My Secret, My Bully, My Mates

The weather has turned for the better pretty consistently the last couple of days. The rain has been crazy though, so like many students we have taken the opportunity to walk around and enjoy the sun while it is out.

"Are you really going to stick around and take classes over the summer?" Robbie asks out of the blue.

"Not you too. Listen, Tyler already made fun of me for considering it, but what else would I do? I have to work and we don't have any big travel plans. We might visit some of the cities we hit up on our way here We made a few friends and Mina wants to check in with them before we continue here or move on to somewhere else. There are no definite plans."

"Are you guys planning on coming back here though?" Robbie sounds concerned.

and find her mate.

and your mate fixation." Robbie grumbles. "Why are you so stuck on finding

so against the idea?" I turned his question on him. I understand Tyler's issue. He still deals with it on a daily basis. And apparently I am a reason for his current suffering. Even though there are zero romantic feelings towards

turn quickly. He tries to play it off but I heard him and he knows I heard him. "Hey, would it be better if you sat down

really helps." He takes a deep breath in and lets it out slowly. I take his hand and we keep walking at

beside me after we have been walking a few more minutes. I was so focused on Tyler, I forgot it wasn't just

don't actually care about other people. This is the kind of leadership and power that we know. That's all we know. So you and your flowery rainbows and unicorns idea about mates is just that a fantasy. The real world doesn't give a