I have my dress.. It's beautiful. And Alice didn'ttake me to the bride store like she had insinuated. I suppose she foresaw a bad outlook on that.

The dress we got is great. It's violet..

It was late when we got back, and I was kind of worried about Alice. She had been even more hyper than usual. She had jumped around while speaking so quickly even I couldn't keep up. Before she left, she said, "See you at eleven, so I can make you beautiful."

When she left I had simply colapsed in bed.

A day shopping with Alice can make you (even if you are a werewolf) tired.

It was fun... but now I don't feel like getting up in time to be ready for Alice at elven in the morning. I wasn't even sure if I could go through with this.

I felt like tomorrow would be painful for me.

Very.

I was afraid for that. I was afraid of the pain.

More than afraid, terrified. Stupid wedding.

The last time I had seen the whole pack.. I hadn't. Now that I think of it, there have been so many new members, wolves of the wolves.. That I haven't seen them all. I wasn't ready for that.

I wasn't ready to lose Seth.

I wasn't ready to see all the happy people happy with their imprints.

I wasn't ready to go and see and act like I was happy just like everyone else...

I could remember the last time I saw Jake.. It had been a month ago. He came over to the Cullen's while I was there and he and Nessie started kissing and I yelled at them.. Nessie cried. Jake then proceeded to slap me for making his soul mate cry.

The last time I saw Embery, he was making out with his imprint on the forest floor while I was on potrol.

I wasn't ready to see them again. I had purposely skipped every pack meeting sense the thing with Jake. I didn't even show up for patrol.

Jake was sure to be furious with me.

I wasn't ready for that.

I was groggily eating a bowl of cereal when Alice (just as bouncy as before) opened my door and came waltzing over to me.

"Eat quicker, slow poke. We've got to make you perfect."

"Alice! I'm not the one getting married. Gosh. Why must I be subjected to this?" I begged, shoving the bowl away.

"Cause." She tapped her forehead with a smile.

So, she's 'seen' something.

Huh.

Wonder what...

Soon she was fixing me, and I was just watching her reflection as she flew around me. After an hour she stood back to admire her work. "Yay." She said.

"It's over?" I asked her timidly. I may have come around to shopping, but this... not so much.

"Yeah. Time for the dress." She pulled me out of my pajamas very carefully as to not mess up the ton of makeup she had piled on my face and then pulled the purple dress over my head.

"You look great, Lee-Lee. Perfect." Alice beamed at me.

"Yay." I said dryly. "Only two hours early." I murmured with a sigh.

"No." She said, with an evil smile. "Right on time."

"What are you talking about?" I asked, but then I heard it.

It was very quiet, a small tap against the door.

"Yep." She said, gleaming.

"Who?" I asked her, but she just pulled me out of the room.

"Just go answer it." She pushed me to the door and I reluctantly opened it.

Behind the door was (to my immense surprise) Ralph. He looked at me, eyes doing that whole bug out thing again, and then smiled. "Hi." He said, his pale green eyes boring holes into my brown ones.

"Hi, Ralph." I said, frowning. "What are you doing here?"

Alice popped up and excused herself with a wave of her hand. "I'll leave you guys alone."

"My dad.. He wanted me to come pick you up." He told me. His voice was hard when he talked about Sam.

"Oh." I said, glancing outside to see that an old pick up was in the driveway.

"Yeah." He said, smiling a bit awkwardly. "So, you ready?" He asked me.

"I guess."

"Great." He said, turning slightly. "And by the way, Leah.. You look beautiful today."

I looked at him, as he walked to the car and my heart welled up. No one (other than the fantastic Alice) had told me I looked beautiful for years (I'd rather not say how many). "Thanks." I said, quickly running to catch up with him.

He opened my door for me and I got in, careful of the dress. Soon he was sitting close by my side (it was a small car... or truck), starting the car.

He drove quietly and when we arrived at my old house, I almost cried. In fact, I did. I hadn't been here in months, but it looked the same. Almost to much of the same.

The tears slid down my face and I was surprised when a hot hand wiped them away. I looked over at Ralph, who was frowning deeply. "Don't cry."

His face looked pained, almost as if my tears hurt him. "I'm sorry." I responded. "It's just.. I haven't been here in so long. For some reason I thought everything would be the same.. I just. Seeing it like this, you know, just like mom left it.." He took my hand and held it lovingly.

"Shh. It's okay. I get it. I would miss my mom too." He told me, stroking my hand with his thumb. It felt great, and that in itself almost made me cry.. Sam used to do that.

"Yeah." I murmured, looking down at our hands.

"Leah.." He whispered and I looked up at him. His eyes were bright and lively.

"Yeah?" I asked him.

He didn't even speak, he simply reached up and kissed me. The most amazing thing was that it was the most loving most caring most fantastic kiss I had ever had.

He pulled away, looking at me, and his face looked scared stiff. "I.. I. I imprinted on you." He told me.

"Oh my god." I responded.

"I love you, Leah." He told me and I just stared at him.

"You don't know how great it feels to hear someone other than Seth say that." I told him, crying again.

"Leah, please don't cry." He begged.

"I'm just happy." I told him.

He kissed me again and I thought I was having a heart attack.

"That's funny." He said, laughing. "Come on. Seth wants to see you." He got out and ran around the truck to open my door.

"Thanks."

He took my hand and led me in the house (no knock.. it was my house anyway).

How the whole pack could fit into our tiny kitchen, I don't know.. but they did.

They were all pigging out. No one even noticed us for a while, but soon Seth spotted me. He came running over to me and threw his arms around me. Ralph let go of my hand, but didn't move away. Seth held me for like ten minutes straight, and when he finally pulled away he was crying. "You came."

"I couldn't miss my baby brother's wedding." I said, kissing his forehead.

"Well last time you saw Lisa, you kind of snapped on her, so she didn't think you would be coming." He told me..

Huh. I had forgotten about that. I had almost bitten her head off.. But she was talking about how much she loved Seth and how much Seth loved her... She hadn't learned the rules yet.

I guess the rules don't apply anymore.

"Well, I'm here." I told him, kind of blushing. I wasn't proud of those times.

"I'm so happy." He murmured, reaching out to hug me again.

Honesty I hadn't seen the whole pack together... ever. There were so many new people. Including my love.. Wow. Sounds weird in my head.

"Seth.. Want me to live to see you get married?!" I joked.

"Yeah.." He responded, not letting go.

"Well then I need oxygen." I responded, pulling away a bit.

"Oh.. Yeah. I forget." He laughed. "What's up with you? Your joking and all happy!"

Ralph reached out and took my hand again.

Seth's eyes bugged out and Sam stepped up look at us.

"What is going on?" Half the pack (the half that has been around sense the beginning and knows about me and Sam and Emily and all that crap..).

"I imprinted." Ralph said simply.

"On Leah?!" They responded.

"Yeah." He said, beaming over at me. (AUTHOR'S NOTE: I just realized that in the first chapter I said that everyone in the pack had imprinted.. that was a mistake. I meant everybody except Ralph.. But anyway..)

"Oh my God." Seth said.

"Leah?!" Sam yelled.

"That's... What's the word?" Paul began.

"I think you are thinking of weird." Quil said, looking at Sam.

"Ah... Huh. That's it." Paul said smiling.

"Wow." Embery commented.

"Enough of your comments." I responded, walking out of the room.


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