Chapter 12

Chapter 12

"Good morning, son." Father greeted me when he saw me entered the dining room.

"Morning, father." I responded.

Father was reading newspaper while sipping his coffee, while mother was arranging the foods in the table.

"Kyle, you're up so early, why is that?" Mother asked while putting plastes for us. "By the way, have you take you suppressants?" I nodded.

"Nothing, it just happened that I woke up early." I said. "And yep, I already have my suppressants."

My heat will end one day from now. But the pheromones were lesser since I had intercourse with my alpha. That well... of course, my parents didn't know that.

"Hmm, okay." Mother said.

Actually, there's a reason why I'm up so earlier. I was thinking to ask mother's and father's approval about me living with my twin brothers.

'I hope they'll let me.' Crossed fingers.

When mother finished arranging our food, the three of us started to eat. In the midst of eating, mother talked.

"So, tell us Kyle, what's with you?" He said then put down his eating utensils.

'Damn, I'm nervous.'

"Ahmm... nothing." I said. Shit, I don't think I can tell them.

"Kyle." Mother said in serious tone. I don't know what to answer, I tried to look at father but he avoided my gaze. Damn it!

'Damn it! Mother's fucking scary! She knows me too well.'

I cleared my throat. "Hmm... ahmm... the thing is, I've been thinking what to do after senior high school. And I've came up with a plan---"

"About?" Mother cut me off.

"About my college..." I said in mellow tone.

"That's nice. I'm happy that you're already for your future." He said "And that is?" He added. Mother waiting for my answer. I don't know but he's hella serious looking now.

I sighed and took all my courage to speak. "I want to study law... and I want live with Felix and Calix." Mother went silent, while father stared to me. "It's not like I want to leave you guys. That thing is, I want to explore more and I want---"

"No." They both said in unison.

"What?" I can't help but to asked. "If your worry about me, don't be, I'm with my brothers. Besides I'll---"

"Our decision is final, Kyle. You're not leaving this house." Father said firmly.

"But father!"

"Your father was right, Kyle. Drop this conversation, eat your breakfast."

I don't know what's with them. I know from the start that they are protective but this is insane! It's not like I'm going to live with strangers or what.

I sighed and get up from my seat. "I'm going upstairs."

"Kyle---" my mother tried to call me but father stooped him.

"Let him." He said.

All day, all I did was to think about our conversation. My parents didn't bother me since they knew that whenever I had my heat, all I did was to stay at my room. Plus the fact that we had heated argument earlier. I knew that they'll feel awkward about it.

I knew from the start that I was too sheltered by my parents. It's not that I'm bothered about it. Actually, I feel really bless because most of the parents these days put their work at their top priority but my parents were the contrary of that. They raised me with love and protection, as well as my brothers.

But the thing is, now, I really felt suffocated. And I really felt guilty about it. I don't want to be annoyed at them. That's the thing I least want to do. All I want was my family's happiness.

I looked at the door when I heard knocks from it.

"Kyle, " it was mother. "Can I come in?"

"Sure." I covered myself with my blanket.

He entered the room. He's carrying a silver tray with a bowl which I bet was soup and a glass of water.

"I brought you food." He said as he placed the tray at the table beside my bed. "Are you okay? Does the suppressants make you dizzy?" He said. He still thought about my heat.

"I'm fine. I can handle my heat." I said. "I'll go to academy after this." I said. He sat at my bed.

"Don't push yourself to much. We already called your academy to excuse you." He said then caressed my face. "I'm sorry about earlier, son." I hold his hand.

"Don't be. Maybe I'm being so pushy. Sorry, mother." I said as I placed my hand on top of his.

"Don't ever think that we favor you brothers more since we let them and we didn't let you." He said.

"I never think of that, you know."

"Yeah." He smiled. "I know because your father and I didn't raised you like that. But Kyle, give us more time. Letting Felix and Calix live away from us was too hard to bear. And I can't let that happened with you too."

"Sorry, mother." I said and hugged him.

He shook his head. "No Kyle, we're the one who should be sorry." He whispered something but I didn't heard it clearly.

Days passed and the topic about me leaving with my brothers perished. After my talk with my mother, I just let it off. I don't want to trouble them anymore.

"Yo! Kyle-kun!" I looked around and saw Amanda running to me.

Since my heat ended already, I attended my classes again.

"What now?"

"Woooh! What a greeting!" She chuckled then clinged her arms at mine. "Let's go to mall! I'm buying something, come with me."

I rolled my eyes and tried to removed her arms but she's strong.

'I hate her alpha strength. Tsk.'

"Why don't you ask your friends to go out with you? Why me?" I said when I finally accepted that I can't remove her arms at me.

"You are my friend!"

"Am I?"

"Bully!" She said. "But seriously, I really want to take you with me." Her expression suddenly changed.

I frowned. "Why?"

"Do you want to know what I saw that day?"

"What do you mean?"

She sighed and bowed a little to whisper at my ears. "That day... during your heat. You're with your mate, right?" She said.

My heart skipped a bit. I looked around and luckily there just few students around since the classes already through. I took her hands and dragged her to the corner.

"What did you saw? Tell me." I sadi firmly.

"Uhh. Fierce, huh?" She chuckled.

"It's not time for your jokes, Amanda. Answer my question, what did you saw?" I said with half begging voice.

She pushed me a little and looked at me intently. "Why don't we make a deal? Go with me at the mall, then let's talk about that matter there."

I sighed. "Okay, deal."

She smirked. "I know you would."

When went to the mall. I tried to ask.her about what she saw but she didn't mind me.

"Seriously, Amanda, what are we doing here?" I asked her. She suddenly grabbed and dragged me inside a bookstore.

"Shhh!" She said as we hid ourselves. I rolled my eyes at her.

'If I'm not only interested of what she said earlier, I wouldn't waste my time hiding here.' I thought.

"OMG! She's there!" She squealed and pointed something.

I frowned and looked at the direction. It's just children around a ice store. "Who?"

She looked at me. "My mate."

What? Her mate?

"You're 18?" She nodded. "When?"

"Two weeks ago." I my eyes widened. I didn't know that it's her birthday!

"Sorry, I didn't know. Belated happy birthday, by the way." I apologized.

She chuckled. "It's okay. I didn't told you so it's okay."

I felt sad for a moment.

'I really don't knowledge about her either Leo. I have no clue even for those simple facts about them.' I thought.

"But..." I stopped for few seconds. "It's a breaking news. You're mate is just around."

"Yeah, I'm also surprised." She smiled.

"So who is she?" I looked at the direction she pointed out earlier. "Is she the vendor in that store?" I shook her said.

"She's..."

"She's?"

"That child." She said as she pointed the little girl eating a ice cream at side of the store. She was smiling widely while looking at that kidm

I was petrified at that moment. The child she said her looks like grade schooler! I just can't imagine.

I was pulled out of my reverie when I saw the little girl get up and ran into a woman which I think her mother.

"Mommy!" The kid yelled. The store were little away from us so I didn't heard what her mother said. But base from their expressions, I think the child was telling something.

"So..." Amanda talked so I looked at her. "What you think?"

"Should I call police?" I asked. She just smacked me.

"Huhuhu! Bully!" She squealed.

After that, we decided to go to a cafe to talk there. We look for seats away from other costumers.

"Two coffee latte, please." Amanda ordered. The waitress nodded and leave.

I don't know what to say. Good thing, Amanda started to talked.

"Two weeks ago, few days before my birthday, I went into rut." She said. "You know what rut is, right?" I nodded.

If omegas had 'heat', alphas had this thing called 'rut'. It was an phenomenon where an alpha lose his or her senses and show urges to breed. This event will end after three days. Those alphas under rut commonly look for unmarked omegas to mark them. Fated mate or not, they'll mark the unmarked omegas they'd seen. This event mostly happened during the night which alphas turned 18 years old. But there's some occurrences that alphas went into rut when they're affected by omega's pheromones.

"After three days, I knew that my rut ended already. So, attended my classes again. After that I decided to got here at mall to buy some materials for our foundation day. That was also the day, I met her." She said. "I was walking around when I spotted that ice store. I was about to buy ice cream when she bumped into me and I knew at that moment that she's my mate."

"What did you do after that?"

She chuckled. "I ran away."

I sneered. "You ran away? You're coward."

I shrugged and leaned back at her seat. "What do you want me to do? Hug her? Kiss her? Bite her? Mark me? That's absurd. She's just 10 years old."

"Fuck." I uttered in shock. "I should really call police."

"Pfftt! Baka!" She yelled and kicked my knees under the table.

"Ouch! That's hurts!"

"Of course, it is!" She said. "Take my words seriously."

I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms "Fine. So what did you do next?"

"I went home. My heart were beating enormously. That night, all I can think was my mate. Later that morning, I stayed here at mall hoping that I could meet her. Luckily, I did and like earlier, she bought ice cream from that store and waited for her mother. When she left, I asked one of her schoolmates about her." She said. Her eyes were glimmering while she's talking about her mate.

She continued. "Monna Lilien Agape, that's her name. She's currently grade 4 student. She's living with her mother ever sinceher father died. Her mother's working here at the mall."

"Grade 4? She already had her secondary gender identified." She nodded. The identification test for secondary gender always happen during the first grade.

Our order arrived, we thanked the waitress then continued our talk.

"According to her schoolmates, she's an dominant omega." She said then sipped her coffee.

"That's also rare gender type." I said.

Both dominant alpha and dominant omega gender type were uncommon to have. There's at least 1% dominant alpha and 2% dominant omega in the whole world.

"After that, I went here everyday after class just to see her. " she said.

'That's maybe the reason why she asked Leo to buy the flower bouquets last week.' I thought.

"Why don't you talked to her mother? Tell her that she's your mate. " she sneered.

"That's not easy." She answered. "If you were her mother, would you let me have your child that young?" I think for a bit then shook my head. "See? That's why I can't face her and confess that I'm mate. At least for now."

"Ain't you affected by her scent? She's domint type, her pheromones were lot stronger than recessive omage like me. Even though she haven't had her heat yet, the I knew for sure that her pheromones are strong."

"I'm taking suppressants." She said.

"Wait," I stopped for a moment. "You said that you're here everyday, so does that mean your taking suppressants everyday?" She nodded. "That's dangerous! Alpha's suppressants is way too strong! Your body wouldn't take the side effects for long."

Dizziness and sometimes pain in the stomach, that's the common effects of taking too much supressants.

She went silent. She just stirring her coffee with spoon and acted as if she didn't heard me. I hold her hands to stopped, so she looked at me.

"Amanda," I looked at her intently. "Don't push yourself too much. What you're doing is dangerous for you. Have you told Leo about this?"

"No, Leo's mate was also complicated." She lowered her head. "What should I do? My heart wants her." She said. "I want to own her, to be with her, to have her as my mate but I can't. My conscience couldn't let me to just snatch her youth. I want her to experience a lot of things. I want her to explore more. I want her to grow on her own." She started to cry.

My mind couldn't processed well, but my body moved at it's own. I found myself seating beside Amanda and hugging her.

"Tell me Kyle, what should I do?" She hugged me back. "You have your mate now, right? Can you advice someonething to me? I really need few words from a marked fellow. Because right now, I don't really know what should I do." She said while crying.

'So this is the reason why she dragged me here, to ask some advice for her problems.'

I rubbed her back then answered. "I'm sorry, Amanda. I dont think I can answered you."

'Amanda picked wrong person to ask.'

I sighed. "Because even my relationship with my alpha was also complicated like yours."

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