For the love of SMeyer... Don't ask me how I managed to delete this story. I am not happy. What. A. Retard.

Anywhoo, it is being reposted SHARPISH and sorry to all those who favourited and reviewed previously.

This chapter was co-written by ElleTwerd. LOVELOVELOVE to you.

DISCLAIMER: All of the recognisable character's belong to SMeyer, the rest are mine. So is the plotline.

Chapter One – Girl in the Doorway

Seth POV

It was a Saturday night, just like any other. There was nothing strange or different about it to make it seem like it would be anything special. Jacob, Leah, Quil, Embry and I were sitting around a driftwood fire on First Beach, it was late July and it was still light out.

"Shouldn't you guys be heading home soon?" Quil asked Leah and I in between devouring handfuls of the potato chips he was eating.

"That eager to get rid of us?" I laughed, while making a grab for the chips. He swung away from me, pulling the bag out of my reach.

"No." Leah replied. "Charlie's back at the house. It's their 'date night'."

"So… you're scared of what you'll walk in on?" Jacob said, grabbing the chips from Quil when he laughed, helping himself to a handful. I winced at the mental image of Charlie and Sue… together.

"They're a little… old aren't they?" Embry piped in.

"Do we really need to be talking about this?" Leah interrupted the discussion at the ideal moment. "What they do in their own time… It's not really any of our business."

"It will be your business when you walk in on them and catch them in a compromising-" Quil started.

"Ahhh!" I stood up, plugging my ears. Quil snorted a laugh, knowing his comments were making my skin crawl. "I've heard enough. I'm going home now." Charlie and mom had been dating for a while now, and I was getting used to the idea of them as a couple- but this was my mom we were talking about. Any more of this sort of talk and I was going to have to bleach my brain. I don't think Leah would object to that idea either; she was as grossed out as me by the situation.

"Me too," Leah stated, "bye boys." She rose from the log she was sitting on and stood beside me.

"Just make sure you talk really loud when you get to the house. So they know you're coming." Jacob winked. I grabbed the chips from him and ran off with them in revenge, ignoring his protests. If he's putting these horrific thoughts into my head, he can stand having his precious "Lays" taken away from him.

"Real mature Seth." Leah chastised me. "How old are you again? Eleven?"

"I'm SIXTEEN!" I said proudly, putting a whole handful of chips in my mouth at once. She laughed at that. It almost amazed me how much more laid back Leah was nowadays. She still didn't like hanging around the Cullens' place, but she did smile a lot more. It was nice to see her happy, and a happy Leah is good news for everybody. Call me self centred, but it's a relief not to have to be attacked by Leah's bitchiness every ten minutes. I placed most of her happiness on the fact that we weren't in Sam's pack anymore, and she wasn't under his constant surveillance and command any longer. Truth be told, I resented Sam for what he did to Leah. Imprinting or not, he still hurt my sister, and that's not something that can easily be forgiven. I was also pretty sure that he knew that.

It was almost dark when we got back to the house, and the Chief's cruiser was still out front. Following Jacob's advice, I called out when we walked through the door.

Although I wasn't keen on taking Jacob's advice, I thought it would be best to announce my presence without walking in on something that I would never dare lay eyes upon.

"So Leah, I hear there's a new species of orangutan discovered in the Brazilian rainforest…" I grinned to myself as I heard my voice successfully echoing throughout the house. If that's not a warning to stop in their tracks, I don't know what is. Turning to Leah, the look on her face would make you think she had just witnessed a pig fly. I shrugged as if there was anything less random I could say. "Mom? Charlie?" I called as I shut the door behind Leah.

"In here!" Mom called back from the kitchen. I followed Leah into the kitchen and saw mom and Charlie sitting, innocently, at the kitchen table. Thank God for that.

"Hey!" I greeted them, before searching in the cupboards for more food. Mom and Leah rolled their eyes at the same time, it was kind of funny how similar they looked when they did this. The same short hair, the same look on their faces.

"I'm a growing boy!" I explained. "I need my nourishment." I found a bag of Doritos and happily dug in, I offered some to the others in the room, but they all shook their heads at me. "More for me." I said with a smile. I was always happy when I didn't have to share my food. Charlie laughed from the table, then he checked his watch.

"It's getting late." He said, standing up. "I should make my way home." My mom started to say something, and I began to wonder if Charlie had ever "spent the night" and my brain suddenly decided to grace me with the mental images of such a situation.

Do all teenagers think about sex this much? Thinking back on conversations I'd had with the other Quileute guys, it did seem to be a frequent topic… That and food… Is that all I thought about? Sex and food… My train of thought was interrupted by a knock at the front door. I looked at the clock, it was after 9pm. Jacob, Quil and Embry would probably be on their way back from the beach… but none of them would have any reason to stop by here would they? It didn't matter much, if it was them, Jacob would probably steal my Doritos and run away. I instantly gripped the bag tighter.

Mom went to get the door and Charlie grabbed his jacket off of the back of the chair he was sitting on. "I'll see you two later." He said, sliding his jacket on. I heard the front door open and my mom say,

"Can I help you?" in a surprised tone.

A soft, feminine voice replied, "Yes please. My car broke down just down the street, and I was wondering if I could use your phone to call a mechanic…" For some reason, I suddenly felt the urge to go see who the owner of that voice was. It was a very nice voice, soft and sweet… Plus, if she needed a mechanic I was sure I could help. I'd learnt a lot about cars hanging around Jacob, since he always liked to take them apart and put them back together again. And no-one would come out to fix her car this late anyway.

I put down the Doritos (Leah looked at me in mock horror when I did this, I stuck my tongue out at her) and headed towards the front door, Charlie did the same. I heard the conversation continue.

"Sure." I heard mom say, and I heard the creak of the door as she opened it wider. "But I don't think anyone will be able to come look at your car this late."

"That's okay." I heard the voice reply, "I'll just sleep in the car tonight and see if he can check it out tomorrow."

I rounded the corner into the hallway, and I was stopped dead in my tracks.

I looked at the girl in the doorway and it was almost like the whole world stood still, or the whole world just stopped, or maybe it disappeared. Nothing else seemed to matter. There was just this girl. It was like nothing I'd ever experienced before.

Ever.

There was nothing else. No one else. Just her.

In that moment, I made a thousand unconscious decisions that would change my life forever. It seemed I had decided that everyone, everything, anything that made me who I am was unimportant in that moment. Everything just melted away, loyalties, friendships, family, everyone else I was tied to suddenly had no hold on me anymore. There was only her. She was the only tie I had left, the only thing holding me down. She was everything that kept me down, here, on Earth. Like she was my gravitational pull, and without her, I would simply float away…

I couldn't lose her. If she left me, my one tie would be gone, my everything, my gravity. I needed her.

And I didn't even know her name.

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~Elise