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The Following

Chapter one: Worrying and Relaxation

Seventeen year old Vivian Gandillon slowly opened her eyes and turned her head to look at the time on her digital clock that sat upon her dresser top, it read three seventeen in the morning, way too early to be up. Sighing to herself she turned her head away from the clock and buried it back into the warm chest of the man who slept beside her, after about five minutes of trying to sleep she decided that she just couldn't fall back to sleep.

Slowly edging herself from the bed so she wouldn't wake up her sleeping mate Vivian walked out of their bedroom shutting the door silently behind her. She had one thing in mind to do so early in the morning. Walking to the kitchen she went to the counter and grabbed her paints off of it, opening up the cabinet above the sink she grabbed her brushes and jug of water, once she had everything that she needed she walked to the spare room and started painting a mural on the wall, she was so engrossed in her work that she didn't realize the presence in the door way watching her, until he made himself know.

"Vivian, sweetheart, it's four in the morning; you should be in bed not up." Stopping what she was doing she looked up into the beautiful blue eyes of her mate.

"I know, but I couldn't get back to sleep once I had woken up. I didn't want to wake you, so I decided to come here and paint." Vivian stopped what she was doing and walked into the open arms of her mate.

"That's very thoughtful of you. Even though, you should have at least tried harder to get back to sleep, you have two hours until you have to get up and ready for school." Vivian smiled up at her mate staring into his blue eyes.

"No I don't, the snowstorm outside has made it too dangerous for anyone to go to school, the roads are too dangerous to be out and about in." Walking back to her room with her mate in tow she got back under the warmth of the comforters that lay upon their bed.

"Oh really? When did the school contact you?" Laughing at his antics Vivian gave him a short reply.

"While you were sleeping."

"Oh…" Was his reply.

"Just oh? I don't get a really are you telling me the truth?" Vivian looked into the eyes of her chuckling mate.

"No sweetheart, you don't, I'm just surprised I didn't hear the phone ringing that is all." He said pulling her down to lie on his warm shirtless chest.

"Gabriel you were sleeping, you've been extremely tired lately with all the stuff you've been doing for the pack, you're the alpha male you need your rest more than anyone does. It was just a phone call."

"I know, I just worry, I mean what if you were harmed, I wouldn't have heard it because I would have been sleeping." Gabriel looked into the green eyes of his mate stroking her golden hair with worry in his eyes as he voiced his concern.

"Gabe, I know for a fact that you would be able to hear if something like that were to happen to me. Now enough worrying and lets go to bed, after all since I have no school tomorrow that means we can sleep in and spend the day together."

"Okay, goodnight Vivian, I love you."

"Night night, I love you too." And with her head on Gabriel's muscular chest and her arms around his torso she fell asleep, Gabriel watched her sleep until he felt his eyes start to droop in tiredness, he pulled her tighter against him and buried his head in her hair at the top of her head and closed his eyes letting sleep take him.

"Finn, I don't think we're supposed to be in here, let alone doing this, this is Gabriel's and Vivian's house." Ignoring his friend, Finn just kept walking. "Finn, I think this would be qualified as a breaking and entering."

"Ulf no it would not be, Viv gave me a key to come here anytime I felt like it." Ulf looked around the kitchen uneasily making sure that Gabriel and Vivian weren't going to pop out from anywhere and hassle them.

"Oh, right, because when she gave you that key she was planning on you coming in here just to steal her chocolate chip cookies." Finn gave Ulf a cocky smile and replied with a,

"Heck yeah she did, I bet we can also get away with stealing some of Gabriel's apples and his motorcycle."

"Um… No, also there is no we, there is only you, I'm only here to make sure that you don't do something stupid, also if you do steal Gabriel's Harley, we both know that you won't live to see the next day, also there is a flaw in your 'perfect' scenario, there is about three feet of snow outside, how are you planning on stealing it when it took us literally almost an hour to walk here, when it normally takes four minutes to get here?"

"That is a very good question, though what's an even better question is how and the heck did Gabriel here? When he drove his motorcycle to Maryland and back."

"Maybe he got back before the storm started to hit, that would explain why he's here and his motorcycle as well."

Vivian woke up to silent arguing, she turned away from Gabriel and gently pulled out of his grasp to see the time on the digital clock, it read it to be ten thirty in the morning, she silently left the room and walked to the kitchen where the argument appeared to be coming from and getting louder. Once she was in the kitchen she stopped to see Finn rummaging through the cabinets, most likely looking for food to eat no doubt, she heard Finn telling Ulf that he was going to steal Gabriel's bike and then Ulf replying with something along the lines of you have a major death wish don't you.

"Will you two shut the hell up. Gabriel and I are trying to sleep. If the both of you are going to be here then go to the den and watch the television or play the X-box, just be quiet." With those words Vivian turned back around and walked back to her and Gabriel's room, once there she got back in bed and snuggled against the still sleeping Gabriel, unconsciously Gabriel pulled her closer to his chest. The minute she closed her eyes she instantly fell asleep.

AN: I hope this is fantastic for you, but, I'm trying to keep them in as much character as I can. Well I hope you enjoyed.

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