
“And it’s his first birthday with us, so I want it to be special.” “He’s only going to turn four once, Derek,” Stiles countered, frustrated that the search had yielded mostly expensive party planning services that there was no way they could afford.


“We’re not taking any chances on that front.” “Those places don’t even let you bring your own cake or snacks,” Derek argued, still invested in typing a response to a colleague. “It’ll be May by then I highly doubt we’ll have to worry about him getting sick.” “Yeah, no,” he stated with a definitive tone, shaking his head as he continued to pour over the massive number of emails that had flooded his computer’s mail client earlier in the day. “So that Isaac can pick up the flu or some kind of infection?” Derek asked, raising an eyebrow over his laptop screen across the table. “What about one of those bouncy house places?” Stiles had asked as he clicked around the local Yellow Pages website for a space to host Isaac’s birthday party. To distract himself, he retraced the night he and Derek had started discussing Isaac’s party, his pen hovering over the comments section of one report as he let himself get lost in the memory.

Stiles was finishing up progress reports in his office just before lunch, an item on his lengthy TO DO list that he wished didn’t exist. On the day of Isaac’s fourth birthday party, the sky was a faint blue spotted with low, wispy clouds, the air warm as California hovered on the brink between spring and summer. Lots of changes are coming for the Stilinski-Hale family, so stay tuned! If you’d like to receive updates of the sequel, you can follow/subscribe/favorite me and the update will be delivered to your email. Your support has been overwhelmingly positive! Thank you for your reads, reviews, favorites, follows, kudos, etc., and thank you to Casey, my alpha/beta reader that literally drops everything to talk Sterek so that I can deliver chapter after chapter of the Stilinski-Hale family to my wonderful readers.Īs sad as I am to see To Build a Home completed, I am extremely excited to start editing/revising the first few chapters I have lined up for the sequel, Hang the Moon. I now have written a “book” (50,000+ words) that I would not have been able to complete without all of you, so I’d like to thank all of my readers for coming along on that journey with me. I felt the need to write something that wasn’t in APA format with intensive research and citations, so I delved into Teen Wolf fanfiction to help keep me sane. I started writing To Build a Home in December 2012 while finishing graduate school.
