This story is about Collin and his imprint Alison. I don't think enough people write about Collin. You don't really know much about him so you can really do whatever you want with him. I hope you like it. I think it's pretty could so far and please review. one of the things that annoy me most is when there is a bunch of people reading my story but most of them don't even bother to review. it's not like I'm asking you to do anything hard.

Unravelling secrets

Chapter 1 - The Beginning

The night of my fourteenth birthday was one of the weirdest nights of my life but yet, it was one of my favourites. It was the night I phased for the first time, the night I joined the La Push pack. It was the night that I learnt about the world that I thought didn't exist; that I didn't think could exist. The world of the supernatural. I remember it so clearly. I guess it's not really something that can easily be forgotten but I remember it like it only just happened and sometimes it feels like it too. These past few years have been the best of my life. I've never felt like I really belonged before but since I first phased, I've felt wanted and overwhelmed with the sense of family.

I've never been happier.

The night I phased, my father was driving me home. He had caught me at a party that I snuck out of the house to be at. "This isn't the first time you've snuck out isn't it?" He mumbled and I ignored him, looking out the window at the trees and houses passing by. "Isn't it?" He said more loudly.

I sighed. "No." I mumbled, closing my eyes. I knew it was coming. He was going to ground me for who knows how long, then he's going to tell my mom and she's going to give me the cold shoulder for a week. It's the same damn thing every time.

"I can't believe this. How old are you, Collin." He said loudly, letting the anger seep into his voice. He used to scare me when I was a kid but I've grown taller than him recently and now, he's only a overprotective father who has no idea what he's doing.

"Fourteen." I replied softly.

He huffed a sigh. "Exactly, so act like it." I gripped the door handle, wishing that I could just jump out and run away, far away. "I can't believe this. I thought I could trust you Collin but apparently not."

I gripped the handle tighter. "What about you, dad? Do you do everything that you say you're going to do." I say loudly, turning in my seat to face him. I felt my hands start to shake. I clenched them into fists as I watched his surprise with some satisfaction.

He looked over at me, frowning. "Excuse me." He said and I rolled my eyes.

"Don't act like you don't know. You never do what you say you're going to do. Alana has no friends, Kendra is doing drugs and Alex, I don't even want to start. You and mom rarely ever pay any attention to us unless we're threatening to blow your cover. Your stupid picture of the perfect family that you show everybody else. You don't care about us and neither does mom. I wouldn't be surprised if we were all just accidents, never meant to happen." My voice rose to a yell. I watched as my father looked out the window as he drove, face red with anger that otherwise didn't show. I realized then that I hated him. He and my mother were the reason for mine and my sibling's problems. I was so furious. "Nothing has ever been the same since Max died. Get over it, he's gone."

Then suddenly pain shot up my spine. I let out a cry, my entire body shaking now. I vaguely heard my father's stunned voice call out my name but I didn't respond. My body jerked and twisted as I let out another cry of pain. I hadn't realized that the car had stopped until my father opened my door, unbuckling my seat-belt and I fell to the ground. On the damp ground, I dug my nails into the dirt, my eyes squeezed shut. My body jerked again, sending me in the ditch and onto my stomach. There was a sudden POP as bones snapped. More pain shot through me, more powerful this time and I yelled, wishing it would stop. What was happening to me? I thought. I could feel myself changing. More bones snapped and body jerked, twisting. I heard ripping and felt like I was expanding. I cried out again but it didn't sound like what I was expecting. It sounded more like a growl then anything. My body felt like it was pulsing, growing, reshaping. It was too much. Then it stop but it was no where near the end.

Voices filled my head, five voices that I later found out belonged to Sam Uley, Jacob Black, Seth Clearwater, Leah Clearwater and Brady Blackfeet. It didn't take long for Seth, Brady and I to become friends after that night. They helped me a lot that night.

My father, who had suspect that I was going to phase someday because he was one of the Elders but didn't think it was going to be so soon, told me once I had settled down and phased back that I wasn't allowed to tell anybody else in my family about it. I didn't understand why until a year later when Alana accidental found out. Let's just say that she is naturally curious and had a lot of free time on her hands and she caught me phasing one night. She was terrified of me and nearly blew the whole secret. Lot's of drama but in the end it pulled us closer together.

Three years after that first night, I met Alison Creek and she was perfect. She was moving to La Push with her father and two brothers after her parents had a bad divorced. I had met her at school on her first day and I fell for her instantly. I knew when I saw her that she was the one, my imprint. She was beautiful and to not make that sound corny, I wasn't the only one that thought so. She had all the Native American features. Her eyes were almost completely black and she had a shock of long curly black hair. Her skin was a dark russet colour. Her lips were full and her eyes were wide with innocence. She was perfect and at first I couldn't look away.

For a year, we were the closest of friends, inseparable. We did almost everything together and I dreaded the few times a year when she had to leave to visit her mom with her brothers. I could barely function when the time came but I put on a brave face for her. I would do anything for her. I would jump in front of a bullet for her. Not that it would actually hurt me but you get the point.

The real story starts I guess, a week from my seventeenth birthday. I was in her room waiting for her to change in her walk-in-closet. I sat on her bed, looking at all the pictures of us and our friends that she had pined up on the wall over her desk. "So what do you want for your birthday?" She called from her closet.

I sighed. "Nothing of course. I hate presents." I replied and she walked out rolling her eyes at me. She was wearing her favorite white t-shirt, dark skinny jeans and black converse.

"Collin, you are such a party pooper." She exclaimed and sat down on her desk chair and rolled over so she sat in front of me.

I shrugged. "I've been told." I smirked at her and she cracked a grin.

"Come on Collin seriously, this is the first birthday that I'm going to be here for and I want to get you something that you're actually going to like. You're going to be eighteen, graduation is in two months. Don't ruin this for me." She said and then pulled the puppy dog face on me.

I groaned, falling back on the bed and grabbed a pillow to put over my eyes. "I hate it when you do that. You know I can't resist that." If only she knew why.

I heard her chuckle. "It's not my fault you're such a push over."

I lifted the pillow away from my face and my eyes narrowed at her playfully. "No, being a push over is when Seth gets you to take blame for pissing off Leah. You're just evil."

She rolled her eyes at me and climbed onto the bed beside me on her stomach. "Don't tell me he got you to do that did he." She asked, eyebrows raised in mock horror."

"No." I said, a little too innocently and hit her with the pillow.

Her mouth fell opened, mockingly. "He did, didn't he?" She exclaimed and I frowned.

"No." I repeated and she raise a brow knowingly. "Fine." I said loudly. "But it was a long time ago." I said, defensively.

"Mmmhmm. Right." She said sarcastically and she flipped over on her back so our arms were touching. We stared up at the ceiling for a few minutes. The whole time, I was enjoying the sensation that her touch gave me.

"You know." She started suddenly. "You never told me why you were so hot."

I knew what she meant but it wasn't a subject I wanted to talk about at the moment. "Why thank you. I guess I just got lucky." I said, forcing a small laugh and pulling my shirt up and patted my flat, hard stomach.

She groaned and hit me hard with a pillow. "You know what I meant."

"Hey." I said. "that wasn't very nice." I pouted.

"And you're an idiot." She replied smartly.

"Come on you know that was funny." I said, poking her in the ribs.

"Whatever."

I rolled my eyes. "Anyway, what are we going to do today?"

I felt her shrug. "I don't know. What do you want to do?"

"I don't care. Whatever you want to do." I said. As long as I was with her, I didn't care.

"I hate it when you do that. I always chose. Why don't you chose for once?" She said and looked over just as I did the same. Our eyes met and locked. I vaguely heard her stop breathing but hey, I wasn't either. I looked into her dark eyes and wished I could look into them forever. They were so original and beautiful. They were perfect.

Before I knew what I was doing, I leaned closer so our faces were only about an inch apart. She looked at me and leaned a little closer. We were so close I could feel her warmth. She was so beautiful. I couldn't resist and apparently neither could she. We closed the small space left between us and we ended up in a kiss. Sparks exploded and flew everywhere inside me. I've waited for this for so long. When she moved here, she wasn't looking for a boyfriend, only a best friend who could help her get through the divorce and later we were both happy just spending time together. We didn't need anything else.

It was such a sweat and innocent kiss. So pure and nice. It felt right and I knew it was. I could only hope she knew it too. I'd do anything for her and I love her.

"Wow." She whispered when we pulled away to breath. "That was..."

"Perfect." I said and reached out to stroke her cheek. She smiled and took hold of my hand and held it to her cheek. She bit her lip smiling and I laughed dazed.

Suddenly I heard the light footsteps of someone walking down the hall and stop in front of the bedroom door. Now, I could here a heart beating and breathing just on the other side of the door. I looked back at the door for a second and nobody came in or knocked on the door. I looked back at her and smirked. "What." She asked, laughing.

"Your brother is on the other side of the door." I whispered and she frowned.

"How do you do that?" She said but got up and quietly went to the door. She looked back at me and I nodded, smiling. She rolled her eyes and pulled the door open and sure enough Josh, her younger brother, tumbled in, surprise. "You little brat. How many times do I have to tell you. Stop eavesdropping. I'm going to kill you." she yelled and ran down the stairs after Josh. I rolled my eyes before running after her. I knew what it was like to have siblings annoy you. I had three. Although not really my older brother Alex. Not since I grew taller than him and proved to be stronger and faster. I laughed at the memory when I had finally come home after phasing.

I soon found them in the back yard and laughed when I saw that Alison had Josh in a headlock. "Ali, don't break him." I said, smiling.

She looked up, frowning. "Shut up, Collin."

I laughed and rolled my eyes but inside I was serious. I knew what it was like to lose a brother. It was a long time ago but I still remember it well. Max died when he was seven. At first I thought he was mulled by a bear but I learnt when I phased that this was a lie. He was killed by a vampire, sucked dry. The point though is that I thought I hated him. I wished he would leave me along but when he was gone I felt terrible. I don't want that for Alison. If anything were ever to happen to Josh, she would feel the way I felt and I didn't want that.

I walked over to them. "Come on Ali. Let him go. He's just a kid." I said and gently pulled them apart.

Josh ran away and she looked up at me with a frown and her arms were crossed. "If you weren't two feet taller and at least five times stronger than me, you would never have gotten away with that." She said, then wiggled a finger at me.

I laughed and put an arm over her shoulders. "Come on. Let's go get something to eat. I'm starving."

She poked me in the side. "Your always starving. It's not like you need anymore."

" Are you impling that I'm fat." I said in a fake horror.

I looked down to see her smirk. "Not at all."

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Late that night

I had to climb threw my window that night, which wasn't easy, even for me. Since my mom still didn't know about me, I had to climb threw my two story window so she wouldn't hear what time I got in. I mostly only did this when I got back from patrols but it was 1 in the morning so I thought best to just do it this way.

I pulled myself through and laid down on the floor and closed my eyes. I was exhausted. I've been up for at least two days. Actually, between school, Alison and my second life as a giant dog, I rarely get more than a few hours of sleep at a time. I was so tired that I didn't hear the beating heart and soft breathing of someone the bed until a few second later. "What do you want Alana?" I mumbled. I was not in the mood for talking at the moment.

"When was the last time you slept Collin?" She asked knowingly.

I shrugged. "I don't know." i mumbled, almost unintelligible.

She chuckled a little. "You know it's a bad thing when you don't even remember the last time you slept." She said with a smile in her voice, then sighed. "You really should sleep more, Collin." She said seriously.

"Mmmhmmm." I murmured.

She didn't say anything for a few minutes and I was about to fall asleep when she finally spoke up again. "When are you going to tell her?" She said softly. I looked up at her in surprise and was her deep brown eyes staring seriously down at me.

"What?"

"You know it's been a year, right. If you can't trust her now, your never going to be able to trust her. Do you trust her?"Alana spoke softly.

It my exhausted brain a few seconds to realize what she was saying. I took a deep breath before I heaved myself up into a sitting position and put my face in my hands. I sighed. "Haven't we already had this conversation?" I mumbled into my hands.

"That doesn't matter. Answer the question."

I sighed again. "It's not that I don't trust her. I'd trust her with anything. It's just I don't want her to know because she doesn't need know." I never wanted her to find out. She doesn't need to so she won't ever know. I know everyone says I should tell her but I don't want to. They say I'll be happier if she knew but this isn't about my happiness, it's about hers.

"So you just plan to go on with your life and not tell her about half of your life."

I took a deep breath, trying to control the tremors that started racking through my body. "I'll quit when it's time and she'll never need to know." I murmur threw clenched teeth.

I heard her sigh frustrated. "Collin, she's your imprint. She deserves to know."

I shook my head and looked up at her. "No, she deserves a normal life. She's already been through enough, I don't want to take the chance to make her go through more."

"She would want to know." She persisted and my hands turned into fist at my sides. It was getting harder to control the shaking.

"How would you know. You didn't exactly take it well yourself."

She sighed. "I over reacted. Alison won't do that and you of all people should know that."

I pit down hard on my lip. "I don't know that Alana. It's not something that you can easily predict. It took Leslie two weeks to get over the shock of finding out about Seth and everyone thought that she was going to take it the best out of everyone."

She frowned. "Well... Seth could have done that better."

I shook my head. "He made a mistake. It wasn't his fault." I said and memories flashed at the back of my mind. Leslie was Seth's imprint and he wasn't paying attention one day and said something to Brady about the patrols within earshot off her. Well lets just say, things didn't go well after that.

"And what if you made a mistake. Wouldn't it be better to tell her they you would want to instead of by accident."

"It won't happen." I said a little too loudly. I listened if anybody had heard but nothing changed. I took deep breaths and slowly the tremors started to slow.

"How do you know that?" She asked softly after a few moments so I could calm down a bit.

I sighed. "I don't but that doesn't matter." I whispered. She was about to say something more but I cut her off. "Alana, go to bed. I'm exhausted and if you say anything more, your in danger of me phasing."

She didn't move for a few seconds and I could feel her eyes on me. "Fine." She said softly and left the room.

I laid back down on the floor. I was too tired to even try to get on the bed. A part of me knew that the last few things that she said were true but it didn't matter. I could only hope that nothing like that would ever actually happen.

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