So here's chapter 2. I hope you liked Chapter 1. For the purposes of the story I've made Nessie and Claire 17 because I felt awkward with them being young so it's set quite a while after Breaking Dawn which all happened normally.
I hope you like this chapter.
Disclaimer; all rights go to Stephanie Meyer and the 'Twilight' publishing team.
Chapter 2
Embry POV
I had to sit in the woods for another hour to calm down. I must have nodded off, I don't know how long for, because the next thing I knew Jake was nudging me awake.
When I'd woken up, he was giving me a goofy wolf grin. I couldn't help but smile back and pushed his head away. I could never stay mad at Jake. He ran off and within seconds he was back in human form.
"Come on, I got a whiff of Emily's awesome cooking when I ran past theirs. Don't want Brady to eat it all. I've got 3 years on the kid and he can eat 5 muffins faster than I can eat 1."
"And that's saying something." He punched my arm.
We both laughed at the thought of Brady eating all the muffins. I could always rely on Jake. No matter how much time he spent with Nessie, he was always there for me.
"10 on Brady's already eaten at least 3 muffins..." I said, grinning.
"No fair, we both know you'd win... Okay, you're on."
I smiled as I pushed the door open. We both burst into laughter and had to lean on the wall for support or we'd collapse onto the floor. Everyone gave us strange looks but for the next 30 seconds we could barely breathe for laughing. Jake reached in his pocket and pulled out a $10 note and passed it to me.
"What did I tell you..." I managed to speak finally. Brady looked up with a mouthful of muffin and set us off again. He was surrounded by at least 5 empty muffin cases already. That really didn't help. Quil and Colin caught onto what we were laughing at and grinned at everyone, then explained.
"They had a bet on how many muffins that Brady had eaten." Quil said through his smirk.
"Oh ha-ha, mature..." Brady said sarcastically, spraying crumbs all over the place.
"Come on Brady, you've already eaten loads of muffins, don't spray them back at us." Emily said laughing at us and shaking her head.
"Come on boys, the kid has an appetite don't be mean." said Sam smiling at Emily. I wondered where Sam had been. I hadn't seen him all day. I'd have to ask him later.
I grabbed a muffin and started eating. Emily was such an amazing cook. Her chocolate chip muffins were heavenly. The chocolate melted lusciously onto your tongue, and the muffin bit was soft and fluffy. I don't know what recipe she used but man, these were perfection.
"Calm down Embry, stop making out with the muffin and eat it already." Kim appeared behind Jared and wrapped her arms round him.
I grinned back at her. She was one of those people you could never get mad at. She could say anything to you and all you had to do was look her in the eye. She was one of the funniest people I knew. She rarely lost her temper, but when she did, she went mental, but usually she had a smile on her face. You couldn't help but smile back at her. The cheeky look in her eye did it every time.
"So did you guys find anything on patrol?" Sam looked at us after he devoured his muffin.
"Nah, just a small trace of Bells and Nessie, from when they came down earlier." A grin spread across Jake's face as he spoke Nessie's name.
I'd never be jealous of him. Okay, I want to find someone I can spend the rest of my life with, but I want them to be my choice. I mean, what if I imprint on someone that hates me? What if someone imprints on me and they aren't allowed to be with me? It could ruin me. What if she leaves? Not being able to be with her could shatter me. Too risky. I mean, what if Nessie was killed? What would happen to Jake? No one in our pack has ever lost an imprint and in previous packs there weren't enough members to have so many imprints. Most of the time only the Alpha imprinted, so the pack was focused on protecting her and she never got injured.
I suppose it's fine me saying I'm never imprinting, but that's what Paul used to say and look at him now - soon to become Jacob's brother in law. I smiled to myself.
"Embry... Dude... EMBRY!" Jake was shouting in my ear and waving his hand in front of my face. "What the-"
"LANGUAGE!" The spoon hit the back of Jake's head just as he was about to swear.
"English!" He turned and winked at Emily then held his hands up in surrender. "Sorry. Habit. Bella and Nessie aren't happy about me swearing all the time either." He grinned sheepishly.
"What were you saying to me before you started carelessly using profanities?" Claire smirked at Quil.
"Quil, don't try act smart, I taught you what profanities meant today." We all laughed at Claire. Quil pouted so Claire snuggled into him.
"What the beep are you smirking at?" he turned and winked at Emily, who'd just picked up her mixing spoon, and Jake earned another smack on the back of his head and an eye roll.
"Thinking about when Paul told you that he and Rachel were engaged." Laughter erupted from everyone within ear shot. All except Jake, who looked sullen. Rachel wandered into the kitchen looking confused.
"I heard laughter and my name...?" she looked questioningly at Jake who was shaking. "And why does Jake look like he's going to phase any second?" her voice slowly sounding more worried by the second. Paul put his arm protectively around her waist, and looked at Jake.
"Bro... You're going to have to get used to it, it's been a year already." Rachel elbowed him in the stomach and gave him a look as if to say 'shut it you're making it worse'.
"I'm. Going. To. See. Nessie." Jake looked like he was gonna lose it. His teeth were gritted and he spoke slowly as if he was trying to control himself as he spoke.
He ran out the room and we heard the common sound of clothes ripping and he phased barely outside the house. We all looked around at each other. No one really knew what to say. There was an awkward silence for a few minutes where all we could hear was Claire whispering to Quil and Emily stirring more mix.
Emily decided to fill the silence. "Don't know where he's gonna get some new pants but he better not show up back here naked or there will be problems. Starting with me screaming."
"I'd join you." Claire chipped in.
"I think I'd scream too to be honest." We laughed at Seth.
"I kick him in his balls and then scream. Whether I'm used to it or not, I don't want to see it all hanging out if I can help it." Everyone cringed and laughed more at Leah.
I loved my family; I don't know what I'd do without them.
I never expected that moment to change so suddenly.
A bit of a cliffhanger for you. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, please review ^.^
