I had convinced myself that running away was the best thing to do. I didn't know exactly where I was going but what I did know was that I barely had any gas and I didn't have anywhere to go. I drove down a back rode that lead me deeper into Washington. If my car stopped I would have to walk, walk until I could find houses, or if I was lucky a hotel. There was a reason I had avoided any roads that would lead me into a city of some kind, for that reason I followed a rode into a place called La Push. It was not on my map, which meant I was in the middle of nowhere, and that was exactly where I wanted to be.

The deeper down the road, the more I drove the safer I felt I didn't have an actual reason to be afraid but I had to get as far away from Canada as I possibly could. I had to get away from my parents, away from those who didn't know, away from those who wanted to.

My car started to rumble and then it stopped, I pulled over. Then I knew it had run out of gas. It was time to walk.

I had run away because I was I couldn't bear to be home any more. Home was a place, which I really didn't belong. A place where my history and my reputation laid all on negativity. I had to find a place where I'd fit in, another world even. A world that would tell me what I was, who I was. I had this thing, I couldn't fell pain, I could have mind control over anyone, and I could move things with my mind and most of all I could feel. Anything anyone felt I could stare at them and immediately I knew what they were feeling. Sometimes I was able to teleport from one place to another. I was a freak, and throughout my whole life, I was trying to find other 'freaks' like me. When trying to find them, I'd run into nothing but trouble; therefore, I had to get away from there before they discovered what I was and what I could do.

I opened the door and grabbed everything from my car that could fit into my backpack that I thought I needed.

Into the forest I went.

I had been walking for at least ten minutes before I got out the car, I hadn't seen any cars driving on the street, just mine. I began to get irritated because something in my mind was telling me that I wasn't going to find anyone, and eventually I would die from something like starvation. This place had enough woods that an animal could even eat me. That was just how my mind worked I was so negative.

"This is what you wanted Cassie, take it and go as far away as you can with it," I said to myself hoping someone wasn't around to hear me. If someone was here what would they think, crazy biracial girl walking alone in the forest talking to herself. Right that was a good impression.

What was I thinking, no one was here.

I heard a twig crack. I stopped. Instantly I was afraid, wait I wasn't. . . . Yes I was.

I started to faster my step and walk a little bit faster, c'mon Cassie it's just an animal, I told myself. Yet I was still walking faster nothing would slow me down. Minutes later I found myself running, I didn't know where I was running to but I had to get away I had to find somewhere to be. I was running so I didn't know if the twigs that I was hearing break was my own or if they were someone else's.

Then I stopped for just a second, and behind me, I could hear twigs breaking. So know I knew something was after me, behind me.

I just stood there, I knew I couldn't feel anything unless I saw it but I tried. I tried to feel what the thing was feeling. I was shocked when I got a feeling in my stomach that I wanted something. I was sure whatever it was it wanted me. I continued to walk, if it was my time to die then it was.

A thought of a beautiful prince would come out and save me did flash into my head, for just a second. That was just something I was hoping for; yet I knew that it wasn't going to happen.

"Reneesme stop! Right now don't you dare-," A boy yelled from the forest. One of them stopped, and I was guessing the boy was behind, trying to catch up.

I laughed to myself, so this was the prince.

Then I started walking again, I was walking very fast too. I heard them get closer. You're not afraid, not afraid; I tried to convince myself. I knew that I wanted to find people, that I need someone to find me. However, the thought of a guy in the forest chasing a girl, yeah I didn't want to get between that.

"Wait stop, are you okay?" The boy asked hardly tired.

I didn't know whether he was talking to me or if he was talking to the girl called Reneesme. Yet I did stop.

A tall young handsome guy appears. He was totally gorgeous; he had long black, shiny hair. He was shirtless, muscular. And he had the most beautiful smile I had ever seen in my life. The best part about it, he was smiling at me.

I wasn't so bad. I was a biracial. Pretty skinny compared to him. I had long light brown hair that was a cross between curly and wavy, my eyes were green, and I was tall, but not as tall as he was. Of all I could admit that I was pretty. Compared to him I was hideous. I immediately stared at him I wanted to know what he was feeling.

He had multiple feelings, he was energetic, excited, the feeling I liked the most, he had butterflies. They filled my stomach quickly.

"I was driving down that road over there. But then my car broke down, and ugh I don't have anywhere to go." There I go spilling my whole life out to him.

He took one-step closer to me, "I think I could find you a place to stay, and about your car I could have that fixed in no time," He offered. I took a step back not sure what I was getting myself into. I ran my fingers through my hair. I didn't know if I should've accepted his over, since I really didn't know him. Plus it kind of freaked me out that he was here, in the forest with a girl that looked nothing like him.

I bit into my lip.

"I- uh-don't want to be a big worry for you, I have money." I didn't really care how I sounded, I was still debating. It scared me, just because of the fact that he'd just met me and was already offering me a place to stay.

He grabbed the girl by her hand and pulled her closer to him; he held her hand protectively as she hid behind him. She must have been used to being protected by him. My anxious thoughts settled.

"It won't be a problem, I need to take my friend's daughter home and then I will get you all taken care of." I looked up; I guess I could take the chance.

The girl finally came from behind him and said, "I'm Reneesme, I am sorry for chasing you in the forest." I grinned, trying to figure out why she would follow me.

Reneesme was a very pretty girl, she had light topaz eyes that stared up at me, her skin was so pale it looked like she was sick, and she had the sweetest color brown hair. Reneesme looked about thirteen or fourteen. She was absolutely beautiful.

"I'm Jacob Black," They boy announced taking the step I took back out of the way.

"I'm Cassandra, but it's fine if you call me Cassie."

"That's a sweet name," Jacob hadn't stopped smiling ever since he'd seen me, but it didn't bother me.

He pulled Reneesme along with his hand and she sort of danced by his side. I was wondering why he was with Reneesme. They both looked happy and from the forest where she was chasing me, I was sure he was just trying to teach her something. I let the thought out of my mind.

I looked back at Jacob for a second; he looked like he was about twenty years old. He had the body of someone much older but his voice sounded like he was maybe twenty. Therefore, in my head Jacob black was about twenty years old. In addition, I had found such a hot twenty year old, God and he was indeed hot. As I followed behind him a few steps, I study his body. His back, his muscles. . . And I had to admit he had a pretty nice butt. Very, very nice.

Jacob, Reneesme and I continued walking, I wasn't sure where. Jacob and Reneesme were walking pretty fast and it seemed like this was they're usual speed. I kept up by walking as fast I possibly could, without it looking like I was jogging.

Once we reached a small red house Jacob stopped, though he wasn't out of breath or anything. The house wasn't as small as my mind made it seem but I didn't know if this was Jacob's house because he was nearly taller than it. I wonder if this was where I was going to be staying.

"Rosalie's at the borderline, I'll find my way. Bye Jake!" Reneesme ran past the house. She ran pretty fast, and after a few seconds, the girl had disappeared past the house.

"This is my place by the way," Jacob announced once we started walking closer to the house. I looked up at it and then back at Jacob. He didn't look at me, so I thought he was trying think about something to talk about.

He walked in the house I followed. It was filled with things inside, I looked around. It wasn't bad at all once I was inside it was better than the dump I was living in before I left home.

"I would let you stay here with me but I'm almost never home these days; my life is way too hectic." He laughed. "Sam shouldn't mind if you stayed at his place, you'll like it there. He has a wife Emily; she is pretty easy to get along with."

Jacob showed me the way to his garage while he went to make a phone call. I was curious about how nice he was being. My thought's escaped once I was in the garage, because inside I saw a Volkswagen Rabbit, one of the most awesome cars, I'd seen in a long while. I touched the roof with the tip of my fingers when Jacob walked back in.

"Is this yours!?" I asked as soon as he walked back into the garage, Jacob started to laugh. He put his hands on the roof of the car.

"I've never actually saw one of these. I mean I saw it in this movie a long time ago, but you never see these in real life! They don't even make models like this anymore." I was more excited, than I usually was. I had a huge interest in old types of cars that most people wouldn't like; this one was one that anyone would. That gave Jacob major points, since he had one.

"I built it myself." Jacob bragged, as he opened the passenger door and let me in. As soon as he did, I hopped inside.

"That's really awesome!" I said once we were both sitting inside the car.

He started the car and then we reversed out of the garage and into the street. As we were driving, Jacob began to ask me what I knew about cars. I basically told him everything I knew about them. He was impressed, but not too much, because he said, "I'll have to teach you a few things."

Jacob actually knew a lot more then I did about cars and engines, he told me about all the cars he had fixed in the past couple of years. He'd actually had a job fixing cars, and wanted to start his own business. It was typical, but I was a little intimidated.

It wasn't a really long ride to Sam's place, but I wanted the ride to be longer. Jacob and I had each other entertained on the car ride, he was laughing, and I was. It was nice.

Once we pulled into the driveway of a blue house Jacob stopped the car and looked straight at me.

"Before we get out, um how'd you end up here and La Push anyways?" He questioned.

I bit into my lip, debating on what I should tell him. I figured since he was doing such a huge and unusual favor for me that I'd just tell him the truth.

"I just up and left." It wasn't exactly like I'd ran away since I'd been nineteen for a few months, but I felt like I left against my will.

"Why?"

I looked for the best lie I could tell. Family problems err, troubled. Now I should have that about this on my way to Washington.

"It's just that I was different from everybody there, something inside of me that isn't like other people. I just had to get away from it." This was actually the truth, and the way I said it was believable.

"I have that feeling all the time, well as long as you stay here, you can always talk to me about it," Jacob answered, though he had no idea how different I was.

I started to walk towards the house. Jacob was walking quickly in front of me as if he was afraid something would hop out at me. I had already known enough from the car ride about Sam and Emily. I wasn't too fearful of staying with complete strangers for a few days; I was hoping things would go well between me and the Uley family.

Immediately a girl opened the door, the first thing I noticed were the scars on the left side of her face. I also felt the ways she was feeling, her feelings told me she was used to being stared and she was annoyed by it.

I smiled, "I'm Cassie," I introduced myself.

Emily grabbed my hand and shook it. This was a nice greeting.

"Emily Uley," Greeted Emily. "I was attacked by a wolf year's back just in case you were curious to what had happen the left side of my face," Emily assured me. Then she let me and Jacob into the house. It was bigger than Jacob's, way more neat, and it smelt so much better. Like a mixture of cookies and flowers.

"She got lose in the woods. Reneesme was chasing her," Jacob explained to Emily and from the way he was looking at her he had meant something when he said she was chasing me. At that moment, I thought nothing of it. I could feel the sarcasm coming from Jacob's body, and I could feel that Emily understood it. To bad I couldn't read minds. I still hadn't figured out why Reneesme had run after me in the forest.

I sat on the empty spot on the couch right next to the edge. Emily sat on the other side of the end of the love sofa. She was ready to ask her share of questions to bad I wasn't ready to answer them. I stilled hadn't put together what had just happened.

"Well Cassie, Emily I'm sorry for leaving so fast but Sam needs me like now, he had called for me before I found Cassandra here. So I am sure he is pretty ticked off at me right now," Jacob empathized grabbing the handle to the door. He was leaving me already, he was the only person I had met since I'd been here and now he was leaving. I wondered how much time I had to wait to see him again.

He said goodbye once more and then walked out the door, leaving me alone with Emily.

"So Cassandra I figured since you were going to be housemates I should tell you about me." So then Emily told me about who Sam was and how they'd met. She informed me on how long she had knew Jacob and how Jacob had met Sam. Emily had let me know just about everything that had to do with her and Sam and Jacob. One of the things that caught my interest was how she had sort of stole Sam from her cousin Leah Clearwater.

I could tell that Emily didn't get to talk about Sam very much because she kept going on and on about him. She literally talked until it was about to get dark outside. It didn't bother me that she was so open about the things going on between them. I felt like this was the place I was looking for, even though nothing around here was supernatural, I had to have patience.

Her life was so interesting that I had forgotten about my own. I was so surprised that it was so easy for Emily to open up to me, and tell me about her life. And the thing about it was, every time I looked inside her all I could feel was how sincere she was.

Emily stood up and asked me if I wanted to know where I was going to be sleeping.

She led me past the bathroom, past her room and into the last room at end. It was average sized, it was already decorated.

"Pretty," I whispered, trying to be enthusiastic about.

Jacob had laid my bag on the bed.

"I don't mind if you stay her for a few days, or weeks even. Make yourself feel comfortable. Trust me, I'll love you're company." She smiles a really genuine smile. Emily walked out of the room leaving me in there alone. I started to push some off the bed. I'd brought in noticeable places so that I'd be able to find them when I left. I knew that if I used my mind moving gifts I could get things done so much faster, but I was afraid that Emily might have needed something and was to walk in and catch me. The last thing I wanted was for them to find out about me.

I laid my empty bag on the floor next to the bed and lay down, closed my eyes and attempted to fall asleep.

When I heard the door slam, I stood up, stretched and then walked out the room into the living room. Inside the living stood four shirtless young men. I spotted Jacob first, mostly because he was the first person to smile. His smile was one of the most beautiful, and then it was the guy next to him. The other who looked just like Jacob, except his body wasn't as muscular as Jacob's was.

The tallest one came up beside Emily and kissed her. This kiss lasted for about seven seconds. After the kiss was over Jacob came towards me.

"Cassie, this is Sam, Jared and Embry. The ones I told you about in the car remember?" Jacob introduced me to the boys that looked almost exactly like him.

"Nice to meet you," I responded as soon as Jacob finished, the one called Embry walked up to me grabbed my hand and then kissed it.

I wanted to look him straight in the eye and know what he was feeling but he wouldn't look at me. Then he looked directly in my face, not my eyes but at my face. He smiled, it was graceful. I knew I wasn't the prettiest person when I woke up, so I didn't know he was so happy.

"You have beautiful eyes." He said first then he looked me right into my eyes and whispered, "If there is any time to imprint c'mon Embry do it now." Everybody in the house started to laugh, except me I didn't have a clue what imprint meant, and why exactly did he want to imprint on me? It was funny to everyone else. I sat down next to Emily who was staring up at Sam.

"Are you boy's hungry?" Emily asked standing up to her feet, she slide past Embry and I to the kitchen. I expected she didn't need an answer since she told me that the boys were quite hogs.

I noticed that as soon as she got up Jacob sat next to me, leaving me stuck between to shirtless beauties. Did I love it? I bite into my lip to hid my grin.

"Jake, how's Reneesme doing?" Embry asked Jacob. Jake smiled and the moved an inch closer to me. "Fine. Getting bigger everyday."

I looked back towards the kitchen, and see that Emily and Sam had disappeared leaving me in the living room. Jared was on the couch finishing of an apple that he had picked up off the table. The way Jared was eating made me understand why Emily had called the boys hogs.

"So what do you guys do all day?" I found myself asking because I couldn't handle how quiet it'd got so fast.

Jacob looked at Jared for a reasonable answer, and Jared looked like he couldn't find it.

"We're hunters," Embry replied.

I smugly smirked, not completely believing them. I was somehow lying to them, as well so I didn't so anything.

"So where are you from?" Embry asked biting his bottom lip. I started to chuckle at first and then I answered.

"I'm a Canadian."

"And how did gorgeous girl like yourself find herself in La Push of all places?"

"Well, you guys weren't on the map. And I was kind of trying to get lost soo. . ."

"Lost, as in you don't want anyone to find you?"

"Correct." I bit into my lip and then realize how that may sound. "It's nothing illegal or anything."

This was true, he just nods and pretends to understand. But he doesn't and he won't because hell I had been leaving with it for seven years.

Sam and Emily walked back into the room, big smiles on there faces.

"Cassie, you cook right?" Emily ask, with Sam's arms around her waist.

"Yes," I say, happy to be getting off the subject.

"Oh good! Please come in here and help me?" I instantly get up, so glad to be getting out of the atmosphere. Looking into Emily I could tell that she was a little more happy than how she portrayed. From what she told me she was more than tired of cooking for them, but couldn't even imagining stopping because she felt like it was her job, her duty.

"Of Course."

I walked past her, still feeling like the boys had there eyes on me. I just hoped that they weren't staring at my butt, I wasn't wearing the best pants that day.

Everything I do in the kitchen I do because Emily had told me to. I didn't lie when I told her I could cook, but honestly I didn't want to ruin her good cooking. Half of the time I would burn my grilled cheese in the process of making it.

"What does imprint mean?" I ask, pulling the seal from the meat. removing it and letting it fall into a pan.

"It means-it doesn't really matter, does it?!" She acted like it wasn't a big deal, which made me think it as.

Yet I didn't ask any question because I didn't want to bother Emily anymore about it. We cooked the food in about forty-five minutes, and in those forty-five minutes Emily had not let me sit down even once. The guys were ecstatic to finally be able to eat.

Emily advised me to make their plates because she said that sometime one brother got to much food, and then she would have to cook again for one of them. Emily sat down and started eating. I told her I wasn't hungry at them moment and I went into my room and sat there for a moment. It seemed to weird to my how normal everything was, kind of like they were letting me in to easily.

I wrote something in my laptop about what I was planning on doing next.

Jacob walked into my room about an hour later, he had his shirt on now, and he was rubbing his belly. He sat at the edge of the bed. Looked at my laptop screen for a second and then said, "I found your car."

"Did I tell you that there is nothing really wrong with my car? I just needed gas," I grin.

Maybe it was just me being a little cocky, or Jacob had made a face that meant to me that he might have wanted something to be wrong with my car. So I would have a reason to be here longer. I put my laptop aside, and go into my bag that's still unpacked on the dresser. I pull out my keys and hand them to him.

"If you don't mind, you could just park it at you're house and I could just get it whenever I get ready to go."

He grins a little.

"Meaning that I might just stay here for a few more days."

He sends me this smile, and almost lightens up. "Good, because now we can get to know each other a little better. If that's okay?" "Of course I'm even a little interested in the life of Jacob Black, plus you still have things to teach me. Remember? Even though I'm always positive that I will be the one teaching you " joke, Jacob easily laughs, and I liked that about him. How it really didn't take much to please him, and I also like how he had the sweetest personality.

"Tomorrow, we should hang out, maybe if you and Embry aren't to busy crushing over each other," He gives me this look to let me know that he's only joking, "I could spend some time teaching you some true skills about cars."

"Like I said, I may or may not end up teaching you something." Jacob let out a laugh and then went back to his smile.

"Is there something you're trying to imply? Maybe that you know more about cars than I?" He asked in his toughest voice.

"I sure am."

Jacob turned his head towards the hallway a couple seconds later Jared was there. It kind of freaked me out, a little that he knew someone was coming before he came. I shake the thought out of my mind.

Jared's face was extremely serious, and then he announced what was on his mind. "Bella just called, its Reneesme."