Abby's Story
Chapter One
I've always been different, and that was okay with me...until Sammy Uley started phasing.
You see, my family and the families around me in our home in La Push come from a long line of werewolves. My great-grandfather Ephrim Black was Alpha and Quiliite tribe leader for many years until he died, taking the phasing gene with him for a few generations. Then my father, Jacob, kick-started it again when the vegetarian vampires known as the Cullens (aka, my mom's side of the family) showed up in the neighboring town of Forks some twenty-seven years ago.
Things have been crazy ever since.
Since my mom, Renesme, was born to a human mother and a vampire father, she was half human and that made my siblings' genes totally random when it came to what we got.
JJ (17), Sophia, Skylar, and Spencer (15), and Peter and PJ (12) were all born with dad's werewolf gene. The twins don't phase yet, but it's only a matter of time before they join the others. But even they are invited to everything with dad becasue like I said, it won't be long now. They go on all these crazy adventures and camping trips that I'm just too weak to go on and it is completely unfair.
Lewis and Lleyna (16) and my youngest sister Charlie (10) are all fully grown half vampire/half humans. Though Lewis is venomous, he has learned to control himself. It's probably a good thing that he prefers human food to blood now; though his twin still likes to hunt with mom and Charlie every weekend. Sometimes mom's side of the family comes down for a visit, or they go see the Cullens and spend quality time together that I am once again left out of for my own safety.
That just leaves me, the youngest middle child, as the only completely human kid. Kinda sucks when you're thirteen and already know that you'll not only be the first one to, but also be the only one to die in your family.
I'm Abby, by the way. Abigail Rose Black to be exact. If you couldn't already tell, I'm the seventh born child of ten, fourth girl of five, and definately the oddball out since I will never phase or hunt animals.
But like I said, I didn't mind too much...until Samuel Joseph Uley Jr. started phasing. He thinks I'm his imprint, by the way. That's why it's so terrible that I'm human and know about all of this stuff. I've seen it first hand on many occations. But I know for a fact that I am not his imprint. I feel nothing towards the boy; complete indifference...which according to legands, can't happen with an imprint.
But maybe I'm jumping ahead of myself. Let me go back to last Tuesday when this all began and maybe it will make more sense.
~Flashback~
I was playing with the other nonphasers down at Third Beach since First Beach was for the tourists and Second Beach was where the phasers hung out. We had started a club called 'Humans Only' as our little joke. Some of my siblings didn't like it, especially the half vampire ones since it excluded them as well, but I didn't care because I got to be President (my father was still Alpha after all). The only rule was that anyone could join as long as they hadn't started phasing yet; once they did, they had to leave the club and join the Pack friends. It was selfish, but it was all I had.
Peter and PJ were there for once, as well as Remedy Peters (Aunt Rachel and Uncle Paul's youngest daughter) but we just call her Rem. Her seventeen year old sister Rebecca is the only other Peters child that doesn't phase, but she doesn't like playing our "pity party game" so she is never around. They are plentiful in phasers too though; nineteen year olds Raine and Ryan, sixteen year old Raleigh, and fourteen year old Rhoslyn Jacqueline (or RJ for short).
All of Uncle Seth and Aunt Mia's children were there though. Since he had imprinted on her at my birth when she came to visit her old high school friend Renesme, none of them were old enough to phase yet. Triplets, Zoey, Pheobe, and Katara are twelve so they should start phasing within a year or two and so will nine year old twins Oscar and Amita. The only Clearwaters that will still be in 'Humans Only' with me are Havanah, age ten, and Xavier, age seven.
Callie Call is the only one of Embry and Leah's children that doesn't phase yet, but even she has the gene so it won't be long before she joins her six phasing brothers and sisters. (Christopher "Chris" & Christina "Crissy"-16, Carmen-15, Caitlin & Caleb-14, and Caden who phased early at 11). But what do you expect when two phasers fall in love (and, no, I didn't say imprint)? She's only nine though so we'll get to play with her for a little bit longer.
Then there were the Uleys present; Sammy, fifteen, and twins Shawn and Simon, fourteen. All three boys had yet to phase, but they got the gene like their seventeen year old sisters Erin and Elizabeth. I hoped that they had been duds like Emily Jr, twenty-two, Erica, twenty, and Emma, nineteen, (all of whom moved off the Rez at eighteen so as not to get sucked into imprinting) but the boys weren't duds.
And we found that out the hard way when Sammy decided to fight Peter for fun. I guess it was the old rivalry coming up; his dad had been the Alpha before our dad decided to take it back from Sam.
Since my brother had never been one to back down of a challenge, he accepted right away; though Sammy could have done without the "I can take you with my eyes closed" thing.
"Here are the rules," I said, taking charge since they insisted on fighting anyways. "No hitting below the belt," I said, eying Sammy with a warning glance, "and no taking it off the beach. If the 'rents found out you guys were rough housing, we'd all be banned from the beach for a week, got it?"
Both boys nodded in agreement before taking their place opposite each other. Siblings rooted for siblings and the rest of the kids chose sides rather quickly. It was clear that Peter was the better fighter since our Uncle Jasper had taught all of us how to fight at a young age.
About the time that Sammy was getting his butt literally kicked, he started shaking. Most of us had seen phasings before so we hike tailed out of there. We were pretty much all across the beach by time Sammy was a large brown wolf. Peter was cracking up laughing as he picked up his friend's ripped clothes and placed them in Sammy's embarrassed mouth.
Now, this was about the time that Sammy looked over at all of us with a wolf blush...and saw me for the "first time."
~End Flashback~
I swear, I hate imprinting legands. They give wolves the "right" to force someone to be their mate, but I'll tell you one thing for sure; Sammy Uley better think twice if he thinks that I'm going to be the perfect little imprint he's heard about his whole life because this girl ain't buying it.
