AN: So this is my first Twilight story and I hope you like it. I've always been fascinated with the imprint idea in Twilight canon and this is my exploration of it. I'd love to get reviews and I try to reply but I'm in university and don't always have the time, but do know even if I don't reply I read them all. Also note, this entire story is written; I just have to type and post it.

Together Strong

Another day at school, hopefully he would be back today. Jared had been gone for almost two weeks at this point.

He was the third on their residence to mysteriously disappear. The first was Sam Uley. She didn't know him well; he was a few years older than her and had graduated from the Quileute School when she was only in grade nine. She did know the rumours however. Sam had just seemed to disappear one day leaving his mom and his girlfriend Leah Clearwater frantic and worried about him. Then just as he had disappeared, he suddenly reappeared. But somehow he was different afterwards. Gone was the boisterous teenager and in his place was a serious man revered by the tribal elders. The rumours mostly circled around how he was no longer dating Leah Clearwater but practically engaged to her cousin Emily Young.

Paul had been the second. The hot-head teenager had disappeared for only about three weeks, drastically less than Sam's two month disappearance. Paul had come back also looking very different; gone was his long hair and in its place was short-cropped hair. He now looked more like a man than a high-school teenager though his hot-head nature still remained, if not intensified.

She had been crushing on Jared for quite a few years at this point. The popular teenager didn't seem to notice that she existed however to her dismay. She was a shy girl, average in school, not popular but not a social outcast. She'd watched over the weeks leading up to Jared's disappearance how he'd seemed to go through another growth-spurt sprouting up before her eyes as well as becoming stronger and more muscular. Then he seemed to look like he was coming down with the flu on Wednesday and then on Thursday he wasn't at school and nobody had seen him. The weird thing was that Paul hadn't been at school that Thursday or Friday either.

She walked into her Spanish class not daring to hope that the object of her desire was back. Spanish was one of her favourite classes, not because of the subject material but because of the assigned seating that put he right beside Jared. She took her seat, thinking that yet again he was missing but a few seconds he came rushing in and took his seat.

Their eyes locked quickly but he was forced to sit. It was a weird feeling that came over her as she tried to pay attention to Senor Carlos' lecture on Spanish verb tenses. She could feel someone's eyes on her, someone being Jared, whom she thought she was invisible to.

As soon as the lecture ended she heard him speak, "Kim right?"

"Yes. Do you need the notes from the days you missed?" she answered, thinking the only reason he'd talk to her would be for school-work.

"That'd be nice but maybe do you want to get together and go over them with me." Jared tentively asked

She thought he was just asking to get caught up in Spanish but she would use any excuse she could to spend more time with the object of her desire.

"Definitely I'd be willing to help you get caught up in Spanish Jared. My house or yours, after school?"

"Can we go to yours? Mine is a little messy right now."

"Of course. Do you want to meet me by my locker and we can walk home together?" she suggested, almost not believing that Jared, the guy she'd fantasized about for years, was going to be coming over to her house. All of sudden she was elated that her mom had forced her to clean up this weekend.

"Sounds like a plan" he replied ginning from ear to ear with that sexy smirk of his, "I'll see you in a couple of periods."

TBC