Chapter 1

Cloudy, that's what I thought of the place we moved to, cloudy no it was very cloudy. As dad pulled into view off the house we were going to live in… for now. It was small, red, small, with a forest surrounding it, small, with a big garden oh and did I say small.

"So kiddo, what do you think about the house?" my dad asked as he opened my door. He was tall, thin, he had messy brown and he wore black, square glasses.

"Err, I think it's small" I said simply. He sighed and mom got out the car and into the house. "Why are we in the middle of nowhere?"

"Mia… your mother wanted to be here when she gave birth" he told me for about the hundredth time since we left Italy.

"Yes dad that's the problem there, I am not Italian I am Hawaiian. Andrew is Indian and so is Alisha, Sam is Australian and now I'm going to have a brother or sister who is going to be American! Seriously dad I should be in Italy right at this very moment!" I shouted.

"Well kiddo you just have to deal with it for now we will go back to Italy when your mother has given birth" he said remaining clam and getting out the luggage.

"And when is that going to be exactly?" I asked getting my stuff out the trunk.

"I don't know seven to eight months dear" he answered me "and for the mean while I have applied you for the reservation school" he changed the subject quickly so I didn't shout back.

"What do you mean 'reservation school' you don't mean human school, do you?" I asked and he didn't look at me "human school dad I don't want to go back to that. I did my time there, then at twelve went to the House of Night twelve I am the youngest to go there and I finished last year and you want to send me to a human school" I raged as I walked into the house carrying my bag.

Goddess what is wrong with parents these days? I dragged my bag to the room that my mom wasn't already sleeping in and started to unpack. By the time I had unpacked everything go changed to an unusual for this weather taupe top and skirt. I left my shoes on the porch and headed the way my dad told me was the beach.

When I got there the weather hadn't changed much but I saw two guys walking around in shorts. One of them looked my way. He had very short cropped hair so did his friend and they both had dark skin.

"Hey you must be my new neighbour; well sort of I live just five minutes away from you." One of them said.

"How fast do you walk?" I asked with a smirk looking at both the boys well they looked much older maybe around 22 to 26.

"Quite fast I think" he answered smiling back at me "oh sorry by the way my name is Jacob and this is Colin" Jacob introduced and Colin said a mumbled hello.

"Hey, I'm Mia Taylor and I come here from Italy" I told them.

"Welcome to La Push" Colin chimed this time.

I laughed "When my dad said that we were moving to La Push I thought it would be sunny and warm" I told them.

"Well then why are you wearing a taupe top and a skirt… with no shoes on?" Colin asked before Jacob had the chance.

"Oh that's because if I'm in a cold area then my body makes me really hot, so hot you could fry an egg on my forehead!" I told them.

"I don't believe you!" Jacob asked in disbelief.

"Yeah really I told my little brother that and on our holiday to Australia he cracked an egg on my forehead. Of course it was really hot so my body was cooler and I ended up with egg in my hair!" I said to them.

Colin was about to say something but he was cut off by a deep howl that was coming from the forest. I think no one else heard it but us three.

I gasped "oh my god!" dess "that is an Alpha wolf… and I think that's an emergency howl" I said in awe.

"How did you know that?" Jacob asked sounding surprized.

"I'm a werewolf" I joked but their faces looked like they took it seriously "that was a joke you know I'm not really a werewolf!" I laughed and so did Jacob.

"That was good, but I got to go now… my mom's expecting me home" Colin said and walked off.

"Oh my dad told me to ask if you and your family would like to have dinner with us at my house" Jacob asked looking into the forest.

"That sounds nice, I think my mom and dad would love that" I answered.

He looked back to me "That's great then"

I smiled and I looked at the cloudy sky. In the distance I saw a single beam of light and sighed. "Wish the clouds would go away" I said. Jacob smiled at me.

With my power I concentrated on the elements of fire and air. Air to slowly blow the clouds away and fire to take away the moisture out of the air.

"Seems your wish came true if I was you I would buy a lottery ticket!" he laughed as I soaked in the sunlight.

"I love the sun, in Italy I was planning to go to the beach and get a nice tan but we moved" I told him.

"That sounds great. Do you have any other brothers or sisters?" he asked.

"Yes I have two brothers and one sister. Sam is my little brother he is six, he is the one with the egg and then I have the twins Alex and Alisha they two years older" 20 years more like I told him.

"Wow, hey since you're new how about I show you around the reservation?" Jacob suggested.

"That will be great!" I agreed.

When he had shown me everywhere thinkable in the little town it was time that I would have to go home.

"Hey I'll go with you since you don't know where I live?" Jacob suggested again.

"Thanks, your very kind you know?" I answered "So Jake do you have any more friends or is it just Colin?" I asked as I was biting my nails.

"Well as a matter of fact here comes one and well half" he said as he pointed out a tall guy with a little girl on his shoulders.

"Hey Jake who's this?" he gestured his head my way.

"Qwil, Qwil! Pity gruly, pity gruly!" the little girl said banging on his head.

"Hey I'm Mia who are you little girl?" I asked her whilst tickling her.

She was twisting and turning around on the poor guys shoulders and she was laughing so hard.

"This is Claire and I'm Quil" Quil answered me instead since Claire was laughing too much to talk. So I stopped tickling her.

"Cwaire want down Cwaire want down!" Claire said hitting Quil's poor head repeatedly.

"Ok Claire-bear" he said as he put her on the ground.

"Hi unca jay!" she said as she hugged jakes leg but she quickly let go and started saying "Mia, Mia, Mia. Mia tickwel Cwaire again please"

So then I tickled her and tickled her and she laughed so much that Jake and Quil thought I didn't hear their little conversation.

"Hey Jake have you been over the Cullen's to see Nessie lately" Quil asked whilst looking at me and Claire.

"Yeah I went by yesterday and this morning but all the Cullen's have gone to do some stuff in Seattle and I couldn't go with them 'cause my dad needed me at home" Jake answered him.

"Quil can I buy Claire a shake or a flavoured ice?" I asked.

"Sure it's alright with me" Quil agreed.

So Claire and I went into the shop and she got a rainbow of flavours because she loved rainbows or at least that's what she told me. I however got just plain strawberry because it looked like blood… well sort off if it wasn't bright red.

"Hey I'm sorry but we have to go Claire-bear, say thank you for the drink and bye to Mia and Uncle Jake" Quil told her.

"Okie Qwil byes, bye unca Jake bye, bye Mia thank you for the dink!" Claire said as Quil put her on his shoulders again.

When they left we continued to make our way to my house. After a few minutes of silence I decided to finally ask the question that was on my mind for a while.

"Hey Jake who are the Cullen's and who is Nessie… is she your girlfriend?" I asked a little awkwardly.

"Oh… well Cullen's are family friends and Nessie she's just a little friend of mine though she is a cutie but she's ten!" he said as we entered in sight of my house.

"That's okay then" I said and turned my head because I could feel my checks go very red.

Everyone laughed when my dad crackedone of his stupid joke's.

"June do you want a beer?" Jake's dad Billy asked my mom when he gave my dad a beer.

"Oh no, I'm pregnant I shouldn't have any alcohol" she told him.

"That's must be lovely, do you have any other kids other than Mia, June?" Billy asked.

"Yes we have the twins Alex and Alisha they are in Italy, then it's Mia and then we have our little Sam how is coming tomorrow morning from a friend's house" my dad said.

"Dad since when were you called June I thought you were called Matthew" I joked.

"Kiddo you're very funny!" he said then everyone chuckled.

I went for the last leg of chicken. We were surrounded by Sam and Emily who were married, Jake's dad and sister, Paul and Colin, Leah and her mom. Emily and I were getting on great, we had already made plans to go out and have fun later in the week. Colin was a cool ball of energy.

"Wow that was one nice meal!" I cheered Leah's mom as she was the one who did the cooking.

"Thank you Mia" she smiled at me and from what Jacob said that was rare.

"Hey Leah do you wanna join me and Emily later in the week for some fun?" I asked being polite.

Leah looked at Jacob for a while and he gave her a small nod. "Err I would love to" she said finally.

The rest of the night was great Leah's mom served desert and the parents were laughing and having fun. And the rest of us went outside to walk in the moon light. Colin was walking beside me, Sam walked with Emily, Rachel (Jacob's sis) walked with Paul and Jacob was walking with Leah. Then we all went back to the house and everyone began to leave starting with Sam and Emily, then Leah and her mom. Paul and Colin left half an hour after them and we left long after him.