I'd always wondered what the importance was if I was not a Quileute, yet I always hung out with the guys from that reserve thinking nothing could affect our friendship...they were my brothers I was their sister. I never really thought it was a problem, until now.

Now I'm eighteen years old, I went through the change along with my sisters and along with the Quileute wolves. So this is where the problem starts...we both are shape shifters but we take the form of mountain lionesses whilst they take the form of wolves. Nothing seems to be wrong with that right? Yeah that's what I thought, but it turns out we are mortal enemies. Can you see the problem now? Yeah I know it's a huge problem

We protect our whole city, Forks, from the cold ones or as I prefer to call them leeches whereas they only protect their small reserve from the leeches. We are so different yet so alike. But no matter how much I want to hate them I can't the only feeling I have towards them is longing. I miss them all so much...Sam, Quil, Embry, Paul, Jake. Every little thing reminds me about each of them and about our long summers at La Push, about cliff diving. But do you know what the worst part is? We share a private school just for the small reserves around Forks, we are forbidden from speaking to each other, smiling at each other. Any little bit of contact is forbidden from their elders.

I guess I should explain who I am and such? Well here it goes...my name is Isabella Marie Swan and I'm from the Tara reserve on the out skirts of Forks. Like I've said previously I'm eighteen years old and soon to be nineteen, I have brown eyes and a slight tan to my pale skin. My hair waves down my back but most of the time I just tie it in a simple pony tail much to my sister's complaints as to them I have the most perfect hair ever. I'm average height and weight and I enjoy long runs most of the time by myself but occasionally I enjoy running with my sisters. Ok so now you have the basics about me you might want to know at least my sister's names. There is Amelia, Spencer, Anais, Elaina, Fiona, Caomie and Hannah. We're quite an average size group with the ages ranging from 14 to 18 years of age. But we are expecting two new recruits soon...a set of twins named Michaela and Brooklyn, they're just turning thirteen but they'll be the youngest ever to change so we don't know whether they'll have a worse reaction to everyone else or whether they'll have a better reaction. Lastly all you need to know about our pack now is that I'm alpha and I live in a small little cottage with Elaina, Spencer and Anais, we thought since we'd spent all of our lives growing up together so we might as well live together making it easier to keep the pack together. But the only negative about us living together which is a problem because they love to wake me up at ridiculous times; take this morning for an example they woke me up at five when school starts at eight...annoying right?

I groaned as I heard Elaina come upstairs to check if I'd actually woke up instead of just pretending I'm awake and ready for school at six o'clock in the morning. But in any minute now she'll come bursting through the door wanting to dress me up and make me look like something I'm not. Which I should really tell her I hate being her personal Barbie doll, but it makes her so happy each morning so I let her. But I don't particularly want to today, why? Because it's the first day back at school since the first summer without my brothers and I know that I'm going to do something completely stupid and ruin all chances I have at getting my brothers back.

"Isabella!" I hear the chirpy voice before I see her which gives me enough time to make an escape to the bathroom and lock the door it gives me the illusion of privacy even though I know that at a minutes notice she could just smash straight through the door and drag me out. But it works for now. "Good morning star shine the earth says hello!" She shouts reciting her favourite line from her favourite movie; as you can probably tell its Charlie and the chocolate factory. She really is one of the most immature people I know but she is herself no matter what and that's what I admire her for.

Once she'd found me and starting threatening to make the Barbie doll experience worse then it normally is. I came out of the bathroom, looked at her and noticed that she was already dressed and ready to go to school at six in the morning. But at the same time she must have looked at me and realised that I wasn't dressed and ready like she had expected me to be which by the look on her face as pissed her off extremely but has also made her happier because now she has a reason to dress me up.

She was wearing a light blue vest top which three small buttons right in between her breasts which contrasted really well with her emerald green eyes, a white pleated skirt which came to about mid thigh, white knee high socks with little blue bows on the top and lastly blue converse to make it easy for her to run at a moments notice...she looked adorable, as always. Then I noticed her hair had been tied to the side in a loose pony, her make up was like it always was with slight foundation blusher and eyeliner. Elaina was definitely the most girly out of all of the girls and loved everything to do with shopping which is why she was the one to stock everybody's wardrobes in the cottage and each spare room was stocked with clothes for the person it was suited.

"Good morning Eli, you seem happier then usual" I groaned with a hint of playfulness in my voice...luckily she picked up on the playfulness in my voice and stuck her tongue out at me. "Tut tut, sticking your tongue out at the alpha...extra patrols for you missy!" I winked not being able to keep the straight expression on my face for too long which just resulted in us laughing our heads off as we normally end up doing every morning...especially recently.

"So miss alpha, you have one decision to make before I dress you up like a Barbie doll. Do you want breakfast or do you want to starve?" Elaina asked as we calmed down enough to speak to each other now that we've finally calmed down.

"Yeah sure, it's either that or starve for the rest of the morning. So I'll be down in a minute I just need to find my phone in all of this mess." I laughed gesturing to my pig sty of a room. Elaina laughed too as she waltzed out of the room going to hassle Spencer too unless Anais has already took that job.

So once she'd finally left I started rustling around the floor trying to make sense of all of the clean clothes and dirty clothes on my floor along with pieces of paper from random writing and books that I've read about all of the different reserves in Forks. I'd managed to clean around about half of my room with no luck of finding my phone but then I heard a beeping noise which was to signal that I had a new message. Which was strange since I only get the occasional message from my mum or from one of my sister's when there is a problem, so instinctively I started to rush around my room trying to remember where the beeping sounded like it was coming from and eventually I found my phone in the bathroom next to all the shampoo.

The message wasn't from anyone I'd expected it to be from at all. It was from an unknown number which should have worried me more then the fact that it wasn't from anyone I knew but instead it calmed me. I know knew that nobody was in trouble I'd just got a text from a random stranger who had probably typed the number of his date wrong and it sent to me. But once I opened the text it wasn't from a random stranger either but it was from a stranger I was very familiar with. Sam.

We need to talk its urgent.

Please call this number as soon as you get this text

-Sam Uley

But it wasn't that I couldn't believe it I could, we all knew this day would come eventually but we didn't expect it to be any time soon with no work on our behalf. So still in the state of shock that I'd actually got a text from them, I ran downstairs where Anais, Elaina and Spencer were all deep in discussion about our new recruits and how they're getting on when they noticed the shock and anger on my face and Elaina grabbed my phone straight off me.

"We need to talk its urgent, please call this number as soon as you get the text...Sam Uley" She read out to the other two. Her voice had the same shock as I felt but it was different because my shock held anger whilst hers held nothing but happiness but luckily I had a level enough head to work this out whilst they all rejoiced on the fact that they went behind their elders backs to contact us.

"We should call them" Anais suggested breaking the silence by saying what she knew was already on everybody's minds. "They obviously need our help big time otherwise they wouldn't have risked sending us that text. We all know how much trouble they could get in just for trying to contact us so it's only fair to call them right?" She added urging us to call them. She must have missed them because there was desperation to her voice that I had never heard before.

"No this could be a trap" I stated, yeah ok I'm always negative about these things but they have to admit I could be right. But then again they think that they have never tried to trap us before and if they were going to try and trap us surely they would try and trap us when we were at our weakest but they doubt every much that they'd do it now when we're at our strongest. But they don't realise that all they've ever done is trap us in uncomfortable positions that we can't get out of and making us dependant on them to leave us when we need them the most.

"Since when have they ever tried to trap us?" She asked me, weirdly getting defensive over the fact that I was insulting the intentions of the pack, when he's a generally nice guy that would never do anything to hurt either one of us...yeah right all they've ever done was hurt us they're not going to change now! "It's Sam you guys. Not an enemy! We've grown up with him" She shouted getting up from the table and reaching for my phone from Elaina.

"Spencer, what are you doing?" I asked rising out of her chair and reaching for me. I wasn't the only one getting defensive then, she was. But I couldn't understand why she was getting defensive against them...she was hurt just as much by them as I was all I'm trying to do is protect them from getting hurt again. I'm only looking out for them as their alpha.

"What is your problem?" She shouted at me moving out of my way so I can't grasp my phone off of her. "They were your friends too you know!" She shouted again getting into my face again, her voice was full of anger but unlike me she wasn't angry at them she was angry at me. I was the enemy to her right at this moment in time and by looking at everyone else's faces I realised that I was the enemy to all of them.

"Yeah they were my friends; I relied on them for everything! Don't you think I remember that?" I shouted at them, letting my anger at the wolves come out for the first time since they hurt us. All i've done is be strong for them and protect them but at moments like this they throw it back in my face. "But do you know what? Since all I've ever done for you is protect you and all you've ever done is complain about them constantly. You might as well, I don't matter anymore right?" I shouted at them, put the phone on the table and then stormed into my room. I really wasn't in the mood to deal with them now.

Yeah I guess I was being unfair, I mean they have the right to speak to them but I guess after so long of trying to protect them from getting hurt. It's sort of like being stabbed in the back by my pack, but the wolves are the ones that are handing them the knife to help. I guess I have no reason to take all out on my friends but still anyone could see why I'm so annoyed with them but my anger is misdirected.

Suddenly there was a soft knock at my door followed by my name "Bella?" I knew who it was immediately there was only one person in the whole entire pack that could speak so softly, so calmly that it makes me instantly calm. Calm enough to open the door and have my suspicions confirmed about who was outside the door; surely enough, it was Fiona stood outside the door holding my phone towards me. "Hey, they told me what happened as soon as I got here. They didn't call Sam by the way, they thought about what you said and realised you were right they were most probably trying to trick us" She smiled softly walking into my bedroom. I am closest to Fiona even though she's only sixteen she seems to understand what I'm going through and why I'm so defensive against the wolves.

"I knew you'd hear eventually. I take it you're coming to school with us this morning?" I ask her changing the subject as she goes through my wardrobe finding the clothes that she knows I'm most comfortable in. Sometimes I'm really thankful for Fiona's presence she's like my little sister but at the same time she's like a mother. "I shouldn't have shouted at them but I just couldn't help it" I added needing to vent about the position they've put me in.

"Yeah if it's alright with you can I go in your car?" She asked knowing fully well that it would be alright with me but she was just asking to make sure I didn't have loads of other people riding in the car with me. "Oh and I think shouting at them was the right thing to do otherwise they would of got hurt again because they didn't listen again" She said simply as she stood behind me whilst I sat in front of my dressing table and started brushing all of the knots out of my hair.

"Yeah I guess, I just think I could of handled it so much better" I sighed putting on my usual make up as she finished my hair, then I started to get changed into my most comfortable black skinnies and my favourite Yashin band t-shirt.

"You could have handled it better but you didn't. You have just got to remember to always look on the bright side of life" She laughed and then started singing along to the song that popped into her head with that line in it. I had to laugh at how cheery she was whilst singing to herself, then I picked up my bag and my phone from the floor and we made our way back downstairs. It was now quarter past seven so everyone should be ready to go.

As we descended down the stairs everyone seemed tense, they obviously did use their lioness senses to hear our conversation...or they did but they were still unsure whether I was still mad at them or not. Then I realised that Caomie and Hannah had joined us too, they must have come along with Fiona and let Fiona come to cheer me up. As they realised we were downstairs again they all turned around and looked at us trying to read the my emotions off of my face but they must have realised by now that that's hopeless I never show my true emotions on my face as that is the main weakness a human being can have.

"Hey" I smiled softly at them and watched them all slowly relax at the softness in my voice "I'm sorry guys, I love you all so much that it just stresses me out when you put yourself up for danger. Forgive me?" I asked looking at the faces of Anais, Spencer and Elaina mainly.

"Forgive you? Forgive us! You were just trying to protect us but we were too stupid to see that" Anais cried as she practically jumped on me and engulfed me into a hug "I love you too we wouldn't be the people we are if we didn't all stick together" She added as she hugged me tighter. Then slowly but surely Spencer, Elaina, Hannah, Caomie and Fiona joined in the hug and at that moment I knew we would be fine. I knew that they understand that they only reason I get so angry and shout at them is because I just want to protect them because I love them all.

Everything was perfect until there was a knock at the door, I looked around the room to make sure everyone was here and that the owner of the knock wasn't part of the pack. But then again the pack don't even knock they just walk in whenever they feel like it so it wasn't as if it could be one of them. I tried to rack my brain to think of anyone we're missing that would knock and the only person I could think of was my best friend Mark, but then again he normally meets me at school since he's scared of the pack ever since he found out what we are by walking in on a fight between Caomie and Hannah.

So warily I made everyone hide in the living room and walked towards the door to find out who our intruder was. But as soon as I opened the door I realised what a stupid mistake it was for me to do that and I realised that from the start of the way the day is today then today is going to be one of the worst days of my life. I took in the face of the stranger as he stood there awkwardly on our doorstep and I couldn't help his name escaping my lips along with the sound of my shock.

"Sam?"

Hey, I hope you like it I've had writers block for a while so this is my first one in a long time but I just had the idea so I thought I'd type it out and see what you guys think. I will try to update every Monday from now on. Thanks for reading :D

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