"Anissa, can you do this?" Jacob asked as he cartwheeled across my backyard.

"No. I can't do a cartwheel, but I can summersault!" I did three in a row, standing up, feeling quite accomplished and dizzy.

"I can do a cartwheel!" Embry said.

"Me too!" Quil added.

And the Four Musketeers, six years old at the time, danced around my yard, with no cares.

At nine years old, we were still great friends.

"Hey Anissa, have you ever heard about the Quileute legends?" Quil asked.

"Which ones? There's a bunch!" I replied.

"The one about the Quileute coming from wolves!" Embry said.

"Hey! I know what we can do today! We can be wolves! Grrrr!" Jake said.

Soon we were all running on all fours, growling.

After living next door to each other for 16 years, Jacob and I knew each other very well. He was like my brother. Since I had only had my sisters Tamara who was 6 years older then me, and Jessica who was 13 years younger then me; and Jake was never really close with his sisters; we always had each other. We always told each other everything: who we liked, whom we hated, what was going good, and what was bad.

Since we were always together, I found it weird once I started noticing him acting different, once he met Bella. I could tell that he liked her, but she had a boyfriend, Edward. I always knew there was something weird about that family. Then Edward left, and Bella got all depressed, but Jake had to cheer her up, and never had anytime to hang out after school since he was building bikes with Bella. Embry and Quil would hang out with them, but I felt like I didn't fit in, so I didn't try.

Then on day, he talked about going to the movies with Bella. I was sitting at home, and watched me pull up to the house. And I didn't see him come out, and he wasn't at school either. It was February, right after he turned 16. I went over to see him, but Billy said he had mono, and said I should keep me distance until he was better. Then I saw Sam Uley ad his pack head into Jake's house. Things were getting weird.

Jake and I were total opposites in appearance, but had the same personalities. We had always hung out with Embry and Quil: surfing when it was 20 degrees outside, cliff diving, hiking, watching movies, and just hanging around. Jake had always been taller then all of us, Embry was next, then Quil, and I was the shortest. I always felt like the little sister, they picked on me, but only to get a laugh.

Just before Jake disappeared, Embry got all weird as well. He was gone from school for a while, and then he started hanging out with Sam and his gang, he skipped school a bunch. I decided I needed to see Jake and see what was wrong. I didn't care if he had mono or whatever. I missed my best friend; I hadn't seen him in almost 2 weeks.

I knocked on the door, and Billy answered.

"Hi Billy."

"Hello Anissa."

"Is Jake here? I really need to see him, or just talk to him."

"I'm sorry Nissa, you can't see him right now."

"Why not? I haven't seen him in 2 weeks. I-I just want to talk to him."

"I'm sorry Nissa. He's not available right now."

"Please. I just want to talk to him. Please can I just talk to him?"

"I'm sorry Nissa."

"Alright. I'll just be going then."

I turned around, and started to walk down the driveway, back towards my house. Then I saw him walking towards to forest behind his house.

"JAKE? Jake!" I called after him. He turned around, and looked over. I ran to him.

"Jake? Is that you? You look so different."

"Anissa, what are you doing here?"

"I was coming to see if I could talk to you. What happened to you? Jake, you've changed. Your hair! You cut off all of your hair! And what's with this half-naked thing? And a tattoo? Jake you got a tattoo? What is going on?"

"Nissa, you should go. You need to go home." He had a sad look on his face, as though it hurt him to say this.

"What? Why Jake? What's the matter?"

"You just need to go."

"Why? So you can leave? Just like Embry? You know, he never talks to me anymore. I see him at school, but he's so secretive, and is only hanging out with Sam and his crew. Quil doesn't talk to me either and I don't know why."

"I'm sorry Anissa. It's better for us not to be friends."

"WHAT? Jake? 16 years? And all of a sudden, you can't be friends with me anymore? Jacob Ephraim Black, how can you do this? I'm so confused."

"I hope you can understand. Someday. Just please forgive me."

"Jake, this is really big. I'm not sure I can."

I ran home, not looking back. I realized that during the whole time we were talking, he never looked me in the eye. Something was seriously wrong. I had to find out what.