A/N - I'm so sorry that this chapter took so long to update. I barely have any free time since school started, but i'll try and get the others out sooner than this one. Thanks to all that have reviewed this story so far. You guys are the best. I hope that i get a little more reviews this time, for all those who have read it but haven't reviewed it. But i hope you like this chapter.

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Chapter 3

"So what were you going to tell me?" I asked Seth as I was driving my aunt's car to the party.

"Oh, you'll find that that out tonight," Seth said. "But I might want to warn you that it might come as a shock to you."

"What is?" I asked, hoping I could get some information from him.

"Oh no, I'm not telling you anything," he said, "You're going to have to wait. Besides, you wouldn't believe me if I told you."

"Try me," I said, knowing that he wouldn't tell me anything, but deciding to try anyway.

"Take a right here," Seth said a little too late. I turned the wheel to the right as fast as I could, trying to make the turn onto a dirt road. It was a good thing that there were no cars around, or else I would have hit them.

"Tell me sooner next time," I said, my heart beating faster.

"Sorry," he said innocently. "Anyways, we're here."

I pulled up into a huge clearing next to the beach. I parked next to the only two other cars that were there. We got out of the car and walked towards the huge bonfire that was already lit. Around it were huge, shirtless boys – no, men – that looked just like…Seth.

My mouth was probably hanging wide open because when Seth looked at me, he started cracking up.

"Told you it would come as a shock to you," he said, grinning.

"So your secret is that you have 7 clones?" I asked in disbelief.

He chuckled. "No, that's just an extra thing that happens when -" he started to say, but then stopped suddenly. He looked like he was gagging on something, but then he recovered from it just seconds later.

"You okay?" I asked, concerned about my cousin.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry," he said as he started walking in front of me towards his clones.

As we walked closer, I saw that there were 2 other people there besides the clones. One woman and one teenage girl. I felt uncomfortable because everyone there was tanned and had dark hair. I, on the other hand, am fair-skinned with light brown hair and freckles sprinkled all over my face.

"Finally," one of the guys said when he saw me and Seth. He turned to face the woman. "Can we eat now since the idiot finally decided to show up?"

"No, we still have to wait for Leah," she said as she was bending over to set the small table with food and utensils.

"Leah's gonna be late," Seth told them. "She wanted some time on her own and since we're all here….she thought that this would be the best time for it."

Everyone had a look of symphony on their faces. Everyone except the guy who asked about the food. He had a look of joy on his face and sprang up from his spot on the ground and went to get some food.

"Save some for Leah, Paul," the woman said while she was turning around to face Seth and me, "Who's this Seth?"

I started to gasp, but then shut my mouth quickly before any sound could escape from it. The whole part on the woman's right side of her face was covered by three vivid red lines running down from her hair to her chin. I had a million questions running through my head that I wanted to ask Seth just then. But I thought that it would be best if I asked him somewhere more private. I didn't want her to overhear us and start crying because of it. Unlike my classmates back home, I actually care if I hurt someone's feelings.

"This is Katie," Seth said to her, ignoring the red scars. Clearly, he knew her and didn't bother giving me any warning of any kind to tell me about this. "My cousin I told you about who was coming to stay with us for a while."

"It's nice to meet you, Katie. I'm Emily," she said as she was shaking my hand. Her name should be easy to remember, but the others were going to be difficult. As Seth introduced me to them, I tried to pick out different features about them that I could remember, but I couldn't find anything. They were all massive and bulky. They all had the same haircut and hair color, except for one. Jacob, I think, had his hair grown longer than anyone else's, so I should be able to tell him apart. But the rest – Sam, Jared, Paul, Embry, Collin, and Brady – I'll have to guess at until I can remember them.

Seth was right about one thing, though, there was a lot of food. There were about 100 hotdogs, 12 bags of chips, and 6 liters of soda.

"Are we going to eat all of this tonight?" I asked Seth as I was getting myself a hotdog.

"There will be about one or tow extra, but, yeah, we're going eat all of this," Seth said as he reached out to get himself his 6th hotdog.

"Hey, Seth," one of the guys called him. I'm guessing he was Sam because he was sitting right beside Emily, which Seth told me that they were together. About the only thing that he did tell me. "I need to talk to you for a minute."

Either Seth didn't like Sam or he didn't want to talk to him because his face looked like he was about to sign up for war or something. But, war or no war, he stood up and followed Sam into the forest to talk.

Feeling abandoned, I walked over to the only other girl here.

"Do you mind if I sit down?" I asked politely. I knew that she would have no idea about what happened in my old school, but I was still afraid of being rejected and humiliated.

"No, not at all," she said. I exhaled as I sat down next to her. "I'm Kim, by the way, Jared's girlfriend."

"Jared?" I asked, stumped by which one that was.

She smiled. "The one who's trying to chug the soda bottle," she said as she pointed to him. Sure enough, when I looked over there, there was a guy half way through a bottle and still drinking it. Actually, I saw that everyone of the muscular guys where stuffing their face or chugging a bottle. But I noticed that someone was missing. I didn't know who, but it felt like it was less crowed in a way. I looked around, counting everyone there. There were 6 people there, not including Sam and Seth. I finally realized that the guy with the shaggy hair, Jacob, was the one that was missing.

"Where did Jacob go?" I asked curiously, looking around to see if I missed him.

"Oh, he had to go somewhere. He never actually stays here for a long time. He just eats his food and leaves. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't show up anymore," Kim said. But I only heard half of it. When I was looking around, I saw someone who was staring back. He was sitting directly across from me with his food untouched. He wasn't paying attention to any conversation by him. All he did was stare at me with his huge brown eyes. And I stared back with my face turning redder, unable to break my gaze from his perfect face.

"Kate, you okay?" I heard someone say. I came back to my surroundings.

"Huh? Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm fine," I said, slowly turning away from the enchanting man and to Kim. "Who's that? Sitting across from us?"

Kim turned her head and gasped.

"What?" I said, frantically, "What is it?"

Everyone turned around to face us. Jared was by her side in just seconds after she gasped.

"What happened?" he asked her in his husky voice. "Are you hurt?"

"No, no, I'm fine," she said, trying to compose her face.

"Are you sure?" he asked. I thought that he was being a little too overprotective about this, but it was also nice. I could tell that he really did care if anything happened to her, even if it was a hangnail. Someone like that could not be found at my old school.

"Jared, I'm fine," she said calmly, "Honestly. Go back to eating."

He hesitated, not wanting to leave her.

"Go," she said with a smile, "I need to talk to Katie."

He looked at her and then turned around when he was sure that she was fine.

Kim turned back to me. "To answer your question, Katie, the guy who won't stop staring at you is Embry Call."

As she said this, I could feel Embry's gaze burning into the back of my head and turned around to face him again. I think that even through all the drama that had happened a minute ago, he still didn't look away from me. So I stared back at him, losing my thoughts in those remarkable eyes.

Embry's POV

I couldn't look away from her. She was just so…breathtaking. How her hair gently blew in the wind. How her pale blue eyes stood out against her flawless skin. Even how her cheeks filled with color when she caught my gaze made me want to be with her even more. I couldn't look away. She's my hope and life now.

I could hardly speak when Seth introduced me to her. But I managed to weakly say hello when she got to me. Lucky for me, no one knew what had happened then, even when almost half of them imprinted themselves. They can be so oblivious to the obvious sometimes. I'm glad that they are, though. If they found out, they'd give me hell. Especially Paul. If only Kim kept her mouth shut when she saw me, everything would be fine.

Jared was staring at me curiously when he was going back to his spot after he made sure that Kim was okay. He was just now starting to put the pieces together.

"Embry, you didn't…?" he said slowly and softly. I pulled out of my gaze to look at him.

"He did!" Paul said excitedly. He sounded like a little girl getting a new doll. "Sam! Hey, Sam!" he called out into the woods.

Two massive figures came walking out of the trees, one slightly bigger than the other. Both wore the face of anger and frustration. Paul ran over to Sam, not wanting to wait for him to walk over here. He also didn't notice the anger in Sam's face, too.

"Guess what happened to Embry?" he asked. I wanted to punch him, hit him, do anything to him that causes him pain. The only thing that stopped me was when I thought about how Paul might phase and hurt her.

"Whatever it is can it wait?" said Sam in a frustrated voice. "I have to deal with something right now."

"Dude, Embry just im-" Paul started.

"Paul! Give it a rest!" Sam shouted back furiously. Everyone looked at him, including Kim and Kate, stunned by what he said or really, how he said it. Sam never got that angry at us before, even when we did do something completely stupid. We didn't even know what we did this time. I stood up and ran over to him, trying to calm him down.

"Relax, Sam. Just get a grip," I said quickly. He was shaking out of control now. "Think of Emily. Think of Kate. And Kim." But he seemed to be under control when I mention Emily.

He put his hands on his temple like he was trying to control a bad headache. He was still shaking, but less and less every second. Emily was getting up and starting to walk over here. Sam didn't miss that.

"No! Emily, stay where you are!" he said in a scared voice. Emily hesitated, but stayed where she was with a worried face sketched on her scarred face.

I turned around to see if Kate was okay. Her eyes were popped open a little bit and her mouth was open, but otherwise, she was unharmed. Her face looked like she was terrified and worried at the same time. I wanted to go over to her. I wanted to assure her that everything was fine. That she was safe. That I would never let anything happen to her. But before I could even take a step towards her, Sam pulled me back.

"Wait, Embry," he said. He recovered from his "headache" in time to see who I was staring at. Unlike the rest of the guys, he actually knew what had happen immediately. "Can I talk to you for a minute?"

It really wasn't a question. He would talk to me even if he had to force me to go with him. I thought it would be for the best if I could still leave with some dignity rather then throwing a fit in front of her. Besides, most of them already knew anyways.

"Sure," I muttered.

He led the way into the forest, waiting a little longer for me as I took one last look at Kate before following him.

"Phase," he told me once we were out of sight. I did it without a compliant, knowing why he didn't want to talk in our human form. He didn't want me to lie to him (although I have no idea why he would think that I would lie to him) and the best way to do that is in wolf form. I guess it also helps if we get pissed off and start yelling at each other, that way no one will be able to hear us. He waited until I fully phased before he phased himself.

"Okay, now, what's…going…on…" he said as he spaced off. He listened to what had happened inside my head for a minute before he spoke.

Embry, he thought as he chuckled inside his head.

What? What is so funny? I thought furiously.

Nothing. It's just that I'm starting to wonder if this legend is even suppose to rare or not. What are you, the fifth one that's done it?

I relaxed, wondering why I got so mad in the first place; Sam wouldn't tease me about this, not when his situation was so much worse than this one.

Do you need me anymore? I want to get back there. I thought as I was longing to see Kate's sweet face again.

No, go ahead. Just tell Emily that I'll see her when I get back home in a couple of hours.

Where're you going?

I'm going to give Jacob an early break from patrol. He looks like he needs it.

Wait, when did he leave? I was trying to remember anything back at the bonfire except Kate's face. Nothing came to me.

He laughed in his head.

Of course you wouldn't have noticed. He left about half an hour ago.

Oh…okay, well, I'm going to go back.

Okay, go back to your 'soul mate'

Even in his head I could hear the sarcastic sound in his voice. But I laughed; Sam was just kidding, or he better be. If he was seriously making fun of me, I would have attacked him right then and there.

Oh, Embry, wait. Don't tell Kate about us just yet. I don't want her to get freak out on her first night in La Push.

Like I do?

Just go he thought while he was laughing.

I took a deep breath and tried to control my mind while I phased back. Sam was heading in the opposite direction of the bonfire when I started walking towards it. When I got back into the clearing, everyone was silent and staring at me, including Kate, with her piercing blue eyes. I went back to my spot, lightheaded from walking all the distance with Kate's eyes on me, picked up my food, suddenly starving. Once I sat down, everyone went back to what they were doing before, Kate taking a little longer to look away. The only one who didn't look away was Seth. He walked over to me and sat down right next to the spot where I was sitting.

"So, you really did…you know," he said quietly, not wanting to say the word because whether he thought that it was weird or in case we were being overheard, I don't know.

"What do you think, Seth?" I said, getting tired of everyone talking about this. Yeah, I'm imprinted, get used to it.

"That's great!" Seth said excitedly, "Now I can tell her everything." He got up and started walking towards Kate and Kim.

"Wait a minute," I said as I pulled him back by his shirt, "Sam told me not to tell her tonight."

"Didn't tell me that," he said, trying to break my grip. But since Seth was one of the weakest one in our pack, he gave up after a minute or two. He sat down next to me, angry and annoyed.

I smiled. "Think about it. Do you really want to tell her this when she just arrived here? And besides, what are you going to say? 'Hey, just thought I'd let you know that I'm a werewolf and one of my friends is your soul mate.' She'd have a heart attack before you even finish."

"I wouldn't say it like that. I would -" Seth started to protest.

"Forget it. Sam gave us orders," I told him.

"Fine, then you go talk to her," Seth said, disappointed.

"Didn't I just say that I can't tell her?" I said, questioning his intelligence.

"I know. But you don't have to talk to her about that," Seth said, "Just talk to her about normal stuff. The more you talk to her, the more she'll believe us when we tell her."

Damn it, he was right. It's not like I didn't want to talk to her, it's just that I didn't want to say anything stupid and look like an idiot. And I always say something stupid around girls. Especially the hot ones.

"I don't know, Seth. Maybe tomorrow, if I see her -" I said, trying to worm my way out of this.

"Oh, c'mon, you're not telling me that you're afraid, are you?" Seth said with a grin. "Just go and talk to her or I'll tell Paul that you're too afraid to."

I scowled at him, but stood up. There's no way that I'm going to let Paul know how I feel right now. He gave Jared hell when he admitted that he was nervous around Kim.

I hesitated when I was walking towards her, not knowing if I had enough courage to talk to her. Behind me, Seth was encouraging and threatening me all at once and with all of that, I started walking towards my soul mate. By the time that I was halfway there, she looked up and noticed me. I almost melted right there when her blue eyes met my muddy brown ones. I'm surprised that I made it all the way to her without tripping or falling down.

I was standing a few feet away from her, my palms all sweaty. She was watching me out of curiosity and nervousness. Besides her, Kim was almost cracking up, but trying her best to hold it in.

"Um, hi," I said in a cracked voice, "Can I sit here?"