EPOV:

I stood there in the woods watching her through her kitchen window. She was in her little kitchen laughing with Rachel, Emily, and Kim eating pizza. They were talking loud enough for my super sensory ears to pick up. It was nice to know that Sally was having a good time with the pack girls, since she's considered one herself.

Seriously? You imprinted, congrats man! I rolled my eyes mentally at the sound of the most annoying voice of the whole pack.

Hey I'm not annoying! Seth retorted only half-heartedly because he knew it was true.

Ya whatever, and thanks, I said quickly trying to regain my focus on Sally. Now you would think I was a pervert or something, but seriously there's nothing pervertive about me peeping through her kitchen window, eavesdropping on a conversation about her life. Okay maybe a little, but she was talking about herself and I wanted to find out everything about her.

Earlier, my heart dropped when I heard that her parents had died, I wanted to know how but she didn't elaborate and was glad because if she started to cry right there I would've ran right into her house and carried her away. I sighed with some relief when she quickly changed the subject. They had ordered pizza, and I had fought the urge to kick the delivery guy shitless when his eyes had travelled down her body. Now they were talking about where they went to school. I was glad to hear that she went to Seattle for college, so she could have been close to her family. That means she would stay near people she loved, now if she only loved me...I let that thought drift into plenty of different scenarios in my head that made Seth pretty uncomfortable. My attention was back into the conversation in the house when my name was brought up. I strained my ears more to hear.

"You know Paul's friend for lunch?" I craned my neck so I could see her reaction and she was red in the face.

"Oh, him, ya he was...um...nice...I guess" Nice? Nice? What did she mean by nice, was it in a bad way or a good way? It had to good, you idiot, you were a complete gentlemen.

"I think someone has a little crush," Rachel said teasing her. I silently said a thank you to Rachel even though she wasn't my favourite person in the world; I loved her at this moment. Sally had turned even redder, if that was possible.

"Please, "crush" is for little girls," Sally had tried to retort but failed at the effort.Wait did she like correct Rachel on the term, what if she did have interest in me. My heart leapt at the thought and I sat impatiently trying to work up plans to meet her and not scare her shitless. Before long, the three of them were leaving and saying their goodbyes. Before Kim left she invited Sally to the bonfire this Saturday and I was very grateful for her of asking her to come. She said okay and I was ecstatic about all the possible events that can take place, Okay, I'll be able to ask her out. Ya, that'd be a great place to ask her, okay I can do it. But the thought of asking her and getting rejected put massive pressure in my heart.

Through my contemplation of how I was going to ask her out, I hardly noticed a car come up her driveway. A man in all black came out and looked around. I hid deeper behind some large trees when he looked my way. He climbed the steps to her front porch and knocked the door. I started to get agitated, not knowing who he was to her. I saw her open the door and her face turned to many different emotions. Astonishment, suspicion, and fear were the last thing to cross her face. I instantly started to turn back to human form until I smelt something that burned the inside of my nose.

There was a "whoosh" behind me and I turned around and put my attack mode on. I instantly thought about Sally near me and started to run deeper into the woods so this fight can be taken to someplace less populated. I was angry at the leech and myself and my rage just exhilarated the adrenaline that was pumping in the veins. I was angry at the leech because he made me leave and angry at myself for leaving her defenceless with someone who she obviously feared.

There was a flash of white to my left when I reached a fairly good place away from Sally's house.

Embry, what's happening? Seth's voice entered my head.

It's a leech; I can take care of him. Seth I need you to check up on Sally, there's someone at her house and she doesn't seem to know him. Is that al- I couldn't finish the sentence when a white female vampire lunged at me from a nearby tree. I instantly dodged her attack and she seemed disoriented as she stumbled forth her jet black hair covering her wild face. I took that opportunity to attack her from behind. I could tell this one was weak by the way she didn't have the energy to fight. I pinned her against a tree and ripped her arm off. The rest of her body was ripped to shreds in less than three minutes. I turned into human form and took the lighter that I stitched into my pants so it wouldn't fall when I ran. I burned the pieces and waited until the fire burned out to run back to Sally. As I got there I saw Seth giving me the thumbs up that she was okay.

When I came here she was telling him to come inside. Are you sure she was afraid of him? I shrugged as I tried to pick up what they were saying. They were speaking lower than I would've liked so I had to crane my neck and strain my ears.

"Pete is there something you're not telling me?" I heard Sally ask the man, Pete.

"N-nothing, I, ah, just wasn't expecting you to be um...pretty," he said. Pretty? Pretty? Pretty doesn't even cover it, she the most beautiful goddess to ever walk this earth and this ass is calling her pretty? Who the hell is he anyway, her boyfriend or something? Jealousy pumped into my blood and I unintentionally started to walk towards her house.

Embry dude where are you going? Stop you have to stay in the woods or someone might see you. I realized what I was doing and backtracked deeper into the woods but close enough for me to hear more. She was blushing at what he said but had a little frown on her face. I was happy about the fact that she was uncomfortable about his lacking comment.

They were talking about him pretending to be her brother so there won't be any gossip. What was that supposed to mean? Pretending to be her brother?I started to panic and I heard Seth's voice trying to calm me down. The man stood up and so did Sally. They walked outside and headed towards the trunk of the man's car. I saw her gazing at the woods and wondered if she knew I was there, or maybe felt it. But she had a sad look on her face when she looked here. As they got the suitcases and headed towards the door, she tripped and almost fell. I reflexively started to go towards her to make sure if she was okay, but the guy had caught her elbow before she had fallen.

Embry she's okay, I told you we have to stay out of sight, Seth told me sternly.

I know, I snapped back, I huffed at him telling him I just wanted to see if she was alright. They had returned into the house and were heading towards the guest room.

Embry, we need to talk, Sam's voice booming in my head. I felt irritated that I couldn't hear the conversation that Sally and that guy Pete were having.

Now! I instantly obeyed and headed towards the small clearing he was waiting at. Paul, Jared and Jacob were also with him.

What is it? I asked, completely aware about what it was about.

The vampire that you killed a few minutes ago, show me what happened. I instantly replayed my fight with the mangy leech. After I had finished playing the scene, I asked if they knew what it was doing here.

Probably just passing by, you know how they are. Anyway, I just wanted to see if everything's okay? I nodded my head but the part about Sally and the guy Pete unintentionally.

What does she mean by making people think he's her brother? Are they together or something? I growled at Paul that last part, but then showed him the frown she gave when he called her pretty.

Okay, but do you know what she meant about the brother part? Jacob asked.

Why would they pretend to be siblings, if they really were together-I growled again-they wouldn't have to pretend? Something's wrong here, Sam said looking directly at me. I shrugged, and became more agitated as I waited impatiently to get back to Sally.

You can go now Embry, I was grateful for Sam for letting me go and ran back to her. The lights were turned off and I could hear her sleeping in her bedroom. I checked around to see if any of the neighbours were awake and quietly snuck to the bottom of her bedroom window. A lot of imprinted wolfs do this and I could see why. They wanted to be close to their imprints and wanted to know they were safe. But those reasons weren't the only things that made me feel whole, the thought of how the one person who means the whole world to you is close by and waiting to see you the other day (well in my case me waiting to see her) and the gentle sound of her breathing lulling me to sleep.

'Cause when I'm with him, I am thinking of you

Thinking of you what would you do if

you were the one who was spending the night

Oh I wish I was looking into your eyes...

Cause in your eyes I'd like to stay-Thinking of you by Katy Perry

SPOV

The next morning I woke up to the smell of freshly made coffee. It took me a few minutes to remember about the end of last night. Police guy came...what was his name? Oh ya...Pete...Howard...there we go. I lazily got off my bed and got ready for work. I took a short shower and quickly got dressed. When I got dressed I could hear the sizzling of bacon coming from the kitchen. Wow, who knew he could cook?

I walked down the stairs, following the delicious aroma of bacon and eggs.

"Err...Good morning Pete," I said, still a little nervous about having a stranger living in my house. Pete turned around from the eggs to look at me and I saw his eyes widen as he looked me up and down. I felt myself blush a little as his blue eyes came back to meet mine.

"Good morning, miss," Pete said, his voice sounding sort of forced.

"Please, call me Sally," I said, shifting on my feet as he was still staring at me.

"Sally," he said nodding and to my relief breaking our rather uncomfortable eye contact as he put the eggs on a plate and put it on the table in front of me.

"Thank you, it smells really good," I said making my voice light. He mumbled "you're welcome" under his breath, and then asked me about my schedule.

"Well, I'm going to school; I might go out for lunch with a friend of mine, but I'm not sure if I'm going to have any other plans for today." The silence in the room was a little too uncomfortable for my taste and I quickly wanted to finish my breakfast.

"Okay, um...you're okay with school; just don't wander about by yourself. Is it just one friend?" he asked his eyes sort of narrowing.

"Uh, ya but she might bring her husband along too," I said a small smile playing on lips as I thought about who Paul might bring. Maybe I shouldn't keep my hopes up; I wasn't really interesting enough to get his attention. I kept my eyes on my plate as I finished off the last of my eggs.

"Right, just make sure you're not out alone, if you see anything suspicious today, let me know, okay," he said his voice hinting a bit of confusion about the obvious frown on my face.

"Sure, no problem, see you later then," I said as I took my bag and walked out of the front door to my car.

I got in and made my way to the high school. It was raining somewhat as I drove onto the parking lot and into my parking space. I sighed as I got out of my car. It just doesn't stop raining here does it, it's worse than Seattle!

As I made my way to the front I didn't notice the puddle in front of me, so being the clumsy woman I am, I slipped and fell onto the wet pavement.

"Shit," I said as I struggled to get up.

"I didn't take you as the swearing type," a masculine voice came from in front of me. At first my heart thudded in my heart for fear, but the reason changed when I looked up to see his face through the pouring rain. Embry's angel like face looked down on me, his police hat covering his face from the raindrops falling from the grey sky.

I went tomato red at the embarrassing situation he found me in. His big brown hand came down, and I smiled as I took his hand to hoist myself up.

"Thank you, um...Embry right?" Like I don't remember your name, who would forget? But I didn't want it to seem obvious that he was always creeping into my thoughts, so I kept it cool.

"Ya...nice to see you again Sally," he said my name with a caress that I could have melted in my shoes like the wicked witch.

"It would be nice if it wasn't raining cats and dogs, right now," I said, surprised at how confident I felt, when just moments before I was on the ground before a very hot guy, that I really did have a "crush" on.

"Hmm...oh ya we should probably get out of it or you'll catch cold," he said. I nodded at followed him to stand under the small roof that covered the entrance to the small office building.

"So you're on duty now?" I asked him, still surprised at my confidence. He smiled the most amazing smile and nodded.

"Ya, I just stop by the school every other day to see how the students are doing," he said still keeping that gorgeous grin on his face. I smiled back and we just stood there smiling at each other.

I got lost in his dark brown eyes and for a moment it felt like it was only me and him in the world. My face went deep red again when his eyes left mine to roam my body. I saw him stop at a few places that made me blush even more.

"Rachel said she invited you to the bonfire," he stated when he met my eyes again. I nodded keeping my eyes only his eyes.

"Are you coming?" he asked, sounding like he really wanted me to come. I nodded again and smiled a little wider when I heard the eagerness in his voice. He gave me a dazzling smile and said great.

"So...I was um...wondering...if...you know...," he stuttered, getting completely uncomfortable all of a sudden. My heart slammed against my chest and I sucked in a breath waiting for what he had to say. He looked directly at me again and smiled.

"I was wondering if you'd like to go for dinner or something?" he said confidently now. My heart leaped at the words that came out of his mouth, and I grinned so hard that my ears hurt. He saw my grin and grinned even wider.

"Ya sure, that'd be great," I said my voice sort of cracking from the joy that was overwhelming me. I didn't know what it was but this guy in front of me was making me do things I shouldn't and making me feel good about it. He looked like he was going to jump for joy when I said yes.

"Great, ya that's great," he said almost bouncing up and down. "I'll call you then," he said getting his cell phone out. I pulled my phone out of my own pocket and we exchanged numbers.

"We could go the day after the bonfire, if that's okay," he said, still smiling. Is he always smiling?

"Ya that'd be great," we both laughed as I repeated my words again. Just then the bell rang and we were interrupted by a couple of students coming in from the rain.

"I should probably go," I said somewhat disappointed. His smile faltered at what I hope was the concept of leaving.

"Ya me too, I'll talk to you later then," he was saying as he walked back to his cruiser, still smiling. I walked inside the office building first, and then went to my first class, my head filled with thoughts of Embry. I knew for a fact that I was more fascinated with this man than any other man I've met in my life. I felt drawn to him for reasons I didn't know but felt. I couldn't explain it but, maybe… just maybe… I- the bell rang taking me away from the thought that I dreaded to finish. No, you can't go there, I told myself, it's just an innocent outing with someone who wants to get to know you as a friend, nothing more. I said this even though I hoped it was different.