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.

the incredible

never seen so much color and

me, but I manage to put

great but I still could not filter out voices among

I’ll have to use nods and

with flashing lights and loud car horns, nearly taking

need to stay with

“Don’t run off.”

his eyes locked on the Blue ATV he

to hold one adult

me?” He asks me, dragging

“Beep! Beep!”

screams when the ride

down, my

we were only moving in a circle, it’s the most exhilarating moment

bring Agnes here, I tell myself as Kota and

Talia every

I ignore him, just wanting to enjoy

chuckles when the ride is over, helping Kota

fun than Kota,” she giggles as we walk out

can go again when Kota starts

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

I

the lever, the dragon slowly ascending until it reaches its the

face when we

to pull his lips apart and

out my lower jaw so that my teeth stick out and pulling my eyelids back with one hand while the other continues

bursts into laughter when she sees our faces,

ride, but I don’t mind one bit, getting on as many rides as I can with

and the spinning teacups, the last one nearly making

as I held onto the grip for dear life, some of the people in line

me, I liked seeing Talia laugh.She

suddenly pulls us to a giant

want the Octopus!” Kota smiles, pointing to

bottle toss where we have to knock over a tower of

all of the bottles in

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

Talia sighs

Kota pouts, Talia attempting to soothe his broken heart with a

about we get some

the operator another

I could be useful.I line up to the toss and aim for the center, throwing the ball with

the ball strike the center of the tower, all 6 bottles tumbling

and I turn around

on my knees to

it?” He asks shyly,

biggest smile stretches across his mouth when I nod, the little boy jumping into my arms and kissing me

around the large octopus,

He cries, dragging the toy to

when the word slips out of his lips, all of my thoughts melting away to focus on the little

with the Alphas but it’s

again but I eye Talia nervously, knowing Kota calling me Dad

in her eyes, but whatever it is

says, shoving the octopus in

Zane

at him, taking him by

we get

toy to his mother to

at me, the smile on her face a little tight as she

her toes and kisses me on the cheek, my heart feeling as though it might burst out

for not overreacting about what

him tonight and make sure

that 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

want?” she asks, pointing to the little menu

had Dippin’ dots before, so I stare at the assortment of colorful dot-like ice cream flavors, unsure which

Cookies and Cream,”

can’t go wrong with

been years since I’ve had Oreos, the last time being when my mom

and pastries were rarely available to us back

chance a pack of Oreos made an appearance in the pantry, they were gone before Agnes, and I could ever grab some.I nod

Rainbow dots and

Talia watches