AN: I don't know why I'm not sleeping, but I'm not, so here's another update! YAY! I think everyone will enjoy this and I am moving along with this ending as well, very nicely. Enjoy!

Chapter Forty One

Sophomore Steps

After the graduation party debacle out lives seemed to calm down, well as much as they could. There was always the possibility for vampires to find their way into our land but the pack always handled it. Willa and I settled into the college work easily. We only took a class a semester at the actual college, just because Quil and Seth were always nervous when we left the Rez. Into our sophomore years things were getting a lot easier for all of us. Willa was eighteen now and I was almost twenty. Dana was working on her master's degree now and we were all trying to work out our issues with our mother. So far we would see her on weekends in Seattle, sometimes our father would join us but there was still some contention with our mother. Quil and Seth would never trust her again and I really couldn't blame them.

We still lived with Jeff for the most part. I knew he kept waiting for me to move out, since I was getting older but Quil was still living with Embry and Lena and that would be uncomfortably tight living quarters. He used our house as a safe haven to get away from them. Of course things are always changing around here.

"Lena's pregnant!" Embry called out as we were all sitting in Nessie's house, watching a movie. I was curled up on Quil's lap, Willa was buried in Seth's side and Nessie and Jake were spread out on the other couch.

He was positively excited but Lena walked in behind him and smacked him upside the head.

"Are you sure this time because apparently it happens a lot." Willa commented.

Embry held up an ultrasound picture that didn't look very definitive except for a distinctive hand. "So either that's a baby or someone left something in your uterus." Willa said with a smug grin.

"I'll hurt you." Lena growled.

"Congratulations." I said as I stood to hug Embry and then Lena, who accepted it begrudgingly.

"Now I have to deal with her pregnant?" Quil asked almost looking scared.

"No idiot, I'm not dealing with you while I have a mini wolf growing inside of me, we're moving into our own place." Lena said crossly.

"Oh my god I think I love that kid more than anything else right now." Quil said dramatically. I laughed at him.

"Can you help? I got the place down the road from you that was selling." Embry said quickly.

"I'll move you all in now." Quil offered.

"Lets go!" Embry called out happily motioning Jake and Seth to follow.

Willa released Seth begrudgingly while Nessie was already cooing over Lena's still flat stomach. They left us quickly and Nessie moved Lena to the empty couch and started asking a long list of questions.

Lena diverted all of them by looking over at me. "So are you ready?" She asked with a grin.

"For what?" I asked confused.

"To move in with Quil? He's been waiting for us to leave to ask you." She answered.

I paused to think about it and it all made sense. I really didn't have reason not to, we spent a lot of time together any way. What difference would it make if all of my things were at his place and we actually got to share a bed without my father having a heart attack? "Yeah," I said surely.

"Good, just to warn you, he is a slob." She said seriously.

"I've noticed." I chuckled.

"They all are." Willa commented, making everyone laugh.

We all talked imprint, college and just all around girl stuff until they returned two hours later with a smile on their face. Embry grabbed Lena and hugged her. "We're moved in!" He called out happily.

"Good, let's go christen it." She said as she pulled him out of the room, making Quil shudder.

"It's not my house anymore, I don't care." He told himself as he dropped down next to me.

"Guess that just leaves us without kids." Seth said thoughtfully.

I looked over to Nessie, who looked a little forlornly as she cuddled against Jake when Willa spoke up. "No kids, for a while." She said surely.

"Last thing this world needs is the offspring of Willa Asher." Jake commented.

Willa threw a pillow at his head while everyone laughed.

After the movie with everyone we all split up. Seth drove Willa home, Jake and Nessie went to the store to pick up food and Quil drove me to his place so I could see what it looked like without all of Embry and Lena's things.

The house looked so much bigger now that it was missing everything but the dining room table, a couch and the TV. He looked happy to have everything so simple. "Looks bare." I said looking at the walls.

"Looks clean." He tried to correct me as he took me to Embry and Lena's old room. He opened the door but didn't go inside. "I still need to disinfect it." He said with a sure nod.

I laughed at him. The bathroom was next to empty too since it was only Quil there now. I started to wonder if he would ask me to move in since he seemed to like the place so empty. He took me into his room, which was less cluttered now that he had more space to spread out and held me at my hips.

"How do you like it?" He asked with a grin.

"Its quiet." I whispered.

"That's my favorite part." He murmured to me as he leaned down to kiss me.

I smiled against his lips and held his arms to keep myself vertical.

"What are you going to do with the place all to yourself?" I asked laughing a little.

He looked at me confused. "I don't want it just to myself, I was hoping you'd want to share it with me." He said almost hurt a little.

I pulled away a little so I could look up at him without feeling completely like a child. "You want me to live with you?" I asked as a clarifying statement.

He nodded a little. "Unless you want to stay with Jeff." He replied quickly.

I stood on my tip toes to kiss him to stop him from talking. "I think I'd like to move in with you." I said with a smile.

"Really?" He asked excited.

"Really." I confirmed with a nod.

He made a cheerful noise and grabbed me and spun me around while he kissed me.

It didn't take that much longer for me to be fully moved in. My dad was happy, especially since I wasn't moving that far away like Dana did. Willa was glad to have one less person to share with and one more place to crash at.

There was no party or big fuss because I didn't want one and before I knew it was our first night in our place. His mom had given her blessing along with my dad and I think she was secretly ready for grandchildren, which weren't going to be happening anytime soon.

We had decided on his bed for the time being because it was bigger, but he would be buying a new one as soon as he could. I was fine with the way it was for the time being. It was odd to take a shower with him in the house and just change into pajamas without looking around for anyone to see me without pants on.

He was laying in his bed, watching TV, while waiting for me. I had to braid my hair and do everything in the bathroom because I wasn't fully comfortable with being naked around him. Which was stupid since it was just clothes, but I hadn't been with a guy before.

He smiles at me when he sees me leave the bathroom and I shut the bedroom door and jump in bed next to him. He's only wearing boxers and I don't mind if he's naked because I like him naked. He turns the TV off and rolls onto his side to look down at me.

"Feel like an adult now?" He asked with a wink.

I laughed at him. "Not really." I said shaking my head.

"You never really do, that's the secret, paying taxes just makes you cold and stony." He said painfully.

I laughed and him again and kissed him. He knew it was strange for me and he was making it as easy as possible. He rolled me onto my back and kept himself propped up on his elbows while he kissed me. My hands started to explore like they normally did and so did his. When his fingertips touched the tops of my thighs he stopped for a moment then shook his head.

"What?" I asked confused.

"I forgot that we're not in a house with other people." He murmured before he went back to kissing me.

To be honest, I expected it to happen sooner, but since we were never really completely alone somewhere, it didn't. But before I knew it I was out of my t-shirt and he was toeing off his boxers. Not much later we were both naked, my legs were coiled around him and I was positively begging for him.

It was a stark contrast from never having been touched before to having your soul mate have sex with you and I didn't even have a moment of hesitation like I thought I might. We were in our own place now and I was over eighteen, well over eighteen. It was time.

All of the horrifying advice I got from the others helped because when he pushed himself inside me I had taken in a deep breath and was as relaxed as possible, because he was massive. I cried out and clawed at him but that didn't do him any harm. It took some time before he even moved again but when he did he knew what to do.

I don't know how long we went at it but when we both met our finish I felt like I didn't have any more muscle control left in me and Quil was breathing hard.

"Why didn't we do this sooner?" I asked in a huff of breath.

Quil laughed and rolled over to kiss me and held me close. "I don't know, but I say we schedule this for the morning as well." He told me playfully while he nibbled at my ear.

I stretched a little and molded myself against him. "Agreed." I sighed and fell asleep to the sound of my wolf's heavy breathing in my ear.

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