Chapter 5 Chapter 5
Kieran POV
What the hell did I do to her?
She makes ignoring an entire person seem like the simplest task in the world.
Not avoiding me. Not being polite but distant. She looks at me like she genuinely wants nothing to do with me and I can't stop thinking about it.
“What did you do to her?” Atlas, my wolf, asks.
“I don’t fucking know.”
“Yo Kieran, you okay man?”
My best friend and Beta, Caelum, walks over to me.
I lean against a wall in the back of the quad where I have the perfect view of her.
Which probably isn't helping the situation but every time I tell myself to stop looking, my eyes find her anyway.
He follows my line of sight.
“Nope, don’t go down that road.”
“I’m not even doing anything.”
Watching isn't doing anything. At least that's what I keep telling myself.
“Kieran, I know that look. You are literally dating her sister, so whatever you are thinking stop.”
I finally look away from her and look at him.
“Have I ever had a conversation with her?”
“Are you seriously asking me that? I don’t know. Why?”
I shrug.
“In class earlier she implied I did something to her to make her not want to talk to me.”
“She didn’t imply it, she said you did something,” Atlas points out.
“Shut up.”
“Well maybe you shouldn’t talk to her,” Caelum says.
I glare at him.
“What? I just see this ending very badly.”
“I got it under control.”
The problem is I don't have it under control. If I did, I would've stopped thinking about her after first period.
“Well here comes your girlfriend and her friends now.”
He points his chin toward Aliza walking my way.
“Kieran, you ran off after the field. I didn’t even get a chance to find you.”
She walks over and kisses me.
“Let me see your schedule. I want to see if we have any classes together.”
I reach into my pocket and hand it to her.
“We don’t have any classes together except lunch.”
A pout appears on her face.
A very big part of me is happy about that.
The realization makes guilt settle heavily in my stomach.
I’m trying to find out what I did to Kaelani.
When I saw her this morning coming out of her packhouse it was like I was finally seeing her.
She took off the boy clothes and stopped hiding behind her hair and she is fucking beautiful.
Which makes no sense because she's always looked the way she looks.
She's the same girl that has been walking these halls for three years.
So why does it feel like I only noticed her today?
Thinking about the way that skirt hugged her hips that I never knew she had and those legs.
Oh goddess, those legs.
“You’re screwed,” Atlas says, laughing in my head.
He's right because while my girlfriend is sitting next to me, I’m thinking about her sister.
Not in a passing way either. Every time I try to focus on something else, my thoughts circle right back to Kaelani.
“Kieran, did you hear what I said?”
Aliza snaps her fingers in front of my face.
“I’m sorry, what did you say?”
“You’ve been distracted all morning. Are you okay?”
No.
I’m apparently crushing on your sister.
“Yes I’m fine, just a little tired. I didn’t get much sleep last night.”
The lie comes out far too easily.
“Well make sure you get some tonight. Anyway, I was saying that Marco is having a party on Friday night at the new teen werewolf club that just opened up. I heard the entire school will be there. You’re going right?”
I nod mechanically.
“Yeah I’m going.”
The first thing that pops into my head isn't the party.
It's whether Kaelani will be there.
She thinks I’m giving up on this and yeah, I need to break things off with Aliza at some point, but I can’t even get her sister to speak to me yet.
And somehow that bothers me more than it should.
I know whatever I do, I will get Kaelani to talk to me.
“Okay, well I have to go to class. It’s on the other side of the school, see you at lunch.”
She kisses me before walking away with her posse of bimbos.
“That was brutal to watch,” Caelum says laughing.
“Shut up,” I grit out.
“Just break up with her bro because that was hard to watch.”
The annoying thing is he's right.
Aliza deserves someone whose attention isn't somewhere else.
The bell rings.
“I will but first I need to get Kaelani to talk to me.”
“Yeah, good luck with that.”
We start walking toward our next class.
“Why are you so hell bent on knowing anyways? Why now?” he asks as we step into the hallway.
That's the question, isn't it?
A week ago I wasn't thinking about Kaelani. Hell, yesterday morning I barely noticed her.
Now I can't stop thinking about her.
I look down the hall and notice Kaelani disappearing into the locker room.
I pull my schedule out and glance at it.
A smirk spreads across my face.
I have combat right now.
So does she.
Perfect.
Maybe if she can't avoid me, I'll finally get some answers.
“This is getting pathetic,” Atlas says, laughing at me.
“I just want to know what I did and why I don’t remember.”
At least that's what I keep telling myself.
“I have combat, see you at lunch.”
I head toward the boys locker room.
All I need to do is find out what I did to her and then fix it.
Because whatever happened, it clearly mattered to her.
Enough that three years later she still looks at me like I'm a problem she wishes would go away.
Who would know that answer?
The answer hits me immediately.
Kaia.
If anyone knows why Kaelani hates me, it's her best friend.
And unlike Kaelani, Kaia actually talks.
