My name is Angel Fairchild. I'm seventeen and I've actually just moved to this really adorable reservation called La Push. I'm actually a werewolf, but Sssshhhh! Don't tell anybody! I changed when my mother started to hit my five year old brother. I got so mad that I just… snapped. I really didn't mean to hurt my mother, but when you hurt my precious little Andrew, then it gets personal. Well, my uncle Billy Black told me that there was another pack I jumped at the opportunity. But I didn't know how to be far away from my only sibling. So I had a little thing that I attach to my torso and my brother can sit on it while I run. He is being pressed to my stomach because if he sat on my back would freeze to death, but he didn't mind. He just wanted to be away from my mother.

It was way too hot in Arizona, and my best friend Bella Swan has been gone for two years. She only called several times, but that's all. Then her mother moved to Florida and I heard from Rene` that she had come to visit sometime last month. I can still remember when the last time I went to visit my uncle, Bella, Jake, and I were making mud pies together in the back yard. But that was when I was only five years old, the last time I was in La Push. I was pretty rich, so when I bought the house I am living in, it barely made a dent in the money I got from my father's death. My father died when I was three, he fell asleep while he was driving and he left me and my brother money. He came from an extremely rich family which is why my mother married him in the first place.

It was actually an extremely cozy home, it was small, mostly because there was only two people living in it. I have already set up our rooms. Andrew is set on sleeping in my bed with me. Well, he is a five year old, he's afraid that something is in his room and is out to get him. So I don't complain, though Andrew does. He wants to go to school and make some new friends. I'm too afraid that something may happen to my poor baby. But eventually his nagging got to me and I'm letting him go to school. I already enrolled myself into the local high school. That was yesterday, and today was both mine and Andrew's first day of school.

"Okay, be nice and don't let the other kids mess with you. Okay?" I said fixing his shirt. His innocent green eyes looked back into my own.

"Yes, Angel." He said in his small, innocent voice. I smiled and kissed his forehead and led him into the school. I gave him a hug and kiss goodbye and left to go to my first day of school. I walked into the school and ran into a brick wall. I looked up to see a boy with black hair, extremely tan skin, and deep brown eyes. I looked at him a little confused as to why he is standing in front of me. He actually looked down at me and smiled. What the hell? Who smiles at someone after they run into you? Strange town.

"You must be the new student, I'm Jacob Black. I'm supposed to show you around the school." I smiled a bright smile and hugged him tight.

"Uh… why are you hugging me?" came his confused voice.

"Now, Jakers! Don't talk like that to your cousin!" I scolded playfully.

"Angel?" he asked in disbelief.

"The one and only." I held my arms out as he picked me up and twirled me around.

"I missed you so much! Why haven't you called?" he asked.

"Well, I was a little busy. How have you been? Jeez you built some muscle!" I said squeezing his bicep. He chuckled and put an arm around me.

"Oh, just about the usual. Boring old stuff, my dad talking about wolves again." I heard that he has already changed, but he doesn't know that I've already changed too.

"He always did that, it kind of worried me how much he talked about that old stuff. Makes him sound crazy or something." I said shaking my head. Jake nodded and led me through the crowd.

"Hey, you wanna come and hang out with some friends?" he asked.

"Of course I do. Why wouldn't I want to hang out with my favorite cousin? By the way, why are you still in school?" I asked.

"I skipped a lot of school, so I have to repeat the grade." He said. I nodded thoughtfully. Billy never told me why he had to still be in school.

"So you still wanna come hang out?" he asked.

"Of course, I wouldn't miss it for the world." I said hugging my favorite cousin.

*after school on their way to meet the pack*

I followed Jake in my car all the way to where the wolf pack was. I met Jake outside my car and he smiled at me. I walked inside of the small house and saw a beautiful woman with a horrible scar down the side of her face, but she still looked beautiful.

"Oh, you must be Angel. Jake told us you were coming." She said shaking my hand. I smiled and looked behind her to see eight boys and one girl in the living room. They were looking at me expectantly. I smiled and waved.

"Hi, I'm Jakes cousin, Angel." I said. They smiled except for the girl. It looked like she didn't know what to make of me yet.

"Well, I'm Sam, this is Paul, Jerid, Brady, Leah, you know Jake, Quil, Embry, Carson, and our other friend isn't here yet." Sam said. I smiled and shook all of their hands.

"Ok, I think I should just get this out in the open. I know what all of you are, and I'm one of you. I'm a shape shifter." I said. Their mouths hung open in shock.

"I'm kind of a blunt person. But I'm always a big ray of sunshine." I said. I looked at my phone.

"Crap, I need to go pick up my brother. I'll see you guys later? " I said.

"Wait! Since you're a shape shifter like us, will you be in the pack?" Sam asked. I nodded and walked out. I got to my car and went to go pick up Andrew. I picked him up and he hugged me.

"How was your day sweety?" I asked.

"It was fun, I made some new friends. How about you sis?" he asked.

"I made some friends too. I'm heading over there right now. And since you have no choice your coming with me." I smiled down at him. He giggled his little kid giggle and jumped up and down in excitement. I laughed as I drove back to Sam's house. When I got there, there was another car that I didn't recognize as any of the other's cars.

"I wonder who else is here." I said. I got out of the car and helped Andrew out of the car. He held my hand as we walked into the house. Everyone looked at me and said hi. I smiled and said hi back.

"So who's this?" Sam asked.

"This is my little brother Andrew, he's five." I said. Everyone looked at him and smiled. He hid behind my leg, he's kind of shy when he first meets people. I rolled my eyes and pushed him from my leg. He glared playfully at me and I rolled my eyes. He looked at Leah and went bounding over to her. I don't know what it is, but whenever we're in a room full of teenagers or adults, he always goes to the girl or me. I shook my head as he clutched onto Leah's leg.

"Sorry, it's something he's always done. Whenever we're in a room full of people and there is only two girls. He'll either go to me or the other girl." I shrugged. Then my eyes zeroed in on the boy sitting in a chair looking at me with wide eyes. My eyes widened when I saw him and I felt everything from the world leave me and there was only one little cable holding me to the world. And that was the boy in front of me.

"Angel, this is Seth, Leah's younger brother."