Chapter 44 - Skype

𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐋𝐘 𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐄𝐁𝐂𝐀𝐌 𝐔𝐏 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐊 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐑, Catherine excitedly answered the oncoming call that was coming from both of her parents, the girl having set the whole thing up a yesterday night.

She had meant for the call to be about happier things, maybe Jacob even, however now she was going to have to explain the entire imprint situation.

"Cathy, Cathy-sweetheart are you there?" The sound of Caroline Dysis came over the screen, and seconds later both she and her husband Jacob appeared together.

However, seeing both of her parents in the living room surrounded by a couple of her siblings almost immediately put a smile on Catherine's face.

"Hey, Momma." Catherine greeted with a small wave as she looked at her beautiful mother on the other side of the screen, somehow it felt like it'd been years, but minutes at the same time.

"Oh there go, my beautiful baby girl, awww," Caroline spoke with a small squeal as she was finally able to see her little girl, whom she missed dearly. "how's Uncle Charlie's going?"

Hearing her mother's question, the expression on Catherine's face dropped quickly as she began to play with the tips of her fingers, she honestly didn't know how she was going to explain everything.

Luckily for her at this moment she wouldn't have to, since before she could even speak her father spoke up instead from partially behind her mother.

"Scoot over Caroline, I wanna see my daughter too," Joseph spoke jokingly as he gently laid his hand on his wife's hips, softly moving her out of the way. "hey Puddin."

Seeing her father finally appearing on the screen, the nervous look on Catherine's face softened as a smile came to her face instead.

"Hey Dad," She spoke waving at her father, her mood partially lifted as she greeted before she thought back to her mother's question. "it's...going over here."

Hearing the uncertainty in their daughter's voice, both Caroline and Joesph almost immediately felt that something was wrong with her.

Their daughter had always been an energetic and happy young girl, so seeing her so uncertain and nervous quickly rang red flags in the inner parent part of Caroline and Joesph.

"You don't sound excited anymore," Caroline spoke surely as the expression on her face grew confused as she furrowed her eyebrows, slowly sitting down in the chair behind her. "did something happen?"

"Uhm there was a small mishap," Catherine spoke after a few seconds, she didn't know how to dwell on the topic yet. "you know Jacob, and how we've been seeing each other?"

"Yeah, sweetie." Caroline spoke nodding her head slowly after glancing at her husband, their hands interlocked together over her knee as they truly grew worried.

"I've always thought he was a good kid," Joesph spoke up with a serious expression on his face before he began to realize that this might be the boy's fault so he changed his answer. "unless he's done something then I'm gonna rip the skin from his bones."

Hearing her father's words, Catherine's eyes widened dramatically as she hadn't expected them to jump straight to Jacob being the bad guy.

"No-no-no, Jacob didn't do anything," She quickly spoke in Jacob's defense, she was sure her Dad would attempt to go through with his threat. "it's more of what he is."

At the rest of her words, both of her parents paused their eyebrows furrowing even more, the two not understanding what Catherine was saying.

But they slowly began to have any idea.

"What he is," Caroline asked slowly as she glanced down for a moment before another question popped up in her head. "is Jacob a shifter sweetie?"

At her mother's question, Catherine squinted unsurely before she slowly nodded her head anticipating her parents' reaction, honestly she didn't know how they would react.

On one hand, she didn't expect them to react badly since they were shifters themselves, but on the other how would they react to the fact that it wasn't just Jacob?

However, despite her hesitation and completely against how she expected them to react, both Caroline and Joesph burst out into excited cheers as they clapped and hollered.

"Oh that's fantastic," Caroline cheered as she clapped enthusiastically, before placing one of her hands to her chest. "you nearly gave me a heart attack, that's a good thing!"

"What breed is he sweetie," Joesph asked curiously, for a moment forgetting that he knew that Billy Black was a wolf, so why wouldn't Jacob be one as well. "now we don't discriminate, but I always have pictured Jake as a predator?"

"He is," Catherine nodded after taking a breath of relief, for the moment happy about how the conversation was going. "he's a wolf."

At her word Catherine gained respective nods from both of her parents, however before either of them could speak, a small head popped out around the corner of the room they were in.

"Wolf," Jeremiah Dysis, Catherine's nine-year-old little brother, popped up into the room walking a bit before he came into the camera. "I heard wolf, who's a wolf?"

After asking the little boy, quickly rushed over to the webcam, although with him entering the room the rest of Catherine's siblings were long behind.

"Wolf?" Josephine Dysis, Jeremiah's twin asked as she rushed into the room right after her older twin brother, the two being the second set of twins Caroline and Joesph had after Catherine was born.

It was a matter of luck that Catherine had been the only one of their kids who didn't come out with a twin, everyone else came out in pairs except for her.

"Jake's a wolf!" Christopher Dysis, Catherine's oldest younger sibling spoke out with a respectful nod as he entered the room, he had always been the one with the best hearing amongst them.

Right as Christopher walked into the room, his twin Crystal came in a few seconds after him with two out of the three triplets, Julie and Jessie holding her hands.

Only the oddball of the triplets, Aviana crawled in after everyone else, as she had always been a quiet baby who liked to do things herself, even at only four years old.

"Hey, Guys!" Catherine spoke as she waved at the rest of her big family, once again growing homesick at seeing everyone together without her.

"Okay, okay everyone can't get in the camera together." Caroline Dysis spoke in a rushed tone as all the kids corralled around the camera, completely blocking them from even seeing their daughter.

However, it was Joesph who was having the toughest time, as Julie had quickly rushed towards him forcing herself into his lap and all in his way as she stood up between his legs.

"Oh Julie, you're gonna just run over your Daddy." Joesph chuckled as he lifted the little girl before sitting her back down to be able to see over her head.

"Hey, Julie!" Catherine greeted her littlest sister with a small scrunch of her hand, watching as he little sister grew more excited having seen her.

"Sissy!" Julie happily tried to scoot out of their father's lap, wanting to run over to her sister, however, Joesph made sure to keep her with him seeing as she would only mess up the computer.

"Cathey, who's a wolf?" Josephine asked having heard what her older brother Christopher had said, but not fully believing him.

He'd always tried to trick her and her brother into doing things for him, he called them gullible all the time so she wasn't sure if she should listen to him or not.

"I told you it's Jake." Christopher spoke up yet not lifting his head from the cell phone that was positioned in his hands, the boy being enraptured in whoever he was texting.

However, his words only got a raspberry blown at him from Julie, the girl crossing her arms and huffing as she turned away from her brother.

"Yeah it is," Catherine giggled at her little sister's behaviors, before realizing she didn't want to tell all of her family about her situation at once. "but I was hoping I could just talk to mom and dad for a minute guys."

At her words and the jurisdiction of being the oldest, the rest of her siblings let out loud sighs and groans as they slowly turned to trickle out.

"We see her for the first time in months and she just kicks us out." Crystal groaned crossing her arms, before grabbing a hold of Julie and Jesse and exiting the room.

"Exactly," Christopher grumbled after his twin as he left right behind her, pausing at the door to make sure everyone left the room before him as the temporary oldest."last time I got excited for something."

"Jake's a wolf, Jake's a wolf, Jakey is a wolfy!" Jeremiah sang lowly to himself as he nearly skipped out of the room, Josephine right behind him with Aviana walking beside her.

Josephine did a little dance to her twin's song, causing Aviana to wiggle as well as she trotted out of the room, the two having fun as they went back to what they had been doing.

"Thanks, sweetie," Caroline spoke grateful that her daughter cleared the room, if it had been her or her husband there was a large chance that they wouldn't have left so quickly. "I swear you're the only one they listen to."

Hearing her mom's words, Catherine let out a chuckle and nodded her head, she was sometimes an honorary parent for all of her siblings.

"So what do you need to talk to us about?" Joesph asked seriously, if she'd sent all the kids away then it must've been about an adult subject.

Gods forbid his baby was pregnant already.

"Uhm do some shifters have soulmates?" Catherine asked softly, tip-toeing around the subject as much as she could to not give her parents metaphorical heart attacks.

"There are many shifters that have many different types of traditions, magic, and myths when it comes to relationships," Joesph answered seriously not taking too much out of her question, Bunny themselves didn't have soulmates, but others did. "so some do have soulmates."

Putting two and two together, Caroline scooted to the edge of her chair, beginning to get excited once again at her daughter's way of steering the conversation.

"Are you Jacob's soulmate, sweetheart?" She asked softly slowly starting to get more and more excited, however the fearful look on Catherine's face was throwing her off.

"Not just Jacob's." Catherine answered vaguely as she tilted her head, her words causing her at one point calm parents to grow confused.

"What?" They asked one right after the other, however, neither of them even glanced at the other as they didn't even mention their words nearly said in unison.

"It's called an imprint," Catherine spoke rather than explained fully, before noting off all of the men currently. "I am Jacob's, Paul's, Jared's, and their current Alpha, Sam's imprint."

After speaking Catherine waited for some type of outrageous outburst from her parents, but in the end, she got nothing of the sort.

"Four men," Caroline spoke with a thinking look on her face, before she began to nod her head in approval. "not bad."

"Huh?" Catherine questioned the entire situation, or if her parents had been replaced by aliens, she hadn't expected such a calm reaction.

"You're close to the family record." Joesph chuckled lightly nodding his head, before he glanced over at his wife who couldn't help but let out a chuckle of her own.

"We have a family record," Catherine asked lowly more so to herself, before she questioned what the record was even for. "of what?"

"Partners," Caroline answered with a shrug, there had been plenty of shifters with multiple soulmates throughout history. "you're great-great-great Aunt Marylou in Louisiana had 10."

"So you guys aren't disappointed?" Catherine asked with a small nervous squint of her eyes, their being disappointed in her was something she never wanted them to be.

"Disappointed for what," Joesph asked curiously, he never wanted his daughter to think he was disappointed in her. "I knew one man could never handle you my little bunny."

"You were born to be pampered and cherished," Caroline spoke with a large smile on her face, before jokingly flicking her hair over her shoulder. "all the women in our family were."

"Thanks, Momma." Caroline thanked partially relieved as she let out a small chuckle, she was happy her parents were completely on board with everything.

"Is that all you had to tell us?" Joesph asked after a few seconds of silence, just wanting to make sure they'd covered every base.

"Well..." Catherine tried off playing with the tips of her fingers, there was a lot more that she hadn't told her parents, including the 'Boyfriend Stealing Bella' situation.

Seeing their daughter trail off with that 'caught stealing cookies' look on her face, both Caroline and Joseph raised an eyebrow ready to hear what had happened.

However, neither of them was ready for the onslaught of information that Catherine was about to tell them.