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And I regretted it.
It was the late night the next day. I was going out into the woods again. I had a thick scarf draped around my neck as well as borrowed mittens. I was ready to beat the coldness and walk alone in the woods, talking with my wolf while enjoying the surroundings.
I had already decided not to shift to my wolf form because I would die of coldness when I turned naked after re-shifting.
However, everything was fine until I saw none other than the person I was planning to avoid. Alpha Grey.
'Shit. Weren't we going to avoid him?' Sparkle asked.
'Tsk. Timing is a bitch.'
'He's a stalker.'
'It's a coincidence.'
And like that, my wolf and I were arguing through our link.
Alpha Grey spotted me when I clumsily stepped on a pile of dry leaves. His eyes shifted from the ground to mine. And we stared for a second. I quickly raised my hand and waved at him to flee from the awkward situation.
He quickly walked up to me.
"How'd you know I am here?" he asked.
I quickly shook my head to tell him it was a misunderstanding. I slowly took a step back to have the one-meter distance between.
Alpha Grey creased his forehead as he looked around. He looked at the tree which was next to us and broke a small stick from it. I knew the drill and took it from his hand. I wrote what I wanted to say on the ground:
'Coincidence.'
"Oh, by the way, I wanted to know something. And I couldn't come out in the morning. Lucky this happened." he said this and that.
I tilted my head, motioning for him to ask what he wanted to.
"Did I misunderstand or what? Or are you the only omega in this packhouse?" he asked.
I was left speechless. Of course, I was always speechless. But I was left with no way to react. So I shrugged.
"So it's true?" he slowly asked. "It's true that omegas are separated. It's the same reason why I don't see you there," he said.
I didn't reply to what he asked. It wasn't my place to tell him about the pack's situation to him. He should've asked alpha Jackson for a change. There was no way I was going to tell him the truth.
I sighed and knelt on the dirt. Then I started craving some letters;
'Yes. It's no big deal,' I wrote.
"Let's walk together," he said, ignoring the words I wrote on the ground.
Obediently I started following him as usual. We walked a bit in silence until he spoke;
"Have you ever had rouge attacks here?" he asked before turning to me for a silent reply.
I nodded, remembering how a set of wolves attacked us around five or six years back. Alphas and betas fought against them, and I could remember watching them from a room upstairs. That was the only time I felt respect towards my pack member, especially alphas. They saved everyone.
"Around three weeks before I came here, we got a massive attack. It was the second we got, around fifty attacked from the woods, and guess what? One of the pack members to whom I gave shelter was their messenger." he said.
Was he that dumb not to notice a rat in his pack?
"I wasn't dumb," he growled as if he read my mind. "I had the rule to take in whoever abandoned rouge outside after a background check. At first, I didn't see the danger, but now I have strengthened the security and changed those rules."
I nodded, understanding.
'He seems like a good alpha.' Spark commented.
'Meh. I don't see anything special.'
'Okay then, why don't we go inside and have a chit-chat with another alpha?' Spark nagged, trying to prove herself right. And yes, unfortunately, she was right. I've never had an alpha, moreover a beta trying to have a conversation with me.
Alpha Grey and I walked a bit deeper into the forest, we were not going in the usual route, and the new path looked nice. It had so many rocks and stones, though. I had a hard time walking. Sparkle requested to shift to our wolf form, which I rejected because there was no way I was going to be naked in front of the same alpha again... Wait, that came out wrong...
I heard a thud, and I looked at my front to see the alpha chillingly sitting on a log. He raised his eyebrows and waited for me to do whatever I wanted next. So, being the polite one, I too sat on a rock which was in front of him.
"What is your name," he said. My eyes shifted to him. Was he dumb or dumb? I could clearly remember telling him my name.
"This is how it's done," he added while motioning his hands in front of his face.
I watched what he did with an open mouth. He pointed at himself, then around his ear and lips, and... it was complicated.
'He's trying to teach you sign language.' Sparkle cheered.
'Shush. There's no way I can memorise these hand things.' I groaned but still tried to watch as he repeated what he did.
"Do it with me," he said.
Together we moved our hands in front of us. And the situation was kind of awkward. If someone walked by, they would think we landed on another planet.
Sign language looked interesting, though.
"Wrong," he said, repeating one part.
I pouted and showed him if I was right.
"Mm, it still says a wrong word. Let's start simple. I can teach you YES and NO. They are basics." he said.
I quickly nodded.
'Small words like those would come in handy.' I said to my wolf, who was silent. I mentally rolled my eyes, thinking she fell asleep while I had to learn sign language all alone.
For the next few minutes, alpha Grey showed me this and that with his hands. I tried my best to do them right. Most of the time, I've got the wrong words. The thing was, I realised if I accidentally did something slightly different from what he told me, it became another new word! So it wasn't easy to get it right.
In the end, we both were laughing, him laughing aloud and my silent laughing.
And I could say that it was a good laugh. It had been so long since I did so.
I knew the sign language thing wouldn't work for me. But when I went back to the packhouse and showed Fah the words YES, NO, and MAYBE, she too said that she would teach me. She was pleased with the bit of progress.
But her next question made me stuck;
"From where did you learn?" she asked.
Luckily we got called to do the dishes in the kitchen. Even though she was my friend and I trusted her with my whole heart, I felt scared to tell her about the constant meetings that kept on happening.
And they should NOT happen again...
Though 'he' made me feel comfortable to be around.