A/N: Hey guys… just a small heads up… Jake did not imprint on Kayla. I know it sucks but think about it this way. Jared had seen the girl he imprinted on a lot of times before it actually happened…*hint, hint, wink, wink*
I started going to Jake's place every afternoon. Most of the time he wasn't there so I had to leave. When he was there, we studied and I continued to be drawn to him. Of course, it wasn't a mutual feeling. He laughed and joked like we had been best friends for a long time. Something about it was a little unsettling, almost like he was setting me up to pull me down again. I usually pushed the feeling out of my head and tried to have a fun time, but I had those days when everything I did was careful, trying to distance myself from his capturing grasp.
Oh, and I met the rest of his "friends". I developed different feelings for all of them. Embry was annoying, Quil was a hot head, Sam was too full of himself, Paul was Paul, Jared was obnoxious, Seth was the cutest little boy that ever walked on earth, and Emily was sweet.
"Hey," Jake said one day after we had gone through our homework. "Are you coming tomorrow?"
"No, sorry." I mumbled. "My school overnight fieldtrip is tomorrow." I rolled my eyes.
"Oh, cool." He smiled and my heart skipped a beat. "Where are you going?"
"Some camping site." I sighed. "Hooray."
I looked over at him again only to see that his smile had vanished.
"What?" I asked self consciously. "Is there something on my face?"
He shook his head and looked down again. "No."
"What's up then?" I frowned.
His eyes traveled up to my face and I forgot to breathe. "Promise me something."
"Uh, sure." I blinked.
"Don't go in the woods alone." His eyes smoldered into my skin.
"Why?" I gulped.
"Trust me. Just don't."
"O-ok." I said. "Sure."
"Pinky swear it." He held up his pinky for me. I shook it once and he looked relieved.
"Soooooo…" I smiled. "Can we grab a snack or something? I'm starved."
"Fine by me." We got up and headed towards his small house to.
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I laid my head against the glass window of the bus and closed my eyes.
"…and there will probably be like, a bajillion things to do there! Aren't you excited? Tell me you are. You must be. I mean, like this is going to be the best trip ever. Hey Kayla, isn't this-"
"For the last time, Amy, I get that you're excited but please, spare my ears!" I moaned.
"Sorry." She said. "LOOK!"
I jumped a mile in the air. "For the love of all things holy. Don't do that!"
"Sorry, sorry." She smiled at me with her perfect features. Ever since I met her, I had known she was one of them. Cold white skin, Blood red eyes just like my parents' killer (though the Cullen's were yellow, I could tell she was one of them), the whole deal of looking beautiful, and everything else. But I figured if the Cullen's were harmless, she would be too. "Look. We're here."
I peered out of the window to see a log cabin. "Oh joy." I mumbled to myself. "This really is going to be fun."
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"Kayla. Kayla. Kayla. Hey, Kayla. Wake up Kayla. Kayla wake up. Hey. Hey Kayla. Kayl-"
"What do you want?" I moaned. "It's, what, 2:30 in the morning?"
"You have to come look at this." Amy said leaning over my bed. "It's pretty awesome."
"Look at what?"
"Come on!" she pulled me out of bed and led me out of the cabin. As we headed towards the woods, a vague feeling of "I shouldn't be going into the forest in the middle of the night with someone I don't know very well" rushed over me. Then again, I was half asleep, so I didn't pay much attention it.
When we were about 20 feet into the darkness, she turned around. "Look. It's really been great getting to know you, and before anything else happens I just want you to realize this is nothing personal. I'm just, you know, thirsty."
That woke me up real fast. "No, I don't know."
She looked at me then, and I noticed something new in her eyes, something evil, something that told me to run, but my fear held me in place.
"Let me explain it to you slowly then." She grinned, showing her perfect, white teeth. "You have something I want Kayla Swan."
As she glided closer to me, I shimmied my foot back, prepared to run for my life. "What do you want from me?"
Amy stood in front of me now. "It comes with a small price."
She lifted a cold finger and traced it along my neck.
"What do you want?" I pressed again.
"Like I said, I'm thirsty. You won't feel a thing." She grabbed my wrist and pulled it closer to her.
I tried to twist it free, but her grip was like iron. "Thirsty for what?"
She chuckled and then she brought her mouth close to my ear. "Your blood."
All the chips fell into place at that moment. Vampire. They were all vampires. The one that killed my parents was a vampire. The Cullens were vampires. Amy was a vampire. I tried desperately to pull away, but she held on tight and cackled at my efforts.
My chest started to burn, but the weird thing was, it wasn't uncomfortable. No, It felt reassuring. Slowly, as if on instinct, I lifted my eyes to hers. Her reaction was priceless. The cocky smile was wiped off her face immediately and she froze as if she had been stuffed in a freezer for a month or so. Out of the corner of my eye, I caught sight of my hand that Amy still had a vice like grip on and I almost ripped my gaze away from hers. My hand was glowing a soft violet color. What was going on?
Suddenly, a flash of fur and claws tackled Amy to the ground and she became animated again. Scrambling up, she took one look at the giant figure in front of me, her eyes widened, and she ran for dear life. The beast barked and with four others at its heels, they took off after her.
I looked back at where they came from to find two others standing near, yet at the same time watching how close they were to me. After the initial shock vanished, I realized that they were indeed wolves. Really, really big wolves.
I caught the eye of the rusty colored one. They were deep chocolate brown that pulled me in with every blink. I knew those eyes. But there was no way…
Then again, there had been a lot of weird stuff happening, so I couldn't totally dismiss the thought. I glanced back at the wolf only to see him staring back at me. So, assuming I had nothing to lose, (cause if it had been a regular wolf I probably would've already been chopped meat, literally), I started talking, half to them, half to myself.
"I should have known better." I plopped down on the ground and hugged my knees gently to my chest. "I should have known she was dangerous. Her eyes gave it away. But noooo. I couldn't except that Amy would be that kind of person, I couldn't except that she would come around and stab me in the back just like every other person who I ever called a friend. Of course, none of the others tried to suck my blood. but still! Why do I even try!" I stopped myself when I realized my voice had elevated to a shouting level. Quickly I glanced around to see if anybody had heard me and had come out to see what was happening. After finding nobody had, I heaved a sigh.
"What am I even going to tell the teachers? That Amy tried to suck my blood and then these gigantic wolves came, chased her away, and then held me hostage? Yeah, like that'll fly! Charlie's gunna ground me for the rest of my miserable, friendless, self pitying life!" I realized I was yelling again and I shut my mouth.
I put my chin on my knees. "And if Charlie grounds me I won't get to see Jake. Without him I feel like the weight of my life is going to crush me. I don't know, it's like he's some kind of pain killer. It's like for the first time ever, I actually have a real friend."
I released my knees ad let them fall into applesauce position (Most of you know what I'm talking about.)
"I guess I can view the grounding as a good thing. If I get grounded, it makes the whole saying good-bye thing less painful."
I realized my eyes had drifted to the ground. I met the rusty colored wolf's eyes again, only to see its head tipped to the side like a confused puppy's. It was following everything I was saying.
"Summer's almost here." I clarified. "Once summer comes Jake won't need me anymore. His use for me will come to an end, so, just like all my other 'friends', he'll dump me out of his life like I was nothing but an old toy. Like junk he'll never need again."
I felt a tear forming in my eye, but I wiped it away angrily. "And you know really bugs me? Bella. She has everything! She has friends, a boyfriend, parents, three close different families (you know, her mom, her dad and the Cullens), and she has Jake. She so many people who love her the most. And then there's me. No friends, no boyfriend, no parents, no close family and, come summer, no Jake. Since my parents died, I have nobody who loves me the most. Nobody! It's as if my life as no meaning. It's like I was put here to be used and then thrown away."
I realized tears were rolling freely down my cheeks and I rubbed at them vigorously.
"Sorry." I apologized to the wolves without looking at them. "I'm having a pity party over here. It's not Bella's fault. I don't know why I even brought her into this. God, I must sound like a total baby right now, either that or a total nut job."
I laughed nervously. "So…can I leave now? My teacher-" The wolves stiffened suddenly and then bounded out of sight.
"KAYLA!" I heard people calling. "AMY! WHERE ARE YOU!"
I quickly had a moment of inspiration. Using the tears already shaking my voice, I yelled back.
"HELP! OH PLEASE SOMBODY HELP ME!"
It was soon that I heard footsteps coming toward me and I hugged my knees in a tight ball of fake terror. My teacher and a couple of other students from my cabin rushed into view and when they saw me they hurried to my side.
"What happened Kayla?" Ms. Nottingham asked in a panicked voice. "Where's Amy?"
"It was so scary!" My acting actually surprised me. "Amy wanted to show me something out in the woods and then all of a sudden the huge wolves came out of nowhere and dragged her away! I want to get out of here!"
"It's ok now." Ms. Nottingham said in not such a convincing voice. "We'll find Amy."
"Ms. Nottingham?" A girl said who was standing over something. "She wasn't kidding about the wolves."
They all rushed over, crowding around the thing the girl was staring at.
"Wolf tracks!" one person shouted.
"But that's not possible!" another retaliated. "They're three times as big as normal wolf prints."
"They were the ones Uncle Charlie told us about." I said to them. "The gigantic ones. I'm sure they were."
"That's odd." Ms. Nottingham frowned. "We're way out of town."
"It wasn't so odd when they dragged Amy away." I sniffled for dramatic effect. "It was just plain scary then."
"Maybe they're spreading?" Someone guessed.
"Maybe." Ms. Nottingham said. "Or maybe not. We shouldn't worry about that now. Get everybody up, we're leaving."
"But it's like, 3:30 in the morning!" One kid complained.
"Yes, but there are also killer wolves in these woods. We're leaving."
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I rolled my suitcase into my room and I hopped onto my bed. When our trip had ended on such short notice, there were many questions asked. Ms. Nottingham told the ones who had heard about the wolves to keep or mouths shut until Amy was found so when Bella and Charlie asked about what happened, I told them there was a little scare and we had to go home early. Though they pressed, I said that was all I knew.
As I lay snuggled in the covers. The wise, capturing brown eyes of the rusty wolf kept running though my mind. What was it? Who was it? I didn't know the answer to these questions.
A/N: hey again! Did you like it? if you read, review! Please!
