Here's the next chapter, I'm glad you guys are enjoying it!

Morning

"So Jade I heard you- WHAT THE FUCK!" oh what a lovely why to wake up in the morning, your cousin's screams. I quickly pushed myself up from Paul and looked over at Leah. She was shaking slightly.

"Leah calm down. It's fine."

"What is he doing here?!"

"He came over last night and apologized for what he did to my dress, it was like 3 in the morning so I told him he could stay here."

"He could have slept on the fucking couch" She growled. Her eyes glued on Paul who was now sitting up as well.

"Lee, he's my imprinter. I can't be that rude to him"

"Ahh" she groaned. "You told her? Why? Why did you have to tell her?"

"The sooner the better" Paul mumbled.

"I think you should leave" Leah commanded. Paul rose from the bed and grabbed his shirt. I quickly hopped up and followed him out of my bedroom.

"Jeez, could you at least put some damn clothes on Jade. He's leaving a trail of drool all over our new house!" I laughed. I had not forgotten that I was almost nude; nope I did really enjoy torturing him.

I pulled open the door and he looked down at me. "Can I see you again?"

"You know where I live" I smirked lightly. He smiled and leaned in to kiss me. Our lips touched and that damn spark ran through my body again. I wonder if he can feel it too. I heard Leah growl in the background and pushed Paul away from me, giggling quietly.

"I'll see you soon, you can bet on that" he winked, kissed my forehead and took off. As I closed the door I caught sight of Leah's glare and I couldn't contain my laughter. I scurried back to room for some real clothes and decided on drinking some OJ.

"Did you sleep with him?" whoa Leah, no need to sugar coat it.

"No"

"Good, I just don't.... ah why did it have to be Paul to imprint on you? Why couldn't it be Jake or someone decent?" The mention of Jake's name brought back what happened last night seeming like it was weeks ago not just mere hours. I couldn't fight the dumb smug look that was creeping up on my face. Leah's eyes grew bright and I realized she already knew what had had happened between me and him.

"Soo, you did sleep with Jake." It wasn't a question. I nodded sheepishly. She laughed.

"That's cute" wait, what? Cute? Leah are you ok?

"Huh?..."

"Yeah, you and Jake would be really cute together." Aha, she's trying to pawn me off on Jake hoping I'll forget about Paul. Why?

"Why don't you like Paul?"She rolled her eyes at his name.

"Cause he's such a man whore. If it weren't for the whole imprint thing I wouldn't let you anywhere near him. He used to have girls lined up just waiting to sleep with him, going through at least 3 girls a week if not more. It's disgusting" my grasped tightened on the glass I was holding. The thought of other girls even looking at Paul disgusted me. They had no right to touch him he was MINE to touch. I heard a cracking sound followed by a shatter and it took me a few seconds to register what had happened. At least until the pain hit me. My gaze lowered to my right hand, now covered in blood and I could see pieces of glass protruding through my flesh.

"Shit" I quickly dropped what was left of the glass and started pulling pieces out of my skin.

"Jade! We have to get you to the hospital!"

"No Leah it's fine don't worry about." But it was too late for me to abject. I was halfway to her car before I even finished my sentence. When we got to hospital I was still plucking out pieces of glass. When the receptionist saw us and my now blood covered hand, wrist, and lower arm, she quickly escorted us to a doctor's room.

"Why the hell did you crush a glass cup in your hands, you don't heal like I do you idiot!"

"Sorry mom" she rolled her eyes at me as the doctor stepped in.

"Leah" He acknowledged her. She nodded her head as his gaze fell to me. He was stunning. Golden hair, topaz eyes, perfect skin...gasp...

"You must be Jade, Leah's cousin. I'm Carlisle. Now let's take a look at your hand" he gestured. I raised my arm to his cold hands. How could he do it? He was a vampire and yet he could deal with being around this much blood and not be even the least bit tempted. I leaned in even though I knew no matter what they would both be able to hear.

"How do you do it?" I whispered. His eyes locked on mine in surprise but a slight smile recovered his shock.

"Years of practice. It only makes sense you know of us, being related to the Clearwaters and all." I nodded. "Well some of these cuts are pretty deep. I'll need to stitch them. May I ask what happened?"

I could feel myself blush. 'uh I got pissed cause I thought about my imprinter sleeping with other women' yeah that doesn't really work. "Um I got a little upset and the glass just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time"

"Which happened to be in her hand" Leah chocked out, stifling her laughter as best she could. He just smiled not egging on the subject. For a vamp I kind of liked him.

"I like him" I stated with a smile on my face as we exited the hospital. Leah shook her head.

"Yeah he's about the only one that I attempt to be nice too."

I just want to break you down so badly, in the worst way

Leah's phone started playing as we sunk into her car.

"Hello?......uh yeah just let me drop off Jade….oh….ok yeah we'll be right over…bye"

"So I guess the pack wants to meet you, you're family and now his imprint so we're heading over to Emily's" I nodded. She always called it Emily's she could barely spit his name out of her mouth anymore. I guess I don't blame her. He broke her heart. Maybe that's why she was so against Paul imprinting on me. She had already lost Sam to the stupid thing and now was she worried she would lose me too?

We pulled into the driveway and suddenly I was hit with nerves. I was never nervous. I didn't like this feeling. Why was I nervous? Was I scared they weren't going to like me? I'm family of course they'll like me. Hopefully.

As we walked through the front door I noticed eight guys sitting in the living room with a girl who I remembered to be Kim and a young child on one of the guy's laps. Oh that must Quil and Claire. I also noticed the two boys I had meet at the party. And of course I recognized Paul and Jacob. Two younger ones that weren't ringing any bells and then my eyes landed on him. He looked so familiar but it couldn't be. No way had he changed that much. He rose from the chair he was seated in and walked towards me.

"Seth?"

"Hey Jade" he smiled brightly at me as he wrapped his arms around and me spun me around.

"What the hell happened to you? You know steroids aren't healthy." He chuckled as he set me on my feet. His eyes feel to my beat up hand. Ah shit.

"What did you do?"

I felt someone behind before I heard him "What happened?" Paul asked, concern dripping from his voice.

"Uh I got…angry..." I trailed off as a storm of laughter filled the air. I turned to face Paul with what I'm assuming would be a confused express. "What's so damn funny?" Seth quieted a little allowing him to talk.

"It's just you're perfect for Paul. He's also known to have a little bit of an anger issue." I rolled my eyes as Leah came up next to me.

"Jade why don't you tell everyone why you were angry." Damn I had hoped she hadn't realized what I was thinking about when said mentioned incident happened. I stayed quiet for awhile as I felt all their eyes on me.

"I told her about all the women of La Push Paul has been with." I glared at her as my fists clinched, the picture running through my mind. I winced silently as I realized clenching my right hand was not such a good idea. I heard a low growl behind me as I turned to see Paul. His death glare directed at Leah.

"Hey" his eyes dropped to mine. "It's fine, you had a life before me, and I had a life before you" I stated with a quick glance at Jacob. Did Paul know? Leah knew and with the whole pack mind thing when they were phased I wasn't sure Jacob could keep his thoughts to himself. Sam entered the room and cleared his throat. Paul retreated back to his spot on the couch and disappoint flowed over his face as I plopped down on Leah's lap.

"Well Jade, welcome to the pack. I'm assuming you know most of us here except maybe for Collin and Brady." He gestured to the young ones. Yep never had met them before, they both grinned warmly at me.

"Also I'm cutting patrols down some, we haven't had an incident for quite some time and I don't feel the need to stress us out over nothing….." blah blah blah, I kind of blocked Sam out after that. My gaze directed towards Paul. I was trying my best to keep my eyes on him when his eyes where elsewhere. It wasn't really working.

Sam was done with his little speech and everyone was chatting among themselves. Leah groaned and leaned into me. "Lover boy can't take his fucking eyes off of you." I smiled brightly as I turned towards him. Our eyes locked and he quickly dropped his head in embarrassment. I rose from Leah and sauntered over to him. I lowered myself onto his lap, easing my back against his chest.

"Hey Paul" I said seductively into his ear.

"H-hey Jade" he spurted. I noticed his arms. He'd pick them off the couch slightly then drop them again. Apparently he was having quite the inner battle on whether to rest his arm over my waist or not. It was rather amusing. I grabbed his arm with my good hand and slung it across my hips. He breathed out heavily in relief and I couldn't contain my fit of giggles. I got some stares from others in the pack but soon quieted down.

"Do I amuse you?" he inquired. I just nodded.

"Hey do wanna go down the beach?" I looked at him from the corner of my eyes. His face light up at my question.

"Yeah let's go"

"Were heading to the beach!" I announced after I realized that the whole pack had already heard our whole conversation. Ah whatever.

"So what's your favorite color?" I laughed to myself. Did I really just ask him that?

"Uh, blue I guess, or the color of your eyes."

"Aw that's so cheesy" I smiled up and he returned the gesture.

"Smell?"

"Are we playing 20 questions or something?"

"Maybe, just answer the question"

"The woods, the ocean, fire, your hair."

I laughed again, it was cheesy but cute at the same time. I liked it. I leaned up and placed a kiss on this cheek. He smiled at first but his expression soon turned serious.

"Why don't you believe in love?" It stopped me short.

"Uh, my parents fought through-out their marriage and got divorced when I was six." It was half true. I mean they were the ones that started my hatred toward the feeling. He seemed unsatisfied by my answer, as if he know there was something else I was keeping from him.

"Jade you know you can tell me anything. I'll always be here for you, to listen to anything you have to say or just be a shoulder to cry on." I only nodded. Not daring to meet his gaze. I knew the tears daring to spill over would fail me. I wanted to tell him about my past. Why I used men the way I did. Why I was so bitter towards love, but I wasn't ready for that. Not yet at least. My mother was the only person who really knew why I was so fucked up.

Luckily he didn't push the subject anymore. I think he knew one day I would tell him and I was grateful he respected that. We stayed on the beach for a couple more hours, just talking, getting to know each other better. I was really starting to like him and it was scaring me. Scaring me in the fact that he could be the one that would break down my walls that had been put to keep almost every male out, scary in the fact that I wanted him to break down those walls.

"I should probably get you back, it's getting late and I'm sure Leah is ready to bite my head off." We walked back into Sam and Emily's hand in hand. I hadn't been this comfortable with a guy ever. As we entered I was quickly pushed out by Leah.

So what do you think Jade's past is holding? Why is her view on love so tainted? R&R!!