"Oh, no, but we share something in common."
"Oh yeah, what is that?"
"The same father, Joshua Uley. My full name is Mason Abigail Uley."
CHAPTER 2
"Holy shit!" Selena exclaimed, as she stared at her dumbfounded.
Seth just rolled his eyes, and Jacob smacked her upside the head again.
"Ow! Jesus Jake, haven't you smacked me enough today?"
"Apparently not," Sam answered.
Jacob glared down at Selena and whispered in her ear, "You can trust me when I say that if you can't keep control of that tongue of yours, that you will be getting a lot more smacks from me today, and I don't mean simply upside the head, understood?"
Selena scoffed, "Whatever, I believe that my reaction was completely reasonable."
"Excuse me; did you not just comprehend what I said?"
Selena tried her best not to roll her eyes and somehow pulled it off, "Yes sir, I understand," She whispered.
Mason started to smirk. Everyone looked over at her questionably.
"Mmm sorry, but I can hear you perfectly. You're really not that far from me," said Mason.
They stared at her quizzically. If they were speaking in a human frequency, they would have understood; but they weren't, the frequency from which they were speaking only those of the canine persuasion could hear.
"Mason, have you noticed that you have been able to hear a lot of things much more clearly as of lately?" Sam asked.
"About a month now, why? What does that mean?"
Sam didn't answer; he was caught off guard and fell into his thought for a moment or two.
Selena blushed knowing that she had heard Jake's warning.
Seth laughed, "I'm enjoying this, I like her too."
Selena tried to glare at him but she couldn't help but smile, "Shut up," She said pushing him away from her.
"Did you know about this?" Emily asked.
Sam shook his head, "No, I had no idea."
"So… you have good hearing, so I'm guessing you have a tail and paws then too, fur, super speed, are ravenously hungry, and pretty on edge moody sometimes like you just wanna…" Selena started.
"Selena!" Sam yelled.
"What, what did I do now?" She asked.
"What if she doesn't, and then what are you going to tell her huh?" He asked.
"What don't I know, tell me what?" Mason interrupted.
"Well what if she doesn't?" Sam said.
"But she does," Selena answered, "Don't you?"
They turned to Mason, who looked clueless. Well what's the point of saying what if, if I do…" Mason said, "Sorry, what am I supposed to know?"
Selena laughed trying her best to change the subject, "Now, I really definitely like her," Selena said pushing Seth away who had been trying to hang on her since he laughed at her expense, to go stand beside Mason, "WHAT IF we ended up being best friends?"
Mason smirked, "Ya, never know."
Mason started to like Selena as well; but, she was doubtful of ever being good friends let alone best friends. Growing up she always had other girls accuse her of stealing her boyfriends or simply being jealous of her due to her stunning looks. She kept to herself pretty much, she had dated plenty but never committed to anyone, boy or girl.
"Oh my god this world is coming to an end…" Jacob said, with wide eyes.
"What do you mean, why?" Sam asked confused.
"There are two of them…" Jacob explained, "We can barely handle one troublesome teenage little sister, and now we have two."
"But Sam's my only brother… I mean besides…never mind," Mason said.
"No you don't understand it's like a buy one get one free deal," Selena began explaining but then she whispered as low as she could, "except sometimes you kind of won't even want the first one, so good luck."
"We heard that," Jacob and Sam answered in unison.
Selena shrugged, "Oh well, anyways moving on…"
"No we're not moving on," Sam said.
"Wait why aren't we moving on?" Selena asked.
Sam sighed exasperated, "Because you don't even realize the seriousness of what just happened!"
"You mean finding out you had a sister?" Selena asked.
"No!" Sam ran his hands through his hair clearly frustrated, "Excuse us for one second," Sam pulled Selena into the other room, and she followed reluctantly, "Don't you see what you've just done?" Sam asked Selena, "This is a complete family secret; she doesn't know about our secret what now huh?"
"Oh the wolf secret gotcha," Selena put her hand on her head and thought for a second, "Shit, she doesn't know does she? …hmm we should probably go with… haha just kidding, I watch a lot of scary movies, something along those lines."
"I don't think so, she knows something because she didn't freak out when you asked her about having a tail and all that… but I don't think she knows everything. I don't think she knows what we are," Sam said.
Selena sighed, "Well how the hell was I supposed to know that?"
"How many times am I going to have to warn you about your mouth today, this is your last warning, so knock it off," Sam chastised, "If it wasn't for you running your damn mouth we wouldn't be in this position right now!"
"Sorry, okay so let's just tell her?" Selena asked.
Sam shook his head, "No, there's too much going on at once right now, we're not ready.'
"So game plan then?" Selena asked.
"Let's just get her to tell us everything she knows, we'll have to start with that, and go from there," Sam said.
"Okay, got it," Selena said, and they both walked back to the other room.
Emily quickly noticed how irritated Sam was with Selena when they walked back in the room,"How about we move this back to the couches, it seems like we have a lot of talking to do, so we might as well get comfortable," She said wrapping her am around Selena and leading the way, "And you should probably sit here and try to keep your mouth shut, I think Sam's burning though his last nerve really quickly."
Selena nodded and sat down. Mason, Paul and Seth sat on opposite sides of her and the older brother's sat across from them, with Emily. Paul was close to speechless the entire time. He just kept smiling at Mason and stealing glances at her every chance he found.
"So what did you mean by 'besides' when you were talking about me being your only brother?" Sam asked.
"I have a stepbrother, but trust me he's not important," She said.
"Why do you say that?" Sam asked.
"I don't really want to talk about it…" Mason said.
"It's fine sweetheart you don't have to, go on with the rest of the explanation," Sam said.
Mason nodded, "It was about a month ago after I mentioned to my dad about my hearing. I was doing my homework at the kitchen table and my, I mean our dad came in to get another beer and just sat down and started babbling about his past and random things. He talked about people who turned into wolves and how I could hear a lot better than others because of his side. Then he told me about you. He said I had a brother named Sam and he regretted leaving you guys. He mumbled something else then passed out."
Sam gave Selena a quick meaningful look obviously confirming their theory of how much she knew, before moving on so no one else would notice, "So he knows where I live?"
"No, he was no help there, I had to work all that out myself," Mason said.
"And how did you manage that?" Sam asked.
"I did my research."
Sam looked at her curiously.
"Well we know she's smarter than Selena, because she at least knows what research is," Seth commented, making the others snicker.
She elbowed him in his ribs and he grunted, "I know what research is, I just don't like to do it, there's a difference."
"Not grade wise there isn't," Jacob muttered.
Selena rolled her eyes, "Can we let the girl continue?"
"Thank you," Mason answered.
"No problem," Selena said, "Anything to get them off the never-ending subject of my grades."
"So how exactly did you get here then, if you didn't run that is?" Jacob asked.
"I just saved up some money, and hitchhiked," She explained.
"Cool," Seth and Selena said simultaneously.
Mason smiled but her smile turned into a frown at her brother's words, "That is extremely dangerous, why would you…"
"I can take care of myself. I know what I was doing," Mason snapped defensively.
"Yeah like that excuse ever works with these people," Selena said, "Been there, tried that, if you're going to live here you're going to be treated like a kid ninety-nine percent of the time."
Mason never expected to ask Sam if she could move in. She made really good money as a dancer and figured she would just move to Las Vegas and get a place on her own.
Emily could tell that Sam was about to argue about the seriousness of hitchhiking so she quickly interfered, "Honey why don't we skip this part and move on, she doesn't know yet about any of your rules or what you consider to be dangerous."
Sam nodded, "Sorry, so you said you saved up money…"
"What did you do steal it from your dad?" Seth asked.
"Seth that's rude, you and Selena both need to keep your mouths shut," Jacob warned.
"Yes Sir," Seth answered.
Selena threw her hands up, "What? I didn't even say anythi…" She quickly shut her mouth but crossed her arms though at Jacob's warning look. The one that clearly said don't test me right now.
"I didn't steal it, I worked for it," Mason said.
"Where did you work?" Sam asked.
"At this club not far from where we were staying," Mason answered.
"And what did you do there?" Sam asked.
Mason had a feeling he wouldn't like her answer, but she figured it was better not to start a relationship off with her older brother based off of lies, "I danced… exotically…topless; BUT, I had body guards and none of the guys were allowed to touch us." Mason added quickly hoping that would somehow make it all okay.
The room got silent so Seth tried to break the mood, "Selena does that too sometimes, but I don't pay her."
"Seth!" Selena yelled, even more shocked that he had just said that than about what Mason said.
"What the hell is wrong with you!?" She screamed.
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