Two more weeks had passed since I had been told the news of Malikai’s pregnancy. He had gotten more comfortable with telling me stuff, as well as Vanya and Freya. I had found out the packs that they had come from about a week ago and let my parents know exactly where they had come from and how they had gotten to our pack. Apparently our pack was widely known for treating Omega wolves as actual members of wolf society. Other packs would shun us belittling the name of our pack just because we treated Omega’s good.

Currently, I was helping Onyx prepare for the next ceremony that was happening in about a week. We were making necklaces for each of our new members of the pack, they were on a golden chain and we were putting a white moonstone on each of them. Onyx’s friends Jessica and Eunice were gossiping with her about other pack members. I noticed she didn’t have anything negative to say about anyone, but her friends were in her ear with negative opinions. Raven and Ella had taken Freya and Vanya to the mall outside of our pack limits with Elias being their escort.

Malikai finally built up the courage to tell my parents about him being with child. They had accepted the news of him being pregnant. Later that evening they had asked me if it would be okay to ask him to permanently live in the house with us, rather than him going to live in the housing area they were building. We had agreed mutually that it would probably be best for him to live in the house and safer as well, especially since he had bonded so well with me. He was currently seeing Kathy for a check-up appointment for the pup to make sure everything was alright.

He was still unsure about the idea of having another man’s child, especially since he didn’t know who the father was. He had a constant battle with himself on trying to accept the idea of the baby. I feel like with time he would come to accept the baby, I did remind him, the baby didn’t ask to be, but it was meant to be. I did mention other options he had to him, but neither sat right with him. So my goal was to help him get used to the idea of having a baby. Which was very difficult, seeing as the nightmares were not letting down, the mood swings started coming full force, and the morning sickness turned out to be all day sickness. He cursed the fact he was an Omega, seeing as smells were amplified tenfold, his feelings were amplified as well.

“Isn’t that right August?” Onyx’s voice breaks me away from my thoughts. I snapped my head in her direction.

“Sorry I was in my own little world, what were you asking?” I asked her.

“You said you’d help me with my costume for Halloween. Isn’t that right?” She beamed at me.

“For sure, tomorrow evening right?” I question her. Tomorrow evening was Halloween and our Future Beta Jaxon was throwing a big party at his parent's mansion for the celebration. It was mostly teens attending while parents took their pups out for trick or treating, and the older wolves were celebrating by passing out goodies in the town center.

“Mhm, are you meeting me at my place or do you want us to meet you at your house?” She puts another necklace on the pole that held them so they wouldn’t get tangled.

“I can come over to yours, my house is kinda in disarray right now with the Omega’s and all. My parents are also away, so it’s kind of chaos.” I chuckled.

“Sounds like you’re a man with a plan,” Jessica explained. “So what are you dressing as Ony?”

“He’s going to help me dress as the moon goddess! I’m super pumped!” She pumped her fist into the air.

“Oh, nice.” Eunice piped her brown eyes gleam in excitement for the future Luna.

“You betcha!” She winked at the three of us grabbing another necklace from my hands, putting it on the rod.

“What are you going to dress up as August?” Jessica looked over at me.

“I’m going to dress as a doe.” I duck my head blushing. It wasn't particularly the most original idea but I think it would look good in my favor.

Eunice tilted her head to the side. “I can see it. I mean you have the doe eyes working for you already.” She smiled.

“Same.” Jessica nods to me, handing Onyx another necklace.

“We only have 7 more to do guys, thank y’all so much for helping me today.” Onyx clapped.

“So what are y’all dressing up as?” I blink at the two of them.

“I’m going as an Angel,” Eunice responded with a big grin on her face.

“I’m going as a devil.” Jessica grins, wiggling her eyebrows. It was no secret that Eunice and she were mates. She was a rarity in the pack being a female dominant wolf and all. There were only a few of them in the pack but they were held with high respect.

“Such an unoriginal idea for a couples costume.” Onyx snickers at the two of them.

“Oh bug off dude.” Jessica dramatically rolls her eyes. “What’s Alexandre going as, since that’ll be hard to pair with?”

“Thank you very much, but he’s dressing up as the sun god.” She answered smartly, rolling her eyes.

“Fuck that’s a pretty rad idea. Isn’t that the god the fairies worship?” Eunice inquires.

“Yep, I assumed that they’re a pair right, the sun, and the moon?” It was a genius idea for both of them I’ll admit. I finish putting the last necklace together and stand to my feet. We had been putting the necklaces together for hours. My legs were stiff from sitting in the same position for too long.

“I think it’s a great idea Onyx, anyways, I have to pick Malikai up at his doctor’s appointment right now. I’ll text you when I’m on my way over tomorrow night alright?” She hugged me goodbye and told me that around 3pm would work to start getting her dressed, and Alexandre would be over around 5pm to start getting ready. She also explained that she’d help me do my makeup, saying she had the perfect idea for me.

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I drive to the packhouse, feeling warm. I roll the windows down, letting the cool autumn breeze into the car. My stomach had been feeling uneasy for some reason, the reason I didn’t know. Malikai was waiting outside, clenching onto his bag that he had brought with him. He hopped into the car thanking me for picking him up.

“Sorry about taking so long, there was a butt-ton of stuff to do for the full moon ceremony in a few days,” I explained to him.

“Don’t worry about it, I watched TV in the lobby for a little bit.” He shrugged his shoulders. “Can you please roll the windows up though? It's like 40 degrees out.” I quickly rolled the windows up to comfort him, even though I was still feeling warm.

“Sorry about that, I sat in a stuffy room for a few hours, with a newly mated couple.” I laughed. “The tension in the air kinda got me a little heated.”

“No need to explain yourself further.” He laughed.

“So…” I paused. “How’s the pup doing?”

“Well, next month I find out the gender, it kinda freaks me out, I think that’ll make me feel a little more attached to it. Like I started sobbing at the news. I’m terrified.” I could feel his body tense up beside me. I take a quick glance over at him. He had gained a few pounds since moving in with us, even more after my mom had found out he was with a child. Making him eat around 6 small meals a day to keep up, and help him gain weight.

“Don’t you fret about anything.” I tugged my lips upwards. “Things’ll work their way out for you. You don’t know what’ll happen until it gets closer anyways.”

“True.” I glance over again seeing him put one hand on his tummy. His abdomen was still flat unless you knew him beforehand, you wouldn’t know that his stomach had grown a small bit. “Kathy also gave me these big ass pills to take every day, calling them prenatal pills or something.”

“Yeah, you gotta take those. My grandma didn’t take her and she lost all of her teeth after she had my uncle.” I explained it was true, her body didn’t get the nutrients it needed while she was with child and her teeth started rotting out of her mouth soon thereafter.

“I guess I’ll take them.” He whined, shaking the bottle of pills in his hand.

“Like you had a choice,” I told him sternly.

“What the fuck ever.” He groaned leaning his head up against the window. “I’m fuckin sleepy, hurry home.”

“Yes, master.” I lisped my words together. “Anyways, are you going to the party tomorrow?”

“Nope, I’m going to stay at home and be pregnant watching horror movies and eating ice cream. It’s a date for Vanya and I.” He laughed. Since they started living with us they started watching movies daily, both Vanya and Malikai had taken a liking to horror films, Freya explained that she couldn’t stomach the gore movies but was fine with ghost movies.

“Well dang,” I pursed my lips, tapping on the steering wheel with my index fingers.

“Trust me, I think the last place I need to be is in a big ass house filled with horny ass teenagers, getting bumped around by the music, and the alcohol and drugs are also not my style.” I nodded in agreement with that statement.

“Well, I can agree with you on that much. I don’t think I’ll be getting into all of that ruckus.” I turned down our street.

“You better not because you have to wake up the next morning and pamper me.” He says through pursed lips, he reached over and placed his hand on my cheek. “Oh shit, you weren’t kidding about being hot.”

“You better get the willpower to do it yourself, I’m not going to rise from my bed until it’s well into the afternoon.” I laughed at him. “And I think it’s just because I was in a stuff situation.”

“Whatever…” He says in response to my first statement. Raven’s car was outside, now it’s time I get to see what they got to wear to the party.

Twenty minutes later we stood in my room and I was looking at their costumes, snickering. “Dude why are you going as a school teacher from an anime?” I burst out laughing at Raven’s costume.

“Very little effort, that is why.” He rolled his eyes at me. “Plus cosplay is in my soul.” He muses about his costume, he was going as Eraser Head from My Hero Academia. In his defense, he did look a lot like him, his hair already being feathery, the most he had to buy was goggles and red colored contacts. “At least I’m not going as a basic ass doe.”

“Oh shut the fuck up, my dad just so happened to have a fur vest,” I state matter of factly. “And, buying some ears and a tail was pretty easy,” I explained.

“Still basic.” Ella inputs her opinion. Ellas was dressing as Merida from Disney’s movie Brave. Her hair also complimented her choice of costume, the same as Freya. She was going as Wednesday Addams from the Addams family, they had also gone to a salon to get her a haircut, she had cute bangs now and her hair was trimmed neatly.

“I’m super excited to go to a party.” Freya clapped her hands giddily.

“So are we, usually we don’t go because someone is a party pooper.” Ella looked in my direction. “I bet if Onyx didn’t ask him to come this year we would be dragging him there because it's our senior year of school, and we need to go to at least one party.”

“Eh, shut up, I just don’t see the purpose of going to them, I wouldn’t partake in anything anyways.” I shrugged my shoulders.

“Well, you’re partaking in the dancing part.” Raven wags his eyebrows. “Not an option, you can’t be a wallflower this time around.”

“What he said.” Ella jabbed her thumb in Raven’s direction.

“Anyways, now that we’re done with this preplanning stuff, how about some popcorn and a movie?" Freya asked.