A/N Hey guys, sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've been really busy with school and stuff so I haven't had the time to actually sit down and write but here's the next chapter (although it is shorter than the rest but I promise the next one will be longer) and I'll update again soon.

Annabelle sat down heavily in a chair in the kitchen and Brady followed her like a little puppy. The wolves in the room all cried in laughter at the sight and Embry nearly fell out of his chair because he was laughing and trying to speak at the same time. He finally managed to gasp 'Aw man. Not even imprinted half an hour and he's already following her around, he's almost as bad as Sam and Emily and Sam followed Em back to Makah.'

Annabelle reached behind Brady and smacked Embry swiftly across the back of his head which made him yelp in surprise. Annabelle grinned in satisfaction, stood up and said 'I'm gonna go look for Sam'. At the same time she spoke everyone in the room stumbled out of their chairs and protested.

Paul- 'I don't really think that's a good idea kiddo'

Jared- 'Yeah I agree, bad idea'

Embry 'Uhh that's not the best plan you've ever had'

Jacob 'Not a chance, he could hurt you'

Emily 'I agree sweetie, I don't want what happened to me to happen to you too'

Seth 'Aw no, you can't do that'

Quil 'Don't do it kid'

Collin 'Are you crazy?'

Leah 'I agree with everybody else, no way you can go see him'

And once everybody had their say Brady finally spoke up. His eyes flashed dangerously as he growled. 'Annie are you insane? Do you want to get hurt? I've only just got you and now you wanna go find your brother to console him or something even though he has no dang reason to be mad. He should be HAPPY dammit!'. Brady's speech swiftly came to a stop when he realised Annabelle was crying. He quickly crossed the space between them and crushed her to his body and rubbed her back as she sobbed. Brady knew that when Annabelle cried the best thing to do was to just let her cry and not to say a word. When her tears finally stopped Brady held on to her for dear life, fearing she would leave and go get herself hurt. 'I'm sorry Annie' he whispered to her 'I just don't want you to get hurt'. Annabelle smiled up at him and whispered back 'It's okay, I just feel really bad. I need to talk to Sam'. Brady sighed inwardly and relented 'Okay Annie but Paul is going with you, I don't trust myself to go right now'.

Annabelle smiled and ran to the front door where she turned briefly to see if Paul was following her and when she saw that he was she continued out the door. Paul walked about ten yards behind her while she called out to Sam but when she received no reply after ten minutes Paul sighed and hoisted her up onto his back and walked towards where he could smell Sam was. Paul stopped just before a break in the trees and put Annie down. He told her he would stay back a little to give them some privacy but he wouldn't go too far in case she needed him. Annie huffed at Paul good naturedly and walked through the trees towards Sam where she could hear him mumbling to himself and she giggled when he stubbed his toe on a boulder and a crack appeared down the middle of it. Sam's head shot up when Annie giggled and he sprinted towards her and threw her over his back while she protested. Sam grabbed her side where he knew was particularly ticklish and she burst into peals of laughter. Sam sighed happily at the sound and he recalled the day he first heard that sound.

Annie had been living with him for about three days at that point and she would not stop crying and Sam could not fathom why. He tried a promise of toys, clothes, junk food, a later bed time …. But nothing worked. No matter what Sam did he could not make the little four year stop crying. That was until Collin's mom brought Brady and Collin round to be introduced to Annabelle and when little Annie saw the boys she dried her eyes , ran out of the room and came back in no more than two minutes later in a little dress and said sweetly to the two boys 'Do you wanna play wif me?'. Sam at this point was completely shell shocked and his mouth literally fell open at the sight of his little sister smiling since the time she had arrived. Collin instantly went towards Annabelle but Brady hid behind Sam's legs and peeked shyly at her. Annie flashed Brady a cute little grin and Sam groaned as he realised he'd have his hands full trying to keep boys away from her when she was older. Brady ran out from behind Sam's legs and towards Annie and gently tugged on one of her piggy tails and instead of growling at him like she did when Sam had done that she giggled. The cutest little giggle that echoed around the room and Sam melted into a puddle. She had captured the hearts of two men that day, one her brother and the other a little boy who she would one day love.

Sam sighed again and put Annabelle down and said to her 'I'm sorry Annie, I nearly hurt you very badly but I just couldn't bear the thought of you belonging to somebody else when you've barely just become mine. I am so very sorry sweetheart. Can you please forgive me?'

Annie stood facing her big brother and she nearly burst into tears at his apology. She wrapped her arms around his middle and she started crying for the third time that day. Sam rubbed her back and told her it would be okay and eventually she stopped. Sam grabbed her little hand and said 'Let's go talk to Brady and Emily'.

They two of them walked through the trees towards where Paul was waiting and once they reached him they all set off towards the house where Sam, Paul, Emily, Brady and Annie would all have a long chat.

So what do you think? Should I continue the story? Anything you guys would like to say? Reviews would be really helpful