Lakota POV

I sat glumly in the front seat of the car waiting for my mom and brother to get in. They finally got in and my mom looked at me.

"Lakota, You could at least pretend to look happy about this." She said annoyed at me. I gave her a fake sarcastic smile and she sighed.

We are moving, away from my friends, from school, from my dancing career, from Michigan, everything that meant something to me, we were leaving. Just because my brother is going through some kind of 'crisis' that we need to move. My mom says 'It will be good for him.' but I'm pretty sure it's just a stage he's going through with all the secrecy and growth spurts all of a sudden and when he gets mad or angry he just runs away and hides. He even has been working out a lot, and I mean a lot because his muscles are huge. He's just weird. We used to have lots of fun together by playing sports like soccer and hockey and dancing and stuff but everything just suddenly changed. My eighteen year old brother, Archie, still lived with us. I didn't know why, but in two years and two and a half months, when I turn eighteen I'm outta there.

"Guys, you are really going to love La Push, it's near the beach, heaps of kids there, plus it's near an even bigger town." My mom said, trying to make the silent mood change.

"Is it even a town? I Googled it and it's a reservation, not a town.""Do you have to be so optimistic about this move?" she said sarcastically. "We already have a house in La Push and I know a few people from when I used to live there. It's a great place.""If it's so great why did you move away in the first place?"

"Can we not get into this again please?"

"Whatever." I said and I looked down to my tanned hands. I had always had a nice tan, same as my brother.

I watched the trees and cars go by as we drove. After hours of agonising silence we were almost there. The trees started getting denser and forest looking as we turned down a road. It was all dirt and rock, this was La Push. A while later we stopped in front of a house. It looked tiny and ugly. I slowly got out of the car and stood there looking at it and so did Archie.

"Go in and have a look around." My mom said taking something out of the car. I sighed and walked to the front door. I stood there staring at the handle, it was ugly too. Archie reached around me and opened the door. We both walked in and looked around. It was a three bedroom house with two bathrooms, luckily. I walked around the house to where my room was. It was actually quite big considering, the whole house was bigger on the inside, and dark. We all helped unpack all our stuff that we bought in the trailer, everything else is coming tomorrow with the removalists. We only brought mattresses and our suitcases, just stuff like that. I put all my stuff in my room and sat there.

It was half way through the school year and school started back up next week. Everything sucked. Mum went and got Chinese and we ate and I went to bed.

The next day when I woke up and the removalist were there. I watched the guys move stuff into the house. Once they were gone I started unpacking my things and hanging up pictures. I stuffed one of the boxes with newspaper and went outside to throw it out. I got to the bin and threw the box in it.

"Hello." I heard a voice say. I turned around and saw two men. One of them looked scary and almost the same size as Archie and the other was old.

"Um, hi." I said back.

"I'm Reece and this is Sam." the older guy said. "Is your mum home?"

"Yeah, she's inside." I said and walked to the house and they followed. I opened the door and I saw mom look at the men and her eyes widened.

"Hey Lakota, can you go down to the shop and buy some groceries?" she asked still looking at the men.

"The fridge isn't even on though."

"Can you just go and get some? There's money in my purse." I stared at her and I walked to her bag and took money from her purse and walked back outside. I stood near the door for a second when they started talking.

"He always has a temperature and he keeps turning into this thing when he gets angry." I heard my mum say.

"Well, we will have to get him to show us." I heard one of the guys say. "But before we do we might need to go some place a bit more….. private." he said obviously aiming at me.

At that I quickly ran away to the shop. I bought what some milk and bread and hurried back home. When I got there I couldn't hear anybody. I walked around the house when I saw my mom in the kitchen. I put the groceries on the bench and stared at her.

"Who were those guys?" I asked her.

"They are some of my old friends, they came to show Archie around. You know, introduce him to some people.""I want to go meet people too." I said childishly.

"You know you have to start acting like a girl one day. You cant just keep going around hanging with boys all the time, kicking a muddy ball around. At this school I want you to make some girl friends."

"Girls are bitches though."

"Don't use that language in this house." she said. She is so weird.

"What ever." I said and walked to my room. I am sick and tired of being treated like a little girl.