465: SIXTEEN YEARS OLD

SIXTEEN YEARS OLD

"Why are you so grumpy so early in the morning?" Ian closed his locker next to Hope's while Ethan stood beside his twin brother, eating his breakfast sleepily.  0

These two people were stuck with Hope in the same school and class. What to do? In this small village, there were not many options you could choose from.

Ever since Kace visited their house, they would complain to Hope that their parents wanted them to keep their eyes on Hope, for 'protection' or some sort. 

Ian would say it was troublesome, but Hope knew he was more than willing to follow her around just to know about Kace Donovan. 

Apparently Donovan's family was a well known family in their kind. Like a royal family, if Hope didn't misinterpret it when the siblings explained to her.

"Nothing." Hope slammed the locker door shut with a loud banging sound. 

Ian stared at Ethan who was startled as well, just like the rest of the students nearby. "She is really something," he muttered.

"Don't disturb her." Rossie came from the other side of the corridor, hugging her backpack as she gave a bottle of water to Ethan. "She was upset because she found out Lana was talking to Kace again."

Ian raised his eyebrows. "Why did he do that?" 

Rossie also came to the same high school as Hope and her two brothers, thus it was not any different from their middle school. It would always be the four of them as they didn't like to mingle with the other students quite often. 

The siblings caught up with Hope before they entered their class and sat down at the end of the row. Rossie came to join them because the bell had not gone off. 

"Why did he call Lana, but not you?" Ian asked as he sat down on his seat next to Hope while Rossie took the seat in front of her.

"How would I know that?" Hope snapped at him. She was very upset. 

The last time she met Kace was when she was sick, but Hope was not sure if Kace came that night, because by the time she woke up, her fever had subsided and the annoying lycan was already gone. 

When Hope asked Lana, she said she didn't know about that and was pretty certain that Kace wasn't back. However, his presence still left it's mark…

Hope put her forehead against the table. "Are you sure that mates couldn't stay separated from each other for too long?" She asked Ian and Rossie pitifully while Ethan was reading his book, not wanting to get involved with Hope's love sick story.

"It should be like that…" Rossie gave some thought to it.

"But, he has been away for two years without any news! He called Lana occasionally, but not me!" Hope hissed through gritted teeth.

Maybe, it would have been fine if there was no news or whatsoever from Kace, but as it turned out, she caught Lana talking to Kace a couple of times through the phone when he didn't even bother to call her. 

"Am I really his mate?" Hope whined. 

"You know what? I heard a rumor about the Donovan brothers." Ethan finally joined the conversation, placing down his book. 

"What is it?" Rossie asked eagerly. She was always excited to know more about the progress of Hope's love life with Kace. 

She always dreamed of having her own mate and the only person who had met one in the people she knew, aside from her parents, was Hope.

The younger siblings always thought it was romantic. Well, Hope also thought the same until Kace left her alone for two years straight.

"I heard, the Donovan brothers were cursed to not have a mate for the rest of the eternity." Ethan said with a confused look. "But, if that is the case, then what are you?" 

This piece of information didn't light up Hope's mood at all. "Maybe I am a mistake." She said sullenly. 

"That must be not true." Rossie frowned, holding her arms in front of her chest. "Hope feels the spark every time they are making skin to skin contact." 

Ethan shrugged his shoulders. "I am just saying what I heard."

Right at that time, the bell rang and Rossie sprinted out of the class to go to her classroom and when the bell stopped ringing, a woman, whom Hope knew very well for her whole life, came walking into the room.

It was Lana. 

Great!

As if it was not enough for Hope to see her inside the house, she had to see her at the school too. This was one of Serefina's great plans.

Lana came to work as an arts teacher in this high school ever since Hope got enrolled as a high school student here. 

However, Lana didn't seem to enjoy this job that much. She wasn't a social person, thus becoming a teacher that should deal with a lot of students was something that annoyed her.

Actually, Serefina had told her to take this role even before, that was when Hope was still in the middle school, but for some reasons there was a change of plans.

Hope propped her head with her hand as she scribbled away absentmindedly while listening to Lana's boring voice for the next one and half hour.

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When the last class had ended, every face inside the class suddenly lit up and came alive, unlike their boring state a few minutes ago.

It was the same case Hope as well, though there was nothing she could do once she reached home. She was still a normal student who would prefer the life out of school.

Usually, Hope would go to the siblings' house, to play a few games with them before Lana would pick her up from there.

Maybe it was Kace's interference, but apparently Serefina didn't object when Hope befriended them, or probably just like Kace, Serefina also knew Ian's parents…

"Hi, Hope…" A boy's voice greeted her and Hope gave him a faint smile.

Hope knew him. He was Oliver, their senior. "Yes?"

"I wonder if you want to go with me, there is this new…" his sentences were cut short when Ian chimed in. 

"Then keep wondering."

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