Chapter 25

Marissa’s POV

It was only 11 and this was already the best birthday I’ve ever had. I was currently sitting in my room curling my hair, getting ready to go out with Alex in an hour. I had spent the rest of the morning with my brother, he had gotten me a new digital camera, which I guess I could use now that I actually have memoires I would like to remember. It was nice of him to get me something that I would need but wouldn’t get myself, I think those presents were the best.

I seen my mom too, she wished me happy birthday and told me I would get my present tonight. she probably is going to throw me a party but right now I'm so happy that I couldn’t care less what went on tonight. all she said was that she promised I would love it. I don’t doubt that because my mom’s presents were always the best.

I finished curling my hair and it looked good, it only took me a half an hour and it still turned out in nice loose curls. I walked over to my closet and started my search for some clothes that I could wear today. i ended up in a black pair of ripped jeans with some black boots, a grey and white striped long sleeve and a white leather jacket to top it all off. I put on some silver eye shadow along with some eyeliner and lip gloss, for once I tried to look my best and I have to say I didn’t do a too bad job.

I smiled at my reflection in the mirror, it was the perfect look for the perfect day. another thing that I couldn’t keep off my mind was Zane, he was so nice to me this morning that I didn’t want to say no to me when he asked to take me out. Honestly I'm curious of what he’s going to do. I know now that this is strictly a friends thing so I won’t try and make anything out of it.

It was about ten minutes to twelve when Alex messaged me telling me he would be picking me up in five minutes or so. The late November weather was chilly but beautiful; I loved the cold for everything it wasn’t. No one could dress half naked like the summer and I love layering my clothing. The style just fit my curvy body perfectly and made me look good. And of course the snow was another plus, I still loved playing in the snow. I still can’t believe I'm 18, it feels like half of my life is over though. I’ll be graduating soon and Derek will be turning nineteen early next year.

Werewolf pregnancy’s only last a total of five months so that’s how me and Derek are in the same grade and so close in age. Although for some reason I was one year behind him because I started kindergarten late but I managed to skip a grade because of my grades. I sighed and walked down the stairs, I walked out the door and sat down on the deck, I hadn’t seen Zane since the morning but In a way I was glad, that way we couldn’t ruin anything and cancel tonight. we kind of have a tendency for fighting with each other off the stupidest things.

Alex’s car pulled up a couple minutes later. He parked the car and actually got out to come and greet me. I hugged him when we met halfway down the driveway.

“Happy birthday, you look beautiful as always” he whispered into my ear. He was so sweet that It was hard to believe that a guy as great as him liked me. “I think I have a great day planned, I got you something but I’ll give that to you later” he winked and grabbed my hand.

We walked towards the car hand in hand; this moment couldn’t get any better. it was when we were driving that I remembered what Alex said when I met him for the first time over dinner.

“Hey Alex, you know when we met at dinner?” Started off. He looked towards me and flashed me a smile before nodding. “well you said you were going to be going to our school, why didn’t you end up coming?” I asked out of curiosity. I would have been awesome to have him at school with me.

“Oh well my mom wanted me to go to a catholic school so she decided to tell me that I was going to one at the last minute, I would have loved to go to school with you though. I already know people there and then there would be the advantage of seeing you every day” he explained and I nodded, I was to busy checking him out to respond right away. He had on a black cargo jacket with a grey shirt underneath and a pair of jeans on. His hair looked perfect like every time and I could see the brightness in his eyes as he looked at me. he was a gorgeous guy, not hot but gorgeous.

“Oh well that’s too bad then” I replied after I was finished, to my surprise me simply laughed, I wonder if he noticed me checking him out, oh well I was allowed to let my eyes wander. “So where are we going?” I asked changing the subject.

“We’re going to be going ice skating and then for lunch, I have one more thing planned but that is a surprise” he looked at me while he said that, making excitement curse through my body. “That sounds great, but I can’t really skate” I admitted, I had always been a fail at skating. I could never balance properly and I was always falling all over the place.

“That’s perfect, you can hold onto me the whole time” he shot me a little smirk making me roll my eyes playfully, but a smile was on my face. I would love to cling to him the whole day. “Sounds like a plan” I smirked back at him.

When we pulled up to the ice rink it was even colder than It was. this was about half an hour outside the city and the skating rink was outside. They had music playing and decorations hung up all over the place. it was early afternoon so not many people were there, that just made all the more special.

“Let me just go get some skates and I’ll meet you over there” he pointed towards some benches on the other side of the oval shaped rink. I nodded and started walking towards the bench while he went the other way to get our skates. I don’t know why but it seemed like my face was frozen with a smile.

I sat there looking around at the people who were skating, there were some couples holding hands and smiling at each other whole there was some friends skating around in a circle and laughing with each other. With everything that had happened in the last couple of months my life had changed drastically, I would have never of guessed that I would be one of those people skating around and smiling at the guy who just makes me so happy. And if anything I expected it to be my mate, but I guess that just proves how random fate can really be.

I was lost in thought when Alex came over too me, skates in hand. He handed me a pair and started putting his on. “Ready?” he asked with an open smile in his face. I nodded and let him pull me onto the ice.

I squealed immediately, I felt like I was going to fall so I grabbed onto Alex immediately. He stumbled a little but managed to keep us both us. I'm pretty sure my face looked like I was terrified and Alex was laughing.

“calm down we’re not even moving yet” he said trying to hold in his laughter. I shot him my best mock glare before gliding slowly across the ice, I kept slipping all over the lace though. I guess after a while I got somewhat the hang of it, but if Alex let me go then I would fall flat on my face, that much I was sure of.

“So tell me why do you smell like waffles?” he asked amused. My eyes went wide and I started laughing when I thought about how Zane cooked pancakes for me this morning, it was ironic how my mate cooked my breakfast and now I was on a date with another guy.

“I ate waffles for breakfast and the whole house smelled like them, I guess it never really went away” I said with a laugh. “Well it smells good, I'm betting they were good pancakes” he asked and I nodded. Some of the best damn pancakes ever I thought to myself. I should get Zane to make me some more often then.

I didn’t want to think about Zane right now though, nor did I want to bring him up with Alex, seeing as we just had this conversation about Zane on our last date and things didn’t exactly go well when he was brought into the picture.

We skated around for about an hour, talking about random things and just having a good time. It felt good to carelessly laugh with him about funny things and generally enjoy myself. Alex just had a way of knowing the fun things to do, making the best of the time for the two of us.

“Well that was fun” I breathe out as we got back into the car. It was around one now so we were off to lunch. “That was the best time I’ve ever had skating” he grinned and I smiled to myself knowing that he enjoyed It just as much as I did.

“So where are we off to now?” I asked. I don’t know why I was so excited for lunch, but it seemed like everything was fun with Alex and I couldn’t get enough of him. he was a drug that I always wanted more of.

“Well I was going to decide now actually any preferences?” he asked with a short laugh. “Well we could just go to McDonalds or something” I shrugged. I didn’t care much about where we ate and I loved McDonalds, who doesn’t?

“Really you don’t care if you don’t go somewhere nice?” he asked with surprise written all over his face. “No I don’t care much about fancy stuff, it’s the person your with that makes the most of it” I smiled sweetly and said.

“Wow just about every girl I’ve been with loved going out to restaurants and here you are not caring, you are incredible” I saw the smile on his face grow even bigger. “Well I don’t know what kind of girls you used to date but they don’t sound like the nicest sort of people who care about personality and stuff” I admitted. Alex is cute and all but it’s how nice and sweet he is that makes him so perfect, what girl wouldn’t want a guy like this?

“Your right, they mostly cared about looks and how they’re reputation looked. You’re the first girl I’ve been with that isn’t all about that” he said, I felt as if we were having a conversation on all the girls that’s been with him and that’s exactly what we were doing. This whole topic has one question that keeps blurting into my mind.

“How many girls have you dated?” I asked curiously. I kind of wanted to know if he got around a lot, I don’t like guys like that but then again Alex is a whole kind of different person. “I’ve been out on my fair share of dates but I’ve only had two serious girlfriends” he added and I sighed, it was nice to know he wasn’t about getting the girls and dumping them down when they got boring too him.

“How much guys have you gone out with?” he asked, now looking at me this time. “none, I didn’t really know too much people and no one ever liked me like that” I admitted. He knew that the first time he kissed me was my first kiss but I guess he at least expected me to have been on a date. I wasn’t like most eighteen year old girls who go out partying and have all the boy drama. I did my homework and did what was necessary while keeping to myself. That was the way I am and it made me who I am now, which I love.

“Oh well I’m glad to be your first then. And for the guys who were too stupid to get to know you I guess it’s their lost” he added the last part. I didn’t really care to much about guys till Zane came along, then I felt like my heart was broken right away without even being in love first.

And soon after that Alex came along, slowly mending it back together. I wasn’t afraid to trust or afraid that I was going to get hurt because if you give up an opportunity then you always wonder ‘what if’.

“I'm glad you’re my first date and everything, it makes it all worth it.” all the things I was saying was true. I guess I’ve finally gotten over the fact that my mate just doesn’t want to love me, it still stings but I can live on without all of that. Although I still have feelings for Zane somewhere inside me, I know I always will because he isn’t a bad guy. I don’t know what went wrong with me being his mate and all but I saw that it hurt him a little too, and he didn’t be a total jerk about it, although sometimes he was.

“Well we’re here. I don’t want to talk about the past anymore because we’re in the perfect moment” he added grabbing my hand as we walked into the restaurant. We ordered our food and ate, we talked and laughed, we smiled and joked. Like I said it was just so easy being with Alex.

“Ok so are you going to tell me what we’re doing now?” I asked excitedly. We were currently driving to the last stop of the day, the one he said that would be a surprise. “Nope you wont know until we get there” he said with amusement clear in his voice.

“can you at least give me a hint to where we’re going?” I was so curious by now, he had a huge smile on his face and he already told me that I’m going to love it. “All’s I'm telling you is that it has something to do with your birthday present” he looked at me and smiled and my confused face as if he enjoyed watching me try to figure this out.

I was so confused, where could we be going that is my present? It would have to be somewhere fun or something I liked. What did I like?

“Did I ever tell you it was someplace I wanted to go?” there was lots of places I told Alex I wanted to go, but most of them were out of the country so if he answered a yes to this then that would narrow it down a lot. “Nope, you never told me you wanted to go here because you’ve never heard of here. But I know you’re going to like it because of something you told me about yourself” he was just teasing me now.

He knew I wasn’t going to figure it out but he still kept giving me little hints. “Relax we’re almost here anyway” he said before I could say anything more. I forced my mind to slow down and simply watched out the window. I guess I would see soon enough, this had already turned out to be the best day possible and there was still more to come. I just had to remind myself that this is reality and not a dream, it was certainly good enough to be one.

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it was stricting an Alex chapter, the rest of it will come in the next upload, i hope everyone liked it! maybe enough to vote or comment?? and this chapter is dedicated too GinTokiSakata for all the comments and stuff! i'll make sure to do more dedications becuase there is more of you that help me with your comments and votes!