Chapter 46
"Hello?" the sleepy voice that answered the phone was my mom's. I sighed, I had wanted to talk to Seth not her but now I was forced into a conversation. How could I let her off without hurting her feelings?
"Hey mom, it's Leah." I muttered, trying to keep my voice cheerful.
"Leah! I'm so glad to hear from you! How is everything?" She said excitedly.
"I'm doing great mom. Um," I paused. "I actually called to talk to, Seth. Is he home?"
"Oh." My mom murmured flatly, clearly disappointed. "Yeah, he's in. Hold on."
I tapped my fingers impatiently on my knee while waiting for Seth to come to the phone. Finaly, after what seemed like forever, Seth's musky voice filled my ear. "What's up sis?"
I was overjoyed for a minute that I was the one that got to tell him, I'd have to thank Jake later. "So Jake didn't tell you?" I asked, checking.
He paused for a second. "Tell me what? Leah what's going on?"
"Is mom still there?"
"No, she went back to bed.' He said quickly, voice filling with concern. "Leah, when did you talk to Jake? What's wrong?"
I had to laugh at the protective edge in Seth's voice. "Nothing's wrong, Seth. Actually, everything's right." I paused for a second, drawing suspense. "I imprinted today."
"What!" Seth's booming voice banged against my ear drum.
"Shhh! I'm keeping it from mom for right now! Try to keep your voice down!"
"This is great, Leah! But who is he? When do I get to meet him?" He sounded like an overly concerned father and I had to swallow a hard lump in my throat at the memory of my dad.
"Well, this weekend will probably be the best for you to come down, Seth. But you've kinda already met him, he's that guy you ran into while helping me move in."
"The pizza guy?"
I growled at his joke. "No, Seth don't act like an idiot. The guy who wanted to help you guys bring the boxes up."
He laughed. "I know who you're talking about, Leah. I was just messing with you. Me n' Jake will be down this weekend then, possibly Embry and Quil."
"Wait, why are all of you coming? I thought it was just you." I was suddenly very worried that he was planning something stupid.
"I need reinforcements, Leah. Got to show this guy that if he messes with you, he messes with all of us."
"So you're planning to scare him?" I sighed.
"Yeah, who would want to mess with four guys that could each take down five world class cage fighters singlehandedly?"
"You think highly of yourself don't you?"
"Hey you could take down a couple cage fighters too Leah. You may be the weakest in our pack but you could still bag a couple rogue newborn vampires."
I growled. "I'm the weakest, eh?"
"No offense, just stating the truth." I growled again. "Hey that's a good thing, right? Means your all feminine and stuff."
"It's time you stopped talking, Seth before I do something I might regret in the morning." I replied flatly.
'Sorry." He apologized. "So me n' the pack will see you this weekend? "
"Try to limit it to just you and Jake but yeah, I'll see you this weekend."
"Love ya, Leah. I may be acting like an overprotective jerk but I really am happy for you."
"Thanks, Seth. Love you too." And then I hung up.
"Hallo mijn liefde." Kaase greeted cheerfully after work the next night. He had a goofy half smile plastered across his handsome face.
"Excuse me?" I laughed.
"It's Dutch." He laughed with me. "It means Hello my love."
"Oh." I replied dumbly. I had learned Quileute when I was younger but it wasn't spoken much in my house so I didn't remember much.
"Are you ready to run?" He poked me in the side playfully.
"Always." I breathed relief. My muscles ached for the upcoming thrill. "If you need a break or anything just tell me, and I'm not joking."
He chuckled, "Ok." We picked up a steady jog towards the park; I matched my pace with his.
"So I hope you don't mind," He began as we ran under the same trees we stood below the night before. A light dusting of snow covered their branches. "but I filled up your Sunday afternoon. I hope you didn't have any plans."
"Not for Sunday, no. What are we doing?"
"Well I told my family about you last night and they are eager to meet you." He peeked at me from the corner of his eyes, but kept his face forward.
I laughed. "No that's fine, as long as you don't mind meeting my brother and some other people on Saturday."
"Other people?" he wondered.
"Well… he might bring the pack with." I stuttered slightly.
"Oh." He said simply, his eyes got a little wider.
"I was just kidding, if you don't want to meet them all at once I can call Seth and tell him to come by himself."
"No its fine! My family might be more dangerous than them." He tried to joke lightly.
"Maybe, but don't worry I'll protect you." Wow that was the wrong thing to say.
He laughed anyways. "And I promise to protect you from my family."
I couldn't believe how easily he took everything. He barely flinched when I had told him what I was and now I was introducing him to the entire pack and he didn't seem to mind. I sighed contently and relished the easy jog we kept as we went around the pond, the lights dancing off its waves like fireflies. Could this get any better?