So even I have to admit that showing up to your older brother's house after thirteen years is kinda sucky. But in my defense my mom ran off and she kinda dragged me with her, I haven't seen my big brother in THIRTEEN YEARS, god I missed him. As I step out of my car I'm looking up at a beautiful three story house, the house I lived in for the first four years of my life. It's painted a pale blue with white shutters and a big double white front door. I remember running around the wraparound porch, always running away from Mom and toward Sam, it was our little game. I rub my hands down the front of my cover up sweater trying to dry the sweat there. I feel nervous and underdressed, I changed in the hotel in Seattle this morning after I showered but it wasn't my best outfit. I was in distressed skinny jeans, a white crop top, and a gray cover up sweater, with white sandals. My hair was up in a messy from driving and my sunglasses were pushed up on my head. I grip my phone and take a deep breath and then I walk up the front path toward the steps. As I'm about to knock on the door it flings open and I jump to the side as a bunch of shirtless guys start running out the door, no one notices me. I'm still standing there when a woman steps out on the porch with a little girl on her hip, she smiles when she sees me.

"Can I help you with anything sweetheart," she asks, but I can't answer because I'm staring at the massive scars running down the right side of her face, it looked like she'd been scratched by a bear.

Finally I manage to stop staring and stutter, "Uh...yeah. I'm sorry I think I might have the wrong house somehow, I'm looking for my brother."

The woman eyes me and asks, "Well who is you brother sweetheart?"

I'm starting to think she likes the word sweetheart as I said, "Sam Uley. He's twenty-seven, we grew up here and the lady at the diner said he still lives here. Do you know him?"

She looks at me cautiously and then laughs, "Yeah I know him sweetheart, he's my husband."

To say I was shocked would be an understatement, I mean I know he hasn't seen me since I was four and he was fourteen, but I thought we were close before, close enough to keep in touch, but maybe that was just me.

The woman looks at me and smiles, "You must be Caselyn. I'm Emily, why don't you come on in and get some breakfast, Sam will be back in a little while."

"Just Casey actually, no one calls me Caselyn except my mother," I say as I follow her inside my childhood home. Everything is exactly as I remember, or as much as I can remember, the living room is big and rustic, the kitchen is huge with a big island in the middle, there are stairs leading to the second floor in the kitchen and the living room, there were still markings in the door jamb of the kitchen with our initials, but there were others there with initials I didn't recognize.

Emily must have seen me looking at them because I heard her say, "Those are our children's heights, Wesley, Rebecca, and little Gabi," as she held the little girl up in the air. I was kind of sad that my brother had a family of his own, but then I was also happy he had people that loved him. We spent the next hour talking and eating, she told me about how she met Sam, all about their life and their children. My brother was happy, that should've made me happy, but I couldn't help but feel a slight pang of jealousy at the fact.

Emily was in the middle of telling me the story of her wedding day when the front door banged open and shirtless guys started pouring into the kitchen. The one in the front stopped abruptly at the sight of me and everyone else crashed into him.

All I heard for the next thirty seconds were questions like, "Who is she?" "What's your name?" "Do we know you?" and even, "Do you have a boyfriend?"

Now I'm not sure which one asked that last question but I was hoping it was the one in the middle of the group, he was tall like the others but his face betrayed him, showing his younger age, he had the biggest brown eyes I've ever seen and he has this easy smile across his face and I can't help but assume that smiling comes easy to him.

"This is Caselyn, and she's here to see Sam so if the nine of you will grab some food and go into the living room that would be nice," Emily says, with a determined look on her face. Everyone does as she says and then it's just the two of us, until from behind me I hear, "I hear I'm needed in here. Something about someone being here to see me."

His voice is deeper than I remember and as I turn around, I realize that's not the only change, my brother has gotten BIG, like the muscle kind of big. Once I finally look up into his face though, I see the same beautiful brown eyes full of nothing but kindness and love and I know this is the same fourteen year old boy I left behind.

Sam stares at me, he looks like he might cry as he says, "Caselyn? Is that really you?"

It takes me a second to answer him, but I'm finally able to whisper, "Yeah Sammy it's me." And then Sam's arms are around me and I'm spinning in the air.

We're both crying as he sets me back on the ground, "I can't believe you're here! Why are you here actually," he says, with the biggest smile on his face.

I take a deep breath, "Actually I'm here because Mom told me to get out of her house. She got a new boyfriend and when he tried to make a move on me it was either me or him and she chose him. She always told me that you and Dad didn't care about us and that was why we had to leave, but I really think she just said that because she was afraid I would eventually get fed up and leave if I knew I had something better waiting for me. I was never allowed to contact you guys and now I know it might be too late, but when she kicked me out I had no where to go, I wanted some place safe and this was the last place I could remember really feeling safe, this house with you and Dad, so here I am. But I know you have you're own family, so I'll be leaving I just wanted to see you."

Sam just looks at me for moment, letting everything I just told him sink in, then he smiles and says, "You've always had a home here, ever since you left. Dad even made a new room for you on your sixteenth birthday, he always knew you would come home eventually. We have the room and this is where you belong so you're staying. We'll enroll you in school first thing tomorrow, the first semester starts Monday."

I almost feel like crying until I can't cry anymore as I look up into one of the two faces that have loved me my whole life and ask, "What do you mean Dad always 'knew' I would come back home?"

Sam's eyes darken with sadness and I know, my dad is dead, he died and I wasn't here to say goodbye. "Did he think I hated him? Did he know that I loved you guys, that I didn't wanna leave with her? She is a monster and I hate her and does he know," I ask, as tears start rolling down my cheeks. Sam just holds me against his base chest and let's me cry.

Finally I calm down and step back, "Sorry, I'm really not this emotional," I say, as I wipe my face and blow my nose. "Oh it's okay sweetheart, Sam's been through three pregnancies with me, he's used to heavy crying by now," Emily says, trying to make me feel better.

Sam just laughs and says, "Do you remember where you always wanted you room to be? The little tower room, as you called it. Well that's the room Dad set up for you now that you're older. Why don't you go on up and get some rest we'll unpack your car later."

I feel kind of embarrassed as I say, "Well I only have a duffel bag full of clothes, a box of shoes, and a box with some pictures. So I'll just grab that and head on up." Sam doesn't look at me with pity, like I expected, he just nods and says, "Alright, but we're gonna take you shopping to get you anything you might need. Oh and I'll get one of the guys to help you carry it up." And before I can protest he's yelling through the house, "Hey Seth get in here and help Caselyn unpack her car."

Well I can say I felt a little better when Seth turned out to be the guy I was admiring earlier. He comes into the kitchen with a big smile on his face, but then he just kind of freezes and he's just staring into my eyes, and I don't know what it is but I swear I heard Sam growl, like an actual growl and then the moment is over and Seth is smiling again. "Alright let's get your stuff," he says. I lead him out to the car and unlock it, when I open the trunk and he sees what little stuff I have I expect him to say something, but he just nods and grabs it all in one load. I lock the car again and then lead him back into the house and up to my room.

Once in there he puts my things on the little bench at the end of my bed, "There you go, all set Case he says, as he's heading for the door. "It's actually Caselyn, but I prefer to be called Casey," I say, as I turn around to face him.

Seth just smiles and says, "Well I'm gonna call you Case, so get used to it." And then he just walks out.

Instead of following him and giving him a piece of my mind, I look around my new room and I can say my Dad knew me pretty well, for not knowing me at all. The bed had a silky black sheet set and a deep purple comforter. There was a reading window that over looked the side yard, and a set of French glass doors that led to a balcony facing the ocean. There was a black desk right inside the door, with some fancy boundes journals and pens. There was a black side table on each side of the bed. There was a dark purple, old couch, beside the reading window. There was an oak bookcase full of books on the other side right inside the door. The closet was on the wall across from the couch. And there was a black dresser next to the closet door. And there was a white fluffy rug covering part of the floor. I love it, it is the best present I've ever been given and the last present I'll ever receive from my dad. My dad is gone and I miss him, suddenly all I wanna do is sleep.

Before taking a nap, I unpack my clothes and put them away, and set some of my pictures up. I go and change into some sleep shorts and a t-shirt, then I crawl in between the covers and I'm out.

I only intended to sleep a couple of hours, I was going to get up around lunch time and explore the rez, but a few hours turned into a nine hour nap. When I open my eyes, the clock on my table says it's six pm exactly. I crawl out of the bed and go to the bathroom, after peeing I wash my hands and brush my teeth. I consider changing, but I'm really just too tired, so I throw my hair up into a messy bun, grab my cover up sweater, and head down stairs.

As I get closer to the kitchen, I hear voices, lots of voices, "So she's home for good?" "Is she okay?" "Does she need anything?" "Can I wake her up?" I laugh at the last one, it came from a little boy, he looked about five and he was the spitting image of Sam.

Everyone turns at the sound of my laugh, so I walk down the rest of the stairs and say, "Sorry, I didn't mean to sleep so long. I guess I didn't realize how exhausted I was." It's kind of overwhelming, there are about twenty adults and ten children. One of the guys comes over and throws his arm around my shoulders and says, "Yeah well that kind of exhaustion is expected when you drive for an undetermined amount of hours. Where did you come from anyway?" I'm definitely feeling a little weird with a stranger's arm around me but I manage to say, "North Carolina."

Everyone just kind of looks at for a second, then Sam says, "Well that's a long drive. On another note, the goof next to you is Jake this is his wife Renessmae, but she likes to be called Ness or Nessie," the woman he pointed to had long red hair and porcelain skin, then he pointed to another couple, "this is Paul and Rachel, Quil and Claire, Embry and Leah, Jared and Kim, and those two over there are Colin and Brady and you know Seth already." I smile shyly and say, "I'm Caselyn but you can call me Casey." They all smile and say hi, then Emily introduces the kids, "This is Weseley, Rebecca, and Gabriella, our kids. Then Paul and Rachel have Isaac, Leah and Embry have Dina, Kim and Jared have Jocelyn, Jake and Ness have Matthew or Matty, and then Quil and Claire have Jackson." Wow, that's a lot of children in one house.

"Uh okay. Who are those kids back there," I ask, pointing toward the back door. "Oh that's Kaitlyn and Taylor, their adopted, Alice and Jasper are Kaitlyn's parents and Emmett and Rosalie are Taylor's parents," Sam says, pointing to the people coming up the walk behind the girls, "and the two people in the very back are Ness' parents, Edward and Bella, the adults are related." I don't bother mentioning that Edward and Bella don't look old enough to be Ness' parents, it seems kind of rude, and I just figure if the other children were adopted so Ness was too.

"Okay, nice to meet all of you. So what are we doing," I ask, ready to get the attention off of me. "We're about to eat dinner actually so if you wanna head outside and sit down it'll be right out," Emily says, with a smile and a nod toward the back door.

As I'm heading toward the door, I hesitate, "Uh where am I supposed to sit," I ask, as I notice all the chairs at the big table. Seth suddenly appears beside me a grabs my hand, "Well Case you get the wonderful, and very rare, pleasure of sitting by me," he says with a big smile and a laugh. I knew he was kidding, and I found myself smiling an actual smile for the first time in months. "Well I guess I better take some pictures, memorialize my good fortune, huh," I say, with a laugh. Now I've never been the kind of person that falls in love easily, and I don't let myself feel things, but in this moment, right here right now, my heart skipped a beat, as Seth threw his head back and laughed the loudest laugh, his eyes sparkled and his chest rumbled and he was just so handsome.

I don't even realize I'm staring, until he leans close to my ear and whispers, "You might wanna close your mouth before that drool spills out." I try not to blush, as I look up at him and say, "I don't know what you're talking about." Seth just smiles at me as everyone else begins sitting down around us. Emily made salad, mashed potatoes, and some beans, while Sam grilled steak on the grill.

After everyone sits down, Sam starts making all the children's plate, and then the food us being passed around the table. Everyone is laughing and joking and telling stories, it feels like a family, it feels safe, it's feels like home. "So Casey tell us about North Carolina, what was it like," Kim asks, just as Jared shakes his head at her. As I look around the table I notice that all the guys look increasingly uncomfortable, almost like they know what I told Sam, but the girls seem oblivious.

Before Sam can speak up for me I say, "Um...well it was nice. We lived in a little apartment about five minutes from the beach. Eli, my friend, has a house right on the beach, I used to spend most of my time there. We would walk up and down the same stretch of beach over and over, just talking about everything. He's actually the reason I came here, he told me that I needed to find out for myself if what my mother always told me was true, and I'm really glad he did." They all seem satisfied at that, and I'm able to finish my dinner without answering anymore questions.

I'm just getting up to put my dishes in the sink, when my phone rings, Leah picks it up from the table and says, "Uh Honey is calling you, sorry I didn't mean to look at it." As I'm reaching to take it, I swear Seth growls next to me, "It's okay, thank you," I say to her, and grab my phone from her. I walk down to the beach as I answer it. "Hey, how are you," I ask as soon as I pick up. "Oh my God bitch you're alive, thanks for telling me by the way, but you are never gonna guess who I saw macking lips with your mom," Eli practically shouts into the phone. I'm a little confused as I say, "My mom? My mom is dating that biker dude down the street from you." Eli chuckles into the phone, "Yeah not anymore she isn't. Now she's dating our old English teacher, Mr. Sanders. Can you believe that? I almost died when I saw them together yesterday. But anyway how are you girl? Are you okay? Did you make it? Was your back stabbing mother lying like I said?" I take a deep breath and explain everything to him, including the weird moment with Seth, he is my best friend after all. "Wait, so you're telling me it's your first day there and a total hottie is already hitting on you and you actually like him? Girrlll I need to come where you are," Eli says, after I finish telling him everything. "Yeah yeah you're so funny, look I gotta go, be safe Eli I miss you so much," I say noticing that everyone was done eating and heading inside. "Okay babe I miss you too and I love you be safe," he says, with a sigh. I'm fighting back tears as I say "I love you too baby. Tell Henry hi for me. I'll call you soon. Bye."

After I hang up, I pull myself together and then head back up to the house. Seth is still sitting at the table as I'm walking by. "Is he your boyfriend," Seth asks, with a nod to my phone. Normally I would be insulted that he listened to part of my conversation and that he was asking such a personal question when we barely knew each other, but the look on his face makes me think that he's not trying to be nosy, he really wants to know. "No. That was Eli, my best friend. He was the one that told me to come here," I finally say. Seth sighs and then whispers, "But you called him baby and told him you loved him, and he's 'Honey' in your phone." I look at Seth for a second before responding, "Yeah he calls me babe, and I call him baby. It's just what we do and I do love him, he's been there for me for as long as I can remember. I know you know about what I told Sam, about what happened to make my mom kick me out. Well that night my mom wasn't home, I ran to Eli's and stayed there for three days before I finally confronted my mom. Eli is my family, so yeah I love him. Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go take a shower." Seth grabs my arm and asks, "So you're just his friend but does he know that? Does he know that you don't want more than friendship?" I want to be angry, but I can't help but laugh as I say, "Well since you were obviously listening to my conversation you must of heard me mention Henry, that's Eli's boyfriend, he's gay, so I think he understands that we're just friends." Seth let's go of my arm and steps back, with an embarrassed look on his face, he starts to say something, but I just walk inside.

"Hey how was your phone call? Everything okay," Emily asks, as I step inside. I sigh and say, "Oh it was nice. Eli was just filling me in on some stuff. He misses me, but he doesn't want me to go back." Emily smiles sadly, "I'm sorry sweetheart. You know your friend is welcome to visit anytime." I want to cry as I say, "Thank you I'll have to let him know. Do you need any help? I feel like I haven't done anything." Emily laughs, then says, "Oh no sweetheart, why don't you go on upstairs and take a bath or a shower, Sam will help me with these." I just smile and head upstairs. I pass Gabriella's room on the way to mine, and Sam walks out. "Hey, you going to bed," he asks. I just nod with a tired smile. "Alright I'll see you in the morning. We're gonna send you shopping with Alice and Rosalie if that's okay. Good night, I love you," Sam says, as he hugs me and kisses my forehead. I just hug him back and kiss his cheek, then walk the rest of the way to my room.

I barely manage to take a shower and brush my teeth, before crawling into bed. Right before I drift off to sleep, a howl pierces through the night, it sounds so sad and heartbroken, my heart aches for the wolf that owns that heartbroken howl. Then I drift off to sleep.

I wake up to voices, loud voices, I roll over to look at my clock, it reads six forty-five am. I know I've only been here for a day, and it's really not my house, but I am not a morning person, and so that is why I storm down the stairs, into the kitchen, and shout over the voices, "Is there a reason you people are up at six forty-fove AM on a Saturday morning, and screeching like vultures? I know this may not be my house, but there are other people sleeping still, have some common courtesy."

Everyone is silent for a moment then Colin says, "Nice pjs can I come up and join you in bed. All that anger is real hot." If looks could kill Colin would be dead right there, Sam is only calm because he has Rebecca in his arms, but Seth, he isn't holding a child and he looks like he's about to grab Colin and throw him through a window, and the others don't look all that happy.

Before any harm can come to him, I walk up to Colin and pull him close by his collar and say, "Oh honey, you can't handle all this, you don't know anything about us east coast women. Nice try though kid." And then I turn around and walk back up the stairs to the sounds of laughing and jabbing at Colin. I know there's no way I'm gonna be able to go back to sleep so I go to the bathroom and brush my teeth.

Back in my room I sit down in front of the mirror attached to my desk and start doing my make up, I choose to do a smokey eye look with blood red lipstick. I throw on a jean skirt that stops mid thigh, and a dark red flowy tank top with a black leather jacket, and a pair of five inch black high heeled ankle boots. I'm not exactly tall, without heels I'm five feet two inches, so five inch heels aren't that bad. To top off the outfit I curl my hair and pull some of the front up into a high ponytail while the rest stays down. After I'm done getting dressed I check myself out in the mirror, and not to be conceited or anything, but I look pretty damn hot. I grab my phone and purse and head down stairs.

Maybe dressing this good after Colin was already being a flirty jerk was a bad idea, at least that's what I'm thinking when I walk back into the kitchen and he's whistling at me. Every person in the room is staring at me, I suddenly feel very self conscious.

"Okay okay stop whistling at her. Casey you'll be going shopping with Alice, Rosalie, and Bella too now, is that okay," Sam says, as he shoving everyone out of the kitchen. I sigh with relief and say, "Yeah that's fine." Sam smiles and says, "Good because they're waiting outside for you. Have fun and don't fight them, let them get you whatever you want." I just nod at him and head towards the front door feeling a little nervous.

If I thought I looked hot before, well now I feel like a freaking potatoe compared to these three. I don't know what it is but Bella, Alice, and Rosalie are the three most beautiful people I have ever seen. Their clothes fit them like a glove and their hair has this natural shine even when the sun isn't out, and their smiles are the brightest things to ever grace the Earth. "Hey Casey, are you ready to get going," the blonde one asks, I think she's Rosalie but I can't really remember. "Uh yeah I'm ready..." I stutter out, trying to remember her freaking name. "Rosalie. The one with the pixie hair cut is Alice and this long haired beauty is Bella," she says, with a smile and I don't feel so bad anymore.

"Sorry I'm still learning names," I say, as we all climb into the car. "Oh that's okay we understand. So we were thinking of driving to Seattle, because Forks doesn't really have everything we're looking for. We just wanna get you the basic like shoes, clothes, electronics, school supplies, hair stuff, you know the basics," Alice breaths out rather quickly, but not quickly enough for me to miss anything. "Um electronics? What do you mean by electronics," I ask hesitantly.

Before Alice can respond Bella speaks up, "Well we're gonna buy you a new phone, you can keep the same number, but that phone is old and it has got to go. And Sam said you didn't have T.V. so we're gonna get you that and you need a laptop of course, for school work or just for fun." My head is spinning as I mutter, "But that's a lot of expensive stuff, Sam didn't give you guys too much money did he? I don't want him to spend a lot on me."

All three of them start laughing, then Rosalie says, "Sam didn't give us any money, we're paying for all of this. We have a lot of money saved. Our father, Carlisle, he came from money back home in New York and he's made even more over the years. We don't like to brag about it because we're not like that, the money really isn't important to us, but we're like mega rich."