About 2 days later shes sitting in her room and she gets a text.

Dunce face: Hey

She glares at her phone and sighs. She clicks on the response bar but decides not to answer and closes his chat head.

It pops back up immediately.

Dunce face: Clem I'm sorry

Dunce face: My alpha took over my mind and I didn't mean to pin you like that

Dunce face: Please talk to me

Dunce face: We haven't talked in 5 days

Dunce face: Clem I saw the bubble

Dunce face: You were going to answer me and you decided against it

Dunce face: Wanna meet by the tree? Please?😓

Clementine stares at her phone and clicks it closed.

-

She walks through the park not looking at anyone.

She walks up to a specific willow tree and slides through the vines.

When she makes it through she sees yellow hair and crimson eyes.

Fuck he came here even though she didn't answer any of his fucking texts.

Soushi looks up at the sound of her moving through the vines and he gives a wry smile. He's leaning against the trunk of the tree with his phone in his hand.

She stops about 4 feet from him.

"Hey..." He mutters and stands up straight glancing at her.

Clementine keeps her trap shut cause there are about a thousand things she wants to scream at him right now.

"Clem I'm sorry..." He mutters and his voice cracks on the last part.

Shit.

She whips her head up in enough time to see his hand swipe across his face wiping tears away,"I didn't mean to hurt you or scare you..." He mutters voice shakey.

Clementine doesn't like seeing him cry like this at all.

So she steps towards him letting a calming scent fill the air and she wraps him in a tight hug.

"Stop crying-"

"But I hurt you-"

"I don't care stop crying!" She butts her head against his chest and leaves it there.

He gives a stuttered breath and lifts his arms wrapping them around her.

He places his face in the crook of her neck and breathes in deeply.

She rubs his back,"Just... Don't fucking pin me like that... If you wanted to scent me all you had to do was ask..."

"Sorry... You just really smelled like Ashley and I didn't like it..." He mutters.

Wait what?

He was trying to scent her because she smelled like Ashley?

But.

Alphas only do that to their omegas.

They don't do that to a friend.

If a friend smells like another friend its fine.

A friend shouldn't react to her smelling like another alpha unless he.

Unless he sees her as his omega.

"Soushi why does it mater if I smell like another alpha... We're not dating and we're not mates..." She pulls away from him.

Soushi looks at the ground guilty,"I dunno... I guess I've just... I guess its just where I was the only alpha that has ever scented you before and I reacted... Oddly? Because I guess I thought I should be the only alpha allowed to scent you..."

Oof.

That aroused her in seconds.

She backs up a little.

Soushi sees her move back from him and he panics,"Wait no! Im sorry I don't mean like- shit!"

"Soushi calm the fuck down..." She mutters,"I'm not mad at you I'm just-"

Wanting to fuck you right her behind the willow tree leaves.

Yeah.

That'd sound pretty fucking weird.

Soushi calms down and cocks his head like a dumb pup,"Then why did you-?"

"My scents... Weird... Right now," she mutters under her breath.

Soushi looks confused then sniffs the air.

Yep.

He can smell it cause his nose just twitched weird and he gives her a strange look.

Clementine puffs her cheeks out letting the air out,"I need to go home ok... Maria told me to come back in an hour so..."

"Yeah ok..." Soushi sighs.

They stand there for a moment.

Soushi moves forward and hugs her again.

He scents her heavily and she breathes it in greedily.

Then he nuzzles her scent glands and she swallows hard holding back an appreciative whine.

He takes his teeth and nips at her glands.

Yeah she definitely just purred weirdly.

He pulls away from her and she holds back the urge to grab him and kiss him.

And in doing that her body gives out from being swooned like that.

"Woah-" Soushi's eyes widen and he catches her,"You ok?"

She swallows hard and claps a palm over her neck,"Y-yeah I'm fine-" she backs away,"I'll talk to you later-"

She runs out of the willow tree and she runs all the way to her foster family's house.

She goes straight to the kitchen and gets a cup of water.

Clementine downs the whole thing.

Holy shit.

That was the closest she's ever come to kissing him and she.

She loved it but.

She wasn't allowed.

And she didn't love that.

At all.