So there are some slight changes in the events that occurred in the hook, nothing too hectic. The boys have already phased, Bella has already been to Italy, Jacob and the rest of the pack refuse to see her. Everyone is pretty much over it.

Her POV

Jacob's Garage

"Come on, Jacob, you can't still be into that Swan chick. She's a mess" once again Quil had to open his big mouth. He was still embarrassed that we had figured out that he had a crush on Isabella, and he wanted everyone else to be just as embarrassed as he was. Unlikely.

"I don't have a crush on her, you ass. You're the one that keeps bringing her up" Jacob was annoyed again. Everyone knew that Jacob was long over Bella Swan, he had moved on to someone who was a lot healthier for him-and didn't cause half the drama Bella had managed to stir up. He tried to ignore his 'best ftiend' as he, once again, worked on the broken down Rabbit. It was getting better but it still needed a lot of work before it would sstart running.

"Just admit it Jake. You still think that she's smoking. It's okay if you do...kind of" he laughed. He dropped his head down on the work bench (probably to hide his own blush) and started paging through a very old copy of Car and Driver.

"You know, Quil, you're not fooling anyone. Just leave it alone. You like her, you don't like that you and you need to give it a rest. No one cares anymore" Embry said from under the older car. I watched Quil snap his head up as he tried to deny the statement in the best way possible. There was no way this would work for him.

"Come on, Annie, you get that I don't like her like her, right? It's just because...she's Jake's friend. And the Chief's daughter, hell we get in enough trouble for streaking all the time. We've got to be on his good side, she could give us an in" he justified.

I felt my brow furrow, streaking? Streaking?! Why on Earth would they be running around naked? This was Washington, almost every day was either cold, windy or full of rain. But then again they couldn't even be bothered with shirts and shoes while they ran around in the forest, I don't know why I was so surprised.

"So you guys...streak? Why do you do it?" I asked. Neither Embry nor Jacob had even tried to deny that they did, so I tried to act as nonchalant about it as possible. I wasn't the youngest person in the room, that was Jacob, but recently it had started to feel like I was. A year ago I had been the tallest one here, and when I had come back for my vacation I was suddenly the smallest and the one who 'just didn't get it yet'. It drove me mad.

"Quil is just fu-messing with you Annie. We don't streak, right guys?" Jacob asked through his teeth. I didn't believe it, it sounded forced, but this was the only piece of information I had gotten from my time away. They wouldn't even tell me how they had gotten so big, they claimed it was the gym.

"I'll bet he is" I murmured, sarcastically, under my breath. Once again they had shut me out, and I couldn't stand it. I hated that they lied to me all thethe damn time. They were supposed to be my friends. "Well, I've got to go. Sam wants me back home soon" I lied. I knew that it made me a hypocrite, but I wanted time away from them. I just needed to know where this friendship would go from here...that was if there was even a friendship left between us.

First Beach

Sam had warned me that I shouldn't go down to the beach or walk through the forest alone, some nonsense about falling into the ocean and getting swept away. But I needed to be alone. I had been hoping that I could tell someone about what had happened this year, but I had come back and everything had changed so drastically. They couldn't even trust me with the trivial things never mind their secrets, was I still supposed to trust them with mine?

"Kid...I thought we talked about this" I didn't even have to turn around to know that it was Sam. He sounded so much older than he had before. He had changed too, and he was keeping the same damn secret. "I'm not anywhere near the ocean, and I used the street to get. I didn't walk through the forest" I informed him. Truthfully I was a little upset, he had intruded on my private time, once again. No one seemed to want to let me be alone. If it wasn't Jacob or the boys, it was Sam or it was Jared. Sometimes even LeahLeah (and that was always awkward). There was no peace and quiet for me.

"That doesn't matter and you know it. I told you to stay safe, you're sitting out in the open" he said through his teeth. I rolled my eyes, what did that mean? His eyes darted from place to place and he seemed ready for...something. A fight maybe? Whatever it was that he was on the lookout for he must have been anxious about it.

His POV

Fucking Sam. Another pointless patrol, in a part of the woods the redhead didn't even care about. Just so I wouldn't look his baby sister in they eye. I wasn't even interested in the kid. She was still a kid, right? 17? 18? 19? Not that it mattered, our bodies were pretty much all around 23 now. I'd always be 'too old' for her anyway, and that's if I didn't imprint. A pretty big if.

"Hey man, she's on the beach with Sam. He says to stay away" and now I had Baby Black in my head. It wasn't enough that all the imprinted wolves had to avoid the Black Twins while they were in town, it was Annie Uley and Lisa Cameron too. What did Sam expect us to do when they were in trouble? Kill a fucking bloodsucker with our eyes closed? It was getting ridiculous.

"Yeah I get it. 'Imprinting is a gift from the ancestors but don't imprint on my sister'. I'll just stop doing my patrol so that little Annie can cross the street" I was being an ass, and I knew it, but this crap wasn't going to fly for much longer. Eventually everyone was going to run into one another anyway.

"Look, it might not make sense to you but it's important to us. We don't want to drag them into this life, not if we don't have to" and just like that he was out of my head. Jacob was such a fucking hypocrite, he was on our side until he imprinted on Leah. Now he was on Team Sam.

I phased out and chucked my shorts on, if Sam wanted me to stop patrolling I would stop patrolling. The last week had been hell, I'd had to avoid Sam's place like the plague, even when Emily was cooking. I must have dropped ten pounds with all the meals I'd missed. But I couldn't go into the house, not even for pack meetings, none of the wolves who didn't imprint could.

"Whatever Sam. I'm tired, I just want to go to bed", and that was Annie Uley in the flesh. They sounded like they were taking one of the forest paths home. Shit. Another night without Emily's free meals. I really needed one, I was so fucking tired of wasting my money on those damn pizzas.