"Yeah?" I called sitting back on my bed and crossing my legs. The door opened and Embry stuck his head into the room.

"Hi" he said with a big infectious grin spreading across his face "Can I come in?" he asked as he open the door fully, my eyes trailing over his perfect body. Well what I could see through his shirt anyway.

"Sure" I said with a slight smile. This seemed to make him insanely happy, because his eyes shone and his smile grew impossibly bigger. He closed the door quietly and came over and sat on my bed next to me. As he sat down, I could feel my heart start to race. What was happening to me? I had never felt like this before! It was like he was reading my thoughts because, although it seemed impossible, he's smile grew slightly bigger again.

"I didn't get to introduce myself properly before, when we were downstairs. I'm Embry" he said holding out his hand and looking no where but deep into my eyes. I shook his hand and immediately pulled my hand back. His hand was so hot! And I mean it literally.

"Sorry, I forget how hot I am sometimes" I looked up at him and couldn't help but smile, as I raised my eyebrows at him a small laugh escaping my mouth.

"So, how do you like La Push so far?" he asked turning around on my bed so that he faced me, sitting cross-legged on my bed.

"It's nice. Nothing like home, but it's different. I haven't had much of a chance to look around yet"

"Well, we shall have to change all that now won't we. Consider me your personal guide. I'll show you all the sights, first thing in the morning" He said maintaining his gorgeous smile.

All I could manage was a small nod.

"Well it's a date then" I could feel all my blood rushing to my face as I smiled and looked down at my lap nervously. After that however, I started to lighten up and we managed to talk for a long time about nothing in particular. We talked about back home in California, music, my love for books, anything and everything. Embry just kept firing questions at me and I just felt obliged to answer. I enjoyed the conversation. I learnt a heap about Embry, and it provided a distraction from thinking about Sandy. We were interrupted then by mum calling us in for dinner. Embry was up and off the bed in a flash, turning back around and holding his hand out to me. I took it and he helped me up. Although, once I was up Embry didn't let go of my hand, but just laced his fingers between mine and lead me out of the bedroom and into the kitchen. At first I was surprised by Embry keeping my hand in his, but that feeling soon deteriorated and I realised just how comfortable I was with being around Embry. Maybe this whole, meeting new people, thing wouldn't be all that bad! But once we walked into the kitchen, the feeling of calmness was soon taken over by fear as I saw that there were even more people crammed into the tiny kitchen. Embry must has sensed my fear because he gave my hand a little squeeze and lead me round to the other side of the kitchen to two open chairs. As we walked around, just about everyone saw me and Embry holding hands. Everyone had a big grin on their faces and my mother just raised her eyebrows at me. I knew she was happy for me and I just rolled my eyes at her.

Before dinner started, Embry kindly introduced me to all of others. They all seemed just as nice as Embry, Jacob, Quil, Seth and Jared, who I had met when I arrived. I quickly warmed up to Jared's girlfriend, Kim, who was seated to my right. Finally dinner was served and Emily explained to me that at every meal, all of the girls, Emily, Kim, my mother and I, were to dish up our own food before any of the boys, or Leah, could touch it. I didn't quite understand at first, and I couldn't understand why Leah didn't fall under the "girls eat first" category, but I quietly did what I was told and took a couple of sausages and some potato bake, not particularly hungry after such a big day. I soon found out why the girls were to eat first. Once we had finished serving up our plates, the boy dug in and when I say dug in I mean, the whole table of food was gone in a matter of seconds!. But that wasn't the amazing part. In front of each boy was a plate towering with food, food that had disappeared in minutes. I stared at Embry in astonishment, wondering where all the food went. I heard Kim laughing beside me and I turned to look at her, astonished. She just shrugged saying "you'll get use to it eventually" and went back to her dinner, laughing softly.

After dinner, we went out onto one of the cliffs that lined La Push. The wind was fierce and the boys quickly made a fire. Once the fire was up and going, I quickly sat down beside it to try and warm myself up. Stupidly, I didn't even think of bringing a jumper. Everyone slowly made their way over to the fire and sat down. Embry came over and sat down by me. I smiled up at him and he smiled back sliding closer to me so that our arms were touching, heat radiating off of him. I couldn't believe how calm I was around all of these people. I had known them less that 12 hours but I felt like I had known them for years. I was happy; I finally made friends with out the help of Sandy. The thought of her name sent a shiver down my spine. Embry turned to me, obviously feeling my shiver.

"Are you cold?" he asked, looking a little concerned.

"Yeah just a little bit" I said, not wanting to mention anything about Sandy.

Embry smiled wrapped his arm around my shoulders and pulled me closer to his body. I was a little surprised, but soon relaxed against his side and leaned in closer, the heat of his body to good to resist. I was content. Sitting there next to Embry with his arm wrapped around me, I had never felt safer in my life. The only sound to be heard was the mumble of people talking in their own little conversations and the soft crackle of the fire.

Jakes dad, one of the tribal leaders, I suppose you could describe it, started to tell old tribal legends. I closed my eyes and took everything he was saying in. If I was going to be living in La Push I would have to be familiar with the local legends. I soon found myself drifting off to sleep against Embry's shoulder, listening to the quite hum of Jacob's dad's voice as he finished his story and everyone resumed their earlier conversations.

I must have fallen into a deep sleep then for the next thing I know was being lower onto my bed. My eyes opened slightly and I saw Embry standing over me. I opened my eyes fully and smiled up at him.

"Hi" I said sleepily, Embry smiled and sat down next to me.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you. You fell asleep down by the fire and I didn't want to wake you so I carried you back here. Go back to sleep, your tired. I'll see you in the morning" My eyes instantly fluttered shut and I was asleep in an instant. But before I lost all bearings around me, I felt Embry lean down a kiss my forehead before leaving the room.

That night's sleep was not peaceful. I tossed and turned all night, images of my poor sandy's twisted and broken body as they loaded her into the back of the ambulance. I kept seeing Shaun's eyes in my mind, haunting my only place of peace. Shaun was the guy that had murdered Sandy. Sandy met him in a chat room early last year and they had hit it off immediately. He seemed like such a nice guy when they met, Sandy had dragged me along with her. He treated her with such respect and love. I never thought he could do such a horrible thing. Ultimately I had him thrown in jail after I gave evidence in court. He had it in for me and I dreamt of his menacing eyes every night since then. As Shaun was dragged out of the court room he was yelling that he would get his revenge on me soon enough. I didn't really take him seriously, he was in jail right?

I woke up early that morning on account of the sun streaming into my room and straight onto my face. I was trying to decide on whether I should go back to sleep or go out to the kitchen we I heard the quite mumble of peoples voices drifting into my room from the direction of the kitchen. I figured everyone must be up already and there was no way the sun was letting me go back to sleep so I quickly slipped on my dark skinny leg jeans and my favourite chequered hoodie and made my way out to the kitchen. I was expecting it to just be mum, Sam, Emily and maybe one of the boys there but instead, as I froze in the middle of the door way, I found all of the boys there with Sam and Leah. Leah was one of the only girls I knew in La Push besides Emily and Jared's girlfriend Kim, and my first impression of her was not good. I wasn't quite sure what it was about her but I just didn't like her. Like the boys she stood at nearly seven foot tall and had the same menacing dark brown eyes. It was scary how much she looked like the other boys. I could have mistaken her for one of the boys at first if it wasn't for her long, flowing black hair which ended half way down her back. The more I looked at her the more I began to see the feminine features of her face like her long straight perfect nose, her high cheek bones and her perfectly plucked eyebrows. But she wasn't the reason why I froze in the doorway. When I came through the door I felt like all eyes were on me. By the look on every ones faces, I had just waled into a very important conversation. I was just about to walk back out when Embry stood up, a big grin on his face and made his way over to me. There was something about his smile that made it seem forced but natural at the same time. But when he picked me up into a big hug, lifting me off the ground, all my feelings of easiness vanished.

"Good Morning sleepy head. How are you this morning?" he asked as he set me back down on my feet.

"Great" I said putting on a fake smile. I looked over at Sam and he was obviously annoyed that I had interrupted their little 'meeting'. But what could have been so important? Was it some kind of tribal council thing? But these guys were too young to be any kind of leaders in la Push. So I just ignored Sam's intent glare and turned back to Embry.

"So, what have you got planned for us today?" I asked him

"Well I promised you that I would show you around La Push and me and the Boys…" someone cleared their throat behind Embry and I realised it was Leah. Embry turned back to glare at her, rolling his eyes as he turned back to me.

"Like I was saying, me and the boys AND LEAH want to take you Cliff diving" Cliff Diving? I could feel the look of complete horror on my face. Embry laughed and so did the other boys when Embry stood back. I was glad to have at least lighten the mood in the kitchen but I certainly didn't like the sound of cliff diving.

"Don't worry" Embry said circling his arms around my waist. I felt awkward at first but only for a second. "It will be Kim's first time too so at least you'll have someone else to be scared with. So why don't you go and get some swimmers, maybe some shoes and I'll meet you out side" I smiled up at him and ran off to my room, excited for the day ahead. Ok, so maybe not the cliff diving, but hanging out with Embry for the day had to be fun right?

I went over to my wardrobe and pulled out my navy two piece swimsuit. They were pretty plain but they looked good on me. They contrasted well with my pale skin tone. I quickly slipped them on and put my jeans and hoddie back on over them. Grabbing my short boardies and gold slip ons, I ran back out to the kitchen but everyone had left. I followed on through the kitchen and out the front door. Once I got outside I felt the cold wind wrap around me. I looked up to the sky and the sun that had been streaming into my room not so long ago, was gone.

I notice Embry off to the side of the house saying goodbye to the other guys. When he turned around, his eyes fell on me and a smile radiated off of his face. Ran up the porch steps so that he was in front of me and grabbed my hand.

"Ok, so the boys are going to meet us back here for lunch in about an hour and then we are going up to the cliffs. The reserve is so small that it will take us less than that. Come on" He pulled down the stairs before I could reply but being my clumsy self, my shoes managed to find some no existent corner that only I could possibly fall over. I was on the top stair and although there were only three steps, it was still quite a fall compared to when I was on flat ground. As the ground came zooming up to my face I was happy to finally see it stop, although nothing on my body hurt. Had I hit the ground at all? Then I realised the two warms arms wrapped around my body preventing me from falling any further. I looked up at Embry and noticed a smile of his face.

"This is going to be a long day isn't it" he said, his eyes never leaving mine. I could see nothing but humour in them and decided that he was talking about my talent for finding something to trip on despite the complete flatness of the ground, and not the fact that he had to spend it with me. He wasn't regretting spending the day with me was he? I mean he was the one who offered to show me around. But as Embry set me up right on my feet at the foot of the stairs and took my small delicate hands in hi big, rough one and slowly pulled me along with him towards to road, I decided that he genuinely was happy to be spending the day with me. I smile, happy that I had made a good friend. I knew I would never have another best friend after Sandy, but I was fine with just good friends.

We walked around town for the next 45 minutes, talking and laughing. Embry seemed to fire a million pretty much useless questions at me while he showed me around town. Favourite colour: Green, Favourite movie: Transformers (I know, I know, but I'm a sucker for Shia LeBouf), Favourite bad: Linkin Park and Family Force Five and a few more, it wasn't until a question as he showed me the school that I began to feel uncomfortable. He asked me what was the best thing to have ever happened in my life and before I could stop myself I blurted out Sandy's name. Embry stopped and looked down at me quizzically.

"Who's Sandy" why, oh why, Lucy did you get yourself into this situation? I knew Embry was waiting for an explanation, but he just wanted to know who she was, right? Not where she was now? What if he asked where she was now? Why could I possible say? Six feet under? On the coroners cold, steel work bench? I thought about Sandy, and couldn't help but feel lonely. I felt Embry squeeze my hand and I reluctantly ripped my eyes off of the floor and looked deep into his eyes. I knew if I told Embry he would never talk about it to anyone until I was ready, just like mum and Emily, but I had only known this guy for a day or so and I still wasn't ready to talk about her yet. Well at least the part about her dying anyway.

"She's my best friend back in California. She's been my best friend since we were little" Embry nodded his head, some of his long locks of hair falling into his eyes as he looked down at the ground and started to walk again, this time back towards Emily's place.

"So tell me about her, you must really miss her"

"You have no idea. It's like a part of me is missing" I decided that this was true. While Embry though it could be replaced when I saw her next, I knew that they part of me that had gone to heaven with Sandy, could never, and would never be replaced.

"So what is she like" Embry asked. I explained everything about Sandy, minus the whole Shaun part, and made sure to use present tense instead of past tense. I talked about her all the way back to Emily's place. When we walked inside, there was no one home so we sat down on the couch and I talked about Sandy some more. Although I still didn't say anything about Shaun and what had happened, I felt like some sort of weight was being lifted off my shoulders. My mother was right. Talking about Sandy really helped me a lot. It also helped that Embry didn't know everything that had happened and didn't know Sandy, so I was able to talk as freely about her as I wanted. I told Embry of the goods time when we were young, like when we got lost at the fair when we were six, when we took some guys bike at school as a joke and tossed it in the lake thinking that he would be able to find it but he never did. It was good to be able to talk about all of this. I knew I couldn't talk like this to my mother because she already knew everything that happened when Sandy and I were younger. I was lucky to have Embry to talk to about her. He just sat there and listened to me the whole time. Really listen and he was genuinely interested in it all.

Finally the boys came tumbling through the door. Embry and I stood up and sat down at the kitchen table. Emily and my mother were there but they hadn't come through the front door with the boys. I realised that they must have been home the whole time. My mother came around to me and whispered in my ear to follow her. As I stood up, Embry grabbed my hand and pulled me back onto the chair.

"Where are you going?" he asked me. I looked into his eyes and I knew that he wanted me to stay with him. But my mother wanted to talk with me.

"I'll be back in a second. My mum just wants to talk to me for a sec" I gave his hand a small squeeze but before I stood up he leaned over and gave be a hug and whisper into my ear

"Hurry back. We are about to go out to the cliffs soon. Don't let your mother hog you. It's my turn today and your all mine" He leaned back and smile, letting go of my hand. I smiled and made my way after my mother. I made my way out the back door and she grabbed me by the shoulders turning me to face her. She has a smile stretched across her face.

"I heard you talking to Embry about Sandy. Sweetheart I am so proud of you. How do feel after talking about her like that? Did you tell Embry about what happened? Does he know everything?" I cut her off here and I realised that she had been home the whole time and had been listening into my and Embry's conversation. Usually I would have been upset at her but I was still on a high about what Embry had just said to me. I was glad that Embry wanted me all to himself today. Because that was exactly how I want it. I wanted him all to my self. I knew she had a million questions and I wasn't up to answering them all. I wanted to go back out with Embry.

"Mum. Stop. Yes it felt good to have talked about Sandy. I am glad I did. But I didn't tell Embry about Shaun and everything. I'm still not ready for everyone to know about that. Know I have to go. We are all going Cliff diving" although I didn't really want to go cliff diving, it would get my away from my mother and I got to spend time with Embry. I think I was starting to develop serious feelings for him and I had only known him for just over 24 hours. I had never fallen for someone so hard so soon. But this was Embry we were talking about. Embry, the tall, muscular, mysterious, handsome, warm, kind, loving, thoughtful Embry.

I made my way back out to the kitchen. Everyone had left, but Embry was still sitting at the table waiting for me. His back was towards me and it seemed like he had heard me. I walked up behind him and wrapped my arms around him giving him a hug from behind. He seemed to have been deep in thought but as soon as he felt my arms wrap around him he was pulled from his reverie and brought his arms back and wrapped them around my back pulling me closer to him. He turned he head back to me so that he could see me in the corner of his eye. I smiled at him and let go, coming around to sit next to him. He smiled at me and took my hand in his.

"You ready for Cliff diving?" I felt my face crumple at the thought by Embry just stood up laughing, picking me up off my chair and carrying bridal style out the door. It felt good in his arms but this felt so coupled and we weren't a couple. Not after only 24 hours. Although I would feel honour to be Embry's girlfriend, it was too early. Although Embry seemed to enjoy my company, I didn't know how he felt about me … I stopped my self. I HAD ONLY KNOW HIM 24 HOURS. I have to control my thoughts.

When we made it out the door I looked up at Embry and asked him to put me down. Once my feet were on the ground, Embry took my hand and lead me through the forest. I only managed to trip a few times and Embry saved me every time.