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Chapter one-AWOL

"Sam?" I yelled frantically into the receiver "Sam?" I sighed as it finally answered.

"Leah?" a weary voice returned.

"Mrs. Uley?" I asked disappointed "He's not back yet is he?" I asked already knowing the answer.

"No hon, sorry" she sounded tired.

"Can you…?"

"As soon as he gets in…" she interrupted.

"Thanks" I said glumly putting down the phone.

I stomped back upstairs, reaching my room I threw myself across my bed, gazing longingly out of the window. Where was he?

It had been weeks but he still hadn't turned back into the carefree, loving and sweet boy I'd fallen in love with that first day of high school. A few months ago he'd just up and ran away; no one had known where he'd gone or what he'd done, though many had speculated. He'd never told me even, his long-term girlfriend. Then he just turned up one day, he'd returned different. He was darker, more brooding; there was an anger within him that hadn't been there before, and though I'd never tell him, at times he scared me silly.

There were also times like tonight, when he went completely AWOL. No-one had seen him in three days; I was at my wits end…what if he'd run away again?

I'd been dozing when the phone began to ring; I nearly fell off the bed in my aim to reach the door.

"Hey Sam!" my brother, Seth, had answered the call. I sped down the stairs and stretched out my hand, tapping my foot in the rhythm of my impatience.

"She's right here" Seth handed me the phone and high tailed it.

"Sam? Where have you been? Are you okay? When can I see you?" my questions ran into each other as I rushed to seek the knowledge that he was actually there alive and talking to me.

"Lee-Lee, please calm down, I'm fine" his voice wasn't playful as it would have been a few months ago "I just needed to get my head around a few things…" he sighed audibly, what had that meant?
"Can I see you?" I asked and he sighed again, like his mother he sounded tired.

"I don't know…" he said unsure.

"Please Sammy" I pleaded.

"I'll see what I can do" he said, I smiled.

"See you soon" I whispered.

"I love you Lee-Lee" he whispered.

"I love you too Sam." I put the phone down and began to wander around the house a huge grin on my face.

"Someone's happy" my mom called from the kitchen.

"Sam's back" I said to her simply, her smile was much too knowing.

I rushed back upstairs to pull a brush through my long hair and to slick on a dash of lip-gloss. I opened my window as wide as it would go…Sam had grown taller in the past few months. Then I just sat there, waiting.

It wasn't long before he arrived, squeezing through the window and standing before me. He stood around 6'3 now, he'd recently gotten into the habit of going t-shirtless, which in La Push was odd, it barely stopped raining. His once beautiful long hair was now short, despite all his changes I smiled up at him.

"Hey," he said his smile was different too; more bitter, his eyes were too wary and sad now.

"Hey" I countered and stood to hug him. His newly fevered skin worried me, was he sick? He'd been boiling like that since he'd returned.

A/N Hey, me again, :D I've just got feedback from my 'initial reader so I thought I'd upload yet another unfinished story lol. I hope soon to update all of my fanfic.

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