A/N: First off I'd like to give the ultimate gigantic thanks to PerfectTwo, JessiD.x, nene82743, lovesong101 and PinkVeeBerry for reviewing. If I could invent my own word for your guy's awesomeness, I totally would. :)

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"Why would I open it?" I asked and I could hear my voice shaking.

"Uh, to see what it says. That's what you normally do with letters," He said mockingly.

"Shut up Sam, you're not helping anything," I said snarling. "I'm not opening the letter."

"If you don't open it, I will."

"It's MY mail!" I shouted at him, "I am pretty sure that's illegal."

"I'm your brother, so I'm pretty sure you wouldn't try and get me in trouble. Even if you did, I am Alpha, I trump you and I doubt any of the elders would pursue your claim."

I laughed bitterly and walked away from him taking a deep breath feeling my arms shake. "Jacob's alpha too Sam. And if I don't remember correctly, he's Billy's son who trumps everyone."

I looked over my shoulder and saw his fists balled up by his sides and I could practically feel the anger radiating off of him. "I won't be playing these fucking games with you, but don't tempt me," I said surprised with the calmness in my voice.

I carefully watched him as he walked over to my couch and practically threw himself on it landing with a big sigh. "Listen, I have to leave for work in a little over an hour and if I do decide to read this, it'll be after my shift. Nobody knows about this letter except you, Quil, Alyson and Emily so don't tell anyone. And don't phase and let all your little 'cubs' find out either because I will personally hunt you down if they find out before Jacob."

"Cubs are for bears," Sam muttered.

"They apply for wolves too."

"They do not," He said defensively.

"Well you know what Sam? Sometimes you guys just remind me of overgrown rabbits. So you should be grateful I'm comparing you to bears and not those."

"I hate you," he sighed looking down at his hands and I felt a pang of pain in my stomach. I definitely wasn't stopping to think how this whole situation was affecting him as well.

Cautiously walking over to the couch I let the letter fall to the coffee table and sat next to him on the couch. "When I got the first letter Sam, I made the choice to not open it and not tell you about it for a reason. I have no idea why he's sending me these letters. But if you want to open the letter, I'll let you make that choice this time. Just try to consider why I made the choice I did."

He looked at me and I saw the hurt and confusion in his eyes mixed with anger and I couldn't help but feel the same emotions.

"But, we will not talk about this for the rest of the night until I get out of work. Frankly, I have a ton of math homework that's due tomorrow and unless you feel like pitching in like the awesome big brother you are, it's going to take me until I have to go to work to finish it."

"You're not going to learn if you don't do it yourself," He muttered.

"Well how am I going to learn if I do it and fail it anyways?" I asked skeptically crossing my arms.

I carefully watched him, his chest was rising up and down fast like he had just ran a long time and his hands were shaking as he fisted them in his hair.

"Sam," I whispered and he looked at me and I felt a sharp pang in my stomach. "We can open it now."

"No, you said you wanted to wait and-"

"Don't start acting like the good Samaritan because it's what your head is telling you is the right thing to do," I said sternly. "Either we open it now or not at all."

Before I could blink, Sam reached over the coffee table and picked up the envelope. "You open it," he said blankly not looking at me. "It's your letter."

I gingerly took the letter from his hand and could feel my heartbeat in my throat. I looked down at the envelope and saw it shaking in my hands, my stomach roiled like I wanted to throw up and I realized this was it.

I realized I needed to stop being such a wimp in front of Sam and open the damned letter.

I flipped the envelope over and stuck my finger under the edge ripping the envelope at the seam. I opened the top of it up and looked inside and saw a single sheet of paper and I wanted nothing more to go throw it in the toilet and flush it away for forever.

"We don't have to do this," I whispered looking at Sam waiting for him to take it from me but he never did.

He didn't say anything. Leave it to be that this is the one time Sam actually keeps his mouth shut.

Breathing in a deep breath and not letting it go I took the piece of paper out of the envelope and slowly unfolded it. Finally letting go of my breath I looked down at the letter to see what it said.

Dear Jaelyn,

And dear Sam because I'm sure he's reading this also.

Considering I didn't get any reply on my last letter I figured you either didn't open it or you guys just didn't reply out of your own selfishness. I was hoping you guys were raised better than that. I know I taught Jaelyn better before she decided to hike out on me.

Anyways, since both my kids are back in their hometown where their true heritage is, mostly Sam, I decided to I'm going to stop by and pay a little visit. You'll be seeing me soon. After all, it's the fatherly thing to do.

Josh

I only read the letter once before I threw the letter at Sam and stood up, "I'm going to work."

"Wait," Sam ordered reaching up and grabbing my wrist before I jerked it away from him spinning on my heels to face him.

"What Sam?" I growled.

"You're not going to say anything? Nothing?"

"There's nothing to say," I said surprised at the calmness in my voice.

"Bull shit there's nothing to say!" He yelled stepping closer to me. "He's coming here!"

"Oh," I said raising my eyebrows and widening my eyes. "So that's what the letter meant!"

Sam rolled his eyes and turned from me running his fingers through his hair letting out a bitter laugh. "Don't act like this isn't anything Jay."

"It is nothing," I said sternly walking around so I was standing in front of him knowing I was lying to try and make myself feel better. "He is nothing but a scum bag and I'm positive he's only coming back because he needs money or somewhere to sleep. It's only going to affect you if you let it."

"Don't act like you aren't affected by it Jay," he whispered dangerously at me. "This is going to affect everyone; my mom, Emily, Jacob, you, me."

"Whatever Sam," I snapped walking away from him to go in my room and grab my uniform; I'd change into when I got there.

"Jaelyn don't walk away from me!" He shouted.

"What do you want me to do Sam? Do you want me to hold you and tell you it's going to be okay? Or do you want me to cry with you and wish he wasn't coming? I understand that he's coming and hell's going to blow over when he does. I understand this isn't going to be easy for everyone to handle but I don't know what to do about it. And until he comes I refuse to acknowledge he actually will because if there's one thing I know about Joshua is not to believe anything that comes out of his mouth until it actually happens. So if you don't mind, I am going to work early and after when I get out if you want to talk about this calmly I will."

I grabbed my black pea coat jacket and stormed out of the house and jogged to my car, trying to impossibly escape the cold.

I didn't drive to the café shop right away; instead I took a detour to the auto shop Jake was working at. Today was his short shift, he only worked four hours, but I was hoping it'd be slow enough that he could come out and talk to me quickly. Thankfully the owner of the shop was an elder on the council so if Jacob needed to leave all of a sudden he understood. I pulled up to the shop and saw his rabbit in one of the garages and smiled. I think the part Jake loved most about this job was the ability to order all the parts he wanted.

Just as I turned the engine off in my car Jake walked out of the shop and I had to remind myself to breathe. I just don't think I could ever get over how beautiful he was; all six foot six of him.

I watched him through the windshield as he smirked, showing just the littlest glimpse of his perfectly white teeth and I couldn't help the smile that grew on my face as I stepped out of the car and wrapped my arms around his waist.

"I see how it is; you just couldn't stand to be away from me this long, could you?" He asked kissing my forehead and I pinched his side.

"Oh shut up Jacob," I laughed shaking my head.

"What's wrong?" He asked looking out into the woods suddenly then turning his gaze back on me.

I heard Sam howl far away from us and shuddered. "Um," I stuttered realizing that now was not the best time to tell Jacob how I got the letter last week but didn't tell anyone but Emily, Alyson, and Quil. I don't think he'd like the second part. "We don't have the time right now to tell the whole story but, but I got a letter from Joshua today saying he was going to come down and visit."

I felt Jacob's body stiffen underneath my hands and I dared myself to look up at him and saw the anger in his eyes before it suddenly shifted to sadness. He kissed me on the lips, "I'm sorry love."

"Jacob!" One of his coworkers, Duke, shouted from inside the garage. "We got a home call that you need to go to."

I sighed and rested my head against Jacob's chest feeling the warmth radiating off of him as I head him sigh.

"Be right there," He shouted back in his deep voice.

"I'm heading into work early but….."

"I'll see you when you get out. I'll either be there or waiting at your house, kay?" he said softly rubbing soothing circles on my back.

I nodded and reached up on my tip toes giving him a quick kiss. "Love you Jacob."

I watched as he grinned widely, "I love you too."

XXXX

As I drove to the café I couldn't help but think about how I was going to tell Jacob about the first letter. I knew he was going to be angry with me for not telling him and I almost wished I would have just opened it.

I couldn't help but laugh at the irony of the whole situation. I always wanted what I thought I was never going to have, a family. And now that I had it and more, I was stressing over my father butting himself into the picture.

I knew I was harsh with Sam, but I honestly didn't know what to do or say.

One thing was for sure; the first thing I was doing when I got to work was throwing a turbo shot into my coffee.

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