A/N : Yep, I actually got round to uploading the third chapter! So I hope you like it, and lots of thank you's to everyone who has read and reviewed. I'm having soo much writing this and I hope you have as much fun reading it!

Now, don't get me wrong, love is awesome and all that, but I am not the sort of girl who believes in 'love at first sight'. I always thought of it as impossible; you could never judge a person by simply looking at their face.

So when I noticed the two deep brown eyes from across the room, I knew I was in deep.

Almost instantly the room erupted with cat calls, moans and laughter at the two frozen bodies that were me and Seth Clearwater.

Now you're probably thinking that I'm ridiculously hypocritical. But I promise I couldn't help it. If I could, I would.

But you have never heard of imprinting, have you. Before you start guessing, yes, it is another wierd wolf thing.

When someone imprints, you sort of fall head over heels for a person on sight, wolf or not. You will never love another in the way that you love the 'imprintee', and will do all you can to keep them safe.

I know for a fact that Sam had imprinted on Emily, and that was why they were together. There were others in the tribe I knew who had also imprinted. It used to be thought of uncommon, but now more wolves emerged, it was becoming more and more of a regular thing. This was not all that good.

But I never expected it to happen to me. I'd never even thought about it.

The same thoughts were probably going through Seth's head. He looked just as confused as me.

I began to come to my senses; I shook my head and blushed at my actions. Paul's hand gripped my shoulder tightly and steered me to my temporary bedroom, which I would be using until my new house was ready.

My bags were there, and my bed made, but I took no notice as I walked to the window and stared out. I felt like screaming - I was not in the greatest of moods, and now my stomach was doing back flips whilst my brain was doing its best to confuse me beyond recognition.

"Oh Sugar Honey Ice Tea".

I almost laughed at my choice of expletive. I'd been refraining from swearing to try and purify myself.

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I heard Paul cross the room and felt his gaze on my back.

"You really are a card, aren't you?" I turned to look at his highly amused face and felt like phasing right on the spot.

I didn't of course. I was quickly beginning to panic.

"Did I just... just... you know?" I was surprised by my question, and Paul's guffaw showed that my face gave this away. Surely he knew I was not the sort to be laughed at when I was 'vulnerable'. My cousin was definitely dicing with death.

"Yep. And pretty badly too. It's pretty rare for two wolves to imprint on each other." He shook his head as my eyes grew wide. I hadn't even realised that Seth had imprinted as well.

A blush crept across my cheek, and I wanted to leap out of the window and head towards the woods, to lose myself in the trees, go back to the primal instincts of the wolf.

Paul could tell.

"I'll tell Sam where you've gone. Just make sure to be in the clearing at 6, where we've got the meeting with the elders so you can phase 'officially'." He put air commas around the last word, and I laughed.

"Ok. Thanks. Distract them will you?" I pulled off my shoulder bag and rooted around in one of my suitcases, looking for a small leather pouch which I strapped to my ankle.

Jacob had made it for me a couple of birthdays ago; it was for you to put your clothes in when you phase, because they sort of get destroyed when you shift. I'd used it multiple times, and it had never failed in protecting my precious clothing.

Paul walked down the stairs before me, and I spent most of the time it took me to reach the back yard worrying in my head.

I reached the edge of the woods without a hitch, and quickly pulled off my clothes, stuffed them into my ankle bag and phased into my 'other self'.

Almost instantly I heard a voice in my head.

Don't look at me like that. I promise I am not insane.

I'd never experienced pack communications; being a lone wolf meant no connected minds. But now I'd joined the Quileutes, it seemed my brain had been connected to the rest of the pack.

And there was another wolf out here.

"Ariana?" The voice was Embry's, and he quickly ran straight towards me from the gloom.

"Embry." I was relieved it was him. Everyone else would just take pleasure in taking the piss. It seemed Embry knew what I was thinking. Oh yeah, nothing is secret when your mind is connected to another.

"Seth is pretty messed up." He shook his head and nudged it against my side, to encourage me to keep moving. We sprinted through the trees, and reached a river, where we stopped to drink.

"Shall I speak with Seth?" I looked at Embry and he knew that I just wanted to make things right. More like pull him to me before I lose the chance.

It really was like fancying a boy at school, just a lot worse.

Oh My God.

"You can try. He is head over heels for you, and you for him no doubt. It'll make you both feel better." Embry sneezed as I contemplated this.

"I'm not a girl for soppy stuff. This is all soo weird." I rolled my eyes, turned and started to jog towards the clearing I had known since my very first visit to La Push, and Embry followed.

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We made our way to the open expanse of grass that most meetings were set in. I was starting to feel sick to the stomach.

Embry emerged first to see that everyone else was in human form. He phased willingly; naked bodies were normal in the world of the wolves. He then pulled some shorts on that were lobbed at his head by Jacob.

I found this whole situation ridiculous, so I stayed in my wolf form.

There was an intake of breath. I was the only pure white wolf in the entire tribe, and this, coupled with my vibrant blue eyes, shocked them.

Billy Black, Jacob's father and one of the tribe elders wheeled over to me. I was taller than him as he sat in a wheelchair, yet I bowed my head to show respect.

This was something I had to get used to. I'd always been superior to everyone else in Florida, well, in the wolf world, and this new pecking order sent shivers down my spine. To be honest, I detested it.

Billy spoke. "Ariana will you phase please." He watched my reaction. I'd noticed that the other elders were also observing me; I must be a subject of great interest. I was not really surprised.

I nodded my large head, and turned back to the woods myself and Embry had just left. I trotted to the trees, and once out of sight, phased, pulled on a summer dress and shorts, and walked back out.

Billy looked faintly amused as I walked and he wheeled closer to the tribe. "Self conscious?"

"A bit, yeah." I laughed as Billy smiled encouragingly, and then gestured for me to stand in the pack line, which was ordered in rank. On arrival, I had noticed I was relatively high in rank. I assumed this to only be the case due to my close relation with Paul, one of the very first to phase initially.

"Can you stand between Quil and Paul, please?"