Felicity's POV.

I'm terrified, and shaking in my boots. A part of me wants to turn around and leave but the warm hand holding mine gives me the courage I need to keep my feet moving. I start my way to the school and walk in the doors looking around at the noise and bustle of the university. I push myself further into Kendrick, nervous by all the commotion. He releases my hand and I panic for a second until I feel his arm wrap around my waist, the comfort he gives me is more than the desire to not be touched and I am grateful for it. He is my mate, I want to accept his touch more than anything else.

We walk down the hall with Lana, Warren and Dan behind us. I see a few people glance our way and try to ignore it. If I keep making eye contact with people it will just make me more nervous so I keep my eyes ahead. I won't look down in shame but show my courage, no matter how much I just want to look down and hide my face I won't. The first class that I will be going to is the psychology class where it all began, where Warren first saw Lana and where everything started to fall apart. I didn't know it at the time but what has happened now was all inevitable. No one fights the mate pull and wins, and if they do...well, it never turns out right.

When you reject the mate pull it doesn't just let you win, it fights back, with an extremely hard punch. You barely have a chance to hold your breath before you're asphyxiated with your own pillow, namely meaning your stupidity in fighting what was meant to be all along. That is why rejections are so rare. It wouldn't have mattered how hard Warren and I tried to make us work, we would have never lasted. Something would always bring him and Lana together, only death can keep you from the bond. Which is what my father did, how he 'freed' himself. He became so dark that he killed his own mate and then he went insane and took it out on his only child.

Loosing a mate is detrimental to each counterparts wellbeing, two souls entwined into one. Imagine being whole and then suddenly half of you is gone. You don't think the same or act the same. You're just a living shell within your own body. It explains why so many people die after their mate does, it just depends on the strength of their bond.

If after they find their mate, reject them and their mate dies, they live in constant pain. That pain grows and festers till they are either driven insane or they die not too long after them.

If they meet their mate but they die before they can complete the bond than they can either live to find somene who is not their mate but has had the same lose and mate with them or they can die quickly. If they chose to mate with some they can find love and happiness together but there will always be the knowledge that there was someone out there who was just for them.

If they completed the mating and they lose their mate, a part of them is ripped in half. They slowly lose functioning and every one of their organs begins to shut down. They don't feel any pain as their life comes to an end, thankfully. They just die in peace as their life leaves them.

If there is someone who lost looses their mate without meeting them they are able to find happiness. Just as for the person who meets their mate but looses then before they can conplete the bond they can go on to find love, the only difference is the feelings of loss won't be as strong. They will be able to love whole heartedly without really recognizing that the person they are with is not their mate, even though they will know their mate is dead. How will they know this? They will still feel the loss but the pain of it won't last as long. Most usually fall in love with a human to love, one that accepts our word and understands that they lost who they're meant to be with but is still happy to fall in love.

That's why rejecting of a mate is so rare, it's because you made the decision to leave them and they died. Unlike the way the loss of losing a mate impacts the lives of others who lost their mate, you actually chose to leave your mate. If Warren hadn't changed his mind with Lana that would have happened to him, he would have lived alone and in constant pain until he died too. Stupid, I know but we all forget to think about the consequences of our actions. That is normal in life, think selfishly now and deal with the consequences later. It's either too late or thankfully, the worst outcome never happens because you rectify your mistake.

Now, if the one who is with the mate that rejected theirs, meaning me, as you know Warren would have died along with Lana because of living in pain. But me? No. Neither Kendrick nor I would have died. The only thing that would have happened is we would have never been able to be together. Eternally separated. For me or anyone else who has or ever will be in the same position as me, they would have still been able to find my mate. The only difference is whoever put themselves between a couple would lose the chance to be with their mate. I, and anyone else who has done the same thing as me, would live in unhappiness for the rest of their life. Both separated mate's knowing one of them made the foolish decision to try to be with someone that is not their's. They would have cost them both their happiness.

When you, in a sense reject your mate to be with someone that is not your's you lose the chance to be with them becuase you make the choice to be with someone else rather than your own mate. Not saying that when this happens some mate's haven't tried to be together but the mate doesn't have a hold anymore. The one who was going to mate someone other than their mate, would never be able to carry a mark on their neck. Even if they stayed together without the mark misery would still stir in their hearts, and so they would leave each other to avoid the agony. Most likely the mate who was rejected before they even met their mate, would likely never want to see their mate due to anger for their mate's selfishness and lack of waiting for them. Leaving both of them alone for the rest of their life. The punishment is not only does the foolish mate lose the chance to be with their mate but they also risked their own mate's happiness without the chance of ever finding true love again.

Thank goodness Warren changed his mind, I don't know where I would be right now if it weren't for Lana. Even if I had mated with Warren I'm sure I would have lived a miserable life because my father would still be alive and Warren would have died. I cant believe my father tried to force this on me and I completely forgot all about the consequences of what we were doing. It's so easy to focus for me to what was happening currently than actually think of the consequences.

I'm sure Warren's parents spoke to him many times and must have been so angry with his stupidity and risking his life. I have no idea how anyone can look at me right now, especially Kendrick and Lana. If Lana and Warren hadn't gotten together and the secrets had not come out, there is no doubt in my mind he would have died. Now that I think about it, without Lana I would have never met Kendrick so either way I would have been mateless.

We reach the open doorway to the classroom, I stop, take a deep breath and allow Kendrick to pull me in behind him. I keep my eyes on his back will we walk inside, walk up stairs that press against the side of the room and to a seat. I feel eyes looking at me from all around, I don't know if any of them recognizes me. I am not dressed the same way and I have stopped putting on makeup- Kendrick says I look better without it anyway. It's been so long since I've been here and I've never really spoken to anyone so I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have noticed me before. I turn my eyes to the rows of chairs in the auditorium and see a lot of people looking at me, I guess I was wrong. By the looks on their faces they do recognze me and are shocked to see me.

I have been gone weeks, almost two months. I never thought my disappearance would have been so obvious. I feel the start of my panic but try to push it away as much as I can, I'm not sure if I'm doing a good enough job of it though. I feel a tug in my arm pulling me upwards and a small hand touch my back to direct me forward. I turn to see Lana smiling at me with encouragement and she winks her eye at me as another tug passes through my arm. I turn back around to see Kendrick looking down at me with concern in his eyes, silently asking me if I'm okay.

I don't answer him but look around the room again, this time I notice something a little different. Some of the looks are at me but some of them are looking at the man holding on to my hand. Mainly women are staring at Kendrick. It doesn't take me long to get annoyed and before he realizes what's happening around him I encourage him to pull me to our seats. He finds a row with five spots open and we all sit down. I still sense eyes shifting our way and again I see most of them are now just at Kendrick. I can't stand it so I do the one thing that will let them know who he's with, because clearly him holding my hand did nothing. I learn forward, closing my eyes and pulling him to me I bring my lips to his, kissing him. It doesn't matter if they knew what kind of woman I was before, any smart female would see this as a kiss of rights.

It takes me a few minutes to realize what I've done. I am kissing my mate, I was initially too afraid to take the next step with him for so long and thanks to these women I just did. I just kissed my mate with a claiming mark to let others females know he's mine and release the jealously that was building up in my chest. This made me smile in the middle of the kiss as I pull back. The look on Kendrick's face is priceless, his face is the brightest I've ever seen it, a huge smile with a mix of shock reflecting in his eyes. It was unexpected but definitely something I've wanted to do for a while, and it feels great.

I turn my eyes away from him, a calculating gleam in my eyes. I make sure to make eye contact with the woman around me, human or not, and I can see them all look away. They got my message, good. No one will even get the chance to steal the man I love away from me. Wait...what?!

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