Welcome to the first chapter of The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street. This is the sequel to I Know Why The Wolf Howls At The Moon. If you didn't read that first, then go do that before even trying to understand this. The title of this story comes from an old episode of The Twilight Zone. This story has nothing to do with the show, I just thought I'd mention it. This story is still sort of a cross over with the show Wolf Lake, but once again, you don't have to know anything about that show to read this. This story takes place about threes years after the end of the last story. So it's been seven years since Breaking Dawn, and Connor and Nessie are full grown. I know it doesn't really make sense for Connor to be full grown but just so it works with my story, I'm just going to say he aged just like Nessie. Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or any of it's characters! Never have, never will. Jovie, Connor, Emma, and Eric are mine and so are the other random new characters that you will meet. Jovie's Point of view
There is a full moon tomorrow, and I'm not even close to being prepared. The house is a mess. I know for a fact that if I don't spend what little time I have now cleaning, that when I'm gone all day tomorrow and tomorrow night, the mess is just going to sit there. I have to cook food for Jake, Embry, Seth and Leah, because, god forbid, one of them try to cook for themselves. Oh, no. Lets make poor Jovie cook all the food. I really need to teach one of them to cook. We've lived together for how many years now? It's about time they learned.
"Mom! Mom!" My son, yelled, as he ran into the house.
"Connor! Connor!" I imitated. He ran into the kitchen, where I was currently doing some dishes.
"There you are," he said. As if I'd be anywhere else. He walked over to me, and placed a kiss on my cheek.
"What do you need?"
"Nothing. Just thought I'd spend some time with you."
"Yeah, right. Again, what do you need?"
"Do you think I could borrow the car tonight?" It was hard to get through my head that my seven year old son could drive. Then again he didn't look seven. He could pass for someone old enough to drive without any problems. He looked just like Jake. Not only did he look like him, but he acted like him too. That caused me a lot of problems from time to time.
"Ah, the car. Taking Nessie out on a date?"
"That's the idea."
"Did you ask Edward if that was ok first?"
"Why would I ask him? He can already read my mind. I'm pretty sure he already knows." I didn't even want to think about how hard it was to date a girl when her father could read your mind. It must suck big time.
"Ask him anyway. You know he likes it when you ask. And you'll have to ask your father about the car."
"But he'll say no."
"No he won't."
"He hates the idea of me driving." I was about to argue that he doesnt hate the idea of Connor driving, he hates it when Connor drives so fast. What interrupted me was my bouncing three year old, who latched herself to Connors leg.
"Conny, you're home!" she squealed. Connor picked her up and she hugged him around the neck.
"How's my favorite sister doing?"
"I'm youre only sister."
"Still my favorite." I walked over to the two of them, and gave my daughter a hard look. It was pretty hard to stay mad at her, especially when she was acting all cute with her big brother.
"Alexis Black, what are you doing out of bed? You still have a half hour left of nap time."
"Missed you," she said, with a pout, and reached her arms out to me. I swear that child had all of us wrapped around her little finger. Alexis didn't age like Connor and Nessie did. She hadn't made her first flip or phase. I was hoping that she was going to turn out like a normal skin walker and wait until she hit puberty. This alone caused her to be spoiled rotten. Not only did our pack love her, but all the vampires did as well. Rosalie was always asking to watch her, and Alice was always buying her something new to wear. Even Jasper had taken a liking to her. He said it was because she was always happy. Something to do with that emotional power of his. I guess it was calming for him to be around someone so happy all the time.
I took little Lexi from Connor and gave her a hug. She started covering my face with kisses to make me forget about the rest of her nap time.
"Can you at least talk to dad first?" asked Connor, still going on about the car. "He never says no to you."
"That's so not true!"
"Oh, come on mom, you know it is. He can't say no to you, I can't say no to Nessie, Embry can't say no to Emma, and Leah can't say no to Eric. It's almost impossible to say no to an imprint, you know that. Just bat your eyes a little, place your hand on his chest, you know work it."
"I can not believe I'm hearing this."
"I'm desperate. Nessie and I haven't been alone in, I don't even know how long."
"Both of you are seven. I don't want to think about the two of you being alone."
"We might be seven, but we don't look like it."
"You sure as hell don't act like it, that's for sure."
"Please, just get dad to say yes?" he asked, giving me the same puppy eyes that Jake uses on me."
"Alright, I'll ask him."
"Yes!"
"But you own me."
"Anything."
"Tomorrow. You watch your sister while I'm out with the full moon. You will also clean up whatever mess your father, Embry, and Seth make. I don't know what it will be this time, but for some reason whenever I leave, I come back to something destroyed." Connor was lucky. He wasn't bothered by the full moon like I was.
"I promise, I'll take care of everything while youre gone."
"Good, now go study or something."
"It's Friday afternoon. I'm not going to be thinking about school again until Monday morning," Connor said with a laugh, and started to leave the kitchen.
"Oh, hey, where is Seth, by the way? If you're home, shouldn't he be back too?"
"He stayed after for extra help or something."
"I wish you would put that much time into your school work."
"School work? Yeah right. He's just hitting on all the smart girls. Why would I bother flirting with anyone when I already have the perfect girl?"
"Oh, get out of my kitchen." I really hated thinking about my little boy being all grown up. He just walked away from me laughing.
After the move out of Washington, Connor, Nessie, and Seth had decided to play high schoolers. We were currently living outside of a small town in Maine. It wasn't as rainy, so the vampires couldn't come out all the time during the day. Most of them decided to go back to college. They took some night classes, along with some online ones. Carlisle started working nights at the local hospital. Eric, Emma, and Leah had gotten jobs at local stores. Jake and Embry had gotten a job as mechanics at one of the local car shops. Me? I stayed home and played house wife. I didn't really mind much. I had Lexi to look after. We couldn't really put her in school, because we didn't know if or when she would flip. How could we explain to the school if she turned into a wolf right in the middle of class. She was only three anyway. Once she got older, Esme said she'd help me home school her.
Maine was peaceful. We lived away from other people, out in the woods. The Cullens had built this huge house, almost as nice as their one back in Forks. Us shape shifters had our own house next to theirs. There was no way we could all live in the same house.
The hunting was amazing. There was plenty for us as well as the vampires. That was one reason for the move here. It was far away, yes, but we had plenty of privacy and animals to hunt. The Cullens said they had lived in Maine once but it was so long ago, that everyone they had known would be dead. It was the perfect place to live for a couple of years. My parents hadn't be very happy about me moving so far away, but they understood.
"Do you want to watch a little TV?" I asked Lexi. She answered yes and I walked into the living room still carrying her in my arms. I placed her on the couch and turned on the TV to a kid friendly show. I had no idea about any of the shows that were on now a days, but she seemed to like it. I could keep an eye on her from the kitchen so I went back to doing the dishes and finishing up dinner. When I was just about done, I heard Jake's car pull up the driveway. He came in the house and was immediately greeted by his daughter.
"Daddy! Daddy!" she yelled. She acts just like Connor did at that age. They both loved Jake. Now Connors closer to me, but I think that's only because I let him get away with more. I watched, with a smile, as Jake picked Lexi up and cuddled her close to his body. When Embry walked through the door, she called out his name and he took her from Jake. I found my mate's arms around me not a second later.
"There's a full moon tomorrow night," he whispered into my ear. I knew what that meant. He wanted some of my special attention tonight due to the fact that I would be gone all tomorrow.
"Yes, I know."
"I'm going to miss you," he said, now nuzzling my hair.
"I'm going to miss you too." I nipped at his chin lightly, and then gave him a soft kiss on the lips. I couldn't help being so loving with him. It was in the nature of a skin walker. At least I wasn't pushing him against the kitchen counter and tearing off his clothes. It was a great idea, but Lexi was in the other room.
"Can I ask you a favor?" I then asked, remembering my promise to Connor.
"Anything." Jake was pushing me against the counter, he must be having the same dirty thoughts I was having a second ago. He was placing light kisses on my neck, and I knew he wasn't going to expect my request.
"Can Connor use the car tonight?" He stopped kissing me once my question was out. Oh yeah, he defiantly wasn't expecting that question.
"What?"
"Well, he wants to take Nessie out on a date tonight."
"So he went though you to get something from me?"
"He's a smart boy. He knows it will work."
"Oh, no. He is so not getting the car tonight. Not after the last accident he almost got into." Before I could even begin to fight him on the topic, the front door was opened and then slammed shut. Wanting to know the cause for all the noise, Jake and I both moved into the living room, to find Seth with a huge grin on his face.
"Seth?" asked Jake. "What's going on?" Seth looked from Jake, to me, to Embry, and even to Lexi, who was still sitting on Emby's lap.
"I imprinted." His smile only grew wider. I ran over to him and pulled him into a hug.
"Oh, Seth! I'm so happy for you!"
"Yeah, way to go man," said Embry. "It's about time it happened to you. So who is the lucky girl?"
"Aurelia Smith."
There you go. The first chapter. I know it isn't very long, but I just wanted to like set everything up. Tell you where they live, show how things have changed a little bit. I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who gave me suggestions on where I should have had the Cullens and the wolves move to. All the ideas were great, but I went with Maine, because I've been there before. I'll have a better understanding of the area. So, I know a few of you thought I was going to have Seth imprint on Jovie and Jake's new kid, but did you really think I was going to be that predictable? I think not. And don't worry, Aurelia will get her chance to talk. This story isn't going to just be from Jovie's point of view, it will switch between Jovie and Aurelia. Last, but not least. Thank you everyone for reading, and please review to let me know what you think! The next chapter should be up soon!
