Authors note: Gah! Sorry I took so long to update. I had writer's block fer awhile, and then I had this big project to do, and tons of homework.

But yay new update!!

tell me what you think 33

Seth.

That was the name of the boy. He's one of the younger boys that was at the council meeting, 15 years old. Seth Clearwater, meaning he was distantly related to me.

I saw him around the reservation a lot, since billy had decided to use me to run errands for him while Jake was out. Why he couldn't take me, I would never understand.

I was out getting some more markers one day, and that's the first time I saw her.

She was with an older man, maybe about thirty, forty years old. Her brown hair cascaded over her shoulders. She was pale, but not as pale as the others.

Bella.

I instinctively walked towards her. I didn't realize I had only seen her in my dreams, and never actually met her. I was about three feet away from her when I stopped abruptly. Jake was standing in front of her, and they were staring into each others eyes.

"Charlie, do you mind if I steal Bella for a second?" Jake said, his eyes never leaving her face.

"Of course not, Jake." he patted Bella's arm and walked away, grinning from ear to ear.

I ducked behind a stack of boxes. When I peeked around, Bella and Jake were nowhere in sight. I walked around, leaving my markers in the wrong aisles. I was about to give up, but I heard her voice. I peeked around the corner, and saw her.

She was standing with her arms crossed, looking away from Jake.

"Bella, if you stay with me, you don't have to worry about anyone coming after you anymore." he grabbed her by the elbow, but she pulled away.

"Jake, you don't understand. I have to do this, otherwise the Volturri--"

"Screw the Volturri!" Jake said, obviously irritated. "I don't care what they'll do to your leeches!"

Bella's eyes looked frightened suddenly, like they had looked in the last dream. "Not only them, Jake, they'll come after me. They said they would come from Italy to check on me if I wasn't changed."

I tried to understand what they were talking about. Italy?Volturri? Was the mafia coming after her?

"Then we can go away, far from here, where they'll never find you."

"I can't do that, Jake, I love him." a tear streamed down her cheek.

Jake grabbed her in his arms, and hugged her tight. "But you love me, too."

"Yes, I do, but I know who I can't live without. I'm sorry, Jake, you wont change my mind on this." she pulled away.

But Jake was too quick. He quickly had his arms around her waist. "What do they have that I don't? I'll be here for you my entire life."

"Exactly. Edward will be there for me for the rest of eternity. Literally."

I frowned. What on Earth are they talking about? They seemed to make more sense in my dreams.

"but—what?" Jake sighed, irritatedly. "What can I do to change your mind?"

"Nothing, Jake, my mind is set. I'm sorry." she reached up to grab Jake's face, and planted a small kiss on his cheek. I grimaced. She walked towards me, towards the end of the aisle, and passed by me, wiping her eyes. She didn't seem to notice my shocked expression. Jake stood there, a pained look on his face. I wanted to hug him, to comfort him. Nobody has ever had that effect on my cousin, and it hurt me to see him this way. I turned and followed Bella.

She climbed into a red, old-looking truck. She didn't turn on the engine, she didn't even open the windows. She sat there, holding on to herself like she had before. She sobbed, and I felt bad. I wanted to go up to her and ask her what was wrong.

Somebody poked my side. I turned, and there was Seth. "Hey, Winnie."

I smiled. "Hi Seth."

"What are you looking at?" he asked.

I gestured towards Bella.

"That's Chief Swan's daughter--"

"Bella," we both said. He frowned. "How did you know that?"

"I overheard her and Jake, arguing."

"Oh." Seth turned in the direction of the forest. "What happened?"

"I don't know, they were talking about 'eternity' and 'leeches' and how they loved each other. After she left he looked really hurt. I followed her here to ask her what her problem was." I looked back towards the car. "no one messes with my cousin."

Seth laughed. "You're defensive."

I smiled back. "A little."

he laughed. "actually, one of my friends wanted to talk to you. He said he saw you at the beach with Jake, but was too shy to talk to you."

I turned to see who Seth was pointing at.

And there he stood, marveling in all his Quileute-esque glory. My jaw dropped, and he smiled.

"Winnie, this is my friend Gil." Seth held out his hand at me. I took it and he led me closer to the boy. I smiled at him timidly.

He flashed me a smile. My heart skipped a beat. He was so gorgeous. I felt my hands start sweating, and my throat was getting dry. I glanced back at Seth.

"I'm gonna go see if I can find Jake." he let go of my hand and walked in the direction of the store.

"Winnie, right?" Gil asked.

I nodded.

"Cool." he smiled at me again.

I was speechless. I turned to hide my blushing face. Why on earth would he want to talk to me?

I heard a rumble. I turned back. Bella's truck was pulling out of the parking lot. "No!"

"Were you going to talk to her?" Gil asked.

"Yeah, I wanted to ask her some stuff..." I shook my head. "Doesn't matter. It's not like she'd be able to recognize me. She doesn't know me."

"Oh." He walked up next to me, and timidly took my hand in his. "So, you're not busy?"

I smiled. "No."

"So, do you think you'd be able to hang out with me?"

"Yes." he squeezed my hand in his, and I could hear the music playing in my head, my favorite song.

Oh, it is love, from the first time I pressed my hand into yours, thinking, oh, is it love?

We walked out of the parking lot and down to the beach. He held my hand the entire way, and my heart never stopped beating in my ears. Finally, he pulled me down to the sand.

"so, you wanted to talk to me?" I asked, gulping.

"Well, yeah." he let go of my hand, and laid down on the sand, putting his hands behind his head. "I've been seeing you at the beach. You're... how old are you?"

"Fifteen."

he smiled. "You're the only person around here my age that isn't busy all the time, like Seth." he turned on his side. "And you're the prettiest girl I've seen."

I blushed. There were tons of pretty girls walking around La Push. "No, seriously."

he laughed. "I'm not kidding. Are you even from around here?"

"no. I'm just visiting my cousin Jake."

"Oh. I'm visiting some relatives too. They said I had to be here this summer." he rolled his eyes. "Said something about changing and wolves--"

"They told you that too?" I asked. "My uncle told me that I was starting to change, and then they started talking about all these weird legends or something. It was weird. They expect me to believe that crap."

when I told him that, a weird flicker went off in his eyes. He smiled. "They haven't told you?"

I frowned. "Told me what?"

"The Quileute are all werewolves."

"are they, really?" I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah. And you have to be careful around some people. They might be trying to destroy the Quileute werewolf population."

"What are you talking about?" I pushed him away from me. He was inching closer to me without me noticing.

"sorry." I sat back up. "there's a new enemy to the werewolves, not just vampires."

"Really?"

"mhm. Your uncle didn't tell you the story?"

"No." I thought back to the night of the legends. "At least, I don't think so."

"Well, there was a werewolf that, instead of protecting the Quileutes from the vampires, he was killing people. He was banished from the village and sentenced to exile. One day, he came across a vampire, while he was in his human form. The vampire was so thirsty, he bit the werewolf. Now, the werewolf was half-vampire, half-wolf. It can morph between vampire, werewolf, and human. The elders are supposed to be watching for it, and protect the new wolves from it." he stroked my neck.

"So, I'm a werewolf?"

he smiled, as if I were a dumb blond or something. "yes, you are."

"That's so weird. The other night, I had this dream, I've been having dreams about werewolves for some reason, and I saw this werewolf that looked just like Seth..."

"You had dreams about werewolves?" he moved a little closer to me.

"Yeah. It was weird, though. There were vampires, too."

"Maybe you're about ready to become one." his voice was a soft whisper in my ear.

I knew nothing about being sexy or seductive, and that probably wasn't it, but, oh lord, he was so close to me. I could feel is breath on my shoulder.

And then, I thought of Jake. The look on his face after Bella left him.

And then everything made sense.

Jake was a werewolf.

Edward is a vampire.

They both love Bella, and they hate each other for that.

But... why were they haunting my dreams? I had nothing to do with the affair. I was just an innocent bystander.

Maybe... since Victoria was gone... someone else was going after Edward. And maybe that someone was Jake!

I jumped up. Gil was distracting me, I had to go see belle right away.

"What's wrong?" Gil asked.

"I have to talk to Bella." I shrugged his hand off my shoulder and took off running.