"Jeez! If you guys wanted me alone all you had to do was ask!" I notice they brought me into the game room. The LED lights give it all away.
"We didn't want to me rude," Emmanuel steps back, "so we chased you out."
"I mean, we are all wondering where you got that from?" Ethan points to my shoulder. "I don't remember you having it before."
"It's a mark."
"We know." Jerome moves in. "We do have mates you know, we know how it works."
"You should have brought him with you," I watch Emmanuel talk, "we would love to meet the guy." My heart leaps before dropping to my ass.
"You guys don't know how to play nice." I tell them.
"That's ridiculous."
"Is it?" I turn to Ethan. "All the times I would tell you guys about my crushes you'd never be shy to express just how you feel about then."
"This is different," Jerome chuckles, "this is your mate."
"Second chance mate actually."
"Oh?" I nod to Ethan's response. "What happened to your mate mate?"
"Cheated."
"Shit."
"I rejected him then had Tomas bite over his mark-"
"Tomas?!" I turn to Emmanuel. Fuck. "As in the beta you brought?!" I'm stared at by four pair of eyes, brown, blue, brown, hazel. Ethan shoots Emmanuel a look before they all start looking between each other. "Nadia..." he drags my name a little.
"What?" I look at them.
"Your beta?" Ethan asks, I can tell from their tone they don't approve.
"This is why I don't fucking talk to y'all-"
"No! What he means is," Jer tries to redeem themselves, "a beta and his alpha is enough, mating with your beta can be a little complicated."
"You okay?" I nod to his questions as we follow behind, Jer leaves with my sister be we walk into a sixteen chaired cinema.
"We can all take a corner with the exception of someone in the middle," Jerome says and I'm already moving to the far right corner with Tomas in hand, it's not until Jer comes back with his mate and the mates of others that the lights dim and the movie starts.
The movie plays in the background but we hardly pay attention in the back row, we kiss soundlessly, long and soft with our fingers still locked together. He throws an arm behind my seat as I tug on him in between kisses.
For the most part, we're not even looked at but that doesn't mean I don't see both Emmanuel and Ethan turn their heads to us, both time when Tomas and just pulled away for each other. I'm going to kill them.
Emmanuel and I met when I was around ten, he was adopted into the pack and we seems to get along well since he was already hanging around with Ethan and Jess. Ethan, although he's my older cousin, loves to play the big brother card and having both him and Emmanuel against me is hard in a situation.
I tend to try stay on their good side.
Since I'm not around all the time, we tend to click a lot fast making more time, hence to why I was so easily picked on, then picked up, then dragged away.
I met his mate Kelly a while back and vibed well with here, I also have a group of girls that I do hang around whenever the guys are not here. There's Kelly, Sandra, who's my mothers older brother's first child, she could tackled me down, for fun!
I remember spending most of my Easters hiding form her since she's older and stronger then me I never got the upper hand. We have this unspoken game of tag that we play, the last I left she was it, every time I'm back it's either she finds me or I her, the game never ends.
Ruby, she's not a cousin of my but is basically a sister at this point, she can never run out of tea and knows everything, she also tends to stir the pot quite a lot.

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