Emily was waiting when I turned onto her street and I was thankful for that. I had already turned onto the wrong street three times. Who would have thought that such a small reservation was so hard to navigate?

"Emma!" Emily launched herself at me the second my car door opened. I was still in my seatbelt and it felt like she was smothering me. None the less, I hugged her back and breathed in the smell of pine trees.

It had been a few months since I last saw the house and it looked just as I remembered it: like home. Sam came bounding out of the house not long after Emily and embraced me as she had. This time I was free of my seatbelt but he still smothered me. Sam was so much bigger than me that I felt like I was being hugged by a bear.

"Emma. Let me look at you." He held me out at arms length and stared into my face. I tried to remember if I had done anything different with my hair from the last visit. Emily stood behind her fiancé and looked me up and down as well.

"Wow" Emily breathed as if seeing me for the first time. "You look just like Mom when she was your age".

Mentally, I tried to find the similarities. Same thick, black hair and the same chocolate brown eyes as everyone else in the family. Maybe there was more in my face that I couldn't recognize. We all have the same russet skin but that doesn't really make me look like my mom.

"You look beautiful. A very mature, confident young lady" Sam said with a grin. I can't wait for him to be part of the family.

Sam and Emily helped me carry all my things into the house. "Your room is this first one on the left" Sam said opening the door and placing some of my stuff on the floor.

The, or I guess my, room was simple but beautiful. It was small with one window and only a bed and a dresser. "This is perfect" I exclaimed.

"I'm glad you like it." Emily smiled and Sam wrapped his arm around her waist. For the first moment since I decided to move out here with Emily, I realized how awkward this living arrangement may be. Sam and Emily are engaged, sleeping in the same bed engaged. They're totally in love and I don't know how much of the Sam – Emily love fest I want to see. I'm going to need to find a hobby, a hobby that keeps me out of the house.

I smiled and the two lovebirds left me to unpack. It didn't take long to unpack the little things I brought and I decided to shift my bed so that I could see out the window while I slept. The bed was much heavier than I thought. I could barely move it and found that the only way I could move it was by pressing my back against the wall and pushing with my feet.

When I was done rearranging everything, I opened my door and listened for Sam and Emily. There were more than two voices coming from downstairs and I debated whether or not to lock myself in my room and wait for whomever else was here to leave. Emily decided for me.

"Oh! Emma I was just going to get you! There's someone downstairs that we'd like you to meet" she said and grabbed my hand. Emily didn't give me a chance to refuse and tugged me down the stairs.

I heard Sam talking to someone and then they were both laughing.

"Emma I'd like to reintroduce you to our cousin Seth."

Seth turned around and I didn't give him a chance to talk before I tackled him in a bear hug. "Seth! Oh God I've missed you so much! Look how tall you are now! And how big! Are you on some crazy work out plan? Or are you a football player now?" I couldn't help myself and wrapped my arms around him again. It had been years since I'd seen my cousins.

"Where's Leah?" I asked and looked around him, half expecting her to be waiting in the doorway.

"What?" he laughed. "I'm not enough for you?"

I shook my head. "You're more than enough. God I've missed you so much!" I was near tears I was so happy. "What have you been up to? You have to tell me everything! You're a sophomore now right? You never even called me when you started high school! How do you like it?"

"Easy there Emma! That's too many questions! High school is fine. It's just school. And yeah I'm a sophomore. Now what about you? I don't exactly remember getting a phone call from you either!"

I love Seth. Honestly he's my favorite cousin; he's practically a second brother. I told him all about high school back in Oregon and how I've been stressing about taking the ACT at a new school. Seth teased me when he asked if I had a boyfriend and I told no, but then he admitted that if I would have said yes he probably would have freaked out.

At some point in our reminiscing, someone had pulled up in the driveway and shouted something about car problems to which Sam and Emily ran out to help. I took this opportunity to get a better picture of what life in La Push would be like.

"So what do you think about Sam? Is he a good guy? Is he good to Emily?"

Seth laughed. "You know sometimes it's hard to remember you're the youngest."

"I'm still older than you" I added.

"Well you're definitely the protective one. And yeah, Sam is a good guy. Actually, he's great. He and Emily are perfect together. He treats her like an angel. You don't have to worry about him" he promised.

"And you're not just lying to me because Sam paid you fifty dollars or something?"

"I could have got fifty?" Seth whined. I glared at him. "I'm just kidding Emma! Sam's my friend but Emily is my cousin and family comes first."

There was a loud crash outside that sounded like an explosion and I jumped. Seth beat me to the door and his arm blocked me from squeezing around him. A huge cloud of black smoke rose from a little truck and up into the trees. I could just barely make out Emily's form against the smoke but then Sam ushered her back and she was by my side in a second. Her face was smudged from the smoke and she coughed once.

"What happened?" I asked. Seth left my side and joined Sam and a few other guys crowding around the truck. One of the guys laughed and punched another guy in the shoulder.

"I have no idea" Emily said shaking her head.

Sam turned and shouted over to us, "Emily can you go call Jacob? We're going to need some help with this".

"Sure thing!" she shouted back. I followed her into the house just as she was picking up the phone.

"Hey Jacob, its Emily. We need some help out here… yes, that smoke is from us… no, we're all fine… I don't know, Jared said it was making noise on the way over and then I think the engine just exploded... alright than you so much! We owe you! Oh, and be careful on the way up, I don't know how much fight is left in the truck. Alright see you soon."

"So I take it the reinforcements are on their way?"

Emily jumped clearly not realizing I was still in the house. She shook it off quickly though. "Yeah, Jacob is on his way over. He knows just about everything there is to know about cars."

I nodded. "And this Jared? I'm assuming…" I asked.

"He knows nothing about cars" Emily finished with a laugh. It seems we've been laughing a lot today. I think La Push is going to be a great new beginning.

"Is there anybody else I need to know about?"

"Oh you have no idea."