DISCLAMER/ I don't own anything except Jade and her mom. The rest goes to SM

Chapter 1

Well, my Friday night plans were shot. I mean, I came in an hour past my curfew. It was ridiculous that my mom was acting like she had been so worried, when I've been the grown up since I was eight.

My mom was a single mom who raised (please note that I'm using this term loosely) me on her own. She got knocked up in high school by some loser who didn't want anything to do with me. My entire life we had lived all over the country. She went around looking for a rich man (usually way younger or way older than her) to live with for a while, but things usually didn't last long.

Currently we lived in a crappy trailer in Forks Washington. Mom hadn't found her next victim yet. Forks surely wasn't the worst place we have ever lived. There was always the apartment that smelled like dookey in Brooklyn New York. There, she was dating an executive who lived in Manhattan's Upper East Side. We only lived in the Brooklyn apartment for two weeks before moving in the executive guy's penthouse. For the life of me I couldn't remember that guy's name. He was closer to my age than my mother's. He used to hit on me when she wasn't home, a real douche.

Friday night came along and my mom went out with some 75-year-old who lived in Port Angelas. She told me to stay home. Ha fat chance! I was going to a party on the beach on La Push, an Indian reservation nearby. Some of my friends from Forks High School were going and invited me to tag along. I normally didn't sneak out, but I was extra annoyed at being grounded this time, and she wouldn't be home to stop me….

I pulled into the small parking lot at about 10:30. I gasped because the view of the ocean wasn't something I was used to yet. I see a group of kids down the beach a little ways.

When I got there, I immediately spotted my friend Amanda sitting by the fire with this kid Tim, who had a rep as being a player. Amanda waved me over.

"Hey Jade."

"Hey, did I miss anything interesting?" I asked, eyeing Tim.

"Not really. There must be something in the water here. The rez boys are so…big! I laughed. "Come on. I'm going to introduce you to my friends Collin and Brady." We got up and walked to where a group of boys I recognized from school and some I didn't, stood. A few whistled at us. "Brady, Collin, this is Jade, the one I've been telling you about." I rolled my eyes because Amanda was always trying to set me up with some random hot guy.

"Sup Jade, I'm Brady." The more attractive of the two boys slurred. Well at least someone was having fun. I conversed with the boys for a while. I realized that I liked talking to Brady. Collin was the shy type.

I excused myself and went back to the fire where Amanda was at. She held up a beer and I shook my head. I wasn't in the drinking mood. I didn't know why, normally after a fight with my mom was the only time I felt like drinking.

Amanda and I talked about finals for a while until I saw a boy who had just got here. He was big, even compare to Collin and Brady. He had silky looking black hair cut short, and for a reason I couldn't understand, I wanted to run my fingers through it. He was muscular and was wearing dark jeans, a white t-shirt, and a leather jacket. As he got closer, I noticed that he had round grey eyes. They stood out because the rest of the rez boys had dark brown, almost black eyes. Our babies would be beautiful. I felt stupid for thinking this. I tried to turn my attention back to Amanda, who was still talking to me, but I couldn't look away for more than a couple seconds. I had never been drawn to someone like this before.

"Yo Seth, over here!" Collin shouted. Seth smiled and went over to the group of boys. "How's Jacob's pack…of friends treating ya?" Brady and Seth looked at him like he'd just revealed some dark secret after he said pack.

"Everyone's fine on my end." The boy I now knew to be Seth stated.

"Where's Jake?" Brady asked. "I thought he was coming…."

"He was planning on it but he didn't want to leave Nessie. They were napping on the couch when I left." Was Nessie this Jacob person's daughter I wondered? Seth's eyes scanned the party and stopped on my eyes. I couldn't look away. There are no words to describe how I felt.

Seth's Point of View

I felt as though I had been lifted off my feet as I looked into this strange girl's eyes. I felt it, the pull. I had imprinted on this her. I wasn't quite sure what to do next. I wanted nothing more than to go over to her and sweep her off her feet, but she didn't even know my name for crying out loud! I didn't know if the girl could feel the pull too.

"Hey, where's Sam?" I asked the boys.

"He's at home with Emily, putting the baby's crib together."

"Alright, I'll catch you guys later. I need to talk to Jacob."

I took off down the beach to the Volvo I borrowed from Edward. "Come on Man, you just got here!" I heard one of them shout. I wished I could just run back to the Cullen's place, but I had borrowed Edward's car, and he might mind me leaving it with a bunch of drunken teenagers at a party.

When I got there, all the Cullen's cars were there, but no one was in the house except Jacob, and 2-year-old Nessie sitting cross-legged on the living room floor playing with her Barbie's. Boy, Jacob sure did have some patience! When I was little, I would steal Leah's Barbie's, and I would bite off their heads off. She would get so mad at me. This thought made me smile

"Seff! Seff!" The tot shouted, snapping me out of my daydream.

"Hey there little Sweet Pea," I said scooping her up. "Jacob, I need to talk to you."

"Yes, the meatball sub in the fridge is mine, and no you cannot have it."

"No not about that. Look, tonight when I was at the bonfire, I imprinted on someone."

"What's she like?"

"I don't know."

"What's her name?"

"I don't know."

"What do you know?"

"She's got black hair, but her skin is really pale, so she's not an Indian. She's short and curvy, and she's got bright blue eyes." I smiled thinking of the beauty.

"Sounds like a hottie, but if you don't know anything about her, and you haven't even talked to her, how will you ever find her again?"

About 20 minutes later, I was back at the bonfire. I couldn't believe my luck! She was still sitting at the same spot, talking to Collin and a girl I didn't recognize, who I assumed went to Forks High School.

As I approached them, Collin got up, so I sat in his place. The girl looked at me and smiled, her lovely eyes shining. She must have felt a pull toward me as well. Well, that would make things a bit easier.

I cleared my throat, here it goes. "Hello, I'm Seth." I was surprised at how even I'd managed to make my tone."

Jade's Point of View

Oh my goodness! He was talking to me. The pit of my stomach felt like fire. "I'm Jade." He was looking right in my eyes, I felt like melting into a puddle.

"That's a very pretty name Jade. Would you like to take a walk with me?"