Disclaimer: I do not own any character, except Anna-Maria. The rest are Stephanie Meyers…

I snapped out of my trance after Nessie introduced us. I gave Seth a shy smile and turned to set out the food in my hand. Most of the men had drifted into the room to get food piling their plates high with it. After most of them had gotten food I reached across the island for a bun, just as someone else did, and we ended up brushing hands. I pulled mine back blushing and looked up to meet a familiar pair of sandy brown ones. We stood looking into each other's eyes for what felt like hours, but it could have been seconds, and all I knew was I never wanted to stop.

"WHAT THE HELL?" Collin yelled, breaking our eye contact. Collin was advancing on Seth. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" Collin was shaking all of the men in the kitchen were on their feet leading my brother out the door, with Seth and I in pursuit. I hid in the shadows and watched my brother's normally calm face twist in rage. He and Seth were standing facing each other.

"Calm down Collin, it's no big deal…"

"IT'S NO BIG DEAL? IT IS A BIG FUCKING DEAL! HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN. I JUST GOT TO MEET HER, AND NOW YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE HER AWAY FROM ME!" with a big pop a giant reddish brown wolf stood in Collin's place, his clothes floating down around it in pieces. The wolf lunged at Seth who, like Collin, was replaced by a sandy colored wolf. Both of them started to attack each other, the Sandy one on the offense. Just as they were both about to slam their jaws on each other I whimpered. They each stopped mid snap to look at me, so did all the bystanders. It went so quiet I swear to God you could have hear a pin drop in the grass.

The last thing I saw before it went black was the sandy colored wolf racing towards me.

Seth's P.O.V

I reached her before she fell on the ground, phasing to catch her. I held her in my arms and turned around to find everyone staring at me. I blush remembering I had nothing on, so I gave her to Nessie, backed up and phased back.

What the hell? Why the hell did you have to Imprint on her? Collin thought. I just got her back.

It's not like I had a choice. I told him as I went to find the tree I hid my spares in. But boy am I happy it was her.

After I had located my cut off I returned to Emily's back yard. Nessie was still holding Anna-Maria in her arms. I walked up to her and took her in mine, gazing down at her perfect face.

"How long has she been out?" I asked looking up.

"She'll be awake in a minute." Alice replied. "I can see her wake up, and then nothing." She pointedly looked at me. I felt her stir in my arms.

"Anna, are you ok? How are you feeling?" I asked anxious to hear she was fine. She looked around at the crowd around her then up at my face.

"What the hell is going on here?" she demanded. I smiled and hugged her closer to my chest.

"More than you can imagine." Emily said from beside Sam. I carefully set her down on her feet, keeping her close to my side. Emily and Sam explained to her the whole wolfy secret. They told her everything. Nessie looked at me pointedly when Sam explained the whole Imprint thing. I nodded to her quiet question. She smiled knowingly. Once Emily and Sam had finished, she looked at all of us in turn. When she looked at me she smiled. I smiled back.

Emily announced that it was time for Anna-Maria to go home with Collin, who had finally calmed down enough to phase back. He slung his arm around his sister and led her towards his car. After they left I too left, following my angel in the woods.

Anna-Maria's P.O.V

As Collin drove I stared at him in disbelief. I had come to terms with the wolves and vampire thing - that had been all too easy. Why couldn't myths and fairytales be true in real life? It made sense, how else could there be such wonderful stories. I couldn't understand why he had become so angry at Seth.

"Collin?" he grunted keeping his eyes on the road. "Why were you so angry at Seth?" Collin flicked his eyes at me momentarily, before returning them to the road.

"Umm. You see, Seth, uh, SethImprintedonyou." He rushed blushing furiously. I raised my eyebrow and turned to look out the window. And I swear I saw a sandy wolf running alongside the car in the forest.

I woke up the next morning to Collin's snores. They hadn't gotten the spare bedroom ready for me, so Collin had let me sleep on his bed, muttering about how he wouldn't be using it anyways. Looking at his sleeping figure I smiled; he looked more peaceful in his sleep, as if he didn't have a tin of weight on him.

I stealthily got up and went in search of my luggage. I grabbed my sports bra, shorts, running shoes and a hair tie. No one was up in the house. Collin had explained to me that our father was a nurse. He worked part time, as he was going to school again to become a doctor. I was proud of him, that was a lot to do. But I was also sad, he was hardly home.

I was running on a trail somewhere along the beach, I could hear the waves lapping on the beach. I smiled and closed my eyes. I loved running; it had been an escape, a way to feel good about myself. Or it had been in my previous home. I ran thinking about the changes I was about to face head on. I was wrapped up in my thoughts when I rammed into something hard. I expected to fall onto my back, but two strong, and warm, arms wrapped around me to catch me. I found myself staring into a familiar pair of sandy brown eyes, as our eyes made contact and I felt my face go red.

"Oh, gosh, I'm so sorry. I didn't see you there."

"I could tell, I was calling out your name and you didn't even look at me." Seth laughed, but stopped short. "What were you doing, or should I say thinking?" I looked away from his eyes, an easy thing to do, but it was surprisingly hard.

"Just how much my life has changed." I shrugged and started staring again.

"What's taking you so long Seth?" a voice called out. Seconds later the owner of the voice walked out of the trees. He stopped walking as soon as he saw us standing there, Seth's arms still securely holding me to his chest. "Ah, I see I'm interrupting something…"

"No, we were just talking. I'll be back later…" he looked pointedly at the other boy, who just nodded and left in the direction he had come. "Are you out running alone?" I nodded and he looked worried. "Would you like some company?" I nodded again, too dumbfounded to speak. He smiled down at me, letting go of my torso and taking my hand, tugging me in the direction of the beach.

We ran for a while in silence, but I was tiring, I usually didn't run this hard for this long.

"Do you, huff, huff, think we could huff, huff, stop?" Seth nodded and slowed down to a walk. I went to sit, but Seth grabbed my hand and pulled me along at a walk towards a large piece of drift wood.

"Do you always run by yourself?" he asked hesitantly.

"Yeah. I never had anyone to run with back…um, home. But I'd appreciate company." I said hoping he would offer to be my running buddy. I wanted to spend time with Seth. I could tell I really liked him, and I was happy with him near me.

"Would you like me to run with you?" I flashed him a big smile and nodded. He grinned back. We sat there for a while looking out at the gray sea. I leaned my head onto his shoulder, and smiled when he wrapped an arm around my shoulders. With him I thought a girl would never need a sweater. I looked up to find him staring at me.

"You're beautiful." He told as if it was the most natural thing in the world. I looked down and blushed "I have something to tell you…"

"I know what you are going to tell me. You are going to tell me you Imprinted on me, right?" Seth looked shocked. I smiled at him and it was his turn to blush. Ha! I wasn't the only one! It looked like there was a war of emotions on his face. He then shook his head slightly and leaned towards me. And before I knew it, his lips were on mine, and I was kissing him back.

A/N: Hello again. I hope this chapter finds you all good and happy. It is a miracle that I was able to update this weekend…I have been putting off a lot of homework for this… but oh well! Any reviews are welcome and I would like to thank everyone who has-it means a lot to me.

Happy reading! Miss Deirdra