The New Girls

Chapter 9

It was morning already as Clay and I woke up. We both turned again last night into humans falling asleep only a few feet apart. Once we fully were up we made our way back to the house. We found our clothes tucked away so we quickly got dressed. I ran inside hoping that Alex was alright when I got inside everyone was in the living room already.

"Hey, what's going on? Did Alex make it?" I questioned.

Olivia and Nick's face said everything. Alex was dead, he didn't survive the change. I fell to the couch as the whole pack stared at me. The only thing I hated more than loss was pity so I ran back outside away from all of them. Nick followed me engulfing me into his hug. I fell against his body forcing us to fall to the ground neither one of us caring. We just laid there in the morning sun as I came to terms that my brother was dead.

"Babe, are you gonna be ok?" Nick asked lovingly.

"Yeah. I'm just so tired of losing my family." I admitted snuggling closer to Nick's chest.

"I'm so sorry you had to experience this loss again." Nick comforted me.

"I love you." I said knowing Nick would always be there for me.

We got up with Nick being first. He pulled me off the ground as we headed back inside. I went into the living room to face Jeremy.

"Sweetheart, how are you doing?" Jeremy asked.

"I will be fine, I only want to know how we can cover all this up because my other brother deserves to say goodbye and I need to be able to tell a convincing story?" I inquired.

"Well I have a few friends that work in a morgue about three towns over so he will do the cover story. I will handle it, you just take care of yourself right now." Jeremy insisted.

"Ok." I replied heading to Nick and I's bedroom.

I curled up on the bed cover myself with a blanket and drifted off to sleep. When I woke the house was filled with scents of different foods. I slowly sat up allowing my senses to adjust. I looked out the window for a minute or two as the sun began to fade away in the sky. Nick came into the room realizing I was awake he came up hugging me from behind.

"Hey babe, dinner is almost ready so Jeremy wants us downstairs." he whispered.

"Okay. Be down in a minute." I replied walking towards the dresser.

There was a mirror above the dresser so I grabbed my brush lightly pulling my hair through it. I reapplied some lip gloss and rubbed off the remaining mascara then I made my way downstairs. Jeremy had made a full ham dinner with many different sides it almost looked like a Thanksgiving feast. We all sat down with Jeremy at the head of the table.

"Ok, so we all know that Carter has had a loss in her family but she also gained all of us not that long ago. We will help you get through this the best we can. We all also know that there is someone targeting werewolves specifically those of the pack. All of us need to watch our backs in the coming days. On a more positive note it is the twelfth, in two short days it will be Olivia's birthday and shortly after that comes Clay and Olivia's wedding so we need to focus on only the positive." Jeremy said, "now dig in please." he finished.

We all started grabbing food from the table transferring it to our plates. We started conversation of all kinds. Logan was explaining that when werewolf males are born they turn when they are sixteen but no one had any clue about girls. Clay smiled at Olivia and I knew that they wanted kids but it was a bit early to think about that. They only thing I could think of as he told the story was about my miscarriage which I didn't really want to remember.

"Ok, now onto the parties everyone knows Jeremy agreed for one of them to be hosted here so Carter and I decided that she'll have her wedding here but I still want everyone to come to my parties which will be held at different places." Olivia started. "My birthday will be at our apartment in Maine. My bachelorette party will be at any club we can find in Vermont being that the wedding is being hosted at my brother's house." Olivia continued.