“Okay, so let the fun begin!” said Lily while spinning the bottle and everyone screamed.
“Wooahhhh!”
Right now, Elena was sitting opposite to Christopher, Liam opposite to Alice, Lily to Luke, Ira to Mateo.
The bottle pointed towards Alice first and Liam was the one sitting opposite to her. Everyone started screaming and clapping.
“I suggested the game, I did not know I will be the first victim” said Alice covering her face with embarrassment.
“Okay Alice. Truth or Dare?” asked Liam in a playful tone.
“As I am the first one, I will go with Truth. Please go easy on me” said Alice with a nervous smile.
“Okay, who do you like the most in our clan?” asked Liam in a curious tone.
After hearing the question, the tensed muscle on Alice’s face lightened up.
“This is the easiest question. You are so kind” Alice complimented Liam for his generosity.
“I know, right?” said Liam with a wink and Alice chuckled.
“I like Elena the most” said Alice with her sunshine smile.
In return, Elena gave her a flying kiss and Alice pretended to catch it.
“The betrayer! I thought we were bonding” said Lily in a fake heartbroken tone.
“Oops, sorry. After Elena, I like you the most in your clan” said Alice with the shy smile while scratching the back of her head.
“Alright, no hard feelings” said Lily in disheartened tone, she still in her heartbroken character.
“That’s the thing, even a simple question in this game can cause you with your friendship” said Mateo showing his disapproval for the game once again.
“What a cry baby! Shut up already, dude! I told you, nobody asked for your opinion” said Lily with an eye roll showing her disapproval for letting Mateo play with them.
“You are the one to blame if something bad happens today!” said Mateo pointing an accusing finger at her.
“Do you know anything except for pointing fingers at people? What an irritating bug!” said Lily in annoyance and turned towards everyone,
“Why are we playing with this upset fart again?” asked Lily casually but everyone burst into laughter.
“You guys started again? Give your sarcastic selves a rest. No more arguments for today” said Elena in disappointed tone.
“Fine” replied both of them in unison while giving each other looks.
Mateo was the one who went ahead and spin the bottle again.
It stopped while pointing towards Ira who was sitting opposite to Mateo.
“Okay, Miss. Blossom. Truth or Dare?” asked Mateo in a plain tone.
“I will go with truth” said Ira elegantly.
‘This girl must be queen’s court lady in her last life. Look at her drama and fake delicate nature. She could have answer while keeping her face straight but no, she had to do that elegant creepy thing’ thought Lily while glaring at her.
From Ira, her eyes went to Luke and finally to Alice who was also giving Ira the same look
“Did you find your mate?” asked Mateo casually.
“Not yet” replied Ira with a shy smile.
‘Of course not! Otherwise you would have stopped your sl*tty tactics or maybe not, you are just born with it’ thought Alice with an eye roll.
“Okay” said Lily not showing much interest and started spinning the bottle again.
It stopped and the tip of the bottle was pointing towards Liam.
“My time to have some fun. So, Liam bro. Choose between Truth or Dare” said Alice in an excited tone and everyone started smiling and cheering while looking at her excitement.
“Ah, Truth maybe” said Liam, he was still contemplating between truth or dare as her dare might bring chaos.
“Okay, who is your favorite person in your own pack?” asked Alice in a curious tone.
“One hundred percent, my best friend, Elena. She has always stayed by my side. She is my life-line. I can’t choose anyone except for her” said Liam in a cheerful tone and Elena smiled at him.
Luke rolled his eyes at Liam’s answer and nobody except for Lily noticed it.
“Okay, cheesy people of the pack. Let’s move on, before I puke on your face” said Lily with an Ew face while spinning the bottle.
“My second favorite is always you, Lily. But you are like a brother to me” said Liam with a cheeky grin.
“Don’t you dare do this dirty talk with me. I will actually puke this time. Eww!” said Lily sticking her tongue out.
“Looks like Elena is everyone’s favorite no matter what pack it is” said Ira smiling and Elena smiled back without replying.
This time, the bottle pointed towards Lily itself.
“Truth or Dare, Lily?” asked Luke casually, who was sitting opposite to her.
“Truth. I am scared the dare given by you will be terrifying” said Lily with a little shiver and Luke smiled gently.
“Okay. What do you think, who will Elena choose as her future beta between you and Liam?” asked Luke in utter curiosity.
‘Why this guy wants to ruin my friendship?’ thought Elena angrily.
“I also had this question for years. Only you and Liam are in the race. I wonder who will be the next beta of our pack” said Mateo in a muddled tone, the one who is always interested in pack politics.
Being the understanding best friend Lily is, she gave an answer to not only satisfy the guys and cure their curiosity but also removed the burden of the tough decision from Elena’s shoulder.
“I hope she chooses Liam. I only like showing my skills in the war. I will fight with her no matter what. But as everyone already know, I hate taking responsibilities!” said Lily without showing a hint of disappointment on her face.
Elena held her hand and smiled at Lily. She knew Lily gave up her position just for their friendship. For the three of them, their friendship comes first.
Lily knew Liam is more powerful than her. In future, they will make them compete for the position of Beta. Liam will never agree to harm Lily and eventually give up the position himself. Before anything like that happens, Lily gave up.
“No worries. I will gladly take all the responsibilities and always be present at both of your side” said Liam smiling at his two chaotic best friends while the trio held each other’s hand.
“Don’t worry, Elena. I promise you, I will share your burden and help you with everything” said Liam sincerely and Elena nodded. She trusted each word he said. She trust him with all her heart.
“Anyways, she needs it” said Luke with a scoff.
“What do you mean?” asked Lily while raising her eyebrow.
“She has not changed yet, she needs time to practice and control her wolf. Someone has to take the responsibilities for her. You can’t put burden of everything on a late bloomer” said Luke in a mocking tone.
“What the hell!”
“What the hell!” said Mateo angrily. He was still unsure that what he heard was right.But to confirm it further, Liam got from his place agitated.“What did you just say?” asked Liam, he was the first one to get up and move towards Luke to break his mouth so that won’t be able to utter any nonsense about Elena again but Elena stopped him by holding his hand.Luke eyes went from Liam to his hand and finally to their intertwined fingers. A loud groan of disapproval left his mouth.Followed by Liam, Mateo and others got up to attack the person who insulted their Luna but Elena and Lily stopped them on time.‘Merge wasn’t a really nice idea, was it?’ thought Lily.“Don’t be mean, brother. Who are you to judge? She will take care of her own things. You don’t need to meddle in her business” said Alice in an enraged tone.“You are being too much, Luke”
“The guy you like, is it Liam?” He asked in an enraged tone.His face was not emotionless as it is all the time, it was filled with anger and there was this crazy murderous expression on his face.“It’s none of your damn business” said Elena harshly while moving from his side.Suddenly, Luke’s giant hands held Elena’s arm and pushed her on the wall trapping her between the wall and his body.“What are you doing?” asked Elena angrily, trying to release herself from his grip.“Answer me when I am being nice. Do you like Liam?” asked Luke literally gritting his teeth in fury.“You are not getting any answer out of me if you act like a complete jerk! Stop acting like my boyfriend!” said Elena still trying to remove his hands but his hold was too strong.‘What does he eat, Iron? He is way too strong!’ thought Elena in irritation.“You can’t deny ba
‘What was that? How can she be so damn powerful? She is not a complete werewolf yet, right? Is she hiding something? She is unbelievably strong for a normal person! But she is not a normal at all. She can’t be!’ Luke started to question himself after getting hit by his unchanged mate.Even when he let his guards down, he has blood of an Alpha inside his veins and he is still really powerful. Even the strongest soldier needs their time to adjust with Luke’s strength.Forget about newbies, when he practiced with other well-trained fighters of their pack, in spite of going easy on them they still need a lot of power to even move his hand, Nicholas is the only exception who could stand against him in a fight for a while. But this unchanged girl pushed him like a punching bag at the opposite corner without using much power.‘Is it because she is also a pure blood? Maybe this happened because I was not paying attention towards her, isn&rs
“You are such a fool! That means he likes you and he is interested in you” said Lily in confidence, she couldn’t believe how Elena can be this stupid.“What rubbish! There you go again with your story telling. Try your authorship quality somewhere else, stop wasting it on me!” shouted Elena in frustration.Being her persistent self, Lily was not ready to give up this time. She was sure that things are real, it was not her only imagination. She has to explain her theory to Elena before she makes a foolish decision which she will regret her whole life.“Don’t be dumb, El! He likes you! Admitting it or not is completely your choice. Don’t you think, he was jealous after you confessed that you like someone else. Also, looking at how close you and Liam were today, he thought the guy you like is Liam, anyone can mistake Liam for your fantasy mate as you guys are so close. I observed him today. He groaned in anger every s
“Like what you see, Miss. Swan?” asked Luke in a teasing tone.To protect herself from his teasing on the regular basis, she had to deny.“Of course not! What the hell is wrong with you? Where are your clothes?” she asked while turning back facing her door.“Don’t you dare deny, love” said Luke in a flirty tone.Elena could feel him smiling at her helpless state. She cursed her decision to get out of her room.“I don’t need to deny anything! There was nothing nice there to see. The view was so bad that I had to block my vision” lied Elena awkwardly, she was trying too hard to sound confident.‘A BIG FAT LIE! I was literally admiring his body. That stupid hypothalamus cannot control it’s oxytocin production!’ thought Elena cursing her perfectly well functioning organs.[Note: Oxytocin is a hormone released during romance, s*x or any low inten
“Ohooo! Love in the time of tuberculosis”“Wrong timing, little pumpkin!” said Luke frustratedly with an eye roll.“Yeah, I guess. You guys continue, I will come after thirty minutes or thirty years” said Alice grinning while closing the door hurriedly again but Luke held the door.“Ahem! Where do you think you are going? Give me my black sweatshirt back” said Luke in a demanding tone.Alice looked at her nagging brother like he has asked for her kidney.“I don’t have your black sweatshirt, brother. It must be in your room somewhere. Anyways, I don’t think you need it anymore” She added with a teasing smile while moving away.Luke held her arm tightly making her face him.“Don’t try to be smart with me, little one. Give it back to me right now or..” blackmailed Luke but it didn’t have much of an effect on Alice, who yawned while he wa
‘What problem does a sweet person like Alice can have with Ira? Why does she hate her so much?’ thought Elena confusedly.From day one, she has observed Alice’s unknown hatred for Ira.She knows that Alice is young but not immature. She observed that even Luke doesn’t say anything to his sister that also increased Elena’s suspicion against Ira.“I think we should move our butts to get ready” Chris suggested to lighten up the mood and end the ever increasing tension in the air but nobody was really listening to him.Alice and Lily were having a glaring competition about who can glare Ira for more time and scare her away. Luke, as always, was standing there emotionless and unbothered. Elena, on the other hand, was still deep in her thoughts.‘Lily is also not very fond of her from the very first meeting. She clearly told me that she does not like her vibe at all. What is that they notice but I didn&rsqu
‘That must be that little b*tch, Alice! I will make her pay for it’ thought Ira furiously.Exactly 8:15 am everyone gathered at the dining room for breakfast. Nobody spoken much after the incident that happened near Elena’s room.Lily was eagerly waiting for Elena to arrive to make sure that she is okay. She was doing countless attempt to stop herself from running to her room and ask her how she is doing, but she was being her understanding self to give her some privacy when her heart is involved in the matter.“Sister Lily, I have heard that you, brother Liam and brother Mateo are of same age as my brother Luke and Sister Elena is one year younger than you, then how she is in the same standard as you?” asked Alice in an utterly confused tone.The sweet little girl was too curious about so many things at so many levels.“First, just call me Lily, sister Lily makes me feel old. Second, we are the people, who are i