Chapter 1:
I strolled out of the forest and headed home detouring along the beach. I had just spent the last six hours running in circles and my god once you have done a couple of laps around the res the boredom and irritation starts to sink in, I always felt the world spinning when I got off patrol and today was no different. I walked slowly along the beach not in any hurry I really didn't have anything waiting for me, my pack brothers are the only people I tolerate and socialise with anymore.
I should probably take this walk to introduce myself, Paul Meraz is the name and I am a member of the La Push Protectors AKA Sam's gang that's what we are called by outsiders, people who are not in on the secret. What is the secret you may ask, for me to tell you that I have to take you back three years when Sam Uley disappeared. It is quite a simple tale really one day Sam was there and the next he was gone no-one really noticed at first apart from his girlfriend at the time, after two months missing and two months searching for him he suddenly reappeared in La Push. Although he was the same guy he looked totally different and so the rumour mill began mostly it was gossip and speculation about whether or not he was on drugs and I honestly must say that I believed he was.
A few weeks after being back Sam dropped his girlfriend of four years and immediately started dating her cousin; even to me that was harsh but of course I didn't know what was really happening back then not like I do now. It was around a year after Sam got back when things started to get weird, first Jared my best friend since we were in diapers one day just stopped talking to me or ignoring me when I tried to talk to him, next thing I know he is hanging out with Sam. I have always had a bad temper but when Jared switched sides so to speak my anger hit an all-time high it wasn't just anger anymore it was a burning rage and the bitterness of betrayal. Two months I sat around watching my best friend follow Sam around like a fucking puppy dog and the more I watched the angrier I became until one Wednesday I just exploded.
The pain was indescribable it felt like every bone in your body was being snapped all at once and filled with acid thankfully however it didn't last long before I was flat on forest floor panting. When the pain had dissipated I opened my eyes to see clarity like I had never seen before, I could see and hear and smell for miles it was incredible that was until I went to stand up and found I had four legs that were awfully hairy. I was thankful that Sam and Jared were there to explain what was going on and why it happened in the first place, it also made me regret the things I had said and thought about the two of them. To be honest I am just grateful to have my friend back.
A scent reached my nose it was unlike anything I had ever smelt before it was lily's and roses and the ripest of strawberries with just a drizzly of chocolate, It was breath taking and oh so yum. But there was something more about it, a glanced around the beach trying to find the source. The only other person on the beach was a teenage girl most likely around seventeen she was sitting on her legs staring out of the ocean, even though she was far away I could still tell she was crying I couldn't smell it or see it but I just knew. I was hit by a need to protect her and keep her safe I had no idea why but seeing her crying had me vibrating in anger, I don't think it was the fact that she was crying I think it was more the fact that someone had upset her. I could feel someone approaching me from behind but I could look away from her it may have been the way she looked just so damn small or the way my emotions were contradicting my head, I was the last person to ever feel anything I had my beliefs and they are that feelings make you weak and when your weak the enemy can strike. Jared appeared at my side frowning as he looked at my shaking form I hadn't realized just how close I was to phasing and in public none the less, He put his hand on my shoulder trying to get my attention but I just couldn't look away from the girl. Jared's followed mine until he too was staring at the small women, the gasp that escaped his mouth was one of shock and awe never has two pack members ever felt so connected as they did to her. I was the first one to pull away and nudge Jared bring him out of his stupor.
"I think we need to go talk to Sam." Jared said before heading towards the little fairy-tale like cottage on the edge of the woods. I just nodded and followed after him I didn't really have any idea what I was doing god knows I could be walking the plank and still have no clue right now.
"Sam!" Jared yelled walking into the yard behind the cottage; Sam flew out the door checking around quickly for danger or something that would explain the boys yelling for him, when he found nothing he looked to Jared and I raising an eyebrow. How did he do that, he didn't even need to say anything before we were spilling our guts to the alpha, I could see on his face that this was the last thing he expected to be coming out of my mouth and I was a little shocked as well. Since when am I ever like this?