Trouble by Me =/ (read ebook pdf txt) 📕

That's enough to make me stop. It's right. He wouldn't care. He'd just show off the weak human to all his... wolf friends. I cry a little longer, but once again, I've run out of tears. I glance towards my closet, and gulp, although that's quite painful given my recent actions. I get up from my place on my bed and open the door. Digging to the back of a shelf, I find the shoe box I keep everything I can fit from my past in there. There is a letter than has my name on it, but in a rush I simple throw it to the side, and I'm unsure of where it landed. I feel a poke and smile while I pull out something I haven't felt in three years. The cold metal feels great on my warm hand and I know it'll feel even better deep in my arm. 

 ~Cade~

Fuck! I knew it was too early but no. I had to tell him. "Cade!" Kyle runs to me. 

"What?" I growl. 

"You should have told me. You wouldn't have told him so soon if he wasn't your mate." I choke on nothing as he says that. I haven't even really said it to myself yet so... "Whatever. Just call him. I've already tried for a while and it isn't working. I'll keep texting him. And thanks a lot. Now he hates me." My little brother shoves past me to get up the stairs to his room, making sure to hit his shoulder against mine. 

I take a deep breath, and try to ignore it. Now he's not even picking up! I finally give up after about 30 unanswered calls and leave a voicemail. Then I decide to go for a run. I can't be cooped up anymore. I've cried enough today. I never cry so this is new to me. My mate rejected me. I shift to my wolf and let him take over. I can't even think right now. I can still see everything he's doing, but I can't physically make him do anything, easily at least. Before I know it we're in a familiar neighborhood and Axel stops in front of Matt's house. Axel let's go. He refuses to leave, and then a scent over powers Matt's, but only by a little. I've spent enough time around it to know the smell of blood. But this is mixed with Matt. With means he's bleeding. Before Axel can stop me I push through and take control back and rush to get the clothes I had in my wolf mouth on before running to the door and knocking frantically. A groggy Lawrence opens the door and freezes when he sees me.

"Cade? Is that really you?" I nod and he laughs. "How have you been, son?"

"Um fine... Can I talk to Skylar?" I ask. He nods and lets me in his home, making the smell of blood even stronger. "Thanks." I say over my shoulder as I run up the stairs. "Sky." I knock on her door and she looks confused but lets me in. "Okay, I'm just going to come out and say it. I'm a werewolf and so are Kyle and Drew. I told Matt and he ran off. Did he seem off earlier?" I ask.

"Um... kind of I guess?" She looks shocked and her eyes widen as what a said finally sinks in. "You're a-" My hand flies over her mouth since she was yelling. 

"You can't tell anyone. Promise me." I tell her. She nods slowly and I grab her wrist. Dragging her to Matt's room, I burst through the semi open door to find Matt laying on the carpeted floor. Blood is dripping from his arm so he's lucky it landed on the tiled bathroom. "Get a first aid kit." I tell Sky. Despite her shock of finding her brother this way, she jumps over him into the bathroom while I do the standard things like check his breathing and pulse. She finally finds a first aid kit and I riled it open to grab some soft cloth from it, applying pressure over the direct wounds. "Reach up, and grab the pressure point in his upper arm. It'll help the bleeding stop." With shaky hands, she does it. Throughout it, I keep checking his pulse, but it's not working. His pulse keeps going down. 

"Come on Matt." Skylar whispers under her breath. Her heart is beating erratically, and so is mine. I must say, I've never been this afraid. 

"Sky, don't freak out. But I have to bite him. It'll give him my fast healing and at this point it's our only chance to save him." She takes a deep breath and nods. My canines come out, and I lean down to his neck. With a deep breath I plunge my sharp teeth into his flesh, and his sweet blood flows into my mouth. My saliva will transfer some of the fast healing, so he should be okay. I pull my teeth out quickly, so that I won't transform him into a wolf. 

"Isn't that how people turn??? Or whatever you call it." Sky is freaking out. 

"Yes but I pulled out fast enough, I think." 

"You think???"

"Calm down Skylar! It was the only chance we had! It'll be fine!" I growl, my worry getting the better of my temper. She looks frightened and I immediately feel guilty. "I'm sorry." I say quietly. She just nods and looks at Matt. Suddenly, scaring both of us, he shoots up, out of breath. He looks around and gulps when he sees me, and again when he sees Sky. He goes to get up in a rush, putting pressure on both wrists, and he falls back with a groan when he feels the pain in his wrist. He looks down at it. And then up at Skylar. 

"S-Sky." She gets up with glistening eyes and he gets up after her. "What the hell are you doing here??" He asks as I follow him outside where Skylar went. 

"I just saved your life thank you very much." I spit back. 

"Well maybe I didn't want to be saved." With that he runs as fast as he can after Sky. I would have too, but his words made me freeze. Was he trying to kill himself again? Or was almost dying an accident? With a sigh, I follow his scent and find Sky and him sitting on a thick log, talking. "Sky, I really am so sorry. It was an accident." I guess that answers my question. "Everything was just over whelming. I didn't mean to. I should have gotten rid of my blade before but I was weak. I'm so, so sorry."

"So why didn't you tell me? Was I not enough?" Her saying this reminds me of right after their mother died. 

"Cade... What did I do?? Why wasn't I enough?" His heartbroken voice asks. 

"No no no! You're okay. Come on, we'll get through this. Together." 

"Are you sure?" He sniffles and hides his head in my chest. 

"Of course. You're stronger than you even know."

"No! No of course not! You are. You are I promise. I just didn't know how to describe how I was feeling. But now I can. Do you wanna hear it?" She nods and wipes her nose with the back of her hand, before slumping into his body. He wraps one arm around her and kisses her forehead before talking. "Okay. I feel sad, I feel angry, and I feel betrayed. But at the same time, I feel loved, and supported. You know why?"

"Why?" Sky shakes her head. 

"You. Sky, you're always there for me, and I love you so much. You know what we're gonna do? We're gonna go back to the house, and we're going to throw that stupid blade away. Okay?" She gets excited and nods. They both get up, and Matt doesn't even glance my way as he passes me. I follow them back, not creepily of course, and surprisingly, Matt leaves the door open for me. I shut and lock it, and then get to his room just in time to see him gulp and squeeze his eyes shut while he throws the blade in his trash can. Sky picks it up, brings it outside, and throws it in the can for the garbage people to take. That's not saying he couldn't get another, but I don't think he will. "Wait Sky. Please don't tell dad. He'll make me go back... I can't go back there." With pleading eyes, he asks. She hesitantly nods and leaves the room, leaving it just him and I. 

 ~Matt~

I shouldn't have said what I said to Cade, but it just came out. I don't even know how I woke up, or when I passed out. I went too deep and I know that, but I swear it was an accident. Sky leaves and I turn to Cade. "What were you even doing here?"

"I was on a run." He explains. "Somehow I ended up here and smelt blood."

"Right. With your wolf senses." I scoff. 

"Yeah well without those 'wolf senses', you'd be dead." He bites back, and I flinch at the coldness in his voice, and eyes. I feel a sudden tingling between my neck and shoulder, almost like a spider is crawling on me. I rush to the bathroom to look in the mirror, and my eyes widen at the sight in front of me. 

"What the hell did you do to me?!?!" I exclaim, motioning to the two scabbed over holes in my neck. 

"That was the only way you were going to live and I couldn't have dealt with you dying and knowing it was my fault!" He throws his hands up in defeat. "I'm not as strong as you." I freeze at his words, as does he. "Matt-"

"No no. I get it. Thank you. For finally admitting that my mother committing suicide, was my fault!" I stagger back and grip the counter as yet another memory comes back to me. 

"Mommy! Mom! Look at this!" I hold up my very first working paper airplane for her to see. 

She barely even looks at it. "Yeah yeah, that's great honey, why don't you go show your father." Her hands grip her head as she stares blankly at the desk. 

"You didn't even look!" Me being a petty eight year old, I had to throw a tantrum.

"Yes I did. Please just go show your father." I've never seen her like this. She's always smiling,