as wolves, read books,” he shrugs.
“I can’t wait to take you guys to the human realm,” I sigh and flop back on his bed, imagining all the fun we could be having.
“I’ve never been there, tell me about it,” he says, laying back on the bed next to me. I tell him about all the amazing food we have, the fun activities we do and the sports we play. I find out that they do play some of the same sports here but they’re mostly just school activities and not the big events that we have in the human realm. We talk about music and he plays some popular music from this realm, which is different but not bad.
“I wish I still had my old phone, I had some music saved on there,” I say sadly.
“Wait here,” Axel frowns and leaves the room, he returns moments later with a box, “this is all of your stuff that they managed to save,” he places the box on the bed and I open it eagerly.
I smile when I see my phone, it’s battered and the screen is smashed but when I press the power button the screen lights up
with a flat battery icon. I route through the box pulling out old college tex and some stationary and sigh when I reach the bottom without finding my charger. Then I remember I’d left it in the living area.
“Be right back,” I grin and dash to retrieve my charger, which is right where I’d left it. I run back to Axel’s room and frantically search for a plug socket. I plug my phone in and hold my breath, the screen lights up, the battery symbol indicating it is charging. “Yes! Give me 5 minutes and then be prepared to be amazed by some real music,” The moment my phone powers in I open up my music library and hit shuffle, the first song begins playing and I feel a little more at home. I push my box of belongings from the bed and climb up to lie next to Axel. We lay in a comfortable silence for a while, just listening to the music. Axel stares at his celling, he looks lost in thought.
“Are you okay?” I ask him, I wish he’d open up to me.
“Are you happy here, Josie?” he asks.
“Happy here in your room?”
“No, I mean in this realm, with us,” he turns onto his side to look at me.
“Mostly, I mean I’ve not had much time to get to know you all, and Mason is, well, Mason,” I roll my eyes, wouldn’t say I’m unhappy, but I have an empty void inside me and I don’t think I can fill that vold here, I need my mum, my human friends. I think I could be happier if I was able to have regular visits back home and with my mum. Oh and if people stopped trying to kill us that would be great too,”
“If you were given the option to go back to your old life, would you?” he asks and I have to think about that for a moment. Could I go back to being a regular human? Could leave my bonds behind?
“My life wasn’t easy but it was simple, it was boring but it was also safe. I had my future planned out, finish university, get a good job, buy a house, maybe get married and have a couple of kids. Then I’d retire and help raise my grandchildren. Now, well, I have no clue,” I laugh. “If I had to leave you all behind to return to my old life then no, I’d miss you all too much,” I smile and reach over to touch his face. It’s crazy that I’d actually choose these men I barely know over everything in my old life but I know it’s the truth, we are bonded, our souls connected. I don’t think living without them is even a possibility now.
