I was frantic with worry wanting desperately to help them find him. My Dad refused to let me, he used the fact that I was sixteen and the youngest of his children against me. I didn't care, it was my best friend who was lost, my best friend who needed someone he would recognise to find him. Of course Sam Uley was there and he kept looking at me like I was special. I wasn't I was just some chick who was scared as hell about her best friend. No-one seemed to move from where we stood and it was then I knew, then I knew that this was base camp. I was considering running off into the forest to find her myself. I'd grown up around them and when we kids Charlie and Dad used to take us into the forest and I was always the one Jacob wanted around him. I've loved him ever since I can remember, I thought he was perfect, something he always argued with. He thought he was too clumsy, too pale, too plain to be perfect, to be loved, but I didn't care. Those things made Jacob Swan, Jake. Movement finally happened some four hours into me sitting on my ass doing nothing as I tried to help, but had to make sure Dad was happy with it. Sam Uley was walking out of the woods carrying a lifeless form and it took me a while to notice it was Jake. He looked like he'd given up on life and that it was all over. I barely heard any talking just Jake whispering 'she's gone', I sighed and knew that the Cullens must have left, after all Jake was dating their daughter Emilia. The Cullens were the only people who had ever got close to Jake since he came back, even me his childhood best friend was left forgotten, I knew it was about them, about Emilia, I remembered Charlie tell Dad about how she had seemed a little distant with Jake after his birthday at theirs. She was even paler than Jake who I used to joke was an albino, mind you he came up with it himself and I just used it, but he looked broken and I was scared that he'd never get over it. With Jake I could read him like a book, I knew all his traits and habits, I knew when he was lying and I knew his moods. Dad dragged me back to La Push even though I fought and wanted to be with Jake. He was my best friend and I didn't want to leave, I felt like I was abandoning him.

I jolted out of the day dream and sighed. I still remembered that day so very well and I hated that I could still see how fragile he looked that night. I'd hated Sam Uley then, I'd hated the Cullens for leaving and I'd hated Dad for making me stay behind. I'd been to visit him during his horrible catatonic state and it had cut into me like daggers. I felt sick with rage at Emilia for leaving Jake. Now I'm glad she did. Months later He'd come by with that ugly ass truck of his, THE THING, I nicknamed it. I could hear it coming even out in my garage and that was before I could hear all the way to the beach from my room. We'd spent weeks building up the motorcycles he bought and me being so young didn't care that they were meant to be dangerous, I loved them anyway. I was like the son Dad never had, I was into cars and motorcycles, Quil and Embry used to wrestle with me all the time and I preferred jeans and an old t-shirt. I sat still on the couch in my living room when a voice brought me back to earth.

"B are you in actually in there?" Embry laughed and I pushed him not in the mood for his jokes. I haven't seen Jake since we went to the cinema with his friend Mike, ugh mike he seems quite taken with me. I don't care, he could be bloody George Clooney or Zac Efron and I still wouldn't give a damn. Jake was it for me, I knew that before he came to forks again, I knew that before everything changed, I knew that now, but I couldn't tell him. I sighed heavily and looked at Embry my eyes must have looked sad because he hugged me.

"Sam knows what's best B, I know you love Jake, but if you see him and then imprint on someone else that's going to hurt both of you. Look at Sam, Emily and Leah." Embry said and I started to shake. I pushed him off me and took deep breaths thinking of Jake.

"I'm not Sam." I spat and ran out of my own house into the woods. I took off my clothes and tied them to me leg before phasing. I ran for a while calming down. I was lucky that I was alone in my thoughts. 'screw Sam.' I thought to myself and ran through the woods with a purpose. I came to the edge of the woods and saw Charlie's house with his cruiser outside, of course I hadn't expected any different with it being late evening almost night. I phased and dressed again runing to the house. I knew which was Jake's window and I threw a pebble at it until he opened the window.

"Stand back." I told him and launched myself into the house. I smiled at him and noticed he looked pissed.

"What are you doing here Isabella?" He asked me and I sighed. I was right he was pissed and I was fucked. I couldn't say shit to him about being a fucking wolf because of Sam's goddamn Alpha order. I steeled myself for the rush of anger that was waiting to come.

"I'm making things right. I know I pissed off for what a month? But I'm back, I'm here now. Jake I fucked up alright? I'm not even supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be back home with Embry. Sam's going to kill me if he finds out, but I had to come." I told him and looked at him. Then it all changed. Everything that I had keeping me here weren't important. My friends, the pack, my family, school, hunting the goddamn leeches. None of it mattered. All that mattered was the person infront of me, He was the one who mattered, the one who was important, the one I lived and breathed for. I imprinted on him and I bit my lip.

"What's this got to do with Sam? What the hell has he done to you Bells?" Jake asked me, his voice softer than before, but his eyes bewildered.

"Don't blame Sam, Jake. He's helped me cope with this...this change. I don't know if I can break his order just yet, but I will be able to soon. You know what's happened to me. Remember that day on the beach? I told you the legends, I don't know if you remember them or not." I said to him my voice breaking.

"The cold ones?" Jake said his voice making it sound like a question.

"Amongst others about the Quileutes. You have to guess Jake, I could tell you, but I don't if I can. Stupid order's from Sam." I said and realised I was breaking through his order about not being able to tell anyone. I suppose that finding your imprint and telling them isn't included in the order or that the imprints stronger than the order.

"Bella please, I'm tired, I've had a fuck awful day, just tell me won't you?" He asked and I had to tell him. I wrapped my arms around him and pulled him to his bed and sat with him.

"Before I tell you, promise me you won't scream or freak out. I'm still me Isabella Black, the tomboy of the family, I'm just a little different. Jake look at me, deep down beyond all this weird Quileute stuff I'm still me, I'm still the girl who made mud pies with you when we were kids." I smiled and took a deep breath as Jake nodded.

"You know how the Quileute people can turn into wolves because of the cold ones being nearby? Remember I never believed them and told you they were scary stories? I was wrong Jake, they're true. So fucking true. I'm proof of that, the first she-wolf in years, maybe in history, but I'm a wolf Jake." I told him. I was expecting horror, fear and distrust not what I got from him. He looked me in the eye and smiled.

"Sam's one too then I guess. Why couldn't you say anything then suddenly you could?" He asked and I shrugged.

"I don't know that one, but yeah he is. Come down La Push tomorrow and I'll explain it all to you, once I get all the answers from him. By the way Jake, you're good with weird."

"Yeah comes with the territory of living in the world of make-believe and dating a vampire." He laughed and I smiled. It was really the first time I had heard him laugh and I loved the sound. I had to leave and head out on patrol with Sam and Paul. I was major fucked, they would know I'd been to see Jake, they'd know I'd told him about the wolf thing, they'd know he was my imprint, what else wouldn't they fucking know?

"I have to leave. Sam's got me running patrol. I'll tell you everything tomorrow." I promised and jumped from his window landing with a soft thud hearing him whisper his good bye to me.