Chapter Two

Sam

I wanted to slap Cole upside the head. Cole sat right on the couch with Isabel and started making out with her.

"Sam?" Grace taped my shoulder as she looked into my eyes. I knew what she wanted and I didn't know what to do about it so I just did it. I kissed her. She was the most beautiful thing I ever saw her laying on the back of the couch with her brown eyes sparkling eyes from the lights of the Christmas tree. Her blond hair lay just perfect on her shoulders, like she was a model. She smiled at me, and I smiled back.

"I love you Sam," she whispered in my ear.

"I love you more than anything," I whispered back into hers.

"All righty then, we should just have a kissing party." A voice said from the hallway. I knew who it was, Ulrik. He always likes to snoop, and he always did like to snoop.

"Why don't we" Cole said with a handful of sarcasm.

"Cole shut up." Grace said

"This is interesting, Cole St. Clair sassing back at the guy who lent him fifty five dollars for gas last week." Ulrik snapped back to Cole.

"Hi I'm Isabel, who are you?"

"I'm Ulrik"

"Wonderful so you must be one of the ex-wolves that Mr. Genius saved."

"Precisely,"

Isabel kept talking to Ulrik and Cole kept getting upset that she was ignoring him but Cole was trying to ask her one important question.

"Isabel?"

"Yes Cole."

"Not that I don't enjoy you, but why are you here."

"Oh, college was full of B-I's" she said "Girl kept steeling all the guys and when a guy walked over he was either a teacher or a nerd."

"I understand, "Cole didn't understand but it made him feel good to have Isabel think that he cared.

Grace

I sat back and watched the whole time since Ulrik had walked out and then he left, and Cole started asking stupid questions about Isabel and college. While they were jibber jabbering Sam reached out and grabbed my hand that was on his knee. He kissed my palm and then held my hand firmly, like a big storm was coming and he didn't want to let go of me. The storm had passed, my parents think that I'm living with Rachel, the Culpepper's killed most of the wolves so they are pleased because they don't have to deal with them, and Sam, Cole, Ulrik, Paul, a few others, and I aren't going to turn into a wolf now that Cole gave us all that shot.

Ever since everyone found out that Beck died, they have been in mourning. Not the black clothing kind, the kind that ex-wolves have, you get every picture you can find of the person that passed away and you put them all around the house. So Beck's face and a few other wolves that I didn't recognize were put all over the house. Not even one picture of Shelby was on the walls, which made Sam very pleased.

Officer Koenig stopped over once in a while to see how we all are. The last time he came was last week and him and his family brought Christmas presents for everyone. His wife flipped when she saw Cole, she made him sing a song for her so she knew it was really him. She almost fainted when Cole started singing. It was probably the best gift Cole could have gotten, a woman in her thirties love a twenty one year olds songs. There kids were so cute they had a little girl probably about eight named Karen or Virginia, a little boy about five and his name was John, and then they had a newborn baby boy, his name was Sam. That touched Sam's heart when he heard the baby was named after him. The wife wanted to name her that and Officer Koenig said he liked the name.