SPOV
Ten days after we moved into the house, Leah started her senior year of high school. Four days after that was her 18th birthday. Paul drove us to the courthouse, all wearing our Sunday best. My mom, Seth and Sue were waiting for us there. We were not expecting them.
"You thought we'd miss this?" Sue asked, hugging Leah. "I don't know everything that happened between you two and your dad, but you need to know we still love you and we still want you in our lives." Sue said, running her hand along Leah's long black hair. "Daddy does too. He's been devastated since you left."
Leah didn't say anything. She just hugged them.
I said, "thank you for coming." Sue hugged me and Seth gave me a firm handshake. That kid was getting tall.
The whole ceremony was done very quickly. We used vows that we found together on the Internet. Then I had a wife. My beautiful wife.
"Let's get some pictures and then I want to take everyone out to eat to celebrate." Sue announced.
"I'll cancel my date for that." Paul said, then sent out a text to cancel his date.
"Thank you, Sue, that would be nice." I said, squeezing Leah's hand.
She had us go to a nice restaurant in Port Angeles, La Bella Italia.
"Do you guys want to tell me why this had to be done now, on your eighteenth birthday, while you still have a year left of high school?" Sue asked after we all placed our orders.
Leah still wasn't talking.
"Harry didn't tell you anything?" I asked.
"No. He's just been moping around the house. He's barely said a word since you left, Leah. He hasn't even been fishing."
"I feel like it is his story to tell," I said, "which I admit is odd since we're the ones getting married, but he kept a lot from us and we had no choice. This wasn't how I was planning to marry your daughter, Sue, but there was a chance that it was now or never and I couldn't risk losing her."
"So you're not telling?" She asked.
"Maybe eventually, but right now, I am not at liberty to say." I said firmly.
My mom spoke up, "they'll be fine. They love each other more than you and Harry did when you got married and you guys are fine."
"She's my daughter, Allison. I'm going to worry."
"I'm not." My mom defended us. "I see what kind of man he is and what kind of woman Leah is. It's obvious that they are right together. They will make this work, whatever their reason for the odd timing."
Sue huffed, "Fine. How's school going, Leah?"
Leah finally spoke. "It's only been two days but my course load is pretty light this year." I looked at her quizzically. I thought she was taking a full load. "And I'm going to keep working part time at the diner."
"On the weekends?" I asked. Weekends were sacred to me, to us. I wanted her to have at least one day off on the weekends so we could be together. I thought we had agreed on that.
"No, they're letting me have weekends off, baby. But I'll be pulling full shifts on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings."
"I thought that was just for last week. What about practice, Lee-lee? Those sports scholarships are worth more than what you'll make at the diner."
"You know that I'm staying." She whispered to me. The moms heard.
My mom went first. "I thought you two were going to college together when she graduated. Now she's not going either? That is not ok, Sam. What are you going to do? Work construction for the rest of your life? That's stupid."
"How can you say that you're staying?" Sue bit into Leah. "After all your dad and I have done to support you, buying equipment, going to games, helping you study. You're going to throw that away! And Sam doesn't even want you to throw it away, so why are you?"
"Mom, he can't leave the rez." Leah tried to explain it calmly. "You'll have to ask Daddy for details because it's not our story to tell but Sam is stuck, kind of like a curse. And I'm staying with him. There's no life for me out there without him. There never was. You know that."
The food arrived just then. Everyone ate in silence for a while. No one knew what to say.
Then Paul struck up a conversation with Seth. "You're a freshman this year, right Seth?"
"Yep."
"What sports do you play?"
"Basketball and baseball."
"No football?"
"No, mom is worried about head injuries."
Paul laughed. "Yeah, I got a couple of those in my time. Sam too. But we turned out fine."
"I'm not sure everyone agrees." Seth said, nodding to his mom.
"Fair." Paul said, smirking.
We ate in silence for a minute until my mom said to Sue, "He still calls her Lee-lee. Isn't that cute?"
They were both smiling like it was an inside joke. Sue nodded.
"Why's that cute?" Leah demanded, a little on edge. "He's always called me that."
The moms both laughed.
"Why's that funny?" I asked.
"You couldn't say her name, Sam," my mom said. "You were only a year old when you started calling her that. It started out as 'Yee-yee.' It was one of your first words. You said 'mama' first, I remember that. But you said her name before you said 'dada' and your dad was pissed. Everyone else thought it was adorable."
"Except Harry," Sue laughed. "He was pissed too."
"What did Leah call me?" I asked, looking at her sweetly.
Sue and my mom looked at each other. Sue said, "She just called you 'Sam.'"
"But she must have pronounced it incorrectly?" I probed. "Called me 'Tham' or something?"
The moms both shook their heads. Sue said, "Nope, she just called you Sam."
"It must have been pretty important for me to get it right," Leah teased. I scoffed. Like her name wouldn't have been important to me too!
After that, we all talked about the mundane: my mom's exercise room, improvements on the house, school and work at the construction company. Paul and I worked together so we always had a few funny stories to share.
LPOV
I knew Sam was mad as soon as we walked into the house. He was trying to suppress it, trying to just enjoy our first night as newlyweds. He was kissing me and it was almost violent how tight he was holding me.
"Stop," I said. "That kind of hurts."
"Oh. Sorry." He sat on the couch that Paul had found for free on the side of the road.
I straddled his lap. "You're mad. What is it?" I asked. I had a good idea of what it was, but I needed him to tell me. We needed to communicate.
He took a deep breath in. "Why are you taking a light course load?"
"Because I only need three credits to graduate."
"And why are you dropping track?"
"So I can work at the diner."
"And why do you want to work at the diner?"
"So I can pull my weight around here."
"That's why I'm mad, Lee-lee. I don't want you giving up your future for me. I don't want you giving up your senior year for me either. I want you to have a full life. I want you to have all the opportunities that I'm losing. I want to live vicariously through you."
"But that's not what I want! I'm three months younger than you Sam. We've always been on the same page. I mean, fuck that spirit chosen soulmate shit! We know who we are to each other. And I want to be on the same page as you. I hate that I'm in high school and you're out. I mean the standing plan was that you'd put off college to stay with me until I was ready. I was ok with you losing a year to be with me. Now the plan has flipped, so I'm rushing through senior year to catch up to you. I'm perfectly happy doing that."
"But I'm not."
"I know and it pisses me off. You'll sacrifice and sacrifice and sacrifice until you're boiling the skin off of your hand to make me pasta, but you get mad whenever I make any sacrifice for you."
He held up his hand. "My hand is fine." He said. "None of my sacrifices are real because they're powered by this wolf magic. None of it feels like a sacrifice to me. What you're doing feels like a really big sacrifice."
"But you can't stop me." I said in a teasing way.
He groaned. "No I can't, which is why I didn't even bring it up."
"You were just going to angry fuck me?"
"That was the plan, but now I can't even do that because I was hurting you."
"I think you've calmed down enough to try again."
"Mmmm." He licked his lips. "We can try again. Take off your panties before I rip them off."
I stood up and slowly pulled off my shirt, then my skirt. I carefully unclasped my bra and let it drop down my arms. Then I lowered my panties, inch by inch until they reached my knees. Then I dropped them and stepped out of them.
I sat on the picnic table bench. "Your turn." I said. "Strip for me."
SPOV
She was on. She gave me a strip tease and now she'd get one from me. I got on my hands and knees and crawled to her, keeping her eye contact. Then I slid forward on the floor on my knees. I started to unbutton my shirt, teasing it open little by little with each button.
She was licking her lips now. I also wanted to lick her lips but I wasn't done with my little show yet.
Then I stood and ground my ass on her stomach and she was giggling. I turned around and rubbed the crotch of my pants into her cheek, then smoothly took three steps back.
I was moving my body to the rhythm of non existent music as I continued to unbutton my shirt, slowly exposing more of my abs, which I knew were nice looking. When I got to the bottom button, I pulled the shirt open all the way, then let it slide off of my shoulders behind me.
She was looking at my chest like she'd never seen it before. And she smelled so aroused. But I wasn't done with my fun yet.
I unbuttoned my pants and my erection threatened to break out but I kept it in place. I lowered my pants just an inch over one hip, then jumped and spun 180, my butt facing her. I looked over my shoulder to maintain eye contact but she wasn't looking at my face. I inched my pants down just as she had done with her panties. I stepped out and strode toward her.
She stood and jumped on me. Our lips crashed together and she had my cock between her labia, rubbing up and down furiously. It felt so nice.
She was my wife!
I tipped my hips just right and I was in. She held onto my shoulders and I held her ass so she wouldn't fall but she was controlling the movement. She was bouncing on my dick where I stood, bringing me in so deep, tightening her legs around me each time she crashed down on me.
I started to move her body too, pulling her hips up up toward my chest then gently dropping her a few inches to create that delicious friction on her clit.
She was screaming my name. She was coming. I went fast and hard and brought her to the bed so I could finish with her on top of me.
LPOV
He fucked me hard and he lay with me on the bed.
"This isn't resolved, you know," he said.
"I feel like it is."
"I disagree." He said. "I want you to have a full course load and I want you to do sports."
"Are you going to be one of those domineering husbands who wants their wife to be submissive all the time?" That was a bitchy thing for me to say and I knew it right when it left my mouth.
"No, Leah," he spoke so gently it shamed me. "I'm one of those husbands who talks to their wife about their disagreements until they come to an understanding."
"How can I make you understand that this is what I'm choosing?"
"I don't want you sacrificing for me."
"I'm not, Sam," I finally confessed. "I'm doing it for me, ok!"
"What do you mean you're doing it for you?"
"I need a vehicle." My head was on his chest and I was drawing squares with my fingers on his pec. I was glad we weren't face to face when I said this next part. "I feel … I don't know, stuck out here with only a bike, claustrophobic almost, but not exactly. Isolated maybe. But trapped too because I can't get that far on my bike without it taking forever. I want to buy myself a car."
"Oh. Why didn't you tell me? I could have helped."
"Because I knew you'd bend over backwards to buy me something and I didnt want that. And I looked into it and it'll be way cheaper if it's just my car, like if you aren't on the insurance at all."
"Yeah, that's why I've never cared too much about having a car. The insurance is crazy expensive for guys my age. Now I can run faster than any vehicle. So with your car, you might take classes at the community college in Port Angeles?" He looked so hopeful.
"I'm not planning on it. I was actually thinking of working in the special education program at the rez school next year."
"Like, working with kids with learning disabilities?" Why did he sound excited about that? He was so weird sometimes. I love him so much for that.
"Yeah, I wouldn't need to get my college degree for some of those jobs. The pay isn't great but it would be good hours and I'd feel like I was doing something with my life."
"I really like that plan, Leah."
"What about you, Sam? Your Mom's right. You can't work construction forever."
"No, I know, but with the wolf thing I can work in construction for a long time."
"You mean because you heal so fast?"
"No, well yes, but also because I won't age while I'm phasing."
"What?" Stunned. I was stunned.
"I'll stay physically this age until I stop phasing."
I lifted my head up so I could look him square in the face. "Sam, how long have you known this?" I demanded.
"Jared figured it out from one of Old Quil's books. He told me yesterday."
"And you didn't tell me before we got married?"
"Would it have changed things? Would you have turned me away?"
"Maybe. No, probably not, but I might… I don't know. You should have told me. So if you keep phasing for twenty years, you'll look twenty and I'll look forty? You should have told me."
"That will be so hot," he said.
"Me being forty and you being twenty will be hot?" What the fuck was he talking about? "You'll leave me for a younger girl! They'll be throwing themselves at you!"
"Leah, you can't believe that. That's so gross to even think that I would leave you, ever. I've been thinking about the whole imprinting thing. I'm not sure it's even going to happen to me. I know that we are soul mates, Lee-lee. I'm not willing to bet our happiness on the spirits agreeing with me, so I'm glad we're married, but I've known you were it since we were four."
"But if I look 40 and you look 20, you'll look like my kid! I want you to look like my husband."
"I will look like your husband because I'll be your husband and that's what I'll look like." That was Sam logic if I ever heard it.
"Shut up. You knew this would make me mad."
"If it was the reverse, how would you feel?"
I thought about it for a minute, really considering it. I'd feel amazing. I'd feel so secure with him, that he would always want me. "Sexy. I'd feel sexy."
"That's how I feel. But I'm not planning on phasing for twenty years. The Cullens usually only stay in one place for about five years at a time."
"You could have led with that!"
"Well I can't guarantee I'll be able to stop then. Paul found vampire trails in the national forest. They weren't fresh and they didn't match the Cullens scents. They went towards Forks and scattered. I'd guess they were a few months old."
"When did you learn about that?"
"Also yesterday. We had a pack meeting."
"Here?"
"Not in the bed! In the living room, while you were hanging out with Seth."
"Why didn't you tell me last night?" I said, looking up at his face.
"Well, I wanted to hear all about your afternoon with Seth. And because I wanted to lock you into this marriage first." He grinned at me and I knew he was kidding. "Honestly, I knew you wouldn't like that anti-aging stuff and that you'd overthink it and question things right before we got married, but it changes nothing between us. Nothing."
"So you wanted me to be stuck with this hot body for decades?" I was running my finger along his abs.
"Forever. I want you with me forever. And Old Quil said that our body temperatures would always run high even when we're old. So yeah, this hot body is yours forever."
I could see that he wanted to kiss me. I wanted to kiss him too, to reassure him that we were fine. So I scooted up his body and I kissed him. I ran my fingers through his hair and he rubbed his hands on my ass.
"I still think about that yellow dress sometimes," he said out of nowhere, "the dress you wore when I kissed you for the first time."
I knew the dress, the one I wore to homecoming dance my freshman year. "It doesn't fit anymore," I said. "I'm too tall so it doesn't cup my ass like that at all."
"Did you bring it? Or did you give it away?"
"I brought it. I brought all my clothes"
"Can I see it on you?"
"Why?"
"It's a fantasy of mine, fucking you in that dress. It has been for a long time."
"Why didn't you say anything? I could've indulged that fantasy while it still fit me."
"I wanted to lock you down, Lee-lee, before I let my freak out."
I laughed at that. "Before you let your freak out? You shapeshift into a giant wolf. If that's not letting your freak out, I don't know what is."
"Can you get the dress?" he growled.