** A/N The only people that have imprinted are Sam with Emily, Jared with Kim and Quil with Claire. This is one year after the wolfs and the Cullens killed Victoria. Edward and Bella are married and Bella is already a vampire and they had Rennesme, but Jacob didn't imprint her.

Chapter 1

I had returned last night from my two-week vacation with my grandma in California. But as soon as I woke up, I knew the day was going to be pretty weird, I mean, the sun and the hot weather should have been warning enough. Sunny in California was pretty normal but sunny in La Push was very, VERY weird.

Ever since, Mom had started to hanging out with Charlie, the house had been pretty empty. She said she was "only" going to keep him company but how STUPID does she think I am!!!!!!! There was definitely something going on between them. OH MY GOD Oh. My. God. I just realized my MOM has a boyfriend, pretty much everybody in the pack has imprinted and I' m still alone. Ughhhhhhhhhhhh, there's definitely something wrong with me, NO WAIT, there is definitely something wrong with the universe, it hates me. Yeah, that's it, the universe is playing some dirty little joke on me.

As I walked down the beach I noticed that nobody from the pack was hanging out here, just some random people, but nobody from the pack. Somebody was ALWAYS here, but today I was the only one. This was even weirder because it was sunny, hot and there wasn't a cloud in sight. The guys wouldn't miss an opportunity to come to the beach in this weather. I shrugged my shoulders and rolled my eyes. Oh well, whatever, I prefer to be alone than with THE boys who annoy the HELL out of me.

I started walking towards a tree that was like my tree. When I was little Seth, me and my dad used to spend the whole afternoon here just staring at the waves. This thought of my dad sent a sudden rush of emotion so strong that I had to sit down and hug myself so hard to feel a little bit of comfort. I didn't recognize that I was crying until my vision was blurry and I was having difficulties breathing. I probably spent like two hours just crying and staring at the waves, when I suddenly hear various footsteps behind me and a husky voice called out.

"Hey Leah, long time, no see" said the annoying leech lover.

I cleaned up my face with my hands and responded:

"What do you want?" trying to sound mean but my voice broke at the last word. Then I proceeded to get up and walk the other way into the forest because if they saw me like this, they would never let me live this down.

"Are you ok?" asked Embry alarmed.

I continued to walk away

"Just leave me alone" I screamed at them.

"Just leave her alone" I heard Seth whispering to the others. They stopped following and went back to the beach all but one.

"Hey, I asked you a question, are you ok?" said Embry.

What the hell? Why is this guy still following me?

"Yes, I am ok. Just leave me alone, Embry"

"No, you are not ok, you were crying and I want to know why" he said speaking with a genuine voice of worry.

I hadn't notice that he was so close to me until I turned around and smacked against him. He was so close that I actually fell down.

"I told you, just leave me alone"

He pulled me up and took me into his arms. This hug felt very different ; it was warm and I wanted to stay there forever. Why was I feeling like this?! The last time that I felt like this was with Sam but he just ripped my heart out and stomped on it. And the other time was with Jac…, forget about him he wasn't even worthy of mentioning and I'm not very sure if I really felt that for HIM.

"Wait, What, get away form me, let me go!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed and pushed and kicked.

"No, I'm not going to let you go until you are ok again" he just tighten his hold on me.

"Embry if you don't let me go, I'm going to hit you where it hurts and you are going to talk like a girl for three months" I threatened him.

"I don't care; you can do whatever you want. I'm not going to let you GO"

Exasperated I had to do the only thing that was going to work: lie.

"I'm ok again, see?" I smiled sarcastically

He actually fell for it and let me go but kept both my hands. This felt nice too. Then, I started noticing how muscular his arms were and what broad shoulders he had. He just smiled warmly and my heart went ballistic. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH HIM? AND WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ME? I had only been away for two weeks.

"Are you sure you are ok?" he asked again.

"Yes" but this just brought more tears to my eyes. I pushed him off and ran away. He ran after me but since I'm the fastest of them all and had had a head start, he was soon out of view.

I ran into this little meadow and climbed the tallest tree, knowing he was still looking for me. This was like a freaking game of hide-and-seek. Some part of me wanted him to find me and hug me again but the bigger part wanted the other part to SHUT UP!!! About 10 minutes later, I hear his voice calling out to me.

"Leah, Leah, I know you're around here, come out, I just want to talk to you!"

I was not coming down from this tree! Even if I had to stay up here all day!

"Come on, Leah, your acting like a little girl. Come out, I just want to talk to you."

I couldn't take it anymore. "I'M acting like a little kid, what about YOU, following me around?" I said, shaking. It took a couple of deep breaths for me to calm down.

"Oh there you are, I knew I was going to find you" he looked up to me and started climbing up. Soon he had me cornered.

"Embry, why do you keep following me?"

"I just want to know what the matter with you is"

"That is SO not it; now tell me WHAT IS GOING ON?" I demanded.

He looked kind of nervous, like thinking what to do next.

"Fine, I'll tell you what's going on." And he leaned into my face, until he was three inches away.