The Hunter's Mate

I grew older knowing supernatural creatures. For example, I could tell a vampire if I see one.

It was strange that I was more powerful than any of them.

At first, I thought I was one of them but the more I studied about them, the more it gave me reasons to doubt that I was like them.

I gave up trying to find the race I belonged to, so I went about my daily life living like humans.

But my world began to crumble when I found my mate. He is a warlock of the witch's coven and one of the mermaid hunters. Through him, I started to find who I really am and my purpose on earth.

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I snapped my eyes open with an unsteady breathing. My alarm beeped again reminding me I was late for school. I turned to the alarm and shut it off.

I left the bed and went to the bathroom to shower up. Time spent evolving me pondering weird nightmares.

"Ellie, breakfast is served." A voice interrupts my thoughts. I sighed, moved away from the shower and got into my bathrobe.

I searched through piles of clothes in my closet and finally settled on a pair of ankle length jeans with a graphic tee. I carried my bag pack and exited the bedroom for dinner.

My dad looked at me and smiled. I returned the smile and settled on a chair opposite Julia who didn't spare a glance. I shrugged and took a sip from my coffee.

"Are you alright?" My mom's worried voice asked me. I smiled faintly and nodded, I started picking my food into my mouth.

"Joyce"

Mom calls out to the house help.

In sprint seconds, I noticed a figure standing beside me but I didn't look up.

"Drink the milk, it will help you calm down."

I lifted my head beside me and collected the milk from Joyce. I gulped it down at once,"Thanks, Joyce. It really helped" I thanked her and she left.

"Good morning, Mr. and Mrs Wilson '' My boyfriend,Jake, greeted me from the doorway. I looked up and smiled at him. "The nerd is here, '' Julia whispered, loud enough for me to hear. I glared at her and ignored her.

Julia had always hated me since I came into their lives. I'm just like an enemy who snatched her parent's attention towards her. I've never flown with her as a sister and I avoided her in any possible way but she finds a way to bully me.

And for Jake, he always takes me to school since we started dating, we started dating last year and it's pretty cool. I think he loves me and I do like him, I am hoping to return his feelings soon.

And I also have a female and a male friend, Tyson and Molly. They're just great and our friendship has been really good.

I wiped my mouth and kissed my foster parents goodbye and left with Jake. We walked into the car and off he drove off.

"Are you okay?, babe" I looked at him and gave a smile. "I'm fine, Jake." I replied and turned back to the window. And the rest of the drive was awkwardly quiet, not that I don't like it anyway.

~

I alighted and Jake and I walked into the school building. I walked towards my locker to check my timetable for today. I found I had physics this morning.

I took out my physics textbook and closed my locker. I turned and gasped when I saw Tyson and Molly other than Jake.

I looked behind and found Jake leaning by his locker. "I have English this morning. I'll get going then." He walked a few steps to me and kissed my right cheek and left. I turned back to those piercing eyes of Tyson and expected him to say something.

"That's gross. Not even on the lips." I scoffed. "You know Tyson, i do not like it on the lips"

"Awkward. Is he really your boyfriend?Ellie." Molly asked.

"Don't ask me stupid questions." I pushed them aside and continued my journey to the physics class.

"That's by the way, I heard rumors that we have two new hot guys in school" Molly squealed and I turned. "Really?"

"They are smokingly hot. Shit, you need to see them"

I turned back again. "That's cool. But it isn't my concern right now. I'm fucking busy with something"

"Yeah, right?. Busy doing nothing" I could feel her rolling her eyes right now.

"I'm doing something okay, and besides they won't be that hot compared to Tyson"

"Yes, Ellie. That's why I like you. You're always truthful compared to these ones already blinded by fake guys."

"And you think you're any better, dude you're ugly"

I knew I stirred up trouble as they bickered at each other behind my back.

I stopped at the door of the class and turned. "Alright fellas. I've reached my destination. You two can continue on your way to your classes." I waved them bye and walked into the class, I found an empty seat beside the window.

Few minutes later, the physics teacher came in and started teaching while I jolted down on my notebook.

"Newton's law of dynamics then indicates that the time derivative of the amount of motion is equal to the sum of the forces acting on the system." She stopped and I looked up. I trace her eyes on a guy at the door. "I'm sorry, teacher. I really had a hard time locating the physics class"

"I'm Mrs Addison. You must be the new student, right?" She asked.

"Yeah. I'm Stefan Brown. A new student"

"Aww. He's so cute, ``a blonde girl said behind me. I cleared my throat and checked him out.

*Cute gray eyes, short curly hair, tall and muscle built like that of a mafia boy, with strong cheekbones and hard looking arms similar to an agent. Well, kinda hot on a white tee shirt on blue ripped jeans.*

"You sit beside Miss Wilson." Mrs Addison said pointing at me. Our eyes met and I looked away to the empty chair beside me.

"Really, he's sitting beside you. I wish we could exchange seats." I ignored the blonde and looked down at my jolter nervously tapping my pen on it.

"The law of dynamics then indicates that these internal forces do not change the amount of movement of the global system." The teacher began.

And everything she said afterwards went from the right ear to the other. Fuck!. I was sitting very close to this dude who couldn't take his eyes off me.

"Damn!!. You're staring too much." I finally whispered out. "Was I?. You're beautiful." I can't believe he said that.

Mehn!. My cheeks turned red and I tried really hard to hide my face. Get a hold on yourself. You have a boyfriend.

"Miss Wilson. "

"Yeah?" I looked up immediately. "What?" There were chuckles from my mates.

"Three laws of dynamics?" Damn this woman.

The students looked at me and I straightened up ready to do what I know best. I cleared my throat, "In the first law, we've come to understand that an object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it."

"The second law states that the force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration. And, finally, the third law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." I answered perfunctorily.

"That's right. But I'd like it if you paid less attention to Stefan Brown." The class roared into laughter leaving me embarrassed.

The bell rang and I heaved a long sigh. The class was really a long one, that I almost slept off, which was all weird to me. I've never lost interest in class, be it any subject, but here I am, dozing off, which was an effect of having a troubled sleep last night.

"Miss Wilson." Mrs Addison calls from the front of the class. I stood up with my textbook and walked towards her, the new guy by her side.

"Yes, Mrs Addison."

"Yup. This is Stefan Brown. You'll take him round the school and update him on how things work over here" I looked at Stefan and he smirked. "This is the most brilliant thing we have in the school. That's why I assigned you to her. If you have any problem, you know where to find me." She said, referring to Stefan. "Thanks Mrs. Addie."

"It's Mrs Addison." She corrected me.

"Arm...sorry. Mrs Addison." She smiled and walked out of the class leaving me and Stefan.

"Uhm. uh will show you around at lunch."

"Okay." He mumbled and I walked past him.

"Uhm..Miss Wilson." His cool voice called me and I stopped and turned.

"Yeah."

"What class do you have now?." I checked my wrist watch. "It's 9:00am. Math"

"Math?. I have that too."

"Well then. I'll have to get my note at my locker. Do you mind waiting?"

"Let's go together." I shrugged and we left.

~

We walked for a while in silence until he finally spoke up. "You live around here?" He asked. I looked amused and gave him a side lip smile. "I should ask you that, you know."

"Y..eah. Kinda. We moved out when I was little, so we're back now, for a while though."

"For a while?."

"My dad would call us back when he wanted to." He replied.

I stopped in front of my locker and turned. "Why are you suddenly back in town?" I asked casually.

"To look for my mom." He looked down when he said that and I felt guilty for ever prying on his private life. I turned back and opened my locker. I grabbed out my math textbook and closed it behind.

"Having fun?" I heard an unusual familiar voice behind me. I turned and found Julia and her friends.

"What're you doing here?. Julia" I breathed out and asked.

"I see you're out with this handsome dude." She came very close to my ear and whispered. "Does he know you have a boyfriend?" I frowned.

"Stop fucking with me." I pushed her off me. She landed on her butt and winced. "Holy shit!." I ran over to help her. " I'm sorry, I didn't know I pushed you that hard." I grabbed her arm and she tucked me away.

"Get your filthy hands off me." Her friends helped her up.

"Stop acting like you didn't do that intentionally." One of her friends yelled at me. "Isn't that right?. Bitch." The other added with a sneer.

"Enough, girls. You both saw it happen. She didn't do it on purpose." Stefan told them and walked to help me up from the floor.

Once on my feet, Julia looked at me disdainfully. "You don't know her. She's terrible, She's hypocrite. She will ruin your life just like she ruined mine." Julia said and walked away with her friends.

"Thank you." I look at Stefan. We were so close that our lips were almost touching, our eyes locked together, and my stomach churned beneath and I felt an unquenchable desire starting to build up.

It took my senseless mind to come together to know I was almost kissing him, I pushed him lightly and cleared my throat.

"We're late for class."

"15 minutes late. Let's go."

~

I sat alone at lunch and waited for my two friends to arrive with their food. I thought of my nightmares. The way that man slashed that girl's throat, I knew my nightmares were something from my past, and my mom had asked me not to overthink that it would be clear someday.

My friends were back with their meals and I looked at them. They had this weird look on me that I was trying to ascertain.

"What?." I finally asked.

"It's all over the school that you are taking the new boy on a walk." I scoffed.

The school is funny. I could remember when I walked into the school for the first time, the chemistry teacher asked questions on what isn't on the semester's time table, which I answered correctly and Chloe couldn't, that made me known around the school as the new brain.

They had to make me represent them in last year international's spelling bee competition, which of course we won.

I trace everyone's attention to a group of two males and a female walking into the cafe. "Stefan, Aaron, and Wendy," I look at Tyson. "Twin brothers and their friend. I heard about Wendy's Stefan girlfriend." He added.

I turned to him and a flash of I almost kissed him displayed in my head. I cleared my throat instantly. "Are you okay?" He asked, " Yeah, I'm fine."

"She's pretty and makes a good pair." added Molly.

They walk past our table, with Stefan looking back at me. They sat at our back and I turned back to my food. "Your boyfriend is here." Molly whispered and I looked up to see Jake with a hockey ball. "Hey, babe." He sits beside me.

"How was class?." I smiled. "It's great. Any class after lunch?" I asked. "Nah. I have to play after lunch." He looked behind me and turned back again. " I have to go now, stay safe." He draws nearer and kisses me on my forehead before walking away.

"Jerk." Molly mumbled. "Oh please. He doesn't deserve that much hate toward him." She scoffs. "And who's talking about hating him?" She asked. "Ridiculous. I just did."

"Hey, Miss Wilson." I turned to see Stefan sitting beside me. "Hey, Stefan Brown." I tease back and Molly and Tyson chuckled. "Oh, okk. You remember our deal in the morning, I think I'm ready." I looked at his gray beautiful eyes and smiled. "After lunch."

"No sweetheart. I'm playing a game after lunch." The way he said sweetheart made my heart flutter. "Really?. I'm definitely gonna watch that. Scratch that...I'm already your fan." Molly blurts out smiling sheepishly leaving me shaking my head side to side.

I've literally exhausted my time walking through almost all the classes and showing this dude every part of the school. We've gone to the court, music class, bathroom, library and detention class where I met Jackson sending glares and threats.

And another thing was that I can't understand the feelings I'm developing toward him, like every part of me screams and becomes active when they see him. It's very difficult to say that I'm falling for him, which I know I'm not because I've barely stayed up to 6 hours close to him. And I've decided on the best way to avoid him.

And we were just coming out of the dean's office with the school map and school time table. I turned to stand in front of him "And here we part ways." He scoffed. "What do you mean?"

"I meant we never meet each other and if we do, we don't talk to each other." I walked away before he could stop me. That was brilliant of me, he has a girlfriend, I have a boyfriend, why do I bother?. Gosh, I think I'm gonna lose my mind.

I stand beside Molly as she jumps on the field. "Sit down." I whispered and pushed her down on the bench. "The game's about to start." She squealed while I wondered what she saw in this game.

I look at everyone, all seated on the bench and the players out on the field. My boyfriend is standing searching through the crowd for me, no..not me. He looked at a girl and smiled at her while she waved.

And then, his eyes met mine and he smiled awkwardly. He was surprised to see me out and yeah, I haven't been interested in watching them play but when I heard Stefan was playing against him, I decided to watch. Students like me who weren't interested came too and the field was filled with students.

"Whose team is gonna win?. Jake or Stefan?." Tyson asked. "My boyfriend of course." I told him and Molly smirked. "I vote Stefan."

"You know Jake has been the best player since 2012." Tyson told her. "I haven't seen Stefan play. We'll see about that today." I finalized. The coach blew the whistle and the game began.

~

The two were really good in the game as they hit the ball right into the net at speed. The game became tense and everyone waited for the winner until Stefan pushed Jake and made him fall on the dusty ground. Stefan therefore went forward and hit the ball on the net, this was another goal from Stefan's team and the game ended.

Students cheered up, clapping loudly for the winner, but the cheers were cut short when Jake stood up and attacked Stefan and here we watch the fight.

The players apprehended them and they were taken away to the dean's office.

We were all seated inside the class waiting for the news of Stefan and Jake. "I know Jake was no good." Molly said and that got me really pissed. "I think this is not the right time to say that. Jake is my boyfriend, you can't say that about him, not now." I shunned.

"Guys, they are back." Tyson announced.

I made to stand but sat back and watched Stefan's girlfriend kiss him and take him away. My heart was filled with instant jealousness, which I had to control myself before Jake walked over to me and I hugged him. "It's okay, Jake. Everything will be fine." I patted him. "You two got to be kidding me." Molly said and walked away with Tyson following behind.

I made Jake sit and walked out to buy some ice for his bruised red eye. I stood in front of the counter woman for an ice bag. "Can I get one too?" A female voice asked behind me. I turned and found Stefan's girlfriend looking back at me.

She is beautiful, with curves in the right places, classy, with short messy red hair. She had on a summer school dress and big boots on her legs.

"Hey. Your boyfriend must be lucky to survive today, next time he tries Stefan again, he won't go the stress of treating his fuck up. I will." She winked, grabbed the ice bag from the woman and the cat walked away.

I walked into the class and gave Jake the ice bag. I sat down thinking of what she just said. A random school girl who just got into the school threatened my boyfriend and I did nothing. I'm such a loser. "Are you okay?" He asked. "I'm fine, Jake."

"Are you thinking of that rascal?. He just needs to go far away from me now because when I see him again, I'm gonna teach him a lesson." I look at him. "You're not going to fight him again, are you?"

"I just said I'll beat him." I wanted to reply but was cut short by a mocking laugh from Julia. I rolled my eyes. "What do you want?" I asked, not ready for her usual drama.

She looked back and then turned to look at me. "I think you should be careful with your boyfriend, or he might die before his time for ever hitting Stefan.".

I know she's a bitch to me but I can't stand her insult Jake. I made to stand up to her but Jake gave me a sign to stay back. "And you think you're cool right?. I think you. are. a. nerd." She pointed out and walked away.

His hand fisted into a ball and his skin reddened with a clenched jaw. He was boiling hot. "Let her be. You know how she can be all the time." I said.

"I can let her be but I won't let Stefan be for ever making a mockery of me."

~

He took me home and packed his car in front of the gate. "I might not be able to take you to school tomorrow." He mumbled. "I heard you have a meeting with your team."

"Yes, I do. And we'll talk tomorrow. Please be safe for me." He kisses the back of my hand.

"I'll." He drew nearer and I shifted back and my back was pressed against the window. I know Jake to be my boyfriend and I've told him we can't go deeper until I'm ready. He does respect that. He opened the door and I stepped down. "Bye, Jake."

The next morning, I stayed back to wait for dad who was going on a trip. He dropped me off and drove off while I turned and entered the school building. I met Molly standing behind the entrance door and ignored her. "Okay, I'm sorry." She apologizes.

I turned, "What was that yesterday?. What do you have against my boyfriend?" I asked her. "I'm not just comfortable with him. I feel he isn't the one for you." I turned back and continued walking. "Jake is a lovable person. He loves me."

"Do you think so?" She asked and I stopped. "I know so." I replied and turned to look at her strangely. She used to like Jake, in fact she advised me to go for him, why wouldn't she like him now?. "Guys..you won't believe this." We both turned to Tyson running toward us. "What's the problem?" I asked him.

"Jake got into a fight with Stefan again."