DAY AFTER

He woke up the next morning around 8:30 and slowly got out of bed trying not to wake Lauren. He found his boxers and walked to the bathroom. She was up and moving when he came back.

"morning." she kissed him lightly, he wrapped his arms around her waist.

"morning." he said quietly still taking her in. in his room, his clothes, in his arms, and just his. She wiggled out from his arms walked to the bathroom door. "are you coming?" she asked when he didn't follow.

"save water, shower together." was all Greg said as he walked to her. Neither Greg nor Lauren were wearing much clothes, so getting into the shower was a quick maneuver. After washing their hair she turned to face him. He looked even sexier when wet. Lauren ran her fingers through his hair, and then over his perfectly chiseled body. He leaned his head down to kiss her.

Lauren was the first out, and she wrapped herself in a towel and waited for Greg, handing a towel to him when he stepped out. "thank you." he smiled at her.

Lauren and Greg were down stairs watching TV when a sudden pounding on the door startled them both. Greg got up to get the door.

"Lauren." he called "its Josh." Lauren used her wolf speed and was there in a second.

"Lauren your dad needs you."

"why?" she asked

"your mom is in the hospital, she messed with the wrong person and he shot her."

"'wolf?"

"yes, older so he really couldn't change." Greg looked at her. "Greg can come." Josh said, so at that they left.

She found her dad in the corner as soon as saw her he said "she's gone Lauren." then he did something very uncommon thing.. He hugged her. And she strangely obliged.

Werewolves were trained to control their emotion but Chris seemed like he had been crying. He held on to her until the doctor came out and explained all kinds of things.

Finally he noticed Greg beside me. "oh, dad this is Greg

"hello sir."

"hmm… very polite." then Chris walked away.

"polite is that good?"

"very good."

"then its probably not very polite that we had sex now is it?"

"well he doesn't need to know about that one." he smiled and wrapped his arms around me.

It took about an hour before I could really go home, but Chris stayed. I told him I was going to be staying a Greg's, he said it was fine.

During the ride to his house he stated "you don't seem that upset that your mom is well…. Dead."

"yeah, I hated her with a passion, so I'm not going to act any different now." he seemed surprised

"I know it seems cold but its what it is." I explained to him.

"alright." he simply said.

We didn't bring it up again in the next two weeks. And I was pretty sure that Greg was fine with that. Chris was fine too. He'd gone back to Maryland to tell some people there. No one at school new about my mothers death and I was fine with that. And finally I'd meet Greg's parents, and the constant fear that he was going to be killed was over. All in all everything was fine.