Chapter 1: The Pull!
I had a lot to think about, no really, very much to think about. I loved coming here to first beach. It is my favourite place and was always my favourite place to go to whenever I had to endure those torturous trips with Charley as a child where I ended up down hear any way with Billy Black, my best friend: Jacob Black and his sisters when they lived here.
I stared deep into the flames of the fire thinking over everything that happened. I wish I could turn the clocks back, I wish I hadn't let my curiosity over the Cullen's get the better of me because then maybe none of this would have happened. I would be oblivious to Vampires and the whole other world living and breathing secretly around us all, living in the shadows.
I thought about my boyfriend Edward Cullen and how I felt towards him. How it felt wrong, with every touch and look. My feelings towards him had changed drastically the more time I spent hear in La Push, the more this place felt like home, like some invisible pull I can't explain.
I first sensed the pull the very first time I came to a bonfire gathering with Mike, Angela and everyone but I just shrugged it off and pushed it aside, ignoring the strange feelings to an invisible connection that I don't know even exists or it could just be my imagination playing tricks on me.
Sam's Point of View.
I watched as my imprint sat across the fire lost in thought, a faraway look in her beautiful chocolate eyes and a confused look on her face. She seemed oblivious to those around her and the small group that she once situated in had grown a size or two or that Jacob Black was currently trying to catch her attention but failing miserably.
The wolf within me howled with jealousy at seeing another pack member so close to his mate. My wolf had held back when she'd become involved with the Vampires, the very first time when I first laid my eyes on the brunette goddess I knew my instincts where to hold back, the time wasn't right to step up and claim what's mine.
It hasn't been easy watching her with the Cullen's from a distance or seeing her with Jacob Black and at one stage Mike Newton. It's been hard to control my inner wolf that's screams at me sometimes with jealousy and rage at his mates choices.
He's been content with being with Leah for so long but recently, the mating season has started for us Wolfs and this season he's trying desperately hard to crawl out of the tightly locked cage I've kept him in for so long and take his mate. I growled at Jacob, a low warning growl, too low for human ears when he got to close for comfort and his hand pulled back like he'd just been stung.
Bella's Point of View!
I jumped a few miles up north as I felt warm lean against me and prod me in the side. I looked up shocked to see the deep brown eyes of my best friend looking at me as though he'd just been stung.
'God Jake!' I hissed shakily, 'don't sneak up on me like that.' I said, calming down as I slowly relaxed.
'Jeez sorry Bells.' Jake said looking abashed.
'It's fine,' I sighed, 'I'm just a little on edge at the moment.'
'What's up?' He asked looking genuinely concerned. 'You looked a mile away their and I've been here like twenty minuet's already.' I looked at him with wide-eyes.
'Really?' I asked, truly shocked. I glanced around the fire to see the group had grown, the Quileute boys where down mingling with the Forks, kids or more like keeping an eye out for any trouble that might rise on the beach.
I felt as though I was being watched and as my eyes travelled around the fire they met a pair of deep brown pools through the crackling yellowy, orange flame that feels like they are drinking me in.
Their was that pull again, the imaginary pull, it felt as though it is coming to life and my heart was being pulled towards those beautiful eyes, those eyes are all I could see.
Sam's Point of View!
I watched as Jake brought her back to earth and her shock. Paul placed his hand on my lower arm keeping me down as my inner wolf howled with rage thinking Jake had hurt my mate when she jumped a mile off the old tree trunk used for seating around the bonfire.
When she relaxed I listened to her short lived conversation with Jake and then her wide-eyes glanced around the fire and met mine. I felt the pull intensify; grow stronger the longer we gazed. I felt Paul release his hand from the grasp around my lower arm.
My inner wolf was clawing at the cage walls it's kept in scrapping away trying to break free, break free for real this time and not hold back, he felt now was the right time to claim his mate, take her and make her his.
I rose from the log I occupied with Jarred and Paul still keeping hold of her gaze and turned my head in a gesture for her to follow me away from the group. She did, just that. We walked away from the group ignoring the other's her friends calling her and Jakes complaints.
I walked until the bonfire was just a little orange glow in the distance, in the darkening Twilight air around us. I reached a slab of stones on the other end of the beach and leaned against them, folding my arms over my bare chest whilst I regarded my imprint who still kept me in her line of wary vision.
'Do you know why I brought you out here? ' I asked her softly, not wanting to frighten her.
She blinked a confused look shadowing her pretty face.
'I think so, Sam. But I'm so confused and I've pushed it away for so long but now... now I don't think I can ignore, ignore whatever this,' she gestured between us, 'is.'
Her voice sounded like music to my ears, soft and gentle with confusion laced in the middle and when her name fell from her lips it sounded so right coming from her, it felt...welcoming.
I leaned forwards standing in the warm spring night's air and let my inner wolf take over seeing the fight die out of my mate's eyes as she lost battle with the pull we shared the imprinting created. I moved slowly forwards so not to scare her.
Then I slowly lifted my arm as I drew near to take her chin in mine so she had to look up into my eyes instead of avoiding mine. Her skin felt like silk and as soft and gentle as her voice sounded.
'Then don't fight it, accept it, embrace it. Let me protect you, love you. Let me be a part of you.' I whispered. Are for heads somewhere along the line had rested against each other's and my hand that had held of her chin had crept around the back of her neck, our eyes locked.
'Sam...' She whimpered in a torn voice. Her hands pressed against my bare chest. My other arm found its way around her slim waist.
It just happened, my lips found hers and that's all it took. My wolf took over and she seemed to embrace him, cooed him as he finally claimed what's his and she gave into the imprint pull we'd both kept locked and spell bounded for so long and for as long as we could last.
