Meet Your Match

Chapter 1

Embry POV

Home, sweet home. I had just spent the last five nights in California on an impulsive trip with my mother and it was not very fun.

God, how I hate funerals. If you ask me, there is nothing worse. My great aunt had died last weekend, in the early hours of Sunday morning and my mum had decided to blow all of our savings on flying us both out there to 'be with the family'.

Don't get me wrong, I am very big on the importance of family, but truth be told, neither of us knew my great aunt Nancy, or her immediate family well at all. I spent the whole time feeling as if I were intruding on private time in those poor people's lives.

My mum, drama queen that she is, however, had insisted on informing everyone that she knew of the loss, and almost passed out when I suggested that even if we went for the service, we shouldn't stay with them for the entire three days before then.

I didn't have the patience to deal with her sullenness and childish actions for the weeks to follow, so I packed my bags, and boarded the plane.

But finally, after missing a whole week of school, we arrived back in La Push around lunchtime.

I threw my suitcase into my already messy room, and bolted out the back door into the forest so I could finally phase.

After running around for about half an hour, I managed to leave my irritations at my mother behind. With nothing but the blurring trees around me, and the hard ground under my paws I finally felt at peace. I felt like myself again.

I became the usual care-free, laughing, joking Embry that everyone knew and loved.

A beautiful smell of blueberry muffins hit my senses suddenly, and I realised that I had run past Sam and Emily's.

After phasing back, and putting on some cut off sweats, I knocked swiftly on the door, but walked in without waiting for an answer.

I was shocked when a pair of arms wrapped themselves around my waist. I looked down to see Emily pressing her self against me.

"Your mum told us about your great aunt, are you ok?" She asked, giving me a warm smile. I suppressed the urge to roll my eyes.

"I am fine, I only ever met her once, and that was a long time ago." I answered as I grabbed one of the still piping hot muffins of the tray and swallowed it whole.

"Ahh" I sighed, "I had almost forgotten just how good your cooking was Em." She smiled at my flattery, but still noticed as I went to grab another,

"Same some for your brothers!"

Luckily for me she was distracted from Sam walking into the kitchen. He had obviously just woken up, and I hoped I hadn't been the one to do that. We wolves could get cranky when we needed sleep.

They shared a hug and a kiss, and I took the moment to grab another muffin off the tray.

Unfortunately for me Emily turned around to see the gaping wholes in the muffin tray, but I was saved from further chastising when we heard the front door open, and a number of footsteps, and voices talking over each other.

Jake was the first one to walk in, and as soon as he saw me, he gave me one those manly one armed hugs, that aren't really hugs of course, and grabbed a muffin. Quil did the same, and the rest of them all gave me highs fives, or pats on the back, before helping themselves to a snack. Even Leah gave me a smile, she was finally starting to warm up. Personally I think she is finally get laid, but she almost took a chunk out of my shoulder when I suggested this last time we were on patrol together, so I had kept my thoughts to myself since.

Kim was the last to walk in, holding Jared hand, and after I gave Jared a high five, a pulled her up into a bear hug. It was good to be home, I hadn't heard squeals like that for almost a week.

Jared quickly pulled her out of my grasp, and put her down. For some reasons she had some issue with keeping her feet on the floor.

Once everyone had settled themselves around the kitchen, Sam started to do his Alfa thing, and I tried to listen, but there wasn't really much to say. Things had been quiet on the bloodsucker front for ages now.

We had set up a tradition of meeting after school on Fridays to go over the patrol schedule after Sam realised that when we were meeting on Mondays, some of us, not me of course, were prone to forgetting our weekend shifts by the time they came around.

"So, tonight, it will be Seth and myself patrolling, tomorrow, Paul and Leah, tomorrow night, Brady and Collin, Sunday, Embry and Jacob, and Sunday night, Jared and Quil. Weekly schedule is as usual now that Embry is back." He informed us.

We tried to keep weekdays as regular as possible, so our lives could be slightly more regular, but we rotated the weekends, so that the same people didn't always miss out on Friday or Saturday nights.

I grinned when I realised that Jacob, Quil and I all had tonight off.

"Well boys, what's the plan for tonight?" I asked them grinning.

"There is a massive party for seniors tonight, a welcome for the new chick I think." Jacob answered; I could tell he was as eager to get out as I was.

"New chick?" I asked, I hadn't heard about any new students.

"Yeah, her name is Kate, she just moved up here from Forks." Quil answered.

"She's a total hottie, too." Seth cut in with.

I smiled, maybe this party would be more fun then I thought. I was running out of girls in La Push. As if she could read my thoughts, Emily joined our conversation,

"Really Embry? Don't you ever get bored going from girl to girl? Not to mention the number of hearts you have broken along the way."

At this most of the pack cracked up. I tried to defend my self.

"I make things clear from the beginning, it's not my fault if they chose to ignore my warnings." I said, but with a smile on my face, I knew they were only teasing.

"You are destroying these ladies faith in all of men though!" Leah added.

"I don't think I am. If anything I am doing them a favour." I shut up, when I realised I didn't have clue what I was talking about, luckily for me, making up crap on the spot was one of my many talents.

"Really?" Kim asked, "Would you mind explaining how, exactly, you are doing those poor girls a favour."

"Well," I started, not sure where I would go with this, "You see, if I were to settle down with a girl, there is always the chance that I would imprint on someone else, thus breaking that poor girls heart. In a way, I am doing all of womankind a favour by not settling down." I paused, "Plus, spending the night with me is always fun for the ladies, I have no problem with doing them lots of favours."

As soon as I said this, a lot of thing happened at once. Both Leah and Emily tried to hit me over the head, Seth, Collin and Brady all burst out laughing, Sam just stood in the corner shaking his head, and Paul and Jacob both gave me high fives.

Once the laughter had settled down, Paul added,

"Also, Embry's always a lot happier after he has been laid."

"Exactly" I shouted as I stood up, ready to make my final point. "So not only am I doing womankind kind a favour by not settling down, but I am doing the entire population a favour, by keeping my self in a good mood."

"I give up." Kim said, shaking her head. She got up, and went into the lounge, quickly followed by Emily and Leah.

The boys spent the rest of the afternoon filling me in on all of the events I had missed while I was away.

Emily, of course, made us a huge dinner. For once, she was actually encouraging us to eat more,

"I don't want you boys drinking on an empty stomach." She told us in her best mothering voice.

"Yes Emily." We chorused.

Eventually I headed back home to put on some more decent clothes before the party. I found a note on the table from my mum saying that she was spending the night at a 'friend's' house. For once I was actually please, because it meant I would have the house to myself later on.

Jacob had offered to go desi (A/N designated driver), so after a quick shower, and a change of clothes, I went to wait outside.

It was one of the few nights here in Washington that were not ruined rain or clouds, the sky was just clear, with nothing but stars.

After staring at the stars for a moment, the rabbit pulled up, and I jumped in.

We got there a little after nine, and as soon as I walked in, there were girls everywhere, asking where I had been, and telling me how pleased they were I was back. This is the life.

Quil disappeared for a minute, but soon repaired with beers for us.

"Alright, I think it is time I met this new girl now." I told the guys, they laughed, and started to look around. They didn't need to look for long though, before Abby, the host of the party, got up on the DJ's stage, and announced:

"Kate, this song is dedicated to you, it is your theme song after all. Welcome to La Push!"

As soon as she had finished the opening notes of a song I knew all too well started to play.

"Isn't this that song your sister was obsessed with?" Quil asked Jacob, we all remembered hearing it over and over again.

"Afraid so. The Best Damn Thing, by Avril Lavinge." He answered, with a pained look on his face. He had heard it even more then we had.

I had to laugh as I remember the words. Any girl who thought this was her theme song was defiantly worth meeting.

As the bride came on, I heard a lot of cheering, and looked over to see a girl being lifted onto the table. The chorus started, and she spun around to face to room.

The minute she opened her mouth, I was stunned. She was unlike anything I had seen before. I knew my mouth was wide open, but I didn't care, all I cared about was the goddess singing and dancing on the table

"You're not, not, not gonna get any better"

I laughed at the lyrics, but just continued to stare at her and the perfect ways she moved.

She had amazing, dark hair, which had a reddish tint. It didn't wash out her pale skin though, some how it just enhanced her skin tone. She had a strapless, red dress that looked amazing with hair colour. It was tight at the top, enhancing her cleavage, and showing off her small waist, and rounded hips, but then it flared out, so she could dance very easily in it. It was short too, way too short for her to be around other guys, but it did show off her toned legs. I realised you could see the muscles as she moved to the music. Finally she had a pair of very tall, very pointy shoes that looked more like a weapon then an accessory.

"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah I'm a lot to handle,
You don't know trouble, I'm a hell of a scandal,
Me, I'm a scene, I'm a drama queen"

Suddenly she looked right in my eyes as she sung the last line of the chorus,

"I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen!"

She looked away, and continued with her performance, but not before I memorised the beautiful, sparkling blue that her eyes were. Her beautiful, full lips kept singing, and I realised I wanted to be closer to this new angel.

I started to weave through the crowds, to the table, but Quil and Jacob brought me back.

"Don't tell you've done what I think you've done!" Jacob said,

"He has. I had the same look when I saw Claire. Of all people, the pack is going to have a fit when they hear you have imprinted!" Quil started to laugh.

I shoved them off, and made my way to the edge of the table. The song was about to finish, and I wanted to be there to meet her. They came to stand next to me, but thankfully didn't say anything more.

The final chords rang out, and she struck a pose, but she was overenthusiastic, and started to fall off the table.

Without thinking, I threw myself in that direction, and shoved Jacob and Quil out of the way.

The next this I knew she was in my arms. She looked stunned for a second, but quickly composed herself.

"Hi there, I'm Kate. You must be my knight in shining armour."