Okay, so there definitely wasn't enough votes to do any kind of Christmas special this year and I honestly couldn't make the time for it even if there had been enough votes. I'm sorry to the five of you that voted, I will try to make it up to you in the near future.

Can you guys believe this is the twentieth chapter? How crazy is that! And we could have been much farther along in the story if I updated more, but I am pretty much unable to manage time and I have far too many days filled with writer's block. I am truly sorry that I can't update more. Thanks to VballBabe44, fredforevermyluv, Lizard, and the guest reviewer for submitting reviews. You'll get your answer soon enough, guest ;) Anyway, on to our story!
Chapter 20

Seth p.o.v.

I had kept a close eye on her all week, just making sure she made the transition back to school as smoothly and painlessly as possible. She was doing well and had gotten all her homework done, her teachers had understood completely and had allowed her some slack, the teachers on the rez were always like that. They were used to us being gone for amounts of time and assumed it would be the same for Josy and Mike quickly.

I was beginning to understand the whole imprint thing much better now; all of the guys had spent so much time daydreaming about their imprints during patrols and runs. How they looked, felt, smelled, and some other slightly unsavory things I tried not to think about. It was the same with Josy, just a little bit more innocent. I'm still a teenage boy, don't get me wrong, but I'd like to think that I'm a little bit more respectful than the other guys in the pack. Especially Jared. Oh God. I did not want to think about him and Kim and just...no.

And when she looked at me, oh my God, did it make me feel golden. Like I had gotten all "A's" and I had won a race against Jacob and just everything good put together. She made me even happier than just living and being a shifter did. And those two things made me pretty damn happy.

I looked at my watch and smiled. It was almost two o'clock, almost time for us to hang out. I had asked her to a movie, it was about time we got away from the craziness that was the rez and forks. And the pack, of course. That was where the real crazy was. Especially with Paul and that vamp that made an appearance. Kept making appearances. I sighed, it worried me to end that he would come back and make a grab for Josy. I got up and off of my bed, then made a move for the door of my room so I could go and find Leah.

"Hey, Leah!" I called out, I heard my mom in the kitchen, making her lunch, but I heard no Leah.

"Seth, your sister went out," My mom poked her head out of the kitchen, then her body soon followed. "What do you need?" She asked with a caring look in her eyes.

"I was just going to ask if I could borrow her car, I wanted to go to the movies with Josy today, as an official first date type thing..." I trailed off, she smiled knowingly at me and wiped her hands on the dish towel she was holding before she set it down on the kitchen table.

She took my face in her hands, then hugged me really tight. "I can't believe you've grown up so fast, and you're going on your first date with her," She put her hand to her face and her eyes got a little glassy right before she almost made me cry. "I just wish your dad was here to meet her, I think they'd get along well." She sighed just barely, but enough to make me feel her sadness at my dad being gone. "You can take my car," she jangled the keys and tossed them to me, then she dug into her purse and fished out her wallet. My eyes went wide, I didn't need any money for this, I had my own and I didn't want my mother to give me any of her hard earned cash. She did enough for me as it was. "And treat Josy to a nice dinner, okay?" She tried to push the money into my hand but I wouldn't let her.

"Mom, you don't need to give me any money," I pushed her hand back gently, "I got this," She nodded a little and smiled.

"Just let me do something for you once in a while, kid, huh?" She rubbed my shoulder just a little and sent me out the door with a melancholy smile still on her face.