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DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT!

Kim and Emily were cooking dinner while Claire and I were setting up the table. Truthfully, I'm not that much of a good cook but I did help them with cutting the vegetables and fruits and that I'm very good at.

"So, where are the boys?" I asked.

"Oh, they're out with Sam," said Kim. "Sam is Emily's fiancée, just so you know"

"Oh? Really? When's the marriage?" I asked and Emily let out a chuckle. "We're not sure yet…"

I was going to ask her how they met but Nora pulled me back to do so.

Don't ask. It's a touchy subject. Talk to her about their heights.

"So is Sam also a gigantic tall guy?" I asked and they all laughed.

"Yup!" Claire said. "They're all big!"

I laughed. "How many are they?"

"10 exactly," Kim answered. "There's three more of them you haven't met, there's Leah, Seth, and Collin…" She sounded a bit hesitant on about the Leah part.

Don't ask them about Leah.

"Leah... she's a girl and she's one of them too, right?" I asked, ignoring Nora. She can't keep ordering me around like this.

Damn it! I just told you not to ask them about her!

"Y-yeah…she's one of them too…" Kim answered a bit low, Emily cringed a bit of her name but she stayed silent. Claire was pretending she didn't hear anything as she set the spoons and forks. Maybe I should have listen to Nora.

No shit Sherlock!

Okay. You are getting on my nerves, now shut up!

Whatever.

"So Ele, where'd you move from here?" Emily asked. I can tell she was desperate to change the subject and I gladly complied.

"I've moved from different places…I was from Oregon before we decided to move here," I said.

"Why is that?" Kim asked. Oh, it's because those thugs just found out where we were, Janine almost had to kill them, if it weren't for our neighborhood apartments. After that, we moved immediately. La Push just happened to be in our random list picking.

"Oh, we don't like staying in one place for too long," I explained. "We might be moving again in about two weeks…"

Kim and Emily have urgent looks in their faces and Claire looked at me and frowned. Was there something wrong?

"Why? Can't you stay a bit longer than that?" Emily asked, her tone sounded sad. Truthfully, I can't stay longer.

"No…I'm sorry but I don't really have a choice," I said with a sad tone that matched hers. It's not our fault that we were driven away from our previous homes. Besides, that's why we only rent the house where we live right now.

I looked away from them and my eyes landed on the door that led out to the backyard. But I didn't see the backyard actually; I saw some one else. It was Paul. He looked mad and kind of depressed. His eyes were filled with sadness but his face contorted into anger. What made him react that way? Was it because I was moving? Why?

I told you, Ele…

I ignored Nora as I stare at Paul before he looked away and started running off. I frowned when I felt my heart aching, ripping in two when he left like that. Why? Why did I feel this way? Is this a crush or something?

This is more than just a crush…

I felt tears welling up in my eyes. Damn it. I'm such a crybaby. I closed my eyes to keep it away but one of it escaped.

"Eh-wee, are you okay?" Claire asked as she looked at me with concern in her eyes. She probably didn't notice Paul but I can see that Emily and Kim notice that he was there, though they kept silent about it.

I smiled at Claire as I wiped my tear. "Yes… it just hurt to leave so soon, you know?"

"Then why won't you stay?"

"It's complicated…well, we better hurry with this. It's almost lunch," I said, shrugging the sadness away.

I told you, Ele. You don't have to move away anymore.

Paul's POV

Why? Why does she have to move so soon? I heard that her mother works somewhere in Forks and that they always travel a lot but why can't they say here for a while? Is it her mom? Are they involved with something? No wait, I can't get carried away and blame everything on her mom.

No, I need to make her stay. I need to tell her how I feel. I need to build a good enough relationship with her. UGH! But two weeks?!

"Paul," Sam called out to me. "Calm down" He followed me into the forest. I'm guessing he overheard as well.

"Damn it, Sam!" I shouted. "My imprint is going to be moving soon in just two weeks! How am I supposed to tell her how I feel and what I am and to make her stop from moving?!"

"She didn't say that she is absolutely sure that they would move again"

"Yeah, but there is a high chance that they would!"

"But the chances will lower if you spend time with her,"

"Yeah, you can convince her to stay," Seth said, who just came out of nowhere.

"Where'd you come from?" I asked.

"Well, when a mother and a father love each other so much-"

"Not what I meant!" I shouted and my anger grew. I'm already dealing with a problem of my imprint moving away and he's here annoying me!

"Seth, get everyone back into the house, now," Sam ordered. "Paul and I will be there shortly"

"Okay!" Seth then went running off fast to get the others.

"Look Paul," Sam started to say. "You can't just give up like this without even trying…"

"But how? How am I supposed to…" how the hell am I supposed to convince her to stay?

"Well…find out if she's going to school tomorrow and it'll start from there," Sam suggested. That's not a bad idea. "But the rest of the way, Paul, you'll have to do it yourself…"

"…Alright…"

"Let's go back," I nodded in agreement as we head out of the forest and went in Emily's kitchen to see everyone eating already. I looked around and my eyes landed at Ele. She was so…beautiful…no such words exist that could describe her beauty. Her long dark blond with highlights and wavy hair that some how radiated even without the sun. Her skin slightly pale but it matched perfectly with her slender and well-fit body. I snapped out of it when Sam nudged me, and I quickly moved to the empty seat next to Ele.

She shifted a bit when I sat down and I see her eyes filled a bit with sadness. Why? Did I do something wrong? Why is she sad? I resisted the urge to grab her hand with mine to comfort her. For a while, we didn't move until she continued eating her meal and I did the same. It was silent between us and I shut out the noises that everyone around the table was making. I only paid attention to Ele as I watched her every move. She is just beautiful and the way she talked was…hot.

"So Paul," she spoke out to me and I felt giddy inside. She talked to me! "Do you go to Quileute Tribal School?" I love her accent! Wait, just calm down and stupid me, I was the one whose supposed to ask her that. Never mind.

"Yes I do," I answered. "Are you going tomorrow?"

"I start tomorrow, so what year are you in?"

"Senior, what about you?"

"Senior as well" YES! I do have a chance!

"Whoa! Your accent!" Collin shouted out. And there goes our conversation.

"It's British accent!" Seth claimed and Ele just laughed at him and nodded. I got ready to see if they would dare make fun of her accent. I was ready to pounce Brady earlier ago if not for Ele. She sounded so hot.

"Yeah, well, I was born in Britain but I moved in the country when I was just a little girl," she answered.

"Where'd you live before?" I asked.

"Here or somewhere Britain?" she asked me and explained. "Like I said before, my mother and I moved a lot…" That hurt me as it reminded me of what she said earlier. They were going to move soon. Ugh.

"Well, both," I said, hiding my hurt expression.

I see her blushed a bit and answered. "Well, I was born in London…and I moved here from Oregon"

"So you guys moved a lot right?" I'm going to kill Seth. "What other places did you go and live?"

"Well, a month ago my mother and I were in Las Vegas, before that we were in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Fresno, Santa Fe, San Diego, Phoenix, Tucson, Denver, Sacramento…and I think that's all I remember but there was a lot more than that…" Whoa. Didn't cost a lot of money to move? Especially if they moved like every less than two weeks.

"Wow…but doesn't it cost a lot to travel that much?" I asked.

"Yes it does, but sometimes we go to casinos and clubs at night and well…let's just say I'm pretty good with cards, especially poker…" I see her smile turn into a smug. Exactly, how good is she? I wanted to know. Maybe tomorrow, we can play poker.

"How much do you usually win?" Jacob asked. We were all very curious.

"Umm, not to brag or anything but more than 500 dollars for each game…" Our jaws dropped. What the hell? "Oh and in Las Vegas, we got over a thousand"

Damn! She's that good?

Ele's POV

I laughed nervously as I see them all looking at me with wide eyes. I guess they just couldn't believe little tiny me to be so good. Well, the reason why I'm so good at it was Nora.

Yeah. Queens of Pokers! And have never lost a game!

Uhh yeah we did!

But we did that on purpose! Just so people won't accuse us of cheating!

That's because we are cheating! Well, you are! You always know these things.

It's called skills!

No, it's called being an omniscient mind.

…You listened. Very smart, little Ele.

Har har.

"Hmm…how about we play poker tomorrow during lunch?" Paul asked and I looked at him surprised that he would dare challenge me.

"Is that a challenge?" I asked and he smirked at me.

"You bet it is," he said confidently and I smirked back at him.

"Well, I'm looking forward for it tomorrow…"

Call strip poker! I know you want to see Paul's handsome body! I blushed.

SHUT UP NORA!

"Hey, why don't we play after lunch?" Quil asked as he got out a deck of cards from his pocket. "Besides the school won't allow it…"

"And where did you get that?" Brady asked.

"Umm, my pockets?"

"Yeah, but why do you have it?"

"We can't always play video games, you know"

"Alright, then it's settled," I announced. "After lunch, we'll play poker and see who wins…"

ELE!

What?!

DO. STRIP. PO-KER!!

HELL NO!

"So who's in?" I asked, ignoring Nora who was grumbling in my mind. Jared, Quil, Paul, Embry, Jacob, Brady, Collin, Seth and Kim all raised their hands. Claire also raised her hand and we all laughed a bit.

"Sorry Claire," Quil said. "It's only for adults"

"Humph, fine…" Claire said as she pouted and Quil just laughed at her and ruffled her hair.

I turned my attention to Sam and Emily. "Are you two playing?"

"I don't know how to play Poker," Sam said and Emily nodded, meaning she doesn't either. Then I turned my attention to Leah. "What about you, Leah? Will you play poker with us?" I asked and she turned to glare at me. I was taken back by that anger in her eyes.

"No, I have better things to do," and with that, she took the last bite from her plate and left the house, without even saying a thank you. Why was she even here in the first place? Did I do something wrong to her?

Once she was gone, it was silent for a few minutes before I broke it. "What the bloody hell did I do to her?" I asked, sounding upset.

Drop it. She just has it rough.

"Don't worry about her," Paul said. "Leah just has it rough" he sneered her name, meaning he hates her. So Leah does this to everyone? Why? And just because she has it rough, it did not give her the right to hurt people.

Don't worry. You'll tell her off soon.

Haha, can't wait.

"Right…so are we going to do this poker or not?" I asked and they all laughed and nodded.

We finished our meal and quickly, we helped Emily with the dishes. Well, us girls help Emily with the dishes while the men went to the living room. But I did, however, forced them to clean up the table and set it up for the poker game. I actually called them a lazy bunch of blokes, and thankfully, no one was mad at me for saying so, instead they laughed it off. I guess they got that a lot, or maybe it's because we were all friends now.

I sat down on my seat, next to Paul who was in my left and Kim was in my right, and next to her is Jared. Everyone else sat wherever they sit as we begin the game.

Janine's POV

It was now our lunch break, Lily dragged me with her again as we went to the cafeteria then we bumped into Dr. Cullen. Still, I got no death from him. This was really infuriating. So right now, we're in our table with Dr. Cullen, Mrs. Martin, and a nurse, Mariah, who will die of lung cancer in a couple more years. Anyway, Carlisle was seating at the edge of the seat, to his left is Lily, and I was next to Lily. Right across is Mrs. Martin and Mariah. Seriously, they are love struck.

"So Dr. Cullen how was work today?" Mariah asked, acting cute while she played with her apple dippers. Ugh… I know the man is hot but he is married!! Thankfully, Lily is on my side…or I'm on Lily's side… whatever we're both right.

"Oh same as always," Carlisle answered. His tone was a bit off, it seems like he really hated this situation. I'm going to guess that he had already told this women to back off but they just can't seem to get it through their thick heads.

"Ahem, Dr. Cullen," Mrs. Martin called out to him in a disgusting seductive tone. "Will you join me for coffee after this? I'd like some one to talk to privately"

I see Carlisle hesitated. Maybe it's time to rescue him.

"Well-" I cut him off.

"Oh sorry, Mrs. Martin," I started to say. "But I asked Dr. Cullen first"

"What do you mean you asked him first?" she asked me and I could hear the anger in her tone. I smirked a bit. This was fun.

"Well, I have my medical file with me in my locker and that is needed to be filed in the hospital's records…" I said. "It's needed in my transcript and I want him to look it over to see if it's eligible. Isn't that right, Dr. Cullen?"

"Uhh yes, I remember now," he said and he smiled at me. "I almost forgot…sorry, Dawson" I see the hint of his eyes that he was thankful for me.

I smiled at him and nodded. "It's not a problem"

"Would you like to do it now?" he asked me.

"Sure, I'm done with my meal," I said and I looked at Lily. "I'll see you later, okay?"

Lily grinned at me as if she was proud of what I just did. "Okay, see ya!"

I got up and threw away my empty meal and set my tray at the other stack of trays. I watched Dr. Cullen carry his meal to the trashcan, which he had not eaten and did the same thing as I did. Does he eat lunch at all? That's very unhealthy and he's a doctor!

"Right this way, Dr. Cullen" I said and I led him to the pharmacy.

"Thank you for saving me back there," he said. "Question, were you serious about what you said though?"

"Nope," I said. I kept walking even though I knew he stopped walking but momentarily, he decided to follow me. I can tell that he was thinking it was so much better with me than being with Mrs. Martin or Mariah.

We entered the empty pharmacy and I walked inside a small office, which is mine and Lily's. I went over to see some a papers piling up and I decided to go stack them. And then, this is where Dr. Cullen misunderstood me.

"Umm, Dawson… I need to tell you this that I'm not interested in you. I'm very grateful that you saved me from Mrs. Martin and Mariah, really. But I have a wife and-"

I laughed darkly at him, which made him stopped his words and be confused as I turned to glare at him. "Don't flatter yourself, Dr. Cullen," I said coldly. "True, you are hot and you seem like a gentleman that every female had always wished for but I know better than to take away some one's love... How dare you accuse me of such a thing! First it was Lily and now you! Do you two love judging people automatically? Do I look like some love struck hormone bimbo? No! So why would you think of me that way?"

He was taken back and I knew I had him right there. I smirked a bit when I see how shocked he was and how much of a mistake he had made.

"O-oh…" he stuttered out and quickly regained his composure. "Oh…Dawson…I'm sorry… I didn't mean it that way, well I did but it was-"

"Out of habit?" I said and he nodded solemnly. I sighed. "You are forgiven, Dr. Cullen… but please remember that I don't do break ups…"

"I will remember that for as long as I live," he said and I laughed, remembering that I couldn't see his death at all, meaning he won't die. "Yeah…almost like an eternity, huh?"

He chuckled nervously of what I just said and that made me suspicious. "Yeah…eternity…"

I raised my eyebrow at the weird act but I dropped it. It's better to have him as my friend before deciding whether or not to tell him my power. "Anyways, Lily will be here very soon-"

"Jan! Carlisle!" Lily called out as she ran over to us. "Good job for saving Carlisle from the bimbos"

I laughed. "No problem"

"Aren't ya lucky, Carlisle?" Lily asked as she punched his shoulder lightly. "You got another protector to watch over you and Esme's loving relationship"

Carlisle laughed brightly. "Yes, I guess I am… listen Dawson, we're really sorry of the way we had acted towards you"

"Yeah, we're sorry Jan," Lily said and they both give me one of those really hard to resist apologetic looks, even though I have already forgiven them.

"Don't worry about it, I forgive you both…" I said. "By the way, friends call me Janine. And only Janine. Because one I hate the name Jan and two, some one seems to be having a hard time saying my last name only…" I was indicating the first one to Lily and the second to Carlisle.

Carlisle and Lily blinked at me before smiling, knowing what I meant.

"Alright but you can call me Carlisle," he said.

I smiled at him. "Agreed"

"And you already called me Lily so we're friends right?" she asked as she started jumping up and down. Both Carlisle and I laughed at her excitement.

"Yes we're all friends"

"Yay! The trio of buddies!"

Oh my god, it was only during lunch of my first day at work and everything was going great. Did Forks in my sky just got a little sunnier again?

Ele's POV

"Royal Flush!" I said as I showed them my cards: spades of 10+J+Q+K+A, and they all groaned again.

"Unbelievable!" Embry said as he dropped his cards on the table.

"Seriously?!" Collin exaggerated.

"You got to be cheating…" Brady claimed.

"She's not, you dumbass," Paul defended me as usual despite that he lost. "She doesn't have any cards up her sleeves…"

"But she won every game! She needs to loose at least once!" Seth complained and I laughed.

"Be happy we're not betting on any money or else you would have to give me your house," I stated and everyone laughed at that joke but at the same time, they cringed, knowing that it would be true.

It's been 5 hours since we started playing this game. They were very determined to beat me but Nora and I held our ground. Quil gave up 3 hours ago since Claire asked him to play with her, Kim and Jared gave up a couple of hours ago, and Collin and Jacob gave up an hour earlier so it was only Seth, Embry, Brady, Collin, Paul, and me. I won every single game and Nora had no intentions of throwing away any game on purpose.

Ele. It's time to go home and make some fried rice.

Why fried rice?

Janine's bringing Chinese take out food tonight! Teriyaki!

Oh! My favorite!

"Hey umm, I think I should be getting home now," I said as I got up from my seat.

"You need a lift?" Kim asked, pulling away from Jared's kiss, who looked annoyed that they were interrupted even though it was Kim.

Say no! Say you're going to walk home!

"Oh no, it's fine, I'll walk home," I said as I got up and headed to the door. "Thank you for the meal, Emily"

"Come by anytime, Ele and bring your mother next time. I would love to meet her," she said and I smiled at her.

"I will," and with that, I left the house and headed over down the road then some one from behind me came.

"Hey!" I jumped and screamed bit, only to see that it was only Paul. I blushed in embarrassment.

Haha! You should have seen your face!

Oh shut up!

"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you" he apologized and he did looked sorry.

"Oh no, it's okay. I get scared easily…so what do you need?"

"Can I walk you home?" he asked me and I see his eyes filled with hope and if I said no it might break down with tears. I didn't want that happening and of course, it would never happen even if I said no. A man can't cry in front of a girl and that's a fact, especially over something so little.

"Umm…are you sure you won't mind?" I asked.

He doesn't mind.

"I don't mind," he replied. "So can I? Please?"

I smiled and giggled at his request. "Sure… you have the honor of walking me home"

"I feel humbled by your grace," He joked and laughed with me as we went walking down the road. Something was blooming between us and I was starting to think that maybe Nora was right…but I wasn't sure...yet…

Weekends are the only time I'll ever be active so I might not update until Friday or Saturday. Or unless, during the week I might finish another chapter or two. Anyways, please review!