ตอน 60: 60. Presented?! (Erik)
Erik quietly slipped out of the way of everyone and left the party. No one tried to stop him, not even the security guards wearing suits. No one paid him any mind which allowed him to leave unobtrusively. Although he felt bad about leaving without saying goodbye to Liona, he felt that he needed to go. He was obviously going to be unwelcome since he didn't have a suppressant, even though he hadn't presented and didn't give off any pheromones. It seemed for some reason that Liona's father was trying to get him to ask for some, but he didn't understand why.
As he slipped out, he noticed that a couple of older gentlemen had arrived and were heading up the walk to the house. He didn't have a good angle to get a good look at them, but he got the feeling that they were just as wealthy as Liona's family was. They seemed to exude an air of dignified refinement and he knew that type of person was the worst on the inside. They put on these airs, hiding their true nature from others, only to let it out as soon as something dissatisfied them, such as a lowly person as he, being in their presence. He sped up his walk, to put as much distance between them as he could. He didn't want them to notice him and complain.
While he walked down the street, Erik couldn't help but notice the reactions of a few passerby's. They were giving him strange looks as he went by. Some avoided him entirely and even crossed the street seemingly to get away from him. He knew he wasn't feeling his best right now, but did he look so bad that it frightened people? He also kept getting these weird vague senses of color at the edges of his vision, but whenever he tried to focus on it, it seemingly disappeared.
As he walked to the nearest bus stop to wait for a bus to head home, he had a couple people recoil and glare at him as he stood waiting. Finally, when the bus arrived, before he could even get on, the driver flat out told him that unless he had a suppressant on hand, and used it, he wasn't allowed on the bus. This was the second time someone had tried to get him to use a suppressant, but he wasn't even in rut, since he hadn't presented. He had no choice but to let the bus leave without him since he didn't have a suppressant handy for this supposed rut he was in. It took him two hours to walk home from Liona's neighborhood, which she had been right and was really close to the places he worked. So, it had been completely natural for her to just happen to bump into him at his workplaces.
When he got home, it was early evening after having spent the majority of the afternoon at Liona's birthday party. He was tired and overheating in the nice button-down shirt and dress slacks she had bought for him. In fact, he was downright sweating by the time he got home and it wasn't even hot outside. It was a mild spring day in the mid 60's so it's not like there was a heat wave to explain why he was so hot just from walking home. To top off his uncomfortable overheated state, he was feeling out of sorts and the thoughts of Liona threatened to cause an inopportune salute. It was like he was some kind of animal that couldn't control those urges.
The first thing he did when he got home was to grab a cold shower. He felt like that would certainly help with his overheating and his misbehaving body. However, that shower was a lot longer than he planned as he couldn't get those thoughts out of his head and it wasn't helping. His salute seemed to have been made permanent and no amount of coaxing was getting it to go down. He was thankful that his sisters weren't home all demanding the use of their only bathroom and spent most of their days across the street at the park where it was easier to look after their siblings.
Before he realized it, his mother had gotten home and was busy starting up dinner for them. Finally feeling embarrassed and worried, he figured this was something he had to bring to his mother's attention. She had a lot of nursing knowledge, and she would know if he was just being ridiculously horny or if he had a problem that required medical attention. As soon as he opened the door and left the bathroom with his more comfortable if not now too tight pants, he heard his mother gasp loudly and drop something. He didn't know what caused that reaction, so he quickly strode toward the kitchen to make sure she was okay.
"Mom, are you alright? I heard something drop."
"Erik! Oh, my precious baby! Why didn't you tell me that you had presented! I could have gotten you inhibitors before I left for home and picked you up! Oh, how is your rut? It's not too bad yet? I can't help you there except to get you some OTC inhibitors…"
"What are you talking about Mom? I haven't presented! I'm not giving off any pheromones yet, so how can I be in a rut?! I'm just really uncomfortable and I um…" Erik was embarrassed to bring this up, but before he could mention his problem, his mom cut him off.
"Not giving off pheromones?! You're already flooding the house with them! It's quite obvious that you've presented so stop this silly nonsense about not giving any off! Now tell me what triggered you to finally present, so I can maybe help you out a bit easier!"
"Mom, I swear I'm not giving any off! I can't smell any at all! It's the same as usual! So, I can't have presented! I just kissed a girl, that's all I did today!" Erik was frustrated, tired, and uncomfortable. He still felt overheated, and that problem still hadn't gone away.
"Erik, baby, listen to me. You have most definitely presented. You have a slight minty herbal scent to your pheromones. It seems you get that from your father's side of the family… But anyway! You kissed a girl? Did you start to feel different afterwards? What was so special about this kiss that you presented today of all days?"
Erik swallowed hard; he hoped his Mom wouldn't freak out. "I kissed Liona today Mom. She's my fated mate…"
This time his mother did freak out.
"WHAT?! YOU KISSED THAT RICH GIRL?! Oh, my goddess! What are we going to do?! Your mate just had to be someone like her! Oh, no, no, no!"
"MOM! Liona's NOT just some rich girl! She's a perfectly wonderful girl and I think I love her! She's sweet, charming, funny, and oh so much more! She's not like other rich people! She really cares about being a proper person and she goes above and beyond to make me and the girls feel comfortable with her! Why would she put in so much effort to do that if she was just going to hurt us? She's done so much for not only my confidence, but Nikki's and the other girl's confidence as well! No matter how much I put up walls around her, she takes them down one brick at a time until I'm bare and I feel like she could look right into my soul and just accept me as I am! She's my mate and I couldn't be happier than I am when I'm around her!" Erik was near seething that his mom was insulting Liona when she didn't even know her! His mate was perfect and not a bad person at all! Not like him…
Erik didn't realize it, but his vision was clouding with color the more he got worked up. The angry red flecks amongst the mint green at the edges of his vision weren't something he understood what was, but it seemed his mother recoiled the thicker that color got in his vision.
"Erik Theodor Norman! Withdraw your pheromones this instant and don't use that tone of voice with me! I am still your mother and while you are under my care you will behave like a respectable member of society! No matter how angry you get, that does not give you the right to overwhelm another person with your pheromones. Do you want to land yourself in jail for improper use of pheromones?! Do you think I have that kind of money to bail you out?!"
This tone of voice caused Erik to recoil. He didn't even know he was letting out pheromones let alone overpowering his mother with them! How the hell was he supposed to control something he couldn't detect?! He hung his head and tried to take a deep calming breath. After a moment he realized his vision had cleared a bit. He was starting to form a theory, there was something about this weird color in his vision that hadn't been there before he kissed Liona.
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