I leaned my head against the headrest of the plane seat and let my memories wash over me.

I remembered the first time my mother had come home drunk. I was ten and was scared witless. That was also the day she brought home him. He who made my life miserable, he who had beat me and doe unspeakable things to me, he who said he would find me if it was the last thing he did.

I shuddered and a whimper escaped my lips. My twin brother Collin pulled me closer to him.

Collin and I had only known each other through phone calls and e-mails. He was my best friend- my only friend. When I was thirteen I had been told I wasn't going to go to school anymore, that I was going to be homeschooled. I thought it was because someone had told them about the bullying, but it had been for more terrible, awful reasons. I shuddered again.

I thought back to two days ago when Collin showed up at my door.

"Hello?" I asked it like a question, I thought I knew this tall person but couldn't see his features because of the sun glaring into my eyes.

"Hello…"

"COLLIN!" I squealed flinging myself into his arms. We stood in the doorway like that for 10 minutes, before I let him into the immaculate living space. "What are you doing here?" I asked, slightly in awe of his height and bulging muscles.

"What I can't spontaneously come to see my twin?" he grinned down at me. I wrapped my arms around him so he couldn't see my tears of happiness.

"I'm so glad you did. Can I get you something to eat, drink?" I asked grabbing his hand and pulling him into my kitchen. He sat down at the island telling me he could eat a horse. I made supper as we talked about everything under the stars. We managed to eat the entire meal, or he did.

"You weren't lying." I said as I dried the dish he handed to me.

"I-er- tend to eat. A lot of food." He smiled sheepishly at me. I shrugged my shoulders, some people were like that.

I laid the blowup air mattress on the floor in my room, and was trying to locate the pump when Collin walked up behind me.

"What ya lookin' for?"

"The air pump. It has disappeared into a puff of nothingness!"

"I can blow the mattress up if you want."

"How the hell can you do that?"

"I've got a good set of lungs?" he replied blushing.

"Go for it! But I want to see!"

That night we stayed up late talking, it was after midnight when Collin stopped talking and started snoring. I smiled and tried to sleep, but couldn't. I knew they were going to be home soon with friends. I couldn't figure out what to do about it either. Eventually I fell asleep and was woken up by screaming.

"Come on girl, come down here!" Collin was on his feet within seconds after he had uttered the first syllable.

"What the hell?" Collin asked as the door was slammed open. Two figures rushed in and grabbed me from the bed where I was curled up shaking in fear and started to drag me down the stairs. I had long since closed my eyes and tried to stop feeling. After what felt like hours, but could have been minutes for all I knew, I was picked up and cold air was running through my hair. I heard a loud boom and instantly felt safer then I had ever felt. I looked up to see Collin's face as he ran with me in his arms. I enjoyed the unique sensation of being handled like I was a kitten. I smiled and promptly fell asleep.

I woke up in a strange bed, sun pouring in through half closed drapes. I sat up quickly and almost screamed before I noticed Collin on the phone, his back to me.

"Yes…Yes I know but…. No I didn't do anything… Sam!... No…Ok, yes alright…Bye." He hung up the phone and looked at me.

"Hi." I squeaked.

"What the hell happened last night?" I shook my head. "What happened?" I looked at my lap and started sobbing. Collin stood where he was for a moment before he held me and let me cry it out.

"Shh. It'll never happen again, I promise." I looked at my twin with disbelief. What happens when he leaves? I asked myself.

"I'm not ever gonna leave you. Got that Anna-Maria? Got that? You are coming with me to live in La Push." I nodded looking at my savior.

Collin and I had gotten on a plane that same day. We had gone to the house to get my things and just as we left they came back.

"I'm going to find you, bitch, if it is the last thing I do? Do you hear me? You belong to me!"

We landed in the Port Angeles airport and I was standing with our-my- bags as Collin went to find our ride. About five minutes later he came back leading four boys that looked a lot like him-big and muscled.

"Hello, my name is Sam; it's nice to meet you." Said the biggest one. "This is Brady, Paul and Jared."

"Hi." I squeaked. "I'm Anna-Maria, but you can call me Anna." After our awkward introductions Collin and the boys…er men I guess… took all the bags to the trucks, Collin supplying the talk. All four of them kept looking at me worriedly. Once we were on the road the men started to talk more freely. I admired the way they all joked with each other.

It was a rare sunny and warm day they told me so the windows were open and the breeze was running through my mass of curly red locks.

"This is one of the best feelings in the world." I sighed truly happy for the first time in a while.

"I know it's one of the best things about….Hey! That hurt!" Brady yelled at Collin, and into my ear. I was sitting on his lap in the crowded truck. I had barely let go of his hand since we had fled the house. I laughed at him. I could see why Collin said his 'pack' of friends were like family, they were all amazing people…well these four were. When finally got to La Push, I had been laughing more than I ever had in my entire life. Sam pulled up to a somewhat secluded house in the forest.

"This is Sam's place. We're going to have dinner here then go home." Collin smiled at me and waltzed right up and into the house. I stood outside for a few more moments before following him inside.

I walked into a bright and cheery house packed to the roof with large men laughing and talking loudly. Drifting from the kitchen I heard female voices faintly. Everyone stopped talking as I walked in.

A beautiful woman walked out of the kitchen drying her hands with dish towel. Her perfect face was marred by three scar lines running from hairline to chin and her mouth was slightly distorted by an injury of some sort. She was smiling so big that it looked like it could light a single room.

"Welcome! I'm Emily, Sam's fiancée. You must be Anna-Maria." She pulled me into a hug. I hesitantly put my arms around her too. "I hope you're hungry, I've made lots of food." She ushered me into the kitchen where I came face to face with the five most beautiful women I had ever seen. "This is Bella, Alice, Rosalie, Nessie, Esme and the girl in the corner with Jared is Kim."

"It's nice to meet you." I stuttered out. The short pixie like one smiled at me and then turned to the girl with fair skin, pink cheeks, dimples and bronze ringlets.

"I'm Nessie. It's nice to meet you." She too pulled me into a warm hug. "It's nice to finally have a girl my age in this mess." I nodded dumbly. After a few minutes I fell into the ranks of the women like I had been there my entire life. They were just as easy to talk to as the men in the truck had been. Just as we got the food assembled the back door burst open and a tall and gangly boy that looked my age walked in. He was shirtless and his muscles were on display-I nearly stopped breathing.

"Hey girls, sorry I was late!" his huge grin was dazzling. He stopped to kiss Emily, Bella, Esme and Nessie a kiss on their cheeks. He turned to look at me and our eyes met.

I found myself looking into his sandy brown eyes and the world seemed to stop turning. I took and involuntary step towards this stranger before I caught myself.

"Anna-Maria, this is Seth. Seth this is Anna-Maria Littlesea, Collin's twin."