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The Truth Finally Comes Out
Leah POV.
I finally force myself to look away from Sam and look at the staircase waiting for Lorelai to come running down cause you know I just have horrible luck. I get really nervous, not wanting the secret that I have worked so hard on to just be ruined in one afternoon. I look back to Sam and all the feeling I've tried so hard to keep buried down exploded to the surface. There was not one night where I didn't dream about him, his perfect face, his heart, how whenever he touched me I melted and then I looked over at Emily, why is it so much easier to forgive a stranger than family, I remembered having that conversation with my dad, he said it was because you have higher expectation for family, so it hurts more. But I think it's because the only people you can count on is you family, so when they betray you your all alone, you can't trust anyone. But I've forgiven them and I think it's time they know it.
"Where's the food?" Andrew asks, not sensing the tension. I had to laugh, he reminded me of Paul. A few other people chuckled relieving some of the tension. The kitchen door swung open and my heart stopped. Everyone looked to see who it was. Olivia walked into the room going straight to her imprint, Andrew. Olivia has been my best friend ever since I came here, she helped me through the whole Sam situation, but if she knows which one is Sam, or even Emily, she might go off on them and I'm trying not to start a fight, they are only here for a few days and then I never have to see them again. But God knows I'm not that lucky.
"Hey, Livy" I say before anyone tells her who she is standing next to, "Can you help me get the food together? We have about twenty werewolves to feed."
"Sure thing hon." She says sensing that something up. As soon as we get into the kitchen she bombards me with questions. "Okay, so what is going on? What are you hiding? Oh my God! You know them don't you? Sam was out there, wasn't he? What are you going to do about…" she let her voice trail of not wanting the werewolves with super hearing to hear what she was about to say.
"Nothing is going on I just needed help and I'm not going to do anything. They are only here for a few days. Now don't try and start anything, let's just get through this. Okay?"
"He is out there! You didn't deny it. I am going to kick his ass." Olivia says trying to walk out of the room. I grab her arm and hold her back, but she continues to struggle.
"Who do you thinks going to win, a human or a werewolf? Stop struggling and listen. If you truly love me you will behave, okay? And since they can probably here you, you should be especially nice to them." I say gathering the food to bring out. "Grab that tray and bring it in the dining room" I walk into the dining room and everyone looks up. This is going to be a long few days.
Sam's POV.
I can't believe I didn't recognize her scent. I use to be able to smell her in a crowded room a mile away and now I can't even smell it when it's all over this guy a foot in front of me, but I think I did know who it was, I just didn't want believe it was her all over that guy and where he said his imprint would meet him. What made this guy so special that he got to imprint on my Lee-Lee? I wanted to see her, to hold her. But I knew I couldn't, she finally has her happily ever after, I can't ruin it for her, I love her too much to cause her anymore pain. Then all of a sudden I felt a pull from upstairs. It was so strange, kind of like an imprint's pull, but stronger, if that was possible. I wanted to go upstairs and see what was there, but I didn't want leave, I wanted to stare at Leah forever. The kitchen door swung open and a girl walked out, she looked like she was about seventeen. The girl walked over to Andrew and hugged him, but before anyone could say anything Leah spoke.
"Hey, Livy, can you help me get the food together? We have about twenty werewolves to feed." I forgot how beautiful Leah's voice could be when she wasn't trying to piss anyone off.
"Sure thing hon." She says following Leah into the kitchen. As soon as Leah left the room I missed her, I wanted to see her face again. God what was wrong with me, I had an imprint. We could all hear tem talking in the kitchen.
"Okay, so what is going on? What are you hiding? Oh my God! You know them don't you? Sam was out there, wasn't he? What are you going to do about…?" I wonder what she was talking, but I didn't say anything, wanting to hear what Leah was going to say in response.
"Nothing is going on I just needed help and I'm not going to do anything. They are only here for a few days. Now don't try and start anything, let's just get through this. Okay?"
"He is out there! You didn't deny it. I am going to kick his ass." Olivia says, I hear footsteps walking to the door, then I heard more movement, Leah must have moved to Olivia and grabbed her arm. At this point we have all slowly moved to the dining room.
"Who do you thinks going to win, a human or a werewolf? Stop struggling and listen. If you truly love me you will behave, okay? And since they can probably here you, you should be especially nice to them." I hear glasses clinking; they must be bringing the food out. "Grab that tray and bring it in the dining room" I hear the doors swing open and look up, just like everyone else. Leah starts to put out all the food and Alex goes over to her. Every time I see a guy near her I want to hit him, but I know I have no right to feel like that, I'm the one that left her.
Leah's POV.
Alex comes over to me while I'm setting up the food.
"Hey, sorry, I had no idea who they were until they got here and I tried to call you, but you wouldn't answer your phone."
"Whatever Alex, it doesn't really matter now does it?" I don't mean to sound angry, but it comes across like that. "Did you really have to bring them here?"
"Sorry, I didn't know what else to do." I don't know what to do so I walk away, but Alex grabs my arm.
"Al, I really don't want to talk about it. I just want to get this over with before, well you know."
"Where's Rory?" he asks, I was about to get mad at him for using her name, but they don't know who she is.
"She's upstairs cleaning up." I say trying to make her sound like one of the maids.
"Why don't you come and eat and relax, no one's here, your off work."
"I don't know, there isn't a lot of food." I say wanting to get out of there.
"Andrew's not really hungry, you can have his." He teases, Andrews always hungry. Andrew looks up food in his mouth already and flicks Alex off.
"There aren't enough seats." It was kind of an excuse but there really weren't, but of course Alex won't let it go. He takes my arm and drags me to the table, sitting down and pulling me onto his lap. To other people it must look weird, but it was completely normal for us. We just had the relationship where we hugged and couldn't stay mad at each other. He was like a brother to me; we even kissed each other, like a brother would kiss a sister. Speaking of brothers…
"Where's Seth?" I ask for the first time noticing he isn't there. Wow, I feel bad I didn't even notice my brother wasn't there.
Sam POV.
I wanted to attack Alex when he pulled Leah on his lap, but I knew it wouldn't be fair to do anything. So I just sat there and watched my Lee-Lee in someone else's arms.
Jacob POV.
"Where's Seth" Leah asked
"Oh he will be here a little later, he was on patrol the night before he left and wanted to catch up on sleep. If he would have known you were here he would have come." I tell her, knowing she wanted to see her brother. "I could call him" I offer.
"No, I don't want to wake him; I'll talk to him later."
"So why is everyone so tense?" the kid named Ryan asks the question that everyone wanted to.
"We are just some old friends of Leah's" I say glancing over at her, she shoots me a smile and I grin back. She's sitting across the table from me on Alex's lap. She has changed so much, the last time I saw her she would have never even thought of doing that, but she looked really happy. "I still haven't gotten a hug yet." I say kind of teasing her, but I also wanted to see if she would give me a hug. She smiles and gets up walking around the table; I get up and hug her and she actually hugs me back, and not just one of those half hugs, but a real hug.
"I've missed my beta." I told her.
"I've missed my alpha." She told me back.
After that it was like the year apart never happened. I pull out a chair for Leah to sit in next to me and we all talked, Embry told Leah about the motor shop the pack set up to get some extra money. It was really nice. I hadn't realized how much I missed her until I saw her again. It's almost impossible not to care about the real Leah, when she is being herself she is nice and selfless, I bet she would still risk her life for Emily, even after all that has happened.
Finally I got the courage to ask a question I wasn't sure how Leah would take. "So are you and Alex… Well you know… together?" I look back and forth between them and they are both smiling. I see Sam looking at Leah to see if it were true or not. Even if he imprinted he still loves Leah and is jealous of Alex because Alex can have her and he can't, hell even I'm a little jealous. "So, are you?"
"No, were just friends." Leah says.
"Really, it doesn't seem like it." Quil looks away from the sleeping Claire in his arms, once she wakes up no one will be able to talk to Leah. Leah was always the fun aunt that spoiled her and took her shopping, while Emily was the stricter aunt. So I bet you can guess who Claire liked more.
"We are just friends." Leah says again, trying to convince everyone else. "He has an imprint, so we are defiantly just friends."
"Wow Leah, what's up with you and Alphas that are about to imprint?" Paul says being his normal jackass self.
"Okay ouch." And that's all she said on the matter, I think it shocked us all, even Alex's pack.
"God Lee-Lee, you've gone soft." Alex says using the nickname Sam use to and Leah just smiled at him. A year ago she would have bitten your head off if you called her that, but now she just smiles. Leah may have changed more than any of us could have thought possible. She's finally moving on. I smiled at her. I looked over at Sam and Emily who are the only ones who have been quiet the whole time, Emily looked like she wasn't sure what to say and Sam looked hurt that Alex used his nickname for Leah and Leah excepted it.
"I'm going to go and get another drink." Sam announces standing up, probably trying to get away from anyone.
"I got it Sam." Leah says for the first time addressing Sam. "You don't even know where it is." Leah says grabbing the cup.
"Thanks." Sam says knowing he can't win an argument against Leah. Leah walks into the kitchen, and then we hear footsteps coming down the stairs, everyone looks over; the Inn was suppose to be empty. A little girl comes down the stairs. She has black curly hair that comes down to her shoulders, she's really small, and she is very skinny and has a huge smile on her face. She has smooth copper skin, so you can tell she is Native American. The girl just sits down and begins to play with her doll in the middle of the dining room. I look over at Alex to ask who she was, but Alex, his pack, and their imprints were all staring at either the girl or Sam trying to figure out what to do. So I just look back at the girl who doesn't seem to notice anyone is there except her.
Sam POV.
I turn around to see a little girl walking down the stairs. Once I see her I feel a strong pull trying to force me towards her. I don't understand it, but I get up and go sit on the floor with the girl. She looks up and smiles at me, I don't know why but her smile makes me feel happy. I can't help but smile back.
"What's your name?" she asks me.
"Sam. What about you?" I ask, for some reason I want to know everything about her.
"Lorelai, but you can call me Rory. Want to play with my doll? My grandpa got it for me when I wasn't even born yet, but he's up with God now in heaven watching over me. Mommy says he's like my guardian angel."
It was apparently going to be very easy to get her to talk. She just kept on rambling about school and her friends, and for some reason it all fascinated me. I didn't imprint, but something was tying me to her. I hear a crash behind me and turn around. Leah is standing in the door way, a glass is broken at her feet, her eyes looking straight at me.
"Mommy, what's wrong?" the little girl asks. I turn around to see who she is talking to. The little girl is looking straight at Leah. She runs over to Leah to make sure she is okay. Leah finally snaps out of it.
"Honey stay there I don't want you to cut your feet on the broken glass." She says to the girl. I'm not sure what to do. This little girl looked about five, which would be about the time we were dating, but how did I not know she was pregnant. Then everything clicked, a couple months after we broke-up she went away to another high school, her parents said it was because she needed to move on and she couldn't if she saw Emily and me together all the time. When she came back she spent most nights out and always looked tired, everyone assumed she just partied a lot, but what if she was going to the Makah reservation ever night taking care of her daughter. How did she control herself when she first phased, not letting it slip. Leah was still staring at me waiting for my reaction, as was the rest of the room, but the only person I looked at was the girl, who seemed to be oblivious to everyone.
Leah's POV.
I poured the drink and walked back into the dining room. Rory was on the floor playing with her doll and talking to Sam. I froze, dropping the drink; it shattered on the wooden floor causing everyone to look at me. Sam looked over at me, I wasn't sure if he had figured it out yet, but he would pretty soon, so I should be the one to tell him. I was about to say something when Rory talked.
"Mommy, what's wrong?" she had a huge heart and normally it would be a good thing but right now I was hoping she would keep her mouth shut. She was about to walk over to me when I realized she would cut her feet on the broken glass. My motherly instincts kicked in.
"Honey stay there I don't want you to cut your feet on the broken glass." Rory stopped and I began to clean up the glass occasionally looking at Sam who was frozen in place, I assume figuring out if Rory could be his. Everyone in the room was silent.
"We need to talk." Sam finally says walking over to me and dragging me by the arm to the kitchen.
"I would have come willingly. You didn't have to drag me." I say trying to relieve the tension a bit. It didn't work; Sam just stared at me waiting for me to begin.
"Okay, I know you are probably really angry with me right now, but let me explain."
"Explain?! How are you going to explain keeping my daughter from me? I didn't even know you were pregnant." Sam yelled at me, I'm glad no one is in the Inn; I would have a lot of guest complaining. "And even if you have a reason for not telling me you were pregnant, you had five years to tell me something. Did she grow up thinking I was dead or something? Now that I know you can't keep her from me."
"Excuse me, that girl out there is my daughter, you don't even know her name and you're demanding me to let you see her. That's not how this is going to work." Everything he said you seemed to make me angrier. I could feel my body shaking, I was about to phase. Great, it's been about six months since I phased and Sam comes here for one day and ruins everything. I can hear Alex passing in the dining room, probably debating whether to come in or not.
"You would really keep my daughter away from me." Sam asked in a quiet voice. I look up and see the pain in his eyes, I know how he felt, when I first had Rory my dad tried to get me to give her up for adoption and it hurt just thinking about not having her.
"Lorelai. Her name's Lorelai."
Sam looks up and our eyes connect and smiled. "You always did like that name." he said referring to the time we talked about having kids, my favorite names for girls had been Lorelai and Samantha. "So what do we do now?" he asked.
"I don't know." I say truthfully, not sure where we go from here.
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