Zoey raised hir hand. "Speaking of family, Alpha Selena, Ashlee and I have something to ask you."
"Ask away," said Selena.
"Well," said Ashlee, "remember when you said, like, no getting each other pregnant until the pack could, like, set itself up in some terrier of its own?"
"I'm pretty sure the word was 'territory,'" Zoey corrected.
Ashlee giggled guilelessly. "Oh yeah, territory. That!"
"Yeah," said Selena. "We aren't all living together in our own space yet. We really shouldn't be breeding until we're self-sufficient."
"Mom and Dad would lose their shit if I got pregnant in my junior year of high school," Stella agreed. "I say we hold off on getting our own territory until we turn eighteen. Mom and Dad'll be giving me my own bank account and transferring $900,000 of their wealth into it. I'll be financially independent of them then. Also, nobody has to run away from home, then."
"And we'd be able to finish school, right?" asked Brianna. "Beck said something about us dropping out, but I'd personally like to continue my education."
"I'd considered the possibility of us dropping out," Selena answered, "but I've decided we don't need to go THAT off the grid. The kids in my old wolf pack all went to school with the humans, and my oldest sister Luna's in college right now. You should be just fine getting your high school and college diplomas. You could even use that knowledge to set of a werebeast-centered business."
"I'd like to do that myself," said Stella. "That way the money Mom and Dad are giving me next year to establish myself could be used to make even more money for the pack's treasury."
Zoey cleared hir throat. "Kinda losing the freaking thread here!"
"Sorry, Zoey," said Selena. "Point is, we don't have a formal treasury yet, so it'd be a bit hard to pay for the cubs' needs, especially with Stella also paying for Ellie's trip to Kyoto, Japan. And without our own living space, we'd be having cubs in our parents' households. That could cause things to get really uncomfortable really fast."
"Yeah," said Zoey. "I totally get all that, but Ashlee and me still wanna ask you if you could make an exception for the two of us."
"Why?" asked Selena.
"'Cause babies are cuuuuuute!" Ashlee squealed. "Also, like, Zoey and me are cute. So we'd have, like, the cutest baby ever!"
"Yeah, that," said a slightly blushing Zoey. "What I really meant was that my parents don't really, y'know, what I do, and I actually make a pretty good living off my social media ad... revenue? Is that a word? I think that's a word. Anyway, I'm basically the ideal teen mom. I'll be the one to carry the baby, 'cause being preggers would mess with Ashlee's job as cheer captain, but if anything it'd help mine. All attention is good attention on the internet, right? I could vlog about the pregnancy! Don't worry, I won't spill anything about werebeasts. And then come the precious baby pics after the birth."
"Your parents really won't mind if you get knocked up in high school?" asked Stella incredulously. "My parents would kick me to the fucking curb!"
Zoey proudly puffed out hir naked boobs. "Not mine! They let me do whatever I want. Really, if I hadn't been a lesbian, I'm pretty sure I'd be on, like, my second baby by now."
Ashlee clasped hir alpha's hands in hirs and gave hir alpha hir best sad puppy eyes. "So can we pllllleeeeeaaaaase get to work on our cub, Selena? Hmmm?"
Selena thought for a moment. "Alright. Just one, though. I mean, if you're sure you can handle it."
Zoey nodded joyfully. "Trust me, Alpha Selena. We'll crush this parenting thing. Thanks so much!"
"Like, OMG!" Ashlee squeaked. "Thank you! We'll let you see the baby as soon as shi's born!"
Zoey lustfully ran a clawed hand over hir mate's hardening cock. "Let's totally get to work on making her real soon, boo."
Tatiana turned to the new pack members. "Heh, that was interesting. So, do you two want cubs."
Ellie blushed under hir fur. "Someday, Tatiana."
"But only once we're ready," added Harper. "I know I'm sure as hell not."
"I don't feel ready either," Ellie agreed. "Before I'd feel ready to raise cubs, I'd want a place of my own, a way to support myself... and my huggable, soft mom body back."
Harper gave Ellie a hug. It felt weird without hir mate's familiar layer of cushiony blubber for hir to sink into. "Don't worry, Ellie. You'll make a great mom someday."
Ellie smiled. "And you'll make a great... dad? What do you call the herm who gives the sperm?"
"I believe werehyenas call that the sire," Tatiana offered.
Ellie smiled in gratitude. "Then you'll make a great sire, Harper. I can hardly wait until we ARE ready!"