The forest was a striking green, so dense with trees and plants. I couldn't recall ever being in the forest, but it seemed so familiar to me. I kept running, letting the soft earth be molded under my paws. But as I ran, I felt like I was being chased, and I was, the red wolf was right behind me. But I didn't feel threatened by the red wolf, I felt as if he was my other half, like I had found my soul mate. My world was forever connected to him, and I was happy in the thought.

Then it hit me, a sickly sweet smell, a smell that made my nose burn, and I stopped dead in my tracks. As the smell got closer, the noise of scraping metal got louder. My red wolf then shot off ahead of me, I screamed at him not to go, but it was too late, I heard his pitiful whine, then my heart seemed to stop and went numb. I began to run as fast as I could towards the smell, maybe if I got there in time I could save him, I came through the clearing, only to be met with the faces and shrieks of a battle field.

Scattered all over the field were roaring fires of purple flames, all the fires had a sickly sweet smell. I hastily looked around for my red wolf, and I found him, he was lying on the ground, as I approached him, I didn't see the tale tell movement of his ribcage expanding with life, I couldn't hear his heartbeat. My red wolf was gone. I nuzzled his limp body only to be met with, a bone chilling cackle. I spun around only to see a pale woman with fiery red hair.

"Hugh, look at that, the mutt has a bitch, so sorry to kill your mate honey." The reed headed woman snickered.

"Well at least she will soon join him, my pet." said blond haired boy.

"this is true, come here young one-

"miss, wake up!"

I opened my eyes, only to be met with the annoyed face of the taxi driver.

"What, I'm up, why did u wake me up?" I asked in an annoyed tone.

"We're here." he replied.

I looked out of the car window; we were out front of the house that belonged to my aunt Emily and her fiancée Sam. The house was a nice yellow color with white trim. It was a simple two story's, with a nice front porch. All around the house was flowers, potted ones, garden ones and some wild flowers.

"Are you goanna get out miss?" the taxi man said.

"Umm ya, let me just get my things." I said.

I quickly hurried out of the taxi and retrieved my bags from the trunk. Once I had my bags, and shut the trunk, the taxi man wasted no time in leaving.

" well that was rude" I thought to myself.

I continued my way to the house, and just as my fist was poised to knock on the door, it flew open, launching a very enthusiastic Emily at me.

"I'm so happy your here Katie!" she said with a profound enthusiasm.

"I'm happy to be here Aunty Em." I replied, "I just wish it was to only visit" I thought to myself.

That's when I noticed my Uncle Sam looking awkwardly at Em and I's reunion.

"Hey Sam." I say as I launch him into a hug. I've always liked Sam, he's a really nice guy, but he just seems to have this air of authority around him, it can be a trifle unnerving at times.

"Hey K, it's good to see you." He said affectionately.

"It's good to see you to." I replied. "it's good to see you both." I said openly.

"We love having you here." Em said. "I only wish it was under better cerium stances."

"It's ok though, thank you guys for taking me in." I said sincerely.

"Of course, your family." Uncle Sam chimed in.

"Well, how about we get you settled in K?" Em suddenly said.

"ok, lead the way." I replied.

Em grabbed my hand and led me up the stairs; the firs door that we saw was the bathroom, then the guest room, then my room. Sam and Em's was at the end of the hall. I looked around at my new room. It was medium sized, with a bed in the center of the room. Em had already bought me sheets and bedding. I was greeted with a black comforter with a white trim. There was a small closet to the left of my bed, and a small nightstand on the right. At the back of the room there was a good sized work desk with different spots for books, and next to it was a dresser with an old TV on it. Besides the few furnishings the room was bare.

"Wow Em, it looks really good, thank you." I said to my aunt.

"Of course Katie, I want you to be happy here." She replied sincerely. "Well I'll give you some time to unpack." She said, and left the room.

I looked around at my new room, it was bigger than the one I had in New York, so that was nice. I began to unpack; I put my clothes away, along with the few books I brought. I grabbed the toiletries I packed, and padded of to the bath room. I looked into the mirror, taking in my reflection. I had a nice round face, with good check bones and fair skin, my eyes were a dark green color, which made my raven black hair stand out. My skin was a light copper color thanks to my Quileute blood. I had a not bad body, I had a flat stomach with a few nice womanly curves. And unlike my mom, I was not atoll flat chested, I had very comfortable c cup. Overall I wasn't too bad, but defiantly not as pretty as Em.

After quickly throwing my hair up into a pony tail, I went back down stairs to wish em and Sam goodnight. After saying my goodnights I went back to my new room. As I crawled into bed I heard a howl. "Hugh, I didn't think there were wolves here." I thought.

I thought back to everything that's happened in the past 3 months. My mom finding out she had stage 4 lymphoma, her fighting, and then here dying, leaving me with no family except Sam and Em. I cried silently, at the memories of her last minutes on earth. I missed my mom, she was all I had, but now she's gone, making me an orphan at 17. I reminisced about my friends that I left behind, and how much I'm going to miss them.

Soon I grew tired, all the emotions of the day coming to hit me at once. And I soon drifted off into a peaceful sleep about my red wolf…