Gage's Obsession

by C. J. Snyder

Amazing how quickly life changes around you. This only seems to be the beginning.

  Chapter 12

  PRESLEY

  Still not believing the interruption last night with Gage and my Dad coming home early, I jump into a quick shower before going downstairs to grab a quick breakfast before school. Walking into the kitchen, sits Dad. He looks like he’s been waiting for me to wake up and walk in here.

  Dad takes a deep breath and his brows are close to his eyes like he’s in deep concentration on how he’s going to say his next words, “Listen, I know you’re 18 now and I know you are going to, “ he sighs deeply, “have sex.” My eyes go wide in surprise that he would even bring this up right now, “Oh My God, DAD!”

  Standing by the kitchen sink, I reach back with one hand and hold on as if the world just lost all it’s gravity and I am trying to hold on for dear life, so I don’t float away. He continues as if he didn’t just drop the sex bomb, “I just want you to be careful when you do. Please use protection and if you need me to get you birth control, please let me know.” Looking at him like is a crazy man, I realize that he is just looking out for me the best way he knows how to.

  Walking over and wrapping my arms around his neck from behind, “I promise, Dad. I won’t be stupid about it.” He nods his head up and down in understanding and finished his coffee.

  Grabbing my bag and slinging it over my shoulder, I head out the door and towards school.

  School day goes normally, right up until the last period where I must be on the football field with the rest of the cheer squad. I’m in gray shorts that come right below my ass cheeks and a tight tank top with the school name plastered on the front across my tits. Music is blaring and the squad are running routine to make sure it matches up with the music that is playing. The football team is yelling over the music as they run drills.

  This is what a normal high school practice is supposed to look like, but I feel very out of place in all this chaos. Half of the cheer squad won’t even acknowledge me; the other half are treating me as an outsider and putting me through hell. Andie, the Leader of the Squad stops the music and looks directly as me with hate filled eyes, “You, little red riding hood, show me the routine we just went over.”

  I look at her in disbelief, “Why did you call me that?” I am so not the girl to take shit from someone who thinks they are better than me. She rolls her eyes and points over to the football team, “Because you got yourself a big bad wolf, it just makes sense.” Huffing and placing both hands on her hips, “Now. Routine. Go.”

  I place the towel that I was using to wipe sweat from my forehead down on one of the bleachers and turn on the music and bust out the routine in perfect harmony. When I finished and looked over, everyone on the squad except the main four had dropped jaws and were clapping their hands. Smiling, I looked right at Andie and gave a little bow.

  Snidely, “And you thought I wasn’t paying attention.” Grabbing the towel, I wipe my face to get the salty sweat out of my eyes. The girls all start going wild with hoots and hollers, looking up from the towel, I can see three football players making their way over to our corner of the field.

  Removing his helmet before he got to me, Gage looks sexy as hell, even with sweat soaking his hair and uniform. “Hey Red, you looked good out here.” He reaches down to pull me a bit closer to him and I tilt my head back to look at him. Smiling that half smile, he leans down to place a small kiss on my lips, “I’m marking my territory.”

  Laughing at him, “Oh, I’m yours now, am I?” giving him a wink and biting my lower lip, he growls at me and pulls me in tighter against him, “You better not forget it either.” Swatting him on his padded ass, “Oh, that’s not something I’ll forget.”

  Gage laughs as he picks his helmet back up from the ground, nods at the rest of the crowd that has formed around us and makes his way to the locker rooms. Spinning around, the girls that form the squad are all looking at me with jaws dropped and big eyes. Andie, the self-proclaimed leader of the squad, is red in the face with anger and her eyes are narrowed as she walks over to me, “I don’t know what you have that the rest of us don’t, but I refuse to allow this to happen.” She then turns back around to the group and tells them to gather their things and get changed for the party tonight at one of the football player’s house.

  After I change out of that cheer outfit, I decide to walk down to the men’s locker room to see if Gage was out already. Knocking first and then peeking in, it’s empty, no other players in there so I decide to sneak in. I can hear water running and a deep voice singing an older rock song. Making my way around the corner, I very carefully peek around the corner where the showers are and see Gage singing his heart out and not giving a care in the world who hears him. He’s not bad.

  His body is that of a God. Think Eros, the Greek god of sexual desire, he has a raw sexuality about him. Watching him, I realize that I am being a bit creepy and that wasn’t my intention coming in here. Sliding out of my shorts and pulling my bra and shirt over my head at the same time, I sneak up behind him and smack his ass. Startled he turns around and growls at me, his eyes that Halloween orange.

  Physically composing himself, “Red! What are you doing?” he quickly puts his hand over his cock. “You can’t be in here, we will get in SO much trouble,” he tilts his head to get a good look at me, “but damn you’re beautiful.” Taking that as a green light, I walk up to him and wrap my arms around his waist under the hot water.

  Smiling up at him, “Well, since we will probably get caught and get in trouble anyhow, wanna make it worth our wile?” snaking my hand down his chest to his hips and then to the front of his pelvic, he automatically moves his hips towards my hand, his cock already hard.

  His hands are on my hips and he lifts me up so I could wrap my naked legs around his torso and pushes me against the shower wall. It’s slick and warm from the water running down it. Kissing me on my neck and then nibbling on my earlobe before saying, “if we do this, not only are you going to have to be quiet, but you will be forever mine.” I giggle just a little and push myself closer to him, “I understand. I do have to tell you something beforehand, though.”

  He is kissing my neck and my jawline, “mmmm?” my head is resting back against the wall and I can feel his manhood resting against my thighs. “Gage, I’m still a virgin.” I utter those words and I swear the water went cold. He carefully put me down and turn the water off, grabbing a towel and walking out into the locker room.

  His expression is icy, eyes the normal golden-brown color, his tone was serious and stern, “You are a virgin?! And you wanted to lose it in the high school boys locker room?!” pulling on my clothes as quickly as I can, embarrassed that he is acting this way, “Yes. I wanted to lose it to you.” Angerly, he pulls on his shirt and jeans, he then punches the locker. To my surprise, the locker door bends in slightly where he punched it.

  Not understanding why, he is reacting this way, I sit down on one of the benches, “What is the big deal? This is my decision on how I want to lose my virginity.” His eyes go wide and he throws his arms out wide, “I am not taking a woman’s virginity in a locker room, Presley. It’s just not right, I do have a moral code, you know.”

  I have never seen him this mad before, had he been a cartoon character, his head would have exploded with anger. “I never said you didn’t have a code, but I thought it would be sexy and spontaneous.” Disappointment spreading quickly through my body, I feel my face heating up with embarrassment. Gage comes over and kneels in front of me and puts his hands on my knees, “Red, it’s not that I don’t want to have sex with you, God knows I do, but I don’t want to do it here.” Nodding slightly in understanding and taking a deep breath, I give him a quick smile. He stands up and finishes getting dressed by pulling on his shoes.

  He reaches his hand out to help me up and holds onto it. Leaning down to plant a soft kiss on my mouth, he straightens back out to his full height and gives me that sexy half smile of his, “Let’s continu
e this later, ok?” Tugging his hand to bring him in for another kiss, I smile back at him, “sounds good to me.”

  Gage leads the way to the back exit behind the stadium and bleachers and makes sure no one is around before I exit. This way neither one of us get into trouble. Adjusting my bag on my shoulder, I look around to see if anyone was nearby and seeing that we were all clear, “Ok, I’ll see you later.” Gage squeezes my hand and walks towards the other direction.

  As he rounds the corner, I remembered that I had to tell him what my father said about ‘keeping’ him and walked after him. I was only about 2 minutes behind him when I finally turned the corner to where he was. When I rounded that corner behind the stadium bleachers, I see the tail end of him removing his jeans and shirt and stuffing them into his duffel bag and hiding it behind one of the training dummies.

  What is he doing? Standing off to the side and in the shadows a little, it would be hard to see me for the normal person. I watch as he shakes out his arms and then moves his head side to side as to crack his neck. Gage looks around him and then tilts his head as if he’s listening for any sounds that are coming his way, shaking out his limbs one more time, I watch as his whole-body changes.

  His arms grow longer, and claws erupt from his fingers, his head elongates into a snout and fur sprouts all over his body and then, where Gage was standing five minutes ago, stands a huge beautiful brown and black wolf. This can’t be real. I realize that I am hyperventilating, and I press myself up against the wall as close as I can get so he wouldn’t see me.

  Taking a deep breath, I peek around the corner to see if he’s still standing there, he’s trotting off across the lawn towards the tree line of the bayou. My legs start moving before I will them to, and I follow him across the way. Just as Gage, or what I assume is Gage, gets to the bayou trees, he stops and sniffs the air as if he caught my scent. Turning his head and looking over his shoulder, his eyes meet mine in a dead stare.

  Oh god, he knows that I saw him.

  Chapter 13

  Gage

  Did she see me change? Shit! Looking back at Presley, the look on her face is nothing short of confusion and bewilderment. Should I go back and confront her? No, probably shouldn’t. damn damn damn. Trotting into the wooded area of the bayou, my nightly run has been slightly ruined because now the image of Presley’s face after watching me change is burned into my mind.

  Need to talk to someone who has done this before, told a human that their world isn’t as it seems. Can’t call Kangee, he’s not reachable, can’t talk to Claire, she hasn’t fucked with humans, just other shifters. No one in the clan really has gone outside the circle in over two decades, so they won’t be any help. I’m alone. Maybe I can talk to Mom, she’d understand. With my mind made up, I start the run along the tree line towards the house.

  Mom was where she always is, in the kitchen. Walking in and giving mom a quick kiss on her cheek, I sit down at the table as she brings me a tall glass of orange juice. Her mom sense must have been tingling, “What’s up, honey?”

  Smiling nervously, “Presley saw me change, Mom. What do I do?” sighing and pulling out one of the chairs, she sits down next to me and puts her hand on my arm, “Well, you are going to have to come forward about our world, son.” My eyes went wide at her answer, it seemed so simple.

  “Do you know anyone who has brought a human into our world without issues?” hope fills me as I wait on her answer. She pressed her lips together and shook her head no, “We have always kept within our own kind. But things are changing, and we should learn how to adapt.”

  Hope got slightly dashed, but I understood what she was saying, “So, no advice on how to approach the subject?” Mom actually laughs at that, “The hard part is already over, she has already seen the change. Now it’s just going to be the explaining and opening her eyes to a whole new side of her world.”

  Thanking my mom and getting up from the table, I make my way to my room and pull out my cell to text Presley.

  Hey, I’m guessing we need to talk.

  Tossing my phone onto the bed and stripping off my sweats, I change into a pair of basketball shorts and a men’s tank top for comfort. Sitting down at my laptop, I pull up ways to start a difficult conversation, to see what the best route would be to approach something like this and my phone dings. Walking back over to the bed and grabbing the phone,

  Red

  We sure do, not sure what I witnessed. When can we meet?

  Taking that as a good sign, I breathed a sigh of relief and texted her back.

  Can meet you by the riverside by the big weeping willow in an hour, cool?

  Taking my phone back to the computer, I finish reading the article I had pulled up and put on my shoes while I waited for the confirmation text. That came in about five minutes later which said that she would see me there. Noting I had about 45 mins left, I walked downstairs to grab a quick drink and make my way down to the tree.

  I get to the riverside about 15 mins early. Removing my shoes and dipping my toes into the stream, I sigh at how cool the water is. Presley shows up right on time and sits next to me, “So. You’re a werewolf, huh?” Straight to it, that’s why I adore this woman.

  Laughing and kicking water up with my toes, “No, Yes, sorta.” Now she laughs and mimics my splashing, “Well, which one is it? Yes or no?”

  “Damn woman, you are making this easier than I thought it was going to be.” Reaching out and taking her hand in mine and giving it a small squeeze, “I am not human, I am a shifter. I don’t need the moon to change, I can change whenever I choose.” Watching her face to gage how she’s going to react, I am relieved to see that she is taking the news in stride.

  Wiggling her toes in the cool water, she looks at me with eyes wide with curiosity, “Does it hurt? Are your entire family shifters? How many shifters are there?”

  Leaning back on my elbows, I take a minute to answer this for her, “changing does hurt at first, but then you get used to it or you learn how to control it. Yes, everyone you met at my Birthday party are shifters. We had a mix of Wolf and Raven at that party. The shifter world is huge and mixed so well in with yours, that you would never know unless you became involved with one or saw one shift.” Tilting my head in thought, “but then again, normally if one of us sees one of you watching us, we wouldn’t allow you to tell a single soul about it.”

  I can see her mentally trying to take this all in. She leans closer to me and whispers, “Are Vampires real too?” laughing at that, because they are, I shake my head in a yes motion and bite my lip to keep from laughing at the expression of surprise on her beautiful face. Then she jumps up and throws her arms in the air, “Ha! I knew it!” she starts to pace around, tons of questions probably moving around in her head, “Gage, I want to see the change up close, would you do that?”

  Standing up and removing my shorts and shirt, I had them to her and shift into my wolf form. The top of my head comes right up to the top of her hip bone, looking at her with my deep orange eyes, I sit on my hind legs and raise a front paw in a ‘shake’ motion. Laughing, she reaches down to ‘shake’ my paw and I steal a big wet doggy kiss right on her face. Presley breaks into loud laughs and rubs me on my head between my ears, “You are a very handsome wolf, Gage, and now I understand the eye color change that I’ve seen.”

  Giving a small bark and yodel, I hop around on all fours to show my playful side and then transform back into human form. Presley tosses me my clothing and prances around on her toes in the grass, “Your wolf form is just gorgeous.” I feel very flattered that she thinks so, “Thank you! You aren’t scared?”

  Presley smiles and pats my arm, “No. I know you wouldn’t hurt me.” Why does everyone say that? I playfully snap at her hand as she quickly pulls it away with wide eyes, then laughs when she realizes that I’m playing with her. That resulted in a smack on the arm from her. Now, it’s telling the clan what I plan to do.

  “There’s one more thing that we have to do, Red.” Sh
e looks over at me questioningly. “I have to tell the clan, and I want you with me.” She nods up and down, “I’ll be right by your side the entire way.” Knowing we had to get this out of the way, I asked her if she was ready to do it now.

  “You want to do this right now?” She looks nervous as she asks me that. Standing up and reaching my hand out to help her to her feet, she accepts and stands up. Leaning down to steal a quick kiss from her, she tastes so sweet that I’d rather just stay here and kiss her all night long instead of talking to the clan. My Mom has already called a meeting and everyone important from the clan is waiting at the house in the backyard.

  Walking hand in hand down the main road in New Orleans back to the house, Presley is in good spirits. I, on the other hand, am a nervous wreck. When we arrive at the house, we walk straight to the back and there are about 150 people there. All sitting around and bullshitting, like it’s a damn party. When they see us, a hush goes over the crowd and the music stops.

  Nervously, I head up where the DJ stand is normally set up because I know there is a microphone available, which is easier to project my voice over a crowd this large. Presley holds true to her word and walks up and stands right beside me.

  Tapping on the mic to test it’s connection and clearing my throat, “Hi everyone. I have something to tell you all, and I know it’s unconventional,” taking a deep breath and squeezing Red’s hand, “I have fallen head over heels for a human. It wasn’t intentional, but it’s real and has happened.” A hushed ohhhhh rushes through the crowd and a few of the members start a low growl to show their disappointment.

  One of the elders stands up and puts his palm up to silence the crowd, “This is not the way we do things, Gage. How are you going to continue the family line with a human?” the crowd starts murmuring with yes, how. The elder continues, “Any cubs that you have with her would be half-breeds with no guarantee that they’d even have the shifter gene.”