A/N: Soooo, I'm excited about this chapter. It isn't that great but it's long and it's something I've had in my head for a while and I'm just glad I'm finally getting it out there.

Disclaimer: Steph owns all.

La Push

MPOV

"Please? Please, please, please, please, please!" I begged. "Nick needs to hunt, don't make him stay here. Please let me go with her!"

Alice pursed her lips. Bella was going to La Push today to see the dog, and I wanted to go with her. I haven't been to the beach since my parents death, and to be honest, I could do with getting out of the house. But, Alice was worried about me going to a place crawling with werewolves, unprotected.

"I don't know..." Alice said warily.

"Aw, come on! If Bella can go and come back unscathed, so can I!" I whined.

"Yeah, if the klutz can do it, anyone can." Bella said sarcastically as she entered the room.

"See!" I said. I grinned at her and looked back at Alice. She rolled her eyes and threw her hands up in defeat.

"Yay!" I exlaimed, clapping my hands together.

"Alice!" Nick hissed, breezing into the room. "I thought you said you wouldn't give in!"

"Excuse me?" I said, crossing my arms over my chest.

Nick stiffened. "I- Err..." He mumbled turning to me as I raised an eyebrow.

"I don't want you going near them filthy mutts." Nick said, facing me and crossing his arms too.

"I'm not going near them, I'm going to the beach. Bella's the puppy lover, not me."

"Hey!" Bella exclaimed, scowling at me. I ignored her and turned back Nick.

"You're not going." He stated.

"Yes, I am."

"No, you're not."

"Yes. I. Am." I said each word slowly.

"No. You're. Not." He copied my tone.

"Yes-" I started.

"Come on, Nick. If I can be reasonable, so can you." Edward said, after blurring into the room. He clapped Nick on the shoulder and walked over to Bella. "Plus, I'll feel better knowing Bella won't be alone." He grinned when Bella made a face.

I smirked at Nick as he scowled at Edward.

"Nick doesn't want to admit defeat out loud, but you can go." Edward said, his tone laced with amusement.

"I was going anyway. No-one tells me what I can and can't do." I said defiantly, grabbing my keys and fags. "Come on, Bella."

"I'm driving." Edward stated, grabbing my arm and trying to snatch my keys.

"Aw, come on! I want to show my car off to the dogs! What happened to the 'reasonable' Edward?" I moaned.

"It's like- I don't know- A tradition!" Edward argued.

"Traditions get broken all the time, Edward." I said, wriggling out of his grasp and heading to the garage.

"Bella!" I screamed, unlocking the car and jumping in. I revved the engine impatiently.

My door opened and Nick popped his head in. I scowled at him.

"Melissa, please be careful." He whispered grabbing my chin to make me look at him. My scowl immediately melted away when I looked at his face. He was genuinely worried about me. I cupped his cool cheek in my palm and leaned towards him.

"Baby, please don't worry. I will be fine. Bella used to always be there and..." I trailed off, knowing very well I couldn't say nothing happened, because Bella has told me that plenty had happened. "Nothing catastrophic happened." There. That was a reasonable answer.

Nick frowned at me for a moment before sighing. "Fine." He relented. "I'm sorry for trying to control you." He whispered.

I rolled my eyes and leaned closer, capturing his lips with mine. I hated arguing with him. Especially over the most stupid things.

We broke apart and I was gasping for air. Surprise, surprise.

"Just don't do it again." I relented.

"I promise." He whispered kissing me into an oblivion again.

"Can we go now?" I heard an irratated voice yell.

I pulled away and turned to scowl at Bella who was glaring at me. I wonder how long she had been in the car.

"Don't look at me like that, you're the one who wanted to get going. So, let's go already." Bella huffed. I rolled my eyes and turned back to Nick, who was chuckling quietly to himself.

"I'll see you later." He said, leaning in for a small kiss. He pulled back and shut the door.

I leaned back in my seat with a shit eating grin on my face. I was well and truly dazzled.

Bella clicked her fingers in face, snapping me back to reality. I looked at her as she chuckled and shook her head. I laughed along with her, "Stupid dazzling vampires." I muttered.

"That they are." Bella agreed.

The drive to La Push was short. Bella told me the directions and I broke every traffic law. Bella warned me that her Dad was the Chief of Police but that just spurred me on. He wouldn't give one of his daughters best friends a ticket would he?

I've only met Charlie once and it wasn't under the best circumstances. We were all in a holding cell and I was drunk. Enough said.

We eventually made into La Push and Bella directed me to Jacob's house. I wanted to go straight to the beach but Bella insisted that I met Jacob. I don't know why, she knows I don't like him.

When we pulled up to the small house, I scowled at the figure standing dumbstruck at the doorway. From Bella's description, the guy was Jacob. He was built like a brick shit house, had tan skin, a little darker than mine and had black hair.

Bella hopped out of the car and grinned at Jacob. He snapped his eyes away from my car and grinned widely when he saw Bella. He jogged over to the car and hugged her, lifting her off the ground and twirling her around. She squealed in delight and I made a face. How can she even like this guy? He was a prick. She said they had an 'unexplained connection'. Whatever, you won't catch me becoming a mutt lover.

I opened the door and stepped out, a scowl fixed on my face, ready for Jacob. I shut the door and turned to find him running his paws over the hood of my car. I walked over to him and slapped his hand away.

"Don't touch what you can't afford." I snapped.

He took a step back and wrinkled his nose. He looked down at me - fuck, he's tall! - and frowned in confusion.

He looked at Bella then back at me and then back at Bella. "Who's this?" He asked, some what rudely.

"Alice's niece." She sighed. "Melissa meet Jacob, Jacob meet Melissa." She said waving a hand dismissively.

"The leech has a niece?" Jacob asked, scowling.

"Yes, Alice has a niece. It's a long story which I'm sure you'd love to hear." Bella said, glancing warily at me as I glared at Jacob.

"Well..." He started, turning back to me.

"Look, I don't like you. So, point the way to beach and don't fucking speak to me again." I said bluntly.

He looked taken aback for a second before lifting a hand and pointing to a gap in the trees. I nodded once.

"It's ten minutes-" He started.

"I said don't fucking speak to me. I'll find my way. See you in a couple of hours, Bella?" I asked, walking towards the opening.

Bella nodded dumbly, clearly shocked at how I was speaking to her 'friend'. I nodded once before leaving them alone.

I guessed Jacob and whoever else went to the beach from his house went often as there was a small path that lead the way for me. It wasn't noticable straight away but it was there.

After twenty minutes of weaving through bushes and trees I eventually made it to the beach. The cold wind whipped my hair around my face and I regretted not tying it up. I plodded farther down the beach. I looked around for anywhere that I could I sit and amuse myself or something when I spotted a few of the locals having a kick about. I decide to just walk past them and hope they didn't notice the stranger walking by. I put my hood up and crossed my arms over my chest as I tried to hurry past them.

"Seth, look out!" Someone yelled.

I barely had time to look up as a huge body fell into me, taking both of us to the floor. The guy somehow managed to grab hold of me as we were falling and turn us round so I landed on top of him rather than him landing on top of me. The breath was knocked out of me as I thudded onto his muscular chest. I'm sure my eyes were a wide as saucers when I looked up at the guy.

He was smiling a thousand watt smile which stood against his tan skin - his boiling hot tan skin. Seriously, it was like he had been in an oven for a good hour. I scowled at him and tried to get up. I felt a bit uncomfortable with the way he was holding me. He saw what I was trying to do and got to his feet, tugging me with him. He was still grinning.

"Sorry about that. Paul hasn't completely mastered the art of kicking a ball." He said.

"Screw you!" I heard someone yell from behind me. I turned round to see a mammoth of a man - I guessed it was this Paul guy - holding his middle finger up. How in the hell did he hear him from all the way over there?

I turned back to the guy in front of me and noticed for the first time that he was shirtless. Then I saw the tattoo and thought of the tempurature of his skin and it clicked into place. He was a werewolf. I wrinkled my nose at the same time the guy did the same. He looked at me carefully, squinting his eyes at me before grinning at me again.

I decided I should reply to his apology, I didn't want to be rude.

"It's okay... Er, yeah, I'm just going to, er, go." I mumbled awkwardly. For some reason I didn't have the heart to be rude to this werewolf. Though he had the body of a man his face gave away that he was young. Sixteen, maybe.

"Wait!" He called as I started to walk away. I turned back to him with a raised eyebrow.

He walked up to me and held out his hand. I put my hand into his scorching grasp and smiled. "I'm Seth." He said, the massive smile never leaving his face.

"Melissa." I replied.

"Melissa." He repeated. "Hey, listen, I don't suppose you know-" He started but was cut off.

"Don't bother, Seth, she's taken. And you're too young for her." Jacob said from behind Seth, his arm draped over Bella's shoulder. I eyed his arm and looked to Bella who just shrugged.

"Man, you're so fucking rude. What were about to say before he interrupted you?" I said, glaring at Jacob. Jacob narrowed his eyes at me and I turned back to Seth, who was looking between Jacob and I with furrowed eyebrows.

"I was going ask if you knew the Cullens?" He asked.

"Err, yes. I live with them, Alice is my Aunt. Why?" I asked as he wrinkled his nose again. "Oh, because you're a werewolf and can smell them on me." It was a statement more that it was a question. I knew all about the way werewolves and vampires were repulsed by the others smell. I just didn't believe it.

"Er, well... yes." Seth said awkwardly, scratching the back of his neck. Sometimes I cursed my forwardness and bluntness. It usually made everyone uncomfortable.

"Did the Cullens tell you about us?" Jacob growled. Well maybe not everyone. I noticed the rest of the 'pack' (I could tell by the tattoos on their arms) had gathered around us and we now had a pretty big audience.

"No, I did." Bella said, elbowing him in the ribs.

"Oh." Jacob's face fell like he was hoping he had an excuse for a fight with my family. Prick.

A/N: Yeah this isn't the whole thing but I'm splitting the La Push visit into two as I'm wayyyyy to tired to carry on. It is currently 6:06am, so yeah. Not good.

R&R!

Cherry x