Yes guys, I'm restarting the story! Hope you like it ^^ There will be changes made so it won't be a carbon copy of my first attempt. Brandon and Bloom will be shown in the next chappie.

I tried to make this chapter as long as I could but I'm low on time and I've still gotta do hw -_-

Enjoy ~ R&R

Sapphy Xxx


Stella POV

The car came to a quiet stop outside a house I could only describe as beautiful. The cream wooden exterior stood out distinctively against the grey of the weather and dull green nature. The porch lay open and bare but a couple hanging plants that swung gently in the wind. All was silent but exquisite.

"Come on you two. Bring your bags and let's explore." My mom, Alex, spoke in her usual chirpy voice. A smile always plastered on her face she tries to make anything new sound as exciting as possible, an adventure. I returned a half smile and got out the car, grabbing my bags and headed to the front door.

Dad was there grumbling as he fumbled with the keys trying to unpick the lock. "It would be nice if they sent instructions on this." I giggled at my dad's humour as he smiled, finally getting inside. "Right, if you'd like to go claim your room now and start unpacking." I nodded and climbed the granite stairs, lugging my suitcase and bag pack behind me.

Stumbling into one of the rooms, I looked around in awe. The grey carpet contrasted with the white walls making the room amazingly brighter, a king size bed sat at the centre. Opposite were a desk and chair, chest of drawers and a full length mirror hung on the wall. At the far left of the room, two French doors led you out onto a balcony that overlooked the front of the house and there was an ensuite.

Shutting the door, I squealed and jumped up and down with joy and giddiness. This was so much better than my room back in Pennsylvania.

We'd lived in Pennsylvania for a mere 3 years before having to pack up and move to here, Michigan. It was fine a year into our life there but then people started getting suspicious when there were sudden disappearances and strange goings on. Since our lives were becoming more at risk, it left us with no choice.

After finishing unpacking, I fell weakly onto my bed until there was a knock at my door. Sky, my loving, caring, sometimes annoying and sometimes-too-protective older brother, poked his head through wearing a cheesy grin. "Hey Stell-Bell. I-what?!" He cut himself dead short and stared around my room before frowning and walked towards me, holding something. "OK, I'm the oldest so surely this should be my room."

"Nuh-uh! " I shook my head, smiling. "I got first dibs so you should've been quicker. Anyway, what was it you were going to say?"

"Oh, well I found this in the last of my unpacking and thought it must've gotten mixed up." He held up a paperback of Twilight and shoved it in my face.

I cringed, scuttling further away from him shoving the book back. "Ewww! Gross Sky, get it away from me!"

He laughed before looking at the book distastefully. "I know, it's such a sappy story."

"I'm ashamed I even read it!"

"That's why I, your loyal brother, am returning it to you."

"Oh jeez! Burn the sodding book!"

He flung it carelessly across the room and joined me in sitting on my bed. He rubbed his fingers, something he often does when he's anxious, worried or simply waiting to talk, before asking me: "So, you ready for starting school?"

"When is that?" I looked up, my mind suddenly blank.

"Uhm...tomorrow."

"Oh. Yeah, I guess I'm ready."

"You know your schedule?"

I bit my lip, something I often did when I was nervous, and looked down. What schedule? I have no schedule?

Sky laughed to himself making me look at him confused. "Having a blonde moment Stell? You don't get your schedule till your first day, along with your locker key and map."

Stupid! "Gee, thanks Sky for letting me know!" I groaned sarcastically. "What about you? Are you ready?"

"As ready as I'll ever be." He shrugged, his intense blue eyes sparkling with possible curiosity.

I couldn't help but admire my brother. As well as looking quite handsome with his Angel-like features; beach blonde hair swept over his right eye, slightly obscuring the brilliant blue colour they possess, lightly coloured skin, a muscular build with the perfect six-pack. But he was also outgoing, confident, actually curious about what's new and willing to go and explore. Kinda the opposite in my case; I was more quiet, didn't much like to gain too much attention to myself, was scared of the unknown- simply because I didn't know what was out there. I felt a little alien to him, although we did share the same friendliness, warmth and humour he wanted to do things where as I wanted to hang back and just watch.

"Hey, you hear that?" He frowned, the blue of his eyes glassing over in concentration. I tried to follow, listening to what he could hear. "Stell?"

"Mmmm." I was trying. Soon I picked up on it. A high pitched whistle, the wind. "Sky that's not of any importance!" I huffed.

"I know. But you need to keep practising to get better. And you still pick up on sounds subconsciously so in public, that's not good."

"Yeah I get it. You don't need to remind me of the last time." The last time we were in a shopping mall and I guess I was feeling pretty sensitive that day because I kept picking up on the tiniest of sounds and it was hurting my head, my ears. I ended up crouched on the floor with my hands smashed to my ears trying to block it all out; Sky was next to me trying to calm me down. We caused a massive crowd, loads of people asked if I was OK but I just put it down to headache.

"I know but it can't happen again. Especially not at school."

I grimaced at the thought. "OK Sky, I'll try. Really try."

He smiled and wrapped a strong, protective arm around my shoulder. "We can't help being this way and I can tell it's hard for you. But I know you can do it."

The entire reason we've been moving places all our lives is because we're...not entirely human. We're wolves. It started off as a curse that passed down from generation to generation. You learn the skills to hunting, keeping your traits hidden when in human form then when you turn eighteen that's when you finally develop and are able to morph into the animal. The problem is keeping your true identity hidden. I turn eighteen next year so I'm almost fully developed though my acute hearing is still a major problem and it's vital that mortals don't find out.

However humans aren't our only enemy. Vampires are really the biggest problem. They could very easily kill us, better than any human, so they're deadly and we try to avoid them. Luckily we haven't encountered any...yet.


Later that evening, I stood outside on the balcony looking over the neighborhood. Watching darkness. I leant onto the railings as I tried to listen, for anything. Concentrating on zoning in on specific sounds. A car, a plane, the rustling leaves. A howl broke through my thoughts. Mom and dad were out hunting for meat but also checking the area for any signs of threats. I focused my concentration back to my hearing.

There was a sound. A rustling of leaves but it sounded less like the wind. I stood upright, stiff, silent. I heard it again but coming from my left. There was only a tree. I rolled my eyes but looked closer anyway, squinting into the inky black. Nothing. However I felt like I was being watched. Shrugging it off, I went back inside trying to ignore the feeling that was sweeping over me. No one is watching you. You're fine.

I went to bed feeling wary about tomorrow.