What's that smell?

Makahi: POV

      "So we need to increase our men at the borders for the next few weeks we need to send scouts to do some re con on the area alpha Terrain told us about and we need to make sure the women and children are on a soft lock down for now. They can only stay outside for an hour and with at least 2 of our men monitoring them to make sure they stay away from the wooded areas for now." I said to Montago as we were planning and scheduling how to best handle these rogue wolves that has obviously banded together to attack several packs. The other alphas sounded pissed and unsettled by how organized their attacks were.

         They seems to have a leader controlling them. So, I want going to take this new threat lightly. Still coming up with plans, a brief knock on the door interrupted us for a moment “Enter." I said so looking at the map on my desk trying to fugue out the best position to put our men so they can cover the entire pack land. Blaze and Shadow enters. And waited for me to acknowledge them. Looking up at them Shadow looks a little off, but Blazes is all smiles. "Have they arrived yet?"  I asked no one in particular. "Yes, they arrived a little while ago Luna took them to the last house out west like you instructed. We deposited their thing and left Luna with them." Blaze said still smiling. Raising my brow curious as to what he found amusing. "Care to share what has you in a good mood." I asked Blazes.

         "Well alpha the human women our Luna invited seems...... nice." He said trying to search for the right words. I hear Shadow give a low growl. I glanced at him a little surprised at his response. Shadow is there a problem." I asked trying to gauge his reaction. Stepping forward to stand directly in front of my desk when he stopped, I smelled the most delicious smell in the world. I couldn’t tell what it was, but my wolf immediately tried to push forward trying to get closer to that smell. Which I refused because I wasn’t about to be sniffing Shadow. "Alpha is something wring did you hear me." Shadow said and I immediately snapped back into alpha mode again schools my expression. "No. Say again." Shadow eyeing me suspiciously but repeated himself.

         "I said I think it's a bad idea keeping those human women here maybe you can speak to our Luna to see if she will reconsider. They are mouthy and tiny I'm afraid some of our females will hurt them." Shadow said in a rush he kind of looked pale which was odd to say the least. Blazes stepped up as well and I smelled something sweet but not like what I smelled on Shadow I don't know why my wolf is clawing at me trying to get closer to wherever that smell came from. "Will you chill the hell out Maka" He growled at me."OUT NOW!"  "You think I'm going to let you out to sniff Shadow are you nuts. Let me find out what's going on with these humans and I promise you we will find out where that smell is coming from." Maka finally settle down a little, but I can still feel him on the surface ready to come out. Blaze and Shadow were arguing about the human women, and I can tell they are already a problem. "ENOUGH!" I growled and both men immediately stopped their debate. Looking at Blaze I nodded for him to speak.

           "Alpha, I think Shadow is overreacting he's angry because our Luna had to scold him for growling at one of them." Blazes finished. "WHAT THE Hell SHADOW? I TOLD YOU NO WOLF STUFF IN HUMAN FORM ARE YOU TRYING TO EXPOSE THIS ENTIRE PACK TO HUMANS?" I yelled well and also throw my alpha aura in there. Shadow immediately bared his neck to me in submission. "No alpha I don't know what happen the little one with the long hair and round cheeks just rubs me the wrong way I don't know why." Shadow says helpless. He looked completely confused as he still had his neck bared to me. I let go of my alpha aura and he immediately stood at attention. I frowned as I thought about it, I looked at Shadow. "Shadow weren't you supposed to be at the front entrance tonight?"  I asked and his face immediately showed his guilt. Blaze started laughing. I'm looking at him waiting for the joke.

         "Well alpha me and Hunter were helping the humans with their stuff and when Hunter was getting Shawna's suitcases out and she was smiling at Hunter Shadow came and said you wanted Hunter to man the front gates tonight." Blaze finished with a smile that said ooooohhhhh you're about to get iiiittttt. Looking at Shadow who was standing stock still and wouldn't cut a glance at Blaze. "Explain?" I asked and Shadow's face deflated a little. I'm thinking maybe it was a bad idea to bring them here they have my best warrior all fucked up after 1 encounter.  "I was just trying to keep their exposure to our warriors to a minimum I don't want them to have to deal with them unnecessarily." Shadow replied. Which was a good excuse... it was complete bullshit, but I won't drag him through to coal any longer, he looked like he's been in a wolf fight and lost. Beside I needed to ask him about the wolf he has been around with that delicious smell. 

            "Blaze you're dismiss Shadow stay behind for a second, I have some questions for you." I said sitting back behind my desk gesturing shadow to have a seat next to Montago who has yet to speak. "Shadow besides the humans today who else did you come into contact with any other female wolves from other packs? I ask trying not to give any take on emotion away other then me making a general inquiry.  "Uh. Only the caters your mother hired from the Mombasa pack. Why do you ask? " He asked me with a raised brow. "I just wanted to make sure I know all females that may come in contact with the human women tonight you said you don't think k that they will get along with our females, so we need to make sure that we control the situation." I said absent-mindedly which he seem to buy. Even though that was complete bullshit too. And it seems as if Montago saw through my excuse to because he looked at me with a raiser brown.

         "You may go and get ready for my mother's mating anniversary and when you get there, please let her know I will be there as soon as I'm done here." I said looking back down at my map. Once Shadow left, I could still feel Montago eyes on me waiting for me to explain. And when he saw I wasn't offering one he came out and asked. You want to tell me what the hell that was about?" he asked, eyeing me. "I don't fucking know but when I find out I'll fill you in. But I don't think I'm going to like where this is going already." I said, taking a deep breath trying to focus on this damn map and not the lingering smell of WATERMELON! That's what I smell with something else mixed in but definitely watermelon. With that small piece figured out Maka calmed down enough to allow me to finish planning our new security guard schedule.

Ji’lahni: POV  9pm

       We had just arrived at the social hall and even though we were on time it looked like people had been there for a while it was decorated beautifully in black and gold which I’m starting to think is their community colors. The tables had beautiful center pieces with clear vests with black marbles with a gold candle in the center giving it a romantic vibe. Everyone was dressed like they were on the red carpet. Lateri told us it was formal so we had to buy dresses for this event and I’m glad we did because we had nothing that would live up to what we were seeing. We ended up having dresses custom-made because we just couldn’t find something that was us. So for Me I have a stomach but my waist was snatched and I have hips and ass for days my boobs were a C cup so I love dresses that insinuate my boobs to distract from my stomach and showed off my bleeding heart tattoo wrapped in a chain with lock the key was somewhere else on my body and if you found it means you also have my heart.

          So, I chose a lilac-colored halter top dress with a deep V that stopped just above my stomach it was a long form fitting dress with a deep slit on both sides, because I don’t mind showing a little leg as long as the dress covered the lumps and cellulite on my inner thighs. And the middle was wide enough that you would only see the splits on both sides when I walked. To top it off I had a short jacket to cover my back fat as I said I know how to make shit work for me the color went perfectly with my deep brown skin, and it made my deep blue eyes sparkle. Me and my cousins all had deep blue eyes which we got from our granny and our dark brown complexion from our poppa. As for my hair I always keep the sides cut very low with a design on the side and the top was in braids. The entire dress had sparkly rhinestone trimming that shined whenever the lights hit it. Now Shawna always had the perfect fat girl shape where everything was in the right places, she choose a form fitted blood red sleevless dress with a sweetheart neckline again trimmed with diamond rhinestones with a deep side split.

          Her dress exposed her back tattoo of angel wings that expand the length of her shoulder and sometimes when she moves a certain way it looks like the wings moves ... then Mina, she was smaller than her older cousins but she was also shorter she had a stomach as well but she was smaller everywhere else so she wore a royal blue long sleeve front drape dress  that drape down the front of the dress which exposed her nice boobs yet hid her stomach just right. The dress was backless which showed off her spine tattoo which was a flying dragon that looked like it was flying up her spine. All and all we looked damn good. And the best part is was the dresses doubled as out dance outfits. The bottom had secret Velcro that allowed us to remove the bottom of the dresses to expose a flowy skirt that would flow and moved in tune with our bodies. We did it this way because we didn’t want to have to go through the whole dress change process.

            We would remove our shoes and replace them with soft dance shoes that matched our dresses. As we’re walking in the front entrance everyone seemed to stop talking just to stare at us, making it real weird. Shit we looking at each other like damn do we have something on our face. I means I get we were out of towners but to stare so hard was weird as hell. “What they hell are they staring at are we supposed to be dancing now?” Mina whispered as she smiled at people. “The hell if I know shit, we’re the only black people in here that may be why. All I know is I’m about to just sit my ass down at the closes table I don’t care whose table it is.” I whispered back walking slowly to the nearest table. From the front of the room, we spot Lateri who was running toward us in her white ballgown dress that looked kind of like dress queens wore in the 1800’s I know that dress is heavy as hell but she running like it was light as a feather and the poor girls who were trying to make sure her train stayed straight were trying to keep up.

            “There is my chocolate drips yall look so beautiful you’re gonna make an old lady cry. I love those dresses they look perfect turn around and let me see.”  Lateri said beaming and we obeyed even though we were blushing because everyone was staring still but Lateri acted like we were the only ones in the room. “Just beautiful now come on dinner is about to be served and I put you girls at the front with me, my mate our son and his best friends whenever they get here.” Lateri said as she grabbed our hands and dragged us between the tables with people still staring and I hear a now familiar growl and turn to see none other than Shadow killer staring holes in Shawna’s head as we passed by him. When we reached our table Lateri reintroduced us to her mate Antoni Crystal which just like Lateri he was supposed to be 67 years old but he damn sure will have to prove his not 40. He only saw him twice while they visited South Carolina but he was always so nice and friendly, and he clearly loved Lateri because he was always touching her or looking like he was in love for the first time.

            “Hi young ladies nice to see you again. Lateri was absolutely right you girls look beautiful tonight.” He said getting up pulling our chairs out to seat us. He was such a gentleman. " Thank you.” We all said at the same time blushing like little girls do when their fathers tell them they’re beautiful. Once seated everyone seemed to go back to their conversations. “I hope you girls liked the food that I picked I wanted to have some of your southern food added to the menu to make sure you we had things you liked.” she said proudly. “Ah momma Teri you didn’t have to do that we would love to try some of your traditional foods. We don't want people to think you went out of your way to accommodate us.” I said shyly. “Oh, hush up sweetie I don’t care what anyone thinks if they have a problem with the food they could leave right now.” Lateri said loud enough that I’m sure 12 of the 24 tables heard her. We tried to disappear at that moment, but it didn’t work so we focused on our nice silverware. Until the moment passed.

           “I don’t know where the hell Kahi is I swear Antoni if he misses out anniversary dinner, I will wring his neck.” Lateri said angerly “Now you know he will be here when he can be had a really important meeting that couldn’t be postponed. Please understand honey don’t be too hard on him if he misses it. You know he would be here if he could.” Antoni said, pulling Lateri in to console her as she silently agreed. “And you have your girls here with us to celebrate that’s something right.” He added “you’re right honey I still happy as a clam because you girls are here.” She smiled just as the servers came by placing our plates in front of us. She wasn’t playing when she said she picked foods she thought we would like. That plate had baked chicken, baked Mac, cheese, and what looked to be cabbage. It smelled and looked delicious, and it tasted great to she really went all out. We wanted to eat everything on that plate, but we couldn’t because he had to perform in 30 minutes but I damn sure hope they did leftover carryout. But I wouldn’t dare to ask because I do know how to act around rich folks.

             “Momma Teri the food was amazing.” Mina said after dinner was removed. “I’m so glad you liked it.” Teri smiled, she then got up and grabbed our hands dragging us around each table introducing us to everyone literally as her adopted daughters. For the most part everyone was civil, but we could tell a lot of the older and younger women gave us nasty looks when Lateri wasn’t looking. But we just gave them our winning smile because we could care less what they thought of us. Lateri got called away while introducing us to a table filled with women that looked around our age, but they all were athletic build females like they worked out in their sleep too. When Lateri was out of ear shot one of them decided she had something to say to us. “Damn yall not ashamed dressing like little fat sluts. Nobody wants to see all tall fat hanging out.” She sneered at us. As the other girls laughed. We looked at each other and laughed to shit. “What are yall laughing for I was talking about yall.” The same bitch spoke again.

         “We’re laughing because you really think calling us fat sluts was going to somehow shame or humiliate us in front of your little friends. Aaaahhhhh sweetie we don’t care about you or your friends enough to even remotely care about you let alone what you think of us. You tried it though. How old are you 5?” I said still laughing. “Cuz I feel like she real emotional about 3 chick’s she doesn’t know. Have you been sitting here thinking about is this whole time when we didn’t even know you existed until a few seconds ago and you will be forgotten in 3, 2. Were we just talking to somebody cuz?”  Mina asked, looking at me. “Shit I thought so...but I real life kind even remember they must have been people we could give two shits about because we can’t even remember what they looked like.” I said and we started laughing all over again walking away from the table before we have to show our asses in here. And we not trying to ruin Lateri’s dinner.

            Lateri found us standing in the back of the room minutes later. “What are yall doing way back here did was someone rude to you she turned looking at the table we left, and the girls were trying their best to be invisible. Before she could walk off and to hand them their asses, I grabbed her. “no one said anything to us. We just decided to walk to the back to wait for you because it’s almost time for us to perform.” I said, praying that she believed me. She eyed us for a few seconds trying to use jet eye mind trip us or something, but she decided to believe us and took us backstage to get ready to perform. I suddenly became super nervous. I pray to God I don’t mess up. Oh well too late to turn back now. Let’s do it.