Page 28 of Jessica's Mates
As we all collapsed on the ground together, wrapped up in our happy family,Jee-sekastarted to sing. This was not one of our songs. She didn’t know our songs, and we rarely sang. But her voice was soft and sweet on this warming day.
Then other females joined in and they all sang. It was a song of love. It was beautiful and the whole clan sat silent as they listened. When it was all done, there were many words of praise. I didn’t know the females could do that. In all their time here, I had never heard them sing.
“I need to go speak with Elle, she isn’t doing well. I think Sanza leaving has upset her.” We all let her go, knowing it was important forJee-sekato comfort her friends.
“Was Sanza her mate?” I didn’t understand why she would be more upset over his leaving than the rest of us.
K’Tem shook his head. “I don’t know, only that he was very angry with the M’Mori and wanted to avenge the death of his family. I begged him to stay, that it would only result in his death also. But he wouldn’t listen. He was full of rage. I only hope he didn’t make it there before they left, that he will return to us soon.”
I didn’t know Sanza well, not like K’Tem did, but I didn’t wish harm on him. He was part of Clan Wolf now.
“We should go find him, return him,” Tomlee announced.
Daku or Vallyn needed to send out a search party. I would gladly volunteer to find and return our blue clan member.
That was, if he was still here.
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Jessica
Elle was crying with her mates. They held her tightly, stroking her hair and trying to comfort her, but she was inconsolable. When they saw Luna and I approach, they nodded for us to come. They knew she needed females to help her in that moment. Maybe she needed some girl talk. I guessed it would be hard to tell your mates you had a crush on someone who just left and could possibly not come back. They stood and moved away as we came to her.
“Girl talk time,” Luna said as she sat beside Elle and wrapped her arm around her shoulder. Elle sniffled a few more times and wiped her eyes as I sat down on the opposite side and reached for her hand. Her eyes red and puffy from all the crying. I wiggled my toes in the soft, purple grass and hoped being on the ground would make everyone feel better.
Elle had sang along with me and the others. Ed Sheeran always made me feel better in the past, and I didn’t know why I randomly started singing “Perfect,” and was surprised when the others knew it also. When we all started singing, I almost cried. It was just so seamless. Like something I had been missing for so long and I had just found it. It made me feel lighter, happier.
Quinn almost bowled me over in a bear hug. I laughed. “You’re an amazing singer. We need to do concerts… Can I request songs?” I chuckled into her shoulder and pulled back to see her face. Her huge grin made me chuckle once again.
“I’m not that good, and I don’t know much… I mostly listened to Ed. But we can all sing and have fun anytime. I would love that.” I really just wanted to cheer up Elle. I think she really liked Sanza, but by the way she was acting, maybe she liked him more than I suspected, like maybe he was her mate?
“Do you want to talk about it?” Luna asked Elle, but when she shook her head, I looked around. We were all here, together. The six of us girls. And out there, another six girls were on their way to their clans… unprepared for the life they had come here for. I wanted to reach out and let them know we were here. Maybe they would come to us… God, I hoped they would.
“Maybe… we can sing and the new girls will hear us? They might come to us?” It was probably a bad idea. I wasn’t the best at ideas. Quinn had so many and I just went with it all because they were always so good. She was smart. I wasn’t a leader, that was for sure. Hell, my last job was cleaning people’s offices. I had nothing to bring here other than how to throw out trash and vacuum.
Everyone didn’t think it was a bad idea, and I was surprised. They actually thought it was genius after Daku shot us down at calling out to the new girls. They didn’t say anything about singing and let us do it before. Well, not let. They didn’t stop us was what I meant.
“Well, I would like to have an all-out concert, but we need to jazz it up a bit. Can we have a more harmonized type of song? Like The Supremesdo? Or do you all know ‘Please Mr. Postman’?” Hadley smiled at us, nodding. That was a great idea.
“Oh… I know some of that one. Can you start singing it and maybe we can really blow these Aashi out of the water with it?” Brooklyn bounced beside me.
“We can clap and take the different parts.” I laughed. I didn’t fully know this song but I couldn’t mess it up in front of the Aashi because they didn’t have a clue how it was supposed to go. It would be the “Wolf Girls” version.
We practiced for about ten minutes while more males started getting closer to us, hearing us randomly here and there. But we didn’t sing the whole thing in front of them. We all wanted to surprise them.
I actually knew more of the song than I thought. My grandmother used to listen to a lot of old songs, and when Hadley started singing, I knew enough to sing back up to her.
The males knew something was going to happen soon as they started to sit down in front of us. Elle seemed distracted and she was even laughing. This was good, good for her and me. And everyone else. We had been traveling so long. We needed something good, and singing was something that had been missing from my everyday life and I never realized it until today.
Luna had us all stand up in a row. I was between Elle and Brooklyn.
“We should do a little dance move like this.” Elle placed her hands out in front and did a cute little shimmy and then swung her hips. I liked it and copied until we all started and the males in front all clapped when we stopped. Like that was the show.
“We totally need to recreate thePitch Perfectmovies. That would be so much fun.” Quinn had this huge grin, and I watched her as she bounced around on her spot.
“I haven’t seen those ones,” Luna said with a frown.
“I will teach you it all. I have watched them a million times.” Quinn hugged her tightly.
