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Chapter 3: Encounter With Wolves

I woke up late in the morning because no one tried to wake me up with some childish tactics. I checked my cell phone and saw five missed calls from some unknown number. I figured Mom must be trying to call me as no one else would call me five times in the morning. I redialed the number and just as I thought, mom picked it up.

"Hey mom, what's up?" I started talking immediately before mom could get a chance to say hello.

"You just woke up, didn't you?" Mom asked in a fake scolding tone and I couldn't help but giggle at that.

"Sorry mom, I slept late last night. Catching up with grandpa and grandma. Anyway how are you doing?" I heard mom sighing on the phone. I knew she must be missing me and I was missing her too. Can't believe it's only been two days since we parted.

"I'm fine honey. I just reached the place where I've to stay in for three months. The house is very beautiful. I wish you were with me here right now." It was true that I would be having fun with mom if I was there with her but truth to be told, I didn't regret coming here to La Push. I missed my grandparents very much. And I was glad about getting to spend time with them. I heard Grandma from downstairs telling me to wake up and have breakfast.

"I'm up grandma. I'll be down in five minutes." I yelled back to her.

"Mom. I've to go. Talk to you later. Bye. I love you." With that I hung up and then rushed to the bathroom to get ready. Obviously I couldn't finish getting ready in five minutes and went downstairs after about fifteen minutes. When I got downstairs I heard grandma talking with someone in the living room. And grandpa seemed to be out at the moment. He must have some work to do. I entered the living room to meet the guest and introduce myself as well. When I entered the room, I found that it was a girl. She looked only a couple of years older than me. The girl was really pretty and seemed friendly as well. Grandma noticed me and grinned widely.

"Kim, meet my granddaughter Laila and Laila this is our neighbor Kim. She lives next door with her fiance Jared." Grandma introduced us. I walked up to Kim and shook hands with her. She seemed to be a shy type person. I realized that because since grandma mentioned her fiance she couldn't stop blushing. If Kim didn't have dark skin tone, she would've looked like a ripe tomato right now.

"How long will you be staying here?" Kim asked me politely, obviously wanting to start a friendly conversation between us.

"I'll be staying here for three months until my mom finishes her training in South Africa." I replied. Kim smiled at me but there was pity in her eyes which confused me a bit.

"I hope you enjoy your stay here. I heard from your grandma that this is the first time you are staying away from your mom and you've already started to miss her." When Kim said that I finally understood her pity for me and I really didn't mind that. We kept talking about formal stuffs and grandma left to get some heavy breakfast for us.

"Kim, what people usually do around here for fun?" I asked really wanting to know and thought that it wouldn't hurt to ask Kim about it. However, before she could answer, grandma returned with some peanut butter sandwiches for us.

"Laila, your grandpa said you could join school from next week." Grandma informed me as she sat down on the couch across from us. Kim never answered my previous question and engaged in a conversation with grandma instead about her up coming wedding. Not to mention blushing the entire time while speaking about it. She really seemed to be in love with her future husband. I wondered why she didn't answer my question though. Was it a slip of mind? I decided to believe that. What else could it be? Suddenly the door bell rang and Kim got excited for some reason unknown to me.

"That must be Jared. He's supposed to come here to pick me up before leaving for his friend's house." Kim rushed to open the door. Curiosity made me walked behind her. After listening so much about this Jared guy, I really wanted to meet him. But when I looked at the guy standing in the doorway whom I assumed to be Jared, I found out that it was the same guy I asked about the address yesterday.

"You?" It got out of my mouth before I could stop it. Kim looked back at me with a confused look on her face. But Jared knew why I was surprised to see him.

"Do you know each other?" Kim asked now looking between me and her fiance. It felt like one of those scenes in the movies where a wife catches her husband red handed with another woman. Jared immediately got into action before Kim could get any wrong ideas about how we knew each other.

"I met her yesterday when she was on her way over here. She asked me about the directions to this house." Jared explained and I nodded my head vehemently in support. Kim looked relieved but covered that up quickly as if she wasn't tensed up a bit just a moment ago. So, because of this incident I figured that not only Kim was in love with her future husband but she was very possessive of him too. And it seemed the same for Jared as well.

"Thanks again for yesterday." I said to help Kim believe Jared completely. She smiled at Jared and looked at him as if he was her life and soul.

"He just loves to help people in trouble." Kim said proudly. There they both started to give each other lovey dovey eyes and it seemed like they could start kissing anytime. I looked away from them to give them a little privacy.

A while later, Kim and Jared left in Jared's truck. Weird vehicle choice, I thought to myself. After finishing my breakfast I went to the grocery store with grandma. I realized then that La Push really was a small town. After lunch I had nothing to do. Grandpa took pity on me and gave me permission to go out and look around the place. Even the weather supported me because for once it wasn't raining for a while. Constant raining was normal here. As I started to get ready, it felt like an adventure to me and I pretended to be on a mission. I took a map of the area, my two in one camera. I could both shoot and click with this. I also took a water bottle, a first aid kit box, a compass, some colored chalk, one packet of cookies. I fitted them all in my back pack.

I got a small hidden camera with the two in one when I bought it. I plugged it with the main camera and attached it with one of the straps of my back pack so that I wouldn't have to carry the camera. The hidden camera would shoot whatever I see, so it was very convenient. After preparing my back pack I started to get dressed. I wore a khaki color baggy pants and a purple color short sleeved shirt. It wasn't so perfect for the cold weather outside but I decided to take the risk. I tied up my hair in a ponytail and then I was good to go.

At first I looked around the places nearby the house. But then I thought about going to the famous beaches that La Push got. But I didn't inform grandpa or grandma about this because if they tell mom about my little adventure here, she would freak out and do god knows what then. I followed the road to the beach for a while but then I realized I could reach there through the woods quicker. It took me a little time to decide but I gave in the idea anyway. I wasn't an expert in hiking and there was a huge possibility that I might get lost in the woods. But I kept following only one trail and so far I didn't get lost. At least I thought I wasn't lost.

However after half an hour of walking, I found myself still wondering around in the woods. Not to mention in the very depth of it. I knew right away that I was doomed. I decided to walk straight and reach the end of the woods and get on the road somehow. It started raining but the trees were so dense that the rain drops couldn't reach the soil much. It was getting cold and my dress was doing no good to me. I was shivering from head to toe. And that wasn't enough I suddenly heard some noises around me. I realized that if I wanted to avoid the source of those noises, I must change the trail again. However, considering that a bad idea I started to walk towards the noises. And at one point I heard something growl right behind me.

I slowly turned around and saw a huge horse sized brown colored wolf. It was standing right in front of me. My breath got stuck in my throat and my eyes went wide automatically with fear. For a few seconds the beast and I just kept staring at each other. I couldn't even run because suddenly I wasn't feeling my legs anymore. I looked past the wolf in front of me and saw the whole pack standing there. Each one of them was extremely huge. Some more than the one standing right in front of me. And to make the situation more deadly they were all looking straight at me.

Suddenly an ash colored smaller looking wolf but still huge nonetheless jumped from his place and landed beside the one I was facing. It scared the hell out of me and I fell backward on the ground. An air piercing scream erupted from my chest that wanted to come out for a long time now. My heart started beating so fast that I thought it would burst into small pieces any moment. Tears made my vision blur as well. I was cold and shaking but still sweating and panting due to being terrified and scared to death. I could say just one thing at that time.

"Please don't eat me, please don't eat me, please don't eat me!" As if they would listen to me if they were starving for some fresh meat. Suddenly the wolves barked like coughing or laughing or something like that; if that even makes any sense at all. Suddenly one that tried to jump at me earlier slowly came closer to me and growled loudly. It was enough for me to faint right then and there. And as I started to fell unconscious the darkness slowly engulfed me. The only thing that I could think of at the moment was- 'let my death be painless god'.


I never thought I would wake up again but I did and I found myself on a stranger bed and in a stranger room. If I say that I was shocked by this, that would be a huge understatement. My head was hurting pretty badly but neglecting that I pushed myself into a sitting position. A groan escaped my throat as I sat up forcefully. A girl who looked around twenty five appeared at the door right at that moment. She smiled at me warmly but I couldn't return the smile because the scars on her face had me startled a bit. I looked away quickly before it would hurt her feelings. Other than the scars she looked very beautiful and friendly.

"How are you feeling?" She asked me politely. Her voice was soft and caring too. However, I didn't answer her question instead asked one myself.

"Where am I?" She walked over to me and checked my forehead with the back of her hand.

"The fever is gone. I am Emily. This is my house. My husband found you unconscious in the woods and brought you here. You are Laila right? Granddaughter of Mr. And Mrs. Castle?" I could only nod to her, surprised that she knew me.

"How long was I out?" I asked thinking that everyone must be worried about me. Emily seemed to read my mind.

"You were out for one and a half hour. Don't worry I informed your grandfather that you are here with me. But they don't know how you got here though." She said. Thank god grandpa didn't know what happened. I smiled gratefully at Emily for helping me.

"Thanks, thanks a lot." I said to her. Then Emily helped me get up from the bed slowly.

"Let's go downstairs. I made some muffins and cookies. You must be hungry." I nodded my head lightly in response and followed her out of the room. Suddenly, I remembered about my backpack that was no longer with me. Did I drop it somewhere in the woods? I got upset at the thought of losing my camera that I loved so much.

"Umm Emily, did I have a back pack with me-" She pointed somewhere before I could finish the line. I looked where she pointed and found my backpack sitting there peacefully. I grabbed it and followed Emily out of the room.

When I reached downstairs I saw the room was full of half naked huge boys and some very pretty girls. I suddenly started feeling insecure in this place. Each of the boys was handsome. Even the girls who seemed to be related to them romantically were beautiful looking. I didn't know anyone here and they were all looking at me. I gulped down the nervousness and walked forward to where they were sitting or standing or doing whatever. Then I noticed Jared and Kim sitting on the couch. Actually Kim was sitting on his lap, probably making out now and then. The previous thought about Kim being a shy type person wiped away from my mind. A shy girl could hardly kiss in a room full of people let alone make out.

However, it wasn't just them. There were other couples who showed very loud romance in the very room. It seemed to me that love was in the air of that house. Kim smiled and waved at me when she noticed me. I smiled back but didn't feel too excited about meeting her here. Emily handed me a plate full of cookies. I didn't feel like eating anymore but took one out of the plate for the sake of politeness.

"Thanks." I said and noticed a very huge man looking at me with concern in his eyes. When my eyes met with his directly, he didn't even bother to look away.

"How are you feeling now?" He asked in his heavy masculine voice.

"Much better now." I replied and he nodded like an army man.

"Laila, this is Sam. My husband" introduced Emily proudly. I noticed another girl with short hair and tall height who looked very beautiful but she immediately got a sour look plastered on her face when Emily introduced Sam to me. I ignored the other girl and smiled gratefully at Sam.

"Thank you so much for saving me. If you hadn't found me in the woods then god knows what would've happened to me by now." Sam smiled a little at me and it seemed that he didn't do the smiling stuff much. Another half naked handsome nonetheless boy rolled his eyes at that.

"Don't only thank him; we were there to save you too." He said. Sam glared at the boy which made him stop talking right away. But the thing he said caught my attention already.

"We? Exactly how many people saved me?" As I asked them the question, they looked at each other uncomfortably. Then another guy came closer to me.

"Embry was just joking. Only Sam found you and brought you here. I'm Jacob by the way." He said. I knew he was lying but decided to let it go. It was not in my nature to invade someone's personal secret.

"I am Laila." Saying that I stretched my hand towards Jacob to shake. He hesitated a bit but took my hand anyway. The moment our skin came into contact, I felt like my hand just got burned. He was running such high temperature. The only explanation I could come up with was that Jacob was running a high fever. But it was strange because he looked perfectly healthy when he shouldn't even be standing on his feet right now. Jacob noticed right away that I was confused about his body temperature, so he removed his hand from mine rather quickly. He even spoke my mind about this matter.

"You must be thinking I'm having a fever right now. Don't worry, its just...we run a high temperature, it's in our gene." Jacob explained. Again we? He was implying that not only him but the others got high body temperature as well. What kind of a genetic thing is that anyway? I certainly never heard about it. And I was damn sure nothing like that exists. This was something else. These men were lying to me every minute about everything but why? And why the hell should I care? So I just nodded and let Jacob think that I believed his stupid 'genetic thing' explanation. But I couldn't stop myself from asking them about the wolves though.

"Umm, by any chance, you saw any wolf out there around me?" I directly asked Sam about it as they claimed that it was him who saved me. I also had another question in my mind about how he found me in the woods in the first place? What was he doing there? But that would've been a rude question to ask, so I didn't bother with that one. But the simple question I asked about the wolves, it made Sam tense up anyway. Everyone seemed a little weird to me in this house. Sam shook his head at me sternly and stated with all the seriousness in his voice-

"No, there wasn't any wolf there." I decided to drop the matter right away but then I heard someone snickering behind me. I turned around and saw another gorgeous looking man. He as well was holding a girl close to him. The girl looked a lot like Jacob. Maybe they were related.

"So, some imaginary wolves scared the shit out of you and made you faint." He said smirking arrogantly at me. I chuckled to myself as if I just heard a stupid joke but then looked pointedly at him.

"The wolves were as much real as you are Mr. and I bet you know about that too because they howl loudly every night. Everyone in La Push knows that they exist in the woods. So, don't bother telling me that I imagined them up. And if you are trying to make me feel embarrassed for fainting in the woods then don't bother with that either because those freaking wolves could have gulped me down in one piece and I would've reached heaven by now. So getting scared in that situation wasn't so embarrassing to me at all. However, your thinking of the wolves imaginary is kind of idiotic really, no offense." I finished with a bitter sweet smile and saw some of them trying to hold back their laughter.

"This should teach you a lesson Paul" said Jacob and he clapped on the other guy's shoulder. The girl in his arm kissed his temple to make him feel better. I think. The Paul guy was glaring daggers at me though. But I didn't pay much attention to that as my mind got stuck onto another matter suddenly.

"Speaking of the wolves, I'm really surprised that they didn't even leave a single scratch on me." I said that more to myself than to them. But still it made everyone look at me again, not to mention rather uneasily.

"What? You regret being alive?" Asked a younger looking boy. I shook my head with a sigh at the stupidity of him.

"No, I'm not complaining that I am still alive. I love my life. But what kind of a beast in their right mind would let go of a fresh snack?" Just as I said that some of them glared at me openly. Others looked displeased. As if I've offended them by commenting on the wolves' weird behavior. One of them even snapped at me angrily.

"They don't hurt humans." He defended the wolves. It seemed I was correct after all to think that they knew about the wolves. Perhaps they saw them around me too. And after suspecting that, I couldn't just drop the subject right away anymore. So I talked more about it.

"A pack of wolves let an unarmed human pass through. It's highly unbelievable. It'd be possible if they were vegetarians. But they sure didn't look like they live on leaves and grass to me. Besides wolves are not vegetarian beasts last time I checked." Everyone looked tensed up again and a bit angry too about what I said. Before I could speak further grandpa appeared at the door and I had to stop talking about the wolves right away. He greeted Sam, Emily and the others. It seemed that grandpa knew everyone there, moreover friends with them actually.

"Grandpa what are you doing here?" I asked him after his greeting ceremony ended.

"It's getting late so I thought about picking you up from here. Did you have a nice time?" Grandpa asked. He seemed to be completely unaware of the incident that took place not long ago. And I wasn't a fool to let him know about it.

"Of course grandpa, I had so much fun." I forced the sarcasm out of my voice as I replied him.

"That's great, we better get going now." He said. I nodded to let him know that I was ready to leave. I thanked Sam and Emily once again and left with grandpa. However, I had a feeling that this wouldn't be our last meeting.


After talking to mom at night, I lay still on my bed. I was replaying everything that happened with me back in the woods. I suddenly remembered that my video camera must have recorded everything that had happened after I fainted. I got up quickly and pulled out the camera out of the bag. It was turned off because the battery was down. I put it in the charger and after half an hour when it was ready to start again. I searched for the videos of the woods.

I finally found the footage and started playing it. I fast forwarded it and took it to the point where the wolves came in. I huffed darkly to myself as I remembered what Paul said to me about me imagining them up. When I fainted and laid on the ground the camera was turned upward and it shot the trees above me. But then suddenly Jacob's face appeared in the camera. He seemed to be hovering over me. Then Sam came after a few seconds later and it seemed that he lifted me up from the ground. The video now showed me in Sam's arm, bridal style and Jacob standing beside us. Someone else must be holding the back pack then. So it wasn't just Sam who saved me in the woods but the others were there as well just like I suspected. But how did they get over there so fast? As if they were already there. And where did the wolves go? More importantly why did they lie to me about it? Thankfully the sound was also recorded.

"Seth, Brady phase back right now and stop fighting this instant." I heard Sam's commanding voice. Phase? What did he mean by that? I was trying to figure out things when I saw the most bizarre and unbelievable thing in the world. Two of the wolves turned into humans. The fact that they were totally naked didn't bothered me a bit. I was too caught up with what I just found out about them. I saw those two boys at Emily's place. Not to mention one of them even talked to me. From what I saw and understood; I could come up with only one conclusion. They were all werewolves. I was in a house full of werewolves just a few hours ago.

This explained everything to me. The scar on Emily's face; their abnormal body temperature and inhuman growth. They all made sense to me now. The way they felt offended when I insulted the wolves. My inside felt cold suddenly at the thought that I argued with strong and powerful and perhaps deadly werewolves and downright insulted them on their faces. I technically called them crazy stupid beasts. What if they decide to come after me for that? And Jared, he was a werewolf too. Was Kim one too? Or was she trapped in with them? She didn't seem so though. There was no sign of victimization on her. My brain stopped working completely and my breaths became short and heavy. What did I get myself into? Did grandpa and grandma know about them? I didn't know who to trust anymore and what to believe. But I was certain about one thing that if they ever found out that I've learned about their secret then they would definitely kill me. So, for the next three months I must act as if I knew nothing and stay as far away from those werewolves as possible.