A/N: Hope you liked that last chapter! The end was a bit of a nail biter!!! Hope you enjoy this chapter!!!

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A few minutes after reading the note, Emily called.

"Claire, come over to my house. All the girls are here," she said.

"Okay," I sighed, "I'll be right over."

"See you soon, honey."

This was standard procedure, whenever there were vampires in town, all of us imprints went to one of our houses. It made it easier for the guys to check up on us if we were all in one place, plus we kept each other from going insane with worry. I pulled on some clothes, not caring how they looked and got into the car. About five miuntes later, I'd arrived at Emily's house. All of the girls- except Leah- and their children, if they had any- only Emily and Rachel had kids- were already at the little house. Including Amanda. Amanda was Brady's imprint, shes only known about all of this craziness for about a month, since she moved here from California. Poor girl. She was nineteen years old, had long blonde hair and bright blue eyes- she looked extemely freaked out. I decided to go comfort her.

"Hey," she mumbled when I sat on the couch next to her.

"Everything's going to be alright," I reasurred her, "The pack knows what they're doing."

"I know I'm just so worried, What if one of them gets hurt? What if its Brady?"

"He won't get hurt, he's been in the pack since he was thirteen."

"How do you guys deal with it?"

I sighed, "We don't. We've just gotten better at hiding it. Everytime Quil leaves, I panic just the same, even when I was a toddler. We'll all be here to guide you through. Plus every couple of hours someone will check in with us, give us a progress report. And remember, Brady's probably more worried about you than you are about him."

"Thanks Claire," she said smiling weakly.

"Any time," I said before getting up to get something to eat.

Around noon, Brady came through the door and ran straight for Amanda. They hugged and kissed, and she looked him over for any sign of injury. When she was done, Brady turned to us, waiting anxiously for any news.

"So far looks like there're four vamps," he told us, "Sam and Jake have got half of us running patrol around La Push, and half running Forks. These vamps are definitley not friendly visitors, they want in, but we don't know where. There have already been some close calls, Quil and Jared almost got into a fight with one of them."

Kim grabbed my hand. We didn't try to mask our shock and worry now. There have never been this many at a single time. The pack could easily handle four, but usually the vampires who came through here were just curious about the area not looking for trouble. There were a few "oh my gods" from various girls. I can't believe Quil had almost fought one with just one other wolf, even an experienced one like Jared. I knew Quil could probably kill one by himself, but that didn't mean I wanted him to. I bet Kim was thinking the same thing I was- except about Jared- as we silently starred at each other.

The pack was large and could easily handle them as a whole, it was the alone part that scared me. I thought about Quil, about Jared, Paul, Jacob, Sam, Embry, Brady, Collin, who were all grown men now but then there were the newer members of the pack. Some as young as twelve and already risking there lives, fighting vampires.

I hate this, yesterday my life was perfect. Today everything has changed. Life sucks.

Brady headed back towards the door with Amanda still on his arm. They hugged and kissed one last time before he left again.

Simultaneaously every girl in the room started crying, which then caused the three kids in the room to start crying too. We sat on the floor comforting each other and trying to think about something else. Emily and Rachel had put their kids down for a nap so they wouldn't be freaked out.

Hours passed that felt like days. Finally Quil and Jared rushed into the house, interupting our group crying.

"Holy!" Jared yelled at the sight of us, "Brady said you were really worried but we thought he was exadurating."

"Obviously not," Quil said coming towards me.

I jumped up and squeezed him around the waist as hard as I could. "Is everyone alright?" I gasped.

"Everyone except you girls," He responded, wiping a tear from my cheek.

I smothered him with my lips, I was no longer aware of anything going on apart from Quil and I. Quil pulled back after a minute and looked at the rest of the girls, minus Kim who was still kissing Jared.

"There's nothing new," Quil announced, "Their still avoiding us by inches. The Cullen's are helping us now, Esme was planning on coming over here to comfort you ladies. She'll probably be here any second."

Just as he said that, the door open quietly and in walked Esme.

"Oh girls," she cried when she saw that all of our faces were streaked with tears and rushed over to us. And when I say rushed, I mean at a none human pace. Seeing this made Amanda gasp. "Sorry dear," Esme apologized. The Cullen's weren't use to acting human around us- there was no point, we were all in on the secret.

I kissed Quil one last time before he left, pulling Jared along with him. Kim and I returned to our spots on the floor. Esme got up to make us something to eat.

Rachel's four year old son, Jack, came into the room. Rachel rushed over to him and took him to the kitchen for an early dinner.

Eventually all of the kids had woken up. We put on our brave faces, and refused to shed another tear until they were asleep again.

Time passed, days blurred into weeks. We'd been staying at Emily's house for sixteen days. Esme still cared for us as we moped around. The wolves still hadn't figured out what the vampires wanted. Every couple of hours, one of them would come to check up on us. We were all starting to go nuts. We all just wanted everything to go back to normal more than eanything else. But that didn't seem like that was going to happen any time soon.

I laid on the couch and stared at my wedding ring. It had been a little over two months. What if it was already going to end? Just like that, and my whole life would be over. Tears began to fall silently down my cheeks. I can't let that happen.