"You want me to kiss you, don't you."

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As he steps foot inside the lecture hall, Mani feels a little apprehensive. Not only because of the sheer size of the room, with eyes feeling like they were on him, as he stepped inside, but he now knew that somewhere within the walls of this college, was his fate mate.

"Just be careful if you go shower, Mani." Tyler had told him. Mani had initially assumed that it was some kind of cheap reference to his sexuality, but when Tyler told him about the student who had been, in his words "a weird pervert, smelling my clothes and trying to come onto me." Mani knew straight away that Tyler had suffered an encounter with his mate.

That evening, Mani had decided to do what little laundry he had in order to rid his smell and evade detection. He knew it wouldn't actually work, but he needed to do something. He had offered to wash Tyler's clothes too, feeling an underline curiosity, but also hating how he had the urge to inhale his roommate's shirt, detecting the traces of who had come into contact with it, just like the 'pervert'. He hated how the scent was so enticing it turned him on. Mani despised himself for it.

To his relief, the lecture hall smells mate free and he can already see Jojo a few rows back. Jojo can also see him as he raises a hand to Mani in acknowledgement. "I saved you a place." Jojo says, smiling as his eyes try to covertly look up and down Mani's body, with the gaze ending up back at his face.

"Thanks." Mani replies, the observation noted. Jojo was most definitely checking him out. Mani didn't mind. Jojo had a unique attraction Mani found rather appealing, he was intrigued as to what he may do next.

"You got all the materials?" Jojo questions, seeing Mani pull a cumbersome textbook from his bag.

"Yep. But I don't know why they can't put this stuff online. My shoulder is gonna kill me by the end of the year." Mani complains.

Jojo puts his hand on Mani's shoulder, giving it a small rub and a squeeze. A bold move, even by wolf standards. "Maybe you need a backpack. That shoulder bag of yours will most definitely ruin your posture."

"You sound like my mother." Mani comments, trying to ignore the hand which felt like it was in contact for too long to be anything else other than an excuse for Jojo to have some kind of physical touch.

The hand moves as Mani settles in his seat. "Nice. I sound like a middle aged woman." Jojo laughs.

"You are not like my mother. Trust me." Mani says with a knowing smile.

"Well, that's a relief." Jojo laughs. Before turning to look at the board in front of the lecture hall. "So I've heard the lecturer is hot." He says, eyeing up the vacant lecturn which was yet to be occupied.

"Is she?" Mani says, deciding to play it safe and presume his new friend was a straight shooter for the ladies.

"Yes he is." Jojo looks at Mani with a smile.

"Right." Mani says, feeling foolish for trying to be clever. He needed to trust his instincts a little more sometimes. They did have their advantage.

Soon the lecturer comes into view. Mani looks on. He was handsome indeed and there was this want in the back of his mind for him to be his mate, but it seemed fate had a different suitor in mind for him.

***

"So, this is your dorm." Mani says as he walks with Jojo to the door.

"Yeah this is me." Jojo smiles back, leaning back onto the door. Mani smiles at Jojo knowingly. "What?" Jojo says.

"You don't just want to lend me that textbook, you want me to kiss you, don't you." Mani says, getting closer.

Jojo zones in on Mani's lip ring on his lower lip, causing him to bite on his own lip. "Whatever gave you that impression?" Jojo tries to be cool, when inside he is feeling his pulse racing. Even Mani can sense it.

Mani gets in closer, just inches away now. "I'm gonna do it, you know."

"Go on then." Jojo says under a heated breath. Mani surely can't get any closer, Jojo will burst.

Mani smiles and gently presses his lips against Jojo's. Jojo lets himself lean back heavy against the door. Mani pulls the sides of Jojo's jacket, pulling him in close, bodies now pressed together. Jojo rests his arms on Mani's shoulders. Mani tilts his head to give a deeper kiss. Jojo keeps feeling the metal of Mani's lip ring. Wanting to rub his tongue over it but subconsciously thinks twice about it, not wanting to be too adventurous...yet.

Mani eventually pulls away. "You've wanted to do that since you first saw me." Mani says with a hint of smugness.

Jojo smiles looking down in embarrassment before looking back up at Mani. "Well it was nice...I can cross it off my list now."

"You'll need to make a new list." Mani says with a smirk.

"Oh yeah? Maybe I will." Jojo replies, equally smug.

Mani leans in again, catching Jojo's lips. It felt good as their tongues went in deep. He wondered what it would be like to have Jojo push his sex deep inside, look into his eyes as he went slow and sensual like in the human erotic story books Mani had used as reference. He had read that they enjoyed variety, rather than just the usual fast paced, hungry doggy style pounding which his kind only ever seemed to want to do.

He knew his sexdrive was higher than that of the average human, but he also knew that many humans played by different rules. That of friendship, romance. Mani wanted to experience it all. If this was to be with Jojo, then he would have to fight his primal desires.

He makes the decision to prize himself away before those desires took over. "You'd better get that book." He utters slightly breathlessly, catching the slightly hazy look in Jojo's eyes.

"Ok." He says with a smile as he turns in the small personal space he had between Mani and the door.

As the door opens, it hits him, the smell, that smell. "Mmmate." Mani finds the words leaving his lips from deep in the pit of his stomach.

Jojo turns to look at Mani in confusion. "What did you say?"

Mani looks at Jojo with panic in his eyes. "That smell Wh, wh...who d...do you...sh shh share w with?"

"Mani are you ok?" Jojo now places his hands on Mani's shoulder.

"WHO DO YOU SHARE WITH JOJO?" Mani can feel a shift in his physicality, his urges were pushing their way through.

"Teddy!" Jojo replies with panic. Why had Mani become so unhinged in the blink of an eye? "Mani what is it? What's up with you?"

"I gotta go!" Mani manages to say as he turns and runs.

"Mani...." Jojo calls out, but Mani just disappears around the corner. He now heads into his room. He sniffs the air. He smells nothing.