It was a chilly fall night in La Push Washington as Sam, Paul, and Emily were sitting at the dining room table eating.
"Where's Leah?" asked Paul.
"Dunno" Sam shrugged "She said she'd be over at 8"
"I feel so bad for her" Emily began "She's gotta be miserable. Her dad dying and now she's a member of the pack…she never wanted this"
"I wish I could talk to her" Sam started "but she's also not to happy with me and you. I never wanted to hurt…"
Sam looked from Emily to Paul. He didn't want to discuss this now…not around one of his best guys. He quickly changed the subject.
"So I heard Embry caught one trying to kill a human" he said to Paul
"Yea" said Paul "Good news is it had nothing to do with the Cullens. Poor guy's gonna need therapy after what he saw"
Leah walked slowly through the dark forest, gently touching trees one by one. At this point her life she liked to be alone, no one to bother her or judge her. It did get lonely after a while. It had been couple years since Sam had dumped her for Emily. She wanted to hate the both of them for hurting her but it wasn't entirely their fault. Sam had imprinted on Emily and there was nothing Leah could do about that. She walked alone to the edge of the river and sat on the grass resting her chin on her knees. She did this often, It was peaceful, she listened to the sounds of nature around her as she imagined herself being happy once again, but then every night that happiness would turn to sadness as she knew that her life was not going in that direction at all. Leah didn't cry often, but sometimes would get teary eyed when thinking about all the stuff that had happened to her over the last couple of years; Sam leaving her for Emily, her father dying of a heart attack, joining a wolf pack she wanted no part of, and on top of that having ex-boyfriend Sam become alpha and continuously barking orders at her. And tonight…she cried a lil more than usual.
Get a grip of yourself Leah, you're tougher than this. You'll find happiness one day, you deserve it.
She thought about Jacob and how he had imprinted on Renesme, Edward and Bella Cullen's child. The whole thing was weird to her…Renesme was now fully grown and now looked to be about Jacob's age in a matter of just months. Not to mention her parents, both immortal vampires, were about her age too.
How messed up can life get? He imprints on a half-immortal and I can't get anyone to imprint on me!?
There was loud vicious whip in the air behind her that made Leah's heart skip a beat. Assuming it was a vampire, Leah turned around quickly to see who had caused this noise ready to morph, but was calmed by the sight of two familiar faces. Alice Cullen and Jasper Hale stood in front of her holding hands.
"Sorry" said Alice "We're not hunting don't worry. We just wanted to come and tell you that one of your kind is badly hurt"
Leah stood up, wiped the tears from her face, and scratched her head in curiosity "Is it Embry?" she asked. She knew Embry had been out today hunting down a certain vampire with Jacob who had killed three people in the area.
"We don't know his name" began Jasper "He's at our house now with Jake and Embry, Carlisle's taking care of him now. We just thought you should know"
Leah nodded as she sniffled and wiped her eyes "thank you" she said to the vampire couple "I'll get this to Sam"
Alice walked closer to Leah and put a hand on her shoulder "things will get better love" she said to Leah "if there's anything you need at all please let us know, we owe you guys for helping us out so much"
Leah nodded and Alice stepped back, took Jasper's hand, with another loud whip vanished into the forest. Leah ran home immediately to tell her pack what she had just been told.