When I woke up the next day. My new friend Ariana was still asleep wrapped around me. I smiled before gently pulling away from her. The way she was wrapped around me was the same way I had once loved to wrap myself around Alex. I got a flashback.

**

It was one dawn when we were sleeping in my room.

I was half asleep when I had felt something moved away from me. I had quickly wrapped myself more tightly around him with a groan.

"Alex!!! it's still early to wake up!" I had told him.

"What did I told you about not clinging to me??" his voice was filled with teasing as he pushed me on my back.

I opened my eyes a little and made a face of thinking intently before I swiped my finger on his cheek.

"Umm you had told me that if I will continue clinging to you like that I will end up getting my v-card punched by you hehe!!" I giggled at him like a toddler giggling at her mother.

"Why don't you own up to your threats? A-l-e-xxx" I had asked him sexily.

he had huffed before sitting upright. for some reason he never fell asleep. he just lay down with his eyes closed for getting rest. "We don't need to do anything like that until we are official Eva!! that's why we are not punching your v-card anytime soon." he said.

I was happy that he had wanted to marry me before making love to me that's why I had not asked anything else. but I had not know that he'll leave me with those empty threats and promises.

**

I came back to reality and gazed at the clock hanging on the wall in between our room. It's past six. so I decides to have a shower for my first day at this academy.

I took my sweet time for having a bath before coming out. I dried my hair with a dryer. And pulled on the grey shorts with red puffy jacket and white blouse. I paired it with my black shoes. I had woken up Ariana before changing my clothes. She had gone inside the bathroom for twenty minutes now. when I tried to knock I heard a voice sobbing from inside.

"Ariana!!!! Are you alright???" I called out.

there was no reply for a second before the handle of the door jiggle and the door parted. there stood Ariana in her white t-shirt. with tear stained face.

"What happened Ariana??? Come here come!!" I took her hand, lead her on the sofa near us and sat with her.

She continues crying and hugged me while doing so.

"Ariana atlest tell me what happened maybe I can help you out!!" I said to her while caressing her head which she laid on my chest.

Ariana handed me something from her palm. I looked at it. It's a pregnancy test. more importantly it's a positive preg test. my mouth formed an 'o'

"I'm pregnant Eva!! I don't know how I can be a single mother in this age!! I'm just eighteen!!" Ariana said.

wiping her face.

"But Ariana, don't you know who is the father of this child??" I asked hurriedly with wide eyes. ofcourse it can't be possible that Ariana had slept with this many guys that she doesn't know who fathered her child!?.

"I know Eva I had slept with him only, I never had let anyone else touch me even." Ariana said, her sadness gone now replaced by horrify look.

"So why don't you tell him?? it's his responsibility also!!" I said to her with confusion on my face.

She took a deep breath "He thought it was only a one night stand. He had told me he can't afford getting attached. I blindly did as he asked because it was the only thing I was getting from my mate" She said with her eyes closed.

my mind wandered around the word mate. everyone continues saying that word again and again. first Alex then Jacob and now Ariana. "Ariana what does mate actually means?" I asked in a whisper.

Ariana looked at me like I've grown two heads. "Eva, mate!!! other half?" She said.

"Ahh, Means your husband?" I asked.

She blinked at me "Eva, Mate is the other half of your soul. Fate chooses everyone a mate. A mating bond can only form between mates. A marriage can be broken but mating bond can't not unless one of the other dies. A mate can do everything for his mate. You have to claim your mate to form a bond. Your happiness, your sadness, your uneasiness A mate can feel and hear everything what's going on inside you. it's a very nice experience to finally find and claim your mate. But sometimes your mate can reject claiming you. Shifters who have not yet been completely indulge in there duties tend to wait for mating until they get ahold of thier duties. Like mine. he can't mate me until he graduates but so so he can't promise after that also. because he thinks a mate is a weakness and he can't afford any weakness" She explained as she started dressing up weakly.

I proceeds everything in my mind then I thought both Alex and Jacob had told me that I'm thier mate. but Alex was a human as far as I know. Can humans also have mates? if so, Then it means I have two mates? is it possible to have two mates?

I didn't know that I have spoken my questions out load until Ariana said "IDK Eva, Humans mating paranormals are not unheard of. but having two mates is a very rare scenario. As far as I have seen or heard, no one from pure world had have more than one mate in more than six centuries. But our librarian sometimes tell phrospecies. Well whatever." She sat infront of the mirror stairing at her stomach.

I huffed "Do you trust me enough to tell me who is your mate?" I asked in a tired but stearn voice.

She looked at me then again at her stomach. "Trey gustova. he is my mate." she said holding her stomach.

Trey!? Trey!! this name rings a bell inside my head. I have heard it. umm where where where yeahhh "That Trey, Who we meet last night? the Alpha?" I asked with wide eyes.

"Yes, the very one." She said as she stood up. "I'm sorry Eva I indulge you in this drama. it's your first day in the academy. we don't want you to be late" She said in a fake sweet voice. but it'll be better if I have this in her way so that she can calm down.

"Don't ever say that again Ariana. I'm not angry now because you did shared your problem with me. but I would have been very angry if you didn't have had." I told her with a smile.

She nodded with a real smile before we picked our bags and walked outside for my first day in the academy.

Let's see what we got there.