6 years had passed since the day that Bella and the vampires had left Forks.

After they left I ran off on my own as a wolf, because all the other wolves hated me for my betrayal. Seth insisted on joining me. The annoying little punk wouldn't let me refuse.

Leah begged me to let her join us so she could escape Sam's thoughts. As much as I had wanted to, I couldn't turn her away.

Embry joined us too. I was glad to have one of my best friends join me.

Unfortunately Quil couldn't join us because he couldn't leave Claire. We were going to miss him.

So our new pack was formed.

Although I wanted to be on my own, I couldn't help but appreciate their company and the sacrifice they made to join me. Sam and the other wolves saw them all as traitors now and had shunned us from La Push. They had to leave their home, family and friends behind.

For a year we lived in our wolf form, running around the countryside, hunting for our meals. But Seth and Embry didn't like the life style.

They wanted to live amongst humans, even if they couldn't be with their loved ones.

We were running around in some mountains in California when I made the decision to let us try to live a human life.

There was a nice town nearby the mountains that I thought that we could settle in, but Embry came up with some wild fantasy of living in Los Angles by the beach and Hollywood.

The mental pictures he painted got Seth excited and in through support of the idea; surprisingly they even enticed Leah.

I thought the idea was pretty retarded at first, but then I realized that all of us were truly free now. We had nothing holding us back. We could do whatever we wanted.

So I thought what the hell? Let's go to LA!

But we didn't have a single cent to our name. We didn't even have clothing on our back (that made for an awkward scene when we first entered the town.)

With our enhanced physical abilities we were able to take jobs of intense labor during the day to save up some money, and we roamed in the wild at night. The jobs paid quite well though, especially because we were capable of doing so much without breaking a sweat.

It wasn't long before we had saved enough money to rent an apartment and actually live a human life again. Though we still fed ourselves through hunting.

Soon we had enough money to not have to spend all of our time working and looking for food. We had time to go to the beach and hang out. Though I really had no desire to actually join the rest of the pack in this, so while they were out having fun I continued to work.

The rest of the pack made friends with the locals and started to attend parties and became quite popular with them. Later on, a guy found them hanging out on the beach and wanted them to become models because of there incredible bodies. They left their labor jobs eagerly and became full time models during the day, and hung out at the beach and partied at night, and every once in a while, transformed into wolves.

They were truly enjoying their lives. But no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't seem to find any joy out of this.

They tried to tell me it had been years, we had a great life now, it was about time I got over Bella, even Leah had almost fully gotten over Sam. The anger these words brought me caused me to phase and almost attack them, so they never uttered the words directly again.

Embry tried to help me by having me hook up with some of the attractive beach going girls and models he had met, and often hooked up with for one night stands. Night after night he had tried to fill me up with liters of whisky and scotch (it took a lot to get a werewolf drunk) then introduce me to beautiful girls.

The girls were always willing to go all the way with me, and Embry promised that once I had lost my virginity I would forget about Bella completely. But I just couldn't do it. Every time they would grab me and started kissing me, begging me to fondle there breasts, and no matter how shit faced I was, I would push them off, apologize. If they were drunk I would hold them until they fell asleep then run away, if they were sober I would just run away.

I ignored them as much as I could. I just kept myself busy in the labor work and let them enjoy their lives peacefully.

After 5 years of this I had to bring them back to reality.

We hadn't aged in 5 years. People were going to start to realize it soon. The modeling world was beginning to get bored of them. The packs partying beach go-er friends were starting to grow up and settle down into serious lives.

But most importantly, it was becoming harder and harder each day for us to phase into our wolf forms. Without any blood suckers around to fight, it didn't seem like we were going to be able to retain our wolf forms for long.

We were going to have to get serious and live serious lives now. We had saved quite a sum of money in the past 5 years, from the labor work and modeling. It was probably enough to allow us to live comfortable, borderline luxurious lives for a while, but it wouldn't be enough to last the remainder of our life spans.

I had us move to Stanford California, where me, Seth, and Embry would attend the local high school. Leah had already graduated from high school so she would attend the local community college.

It had been 6 years since me, Embry and Seth had dropped out of high school. Now we were going to have to go back and get a proper education so that we could get mundane jobs and live a normal boring life.

It was really awkward to try and sign up for high school after dropping out in our junior year (Seth his sophomore year) and trying to re attend high school as 22 year olds according to our birth certificates. Our grades in high school had been good, but 22 year olds never really went to high school. At that point, if a 22 year old high school drop out wasn't too stoned he would just get his GED.

But it would be best to get the proper high school education, go to college and get real jobs. So I decided we'd go to high school.

On Monday morning of the start of the new school year a woman at the office counter arranged schedules for us. We still looked like 16 or 17 year old juniors, except for the fact that we were incredibly tall and ripped.

It was the first day of school so all of the classes were boring introduction classes.

I was so happy when it was finally lunch time. Seth and I were supposed to meet Embry in the school parking lot next to our brand new Audi, so we could go out and get something to eat.

When we reached the parking lot we saw Embry drive by in the Audi with an attractive female student in the passenger seat, making out with him.

"Douche bag." I said.

"He is definitely going to get a ticket for that," said Seth. "Well lets get some food from the cafeteria."

I wish I had my Crotch Rocket I thought bitterly as we walked through the cafeteria line. I had to leave the motorcycle with Leah, she needed a form a transportation to get to her college.

We sat down in the corner of the lunch room at a table that looked like it had not been cleaned in decades, while Seth told me all about his first day of school. He wouldn't shut up.

It was there, sitting at the disgusting lunchroom table, listening to Seth blabber about his first day of school like a kindergardener (why did he have to be such a dork?), eating a rubber hamburger, that I saw them.

The pair of wide chocolate brown eyes that I never thought I'd see again.