[Sweet Sixteens Part 1]

For some reason, when the Cooper girls decided to tell their boyfriends about their sweet sixteen birthday party they were a little nervous about it. Even though they had all three asked them at different points during the day, they all three acted in a similar manner.

Elise, the oldest of the three and therefore the self proclaimed leader of the trio, had met her boyfriend first thing in the morning when she got to school.

“Brad!” She called out to him while running up to his side, smiling happily. Brad, a junior and one year older than Elise, always loved it when he saw his girlfriend. He was hoping that when they both turned eighteen they would be mated for real.

“Elise.” He swept the beautiful girl off her feet and into his arms, pressing a gentle kiss to her fair cheek and looking into her beautiful blue eyes while he stroked her long golden hair. She was, in his current opinion, the love of his life.

“I missed you.” Elise hugged him tight with her arms around his neck.

“So, what is going on? You look like you want to ask me something.”

“Well, I do.” She giggled at him. “My parents said that I could invite you to my birthday party this weekend.” She was excited, and he knew why, this was a major birthday so there would be a lot of people there. And her Dad was the High Alpha of the area. That meant that he was a Noble, and so was she.

“That’s amazing. I wouldn’t miss it for the world.”

Isabelle, the more shy and reserved of the three, loved sports and was therefore at practice first thing in the morning. She was playing soccer with a team that was mixed, half boys and half girls, and she was currently the MVP of the game. Her boyfriend, Tyler, was playing with her. Once they were done, however, she decided to call him over so they could walk to class together. They had been dating for about a year and were both sophomores.

“T..T..Tyler?” She tried to start but was a little nervous.

“What’s wrong?” He grinned at her to let her know it was OK to talk to him.

“W..well, my parents said that I could invite you to my birthday this weekend, so, d..do you want to come?”

This shocked Tyler because in the year they had been going out, just after the start of Freshman year, he had never met her parents. She often talked about them, but she would just say my brother this and my brother that. He knew about her sisters of course since they were triplets, but she apparently has a couple of brothers too. One of them had been in the school as a senior the year they were freshmen.

“I would love to come.” Does this mean that she thought that they were true mates? Bringing him home to meet her family finally.

Olivia, the most outgoing of the three, who was always surrounded by friends, had told everyone that she wanted some time alone with her boyfriend, Nolan. His eyes went wide when he heard that, but was grinning by the time that everyone had left them alone.

“So, why did you want to be alone with me?” He was smirking at her and looking rather hopeful.

“Well, as you know, my birthday is this weekend, and my parents said that I could invite you.” That shocked him a lot, he had never once met her family. They were like an elusive and mysterious entity to him. The High Alpha and his family. They were so far above poor little Nolan that he didn’t know what he should do about it. Or that was how he had felt.

“Yes, of course I will come meet them.” He was happy and nodded his head excitedly.

“That’s good.” Olivia beamed at him. “My sisters are asking their boyfriends as well. If they all say yes, then we will come pick you up the day of the party. Meet us at the park, OK?”

“You can’t drive yet.” He laughed as he reminded her.

“I know that. We will have someone drive us to pick you up.” She was glad that he said yes, but she also knew that he didn’t really understand what meeting her family was all about.

All three girls told their parents that their boyfriends said yes to meeting the family.

“That’s wonderful news.” Star, who was now almost forty but didn’t look a day older than twenty-five, clapped joyfully.

“Yeah, but did you tell them about our family?” Artem, who was actually forty-three years old now but only looked like he was thirty, looked at his three little girls with skeptical eyes.

“We’ve mentioned you to them before.” Elise was being evasive.

“Yeah, it’s not like they think that we’re orphans.” Olivia added as a joke. Artem grinned at them and eyed the middle daughter, the one that was more reserved, more quiet, and more honest.

“Isabelle, do any of these boys know just what they’re walking into?”

“I..I..-.” She faltered for a moment then hung her head. “No Daddy, they don’t.”

“Oh, this is going to be fun.” Brayden clapped his hands together as he smiled evilly.

“Very fun.” Jodan added, matching his brother’s look.

As Artem looked around the room, he saw that the six sons that were currently at the house all wore almost identical looks of pure mischief.

‘Oh, what were these knuckleheads thinking?’ Artem thought to himself. ‘They need to hide this better, or Star is going to see right through them. They won’t get their chance to grill these boys alive if they’re too obvious about it. ‘Come on guys, don’t ruin this for me.’

“Now, none of you better give those boys a hard time.” Dammit, see? Star knew just what they were planning.

“We won’t, Mom, we promise.” Jodan kissed Star’s cheek and left the room.

“Yeah Mom, we’ll be good.” Cool it there, Brayden, that looked so evil that for a second I thought you were holding a red balloon and wearing a clown suit.

“We’re just excited to meet them, that’s all Mom.” Cohen added as he followed his younger brothers out of the room.

“Yup, just excited.” Dalton left next.

“Don’t worry about us, Mom.” Benton grinned.

“We won’t do anything to them.” Gil smirked, nearly ruining it all as he left after the others.

“Those boys are up to something.” Star glared at the door.

“Don’t be ridiculous.” I laughed and tried to wave away her worries. If she is on guard too much at the party, then I won’t be able to have any fun when meeting my precious little girls’ boyfriends for the first time.

‘Heh heh heh.’ The evil laugh was all for the inside of my head. I promise they will survive the party, but I would make sure that they knew what would happen if they were to mistreat my little girls. And her brothers would be there to help me drive home that warning.. Oh, in situations like this, having a large family was the best.