A/N: Everything you don't understand will be explained in due time, don't worry.
Leah Clearwater once said to me that one of the reasons she hated imprinting so much is because she hated anyone who couldn't stand on their own two feet. I saw what she meant, even being from the "other side." There was no "you" or "I" in imprinting, it was always a "we," or "us." You were two single threads, weaved together so that you are bound, tight, like nothing can ever break you. It's a bond you have to feel to believe, even seeing it isn't enough.
But just because you know, doesn't mean you resent it. You're happy. You have the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with. I met Paul Wood five years ago, when I moved to Forks, Washington to finish my senior year of high school.
That was when I was 18. Now, I'm twenty three, living on the La Push reservation with my werewolf boyfriend, three months pregnant with our first child.
My parents definitely aren't happy about me choosing to forgo university, move in with a boy I had just become involved with, (It was a year later that he asked me to move to the reservation) and getting pregnant at such a young age. They think my whole life is ahead of me.
But they don't understand that my whole life isn't ahead of me, it's already here. Everything that I could possibly need to find in life is right here on La Push reservation. No need to move forward, no need to strive for anything.
You know people, like the other imprints, but you don't really make friends with anyone because hey, why do you need friends? You have a boyfriend who will never leave you, there's no fear in not having anybody.
There is no need for heartbreak, for confusion or loneliness. In that moment, everything you need is there.
Until, it isn't.
Hi, my name is Camille Jones, and I am learning to stand on my own two feet.