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Chapter 1: Weird

Abby's POV

To say that the kids in my family are weird would be the biggest understatement in history. No, I am not exaggerating. What else was I supposed to make of our situation? I had three cousins and they were all adopted. I had an older brother and a younger sister and we were also adopted. Nothing strange about that so far, right? I mean kids get adopted all the time.

Here is where it gets weird. The adoption agency that we were all adopted from knows absolutely nothing about our biological family. They said that we were all brought in by a strange man whose skin was extremely pale and hard as stone, and was as cold as ice. He also had red eyes. That's all that the adoption agency knew about him. He just left us there without giving much information about us. It was really weird to say the least. Years later that same man returned to the adoption agency with an infant baby girl. Coincidentally that baby girl would become my little sister.

Despite that, everything in our lives was normal. We all kept wondering about our origins of course. The one thing that we all had in common was that we all looked like Native Americans. This of course led us to believe that we all had some Native American blood in us somewhere in our ancestry.

It wasn't until about a year and a half ago that things suddenly got a hell of a lot stranger. I started going through a lot of weird changes that I could not understand. I suddenly grew taller for one. I seemed to get stronger and faster overnight as well. Then there was the temperament issues that seemed to come out of nowhere. Overtime I found myself growing angrier and angrier over the littlest things. I was also hungry all the time. The weirdest part was the strange high fever that I developed. My body was scorching hot to the touch. I even thought about going to the doctor a couple of times but some instinct of mine told met that that was not a good idea.

Then one day it happened. I was arguing with my mother over something stupid when I stormed off into the nearby woods. I was shaking with rage. I didn't know why I felt so angry but I did. I felt my whole skeleton break and rearrange itself in a completely new way. I ran off on all fours. I completely freaked out when I happened to catch a glimpse of myself in the river. I was a huge reddish brown wolf.

I was surprised when I heard another voice in my head that was not my own. It turned out to be my brother Masen. He was the only werewolf up until that point. He told me about how he went through a lot of the same changes that I went through before he turned.

It wasn't long until before the same thing started happening to my cousins. It was Anna's 16th birthday when she officially joined our pack. A couple of weeks later we were joined by her two brothers Allan and Rob.

None of us could understand what was happening to us and why. It must've had something to do with our biological parents. That's all that we knew for sure.

It was my brother that led us since he was the first to change among all of us. He was our alpha and we followed his orders. He labeled me as his second in command and Anna was the third in command. I honestly didn't know why he had this hierarchy. I mean we're family and we're all equals, but something in the primitive core of our being told us that this is how it was supposed to be.

We thought for sure that this would be it. That nobody else would join us, but we were wrong. A couple of months ago my sister Lily, who is nine years old, started to change as well. She grew and grew, and went through puberty in a matter of months. Now she looks like she is 14 years old rather then nine years old. She just joined us about a month ago. She was physically the smallest wolf out of all of us. Honestly she looked like a wolf puppy. I was fiercely overprotective of her. I wanted to protect her from everything. She was my sister and I didn't want anything to happen to her. It bothered me that this happened to her to because I felt that as wolves we were all in danger for some reason and the thought of my sister being in danger scares me.

Maybe I'm just overreacting though. I mean what could be stronger than a horse sized wolf that seemed to have a combination of supernatural strength and speed? I'm still weary because of all of the mysterious disappearances and murders that have been taking place since about a year and a half ago. The murders and disappearances have spiked to unimaginable numbers in the last six months alone. Nobody knows what to think of it. The police have no new leads. They're exactly in the same spot that they were in when the first disappearance took place over a year ago.

"What time are we supposed to be home?" I heard Lily ask me in her head. We were the only ones in our wolf forms by now.

"In an hour" I responded.

My mom works at the hospital and they were having some sort of welcoming party for the new doctor that just moved here from Alaska. I didn't understand why we had to attend though. My brother didn't have to go because he had a job and dad was working late.

Actually, I didn't understand why people wanted to move here with the murder and disappearance rates being so incredibly high in

Wisconsin right now.

"I think we should start going back" I said.

"Yea, maybe" she agreed.

We both phased back and started the walk back home. As soon as I got home I took a quick shower before putting a nice dress on. Then I combed my hair which didn't take very long since I kept short these days. We all learned quickly that long hair equals long fur. My hair is an unusual bronze color and it was also naturally curly. I also had chocolate brown eyes.

My sister also looked a lot like me. She had the same unusual bronze hair and the same shade of brown eyes as me.

My sister and I were ready at the same time; much to my mom's pleasure. We got to the hospital 30 minutes later.

As soon as we entered the building I smelled the most horrible, awful, sickly sweet smell that I had ever smelled in my life. My sister was holding her nose so I was sure that she could smell it to.

We walked to this other room that was usually reserved for special events.

There was already quite a few people there. Then I saw them, all eight of them. They were all extremely pale, beautiful, and had strange gold eyes.

My mom walked straight over to them.

"Hi Dr. Cullen" she said.

"Hi Mrs. Smith" he said. "Who are these two?" he asked. He was looking at us rather intensely for some reason.

"These are two of my kids; Abby and Lily. Our son couldn't be here" mom said.

We shook hands but instantly dropped them. Damned he was freezing!

"You're skin is burning" he said. It sounded like he was stating a fact and not asking a question.

"Yeah, I know. It's the same with my sister here, my brother, and my three cousins" I said.

"Were you all adopted?" he asked. Although the look on his face told me that he already knew the answer.

"Yes actually we all were adopted" I said. Now Dr. Cullen looked really emotional for some reason. He couldn't even speak anymore.

Then a woman that I assumed to be his wife approached us. "Hi I'm Esme" she said with a heartwarming smile.

"Hi, it's nice to meet you" I said.

"You're very pretty" Lily said.

Esme looked at her "Well thank you sweetheart, you are to" she said.

We were introduced to the rest of the family as well. They seemed like they were in shock for some reason that I didn't have a hope of understanding.

Once my sister and I left them alone I heard Dr. Cullen say "We need to call Jacob, Nessie, and the others. They need to come here now"

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