𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟒

𝘾𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙣𝙨 

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╰┈˚ · ° .  WITH EVERYTHING THAT HAD HAPPENED THAT NIGHT, not Alec or I wanted to leave each other. That is how we found ourselves in my room. Now days were more the times when we slept together than alone.

As we entered my room I flicked my hands, candles lighting the room with the soft light emanating from the flames. Without needing to talk, both of us tired mentally and physically, we prepared to go to bed. It was a comforting and serene silence broken by Alec as he was grabbing a pair of his sweatpants from one of the drawers of my dresser, one filled only with his clothes.

"Did you start having an obsession with wolfsbane and I didn't know?" He asked with raised eyebrows, his eyes leaving my desk filled with the said plant drawing. Some were made with chalks, some with pencils, some colored, others not. Dozens of drawings that I had scattered all around my desk that were actually only used for my art, filled with sketchbooks, and art supplies that didn't fit in the dedicated cart. My homeworks was usually just made on the bed, at the bay window in my room or at the kitchen table.

"Please don't ask. You know that I barely understand it myself." I groaned, it's been days that the only thing that I could draw, wanting or not, was that stupid wolfsbane plant and flowers.

"Alright" Alec said, his hand raising in surrender "But you know you can talk with me about it, right?" he asked more seriously

It made my heart stutter the soft look that was all over his face. How his eyes were not guarded as they always were around other people. His lips were not in his infamous smirk or how he didn't look bored out of his mind. And that was when I acknowledged the fact that he was only like this with me, like he was comfortable enough to be himself.

I walked to stand in front of him, my arms coiling around his neck, finger playing with the short curly hair at the base of his neck.

"I know" I said softly. I kissed his lips in a tender kiss, full of love that I had for him. "I love you" I whispered against his lips

"Ti amo." He said, matching my tone, [I love you] "Now let's go to bed. We are both tired and you have to wake up early tomorrow." He said

"Right" I groaned "At least I have only to decorate it."

His chuckle echoed around the room and with a last kiss we didn't waste another second to prepare ourselves for bed. We cuddled against each other, our bodies intertwined with little to no space left between us and only the sound of our breaths to lull us to sleep.

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╰┈˚ · ° .  With the alarm blaring loudly in my ears, echoing in the room with both Alec and mine groans to go with the sound.

"Fucking hell, Elizabeth. Turn that shit off." He grumbled, still half asleep. I literally had to climb over him to reach my phone and turn it off. As soon as it stopped I let out a sigh only to turn into a shriek as Alec literally shoved me down against him again "Now we can go back to sleep."

I couldn't help the soft chuckle that left my lips. He looked so cute, his curly hair a total mess, strands falling on his eyes, his lips in slight pout. He had his face literally shoved in my breasts, half of his body on me.

"Alec" I said softly, hints of amusement in my tone "You know I have to get up" I only earned a hum from him as he tightened his hold on me. "Cute." I muttered.

He opened one of his eyes to look at me before closing it again "I'm literally too tired to even say anything to that."

I smiled, pressing kisses all around his face, leaving a peck on his lips before shoving him off "Sorry, love. You know that this is important."

He glared at me from his place on the floor where he had fallen. Maybe I pushed him with a bit too much strength. "You know that you will pay for this right" He titled his head, his eyes hooded by probably both sleep and lust. I could only guess what he was thinking about

"We will see" I scoffed before all but sprinted to the bathroom only hearing him curse after me.

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╰┈˚ · ° .  "We have everything, right?" Allison asked, bits of anxiety coming from her scent.

It was the first year that Lydia's birthday tradition was extended to Allison's too.

"Yes, Ali." I said with a chuckle

"Balloons?" She asked, earning a laugh from me. The back of my car was literally filled with them. They were impossible to miss. Pink, red, white and peach colored balloons some were normal shaped some were hearts. "Check," She said after controlling the backseat. Again. "Cake?"

"Check" I said "It's in the trunk just like the candles"

"Perfect. Gifts?" She asked, turning once again to look at the back seat where two white bags were. "Check"

"You literally were the one to bring them," I laughed. "Don't worry Allycat, It's going to be alright"

When we arrived at Lydia's house, I parked the car and called Natalie Martin, her mother. Of course, since it had been a tradition for the last six years she knew to wait for my call.

The woman opened the front door just as Allison and I exited the car with everything with us. Allison had the balloons in one and the gift in the other while the cake was in mine.

"Good morning Aunt Nat." I said with a smile

"Morning girls" She gave us a wide grin and gestured for us to enter. We first went to the kitchen. Using the island in the middle to help myself, I took the cake from the box. It was heart shaped and of a pale pink. The decorations were made with peach and white colored cream with the addition of safe-to-eat pearls. A 17 with an exclamation mark was in the middle.

Aunt Natalie had the plates, knife and cutlery in her hands. Adding seventeen candles to the cake and lighting them up with the help of a lighter we were ready to go to her room. Allison and I, followed by the birthday girl's mother, climbed the stairs up to the second floor and walked until we reached the strawberry blonde bedroom.

We stopped outside her room, our grins and snickers barely contained.

"One, two..." I said

"Three" Allison finished. At the end of the count down we opened the door

"Happy birthday!" We yelled in unison, waking up Lydia. The balloons flew from Allison's hand going up to the ceiling.

Even if half asleep her smile was contagious. Her laugh spilled from her lips as both Allison and I followed after her. We literally ran to her bed, the typical birthday song sung by us and Lydia's mother.

"Make a wish" I said after the song had ended, cake directly in front of her.

Lydia closed her eyes and blew her candles "Thank you" She gave us a wide grin.

"I'll leave you, now." Said Natalie. "Happy birthday, sweetheart" She kissed her daughter's forehead, leaving what she had in her hands on Lydia's desk before closing the door after walking out

I gave her the knife to cut her cake, making three slices and putting them in three paper plates. I then left the rest of the cake on her desk.

"Open your present, birthday girl." Allison said, grinning widely as she offered our strawberry blonde friend her two presents.

Lydia opened the smaller bag first. Inside there was a velvet container. Opening up, the girl gasped at the jewelry that contained. It was a rose-gold V-shaped ring with a crystal varved in a smooth ball in the middle.

"It's rose quartz. It's for unconditional love, self love, healing. It made me think of you and plus... It's pink so I knew you would loved it"

"I do" She said with a beaming smile "Thank you" She hugged both of us before passing to her second gift. In the bigger bag, There was a heart shaped collage with photos of the three of us in a glass frame with black edges.

"Oh my god, look at this!" Lydia exclaimed pointing at a specific photo of the slumber party we had at my house after her breakup with Jackson. It was a photo of her and Allison both doing the finger gun at pillow-Jackson. "I love this, all of this. Thank you." She said

We spent probably an hour pointing at the photos and talking about the memories behind it, eating slices of cake one after the other.

It was a light morning, filled with laughter and smiles. Like we had no problem in the words. Like we weren't in the middle of a supernatural mess. We were just three girls, three best friends, celebrating one of our birthdays together.

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༺☽𖦹☾༻    

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╰┈˚ · ° .   In the late afternoon, Alec and I found ourselves in Derek's lair alongside his three betas. The alpha had asked us to be there since tonight would Erica and Boyd first full moon and Isaac definitely couldn't control himself yet. Since the full moon happens to be on Lydia's birthday and both of us would be at her party, we decided to go in the afternoon.

Derek gave one last look at his betas before he kneeled to the floor and opened an old wooden chest

"What is that?" Isaac asked, his fingers tracing the three spirals pattern painted on the inside of the lid of the crate

"It's a triskele." Boyd answered before I could, making all of us turn towards him. "Spirals mean different things, past, present, future. Mother, father, child."

A sad wave passed through Derek's eyes "You know what it means to me?" He asked his beta

"Alpha, Beta, Omega." I said when it was clear that none of the beats was going to answer.

Derek nodded at me with a nostalgic look, his lips titled a sad smile "It's a spiral. Reminds us that we can all rise to one or fall to another. Betas can become Alphas, but alphas can also fall to Betas or even Omegas."

"Packs usually have symbols, created by Alphas without even meaning to. The triskele is the symbol of the Hale pack. It's been for centuries." I said tracing the triskele like Isaac had done only seconds before "It's why we both have it tattooed."

"Exactly" Derek sent me nod

"What about Scott" Isaac asked

"Scott's with us." Derek answered slightly annoyed

"Really? Then where is he now?"

"He's looking for Jackson." Derek said slightly annoyed "Don't worry, he's not gonna have it easy tonight either. None of us will." Derek took out from the chest a metal harness attached with thick chains "There's a price you pay for this kind of power. You get the ability to heal. But tonight you're gonna want to kill anything you can find."

"Good thing I had my period last week, then." Erica commented, earning a snort from me while all the other males in the room looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Good thing that you are not a shadow wolf actually. We have it way worse than you werewolves." Alec said bitterly giving me a sarcastic look

"Way to make it about you, love." I snickered giving him a sickly sweet smile

"You know that anytime that I can say it, I will." He tsked

"You are only bringing up how powerful my ancestor was since you know, she didn't just curse your ancestor but all his line."

"Oh please, not this again" Derek groaned, his hands to his face "Why I thought that you two being in a relationship would've calmed down your incessant fight?"

"Never" Both Alec and I said at the same time.

"It just added the sexual aspect to it" The shadow wolf said, earning a slap without not much strength behind on the chest from me. But he simply smirked down at me, winking seductively.

"Gross." Derek shuddered glaring at the dark haired wolf "Never say something like that ever again"

"Have they always been like this?" Isaac asked pointing between each other

"Worse. Trust me, when the Di Luna would come to our house, while eating we had to literally make them sit down at the extremities of the table or we would have to listen all the time to them shouting at each other." Derek answered, a not so pleased look on his face. "Now back to the previous topic." He exhaled a breath. He took a metal circle with nails all around it and looked at Erica "Well, this one's for you."

Looking at the torture device in Derek's hand I grimaced "Cute"

My phone beeped into my pocket. A message from the Lydia in the group chat composed by her, Allison and I.

The Winx Club

Bloom

See you girls at my house in thirty minutes!

Flora

Why?

Bloom

So we can prepare ourselves together. Duh!

Oh and I already buyed you girls your dresses.

See ya later!!

Musa

Uhm, alright. I'll be there.

Flora

See you in an hour

Bloom

Thirty minutes! Or you are on cleaning

duties tomorrow.

Flora

I'll be there in ten

"Good luck tonight, you will need it." I said with a totally fake smile. "We have to go now."

I grabbed Alec ready to drag him out of there

"What happened?" Alec asked confused

"If I don't get to Lydia's in thirty minutes I'll be stuck all tomorrow with cleaning her house. She will go as far as call off the agency she called to clean the mess of the party. Meaning no cuddling with me tonight because I'll have to stay at hers."

"Are you joking?" Alec asked with a raised eyebrow, amusement dripping from his words

"Does my face look like I'm kidding, Alec?" I swiftly turned towards him.

He titled his head with wide eyes. His face quickly morphed to amused to completely serious "Definitely not. Let's go, I need my cuddles tonight. You left me too early this morning. That red haired demon is not going to have you two days in a row." This time it was him that dragged me out of Derek's lair with the snorts and chuckles of the pack following after us.

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˗ˏˋ 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 ˊˎ˗

Hello everyone!

I hope you liked the birthday scene with the girls. I wanted them to have a little moment to just be normal friends, so I thought that this was a good idea.

Little spoiler for the next chapter!!! Maybe a new character??

Anyways, thank you for reading this chapter, I'll see you on Saturday!

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