WHAT WOULD I DO IF SOMEONE IMPRINTED ON ME?
I could hear the yelling coming from the living room. I silently grabbed my mobile from my bedside table and marked a number I had marked so many times before.
"Yes?" The voice made me feel better already. It was silent wherever she was. Completely the opposite of what I was living.
"Hey Ams, it´s me." I said with my voice cracking at the end. I could hear my sister crying from my room.
"Hey Elena, your parents again?" She asked.
"This time my sister too." I said.
"Just leave me alone! I just want to live my life. Leave me alone! You´re not my father!" My sister said. I heard a slap and I knew my step dad had slapped her.
"Jonathan! How can you! Jonathan! Wait! Come back!" My mother was saying and then I heard the front door slam shut, but not before my step father yelled:
"You mean nothing to me you bitch! When I come back you better be gone! " My step-dad said directed to my sister.
I was in a corner of my room with my mobile in my ear. Simply hearing Amy´s breathing made me feel better. I wanted to cry.
Amy had heard it all.
"In ten minutes meet me and Sarah at her house. Her parents aren´t there so, you know… we´ll be there." I heard her saying. "My dad´s not home and my mothers in her room. So I'll be glad to get out of here too." She said already knowing that I'd ask her about her parents. I nodded although I already knew she couldn´t see me. I hang up and went to the living room.
My family and I lived in a flat in the outskirts of a tiny town in Spain. You could walk from one end to the other end of town. My mother was in the balcony crying and my sister went to her room and slammed the door shut when she saw me coming. She was nineteen and still lived with her parents. I knew she wanted to leave this hellhole and go somewhere else but she didn´t have the money to do so.
"I´ll be back before nine." I said to my mum. She didn´t even look at me before I left.
Once, I had fainted while being with some friends and they had had to take me to the hospital. I spent a whole day there and when I returned home my parent's didn´t even ask me where I had been. I told them that I had fainted and been in the hospital, they nodded and went back to watching TV. After that I had slammed myself in my room and cried myself to sleep. I was so goddamn miserable.
As soon as I arrived at Sarah´s and entered her house I immediately received hugs, and I hugged them back because I knew they were going through the same shit I was. We spent the whole afternoon together. We watched movies, had dinner and enjoyed each other's company. We wouldn´t talk much, being together and simply having each other near was enough.
Knowing that there were two people in this world that actually cared about me was the best feeling I have ever had in my entire life. Our hearts would beat together and we would forget about everything… but we couldn't ´t hide from reality forever. I had to go back home and continue hearing my parents screaming at each other and then, I would cry myself to sleep like I always did.
I would try to remember the moments I had spent with Amy and Sarah, and that would help suppress the yelling.
Remembering Sarah´s golden eyes and Amy´s green ones was enough…
"You have to stop thinking about that Elena." Amy said. I looked down ashamed. I had forgotten to close the connection between our minds. Sarah grabbed my hands in hers.
"Everything's better now. Were happy and that´s what matters. I wouldn´t change this for anything in the world." She said. Amy and Sarah hugged me.
I hated seeming so weak in front of them and they knew it.
"What are we going to eat?" Sarah asked quickly changing subject so I would feel more comfortable.
It was Sunday, lunchtime.
"Well, I was thinking that maybe I could go to the dinner again." I said. I really wanted to see Embry again and hopefully run into Paul, but before they had time to nod the doorbell rang.
I got up and went to open. Standing on the front porch was no other than Seth. Behind him I could see Paul and another boy I recognized as Brady.
"Hey Elena." Paul said hugging me tightly.
"Hi Paul." I said looking at Brady and Seth asking for an explanation with my eyes to Paul although, I already knew why they were here. The day at the bookshop, the day we had found out that they were werewolves, Amy had seen that Seth had imprinted on her. The problem was, that we didn´t know what an imprint was. For some reason, when we tried to read their minds to know what it is, something blocks us.
"Um… these are my friends. Brady and Seth." Paul said making a gesture towards the boys.
"Nice to meet you guys." I said. "Would you like to come in?" I asked. They nodded and came in.
"We have visitor's girls." I shouted. Amy and Sarah came down the stairs. When Seth saw Amy he didn´t stop looking at her and in the end Amy had to look away.
"These are my sisters. Sarah and Amy. Sarah, Ams, these are Brady, Seth and Paul." I said.
"Lahottie." Sarah said opening her mind. I suppressed a giggle. Sarah and Amy shook hands with Brady and Seth. The minute Brady´s eyes locked with Sarah´s I knew he had imprinted on her.
Paul was looking at Seth and Brady worriedly.
"Do you guys want to stay for lunch?" I asked. Paul opened his mouth but, before he could say anything Brady and Seth answered:
"Sure, thanks." Brady said.
"That would be great." Seth said. Neither of them looked away from they´re imprints.
I was guessing that imprintation was probably like love at first sight but I wasn't going to dwell on that now. I grabbed Paul´s hand and went to the kitchen.
"How does pizza sound?" I asked trying to forget about the fact that two werewolves had imprinted on my sisters.
"Great." Paul answered.
"You guys can invite anyone else you want." I said. Paul was looking at the hallway where Brady, Seth, Amy and Sarah were.
"That is a great idea." He said more to himself than to me. I put a finger under his chin and made him face me.
"Is everything okay Paul?" I already knew it wasn´t but I didn´t harm anyone by asking.
"Yeah…yeah. I´m just sorry about the um… staring." He said nervously. I giggled and that seemed to relax him.
"Just tell me how more guys you´re gonna invite. You look like you eat like wolves." I said half serious and half joking. Paul looked at me surprised by what I had just said.
"Bitch." Sarah said as she opened her mind to me. I smiled. She had heard.
Paul went to call his friends and came back a few minutes later.
"Four more are coming" He said. I called the Pizza place and ordered the pizzas. Paul seemed pretty nervous the whole time. After ordering the pizzas we went to the living room with my sisters and their imprinters. Paul gave a significant look at Seth and Brady.
"I´m sorry about staring so much when you guys came to the store. It wasn't my intention to freak you guys out. It´s just that …there was never really anything that was worth staring at until you came in." Seth said to Amy. She blushed. I suppressed a giggle and Sarah was smirking. There was an uncomfortable silence in the living room. I looked at the PlayStation we had.
"You guys play?" I asked already knowing the answer. The boys nodded. The doorbell rang at that moment and I went to open while the guys and my sisters assembled the PlayStation.
As soon as I opened the door I took a step back. Wow, I felt tiny.
"Your Elena, right?" The first freakishly hot guy asked. I nodded. "I´m Jacob." He said. As if I didn´t know, I thought. I wondered which of the guys had been spying on us the day before. We didn´t exactly know for sure that it had been them but we were pretty sure. The rest of the guys introduced themselves: Jared, Quil and Collin.
"Sorry for bumping into you." Jared apologized. The rest of the night passed smoothly. We ate the pizzas, played PlayStation and talked a lot. Those guys were so much fun! They were enormous but they still acted like kids. The eldest were Jared and Paul. Embry (who hadn´t come, much to my disappointment), Quil and Jacob were a year younger than Jared and Paul. Collin, Brady and Seth were the youngest and Sam was the eldest of all. We played Uncharted Co-op mode, Singstar (Disney, so you can imagine) and Guitar Hero.
I actually thought that Brady did as an excellent Troy.
Obviously Brady and Seth didn´t let neither Amy nor Sarah leave their sight all night. Paul was pretty attentive towards me too. The guys left pretty late. Amy had fallen asleep and Seth had taken her to her room and tucked her in. I was so opening my mind to Amy the next day to show her the images of Seth taking her upstairs.
"Sorry for barging in like that Elena. It´s just that Seth wouldn´t shut up about Amy and I didn´t know what else to do to shut him up." Paul said after most of the guys had left and we were in the backyard.
"Don´t be stupid Paul. I´m actually glad you guys came. I had a really good time with you guys no matter how bad a loser Quil is at Guitar Hero." I said smiling. Paul also smiled. "You guys are welcome back anytime you want. Really." I added.
"I´ll take your word, I doubt I´ll be able to retain Seth and Brady without seeing Amy and Sarah for much time. Besides, I think I can handle seeing your face for a few days in a row." He said joking. I hit him playfully on the arm and he grabbed me by the waist and lifted me from the ground.
"Paul!" I squealed. I tried hitting him on the arm but it didn´t seem to affect him so, I aimed to kick him in the balls and he quickly put me on the floor.
"So that´s your weak point, huh?" I asked smirking.
"It´s every man´s weak point." He said.
"Oh, you´re including yourself in that group of men? " I asked acting surprised. He smiled at me, lifted me from the floor once more and put me on top of his shoulders so I couldn´t aim for his weak point.
"Damn it! Paul!" I yelled. He simply laughed at my useless attempts to free myself from my grip. As we were like this Brady came out of the house yawning.
"Guys! Sarah´s sleeping! You guys are going to wake her up." He said clearly concerned. I couldn't help but smile. It was so goddamn cute how he cared about her. But Paul didn´t seem to care, he simply growled at him. And I mean really growled. It would´ve surprised me if I hadn´t known what they were.
"Paul…" I started. He seemed to realize that he had growled in front of me and immediately put me down on the ground.
"Sorry about that." He said apologetically.
"It´s fine." I said. "But you guys should go home. We´ve got school tomorrow." They both nodded. Paul hugged me goodbye and Brady said thank you and gave me a slight squeeze. I watched as they walked towards the woods.
I smiled when I walked in the living room and saw that Brady had taken Sarah to her room just like Seth had done with Amy. I went upstairs and got into bed.
To think that I had been thinking about how miserable I had been in Spain just this morning and not even five minutes later I had invited three werewolves into my home and two of them had imprinted on my sisters.
I thought about imprintation for a moment. Was it like love at first sight? Were they obligated to feel something for us or did they choose to do so? I thought about the image of Emily Amy had shown us after seeing it in Seth´s mind. She had three long scars going from her face and they disappeared under her shirt. We knew it had been Sam. What if that happened to Amy or Sarah? What would I do?
These questions accompanied me until I fell asleep. Then I wondered, what would I do if someone imprinted on me?
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