Black flames and Purple Hearts

Twelve

Anthony's Pov: when we got back to the house I hesitated at the door I was tempted to runaway again and Tayler definitely noticed he pulled me inside and held me in front of him by my shoulders.

When the door shut behind us everyone sitting in the living room stopped falling silently for a moment; them Jaden and Griffin where on their feet moving towards us I quickly backed up my back pressed firmly against Taylers chest.

"I think you three should talk everyone else upstairs" Tayler says giving me a gently push forward

Everyone cleared from the living room but obviously lingered at the top of the stairs weather it was out of curiosity of what was to come or just waiting on Tayler I'm not sure.

"I'll be right upstairs if you need me" Tayler says with a squeeze of my shoulder he steps around me walks past Jaden and Griffin right up the stairs shooing everyone into their rooms.

That leaves me standing about three awkward feet away from my two best friends in the middle of the foyer.

I look at my feet scuffing the toe of my shoe against the tile.

"I'm sorry" I mumble

"No no we're sorry there's no reason you should have thought we wouldn't like you because of your mark we shouldn't have placed so much importance on you being an alpha" Griffin says

"We're bad friends" Jaden says it makes my heart ache

"No no no you're not you're my best friends I'm so stupid I should have just told you I never should have lied I-I just freaked out and and" I rambled on quickly getting overwhelmed

Griffin waist no time closing the distance between us putting his hands on my cheeks

"Breathe" he says firmly

And I immediately suck in a breath

"Let's go sit down" he says as I calm down

We settle onto the couch and Jaden leans his head on my shoulder

"Guess this explains why you've smelt so weird" he sighs

"Was it that bad?" I ask

"Definitely you've smelt crazy off since you got here but knowing your an omega it makes sense now" Griffin says

"Why's that" I question

"You smelt distressed and sad and for awhile like heat but we thought you hadn't presented so none of that made sense but now it does" Jaden explains

"What do I smell like now" I ask curiously

"Sweet like banana Laffy taffy" Jaden laughs

"Banana?!" I giggle

"Mmmhm it's cause your calm now everybody's sent changes with their mood after they present" Griffin explains

"You smell like vanilla coffee" I tell Griffin

"And you smell like...cinnamon and chocolate" I tell Jaden

"Well I was hoping for something manlier" Griffin laughs

"Better than banana laffy taffy" I huff Causing them to burst out laughing leaning against me

As we quiet down a door upstairs opens and Payton appears at the railing

"Did you make up yet" he questions

"Yeah bud" Jaden laughs

"Can we come back downstairs then?" He ask

"Sure" I tell him

"GUYS THEY SAID ITS OKAY TO GO DOWNSTAIRS NOW!!!" Payton yells at the top of his lungs before bolting down the stairs

Suddenly I have a lap full of Payton he pretty much launched himself onto me it only hurt a little when he landed on me.

"I think it's cool you're an omega" Payton tells me happily

"Thanks buddy" I smile before he rolls out of my lap to set up the Xbox

The rest of the boys shuffle down the stair Tayler giving me a big smile that just screams "I told you so"

Noen ruffles my hair as he passes me to sit in the big recliner with Chase. And just like that everything is normal again. I had terrorized myself with this idea that my friends would hate me and look down on me for being and omega instead of and alpha for no reason.

My friends love me no matter what we're family and we easily settled into our normal routine of finding stupid shit to do. Rotating through who gets to play call of duty with who and making TikToks.

Plus Josh and Payton definitely rematched in wrestling only to get yelled at again by Tayler. We decide arm wrestling is a better inside competition and soon everyone is in on it.

I beat Payton easily but Josh puts up and good fight it's gets close to him winning but in the end I beat his ass.

When I go against Jaden I don't last long he pretty easily pins my arm down but hey the man is swoll.

Jaden versus Griffin is interesting because I'm not sure who to root for I thought they'd be pretty evenly matched but boy was I wrong Griffin whooped Jaden's ass.

And then he beat Bryce too I was pretty hyped for him because Bryce is low key a gym rat and it was totally unexpected.

And Finally we all settled in for Tayler versus Griffin and to say we were all way to into an arm wrestling match was an understatement we were yelling banging on the table trying to hype them up.

When Tayler pinned Griffin's arm me and Jaden Groans dramatically throwing our heads back. Griffin accepted his defeat gracefully but Tayler and Bryce jump up tackling eachother with a victory cry.

The yelling of course made me flinch nothing serious it's definitely getting better I guess but it's still annoying. Griffin pulls me into his lap after that.

Griffin has always been a very protective person he's always stuck up for us online when people hate on us and he's never let people get away with being mean to us in person.

Filming TikToks in public you get weird stares and rude comments a lot but Griffin is always there to tell people to screw off. So I relax into his lap turning sideways to prop my feet up on Jaden's lap and just chill while Tayler and Bryce ride their train to crazy town.

Eventually everyone settles down again with chill conversation going around the room when suddenly Payton asks

"Can we see your mark?!"