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Here's chapter 47..

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Leah4Life

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Beth's Point of View

Everything was ready..

Jess had called yesterday, telling me that she would be here tomorrow.. So I made sure the guest bedroom was ready, and set it up so that Leah and Sam would come over for dinner tonight with baby Josh.. Now I was in the kitchen making dinner and humming a Lula by..

"Hey, you." Seth said, walking into the kitchen..

"Hi, Seth." I replied, not looking away from the stove.

"Ha.. You are distracted." He said, laughing.

"Yeah.. A bit." I stated, still not looking away.

"It's going to go fine! Stop worrying." Seth said, in my ear.

"I know, I know. I just want everything to be perfect." I told him..

"Yeah, well everything will be perfect.. Now calm down." He begged.

"I am calm." I stated.. I was.. Just overly exited. I finally looked away from the stove and smiled at him. "I'm just so exited!"

"I know, honey.." He kissed me.

"Sorry.. I don't mean to neglect you." I said, laughing.

"Yeah, well.. I guess I'll survive." He said, laughing.

"I hope so.." I said, laughing.. "Cause when she leaves... You won't be getting me away from you." I kissed him and he laughed..

"Yeah.. I'll survive for the aftermath." He promised.

"Thanks."

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The door bell rang at five and I hopped up knowing it wouldn't be Sam and Leah (they weren't coming until five thirty..).. "I got it!" I yelled up the stairs to Seth, who was changing clothes.. I smoothed my sun dress and then went to answer the door.

"Oh, Jess." I cried, when I saw her. Had she really gotten taller? She had always been tall, tall as the wolves.. It never had made any sense to me. I guess somewhere in her there was this recessive were wolf jean that effected her height, but not her actually being a wolf. Huh.. Not cool. It would've been nice to have another female were wolf.

"Beth." She sqealed, hugging me.. She let go and beamed at me.. "I can't wait to meet Seth.. This is so exiting.."

Just then, Seth appeared at my side, looking dashing in his jeans and a white polo.. "Here, let me get that for you." He said, taking her bags out of her hand.

"Thanks." Beth said, smiling at me.. When she thought Seth wasn't looking she mouthed, "He's cute," at me.. But I know Seth saw it, because a big smug smile crossed his face. I just smiled at her and pretended not to notice Seth's big grin (unlike Jess, who was now blushing and looking at the ground.).

Seth took her bags to the guest room and I sat down on the couch beside Jess.. "So." I said..

"Yeah, guess what?" She asked, a big grin a lot like Seth's appeared on her face..

"What?" I asked, smiling.

"Jeffery came back." As she said this, Seth walked into the room his grin completely gone.

"What? When?" I asked.

"The day you left, he came stumbling in.. Then by lunchtime he was gone. He didn't say much the whole time.. But it's always good to see him, to know that he's okay. I often worry that he's out there hurt and alone... But there's nothing I can do. His 'little visits' are what keeps me sane." She told us.

I felt Seth's guilty gaze burning into my head, but I kept my eyes locked with Jess's. "So. Did he say where he was going, when he left?" I asked, slightly worried.

"No, you know he doesn't tell us.. He never did. Every time he comes, he goes so soon without a word. He doesn't even say goodbye." Her smile was gone, replaced by a broken frown.

"Oh.. Sorry about that, Jess." I said, frowning myself.

The door bell rang and Seth went to get it.. "Who's here?" Jess asked, smiling again.

"Seth's sister Leah, her husband, and their newborn baby Josh." I told her.

"Oh, yay. I love babies." She said, beaming now.

"Me too." I stated remembering Seth's words from the other day.. '"One day, angel.. One day"' I smiled to myself as I saw Seth holding the baby (I'm sure the second he opened the door he pried the poor baby from whichever of his parents that had been holding him.) fallowed by an frowning Leah (she must have been holding the baby, and now she's mad at Seth.. Always funny!) and a laughing Sam (he was having fun watching Leah being mad..).

"Alright, time for introductions." I said, smiling at them.. I stood up and walked over to Seth.. "Jess, this is Seth, you probably already figured that out, but anyway." I smiled at Seth and then turned to Leah.. "And this is Leah, Seth's big sister.." I continued, turning to Sam and smiling. "And this is Leah's husband Sam." I sighed, before walking over to the little baby in Seth's arms.. "Give him here." I said, laughing at Seth's torn expression.. After a moment he gave the baby up and I took him over to Jess.. I sat down on the couch holding him, and then smiled at Jess. "This is Josh Matthew, Leah and Sam's little newborn baby." I explained..

"Aw. He's so cute. How newborn is he?" She asked.

"Two weeks." Leah said, now smiling at her little baby boy from across the room.

"He's precious." Jess commented.

"Yeah." I answered, quietly.

"Can I?" Jess asked..

"Sure." I said, handing her little Josh.. Josh was giggling and squirming in his little blanket.

"Aw. He's so cute." She said, again.

"Um.. I'm sorry about your brother." Sam said, from beside Leah. I looked up at him amazed.

"What do you mean?" She asked, looking up. She understood why I would say sorry.. But someone who really doesn't know her. That didn't make any sense to him.

"Er.." Sam looked from me to Seth and then back again, searching for a way out of this hole. He thought we told her. Crap. "Well, Beth told us that he's a drunk and that he came back to town just as Seth and her were leaving.. That's bad." He said.. That would have been a good save. If Jess didn't think that I just now found out about that.

"I thought you just found out?" She said, looking over at me.

"Well, no.. I heard him in the forest that day. But I didn't know when he would get around to actually coming into town." I explained to her..

Her eyes were suspisious and I had the worst feeling that we would have to tell her. "Something is going on here and I want to know what it is."

I looked over at Seth, frowning deeply.. "Um.. Leah why don't you take the baby." I suggested.. Leah took her little baby and held him to her chest.. "Well, you see something happened." I told her.

"What?" She asked, frowning.

"He showed up here." I told her.. Her eyes bugged out in surprise. "He fallowed us.. And well he showed up in my room and was drunk and well I threw him out the window, I was trying to scare him.. Make him go home, but it didn't work. He showed up another time when Leah and I were on the beach. Seth had warned him, but he wouldn't leave.. He wouldn't leave me alone and so.. He killed him, okay? Only because he loves me.. So please don't be mad at him. He was trying to protect me." I told her, eyes glistening. I didn't look at her, I looked at the fragile pink flowers on my dress.

"Let me get this right, he fallowed you here." She asked.

"Yes." Seth answered for me.

"Showed up in her room." She asked, addressing only him now.

"Yes."

"She threw him out the window, trying to scare him."

"Yes."

"He wouldn't go away.. So you kill him."

"Yes.." Seth answered, frowning deeply.

"Great." She said, standing up and leaving the room.

Aw. That sucked. :( I hate that ending... Something good will happen next. I promise. :) (BUT I HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF IT YET!)

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