I was minding my own business. Really, I was. I did not intend to cause mayhem when I moved to La Push. I did not intend to cause so many problems. And I did not intend to fall in love.

Of course, that's exactly what happened.

I sighed, collapsing on my new-to-me-but-very-used couch. That was it. All the boxes were in the building. None of them were unpacked, or even in the room that they were intended to be in, but they were all in the house. That deserved a break.

I had just moved here, obviously. I had grown up visiting the small reservation and my cousin, Brady. I had fallen in love with its small town charm, and now I was finally here to stay. Antsy, I stood. I dug a somewhat reasonable outfit out of my suitcase, and touched up my make up. No need to worry about my hair. I had crazy curly brown hair. It wasn't so crazy to be an afro of any kind, but that didn't mean it was tamable. With the right product, however, it was manageable enough to look like its craziness was intentional. I took one last look at the mountain of stuff I had, but chose to leave anyway. I had my whole life to unpack some boxes.

Now, I wanted to find my cousin. I was excited, he knew I had moved today, but he didn't know I was coming to see him and his parents early, a little surprise was good for people. The drive was short, as La Push wasn't a very large place. I looked up at the house from my memories, once again pleased to be back. I had always felt somehow that this was the place that I belonged. I hoped that I was right.

Two men were on the front lawn, but I was sure I'd never seen them before. They were huge! And muscled head to toe, a fact clearly shown off by their lack of a shirt or shoes. Then they turned, and I was shocked to be greeted by the smiling face of my cousin.

Stumbling, I made my way out of my car. "B-Brady?" I asked.

"Alison!" He yelled, scooping me up into a crushing hug.

"Air….Air!" I gasped. Sheepishly, he let me go.

"Sorry." He muttered. I smiled at him, happy to see him. And then, I smacked him, hard upside the head.

What I wasn't expecting, unfortunately, was that my smack seemed to have no effect on my enormous cousin, but hurt my hand like hell. "Fuck." I muttered, trying to shake the pain away.

"What was that for!?" Brady yelled, his good mood dissipating.

"I told you to stay away from drugs!" I yelled. "You're not going to care how good you look here," I gestured to his six pack. "When you're dick shrivels and falls off!"

His friend was the first to break out into laughter. "Relax." He said with a smile.

I narrowed my eyes. "I bet yours is already gone."

"Come on, cuz." Brady broke in. "You have to know I'm not on drugs. And neither is Seth."

I remained unconvinced. "You were literally half the size last time I saw you. What do your parents think?"

"What are you, my second mother?"

"If need be! I can't have you tarnish my good family name."

He rolled his eyes. "We don't even have the same last name."

I huffed. "Do you promise you aren't on drugs?"

"Cross my heart."

"I guess I'll believe you…for now." I smiled.

"Whatever. Enough about me. You're here early! Did you finish unpacking?"

"Uhm…" my smile turned sheepish.

"All your boxes are sitting in your living room, and they're going to stay there until you absolutely have to unpack them."

"You know me so well."

From there, we went inside to see his parents. They were, of course, thrilled to see me. They had already had dinner started, and we continued out chit chat for most of the evening. I even got to know Seth a little better. Turns out, he's a huge sweetie. And I do mean huge. He was easy to talk to, a little flirty even, but he wasn't really my type. For starters, he was too young for my nineteen years of awesomeness.

"What are you doing after this?" Seth asked me.

"I didn't really have anything planned. But it sounds like you do." I said with a laugh.

"Come to the beach with us. We're meeting some friends."

"Seth." Brady said, his voice low.

"What? You don't want me to go?" I asked, a little insulted.

"What? No, of course I want you to go." Brady corrected, quickly. He sighed. "You can come to the bonfire. We're just going to talk about the old legends. You know the ones." Indeed I did.

I smiled. "I'd love to come."

"Just don't embarrass me." Brady begged.

"What? They don't want to hear about when you spent a summer living with me and my mom?" I taunted.

"You did?" Seth asked, looking at Brady. "When? What happened?"

"Oh nothing," I said. "He was in third grade, and he really wanted to impress everyone, especially my best friend. And what better way to do that than to wear your finest tuxedo? Every single day. Without ever washing it. And then punch a kid when he accidently spills water on it." I laughed. "And then tell people that you're related to James Bond."

"Shut up." Brady looked unamused.

Seth, on the other hand, looked rather amused. "I bet you looked so fine Brady." He laughed. "Did he do other things?"

"He did. And I have photographic evidence." I answered.

"You're about to be uninvited." Brady cut in.

I sighed. "Fine. Be a baby. I'll just use my stories as blackmail for later. After all, you're stuck with me forever." We all smiled.

We walked to the beach. Brady and Seth still shirtless, and me with two jackets. How were they so immune to this cold? At least it wasn't raining…yet.

"Sam's cool too, he looks pretty mean, but he really is nice." Seth was rambling as we walked. I wasn't trying to tune him out, really I wasn't, but somehow I wasn't hearing a word he was saying as we walked.

My thoughts, however, were interrupted as a red VW Rabbit pulled up next to us. "You guys are late!" The voice called from the window.

"So are you!" Seth replied as we all turned towards the car.

And then I was staring into the most beautifully angry pair of dark brown eyes I had ever seen.

Hello there readers! This is actually my first story is quite a while, and I was a little surprised when the inspiration first struck me. But I rolled with it. It's also pretty much my first story on this website, so I'm still getting used to how this one works. I hope you all enjoy it!

Also for the record, due to the new addition of my character, as well as the direction that I would like the story to go in, I will not be following the original plot of the series exactly. This story so far is kind of set in the beginning of Eclipse if I had to pinpoint it. Victoria exists and is in the plot, but the battle hasn't happened. I also don't remember exactly when Brady and Collin turned, but obviously they already have in this story. Also The Cullens have gone and returned as well. So please don't get too mad when I don't follow the original plot line exactly. It's been a while since I've even read these books.

Thank you for taking the time to read it!

*All original characters and plot line belong to Stephanie Meyer.