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.

shock at the

much color

of thousands of people start racing towards me, but I manage

great but I still could not filter out

now, I’ll have to use

a bouncing ATV ride with flashing lights and loud car

with Mommy

“Don’t run off.”

locked on

seems to be able to

me?” He asks me, dragging

“Beep! Beep!”

when the

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

of movement before, and while we were only moving in a circle, it’s the most

bring Agnes here, I tell myself as Kota

and we wave our hands at Talia every time

are you, five? Grayson laughs but I ignore

is over, helping Kota off the

like you were having more fun than Kota,” she giggles as we walk out of

if we can go again when Kota starts to pull us

to ride the pink one!” Kota calls out,

for this ride and I happily volunteer, Talia chuckling to herself at

and I pull on the lever, the dragon slowly ascending until it reaches its the view

face when

mouth to pull his lips apart and

so that my teeth stick out and

bursts into laughter when she sees our faces, snapping a few pictures

ride to ride, but I don’t mind

merry-go-round, and the spinning teacups, the last one nearly making me vomit from all the

as I held onto the grip

me, I liked seeing Talia laugh.She was worth getting on

pulls us to

Kota smiles, pointing to a giant purple Octopus hanging on

bottle toss where we have to

get three tries but knocking all of the bottles

hands her three balls.Her first throw narrowly misses the tower of bottles but her

Talia sighs

Kota pouts, Talia attempting to soothe his broken heart with

about we get some ice

hand the operator another dollar so

refuse, wanting to prove to myself that I could be useful.I line up to the toss

of the tower, all 6 bottles

and I turn around to

as I get down on my knees to show it to him, stroking the giant octopus’s head with

asks shyly, his large

his mouth when I nod, the little boy jumping into my

arms around the large

He cries, dragging the toy to his

a beat when the word slips out of his lips, all of my thoughts melting away to focus on the little boy who just claimed me Grayson howls in approval,

the face off with the Alphas but it’s different knowing Kota felt the same

say it again but I eye Talia nervously, knowing Kota calling me Dad could upset

it is disappears before I

shoving the octopus in

Zane

at him, taking

get some ice

his mother to skip over the booth

looks over at me, the smile on her face a little

and kisses me on the

overreacting about what Kota said,” She

talk to him tonight and make sure it doesn’t

head at her, wishing I could put into words that it means the world to me that he sees me that way, but only a small groan escapes my lips.I sigh

she asks, pointing to the little menu on the glass

have never had Dippin’ dots before, so I stare at the assortment

try Cookies and

go wrong

years since I’ve had Oreos, the last time being when my mom snuck some into my room to share with

and pastries were rarely available to

Oreos made an appearance in the pantry, they were gone before Agnes, and I could ever grab

and Talia

to a nearby table and Talia watches me