Unexpected

Chapter 2

Previously:

"Well aren't you going to tell me who you are?" I asked.

"My name Maiara. I am Alpha of my pack, which means I have the authority to throw you out." She said standing there raising her head a little more, pride showing clearly on her face.

All I could do was stand there, floored. A Female Alpha? No way! How could this be? Never in my life had I heard of a female Alpha, then again I never knew there were other packs out there either. I stared at her with complete disbeliefe on my face. A female Alpha is just unheard of. If my mouth could drop to the floor it would have. My voice was stuck in my throat as I just stood there.

"I see you've never seen a female Alpha. Anyway you're trespassing so please leave." She said again.

"Wha...how...?" Was all I could muster out.

"Like you, I am Alpha by blood, Jacob." Her knowledge of me shocked me even more. I was about to ask her how she knew when she continued. "Unlike you Jacob, since you abandonded your pack, I am proud to be called Alpha. I would never leave my home over some silly thing like love. Leave now and be a man. You are an Alpha, so start acting like one."

Her last words she spat at me like the were something foul in her mouth. Who was she to judge me? She knew nothing about me. What she said pissed me off, who was she to talk to me like that.

"Just wait a damn minute lady. I was not Alpha of my pack, another older wolf was. Also the woman I love is getting married to a blood sucking leech! She chose him over me, and I couldn't handel it. That why I left. I couldn't stand that she wanted to be with him and become one of them." I said bitterly.

"Then why love her?"

Her question shocked me. I wasn't expecting her to ask anything but for me to leave again. "I thought my love for her could change her mind so she would leave him and stay with me, but I guess I was wrong."

"Did you imprint on her?"

"I...no." I said defeated.

"Then she wasn't meant for you. There is someone else out there for you. Just be patient and you will find her. Until then forget about this, stupid girl. If she couldn't see the love you have for her, then she's not worth wasting your breath on." She said looking at me while cocking her head to the side.

"That's what my friends kept telling me but, I don't know what it is about her that makes her so special to me. I don't want to loose her." I shook my head at the thought of loosing her.

"It's her fate. She chose to marry a leech. It's her funeral, literally." She said looking at me.

"Yeah, I know." I huffed. The way she was talking about Bella was making me even more depressed. "I'll leave now. I'm sorry for trespassing."

I turned to leave and started to walk away when she spoke to me again. "It's getting dark. You may stay the night with my pack, if you want. It's getting to be dinner time. You can leave in the morning after breakfast, that way you have been fed and had a proper nights sleep before leaving here. I won't take 'no' for an answer." She turned her back to me and started walking away only to stop after a few feet to see if I was following. I was looking at her weird. First she wants me off her land and now she wants to let me stay and feed me. What was with this chick?

"Well?" She asked cocking her head to the side again. The way she was looking at me made her look cute. Whoa! What was I thinking? I love Bella, not her. I shook my head of that thought and started to follow her. Once I reached her she started to pull her shirt up.

"What are you doing?" I asked her causing her to stop and look at me.

"We're going to have to run. It will take less time to run than to walk. If we walk it will take us well over an hour to get back to the house." Maiara continued to take off her shirt and I turned my back on her to give her a little privacy. "Is something wrong?"

"No I just thought I would give you some privacy, is all." I said looking straight ahead of me.

"Does my stripping in front of you, bother you? Does your pack not have girls in it?" She asked with a bit a humor in her voice as she continued.

"We only have one girl in our pack and so it gets a little awkward changing in front of her." I admitted, thinking of how bad Leah had it.

"Oh. I'm guessing it's not common for female wolves to be in your pack." Maiara said suprised.

"No. We didn't think girls could carry the gene. Not that there's nothing wrong with a female wolf, it's just the legends of my tribe never told of a girl shifter." I explained with my back still to her.

"Ah, ok. I'm going to shift now. You can strip down once I'm phased. I promise I won't look." She said with all seriousness.

I felt the fimilar shimmer in the air, from when someone phased. I then turned around to find a black wolf in front of me. Maiara looked just like Sam but the only difference was the her paws were white. It looked like she was wearing socks on all her paws. I watched as she turned around and sat with her back side to me. I quickly shed my shorts, tied them to my ankle and phased before she turned around and saw me naked. I walked up beside her to show I had phased and she nodded once and began to run. I followed as best I could. Not knowing the area I had a bit of trouble keeping up. I guess she noticed and slowed down some so I could catch up to her.

We ran for a good fifteen minutes before she slowed down to a trot. I noticed that the trees were starting to thin out and lights began to show up. She stopped and looked over to the woods, letting me know that I could phase back and get dressed. I took my time, know she had more to put on than I did. Once I had my shorts on I chanced a look from behind the tree to her pulling her shirt down, already having her shorts on. I made my way over to her and Maiara gave me a quick nod and began to walk out of the woods.

We came to the edge of the woods and a massive house came into view. "Whoa." I said looking upon this massive house before us. I saw Maiara out of the corner look at me with curiousity.

"Is something wrong?" She stopped walking and asked me.

"Is this your house?" I asked looking beteween the house and her.

"It is a communtiy house, but yes I do own it." She said as gave me a small smile. Now it was my turn to be confused.

"Community house? What do you mean by that?"

"Since I am Alpha I live in this house, but so does my pack. We live together to become closer as a pack and as a family. I believe that if you live with your pack you become a more tight nit group. We learn to live each other so we know how to handle one another. We learn the feelings and traits of one another. We also learn to control our anger around one another to better our tempers." She said calmly.

"Doesn't that grate everyones nerves living together? And what about those with imprints?" I asked trying to figure out more.

"Yes we do get on each others nerves occasionally but we learn to contorl our tempers. We do have the occasional wolf phase in the house when they get upset, so we have to repair the house, but we learn to deal. As for those with imprints, they live in seperate houses. When one of us imprints we allow the couple to live in the house until the rest of the pack and tribe build a house for them and they live there. I treat my pack and the imprints of those in my pack like they were flesh and blood family. No one is left out unless they are banished." She said looking down when saying the last part.

"Banished? Why would you do that?" I asked getting a little angry that they would do that to a member of their pack.

"Yes, if a wolf disobeys a direct order from the current Alpha, or does something to endanger the pack and tribe, they have a trial and they are sentenced to be banished or be put to death. There have only been two inncidents where the wolves were banished. It was before my time as Alpha so I don't really know to much." She said looking everywhere but at me. "It's very rare for a wolf to disobey and order as I don't give orders a lot. I don't want to abuse my leader position. This is also one of the reasons I have the pack live together."

I noticed that she would really look at me and wanted to know why but I wasn't going to press the matter, I would be here more than a day at most.

"Come on, dinner is almost ready." She said changing the subject as she began to walk towards the house again.

As soon as we walked in the house, several different smells filled my nose. The smells of delicious, mouth watering food, the different smells of new wolves, and the different floral scents. I followed Maiara into the kitchen where there were several different people walking around. I watched as the people moved around the kitchen, carrying food and plates and other untensils, all while laughing and talking.

"Maiara you're back, and you've brought a guest." I looked over to where the voice had come from. I saw at a slightly tanned girl with green eyes and a smiling face walking towards us. She was a few inches shorter than Maiara and her hair was pitch black like mine and short like Leah's. She came up to Maiara and pulled her into a tight hug. As soon as she let Maiara go she turned to me and smiled brightly at me. "Hi, I'm Aiyana. Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you to. I'm Jacob." I said as I extended my hand, but she pushed it out of the way and hugged me instead. I was caught off guard, and akwardly hugged her back. I looked over at Maiara and saw her trying not to laugh at me. Aiyana let me go and went back to helping set up for dinner.

"Sorry I should have warned you, she's a hugger." She said letting out a small laugh. I gave her a 'you think?' look, and shook my head.

"Is there anyone else I should be warned about?" I asked skeptically.

"Some of the others might be a little remote with you, as you are a new wolf they've never met and that you're an Alpha." Maiara said quietly to me. Well at least she was honest.

"I can understand that." I said nodding my head.

"Maiara, come on. Dinner's ready." Aiyana called to her again. This girl was like the wolf version of Alice, minus the visions. She was so hyper and upbeat.

"Come on Jacob." She said chuckling a bit as she made her way to the table. As soon as we came up to the table, everyone became quiet and looked up at Maiara and I. I felt unnerving as everyone stared at us. Maiara cleared her throat, though it wasn't neccesary as everyone had already stopped talking. "Everyone, I would like you to meet Jacob. He's our guest for this evening and will be staying until the morning. Please make him feel at home."

For a few moments nobody spoke. I was starting to get more uneasy as the seconds ticked on. Then a guy sitting down at one end of the table stood up and walked over. He was a big guy and could probably put even Paul to shame, the way his muscles buldged out of his skin tight shirt. It looked like if moved the wrong way his shirt would rip right off his body. He came right up to me, sizing me up. I actually had to look up a bit to see him. He had a hard stare on his face before he stuck out one of his giant size hands. I hesantly took his hand and shook it.

"Nice to meet you Jacob." He said as his face broke out into a huge smile. I slightly relaxed a bit more. "I'm Bidziil, Mai's Beta."

"Nice to meet you Bidziil." I said giving him a side smile.

"Call me Bidz. Everyone does." He said as we let go of each others hands.

"Ok Bidz."

"Glad you could join us for dinner. Please have a seat." He said offering the seat next to Maiara. She sat at the head of the table, like any Alpha would. I sat to the left of her as Bidz returned to the other end of the table. As soon as we sat down, people started to pass around plates of food. Everyone helping themselves to roasted chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy and steamed vegetables. Everything smelled so good, I was trying not to drool as I loaded my plate. I hadn't had a home cooked meal in about 3 weeks, so I was hungry. Once everyone had they plate fixed we all dug in. The only sounds were of forks scrapping on plates. I was half way through my plate when Bidz started talking to me again.

"So Jake...is it ok if I call you Jake?" He asked.

I swallowed the food in my mouth before answering him. "Yeah, everyone calls me Jake."

"Cool. So Jake, where are you from?"

I looked at him a few moments before answering him. "I'm from La Push, Washington."

"Ah you're from the Quileute tribe, right?" He asked, curiously.

"Yeah, that's right." I answered before taking a sip of water.

"Do you know a Paul Lahote?" He asked.

"Yeah. He's part of the pack where I'm from." I said a little suprised.

"I knew he was a damn wolf! Fucking liar! See Mai didn't I tell you he was a lair?" He said while pounding his fist on the table, and chuckling. This made me look at him cautiously. He laughed again at my expression. "Don't worry, the liar is my little cousin."

I let out a breath that I hadn't realise that I had been holding in. I chuckled a bit to ease the tention in my muscles. "Yeah Sam has an Alpha order on us so we can't let our secret accidently slip out."

"Damn you've got a strick Alpha. I guess we've got it good. Then again our whole tribe knows about us so we don't have to worry about it." He said smiling.

I looked at Maiara curiously. "You let the whole tribe know about your pack?"

"Yeah, well it wasn't like that in the beginning. We kept our pack a secret for quite a while. That was until about a year ago. A group of nomads came through our lands and tried to attack while the whole tribe was having a bonfire. I had to make a quick decision. Either we run to the woods and phase and risk people getting people killed just to save our secret or expose us and save everyone. Needless to say we had many freaked out people. For a while we had a hard time dealing with some of the tribe people." Maiara said.

"Yeah we had a few threats directed towards us for a while." Bidz said disgruntily.

"Anyway, we got things worked out and those threats stopped. We now live in peace with the tribe knowing and keeping the secret." Maiara finished, giving Bidz a scolding look.

"Yeah only after we threatened to stop hunting leechs, so they wouldn't be protected." Bidz retorted.

"You know we would have never stopped, Bidz." Maiara snapped.

"Yeah well, whatever." He huffed.

"Love you too." Maiara said in a smart ass way.

"Yeah, you too. Pain in my ass." He mumbled the last part, even though everyone who was a wolf could hear it. I kept looking between the two, wondering what was going on. I wondered if they were just friends or more.

"I heard that." She said narrowing her eyes as she leaned back into her seat resting her chin on her right hand.

"Heard what?" He said acting dumb, shrugging his shoulders and putting his hands up.

"If you're going to say something, then say it. If not, then shut your mouth or deal with the consequences." She said smirking, her eyes glinting with mischief.

His face holding a similar smirk. An evil glint in his eyes as well. "Bring it on sis."

That I didn't expect, though it made more since in the way they were speaking to each other. Siblings were more hostel to each other than friends. I looked at Maiara wondering what she had up her sleeve. Her smirk only grew.

"Four words Bidz. Ginger Thompson, Prom night." She said raising an eyebrow. I looked back at Bidz only to see his smirk gone and his face a little paler.

"You wouldn't." He growled out, anger quickly taking over. Everyone at the table stayed quite, not wanting to miss a word between the siblings. From the looks on everyones face they were just as curious as I was.

"Try me baby brother." She dared. The tension in the room grew as the siblings stared at one another.

"Fine. You win." He growled out again sounding defeated. From what I could tell for someone like him to give up was not a common thing. I could hear stiffled laughs around the table. I stayed quiet knowing when to keep my mouth shut. Having twin sisters I knew about the signs of when one sibling won. Bidz reminded me a lot of Paul and his hotheadedness, but it looked like Bidz had control over his temper a lot better than Paul did.

"Alright lets get everything cleaned up." Maiara said getting up from her seat. Everyone from her pack followed suit an started to grab their plates and stuff. I went to help grab a few things when Maiara stopped me by placing a hand on my forearm, sending tingling sensations through my body, it was weird but felt good. "Jacob you're a guest. Don't worry about your plate. Bidz will get it."

"No it's ok I don't mind." I said trying to protest.

"Dude it's ok. Don't worry about it." Bidz said coming up and taking my plate and stuff from me. "Mai give me yours so you can show him the guest room."

"Thanks Bidz. We good?" She asked giving her brother a smile.

"Yeah we're good sis." He said returning the smile.

Maiara nodded her head to him and he walked off towards the kitchen. I couldn't help feel a little off at not being able to do much to help.

"Follow me. Your room is upstairs." She said turning to me before walking off.

So I didn't get my 3 reviews like I wanted but I just felt like putting up a new chapter anyways. I know the 1st chapter was short but this one is a bit longer. I hope you guys like it. Please read and review. Hope you enjoy it!