The Council's Arcane Academy

Chapter 384 Never Easy

Joseph’s p.o.v. I can see it the moment she realizes that there is no way she can lift Jenna without touching some very private part of me and I find the red on her cheeks very cute. Neither one of us expected Jenna to wake up or for her to hit me in the groin, twice. Apparently it is very funny for Jocelyn, but I can guarantee you that there is nothing funny about it from my point of view. Griffin enjoys my little act of revenge as much as I do and he makes sure that I keep brushing against her during lunch. I don’t think it had the effect that Griffin was hoping for, because after lunch she stays as far away from me as she can. Right now I am grateful that we are not within our territory or I would have trouble concealing how much Jocelyn affects me. I am wearing sweatpants and they hide the raging hard on I have, but I do have to watch how I move at times. “Inti isn’t doing any better.” Griffin says in my head and I decide to pay a little more attention to my best friend. Griffin is right, because Inti refuses to move in certain directions and I can see his eyes following Indigo. Looks like we both have finally found a female that we might be interested in, but I am not getting my hopes up. Inti and I have been through this before and usually it ends with a lot of yelling, because the females turn out to be power hungry or find our Pack to small. I will take this slow, I won’t risk missing out on a Mate and I will not fall for a power hungry female. Not that Jocelyn or Indigo seem to belong in that category, they have done a lot since we ran into one another and always without complaining. Inti steps next to me and I follow his line of sight to my groin, “Yeah, we seem to have the same problem.” I whisper teasingly as I look at his groin and I hear him growl softly. “I think I am going to ask Erylis to run with Griffin tonight, I’d like to see if they get along.” I whisper to Inti and he slowly nods his head, the expression on his face tells me that he is thinking about something. Without another word Inti walks away from me and my eyes drift back to Jocelyn, well I should say Erylis because she is currently in Wolf form. Faye is lying on her front legs, while Jenna is crawling over her back and Erylis just allows it. I get pulled back to the first time that Griffin stood on Dad’s back, he was scared that we might fall and Mom had to assure him that we wouldn’t. Getting back to the present I see that Erylis is gone, but Jenna and Faye are still where I saw her last and in a panic Griffin pushes forward. “We have to find her.” He growls in my head, but I know that she can’t be that far away. Jenna wouldn’t be sitting there all quiet, no she would be screaming on the top of her lungs and Faye right along with her. My eyes lock with those of Indigo and she points towards the SUV they have been traveling in. Griffin forces me to walk to the SUV, he wants to know why she left Jenna and Faye by themselves and I speed up a little when I can hear soft cries coming from the SUV. I walk around to the other side to keep anyone from seeing what is going on, I open the door quietly and I find her curled up on the backseat. I climb in and sit down beside her, pulling her onto my lap in the process. I let her cry for as long as she needs, one hand holding her head to my chest, the other running up and down her back. “Is she okay, Joseph?” I hear Inti asking, but I don’t have an answer for him and I tell him so. I have no idea what caused her to cry, all I know is that she felt the need to hide and going on that I believe it has to do with Jenna and Faye. No one bothers us and I keep holding her, until her sobs become less. We just sit there in silence, I don’t even know if I have the right words to say to her. “Do you think it will get better?” I hear Jocelyn ask and I take my time to answer her, because I am not sure what she might mean by it.“I don’t think the pain and sorrow will disappear completely, but with time it will become easier to talk or think about them. Losing someone is never easy, there will always be a difference between losing a loved one, a friend or a Pack-member.” I answer. After all she lost her Father and her Brother, even though they deserved to die. She found Beta Faye, she helped one of our Warriors to end his suffering and then she saw what happened to Beta Jordan. Yeah, she has seen enough death to last her a life-time, but I doubt it will be the last time. “I was wondering if Erylis wanted to run with Griffin tonight.” I say, just trying to get her mind of death for a while. She slowly lifts her head and I look into her marble grey eyes, they look like a pool of liquid silver. “I really like the color of your eyes, they look amazing.” I whisper as I place my head against her head.Her giggle makes my heart skip a beat and I can’t help but ask myself if this is what Humans felt, when they were still around and fell in love as they called it. No other female has made me feel this way before and I can tell you that I have tried, but it never felt right. I don’t think we just lost the ability to find our fated Mate during the days of the Full Moon, I also believe that it is more difficult for us to have a casual relationship. Especially for those of us that want a serious relationship, a relationship for the right reasons and deep down I believe that our Wolves and Lycans contribute to that feeling. Griffin was never interested in a female and eventually my interest would fade, but this seems to be different for the both of us.

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