Dusk

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 - A connection

I woke up to the sound of kaylie and Justin talking quietly and the movie credits rolling. I must of fallen asleep I realize and I snuggle deeper into Justin's chest keepin my breath even and pretending to be asleep still.

"So why do you think that's okay?" Kaylie ask Justin and I fill him stiffen. I frown a bit but then keep my face blank remembering I'm supposed to be asleep an Justin and kaylie are in the middle of a conversation. "Because I love him." he whispers to her and I hear kaylie shift to look at us.

"I love him too and I'm telling you... If you really loved him you guys would break up. You know how much crap he'll get when people find out about this?" kaylie asks feircly. And Justin growls at her and she gasps shocked. "Is that a threat?" He says through his teeth and kaylie was quiet for a moment then finally spoke. "It's not a threat but sooner or later one of you will slip up weather it's in a public place or at school and I guarantee you don't love him enough to pick up the prices like I will." Kaylie whispers and Justin relaxes against my body and I. Feel his face bury into my neck.

"I guarantee I love him enough to do that." He say finally an my eyes begin to flutter as I pretend to wake up and he strokes my cheeks. "So beautiful," he murmurs and I look up into his navy blue eyes about to say something but his dad tony calls out. "Dinner!!" I blush and climb off of Justin standing up and stretching. "I think I gonna go now kaylie squeaks an I frown. "How are you gonna get home?" I ask and she shrugs. "I'll call my brother, and If he can't my home is just like two miles down the road." She says evenly and hurries out the door.

I frown again as Justin gets up. "I think I freaked her out." He admitted and I looked up at him questioningly. "Oh don't pretend you were actually asleep." He mutters pinching my cheek adoringly and I chuckle blushing. "Come on guys get your lazy butts out here!" Erik calls and we bound into the dining hall and I gasp.

Usually I ate with just the alpha branch but now there was at least 40 people, or um werewolves all chattering amongst themselves. "Dang." I mutter and take my place between Justin and Remy. On the other side of the table were tucker an Erik who were in a deep conversation about the pros an cons of different martial art moves and I chuckle thinking that they were both weird. The wolves all go quiet as tony jumps up to toast the meal.

"Hello family and, er, guest." He say looking at tucker. Tucker blushes and tries to make himself look as small as possible being embarrassed. I grin tony hadn't referred to me as a guest which meant he considered me more then that. Erik reached out an touched Tucker's shoulder and then pulled his hand away smiling at him.

I wondered what tucker thought of all these people in this room and I study his face a moment trying to decipher what he was thinking. He was obviously clueless about them all being wolves and tony father kept note of that as he began his toast. "Anyway I just wanna say I'm glad I have a chance to sit down with family an enjoy a meal before summer begins and well..." He trails off smiling to himself. "That's when things get difficult."he says trying to explain it in a way that everyone understood what he meant except tucker.

"We all won't be back after summer and that pains me but I just want to say I love you all and you always have a place here." He says firmly and everyone claps raising the glasses and clinking them together as tony says down. "Let the food be eaten!" He says laughingly and then servants pour out of the kitchen carrying tons of dishes setting them in the table.

Tucker's eyes widen and he bites his lip looking down and not eating till everyone else had grabbed something. He tenderly grabbed a biscuit and a chicken leg nibbling at it gently and Erik look at him surprised he hadn't grabbed more seeing as how his plate was filled to the brim. All of ours were even the women and children except tucker. I bite my lip.