A/N: Thank you to those who reviewed chapter one. Hope you guys enjoy this one. Feel free to leave suggestions for me. I've got the third chapter ready for tommorrow, with four in the works.

I looked around the dimly lit room and suddenly remembered where I was. La Push, Washington, in Emily's guest bedroom. I wasn't sure how long I'd slept but it must have been a while because it was now dark outside. I scanned all four walls of the small room and found no clock, I looked upon the dresser and nightstand, still no clock. Finally I stumbled to the table on the left of the dresser and grabbed my phone.

8:18pm...

I stuffed the phone back in my purse and made my way to the living room. Emily had said to make myself at home after giving me a tour of the modest three bedroom home. I heard voices coming from the living room once I was midway down the hall. I peeked around the corner and saw nine people sitting. I recognized three of them; Emily, Sam and Jared. They all seemed engulfed in a conversation.

"Malaya, come on in. Make yourself comfortable." Emily greeted from Sam's lap. Its odd how he seems so calm and gentle in her presence. The harsh tone I saw in his eyes earlier was completely gone. Instead a smile and shimmer of happiness took its place. I stood glancing across the room uncomfortably. I found Emily's eyes, shooting her a nervous look.

"Malaya, This is my pack. Paul, Seth, Embry, Quil, Leah, who is Seth's sister," Sam pointed to each person in the order in which they sat "And my beta, Jacob". I found myself staring at Jacob. I had the urge to run up and hug him. His warm brown eyes melted me. I wanted him. I had to have him. I didn't know him but I knew he had to be mine.

"Malaya, do you have nickname? Your name is kind of a mouth full." The guy Sam called Quil said, with a chuckle. I pulled my eyes from Jacob and looked at Quil.

"No, well sort of... my mom calls me Maya sometimes but no one else does." I said weakly. I wasn't as uncomfortable as I was when I first walked in but was far from feeling welcome.

"Do you mind if we call you that?" Quil asked. It was obvious he was trying to make me feel comfortable but had no idea how to go about it.

"Er, no." I said. Quil nodded.

"Malaya, we were having a meeting about patrolling. You need to join us. So just take that seat by Jacob." Sam said. I almost said something to him about using a tone of authority with me but I decided against it.

"OK." I said making my way over to the couch slowly. I refrained from looking at Jacob. I knew if I did I wouldn't want to look away.

"We were just talking about our latest member imprinting." Sam informed me

"Imprinting? Whats that?" I asked

"You don't know?" He asked. No, I just asked for the fun of it...

"No, I don't believe I do." I said in almost a whisper.

"Its sort of love at first site but stronger. She, or in yours and Leah's case, He is your soul mate. You become whatever she... or he needs you to be, whether that's a protector, or a lover, or a friend. Gravity doesn't seem to exist anymore, its more like that one person is holding you there... Like Emily is my imprint. Jared's is imprinted to Kim. Paul imprinted on Rachel, Jake's sister. And Quil's is Claire."

"You want to tell her or you want me too?" Quil asked. Tell me what?

"You can." Sam said

"You can imprint on someone at any age. My imprint is three years old." Quil said. That's just nasty. What a pervert! I must have had a disgusted look on my face because Quil said something "Its not romantic at all! Right now I'm her brother or babysitter. As she matures I'll change to be whatever she needs like Sam was saying. I'll be anything she needs. And I can' help my imprint, so please don't think poorly of me." Quil explained. I blushed red from my initial thoughts of him.

"How do you imprint?" I asked lightly

"You look the one in the eyes and know you belong with them... that you need them and they need you." Sam said "If I'm not mistaken it just happened for you and Jacob." I gasped at his words. I didn't even know what it was when it happened...

I looked over at Jacob who, like me, looked nervous. I gave him a light smile and he returned it.

"I was going to say something but I didn't want to be the one to push you over the edge." Jacob whispered in my ear. His close proximity was causing me to breath heavily.

"Thank you for the thought but it may be too late. I'm certain I was pushed over the edge earlier today." I said looking at him, I forgot anyone else was even there. I felt safe with him. I felt like I knew him. "What are we supposed to do now?"

"Well, I guess I'm supposed to take you out. If you'd like that is." Jacob said leaning causally on the couch cushions.

Sam cleared his throat unnecessarily. "We have a meeting to go on with."

"Then what are you waiting for? Get this show on the road!" Jacob said with a hint of sarcasm. Sam rolled his eyes and went on with the next two weeks patrol schedules. First patrol was Seth, Leah and Quil, Second is Embry, Jared and Sam, the third and final was me, Jacob and Paul

"I have a question or rather a statement..." I said.

"Oh." Sam said shocked.

"No one injures my family or the Cullens." I said sheepishly. I could only imagine what kind of crap I'd catch over that.

"We can't do anything to the Cullens unless they come on the reservation. Your family is safe with the Cullens. But any vampire on the reservation is fair game." Sam said

"You hurt any of my family and I will hurt you. Alpha or not." I said feeling quite comfortable with being myself at the moment. I looked away from Sam's charcoal eyes and met each and every face in the room. All sharing the same expression; shock and worry. "Just so you all know, if any of you hurt any of my family you will be limping on three legs."

"Don't worry, Maya. No one here is going to hurt them." Jacob said, rubbing my back. I jumped at his touch and he stopped. Jacob mumbled a 'sorry' and looked a little embarrassed.

"This meeting is over." Sam said. As much as I wanted to know Jacob and be with him, I had to get away from Sam. Everything about him made me mad. He may be the alpha but he has no right to threaten my family.

I got to my feet and bolted out the door, making sure to slam it hard.

~*~Jacob's POV~*~

I knew a few things about Malaya. Her name, that she was Jared's sister, she was put up for adoption after birth, she was stubborn and protective over her vampire family.

Maya had just bolted out the door and I had no idea why. Well, I had a clue why but I wasn't sure. It was either what Sam said or my rubbing her back. I couldn't shake the thought that she was mad at me. Is it possible to refuse an imprint?

"I'm going to find Maya." I said standing up. "If I'm not back in 20 minutes someone come looking for me" I joked

"Scared of a little girl?" Embry teased.

I ignored him and walked out the door. I heard crying coming from Emily's swing in the backyard. I walked over to find Maya curled up in a ball, head on her knee's, crying. I may not know her very well but it kill me to see her cry. My chest actually ached. Dude, they were right about imprinting... it does some crazy shit to you.

"Hey." I said in a low voice, I wasn't even sure she heard me until I saw her head shoot up. "Whats wrong?"

"What isn't wrong?" Maya asked through cries. I walked closer to the swing.

"Mind if I join you?"

"No," She answered looking at the seat on the swing beside her.

"You want to talk about anything?" I asked. All I wanted right now was to make her feel better. I wanted so bad for her to stop crying and smile at me. I had seen her smile once and I liked it. Her smile just added her beauty, making her chestnut hair seem brighter and her creamy brown eyes seem richer.

Maya hesitated for a second "Sure."

"OK go." I said instantly feeling like a moron.

"Can I ask you a few questions?"

"Sure. If it makes you feel comfortable." I said smiling at her. The corners of her lips turned up slightly but dropped just as suddenly as they curved.

"You weren't at the meeting when they asked me questions and told me what my life was going to be like, were you?" She asked sniffling.

"No, and its probably a good thing. From what I hear Sam was a jerk." I said

"How long have you been a werewolf?"

"A year.. give or take a little."

"Same here. What are your parents names?"

"My moms name was Sarah but she died in a car wreck when I was young. My dad is Billy Black."

"I hope this doesn't sound rude, but is your father in a wheel chair?"

"Yes he is. Why?"

"I remember him from the meeting earlier. He didn't seem to like me. In fact no one but Emily seems to like me." Maya said tears swelling up in her trouble eyes.

"That's not true. I like you." I said. Maya looked up at me and smiled bashfully.

"I like you too." She said softly.

"Do you have anymore questions?"

"Yes. How old are you?"

"Seventeen."

"Me too. Whens your birthday?"

"February 12th ."

"Mines June 13th. Those are all my questions... for now anyway." Maya said. She seemed to lighten up a little.

"Alright. You want to talk about whats been going on?" I asked.

Maya took a deep breath and released it "I guess since your my imprint I can tell you anything, so yes." I smiled in response. I was really beginning to like this imprint thing.

"First of all, I hate Sam" She whispered "There's a part of me that hopes he screws up and hurts one of my family members, just so I can give him what for."

I couldn't help but laugh at her. The determined look on her precious face was too cute. She 130 pounds of fire. The words didn't seem right coming from her, making it that much cuter.

"I really don't like how he keeps telling me how things are going to be. He even told me I had to move into his house when he and Emily got married." I couldn't help the laughter escaping my throat. "Whats so funny?"

"You are." I said still smiling. Maya looked at me like I was crazy but I didn't care.

"Explain, please."

"Don't think I'm weirdo, but your cute when your mad and determined. Its funny to see someone so small so mad. You really act like you could go back in that house right now and kick Sam's ass." I said hoping and praying she wouldn't think I was a freak.

"I'm not that small." She defended

"Oh yeah, well how much do you weigh? 130?" I said teasingly

"That's a very rude thing to ask a girl. Didn't your father ever tell you not to ask a girl her weight?" She said with smirk on her round face.

"I'm just joking. My point is, in comparison to Sam your tiny. He's like 230 and 6'5. and your about 130 and 5'4."

"Your good at guessing height and weight." She said "I'm beginning to think your a stalker."

"Me? A stalker? Palease!" I was having too much fun with her right now to let her go back to being all down and depressed. Maya just laughed at me, all signs of crying was wiped from her face. Her eyes danced when she laughed and I was happy I was the one who made her laugh. "I have a question, why did you run out as soon as the meeting was over?"

"So I didn't phase and wreck Emily's house and her fiancee`s face." Maya said innocently.

"It wasn't because I rubbed your back? Cause I was worried that it was. I mean I know I shouldn't have and it was wrong and-" She placed two fingers over my lips and stopped me from talking.

"It was not you." was all she said before curling up to my side and wrapping my arm around herself.

"Jake! Embry said t- Whoa!" Seth said making his way to the swing where we were. "Sorry man, I didn't know you were busy."

"Seth, nothing is happening. Were talking." I said making Maya blush.

"Oh well Embry just said to check and make sure you were still alive and everything."

"What is he talking about?" Maya asked me

"I kind of joked that if I wasn't in with in 20 minutes they needed to check on me." Jacob said

"OK... its official. Everyone here is crazy." Maya said laughing. I loved her laugh, it was so lighthearted and sweet. Like she could never do any wrong. Her laugh made me feel all mushy which is hard to do unless your Bella. Bella! Man I forgot about Bella! How am I going to tell her I imprinted? Is she going to think I chased after the first new girl I could find?

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