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Isabella's POV

I caught onto the scent. It was a she-wolf. My paws launched me into the direction and the wind mated my fur. I slowed down and hid behind a tree. I saw a pure white wolf drinking from the river. 

I slowly stalked towards her. Once I was close enough I leaped but she must have sensed it since she whipped around and tackled me. She pinned me down and growled. I was staring into blood-red eyes. 

She shifted back. She was gorgeous. She had blonde-hair and navy-blue eyes. She was in a white's sports bra and orange sweats. 

I shifted back. Her eyes locked onto mine and my breath stalled. The world faded away and my eyes stayed on hers. Her scent filled my nose. It was a mixture of vanilla, dirt, and wood. I breathed it in. 

I could hear my wolf. She was screaming 'mate' over and over. She slowly crawled off of me and sat down by the side of the river. I sat up and watched her as she put her finger tips in the water. She was pale and thinner than she should be. 

"I'll be gone by day-break" she said. Her voice was soft and calm. She held a maturity that only a high-ranking pack member can. 

"What's your name?" I asked. 

"Madison...Madison Faber" she replied, "you?" 

"Isabella Moore. I'm the Alpha of Black Granite Pack" I said. 

"Nice to meet you, Miss Moore" 

I crawled over and sat down next to her. Her hand was still in the water as if she was trying to make it move. I ran my fingertips down her arm and across her palm before interlocking our hands. 

I didn't realize or even think my mate was going to be a girl. At all. I didn't expect it but I don't care. I can sense she's different just by the way she holds herself and how she stares into the water as if it held all the answers. And maybe it did, to her. 

She lifted our hands out of the water and set it on her thigh, "you aren't going to reject me?" 

The question that I feared she would ask. If I say 'I, Isabella Moore, reject you, Madison Faber, as my mate' than she could very well die and no one ever gets a second mate. I feared for the longest time that my mate would reject me when we met because I was always so hard-headed and thought only about myself. 

"No" I stated simply, "are you?" 

She looked up at me. I could tell she was speaking with her wolf. 

Mine popped into my brain. Her name is Dawn. 

'This is not good! Hesitance is not a good sign!' Dawn panicked. 

'Calm down' I soothed. 

'Easy for you to say, Miss Calm' Dawn sniffed. 

I snapped back into the real world when Madison raised an eyebrow, "I can sense your wolf panicking" she mused with an amused smirk. 

"How?" I asked. 

"Mate link" she replied. 

'She's accepted us' Dawn said, 'thank Lupin!'

Madison chuckled, "I'm not rejecting you. I don't know you well enough. How old are you, Miss Moore?" she inquired. 

I scrunched my nose at the use of my last name. It made me sound like my mother which I did not want to be like, once-so-ever. "I'm 16. My birthday was last week on Monday" I said, "how old are you, Madison?"

"I turned 17 a month ago" she replied. 

'An older mate' Dawn said, excitedly. 

'Doesn't that mean we'd have to be submissive?' I asked her. 

'No, but I wouldn't mind being-' 

"You know I can hear you and your wolf's thoughts, right?" Madison broke through my thoughts. 

I blushed a deep shade of red, "forgot" I muttered. 

She laughed. "You don't have to be submissive. You're an Alpha, you probably want to be dominant" she said. 

'No' Dawn said. 

I furrowed my brows in confusion, 'why?'

'Have you seen that girl? Imagine what she could do-'

'She can hear you' I snapped. 

'You think I don't know that?' Dawn asked like I was the stupidest person in the world. 

Madison laughed, loudly. I looked over at her. Her navy eyes were shining with amusement and her body was shaking with mirth. Her lips were turned up in a teasing smile. This was one of the things I like about her, I noted. 

She pushed me onto my back and crawled on top of me. "Does she like this?" Madison asked with a smirk. My wolf was very excited. 

"Y-yeah. A l-lot" I stuttered. 

She grinned and pinned my hands above my head. That only made Dawn even more anxious and excited. "I've barely done anything and she's this excited" she muttered. 

"Yeah, it's embarrassing. She gets excited over the littlest things" I mumbled, thoroughly embarrassed. 

'Hey!' Dawn protested. 

"I think it's cute" Madison whispered with a small smile. 

'Ha! Take that, Bella!' Dawn taunted. 

"Isabella!" I heard a familiar voice call out. Madison let go of my hands and crawled off of me. "Isabella! Where are you?!" the voice called out again. 

I stood up and dusted myself off, "Dustin, over here!" I called back. 

A second later he was twenty feet away, down the river. He jogged over, "what are you doing? Your parents want you- who the hell are you?" he growled the last part as he saw Madison behind me. 

I glared at him and he bowed his head, submitting. "This is Madison Faber. Madison meet Dustin, my Delta. Dustin meet my mate, Madison" I said. 

"M-mate" he spluttered, "a girl?" 

"No an anchovie" Madison said sarcastically, "you've never heard of a lesbian Alpha?" 

"B-but you're mother-" 

"Screw my mother" I interrupted. 

"Ok this is way to much for me to handle! I just wanted to go over the training schedules but no I had to be the first to find out that you were mated!" he rambled. 

'Is he always like this?' I heard a new voice in my head. It was a female but I couldn't tell who it was. 

'Yes. This is why he's Delta and not Beta' Dawn replied, 'oh Bella this is Moonlight, Madison's wolf'

'Oh. Nice to meet you, Moonlight' I said. 

'Nice to meet you too, Miss Moore' she replied. 

'Why are you both so formal?' I asked as I scrunched my nose. 

"I grew up like this" Madison explained, "it stuck with me"

"What?" Dustin asked confused. 

"Nothing" I replied, "we should probably go to the pack house"

"Oh! Yes! Hunter will be so happy you finally found your mate...oh Lupin! I know something before Hunter does, booya!" he shifted and ran off into the forest. 

I blinked before spinning around and looking at Madison who was leaning against a tree with an amused expression on her face. I scratched the back of my neck, "sorry about him" 

"It's fine. He's cute." I growled causing her to smirk. She walked over and went behind me. She wrapped her arms around my waist and pulled me into her, "don't worry. You're cuter" she whispered in my ear causing goosebumps to erupt on my skin. 

Oh yeah, being submissive won't be a problem, I thought to myself.

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Don't forget to vote! This is the first chapter of Mating Is A Funny Thing and I hope you enjoyed. I've been wanting to do a supernatural story for a while now and I finally got the inspiration to do it.