Chapter 45 - Jumble

𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐒 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐌 𝐑𝐔𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐖 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐄𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑, Catherine sat comfortably on the fluffy white chair of her vanity desk, the young shifter only wearing a bath towel as she had just gotten out of the shower.

The subtle sound of calming music playing from her music player, caused the young shifter to sing and hum along as she got ready for the rest of the day.

Her mind is no longer on the multiple imprinters situation thanks to the new information provided about her parents about her three-time great Aunt Marylou.

Now not only did she have to find a new place to live, but she had to meet back up with the pack to check in with Jacob and also get finished talking about her date.

However as Catherine was getting excited about seeing her boyfriend and imprinters again, her door was swiftly yet gently pushed open causing her head to shoot up looking at it through the mirror.

However, her interest was deterred as she saw it was only Isabella, to which she simply rolled her eyes and continued to brush her healthy long hair.

And realizing the smaller girl wasn't going to speak first, Bella could only roll her eyes and let out a scoff slightly irritated with how easily her presence was annoyed.

"You're moving out?" She asked folding her arms over her chest as if what she did wasn't something that would make someone uncomfortable living with them.

"You didn't expect me to," Catherine asked not turning around towards the girl, only looking at her through the nurse in front of her. "you tried to steal my boyfriend."

"I just want what's best for the both of you," Bella lied trying to play the hero rather than the villain, however, her words only put a sour sneer on Catherine's face. "you're cheating on him, wha-"

Almost immediately at Bella's claim, Catherine jumped up from her seat at her vanity desk, for the first time turning and looking directly at someone who had once been her favorite cousin.

"Shut up," She spoke seriously in a low tone, her swift movement shutting Bella's mouth long before her words had. "I didn't fucking cheat on him, you keep talking about shit you don't know anything about."

Hearing the smaller girl's words, Bella's mouth remained shut as she simply stared directly at Catherine with her usual innocent empty sad eyes.

To Catherine it looked like there wasn't a single thought behind the girl's eyes as she simply stood there and stared, it didn't even seem like she was listening.

And seeing that look, Catherine knew that Bella most likely wasn't listening to a thing she was saying, so she could only roll her eyes.

Taking a deep breath in hopes of calming herself down, whilst she crossed her arms over the bath towel wrapped around her body.

"Why the fuck are you in my room anyway?" She asked curiously, it was rare that Bella came into her room for anything other than to remind her of something.

The two would usually sit and hang out in Bella's room or be out of the house hanging out with Jacob, which wasn't an option anymore.

"Jacob hasn't been answering my calls." Bella answered simply as she looked at Catherine, although her words only caused the young shifter to scoff.

"And you thought he would," She asked in return before letting out a series of amused chuckles, as she turned back towards her vanity and began to lie. "he's sick, thanks to you're little dramatic ass outburst, he was walking out in the cold and got sick."

With that dumbass statement answered, Catherine quickly grabbed a hold of the brush she'd previously put down going back to brushing out her curly-curly hair.

Or she would have gone back to brushing her hair, if not for once again locking eyes with Bella through her vanity mirror, causing a confused/annoyed look to come over her face.

"Goodbye!" She spoke loudly basically telling the teen to get out of her current bedroom, despite having truly loved her cousin she was still upset about everything.

Especially since it didn't seem like Bella gave a fuck about almost ruining her entire relationship, so Catherine decided she wouldn't give a fuck about her cousin's feelings.

She quickly showed as she only continued to run the brush through her hair, not even phased as Bella stumped out of the room, slamming her door as she went.

𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐔𝐏 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄, Catherine over excitedly flattened and fixed small details of her outfit and hair, despite already have done so before she got out of her car.

It was time for her to meet with her imprinters to see who exactly would be going on a date with her, she'd spent the better of last night answering and asking questions.

Jacob haven called on the guys's behalf to help them plan individual dates, which was the main reason for her overexcitement.

Which just about doubled the moment the door of the pack house opened, Jacob almost immediately barreled out of the door followed by two blurs of tanned skin.

This caused Catherine to stop walking about ten feet from the house, giggling and laughing as she watched Jacob rush towards her with a large smile.

Whilst Jared and Paul scrambled and pushed at each other to be directly behind Jacob, neither of the two wanted to be last which ended up with both of them on the ground.

"Bunny!" Jacob shouted happily as he ignored the tussle that was going on behind him, instead grabbing hold of Catherine just like when he'd first seen her a few weeks ago.

"Ahh!" The young bunny-shifter squealed as they lifted her in the air and spun her around, letting out loud giggles as her boyfriend looked only at her like she was his sun, moon, and stars.

Not paying attention to Jared who'd shoved Paul to the side, causing him to trip slightly, but it was when Jared tried to rush ahead and tripped over Paul's unsteady feet did the two fell to the ground.

Right at the same time that Jacob placed Catherine back onto the grass-covered ground, the two paused as they looked down at the two men who'd been glaring at each other.

"Y'all good?" Jacob asked with a scoffed-out laugh as he rested his arm around Catherine's shoulder, the girl on the other hand watching on in amusement with him.

And seeing the two of them looking down on them, Jared and Paul's glaring session quickly broke as they glanced at Catherine and Jacob, before quickly pushing themselves up from the ground. Each boy dusts themselves off.

𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐆𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑, Jared and Paul dusted their cargo shorts and tank top shirts off, it was usual for the two to often argue and scuffle.

The two never had any bad blood between them, it just so happened that Paul's anger issues usually led him to question authorities, and Jared was the beta.

The anger-filled shifter often questioned him and without an 'Alpha's Command' Paul didn't like to back down, but neither did Jared which ended in fights.

However the two always reconciled after Paul's anger cleared and Jared realized he only added fuel to the fire, yet that changed after Paul'd imprinted on Catherine.

"Yeah, yeah, we're fine." Paul spoke softly as he finally dusted himself off, before glancing down at his imprint causing a smile to grow on his face.

Jared was the same as he looked down at his imprint with a dopey smile growing on his face, however, it twitched slightly when he zeroed in on Jacob's arm around her shoulder.

"Ready for your date, Honey Bun?" Jared asked with a large smile on his face as he softly grasped her hands, pulling her towards him and out from under Jacob's arm.

It flopped down to the younger teen's arm, causing a scoffed-out chuckle to leave Jacob's mouth as he glanced around them partially bewildered.

Almost immediately he realized how this dating the same person thing was going to go between him and Jared, there was no way Jacob was going to let Jared win.

"So I'm going on a date with you?" Catherine asked curiously not noticing what was going on between the boys, looking up at Jared through her eyelashes.

"Mmmm, sadly no," Jared spoke as he brought her smaller, softer hands up to his lips placing light kisses on both of her hands, before a pout came to his face. "I drew the short straw."

Finishing his words the oldest of the four rolled his eyes before he was suddenly pushed back away from Catherine by Jacob.

The soon-to-be alpha stepped up gently pushing Jared back away from her with a smirk on his face as he put his arm back around Catherine's shoulders.

"Paul got the pity vote," Jacob spoke as he brought Catherine back under his arm, staring Jared down challengingly as he continued to speak. "so Jared goes last."

Nodding his head Jared didn't rebuttal only stepping back to being beside Paul, it wasn't the time to steal the position of favorite out from underneath Jacob.

Although Paul, on the other hand, had nothing to do with their little competition all his attention was only on his imprint, as always.

"Yet disappointingly I didn't have enough seniority." Paul spoke disappointed as he looked down at his little imprint, it didn't matter to him who she was up under.

As long as he had a chance to bring her underneath him whenever she grew annoyed by them.

"So neither of them is your date." Jacob spoke up again with a smirk still on his face, although he'd prefer none of them to be on a date with her, he enjoyed that the decision made both of them suffer.

However, the realization that she wouldn't be on a date with either of the guys in front of her, meant that the only one left was...

"That means..." Catherine spoke trailing off as she looked up at Jacob, however, the reason for her trailing was the sound of the pack house door opening.

The creak of the door drew attention to Sam Uley, who was standing there dressed in a full-piece black suit, the man looking scrumptious in his outfit.

"I'm taking you out today." He spoke as he fixed the tie around his neck, he wasn't exactly comfortable wearing so many clothes, but it was a special occasion.

Although seeing Sam all dressed up the other members of the pack couldn't help but let out shouts and whistles, every single of them hooping and hollering in approval of his outfit.

"Well, don't you look spiffy?" Jared joked as the four of them watched Sam walk over towards them, Paul letting out a wolf whistle as he did so.

Looking the older shifter up and down, Catherine couldn't stop the blush that came to her cheeks, not-so-innocent images flashing through her head.

Not only that but just like Jacob, Sam towered over Catherine's physical being so much more so than Paul and Jared who were already exceedingly tall.

Sam stood at six foot six inches tall right alongside Jacob, so more often than not Catherine had to crane her head just to see the man, not to mention the ever-so-serious look on his face.

He was tall, had broad shoulders, black hair, and a dark serious look in his eye, Sam looked like an all-around tough guy someone you wouldn't want to mess with on the street.

And that for a lack of better words was a turn-on for Catherine.

"So what're gonna be doing?" A blushing Catherine asked as she looked up at Sam this time, the man smirking down at her as he watched her take a step closer to him.

The blush on her cheeks only caused pride to erupt in the oldest man's chest, not only that he could smell the arousal coming from the young bunny.

They all could, which hinted as to why all of their eyes seemed to darken despite Catherine's unawareness of it as they all looked down at her.

"It's a surprise." Sam remarked calming taking a deep breath and trying to restrain himself and his senses, not wanting to do anything that would upset her.

As he spoke lightly grazed his thumb and index finger over the girl's chin, tipping her head up a bit as he looked down at her with eyes filled with seduction.

At his movement, Catherine couldn't help the small giggle that left her lips, she loved the attention that she was currently getting.

However watching the two interact with each other before the date, a weird feeling came over Jacob, it wasn't that he was uncomfortable with the situation it was just...if he was on the outside looking in.

He'd think of the person in his situation as the biggest dumbass in the world, who in their right mind would willing to let their girlfriend date three other guys?

So he spoke up on it jokingly.

"I wish I was more uncomfortable about someone else taking my girlfriend on a date." He joked slightly bitter as he rocked on his feet, slowly slipping his hands into his pockets.

Although his words quickly grabbed everyone's attention, especially Catherine's, all she heard was the word uncomfortable and she was already frowning.

The last thing she wanted was for him to be uncomfortable, they'd been on the phone for two hours talking about it before he had to go officially run with the pack.