Hello- Thanks for checking this out! I just wanted to do a disclaimer and say that I do not, in any way, own these characters or this story. They belong to Stephanie Meyer. I'm just exploring with them for awhile :-)

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Introduction

Leah Clearwater
November 12, 2022
Port Angles, WA

If you're looking for a love story, than you should stop reading now. Seriously. Go ahead. I sure as heck hate being forced into things I don't want to do. So I'm letting you know that it's ok to walk away right now. Go back to your mushy romance novel if that's what you want.

As I've just said, this is not a love story. Well, ok. Maybe there's some love in it. There are definitely some gooey, fluffy parts that kinda make me want to vomit, especially after being forced to relive them a second time. But mostly, this is about friendship. About acceptance. About forgiveness. About coming to terms with some situations that just really sucked.

But most of all, this is a story about how I, Leah Clearwater, both completely renounced my heritage and then subsequently regained it all in the course of one summer.

My life did get crazy towards the end of my teenage years. I lost my boyfriend to my cousin, and my dad to a heart attack. I had an annoying brother who never left me alone, the looming terror of what to do with my life after high school, and the small matter of being a 19-year-old Indian woman who could explode into fur ball at any moment. But in reality, those events became balled up into a singular phase in my life. They were just the short beginning of a very long list of events, of phases, that would come to form my adult life.

And enough with this focus on my past. You've already heard about that. Everyone has heard about that. They've cast me as both a martyr and a monster. I know that that phase of my life will be retold as a legend generations from now. Everyone will know about the fantastical, bitter she-wolf. I will be put on display as a puppet for generation after generation of children to look at.

But I refuse to let that part of my past define who I am entirely. I am more than that part of my life. I am better than that part of my life.

So, what I'd like to tell you is a story of a different kind. You see, when I look back at what's happened in my life, I do think about my dad, and Sam, and being a wolf. But I also think about my life at Penninsula Community College, then in good old Connecticut, then out in Seattle. I think about my now husband, and my young son.

But, more than anything else, my mind always seems to jump to the summer after my college graduation.

And so, I invite you to follow me. Embark on another phase, if you will. I want to show you something.

Let's have an adventure.

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Let me know what you think, if you want! I'm always open to suggestions and constructive criticism, but I'll never push you for reviews. Don't get me wrong, I do love reviews, but I, of all people, understand that everyone's very busy! :-) I'll (hopefully) see you before the end of the month for a new chapter!