Chapter Three: Kayla

It was Friday, and we were meeting the Cullens tomorrow to go shopping. I was a little nervous about the encounter figuring that by the end of the day we would be having an all out war with a coven of century year old vampires. In order to ease my nerves, I had taken a walk in the woods when I picked up on a familiar scent.

"Kayla," a silky voice drifted to my ears, and I felt my muscles tense up. "It has been far too long. I haven't seen you since a year ago." I could feel a pair of eyes roaming my body. "You've grown up much too fast."

"Quit it with the games, Nahuel." I spat. "I'm not going to sit here and listen to you lust over me. State why you're here and then leave."

Nahuel walked out of the trees brushing his long hair out of his eyes as he studied me. His eyes were cold, careful, and calculating. They took in my stance, posture, and attire. Obviously, he was looking for a fight.

"Your father says hello." He murmured while walking around me in a large circle. "Your grandfather says to hurry up unless you want to end up dead."

"Which grandfather said that?" I questioned knowing that Caius was the one who probably sent that threat.

Nahuel shrugged nonchalantly. "Doesn't matter. But they did give me permission to rough you up a bit." Without a warning Nahuel launched himself at me. I barely managed to roll out the way, but even then I received a long cut down my arm.

Nahuel moved again, but my powers had kicked in leaving him frozen midair. He growled at me struggling to regain control of his body. "What's wrong, Kayla?" He taunted. "You can't beat me without your powers?"

I released him from my hold watching with a sick satisfaction as he fell on the ground. By now, my scratch was healed, and while he tried to stand up I tackled him to the ground. Nahuel was heavier than the last time we fought, and it was harder for me to keep him pinned down.

Somehow his fist connected with my right eye, and rolled off him. I fought through the pain sending him a punch of my own that connected with his nose. While he was distracted, I knocked his feet out from under him and began to repeatedly punch him in the face.

Nahuel's hand grasped my leg, and a flash of white hot pain shot up and down my whole left leg as a sickening crack sounded. I collapsed on the ground gasping for air as I fought through the spasms of pain. Nahuel grabbed my other leg and soon that one was broken as well. A stared into his eyes trying to force myself to use Jane's power, but I was going through too much pain to concentrate.

"And you're the most powerful person in your group." He taunted me, and my eyes rolled to the back of my head as he snapped my pinky finger. "It's a pity; really, you can't even fight for yourself." He snapped my ring finger this time.

"Fuck you," I hissed ignoring the pain that came from my hand when he twisted it back easily breaking my wrist. Nahuel raised his hand to smash it against my face when his body froze.

"Nahuel," Charlie's voice came from behind us, and I tilted my head just in time to see him walk through the trees with my other family members following closely behind. "I thought your parents raised you better than to attack girls while they were alone." Charlie cracked his knuckles loudly. "If you want a fight, you could just come to me."

Charlie released Nahuel, and the coward turned to run, but was stopped when Afton leapt onto his shoulders. I heard Nahuel let out a muffled scream as Afton twisted his head at an unnatural angle instantly breaking his neck.

Ashley walked forward, and I noticed the shovel in her hands. She dug the hole in less than a minute, and easily kicked Nahuel's body into it before refilling the hole with dirt. I watched calmly while Charlie and Afton headed back to the house with Ashley following the pair leaving me and McKenzie alone.

"Both your legs are healed already," She mentioned glancing down at me. "Your fingers are halfway healed, but your wrist hasn't begun to heal yet."

There was an awkward silence that neither of us was willing to break. After a while, my wrist finally snapped into place and I sat up groaning at how sore my legs felt.

"Let's go hunting tonight." She suggested leaning in closer. "We can go to this really fun club in Seattle, and then we can visit that bar where the really cute guy you saw works."

"Oh," I nodded my head which only encouraged her to lean in even closer. "I think he might be one of us. He has a really high temperature, extremely fast heart beat, and he is really hot."

I giggled loudly as my family walked into the bar. There were barely any more occupants due to the early hour, but my family seemed to compensate for that because Charlie was ordering round after round of shots. Seth was eyeing us curiously, and I sent him an enthusiastic smile. He smiled back just in time for a group of large muscular men to walk inside the bar.

"Who are those guys?" Ashley asked in her heavily accented voice.

The group of men motioned towards my family before whispering something to Seth. He said a reply back that made one of the guys laugh loudly. They all seemed to be eyeing me, and to encourage their behavior I pressed my lips against McKenzie's not only earning a round of applause from Seth's friends, but also from Charlie.

"I knew you were gay!" Charlie cried slapping Afton on the back. "You owe me $5,000."

Immediately, I pulled away from McKenzie to glare at Charlie as he accepted a stack of hundred dollar bills. Charlie smiled apologetically at me before offering me a shot.

"It was an honest bet." Afton added snatching the shot out of Charlie's hand before I could even begin to accept it.

"Hey," Seth's voice shocked me, and I spun around shocked to see him and all his friends standing behind our group. I hadn't even heard him approach us. "You know this sucks."

"What sucks?" McKenzie asked knocking back a shot.

"I was going to ask Kayla out, but she seems like she's more interested in you than she is in me." Seth frowned before glancing over at me.

"Oh, I would love to go out with you," I casually glanced over at McKenzie. "You do realize you would have to share with her, right?"

Seth raised an eyebrow, but leaned closer. "I could share." I smiled and pulled him down on the stool next to me.

"Great," McKenzie drawled rolling her eyes dramatically. "Now we can have a threesome on the weekends."

Suddenly, a muscular pair of arms wrapped around McKenzie. I smiled at her stunned expression as the man lowered his mouth to her ear. He whispered something too low for me to hear – and that was with the inhuman hearing – and he led her to the back of the bar where there was a secluded hallway.

"McKenzie seems to be having fun," Ashley mentioned. "So who are you guys?" Then she inhaled deeply before frowning and sending me a look.

"We're from the reservation near Forks." Another muscular man announced.

A giggle echoed around the bar, and I turned to see Afton cooing in Italian over a tall russet skinned woman who appeared to look like a model. She was staring at him with adoring eyes while he began to quote a famous Romeo and Juliet quote in Italian. I rolled my eyes at the sight, but the men that came with her muttered things that sounded like "there goes another one."

"What's he saying," a shorter one asked staring at Afton with a constipated face.

"He is quoting Romeo and Juliet where Romeo is underneath Juliet's balcony. He is saying how you are more beautiful than the sun, and how your eyes are brighter than the stars." Ashley responded snatching a shot out of Charlie's hand. "Get him water."

"You think I'm beautiful," she whispered.

"You do not think you are beautiful?" He asked raising an eyebrow. "Darling, you–"

"Afton," I moaned massaging my temples. "Why don't you take that lovey dovey mess to another table?" He smiled at me before leading the girl away while beginning to exaggerate about how beautiful she looks.

I leaned back in my stool watching as Seth's friends closely analyzed our group. In those few moments, I knew they weren't human, but more importantly I knew that they were convinced that we weren't human either.

The man that had left with McKenzie came back looking angrier than he did earlier. I looked at a crescent shaped scar that had already healed leaving a faded pink line. My eyes wandered over the rest of his body wondering if McKenzie had left any other marks when I noticed that he was dragging her with him. Seth seemed to notice as well because he tensed up behind me.

"McKenzie, where are you going?" I asked mentally begging my family members to notice how McKenzie wasn't willingly walking with him.

The man glared at me, and tightened his grip on McKenzie's wrist. "I'm taking her back to my place." He wrapped his arms around her waist, and she smiled at me though it didn't reach her eyes. "Isn't that right, babe?"

"Calm down, Kayla," she rolled her eyes at me, and Charlie followed her actions. "I'll be back eventually."

"Call me in the morning," I called after her. I watched them until they disappeared out the door before shooting a desperate look at Ashley who sent me a half-hearted glare.

"You're just being jealous." She assured me after a few moments of silence.

I nodded my head in agreement, but the way they were acting wasn't sitting right with me. There was something about the way he looked at her that made me feel... off. Maybe, I was just being jealous. Ashley was right; I had nothing to worry about.