Touch in the Worlds - Return to the Beyond

This is a Chapter I finished early so I could post it today.

I'm moving!

Yeah, so that means that it will take me some time to set things back up but I wanted to get this chapter across to you folks!

Hope you like it!

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The drive with Sam was not at all what I expected.

For the record, I had no idea what I expected but it was certainly not Sam playing oldies stations on the radio and humming along with both windows down. The salty wind of the approaching sea made my hair billow around my head and I had a sudden urge to do the whole movie thing; in which the heroine puts her head out the window and swishes it, making the hair flow in waves.

I quelled that particular urge. I was pretty sure if I did it I would look like a golden retriever – or a pit hound.

However, I did not curb my natural urge to ask questions.

New Moon may have been a huge book but the author had a tendency to write a lot but not give away much information. Well, I could get all the info I wanted straight from the source.

They were very willing sources too.

Sam told me about the first time the Elders had told him about the Shift, the tribe stories, making and leading the Pack since Jacob wouldn't shift for quite some time. I didn't ask about Leah or Emily; I didn't feel like that was first meeting topics to discuss.

Jacob was tinkering around in his garage when Sam dropped me off, a brooding expression on his usually happy face. Billy had to go to another Elder's meeting so Sam dropped me at the back. "So, I was wondering; say the big bad wolf meets a young frightened girl in the woods, would he naturally revert to the Red Riding Hood syndrome?" I asked, taking measured steps towards him.

I didn't want to startle him and make him Shift.

He turned to look at me with an eye roll.

"I should've known they couldn't keep you away from here for long." He said.

"Yeah, I'm kind of hard to hold back." I grinned.

"Like a rabid dog," he said, standing up, folding huge muscular arms across an equally muscular chest.

I squinted at him, raising a finger to point at him, "I would watch who I call a rabid dog," I said. He caught the finger, dropping our hands between us as he raised his eyebrows challenging at me. "Christ, Jacob, you're huge, no, you're like a mammoth." I said.

"Am I supposed to take that as a compliment?"

I nodded fervently and he rolled his eyes again, sighing and rubbing his neck.

"So, I can't check on you but you can just march into the reservation? That is just so unfair!" he groaned.

"Are you jealous that I'm getting the VIP treatment, Jake?" I asked.

He snorted at that, "Yeah, don't you wish," he said, "It's just, I can't keep my promise if they won't let me," he sat back down on the stool.

"What promise are you talking about?" I asked.