Chapter One
I looked out the window seeing the town and all I knew pass me by. My mother had finally told me who my father was I knew he was Native American from my rust colored skin. My mom was as white as the snow and had the same red hair that I had inherited. I got teased alot in school being an Irish Native American. I didn't feel Native American, I was Irish. I needed to know both sides of my heritage. My mother had met my father in a club when she was on a foren study program and a student at oregon state. She had met my father at a club he was married but he seemed so young that it didn't even occar to my mother. They had had a one night stand and when she had called him his five year old daughter answered. After four years she went back to Ireland with a three year old yours truly. I had been raised in America for the first three years of my life and so I had an american accent. It was considered cool in ireland although my red hair and russet skin was a strange combination. I also had bright green eyes that my mother said danced when I felt strongly about something. That happened frequently I had the temperment to match my ancestry. Billy Black was my father and so I had gotten on a plane to visit him.
Flashback
"He is married Hope."
"He is my father, if he doesn't accept me I will live in the woods." I said and my mother sighed.
"Alright, I will buy you the ticket if you are that stubborn. You no doubt have been saving up for this getting a job when you were fourteen. You can use that money once you get there and he turns you away at the door."
"He won't. If he does I will think of something else to do. I want to know my heritage." I told her.
"Very well." Her mother said.
End Flashback
I watched a stupid movie that they had available. It was called Just My Luck and half way through it I fell asleep. I awoke when the plane touched down, I had landed in seattle and took another flight to Port Angelos. I took a taxi to the reservation it was called La Push what a strange name. I walked the rest of the way. All around me were people like me. They had the same russet colored skin. I continued to walk and checked the phonebook. His adress was listed and so I walked to the small house.
I knocked on the door and heard voices inside a young man answered it. "Is Billy Black at home?"
"Yes he is." The young man replied. "Dad a girl wants to see you." I heard something roll and a man in a wheelchair came to the door. Dad? This young man was my brother.
"My name is Hope and I am your daughter." Hope said. "My mother is Grace, from Ireland."
"Grace?" Billy Black asked. "You are my daughter?"
"Yes my mother was going to tell you but she called and found out you had a family. I had to insist upon coming here but I wanted to meet you." I said.
"Grace, from the pub, I was drunk." Billy Black said. "I realized in the morning what I had done and I left. I thought that Grace had forgotten about me."
"Nope she was a bit busy raising me." I replied I felt the famillar fire bursting forth. "She was twenty two dam years old do you think she was able to have a life? Do you? I have been her life for fourteen dam years and you just say I was drunk." My hands were shaking as they often did but I was to angry to be embariced. I felt the fire grow stronger and stronger I was burning, burning alive on my own anger then it happened I flew apart and came back together taller than before and on four legs instead of just two. I stared at myself too shocked to do anything else and both the young man and his father were staring at me. Then the young man went stripped to his boxers and the next thing I knew another wolf was with me.
Calm down, your thoughts are giving me a headache. The young man said and what was more he could read my thoughts. This was too weird. What was happening to me?
You turned into a wolf its something our family does. Vampires have to be in the area though and that means that there are some here!
I didn't know that people could think with exclamation points but Jacob somehow managed it. Hold on vampires?
You are a werewolf, a very beautiful werewolf, the vampires are our emenies they suck the blood of humans, they don't have fangs. They are beautiful people and they glitter in sunlight but never trust one. Never go near one apart from fighting it. Do not get involved with vampires. I should know I did.
It was super weird I could see what Jacob was seeing. He just told me that vampires exist? Vampires exist? Holy crow! Vampires exist, that is so cool and scary and I am a werewolf. Weird.
Weird doesn't begin to cover it, I just found out that I have a sister. Apart from my two twin elder siblings, how old are you? What is your name, mine is Jacob.
Hope I am turning fourteen in four days. Well three and a half.
You have my birthday, just four years apart! This is so weird.
Like The Parent Trap, except those were actual twins, so we would be like half twins?
What are you thinking about.
The parent trap its a great movie these twins find out that they are twins although they never met. Identical twins though not the other one.
Okay, that is interesting and you watched this?
Yeah several times actually Lindsey Lohan was good before she became a drunk and did bad movies. Just My Luck is possibly the worst movie on the planet.
Alright then, you really feel strongly about this.
I feel strongly about everything, he needs to get to know me.
Great, as if I didn't have enough trouble.
Hey wolf boy stop it. I growled.
Your brain works on like running comentary weird.
We all have our little corks. Key theme music, Daada dada dat de dat da, daada dada dat de dat da, daada dada dat de dat da, Nana nana nat ne na, oh yeah.
Alright you are starting to scare me sister.
I was an only child and so my mind is like my sibling, best friend and boyfriend. Don't you mess with my purple pokadotted flying unicorn named Fred.
Fred?
Yeah Freddy is my friend. You know a way out of here the dog thing is seriously cramping my style.
That is so funny. Jacob let out a howl of laughter. You are now commenting on what I am thinking?
Why not? Now please tell me if I can shift back.
You can but it usually takes at least a few days to do it, Its been about a day already. Time passes diffrently in wolf form.
So how do I change back?
Visulize your human self and calm down. You have to be calm to do it.
Thanks Jacob. Human human human human human. Finally I felt myself turn I was nakad and standing completly exposed in frount of Jacob who was likewise not wearing clothing. I grabbed a blanket and wrapped myself in it closing my eyes until Jacob said "Its alright I put clothes on. I should have warned you I forgot."
I nodded and took my suitcase into the main room. "So we have been like in your dad's doorway for a day?"
"Yep." Jacob replied maddingly which made me laugh. I went into the other room and put on some clothes. It was the middle of the night.
"Can I sleep on the couch or would you prefer it if I stayed in the woods?"
"Sure." Jacob said. "Billy will be glad that you are back to human form again."
"Goodnight Jake."
"Night Hope." Jacob replied his face as ever seemed full of grief. I changed into my pajamas and fell onto the couch I was asleep in a instant.
