Over the next few weeks I found myself hanging out with jared and paul. Embry was no where to be found and everyone else was too uncomfortable around me.
"so mel, there is another bon fire tonight wanna go?" jared asked.
"yeah sure, along as you don t drag me running all the way back here when its over"
"sorry kid I cant promise you that" he smirked.
I went home and changed, everyone on the rez seemed to be there. To my surprise embry was even there, I found him and went to say hi, but when he saw me he froze like he had seen a ghost. Had he already forgotten that halley had a twin? That I was mel and not her.
"hey whats up?" I asked
"melody" he said in a kind of whisper.
"where have you been? I haven't seen you in weeks, your absence has forced me to hang out with paul." I chuckled
"Paul?" he asked
yeah, turns out he's not that bad of a guy"
"im so sorry mel but ive got to go" he turned to walk away.
"embry wait" I said grabbing his arm, "where are you going?"
"im sorry, ive jus- ive got to go"
And he left. So I found paul instead.
"whats wrong with embry?" I asked plopping down onto his lap, he wrapped his arms around my waist.
"ahh, don't worry about it, he's been a little off lately"
"yeah but he froze when he saw me, like he forgot I was Halley's twin and he saw a ghost. Then said my name is a weird whisper"
"he did?" paul asked
"yeah it was weird"
"Um mel will you excuse me for a moment?"
"yeah whats up?"
"I just need to talk to jared" as he said that a girl walked up to us
"paul?" she asked looking at me on his lap.
"oh" he said standing up almost knocking me to the ground.
"mel this is my friend Jules, excuse me ladies ill be right back" he said walking away.
"so" I said, "are you pauls date?"
"no, im jareds cousin, I asked him to bring me. Were just friends"
"same, well not jareds cousin but pauls friend" I chuckled
"yeah" she sighed walking away.
I sat on the log by myself for a few minutes when jared walked over to me.
"hey paul went to see whats up with embry, you wanna come over to sams with us soon? Movie night, you can finally meet kim" he smiled at sounds
"yeah that sounds great, will paul be there?" I asked
"yes" jared smiled, "embry too"
"im in, are we leaving now?"
"im going to find paul, you can ride with him"
So I waited for paul to come find me and we walked back to his truck, on the way there I hopped on his back and he carried me. We got to sams in only a few minutes and I made paul carry me on his back into the house. There were more people there than expected. I saw embry across the room, when he saw me on pauls back he got mad and stormed out. I tapped pauls shoulder and he let me down, I crossed the room and walked out the back door to find embry pacing on the deck.
"hey whats wrong?" I asked
"you and paul"
"what?"
"you and paul!" he shouted at me
"embry whats going on? You've been avoiding me for weeks and now you seem to get mad if I even talk to another person. What is it?"
"nothing" "embry, don't even pull that crap on me, after everything we've been through you're going to hide stuff from me?"
"im a werewolf" he said
"excuse me?" I said taken back
"that's why I haven't been around, mel I just turned into a werewolf "
"when?"
"after I got into a fight with josh"
"are you serious?"
"I swear, on Halley mel I swear"
"oh my gosh, are you okay?"
He smiled, "its pretty cool actually, but there's more"
"more? Like what?"
"I imprinted"
"like a duck?"
"not in a you're my mom imprint more like.. love of my life imprint"
"wow" I paused, "are you scared that ill be mad? Because you'll be moving on from Halley?"
"not quite" he took a deep breath, "im more mad that she and your parents will hate me because I imprinted on you mel"
I froze, "what?"
"I imprinted on you mel, im so sorry" "um, wow" that's all I could think of at the moment, after a few minutes paul came out to check on me
"everything okay?" he asked
"are you a werewolf too?" I asked back.
"oh" he said, stepping outside he came up to me "yeah mel, I am. So are the rest of the guys in there, including jared"
"have you imprinted?"
"wow em, nice work spilling it all so quick" he looked over at em.
Embry just shrugged
"okay lets all go inside I think we all need to talk."
I followed paul and embry followed me.
"well guys I think movie night is on hold" paul said
"why's that?" one of the guys asked.
"embry, do you want to tell them?" Paul asked
"I told mel" he shrugged
"that was fast" someone else said.
"well, melody im sam" the first man said to me, "why don't you sit down and we can explain it to you"
So we did, for the next hour in a half they all explained it to me, being a werewolf and imprinting, vampires. The whole nine yards.
"any questions?" sam asked
"can we just watch the movie?" I asked, "I think I need to let this soak in"
Paul laughed, "that sounds like a good idea" wrapping an arm around me he led me to the recliner sitting down and pulling me onto his lap.
We watched the movie and after it was over I called my mom and told her I was staying out another night, and as much as she didn't like it I just needed time to myself. Paul and jared let me stay another night. I was staring at the ceiling in the living room when the questions started forming. I walked over to pauls door and knocked softly. A minute later he opened the door.
"is everything okay?"
"can we talk?" I asked
He smiled "yeah, come in" opening the door further.