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Chapter Seven

Sam started to vibrate beside me so I leaned my head on his shoulder. He calmed immediately. I waited until I heard Emily's car going down the road to pull Sam out of the house. Sam informed me that Emily did not, in fact, live there. She had a house down the street but was planning to move in when her and Sam married.

It was nearing dinnertime, so I figured I had to get Bella home. We said our goodbyes to the boys and got into Emmett's Jeep. Sam caught my door before it closed. "One last thing. You're a part of the pack now, so you have to do patrol. I'll give you tonight off since you have school tomorrow, but after school, you're patrolling with Embry and me until late. So get plenty of rest tonight." He smiled and kissed my cheek, then closed my door.

I grumbled and put the Jeep in reverse. Bella was silent for a while so I decided to talk. "Do you forgive me?" I asked.

She whipped her head in my direction. "Do you forgive me? I shouldn't have pushed you to spill your secret, I'm sorry. Thanks for saving me. You should probably get used to it, though." She laughed.

I waved my hand at her, "You're forgiven."

We chatted lightly until I reached her house. Luckily, Charlie wasn't home so she wouldn't be in trouble. She went inside and I drove to the Cullen's.

Once I was safely inside my room, I dialed Carlisle's number.

"Hello, Nadi." Carlisle cooed from the other end.

"Just calling to update you, is anyone around?" I asked.

I heard wind hitting the phone, so I guessed he was running. Finally, he came back on. "What's new, dearest?"

I smiled at the pet name and said. "I imprinted."

Carlisle gasped. "Nadi, that's wonderful. Now you know what it's like to have a mate and a family. I'd like to meet him of course. Does he know about you yet?"

Uh-oh. "Carlisle, I don't know if he'd want to meet you."

Carlisle was silent. "Oh. So you don't think he'll approve of your vampire father?" He asked, sadness filling his voice.

My heart stopped. Father? Did he just call himself my father?

"C-Carlisle? Did you just c-call yourself my v-vampire f-father?" I stuttered. I actually STUTTERED? God, I'm such a loser.

He laughed. "Well yes. How else can you explain me? You're not just a friend, I've known you too long for that. You're my wolf child, how's that? Remember, Rose and Emmett are only a few years older than you, in a way."

Tears poured from my eyes. "My imprint's name is Sam Uley, he's a werewolf like me. When I imprinted on him, he returned it. If Sam knows how much you mean to me, I'm sure he'd love to meet my bloodsucking father. But not now of course, I only got him used to the idea of my last name being Cullen." I told him, barely keeping the tears from my voice. "OH! I also have some not so good news." I told him about Laurent, but I left out the part about Jake imprinting on Bella. If she wanted him to know, Bella would tell him herself. He then told me all about what his family was up to.

"Nadi, I have some news." He said, sounding slightly worried.

"What is it Carlisle?" I asked cautiously.

"Alice came to me the other day. She asked why my future disappeared every time I talked to you or why Bella's future disappeared when she was with you. I had to tell her you're a werewolf, I'm sorry. She was worried about leaving Bella in the hands of a wolf but I told her your story and our long companionship. She asked if I trusted you completely and absolute and I told her yes. She said that was enough for her. I trust you so she does too, but she has threatened to harm you if Bella is hurt while under your care."

I laughed. "It's fine, Carlisle. She'll be okay, don't worry." We hung up shortly after and I went to bed. I slept soundlessly and awoke the next morning still tired. I was dreading school and patrol as I drove to Bella's house. She was walking out her door when I pulled up.

"Nadi? What are you doing here?" She asked leaning in my open window.

"You don't want a ride to school?" I asked.

She laughed and got in the passenger's side. Bella was happier this morning than I'd ever seen her. She chatted happily all the way to school. I told her about my conversation with Carlisle and Alice's threat. Bella laughed but became very serious.

She turned to me, "Nadi. Alice is a little pixie, but she is scary when you get her mad. Don't ever talk bad about shopping or she'll hang you from a tree and beat you gleefully with a baseball bat. Probably a pink bat, encrusted with diamonds." Bella couldn't keep a straight face and I laughed with her.

We reached school and got out of the car. Lauren and Jessica were standing near the entrance to school. I internally groaned. As we walked by Lauren turned to Jessica and said loudly, "Hey, Jess look. Bella and her giant girlfriend are back together. Maybe Edward will come back and save Bella from getting squashed by our very own female Sasquatch." She laughed a shrill annoying laugh and Jessica laughed with her.

I was intent on ignoring them, but Bella surprised me. She turned and walked right over and punched Lauren right in the face. I hard the crunch of Lauren's nose and I knew it was broken. Go Bella, I cheered mentally.

Jessica started to swing at me, but let's face it, the girl is smaller than Bella. I caught her wrist. Sam would be so proud that I stopped a fight today! I thought. By this time a crowd was forming around us. Jessica swung her other fist and I let it come this time. If she's too dumb to stop after I caught her first swing, she deserved a broken bone.

Her fist connected hard with my jaw. It had some power behind it. It would have knocked Bella sideways, but did nothing to me whatsoever. She jerked her hand back, reminding me of Emily the day before. What the hell had I done to deserve to get punched in the face twice in less than twenty-four hours?

Jessica was rubbing her hand so I said, "Yeah, it should hurt to be stupid." Bella burst out laughing, as did a bunch of students in the crowd.

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!?!" The principal, Mr. Greene, came up to us.

"Are you girls fighting? Oh." He stopped when he saw me. The poor guy was only five-foot-nine and I towered over him easily. He had always seemed very uncomfortable around me. I smiled, thinking I was home free, since I didn't do anything but try to stop the girl from hurting herself.

"Swan, Cullen, Mallory, Stanley, my office now." He said trying to sound in charge. He was seriously cracking me up.

Bella and I exchanged an amused look and we trudged off down the hall to Greene's office. Lauren and Jessica trailing behind Mr. Greene.

We all sat down in chairs in his office, he was trying so hard to be intimidating. It worked on Lauren and Jessica. I caught Bella's eye and we shared a smirk. We had faced a vampire yesterday, there was no way a high school principal was going to intimidate us. I nearly laughed again, but I couldn't stop the smile that spread across my face.

"Well girls, this is no laughing matter. You are all eighteen, so I have no choice but to call the police. You're all legal adults." He said.

"Oh no." Bella panicked out loud

Mr. Greene continued, "I'll also have to call your parents."

Now it was my turn to panic. "Um, Mr. Greene, my mother is unreachable at the moment. She's on a scuba diving trip in Australia."

Lauren snorted through her broken nose. "What kind of idiot goes scuba diving in the middle of winter?"

I laughed. I had been a recluse for five hundred years and even I knew that the seasons were opposite. When it was winter in America, it was summer in Australia, and vice versa. I stopped laughing and said, "It takes a special kind of moron to insult someone who could toss your snotty little ass in the woods so far you'd never find your way out."

She looked at the wall and didn't say anything else.

"ENOUGH!" Mr. Greene slammed his fists down on his desk, causing Lauren, Jessica and Bella to jump and me to laugh.

Mr. Greene ignored me and picked up the phone and dialed. "Yes, this is Mr. Greene at Forks High School. Four of my senior students got into a fight and I need someone to come down. Yes, they are all eighteen years old. Thank you." He dropped the phone back into its cradle. He looked smugly at us, causing me to roll my eyes. I know he saw me because he shot me a death glare, but didn't say anything.

We sat in silence until finally the door opened and in walked Charlie and Sam. SAM?! What the hell? My eyes nearly bugged out of my head. At first it was out of surprise that he was here. Then I stared in pleasure, Sam in a police uniform was yummy to say the least. I wasn't the only one who thought so, apparently. Sam was being gawked at by Lauren, Jessica, two girls in the main office talking with Mrs. Cope and Mrs. Cope.

I growled and Sam laughed, and then stopped. "Nadi, you got in a fight with these two?" He asked.

I shook my head and explained what happened.

Charlie had the nurse come in and look us all over. Lauren's nose was broken, courtesy of Bella. Jessica's wrist was broken, courtesy of punching a werewolf in the face. Bella just had some bruising on her knuckles, courtesy of Lauren's face. I didn't have a scratch. Charlie found this odd, considering how hard Lauren hit me.

"Well, Nadi, Bella, you girls need to come with me. Lauren and Jessica, go to the hospital. I'll see you both later." Charlie said and walked out, Bella quickly following behind him. Lauren and Jessica stayed where they were, no doubt waiting for me to leave first.

I looked at Sam and smirked. "Don't you wanna put me in your handcuffs?" I asked innocently.

"Only if you're good." He answered without missing a beat.

"What if I'm bad?" I asked indifferently, but smiled devilishly.

Sam blushed and stumbled over his words, but before he could answer Mr. Greene, the bastard, stopped him, "None of that, Ms. Cullen. Go to Chief Swan now."

I smiled at Mr. Greene and said, "I can't help it if my boyfriend looks so good in his uniform."

Lauren's mouth dropped open, "Boyfriend?" She asked as if she couldn't believe it. I turned to her. "Yeah, boyfriend." With that, I walked out, Sam placing his hand in the small of my back and led me outside. I fit so perfectly with him

Once outside Sam said, "So, since when am I your boyfriend?"

I knew this was coming. "Since I decided to piss off those girls."

Sam hung his head, playfully. "So you used me. I can't believe you said that thing about the handcuffs."

I bumped his hip with mine and said, "I wouldn't have said it if it was anyone but you." He smiled and made me get into the back of Charlie's cruiser with Bella, who looked very nervous.

Charlie drove us to the police station and got our statement. He had us sit in his office while he went out to answer a call. Sam came in either because he wanted to keep us company or because Charlie wanted him to babysit us I wasn't sure. I leaned back in my chair and said to Sam, "So I guess I'm in trouble with my big bad Alpha?"

He narrowed his eyes. "I called Jared and Paul. They're taking over our shift but you're patrolling all day tomorrow, so don't make any plans." He said and I pouted. He softened. I was pretty sure I could get out of patrolling the whole day if I kept this up.

Charlie returned and drove Bella back to their house. I got into Sam's car and he drove me back to school to get Carlisle's Mercedes.

Just as I thought, by the time we reached school, I had pouted my way out of all day patrol tomorrow. I would have to patrol all evening though, but I knew I couldn't get out of it completely, Alpha's mate or not.

When I got back I called Carlisle and told him the whole story. He actually laughed. Bella and I were only suspended the next day, per Charlie's doing, since Lauren had started it all.

The next morning I woke up early. I didn't know what to do, but I remembered Bella saying she wanted to go see Jake today and wanted me to go with her. I wanted to see Billy, not be the third wheel. So I hopped into Carlisle's Mercedes and drove to La Push. Carlisle had given me permission to drive his car, but last night on the phone, he asked if I had bought myself one yet. When I told him no, he told me to go buy one. He had sent me a black card when I first moved in, but I had only been using it to buy food and clothes. I neared La Push and my heart pounded out of my chest. I stopped outside of Billy Black's house.

I reached for the door handle and stopped. I can't do this. I can't see him right now. I started the car and drove down the road. I spotted Embry walking along the sidewalk. I stopped next to him. "Hey, kid. Why aren't you in school?"

He turned in shock, but saw it was me and laughed. "I had patrol this morning and I woke up late. I'm too tired to go now."

"Want to go car shopping with me? Everyone else is either working or at school, except Bella. She doesn't like my driving." I told him.

He smiled and jumped in the car with me and I drove off. He rubbed his hands together in excitement and said, "Don't you have patrol tonight?"

I shrugged and pulled out my phone, dialing Sam's number that he had given me the day before. He was at work right now, so my best bet was to call his work phone.

"Forks Police Station." Sam said.

"Sam Uley, how dare you." I said. Embry looked at me, confused.

"Nadi? What's going on?" He asked.

I ignored him. "You know good and well that Embry has school and you sent him on patrol anyway so he was too tired to go today?"

Embry smiled at me when he realized what I was doing.

Sam was quiet on the other end.

"Well?" I asked impatiently.

"Um, yeah. No one else could go." He said.

I sighed. "I have to go, we'll finish this later." I hung up before he could say anything else.

Embry laughed. "Thanks, Nadi, you're awesome."

I smiled at him, "Anything for my boys." I told him.

Embry gave me directions to Seattle so we could go buy me a nice new car, courtesy of my vamp father.


A/N: It feels like I haven't updated in forever, sorry about that I've been sick. I'm still sick so don't hate me if I don't update for a bit. Thanks to my reviewers last chapter: Aya163, Curtis and Rachel2w2. And the always amazing, AllytheVampChick. By the way, Ally, "shut up and sleep with me!" That is STILL stuck in my head!

My playlist for this chapter was the pounding in my brain. ~Ever Uley~