Silence seemed to spread throughout the room; this reunion seemed to be a little quieter than I'd expected but Quil and Seth always were the life of the party and with them having other arrangements I was just plain bored until…

The door opened to reveal a 6ft tall dark skinned muscled man with the deepest brown eyes I'd ever seen, with beige cut off shorts and a sleeveless shirt he pulled off the devil may care image to the extreme. In other words He. Was. Hot.

"Dudes, there were some funny same… Oh hey I'm Paul, do I get to know your name Princess?" He asked when he saw me with a cocky smirk; oh he knew what he was doing to me and to be honest I didn't mind not if he kept looking at me like that.

"The names Isa Muscle man, pleasure to meet you" I said politely before walking closer and pulling his head down so his ear was at lip level. " Call me princess again and we'll see who really is one" I felt empowered like someone had recharged me like a battery. I could feel my old self coming back in full force, already her boldness was returning all because of one guy…no he's definitely a man.

With my statement came wolf whistles and some howls from the guys and that made my giggle before I threw myself into Jake's lap loving his little 'Umph' at my less than graceful landing.

"So anyway, what's happened since I was last here?" I asked wondering what had happened to make my cousin bulk out so much, granted it had been a long time but not long enough for anything as major as this; he must have been shopping at Biceps 'R' us or something.

"Well I met the guys shortly after I started High school you know, we gelled and we've been together since almost like brothers" He said with a strange twinkle in his eye like it was something deeper than that but I let it slide for now, I knew he'd be easier to crack on his own than when he's got back up.

"You'll have to come cliff diving with us one of the days if you not scared" He taunted but I shoved my self off his lap cocked my hips while crossing my arms straight in front of him.

"Your one to talk what about when you were screaming, 'Isa, please save me from the nasty closet clown'" I mimicked the eight year old version of Jake to make him sound like a little girl and the room erupted in laughter while Jake's face slowly went from brown to a dusty pink.

"You promised never to talk about that" he hissed leaning forward in his seat trying to look intimidating the key word being 'trying'.

"yeah but you forced my hand Mr. Black" I explained with a smug little smile on my face.

While the laughter went on I noticed the blinds hadn't been drawn and that it was going dark quickly. I walked over to the window to save the boys the journey when something glowing in the distance caught my eye and it was coming fast straight for us.

"Get down!" I yelled before diving behind the coach narrowly missing the flaming bottle that crashed through the window just a second ago. The rug went up in flames while we all rushed to get out the way, jake rushed into the kitchen to get the fire extinguisher. The centre table of the room burst into flames spitting embers everywhere threatening to catch onto something else.

The fear welled up inside me, I should have never have come here, this was all my fault. I was frozen as the flames cornered me but hope came when Jake rushed out the kitchen with the fire extinguisher in hand only to have the weak supports of the kitchen fall and hit directly on top of him burying him in rubble.

Paul moved faster than I'd ever seen any human move before. He swept me up into a fire-mans lift before shoving me in-between the guys in order to keep me relatively safe. He then rushed towards where Jake had dropped the fire extinguisher, grabbed it and leapt through the arch to start spraying.

I felt heat on my arm and looked down in shock to see that my sleeve had caught fire, I'm ashamed to say that I let out the most girly scream ever. Paul swivelled round to spray me and then turned back to the flames.

Half the guys were rushing to get their hands on something to put out the flames and save what they could of the house while the other half were dodging and weaving through rubble in order to find Jake. Jared had obviously been chosen for the job of getting Billy out the house since he was handicapped.

Paul aimed at the base of the flames in order to have the most efficient way of putting them out, I sense of fear rushed through me but not for myself, for Paul. In just the short moment I knew him, he and all the guys, even Jared, had made their ways into my hearts and I couldn't let them get hurt because of a stupid decision I had made.

I started to cough and suddenly couldn't stop the smoke caused from the flames was letting out toxic chemicals into the air, which I had inhaled just. I got down low to the ground in order to prevent anymore by being inhaled into my system and I also grabbed Brady's sleeve and yanked him down as well when he went into a coughing fit of his own.

When the curtains caught alight I knew that in order to save them I had to expose what I truly was to them so I stood up, took a deep breath to calm my self, held my hands flexed out in front of my and ejected reams of ice from the centre of my palms hitting the major flames making them vanish in an instant. I knew this was for the better and that the shock and confusion in their eyes would be answered but now I was far more concerned on getting the flames put out and making sure they were safe.

When the last of the flames disappeared we all were out in the back garden since the house was now covered in ash. Jake was laying on the grass with his eyes shut trying to breath through the pain since he had just had a tonne of rubble land smack bang on him. The other lads were spread out, but one thing they all had in common was that they were staring at me, some in confusion , some in awe but one was in acceptance, Billy.

He knew all along what I was and he'd never told, I mean I know we are family but I thought he would have told his son of the rest of the elders or someone at least that I wasn't and never would be human. Dad knew, that's why the bound was strong between us, that's why even though we had a great distance between us physically, mentally we were right next to each other.

"what the hell was that?" Sam erupted pointed towards the building but by now I was struggling to breath and fell to my knees in front of everyone with one hand clasped to my throat and the other banging at my chest. There were now black spots in my vision and panic started to set in. Oh my god I was going to die, please let this not be the end of me not after I had escaped my mother and Phil please!

When my vision finally went black I felt the impact of me and the floor before nothing else existed. "Oh god Daddy, let this not be the end of me!"