I was so pleased by all the reviews I got since YESTERDAY that I had to post again. This chapter will kind of suck, so I'm going to post another one later tonight. This is my first real attempt at writing in a guy's point of view, so bear with me, please. And review! Plus, I don't think I need to keep saying this, but I don't own it.


Day Three

So here's how I got here, at Embry's dinner table with Cassie Call.

Embry POV

I'll admit it. I was getting sick of being told off every time I disappeared for a few nights from my house. That's why I had lunch with my mom, so I could finally tell her everything. Well, almost everything.

"Embry, I'm so happy you've been home every night this week," Mom said, hugging me from behind as I sliced fresh tomatoes for her. "I've missed you."

I felt guilty, I really did. She deserved to know the truth, and that's what I told Jacob when I asked him I could please, please tell her the secrets of the pack. Jake, being my best friend, agreed to it. He knew how hard it was on me. So here I was ready to sit down and tell her everything.

"I've missed you, too, Mom. I wanted to talk to you about what's been up lately," I said, carrying the sandwich stuff to the table.

She smiled, sitting down. "Shoot."

It was crazy how similar she and Leah tended to be at times. "Well, Mom, I know I've been sneaking out constantly for a long time, and this is why."

"Is there a girl? Oh, please don't make me be a grandma at thirty four, please. Being a teen parent is no fun, Embry, and I wouldn't trade you for the world, but having you at sixteen was-" She was getting hysterical, fast.

"Mom, there's no baby, but there is a girl. I'll get to that part later. Mom, whoever my father was, he was a Quileute, and he had the genes to make me become something. Mom, the campfire stories about Taha Aki and all the wolf men, those are all true," I said slowly, letting it sink in.

She was silent, then skeptical. "Embry, this is absurd."

"Mom," I said, putting my hands over hers on the table. "I'm a werewolf."

Her eyes widened. "Oh, I thought you were going to tell me you were a reincarnation of one of those people."

"Why?"

She shrugged. "I don't know. But keep going about the werewolf thing. I want to know."

I was amazed at her reaction. "Okay, well, first of all, it's not a full moon thing. Whenever we feel like it, we can turn into our wolves. We just protect the tribe, mainly, but we kill vampires every once in a while."

"And where does the girl come in?"

"Werewolves have a strange way of finding our soul mates. When they see their soul mate, they know it, and then it's all about that other person. We call it imprinting, and I've imprinted. On Leah Clearwater. She's a wolf, too, and she imprinted on me."

"Show me," Mom said suddenly.

"Huh?"

"Turn into a wolf for me." She looked expectantly at me.

I turned a little red. "I have to take all my clothes off, Mom."

She pursed her lips and rolled her eyes. "Embry Morgan Call, I changed your diapers and bathed you until you were eight. Get. Over. It."

I reluctantly stood up and led my mother outside. She was being strangely abrupt with me, and I wouldn't dare test her. I shed my clothing and drew the heat from my core, growing into my wolf. I phased down just as fast, not wanting to risk my thoughts slipping to the pack. I pulled on my shorts and then dashed to my mother, who turned ice white.

"Embry?" she said softly, looking faint.

"Yeah, Mom?"

"Tell Joshua Uley that he's the world's biggest screwball and that he needs to castrate himself before someone else does."

"Why?"

She got a distant look in her eyes. "Because after fathering werewolves, he may just father the next Charles Manson."

I really had no idea what she was talking about, but it was my mother. She rarely made sense. "Mom, are you okay?"

"He's your father. Joshua Uley is your father." That made more sense…

I was just glad her anger wasn't directed at me, and that I had a positive identification of my father, though it just made my thing with Leah that much more challenging. Sam would have the biggest werewolf tantrum in history when he found out his ex was with his brother…

"I think." Mom swayed on her feet, then fell into my arms. "Or not. This is a lot to stomach, baby boy. I love you, but I really don't know how to handle this. Can you get me inside?"

This was my favorite part. After giving up her childhood to raise me, I could do something to help her, by way of my unnatural strength. I lifted my mother into my arms and carried her inside and laid her on the couch, sitting on the floor next to her and holding her hand. "Mom, I'm so sorry I never told you. What can I do to make it up to you?"

"Baby boy, I love you so much. You owe me nothing. But I do have a request," she said, looking devious.

"Anything."

"Invite Leah to dinner tomorrow night. I want to get to know my future daughter-in-law."

I blushed furiously. She had to go to sleep after that, overwhelmed to the point of exhaustion, and I left a note that I was going to get some groceries. I just knew that this was going to take some getting used to. My mother was tough, but even the strongest people need a break.

Leah POV

After Embry relayed the information to me, I found myself happy for him, but annoyed, because if his mother was anything like him, there would be some difficulty tonight.

"Leah, dear, would you like something to drink?" she asked, smiling sweetly.

"Just water, thank you," I said, trying to pretend this wasn't weird.

Cassie had mentioned the 'wolf thing' once or twice, but was acting overly normal.

"Embry, get your girlfriend some water," Cassie said, swatting Embry's backside when he put a salad on the table.

Embry just smiled and obeyed his mother, even though I knew he'd taken the time to reassure her that I wasn't his girlfriend. She was just trying to get a rise out of her son, and failing miserably.

Is she normally this okay with the supernatural?

Mind laughter. I was just thinking about that. She's taking this quite well. I'm just gonna go with it. He placed a glass of ice water in front of me and winked where his mother couldn't see.

"Embry Morgan Call, are you keeping secrets from your mother?"

And of course she's a mind reader… Sorry. He gave me, then his mother, sheepish looks. "Sorry, Ma."

"Oh, don't you 'sorry Ma' me," she said, giving his backside another swat. "You have kept far too many things from me already."

"Sorry, Ms. Call," I said, biting my lip and looking down.

She smiled sweetly. "You have nothing to apologize for, Leah, dear. And please call me Cassie. If I understand this entire ordeal correctly, we're going to be seeing a lot of each other. You don't have to be formal with me."

I blushed and nodded. "Yes, ma'am."

The dinner was very nerve-wracking. Embry and his mother were somewhat alike in the sense that they were absolutely nuts, yet extremely intelligent. Cassie, however, was a very dominant personality. She led the conversation, Embry did whatever she told him to do. She asked him for more Pepsi, he got her a Pepsi. She asked him to clear the table, he cleared the table. She asked him to give me a kiss goodnight… You see where this is going.

The evening was quite fun when Embry and I got over our nerves, and we had fun making fun of Embry, she sharing anecdotes of a young Embry, me sharing ones of his times as a wolf. All too soon it was ten o'clock, and it seemed to be a good time to leave, as Embry and his mother began to release identical yawns, their carbon-copy lips forming 'O's and exhaling gently.

"I'll get out of you're way," I said, giving a smile and standing up. "I had a good time."

Cassie smiled and stood up, then gave me a hug rivaling a werewolf. "It was so nice to meet you! You're such fun to have around, Leah, dear. Do come over again, sometime, please. You're so sweet, and my son is smart to have snagged you up. Embry, give your girlfriend a kiss goodnight."

Leah, you don't have to… Embry was embarrassed and nervous.

It's okay. I gave a mind-smile.

When Embry stood up and walked over to me, Cassie just smiled. "Go on."

Last chance.

I didn't even respond to him. I simply put my hands on his cheeks and stood on tiptoe, beginning the kiss for the first time. When I pulled back, I gave a soft smile. "Goodnight, Embry."

Embry looked dumbfounded, and that's how he looked as I left his house.


A/N: Reviews, please.

~Sidney