Taylor and her family have moved to La Push and run unknowingly into a pack of wolves...

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I slowly got changed and waited patiently (OK impatiently) for everyone else to come back. Finally the bell rang and I shot off to the canteen.

"How was Gym Peggy?" Jason asked, using their mean little nickname for me. Peggy, peg leg, get it?

"Ha ha, very funny." I said, sitting down.

"So how was Gym?" Jason asked again.

"I got hit in the head by a volleyball and had to leave the lesson early." I saw them both struggle to hide their smiles, "See this is why I wasn't going to tell you!"

"Tell them what?" Chrissy said as she came to stand by my seat as I was picking at my sandwich.

"That someone threw a volleyball at her head." Daniel said.

"They didn't throw it! I may have just walked into it." I mumbled the last bit.

"Sorry what was that last bit?"

"Yeah didn't quite catch that." Stupid brothers.

"I walked into it!"

"You idiot." Chrissy said kindly, "Well I just came to ask if you mind if I sit with Katie and Alex?"

"Course not; glad you've made some friends, speaking of which here comes Nathan and Shawn." Jason said looking up as two lads came towards our table. I saw one of them check out Chrissy and knew that Janiel had noticed it too. Chrissy said bye and hurried off to join her friends.

"Who was that?" Asked the one who had looked at her.

"That was Chrissy." I said.

"She's our little sister." Carried on Jason.

"So we'd appreciate it if you'd keep your eyes to yourself." Continued Daniel.

"Unless your thoughts are entirely honourably." Jason spoke again.

"Otherwise you may have a few less body parts." I finished, we have had to do this on many an occasion and they always have the same look on their face.

"Sorry." He muttered.

"That's quite alright Shawn; just don't let us catch you again." Daniel said. Shawn blushed bright red and Nathan burst out laughing.

"So will this be your other little sister?" He asked.

"Little sister?!" I said, twisting round to glare at my 'dear' brothers, "I'll have you know that I'm older than both of them."

"Sorry I just presumed."

"Do you want to sit down?" Asked Jason, gesturing to the empty seats. They nodded and sat down.

"Taylor Nathan, Nathan Taylor." I shook Nathan's hand and then Jason introduced me to Shawn properly too. The boys started chatting about basketball or football or something when all of a sudden Shawn's eyes widened at a point above my left shoulder.

"Er erm, hi Embry." He stuttered Embry ignored him.

"Hi Taylor I was wondering how you were doing." My face was blank.

"In Gym, you got hit."

"Oh right, already forgotten about." I smiled brightly.

"OK, that's good." He grinned at me.

"Oh these are my brothers Jason and Daniel, and these are their friends Nathan and Shawn, but you probably know them. Guys this is Embry, he caught me in Gym."

"Alright?" Nathan said.

"Thanks mate for that." Jason said and Daniel unwillingly nodded.

"It's fine, anyone would've – should've done it."

"Do you want to sit with us?" I offered.

"Erm thanks but I usually sit with Quil, Jacob and Jared." He said grudgingly.

"Are you sure?" He smiled at me and nodded, "OK see ya then."

"Bye Taylor, bye guys." He walked away and Shawn almost erupted,

"You do know who that was don't you?"

"Well duh, I did kinda just introduce him to my brothers."

"Well do you know anything about him?"

I shook my head, "Not really."

"Why? What about him?" Daniel asked quickly.

"Well, erm the thing is-"

"Tell us!" Jason snapped.

"He's got a bit of a bad reputation." Nathan said quickly.

"He's what!" Roared Daniel. Several people looked over including Chrissy and Embry.

"Well no one likes to get on the wrong side of him and his friends, I mean they seem nice enough but see that lad with them?" We looked over, "Well someone checked out his girlfriend and he found out. That was last week and the lad still can't walk right." Explained Nathan.

"But what's that got to do with Embry? He can't control his friends." I said, defending him.

"But when he tried to stop Jared attacking the lad he got pretty violent with him, I saw a lot of blood. But I'm not sure where from, he seemed fine the next day so I don't want to know. "

"But he was trying to stop him hurting someone else."

"By hurting his friends, just like you say you two are." Jason said.

"And someone else called him and Quil gay, so they put him in hospital. They got suspended for that." Carried on Shawn.

"And out of school he hangs around with that gang-"

"Gang?!" Jason and Daniel interrupted Nathan.

"Yup, he's bad news." I looked around at Embry feeling disappointment seep through my entire body, I didn't want to believe it but both of them were saying it. I saw Embry and it looked like he was shaking, there was a look of pure loathing on his face. Like he'd heard everything that they'd been saying. Jacob whispered something to him and he looked up and caught my eye. My face must have looked awful because a look of worry overcame the anger.

"Taylor stay away from him." The anger came back to Embry's face as Jason said this.

"But he wouldn't do anything to me!"

"How do you know? You said yourself you don't know anything about him."

"But-"

"Taylor!" I put my eyes down to my food; I don't know what to do, to me Embry seems really nice and kind but to everyone else he's this monster in gang who beats anyone and everyone up. I heard someone approach the table.

"Taylor are you OK?" Chrissy asked.

"Erm, yeah I'm fine." I said distractedly, I'd just seen Embry get up and walk out of the canteen I dropped my sandwich, "I'm just going to the toilet." The lads pulled faces and waved bye to me.

I got up and followed Embry out of the door. At first I couldn't see him but then I went outside and saw him sat on a bench, head in hands.

"Embry, are you OK?" He looked at me and all the tension disappeared from his face.

"Yeah I'm fine."

"What's up?"

"I was going to ask you the same, you seemed pretty upset a moment a go." Why does he have to be so observant? What should I do? Tell him the truth?

"Nathan and Shawn were telling us some stories. About you." Flash of anger then calm appeared on his face, as if he was composing himself.

"Oh, what stories?"

"Before I tell you, at the end if they're true will you tell me the truth and not get them in any trouble? Please." He nodded.

"They were saying that you're very violent with your friends and you put someone in hospital and got suspended for it, they also said that you're in a gang with a bad reputation."

"So is it true?" I asked after a long pause.

He nodded but put up his hand for me to wait, "Let me explain, I am only violent with my friends because I have to be to stop them hurting anyone else, they are all very strong. I don't want to hurt them but they're made of tough stuff unlike some of the people they're hurting. And I did get suspended for that but I was going through, erm problems at the time, and I know that doesn't excuse what I did, nothing would, but I am truly sorry for that. And as for the gang, it's not really a gang they're like my second family, they would never hurt another human being."

"I'm sorry but how do I know this is the truth? I want to believe you, so much, but you're just one person telling me the opposite of two people. I've already been told to stay away from you." His face fell but then lit up again as he must have thought of something.

"Come with me. Please." He grabbed my hand and pulled me back into the building.

"Where are we going?"

"Back to the canteen."

"You don't get hurt easily do you?" He snorted.

"No." Then a moment later, "Why?"

"Because when my family see you dragging me they're going to get angry."

"Oh I'm not worried 'bout your brothers." He said laughing.

"Oh me neither. It's Chrissy I'm worried about." He laughed again but then saw my serious face and stopped abruptly.

"Really?"

"Yeah she's pretty evil when it comes down to me, same with her."

"I don't think she could hurt me." He said uncertainly, but he let go of my hand all the same as we neared the canteen. We walked the long way to avoid Janiel's table and ended up at Embry's table.

"Hey Embry, oh hi Taylor." Jacob said looking up.

"Hey Jake." Embry acknowledged, "I want you to prove something to Taylor."

"Sure, what?"

"All this talk of us being-" He looked around to me for a word.

"Violent monsters who torture people for fun?" I suggested, Quil snorted into his drink, Jared and Jacob laughed loudly while Embry smiled.

"Yeah sure that'll do, all this talk about us being violent monsters who torture people for fun, it's not true is it?" Jacob's look of shock and Jared's look of horror gave me the answer I was hoping for. Quil was still wiping Coke from his face.

"No way!"

"Do you think Bella and Edward would let me near Nessie if that was true?!"

"Erm who's Nessie? And Bella and Edward?"

"Ugh I'm too used to being around people who know everything twenty-four seven, sorry. Erm they are my friends." I looked at him curiously before turning to Embry.

"Look Embry I'm sorry about not trusting you, it's just I don't really know you and Janiel think you're bad news so I had to know."

"It's OK, I understand. Erm isn't that your sister?" I looked around and saw Chrissy marching towards us. Great.

"Taylor Elisabeth Jones." She said in a quiet deadly voice. She triple named me! That's below the belt, "I thought Jason told you to stay away from him?"

"Yes but-"

"Bu what Taylor? They think that he's bad news and they're usually right." And then she added in a whisper, which I'm sure they could still hear, "They're only looking out for you, like you do for me."

"But Chrissy they've got him wrong, he's not like what Nathan and Shawn were saying. Honestly."

"Oh so he didn't beat up his own friend, put someone in hospital and belong to a gang?"

"Well erm, yes but he explained it all to me, he was trying to stop his friend from hurting someone else and he had problems when he hurt that person. And he knows that doesn't excuse it but he's sorry. And the gang is just a group of friends." I was begging for her to believe me. Chrissy looked from me to Embry to Janiel and finally back to me again. I knew at once when she looked back to me that she wasn't going to stop me from doing what I wanted.

"Fine, I'll be back in a second." She turned sharply and went back to Janiel, Nathan and Shawn.

"Does she believe you?" Asked Jacob.

"I think so." A moment later Chrissy, Jason and Daniel came over to the table.

"So who are you going to believe? Them or me and Chrissy?" They looked at each other grudgingly.

"Obviously you but," Daniel turned to Embry, "If you ever do anything to hurt our Tay then we will make sure you live to regret it. Understand?" Embry nodded.

"Daniel, do you honestly believe that you would have to do that? Taylor would already have sorted him out, wouldn't you Tay?" Asked Chrissy cheerfully.

"Definitely, people think that - no sorry - a person thought that I don't follow through with my lower region threats. They don't think that anymore." I said just as cheerfully. All of the lads visibly gulped, even Jason and Daniel.

"Aaanyway! We were going to go down to the beach today, do you four want to come?" Asked Jacob breaking the awkward silence. Well it was only awkward for the males.

"Sure we'd love to thanks." I said, accepting for all of them. Jason and Daniel were glaring at me but didn't say anything, Chrissy was nodding.

"Great do you know where it is?"

"Yep." I said.

"Good, we'll meet you there five ish?"

"Great." The bell rang and me and my family got out our timetables.