Kiss Me

Omegaverse

Henley

Part Five

When I lazily opened my eyes that morning after, Aya had gone, poof. His beautiful body wasn't next to me, the spot was empty. I had the feeling he'd ditch on me. Of course he would, I laughed at the time about it. I had him for only that night. The guy was engaged. But damn I felt it, that crazy connection. It felt like I was burning up from the inside out. And...I could still smell him. On the bedding, in the damn air that was circulating around the room. Sweet, really sweet. So sweet. Yet I had to remember he had a fiancé. He may not have met the guy, but he was in fact engaged. And may I add, it's not like I can't get anyone else. I had a list of guys I could call up and get laid. But Aya, fuck. It's hard to explain. I wasn't looking for a guy who yelled at me constantly, or even bitched about everything. Call me crazy. Call me a masochist, but I liked a guy who had a backbone, a guy with a fire inside him. A spark. A fuse. A guy who had an opinion and wasn't afraid to give it. Even though he was an Omega, he was far from the norm by any means. He didn't carry himself like your typical Omega. I liked that. I liked how bold he was. That wasn't instinct, it was something else. Something more than just instinctual. But Play-by-the-rules-Henley didn't know what he was talking about. Aya chose to be with me and I chose him just the same. I was sure he felt bad about it, too, but things happen. And as bad as it was, I hoped it would happen again. But even I knew he really wasn't a one-night stand kind of guy.

And as the days went by it got easier to not think about Aya. Although, he was always there at the back of my mind. I began working extra shifts at the restaurant and unintentionally avoiding Matt. I was avoiding everything but time. I needed time. Time to sort it all out. Time to get my head back into reality. The reality that he's not mine. Maybe I should go on that date with….what's his name? Jack, that was it. Jack. He was alright, I guess. Not that different from me in the retrospect that he'd escaped his family and their rules. We had that in common at least. Not much else. The guy was vegan, don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with that, but I liked my meat. Who couldn't love a juicy steak or even bacon. But again, he's a nice guy. And just like that, thoughts of Aya invaded my mind. Stupid brain. Stupid body. Just thinking of him had me burning up. I was barely there at all. I was in a daze. I'd tell myself, he isn't thinking about you. It was a one night stand.

I wasn't being fair to myself and it was time I put the past behind me. The past, as if it were some long tumultuous affair. It was one crazy night, and there I was letting it affect my life so much. I needed to get him out of my system. So I pulled my phone from my pocket and called Jack, fuck it. "Hey," he answered with. Sounding excited about receiving my call. "What's up Henley?"

"I'm not at work tomorrow, so I was wondering if you still wanted that date?"

"Definitely. About time too. I've been waiting."

Of course he was. We'd met when we were pumping gas at pumps that faced each other. He peeked around a few times and smiled. He was cute, a clean-cut, all-American Alpha boy. It was cold and he had a scarf wrapped around his neck. When I caught him smiling at me he slunk his neck down into the argyle to hide his grin. Our gas pumps went off at the same time. We walked into the station to pay. He held the door open for me and let me go first in line at the register. I paid. He paid. We both walked out. As I was starting my car, I watched him do the same, he gave me another look and didn't hide his smile from me that time. Then he started to pull away. It was then that I noticed he'd left his gas cap and flippy-door open. I sprang from my car and ran after him, waving my arms. I looked so stupid at the time, but he stopped and reversed back. We got talking and he gave me his number. We promised to go on a date, but work had gotten really busy at that time so we only texted back and forth when I had time. "Yeah, busy. Sorry."

"It's fine. So tomorrow?"

"Yeah," I said, scratching the back of my head. "The whole day, if you want."

"I definitely want that. Message me later about time and place and I will be there."

"Sure. I gotta go, work stuff."

"Alright. See you tomorrow."

"Sure." And I hung up the call. He sounded so happy, but I couldn't say the same for myself, but I need a distraction. And Jack would be that distraction. I sighed and moved from my usual break spot and headed back in. It was getting later in the day and started to quieten down. Thank god I'm not working the dinner shift today.

"Henley," I jumped, when I heard the boss's voice. Please don't ask me to work the dinner shift. Please. Please. I thought. "You're shift's almost up?"

I nodded. "Yeah."

"Alright. I was going to ask if you could stay on, but lucky for you Lucy answered her phone…." He frowns. "That girl," he started to say. He didn't like the fact she was an Omega, but she's one hell of a cook. "If it wasn't for the fact that she could cook, I'd have fired her ass. I can't deal with these monthly heat breaks. Damn Omega's." Asshole, I thought. It's not her fault. She can't help it and taking breaks during her heat cycle was not only for her safety, but others too. Me and Paul were Alphas and three of the waiters were betas. I was better at controlling myself. Paul, well not so much. I knew Lucy hated him and she had every reason to. He was always on at her and she always looked so uncomfortable. Maybe that's why she used me as a shield half the time. But lucky for Lucy, Paul was off today. "You might as well leave," he said, looking at his watch. "She'll be here momentarily."

"Cool, but you know it's my day off tomorrow?"

"Yeah yeah. I know."

"Alright, then I'll be off." He shook his head and mumbled something to himself as he walked away. Fuck I hate him. Sooooo with that I headed to the staff changing rooms and changed out of my uniform and into my comfortable jeans and hoodie and left before he could grab me for anything else. I fumbled onto the late afternoon streets and made way towards mine when I caught onto a familiar face on the other side of the road. I had to look twice. Fucking twins man, luckily Aida had short hair. So I rushed across the street towards him. He was alone, peering into a shop window. "Hey."

He jumped in surprise and held his hand to his chest. "Jesus you freaked me out."

I chuckled at his dramatics. "Sorry. You okay?"

"Yeah, just window shopping."

"Right, sorry for disturbing you…." I smiled and started to leave when he grabbed my hoodie. "What."

He grins, a big wide grin. "We're twins you know."

"I know. It's not rocket science."

He laughed and curled his arm around mine. "Walk with me," He said. And I nodded, luckily he was going in my direction. "So, that night?"

"What about it?" I was playing innocent and he knew it.

"He's engaged."

"I know. I found out after…." I didn't finish that sentence.

"He met the guy yesterday," Aida grimaced. "He seemed alright, I guess. But I just can't picture Aya with him, you know?"

"I don't know."

"Well, I didn't need to be in the same room to know my brother was uncomfortable. It's a twin thing. But that morning he came home, he was smiling so much. I'd never seen him smile like that."

"And….what?"

"Stupid," he said and tightened his grip on my arm. "You did that. I liked it. Matt told me everything about you."

"And you like me?"

"Yeah, you can say that. So does Aya."

"Okay, but he's engaged. Nothing I can do about that."

"Well," he stopped briefly to chew on his bottom lip. "Maybe you can. See I've come to the conclusion that you two belong together."

"I'm not so sure your parents would agree, hence the engagement. I'm sure they want Aya with an Alpha that has a strong family and good name. I have none of that, not anymore."

"Yeah, I know. Matt said you ran from your family. But still."

"There's no but still Aida. Aya deserves the best."

"I see, so you think he deserves the best. Don't you think he deserves to be happy rather than have the best? Isn't that what's important, being happy?"

"Well," Fuck, He's right. Of course that's more important. "Sure, yeah. But I'm not the guy…."

He cut in. "You are. At least try, right?"

"Try. I don't know." Fuck, why couldn't I say what was really on my mind. That yeah, I want Aya. I want him. I want to be his mate. I want to see him smile and be happy. God I want it. But I also don't want to be the guy who breaks up a family. I'm not that cruel.

"Look," he said coming to an abrupt stop. "Here, his number," He pulled his phone from his pocket and held his hand out. "Your phone idiot."

"Oh right." And I grabbed mine and unlocked it.

"I'll put his number in your phone. So message him. Don't let my brother go into something he's uncomfortable with. Like, you know. Be his knight in shining armor or something."

"Aida, this is a bad idea."

"No," he mumbled and gave me my phone back. "It's not. You two connected at the bar, I saw it. I even felt it too. Don't give up on him. Please."

Looking at his sad pleading face I felt awkward, but actually really good too. I had a chance. Like that night. When I said about taking a chance. "Alright, I'll message him. But if he refuses then I'll leave it."

"Fine, but please try."

"I will."

"Great. Anyway, I'm actually headed in the opposite direction. It was good seeing you though, lucky too."

"Yeah."

"Well, see ya. Take care."

"You too." He smiled and turned on his heel and disappeared in the sea of people. I looked down at my phone to see he'd not only put Aya's number in my phone, he'd put it under as Fated Aya. Fated. Is there anything more ridiculous than a fated pair? Well, now's my chance. Although I shouldn't, I was going to do exactly what Aida wanted and that was getting Aya, fuck erranged marriage. I just hoped he really wanted that too.