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Impatience
Chapter one: Surprise!
(Quil's POV)
"Happy Birthday!" echoed over a dozen voices at once. Every member of the pack, and of course their spouses, were there to celebrate Claire's 16th birthday. It was originally supposed to be a surprise party, but it's very difficult for someone my size to hide behind an armchair; although it was very amusing watching the others try.
Embry carried in a large chocolate cake with sparklers all over it, and set it on the table next to Claire's gifts. Even while everyone at the party had huge smiles plastered on their faces, you could tell the room was very tense. Today was the first day I was finally allowed to tell Claire everything. And even after waiting so long, I wasn't entirely sure I wanted to.
"Open your presents, Claire! Open them!" screamed Sam and Emily's two year old twin sons, Joshua and Logan.
"Do you guys want to help me open them?" she asked them. She's so great with kids, she'd make a great mom one day, we could have...Stop it Quil! My mind scolded. Don't get your hopes up yet. She might run screaming when she finds out. And that was exactly why I was afraid of telling her. Now put on a smile, and don't ruin her birthday!
"Here Claire, open this one." I said, handing her the small navy blue bag. She gave me a smile that could have stopped my heart, and pulled two plane tickets to Paris out of the bag. She had wanted to go ever since she was thirteen and had seen the movie French Kiss.
"Oh my god, Quil! I can't accept these! This is too much! These must have cost you a fortune!" She shrieked, but I could tell from her heart rate how excited she was about the gift
"Sorry no returns, all items final sale." I joked "I thought maybe you and your sister would-"I started to say, but was cut off as she ran into me at full force, and wrapped he arms around me.
"Of course not! Sarah wouldn't even want to go anyway, I'm going with you." She said in a way that made it very hard not to agree.
"Maybe we should have opened Quil's present last, seeing as now all of ours will seem like crap in comparison"
"Don't be stupid, Embry! Of course I still want to open all the other gifts!" she said, still smiling.
"Hey! Don't call me stupid or you just might not get a present from me at all!"
After all the gifts were opened and the last of the cake was finished, I decided it was time. I found Claire in the kitchen talking to Kim and Emily.
"Claire, could I talk to you alone, please? Outside." I asked calmly. She looked up at me with wide eyes, like she was afraid she had done something wrong. She walked slowly toward the door in the back of the kitchen. I held open the door for her and followed her out. I made it about three feet before the useless clichés started running through my head. Ok Quil, it's the moment of truth, now or never…
We sat down on the tacky patio furniture Sam and Emily had kept out here for years. I deliberately sat in the chair facing away from hers. "Ok Claire, there's something I need to tell you, and you have to promise me not to say anything until I'm finished, ok?" She nodded slowy, and I began to tell her the secret I had hidden from her for fourteen years.