The Silent Alpha (Natalia)

Chapter 26: Date 1
***Jane**

My hands shake anxiously as I watch the clock tick, both nervous and excited for my first date with Talia.I was stunned when she asked me out a few days ago but I greedily accepted the offer, desperately wanting to get to know her.I consulted with Aurora and Rosalie over what we should do, both of them insisting that I take Talia to the local amusement park to reduce the tension between us.

To make Talia feel more comfortable with me, I suggested that Kota join us for the first half and she readily accepted.

In all honesty, having Kota around would make me less nervous too.

We could then head over to the Lake at the AL pack for an evening picnic with just the two of us.

“You’ll be fine,” Agnes reassures me with a kind smile.

“You just have to be yourself and Talia will fall in love with you.She won’t be able to resist,” she wiggles her eyebrows.

“You’ll see.” Kota jumps around the living room like a bunny, already dressed for the park.

It took me a while to get his sunscreen on but the little tyke finally gave in when I bribed him with a cookie.

“Can we go now?” he asks, tugging at his little baseball hat.

“J-j-just a few m-minutes.Mom-my sti-ll n-needs to come ho-home and get read-ready,” I assure him sheepishly as she races into the room.

“Just give me five minutes to change and touch up my makeup and then I’ll be good to go,” she says over her shoulder as she rushes up the stairs.

Kota groans, swinging his arms around in boredom as twenty minutes pass by.

My palms grow sweaty in fear that Talia may have changed her mind entirely, but she finally descends down the stairs looking as beautiful as ever.

She looks amazing in a pair of high waisted jeans and an off the shoulder blouse, her golden skin glowing against the white of her shirt.

Talia flashes me a shy smile as I gawk at her, nearly falling over the chair I am sitting on.

Dude, snap out of it!Grayson growls.

She’s going to think you’re a moron! I try not to make a fool of myself and stand up straight but as I catch a glimpse of the bracelet on her wrist, my entire body fills with butterflies and I trip over the leg of the chair, crashing ungracefully on the ground.

Kota and Agnes burst into laughter while Talia rushes over to help me up.

Sparks tingle up and down my arm when our hands meet, the sensation startling Talia enough that she lets go, letting me fall back onto the floor.

“Oh my goodness,” she mutters to herself.

“I-I’m so sorry.I…I’m just nervous,” she gulps, tucking away a loose strand of hair behind her ear as she once again reaches over to help me up.

“It’s been Oh great, two nervous idiots going on a date to an amusement park with a child” Graysonmutters.

What could possibly go wrong? I block out his voice as I dust myself off, Talia holding out her hand for me to take.

“Let’s go,” She says quietly, waving over Kota to join us.

She checks Kota once more to make sure he’s ready to go before we walk over to the pack house.

Evan takes us to Aurora’s office where she appears to be hiding from the visiting Alphas.

“I’m not hiding,” the Queen mutters as she looks over some documents.

“I’m just very busy.”

Suddenly, a portal opens to her left and she grins at us, wiggling her eyebrows in mischief.

“Now you three have fun!”

She giggles, pushing Talia and Kota through the portal.

“And good luck!”

She hisses in my ear before shoving me through as well.I nearly lose my footing and crash into Talia, my chest bumping against hers.

She timidly looks up at me, our eyes locking in an intense gaze.

“H-hi,” Talia whispers, her lips curved into a small smile.

Now’s your chance, Say something to her, Grayson urges.

I open my mouth but end up choking on my tongue, coughing furiously into my arm.

Smooth, Grayson mutters as I struggle to regain control of my Talia hands me a bottle of water and I finally manage to catch my breath.

We look around the area Aurora sent us to and realize it’s a small alley beside the park.We will have to return here to be transported home again.

Talia takes the lead, leaving Kota to me and we head for the ticket booth to get our park passes.

at the incredible

much color and lights in

towards me, but I manage

I still could not

use

bouncing ATV ride with flashing lights and loud car horns, nearly taking

to stay with

“Don’t run off.”

nods halfheartedly, his eyes locked on the Blue ATV he wants

be able to hold

asks me, dragging me into the

“Beep! Beep!”

screams when

starts to bounce up and down, my hands gripping onto the sides of the

never experienced this type of movement before, and while we were only moving in a circle,

Agnes here, I tell myself as Kota

our hands at Talia every time we pass her, Kota and

Grayson laughs but I ignore him, just wanting

when the ride is

were having more fun than Kota,” she giggles as we walk

want to ask if we can go again when Kota starts to pull us in the direction of some flying

want to ride the pink one!” Kota calls out, pointing

ride and I happily volunteer, Talia chuckling to

pull on the lever, the dragon slowly ascending until

a silly face

his fingers into his mouth to pull his lips apart and

and pulling my eyelids back with one hand while the other continues to pull the

laughter when she sees our faces, snapping a

dragging us from ride to ride, but I don’t mind one bit, getting on

train, the merry-go-round, and the spinning

me as I held onto the grip for dear life, some of

did not matter to me, I liked seeing Talia laugh.She was worth getting on a terrible ride

suddenly pulls us to a giant game

pointing to a giant purple Octopus

game is a milk bottle toss where we have to knock over a tower of 6 milk bottles with

but knocking all of the bottles in the first toss would

a try and the operator hands her three balls.Her first throw narrowly misses the tower of bottles but her final

sweetie,” Talia

Kota pouts, Talia attempting to soothe

about we get some

hand the operator another dollar so I

do it.I’m more coordinated than you, Grayson grumbles but I refuse, wanting to prove to myself that I could be useful.I line up to the toss and aim for

the center of the tower,

me with the Giant Octopus and I turn around to find Kota

waddles over to me as I get down on my knees to

I have it?” He asks shyly, his large eyes

mouth when I nod, the little boy jumping into my arms and kissing me on

around the large octopus, the

dragging the toy to his

away to focus on the little boy who just claimed me Grayson howls in approval, liking the title

as my own during the face off with the Alphas but it’s

hear him say it again but I eye Talia nervously, knowing Kota

but whatever it is disappears before I can decipher what

Mommy!” Kota says, shoving the octopus in Talia’s

Zane

she grins at him, taking him by the

we get

toy to his mother to

the smile on her face a little tight as

tips of her toes and kisses me on the cheek, my heart feeling as

not overreacting about

and make sure it doesn’t

it means the world to me that he sees me that way, but only a small groan escapes my lips.I sigh in frustration to myself, but she doesn’t seem to notice, already

the little

the assortment of colorful dot-like ice

Cookies and Cream,” Talia

can’t go

Oreos, the last time being when my mom snuck

rarely available to us back

could ever grab some.I nod my head at her suggestion, and she hands me a cup full of black and white dots with crushed cookie

and Talia picks Mint and

our treats to a nearby table and Talia watches me careful as I take