Hey, so sorry for changing the story on you guys and sorry for not updating any of my stories in a year or two. I've just been busy and I kind of lost the muse to write. I'm now forcing myself to finish some of them or just take them all down and re-do them all. Needless to say, I've got a lot of work ahead of me. So yes several changes have been made to this story. Honestly in my opinion the changes I'm making to this story is actually making it easier for me to find new ideas for the future chapters. So I hope to you don't mind. Enjoy.
Third P.O.V
"Come on Sara," Emily Uley shouted out. A young woman, dressed in skinny jeans and a comfortable grey t-shirt, came bounding down the stairs and raised an eyebrow at Emily.
"Yes Em," The young woman, Sara, smiled at Emily; who in return rolled her eyes at Sara.
"You're coming to the bonfire." Emily said handing Sara a platter of food as well as leaving no room for argument. Sara let out a sigh and rolled her eyes as she watched her older sister run back into the kitchen to grab another platter of food.
"Em I already told you. I don't want to." Emily walked back to the stairs and glared at her younger sister. Sara let out a huge sigh and rolled her eyes one more time before finally giving in, knowing all too well that she wasn't going to win.
"Okay, now come with me." Emily said as she held the door open for Sara. Sara looked at Emily
"Do I have any other choice?" Sara asked playfully. Emily looked at Sara and Sara just smiled. Sara continued to walk out of the house and then wait for Emily to show her the way. Sara has just moved in with Emily and Sam that very morning and didn't bother looking around. Once she came, she unpacked most of her things and then went to sleep. She had been completely jet-lagged.
"This way Sara. Don't worry everyone can't wait to met you." Emily said. Behind Emily, Sara rolled her eyes silently thinking; 'Great now I have to meet people.' Both women carrying the food platters soon found the rest of the group surrounding the large bonfire.
"Finally! Hey guys foods here!" A tall guy with jet black hair and no shirt on shouted out. Sara looked around and noticed there actually were a lot of guys who looked very similar to one another. All tall with jet black cropped hair, no shirt, and all had the same weird tattoo on their right arm. Emily made no objections when an older looking man, but still with cropped hair and no shirt, took the platter of food from her and gave her a kiss. The first thought that ran through Sara's head was that he must be Sam, her brother-in-law.
"Come on Sara, don't be shy." Emily's voice pulled her out of her train of thought. Sara walked towards the crowd of people and was soon unburdened with the second platter of food. One of the guys who had taken the platter of food accidentally brushed his hand against hers', their eyes met for only a moment and then disappeared as quickly as they had come. The guy continued to stand in front of Sara, making her feel uncomfortable, staring at her. Sara gave the guy an awkward smile and excused herself from his presence.
It was safe enough to say that Sara felt quite unnerved at the encounter. Unfortunately she was used to the creepy looks and stares that she would get from people on the subway but never from someone that was standing right in front of her.
"Hey everyone, this is my sister Sara Young. Sara this is everybody." Emily said as she pulled Sara closer to the bonfire. Sara gave everyone an awkward smile and wave. She then whispered into Emily's ear "Yeah, thanks for telling me their names." Emily rolled her eyes at her sister and started to introduce Sara to everyone personally.
"Sara you already know who this is, my husband." Emily went on for about half an hour and by the end Sara was sure she had only caught half of everyone's names. Sara excused herself from her cousins, the Clearwater's if she had remembered correctly, and stepped away from everyone to take some air. This was not something she had expected when she came to stay. But she was quiet glad that she had come. She could see that everyone cared about each other and that it was tight knit community, it was different compared to her home life. Her home life was busy and loud and very confusing at times.
"Hey," A voice shouted out. Sara nearly jumped out of her skin. The person who had snuck up on her let out a small laugh.
"Sorry I didn't mean to scare you. Sara, right?" The guy asked. Sara nodded her head and held out her hand.
"Embry," He said as he shook her hand. "Emily introduced us a while ago. Sara smiled at Embry.
"Sorry, I'm not good at remembering names, especially since the whole lot of you look similar." Sara said. Embry smiled and waved off her comment.
"It's fine we get that a lot." Embry said. Sara looked at him, the best she could considering they were away from the light of the bond fire, and realized that Embry had a very nice smile.
"So how long have you lived here?" Sara asked. Embry stuck his hands in his pockets and let out a sigh.
"Pretty much my whole life; how about you?" Embry asked. Sara shrugged her shoulders and smiled.
"Well I guess you could say that I used to live here. My mom was pregnant with me when she left the Reservation. We lived with grandparents, up in the Makah Reservation for a while, before Mom decided to move to New York. Emily was old enough at the time to make up her own mind. She chose to stay with our grandparents. So I guess you could say that I've lived in New York my whole life." Sara said rubbing the side of her arms, trying to keep herself warm. She liked watching the waves ebb and flow and hearing the sound as they crashed softly against the sand. She liked the peace and quiet. It was a drastic change of sound from home but it was something she enjoyed.
"Hey, you getting cold?" Embry asked. Sara looked over to Embry and slightly shrugged her shoulder. She liked the warmth of the fire but she didn't really want to sit in the circle that was full of faces that she didn't really know.
"Kind of, truthfully I don't really want to go back to the bonfire. I like standing here and listening to the waves. I don't really get that natural sound back home." Sara said calmly. She turned her head back to the ocean and closed her eyes, taking in the ocean's natural music. Embry cracked a smile at her comment and let out a soft sigh. In his mind he had to agree with her. He also liked listening to the sound of the waves. He took a step closer to Sara, almost touching their arms together.
"Well I can't argue against that." Embry said. Sara smiled and innocently laid her head against his shoulder. She didn't comment on how warm he felt. She figured it must've been from the bonfire. They stood there at the Ocean's edge for several more minutes before Embry heard his name being called by one of his brothers.
"Oh hey, I think their starting the legends. Come on, we don't want to miss it." Embry said pulling Sara away from the water's edge. Sara laughed at Embry's child-like enthusiasms. She could see the deep excitement that he had in his eyes and she couldn't help herself but to just go along with it.
"Come here Sara, sit by me." Embry called out. Sara smiled and went to go sit by Embry but as she was passing another look alike tall guy with the weird tattoo sitting next to someone who clearly looked like an outsider she heard a low growl, almost animalistic. She looked over her shoulder once she was passed the guy and the sickly pale looking girl and noticed the guy was glaring at either her or Embry. Sara sat next to Embry as one of the elders, whose name she couldn't remember, started telling the Quileute Legends. She was glad to be sitting in front of the fire as the cold ocean breeze had started to get to her. Soon she slowly got lost in the sound of the elder's soothing voice.
"Sorry," A voice said, pulling Sara out of the elder's trance. She looked over to her right and saw another very large guy, the ones with the tattoo, with a slightly cocky smile on his lips as she sat down next to her.
"It's fine." Sara said as she moved over slightly closer to Embry. The guy held out his hand.
"The names' Paul." He whispered out. Sara looked down at his hand and then up at him.
"Sara, but I'm sure you already knew that." Sara said as she shook his hand. Paul grinned at her and nodded his head. As Sara shook his hand she felt a small jolt run through her body, starting from her hand. She glanced at her hand for a moment before trying to pull away but Paul had froze. Sara gave him her awkward smile and then tried once more to remove her hand from his grasp. But he didn't budge.
"Can I have my hand back?" Sara said in a whisper. Paul blinked a few time and then let go of her hand. Slowly she could see him coming back to reality.
"Oh yeah, sorry," Paul said. They both turned back to the elder to continue listening to the legend. Sara looked down at her hand again but saw no difference in her palms. She brushed it off as just static shock. It happened all the time, nothing new. Half way through the legends Sara had started to fall asleep. Subconsciously she started to lean on Paul, who didn't seem to mind at all. When the legends were over Paul tried his best to wake Sara up.
"Sara, Sara, come on you got to wake up." Paul said gently, nudging her awake with his free arm. Sara let out a small moan but didn't wake up. She didn't want to move. She was completely comfortable where she was. Paul tried once more to nudge her awake and this time he was able to draw a response from her.
"I don't want to." Sara grumbled out. Paul had a smirk on his face as she refused to move.
"Hey Sam, I don't think that your sister wants to move." Paul said, notifying his Alpha. He hadn't moved at all because Sara had claimed his shoulder as her pillow. Sam walked over to Paul and looked down at his sister-in-law.
"Can you take her home? I have to help Emily clean up." Sam said. Paul nodded his head. By now Sara had fallen asleep again. Paul shook his head as he started to slowly pick her up as gently as he could. He heard a low growl come from behind him. It was Jacob. He had returned after dropping off the Pale girl.
"What's wrong with you Black?" Paul sneered out. Paul made it no secret that he hated Pale outsider, especially when Jacob was around. Jacob continued to glare at Paul as he walked over to the sleeping form of Sara in Paul's arm.
"Let go of her." Jacob demanded. Paul glared back at Jacob.
"No." Paul spat out. He pulled away from Jacob and continued to walk towards Sam and Emily's house.
"Paul, I said let go of her. Now!" Jacob shouted out. This time he had gotten Sam's attention. Sam told Emily he would be right back and then quickly made his way over to where Jacob was standing.
"Hey! What's going on here?" Sam asked. Jacob didn't say anything but glare at Paul, who was still holding a sleeping Sara.
"Tell Black to chill out. I'm taking Sara home like you asked." Paul said possessively. Sam looked over to Paul and could see it clearly in his eyes.
"Paul, you didn't…. Did you?" Sam asked. Paul's anger subsided for a moment as he thought about the sleeping woman in his arms. He had a goofy smirk on his face as he nodded his head.
"Yeah, I think I did." Paul said. Sam didn't know what to say at the moment. Part of him was happy that the ill-tempered Wolf in Paul finally had found its mate but the other part of him was worried about what Emily would do to Paul when she found out.
"You couldn't have!" An enraged shout rang out. Paul and Sam quickly looked up from Sara's form and over to Jacob who was seething. Which left Sam and Paul quite dumbfounded.
"She's my imprint." Jacob stated. Sam had to do a double take, so did Paul. All three shape-shifters looked at each other, Sam looking back and forth between Sara, Paul and Jacob. Paul looked back and forth between Sam and Jacob; while Jacob was just glaring daggers at Paul. The three just stood there in silence aside from the sound of the waves crashing against the sand.
"I don't understand." Sam said breaking the silence between the three.
"You and me both," Paul said. "Look I'll be right back. Let me go put Sara down." Paul said as he started to pull away from the awkwardly formed group. Jacob tried to take a step forward to prevent Paul from taking his imprint away but was abruptly stopped by Sam's arm in front of him.
"That's enough Jacob. Look I don't know how this happened but for right now, just keep your distance from Sara." Sam ordered. Jacob let out an angry sigh and stalked away from Sam. Sam ran his hands over his face. He was racking his brain trying to think if he had heard any of the legends that would explain this but nothing came to mind. Soon he gave up on the thought for the moment and went back to helping Emily clean up.
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