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Lily of the Valley

Chapter 4 Back to La Push

"Hey, Billy its Lin." I said into the phone to the person on the other line.

"Lin, Lin Red?" He asked in disbelief.

"Yeah sorry about not keeping touch."

"Eight years honey no big deal, hey you coming down?"

"Yeah how'd you guess?" I asked sarcastically.

"Honey I know everything." He said giving a hearty laugh.

"Okay then do you know if you can pick me up for the airport on say Wednesday at 1:00?" I asked biting my lip.

"Sure I'll tell the boys and we'll all come, maybe you and them could catch up. I we all need to do a little catching up." He chuckled.

"Okay I'll be there."

"You better be missy or I'll tan your hide, no call or letters or visits for eight long years, leaving your Uncle Billy all out in the cold."

"I'll be there, bye Billy."

"Bye see you soon." With his last comment we both hung up waiting for Wednesday which was two days away.

I was already pretty much ready for the trip and maybe the stay. I'd packed virtually everything in the house and was already looking for another house I could stay in while I was there, going through the options in my head then realized I could probably stay in my mom's and my old house. Lots of memories flooded that house and I started to wonder if they'd changed anything when I was gone, but I knew they wouldn't have sold anything it wasn't like any of them. After countless moments of wondering I got my laptop out and started to search for plane tickets from Colorado to Washington.

Wednesday

Wednesday came and the flight was dreadful. I couldn't stop thinking about how it'd be to see all of them again, and particularly someone that's name started with a P. How'd he look? Did he act the same? Was he even the same Paul I'd known? And if he'd changed was it for the better or worse? So many unanswered questions and I wasn't even sure were ready to be answered.

I was dropped off at Quillayute State Airport at around 1:00 in the afternoon. When I got off the plane I had no idea who to look for besides Billy I guess, and there was a very slim chance Billy was coming if the boys were going to pick me up. When I wheeled off the plane into the airport I had a sense of 'dev ju' as I looked for who was supposed to be picking me up. I saw group of tall gigantic men standing together that looked Quileute but I figured they couldn't be the ones picking me up, after all they looked like they could all be twenty-five at the least and Jacob was only twenty-one and so was Quil and Embry. May I add they were all wearing wife-beaters and were in excellent shape.

I started walking in search of Billy or the guys. I finally gave up because I was wandering aimlessly around the airport so I sat in a seat and waited but I couldn't help but over hear the group of men I saw earlier talking.

"Hey when she coming I'm hungry." I heard the smaller one whine which reminded me of Jared.

"She'll be here you're just impatient." I heard the largest of them answer knocking the one who complained in the head.

"Damn it." The one who'd received the smack to the head howled.

"Maybe we should call Billy and see if her plane got delayed or something." A younger looking one shrugged.

'Wait, call Billy those can't be the guys they are two huge!' I thought to myself. I had to find out if they were, I wasn't going to get left here period. So I summed up most of my courage to get up and walk over to their group of five.

"Hey." I said hesitantly to get one persons attention. Instead I got more attention asked for; they all turned and looked at me with quizzical faces.

"You need some help pretty lady 'cause I'm all yours." I heard the smaller one said cockily, which for that comment he received a smack upside the head from who I could guess was the leader.

"Sorry about that my friend Quil he is a little too cocky for his own good. What do you need?" The leader said stepping forward.

"Well I just wondering if you were the ones to pick me up like Billy said." All of a sudden Quil's eyes bugged out.

"Holy shit you mean your Lin!?" He shouted.

"Yeah I'm Lin why is that such a shocker?" I asked it's not like I knew him I knew a Quil but he certainly couldn't have looked like that.

Then for a few seconds I couldn't breathe and I felt really hot. This happened because those five guys decided to give me big bear hugs and decide to suffocate me.

"Can't breathe!" I managed to squeak out when the tallest was squeezing me.

"Sorry Lin." He said placing me on the ground and stepping back.

"Sorry but I don't think I know you guys but somehow you know me." Clueless little me said.

"Come on don't tell me you'd forget little old me." The biggest that squeezed me to death said. I tilted my head to look at him and took a close look, then looked at his eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and took in his features. He didn't look like the twenty-one year old I thought he would let's put it like that.

"Jake?"

"Come on is it that much of a surprise?"

"Uh yeah, your buff, huge, and you cut all your hair off!" I practically yelled in shock.

"Ok then since you got to meet her I'd like to meet my God daughter." One of the guys who was only inches shorter than Jake.

"Sam!" I said jumping up and hugging him like he was my dad and he'd just come home from work.

"Hey little Lin how have you been?" He asked smiling.

"Well I've been horrible to tell you the truth." I said letting go of him.

"Why who was messing with our little Lin?" I heard yet another one of the boys I couldn't recognize say. "By the way if you don't remember who I am you must be really out of it."

"Sorry nothing comes to mind." I said as-a-matter-a-fact, and he rolled his eyes.

"Quil like OMG I can't believe it's you!" Quil said in a high pitched mocking voice, I punched him in the arm and protested I that didn't talk like that.

"Sure, sure." Jake butted in.

"And you what happened to you, you used to be shy now you're like whatever?" I said in a light disbelieving voice.

"Hey, people change." He said as the shrugged.

"Speaking of people changing how is Paul and might I ask is where the hell on earth is he?" I asked eager to know.

"He's fine and he's out I guess he didn't catch the memo." Was the answer I got from the now overly cocky Embry.

We caught up on the past eight years in Bill's truck while Sam and Jake sat upfront with me in the middle and the rest of the guys in the back bed of the truck and I found out Sam and Leah weren't lovey-dovey anymore because he fell for her younger cousin Emily, who I hear cooks very well, and they are getting married next week. I also found Jared and his girlfriend Kim are engaged, Quil for the most part is single along with Embry, Paul, and Jake.

"So you got anyone back home were going to half to beat up?" Sam asked jabbing me lightly with his elbow.

"Nope, and I haven't since a year ago." I said sighing.

"Why what'd he do? We're not going to half to track this guy down and make him pay are we?" Embry joked from the back poking his head through the mini sliding glass door above my head that over looked the bed of the truck.

"Yeah if you want, but I already gave him a piece of my mind when his things 'accidently' got wet outside in the rain and got water damage." I said nonchalantly.

"Feisty." Embry commented from sliding glass door which earned him a flick in the head by Sam.

The reason why Quil and Jake say they are single is because it'd be weird to tell Lin that Quil was in love with a six year old and Jake with a hybrid human/vampire, and Paul doesn't have anyone…….yet. Hope you liked, reviews please and happy holidays. Sorry again for the delay on unupdated chapters but I promise I'll updat as soon as possible.

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