Disclaimer: I Terra do not own anything Twilight related [sadly] I do not own any of the La Push Wolf Boys [depressingly so]. BUT I do in fact own Alana Shay Owens and her family, so take that. [she's pretty damn nifty if I do say so myself.] End of Disclaimer... Happy reading.
Prologue: Cookies?
"I'm really going to miss you guys," Aunt Cathy said after loading the last box into the moving van. I buckled Kayne into his "Big-Boy-Seat" before hugging Aunt Cathy myself.
"Don't worry Cat, we'll come and visit," Kenneth Owen, my dad, said to his sister then kissed her cheek. Dad, Kayne, and I had been living in an apartment close to Aunt Cathy up in Alaska for the last four and a half years, but now we're moving back to our home in La Push, Washington. I don't fully understand why Dad felt the need to leave, I guess he just needed time to calm down and get a hold of things. Well, just as sudden as our decision to leave we made the decision to go home.
"What 'cha drawing?" Dad asked as he drove down the quiet road leading to our cozy house in La Push.
I shrugged my shoulders, I really didn't know, "Not sure yet, just something that came to me randomly." I looked out the window, gazing at the blur of forest rushing by. "Hey Dad," I began.
"Yeah Lani," Dad asked while calling me by the name mom and Grandma Nani came up with.
"Do you think the kids will like Kayne?"
Dad chuckled like he usually does when he thinks I've said something silly… crazy old man, "I don't see why not, he's almost five. How could kids he's never met dislike him already?" He glanced at me briefly with a teasing grin; "You worried those mean seniors at the high school won't like my little Lani?"
I rolled my eyes with a scoff, "As if Dad, I'm more worried about Kayne. The poor guy's starting Kindergarten in a place he doesn't know. At least in Alaska he already knew a few kids from the daycare, but here he'll be alone."
Dad chuckled again, grr what's so stinking funny about me being worried about my little brother?! "You sound so much like your mother when it was your first day of… well anything," Dad said with the smile he gets when he had fond memories of Mom.
I smiled too, "She worried so much my first day of middle school that I had to calm her down."
Our red Jeep Cherokee sport pulled up in front of the familiar light yellow house with the moving van already parked off to the side. Dad went to talk to the movers as I woke up Kayne. "Hey buddy, we're here," I said as I gently shook him.
His bright green eyes were foggy with sleep, "Wha?"
"We're at the new house now," I remind him and pulled him from the car, into my arms. The sleepy child glanced around then lay his head on my shoulder.
"Angie!" A familiar voice cheered before embracing me in a hug that only grandma's can give.
"Hey Nani," I greeted and waited for her to realize I wasn't my mom.
Five, four, three, two, and, "Sorry Lani, you look so much like your mother; especially with Brenden-Baby with you," She apologized with a sweet grin. Kayne, Brenden is his first name, peeked shyly from the crook of my neck at his grandma Nani that he had only met the day he was born; so of course he doesn't remember.
"Lani, who's that?" He whispered, but not really (He's only four and a half, he hasn't quite got the hang of whispering yet).
"She's our Grandma Nani I told you about," I said gently.
He closed his eye and breathed deeply, "Yep that's her, you said she smelled like flowers, the woods, and ocean," He opened his eyes with a grin as bright as his now awake eyes, "She smells better than you told me Lani."
Nani grinned widely, "Hey there Brenden-Baby," She greeted before giving him a hug also.
"Hey, you guys can get acquainted while we unpack," Dad hollered from where he was unloading the moving van.
"He's right, we need to get all your things into the house before it starts to rain," Nani said and set Kayne on the ground next to me.
"We're finally done!" I cheered and did a little dance with Kayne.
"Thanks for your help Nani, we wouldn't have gotten all the unpacking done so soon without you," Dad thanked Nani and hugged her.
"It was no trouble at all, most of your things were already here to begin with," She mentioned.
"Yeah, thanks Nani," Kayne said and hugged her around the leg, the closest thing he could reach.
She scooped the munchkin up, "No trouble at all Brenden-Baby. So Lani," She began. "You remember Emily Uley right? Well, she had a son Brenden's age that is also going into kindergarten this up coming school year. Would you like to have a get together at her house tomorrow?" Nani asked, knowing exactly what I needed; she always knew what I was thinking.
"That would be great Nani, should I bring cookies?"
Kayne lit up, "Cookies?"
Nani laughs, "Yes, cookies sound wonderful. I'll pick you two up tomorrow for lunch. See you tomorrow babies," Nani said goodbye and went to her cozy home where the Elders of La Push live.
"Dad, you should get to bed; you have a meeting tomorrow in Forks," I suggested to Dad whom picked up his tired son after Kayne had yawned and rubbed his eyes with obvious exhaustion.
"I will after I get the big guy to bed."
"Lani, will you read me a story?" Kayne asked when Dad and I were about to leave his light blue room.
"Of course Kayne," I answered with a slight smile; "How about we read the next chapter in The Secret Garden?" I asked even though he was already reaching for his said current favorite book we'd been reading off his bookshelf. I read to Kayne until his heavy eyelids finally won, and he drifted off to sleep.
I hugged Dad as I walked out of the room to my room of a pleasant shade of green; he had that little smile he got when I reminded him of Mom. "I set the time on the coffee pot so you have hot coffee when you leave tomorrow."
His smile widened, "I'll probably see you and Kayne around dinner time, sleep well Lani and thanks for all your help."
"No problem Dad, it's what I do."
As I lied in bed that night I had the strange feeling that something was different in La Push that wasn't present there four and a half years ago, and it's not the absence of Mom or the fact Brenden Kayne Owen is finally here… What ever it is I'll figure it out soon enough, maybe Nani and Emily know something.
Sound good so far? Much more to come, hope you stay to read =]