"Come over here, there's a changing room over this way." Leah said as she got up from the beach and walked away from the cliffs. I followed, as soon as we got there she handed me a pink, white striped bikini. I hated wearing bikinis, but beggars can't be choosers. I changed into the swimsuit, I didn't mind how I looked in a bikini, in fact, I looked amazing in a bikini. It was the male attention I got from wearing a bikini. I went to the beach with some of my guy friends one time, I regretted it. They wouldn't stop asking me to take off my top. Never again.

I came out of the changing room, Leah was waiting for me. "Let's go!" I said excited.

She smiled. "After we swim for a while, do you want to go cliff diving at all?" She asked.

I had always loved cliff diving, I went cliff diving every time I went to Lake Powell in Utah with my friends. "Yeah! I love to cliff dive!" I replied eagerly. "Let me call Jacob to see where he is and tell him to bring his swimsuit."

"Good idea."

I dialed Jacob's number. "Hey Amber." He answered his phone.

"Hey where are you?" I replied.

"I'm almost at the beach."

"Bring your swimsuit!"

"What inspired you to go swimming?"

"Leah."

"Are you okay?! She hates you and you're hanging out with her?!"

"I heard that Jacob!" Leah yelled.

I laughed. "I'm fine and Leah decided to apologize and we were talking and decided to go swim."

"But what about your leg?"

"Eh, I'll live."

"No, you are not even supposed to go swimming with that leg. I know you don't care, but I-"

"You sound like Katie! It's fine, I promise."

"Okay… I will see you in a few minutes."

I hung up. We weren't on the top of the cliff; I was going to work my way up. "You do know how to cliff dive, right?" Leah asked.

"Yeah, I've been cliff diving before." I replied.

"So what are your set of rules for cliff diving."

"None, my steps are very simple. Run, jump, scream."

She laughed. "Very nice instructions."

"You ready?" I asked.

"Yup, let's go!" We ran to the edge of the cliff, jumped and screamed until we hit the cold water. I swam to the surface as soon as I could, it was freezing. I gasped for air.

"Wow the water's cold." I said to Leah as she came up from the water. She grinned.

"Really? I can't tell." She replied.

"You're so lucky to not have to deal with the cold ever."

"Hey guys! How's the water?" We heard a voice call from the top of the cliff. It was Jacob.

"Fine!" Leah called up.

"It's freezing!" I called up.

Jacob laughed. "I'm going to go with Leah's opinion." He said.

"Wow, thanks! I feel like my opinion is so valued." I replied to his comment.

We all laughed. Leah and I climbed out of the water and ran up to where Jacob was standing, which was the top of the cliff. "Hey!" I said.

"Hey sexy." He said playfully. I pushed him; he almost fell off the cliff. He tried desperately to regain his footing, once he did he looked at me like I was crazy. Leah and I laughed. "I will never say that again on the edge of a cliff." He said.

"You are so dumb." I replied.

"Jacob you are in an abusive relationship." Leah said. I laughed.

"I am abusive! I am also very proud of it. It gets rid of the weak boyfriends" I grinned. Leah laughed.

"I can't believe you almost pushed me off a cliff." Jacob said.

"I've done a lot worse." I replied.

"I'm scared to know." Leah said.

"You ready sexy beast!" I said to Leah. She laughed.

"Let's go!" We jumped. I looked up; Jacob was laughing and jumped after us. I loved the feeling of free falling. You could let go of everything and just go where the wind blew, it was a peaceful feeling even though I was screaming the whole way down, it was something I could never help, my body automatically did it. Leah was screaming too. I felt the cold water surround my body and let myself sink for awhile before I came up; it wasn't as cold as it was before.

"Why is Leah a sexy beast?" Jacob asked.

"Because I am amazing!" Leah said.

I laughed. "What she said." I replied.

"I'm not?" He asked.

"No." I joked. Leah laughed at him. He almost looked hurt. "I'm kidding you dork." I said to Jacob. His expression changed the moment the words left my lips. We swam back towards the shore. I spotted Quil and Embry. They looked absolutely furious. I wondered what would happen if I went up and said hi. Leah saw them too.

"Just ignore them; they won't dare come over here." Leah said.

"What's going on….aw crap." Jacob said he had seen them too.

"Come on, you want to jump again?" Leah asked excited.

I decided to ignore Quil and Embry. "Yeah! Let's go!" I replied. We ran up the cliff. Jacob decided to go talk to them. "Ready?" I asked. I got no reply, only a scream. I turned and looked to see if she jumped already, I was wrong, a vampire was on top of her trying to bite her. It wasn't Michael, but it was one of his subordinates. Leah couldn't change into a werewolf. I reacted before I had a minute to think and I lunged at the vampire. I pulled him off Leah and he set his sights on me. He bit my arm and he wouldn't let go. I punched his head and Leah looked like she was in shock. He hissed at me. I could feel the venom burn, it wouldn't do anything to me, it just hurt like hell. I was close to water so I decided to make a giant wave and knock him off his feet. He fell and hit his head on a rock. He got back up. My arm felt like it was going to fall off it hurt so bad. Then I saw three werewolves fly out from the woods they tackled him to the ground and ripped off his head and threw him into the ocean. I recognized Jacob from the group. "Leah!" I yelled and ran over to her. "Oh my God, are you okay? Did he bite you?" I was scared; vampire bites to werewolves were fatal.

"No he didn't, I am just really scared." She replied. The werewolves ran back into the forest and I stayed with Leah. In about three seconds Paul, Sam and a bunch of other guys came running up the cliff.

"What happened?" Sam asked worried.

"A vampire jumped Leah and I, he bit me, but Jacob and I guess Quil and Embry killed him. He's probably Michael's thug, Michael is definitely close by." I said to Sam.

"Why can't we smell him?" Seth asked confused.

"He's a professional, he knows what he's doing, and right now, he's sending thugs to asses our skills so he knows what he's up against."

"So basically, he has the upper hand right now." Paul replied, very frustrated.

"Yup, he's probably listening to our conversation right now." I said. It was the truth; he could probably see every one of us and maybe even see where Jacob, Quil and Embry were. But I didn't say that, I didn't want to get Paul too mad.

"That's not good." Leah said.

"Thank you doctor obvious." I replied sarcastically.

"Your sarcasm hurts!" Leah said.

"You said it yourself, I'm abusive." I replied.

She laughed. "True that."

The pain in my arm was horrible, I knew it would go away, but I would have to bear with it for at least a day. Then Jacob, Quil, and Embry emerged from the woods. Jacob looked horrified. I wasn't surprised really, I had just been bitten by a vampire, he probably thought I was going to turn into one. "Amber!" He ran up to me and looked at my arm. "Are you okay?! We need to get you over to Carlisle's now!" He said very worried about my arm.

"Don't worry about it! Nothing's going to happen; I will just be in some serious pain for the next 24 hours." I replied.

"And that's nothing?" I nodded my head. "We're taking you to the Cullens, they need to hear this anyway." It was the truth they needed to be on high alert now that Michael has made his move. Aaron was probably here now too. That wasn't good at all. Aaron was stronger than Michael, and that is seriously strong.

"Fine." I finally said and got up. "Leah, you sure you're going to be alright?" I asked trying to draw the attention away from me.

"Yeah, I'm fine, he just scared the hell out of me, that's all." She replied. I used my good arm and helped myself up.

"Let's go Amber, we need to hurry in case he decides to attack them." Jacob said. That was a very good point. Once Michael started, he couldn't be stopped. We drove over to the Cullens house. "This is the second time I've had to rush you to the Cullens place because you hurt yourself some how." Jacob said after about a minute.

"Hey! That's not fair! Both times I was attacked!" I replied.

He laughed. "Good point. Still, you need to be more careful."

I grinned. "You need to stop worrying so much about me, I can take care of myself."

"I question that sometimes."

"Hey! I can abuse you but you don't abuse me back!"

He laughed. "Nah, I think I will." He grinned.

"Well you definitely aren't considered a wimp anymore."

"When was I considered a wimp?"

"When you almost fell off a cliff, when you looked like you were about to cry when I didn't say you were a sexy beast-"

"Okay, okay. But you pushed me very roughly and that was mean for saying that!"

I laughed. "So!"

"So it's unfair."

"Oh whatever you dork."

"I am not a dork!"

"Yeah you are dork."

He mimicked my voice and said "Oh whatever."

My jaw dropped. "I don't sound like that! You suck at imitations!"

He laughed. We drove into the Cullens driveway. I climbed out of Jacob's car and started walking towards the Cullens front door swiftly, Jacob followed, I could tell he was holding his breath, I rolled my eyes and knocked on the door. Rosalie saw me and answered the door. My arm began to hurt again just as she answered the door, the pain was very on and off. "I need to see Carlisle now." I held my bitten arm level to her face and her jaw dropped, I don't think she expected that.

"He- He's not here right now." She replied.

"Okay well I need to talk to you guys anyway, there's not much you can do for my bite no matter what."

"About what?"

"How I got this bite you dip shit." I was not in the mood for this bitch of a vampire and I just needed to warn them about Michael. She glared but let me and Jacob in. Emmett took one look at me and laughed. I was just in my cover up (which happened to be very short). "What?" I asked.

"What happened to you?" He asked still laughing.

"I got jumped by a vampire while cliff diving, so shut up." He laughed even harder now. I hit the back of his head with my good arm. "You idiot! We're all in danger now!" I yelled.

"You got attacked while you were cliff diving?" He asked.

"Isn't that what I said?" I replied, Carlisle walked in and saw me.

"What happened to you today miss Amber?" He asked.

"She got attacked by a vampire when she decided to go cliff diving." Emmett answered for me.

I shot him a death glare and caught a glimpse of the clock. Nine thirty. Just my luck, I had to be home a half hour ago. "Uh… Can I call Katie first before I explain everything?"

"Go ahead." I picked up a phone and dialed Katie's number.

"Hello?" She answered.

"Katie? Hey, I am going to be a little late…." I said.

"Why? Are you okay?"

The pain in my arm returned and it was worse than ever. "OW! DAMMIT! NO!"

"Amber! What's wrong! Tell me now!"

"I'm at the Cullens because I got bit by a vampire today."

"I will be right over! Hang on!" She hung up.

"What happened Amber?" Carlisle asked very concerned.

"What Emmett said, Michael finally made his move." I gritted through my clenched teeth. The pain subsided. I sighed.

"Hmmm…." He picked up my bleeding arm. He looked down and saw my bandaged leg. "Where's your cast?" Damn.

"The trash." I replied, I had better tell the truth. Katie hadn't seen me either, she would want some answers. He shook his head.

"Why in the world did you do that?" He asked as he cleaned up my wound.

"Because it was bothering me." I replied.

"It bothers everyone, you are the only person I know who's ever cut off their cast."

"Well that's because I actually do something about my problems." It was true, I was always one to get rid of my problems, I didn't sit and pray they would go away. Unfortunately Michael was one of those problems I would have to wait out; I really had a hard time dealing with that.

"Well, that was something you really shouldn't have done."

"Oh who cares?"

He shook his head. "There, please don't chop off the bandage."

"I won't! I don't have to use crutches."

Katie walked in. She looked horrible. She had dark rings under her eyes, she hadn't slept in a while, her jeans were torn and she was bleeding on her legs. Her eye makeup was running. "Amber! Are you okay?! You!" She shot a look at Jacob. "How dare you-"

"Katie! What the hell happened to you?" I said. I decided to change the subject; I didn't want her mad at Jacob.

"Nothing, I can't believe you!" She started yelling at Jacob again.

"HEY CUT IT OUT!" I yelled as Sam, Seth, Leah, Embry and Quil all walked in. They all looked at Katie, they hadn't met her.

"What happened?" They all said at once.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!! THIS IS THE SECOND TIME AMBER HAS BEEN HURT BECAUSE OF YOU!!" She was sooooo mad. They all looked a little startled, I had never seen her this angry. Leah looked a little guilty, she had been there for both incidents, in fact, she caused one of them.

"KATIE! CALM DOWN!" I finally screamed at her. She looked at me like I was insane. "Obviously something happened to you! Now would you please tell us?!"

Everyone looked shocked; I couldn't figure out, I had yelled at almost everyone. Maybe they were just shocked that Katie was screaming. Katie was quiet at first, but she spoke eventually. "I was walking over here-" She whispered.

I was sick of it, so I said "I'm sorry I can't here you, what?"

She raised her voice from a whisper to a normal tone. "I was walking over here; a vampire came out of no where on this road and attacked me. I fended her off though."

"Did you kill her?" Sam asked.

"No, she got away." Katie replied. We heard glass shatter up stairs and then a scream.

Esme ran down the stairs "Someone broke in!" She exclaimed. Not good. I ran up stairs.

"Amber! What are you doing?!" Katie asked. I didn't answer I just ran towards the crash. I found her inside the family room. She had black hair and was wearing jeans and a powder blue shirt. Her blood red eyes stared straight at me.

She snarled. "Who are you?"

"Amber and you are?"

"Gabriela."

"Do you work for Aaron?"

"Unfortunately, yes. And my job is to kill you, sorry" She said, and then she lunged at me. I jumped out of the way and she shattered a glass coffee table. She growled. "Stay still!" She yelled. This time when she lunged at me, I didn't move, I could take her; she was only one of Aaron's girlfriends/thugs. I decided to be a bitch to her and question her about Aaron and her relationship with him. He had a record for sleeping with all of his female subordinates.

"So what did he do to you?" I asked Gabriela. She stopped moving.

She snarled. "None of your business."

"Did he sleep with you? He's tried to do that to me before, the key to stop him is to bitch slap him then kick him in the place where the sun does not shine, he gives up real easy, unless you are a dirty whore and don't mind it, which I can see you are number two."

She was pissed. She yelled some very mean names at me then lunged, I had gotten what I wanted; as she flew through the air at me I turned quickly to my side and shoved my elbow into her gut. She fell over clutching her gut hacking horribly. I had used my full strength on this girl, and now she looked like she was going to cry. I felt bad for her; Aaron could be such a douche bag sometimes, poor girl. She was really pretty too. Her black hair was wavy and it was shiny. I was almost positive she didn't want to work for Aaron, she knew what he did to humans and other vampires was wrong, but she had no where else to go, and then he made her feel better by telling her how beautiful she was and buying her gifts, then he told Gabriela that he loved her, slept with her, then ignored her. It was horrible what he did to girls and one day he was going to pay for it. She got up from the pile of glass she laid down on. "I can help you." She finally said.

"How?" I asked.

"I know where Michael is." She replied.

Oh God, this could seriously help us. "Where is he?" I asked desperately. But I didn't get an answer, the moment the words left my lips she fell down, dead. I knew my hit from earlier didn't do this. I kneeled over. "Gabriela? Gabriela? Answer me!" I was so desperate, anything to stop this madness. I didn't know what else to do; I was scared Michael was going to kill me next so I screamed.

Jacob's Point of View

We heard glass shatter. We all began to slowly move towards the stairs. I wanted to know what was going on in that other room so badly. After about a minute, I heard the most blood curdling scream. Amber. I was the first to react, I ran up the stairs into the family room. Glass was everywhere, the vampire that was next to Amber was dead, but she looked untouched. Amber didn't though, there was glass all in her arms and she was bleeding horribly. Of course I imprinted on the girl who won't stay put for five seconds and then gets herself hurt because she can't sit still so I have to worry to no end about her. Katie followed me up the stairs along with a few others. "Oh my God." Katie finally said.

"Amber!" I said as I ran over to her side. "Are you okay?" I asked. I was so scared for her. She looked horrified; she was still staring at the vampire with wide eyes.

"She offered to help us…." She whispered. "She said she knew where Michael was…" Amber choked out.

"Did she say?!" I asked I wanted to strangle these Michael and Aaron characters; Amber had been hurt so many times because of them.

"No, she dropped dead before she could say anything." She whispered. She was still staring at the body, shaking. Her hands were covered in blood. I began to pull pieces of glass out of her hands. Carlisle walked over.

"Amber is in shock. Here let me get some of the glass out of her leg. Jacob, I am going to the hospital with her so I can get some better equipment. Stay here please, same with you Katie." He said looking up at Katie. I was down by Amber's side and I got up.

"Okay." I agreed; she needed to get the glass out of her arms and legs. Katie gave me a death glare. I knew she would hate me for letting Amber stay over last night. I shouldn't of let her stay.

"What is wrong with you?!" Katie yelled at me. I hadn't even spoken to her yet and she was yelling at me. I dealt with it though; I couldn't let her think bad of me. "Why did you do that? Do you know how worried I was? I thought Amber was dead!" She yelled at me. "Are you just going to ignore me?" She demanded.

"I'm listening." I replied.

"Don't you have anything to say?"

"I'm sorry." I said. I truly was, I knew it was a bad idea, but I decided to let her stay anyway, and then she had gotten hurt. Would it ever end? Katie and Amber were only half sisters, but they were still very close, I could only imagine how Katie must of felt waking up and finding out her younger sister wasn't there. I shuddered at the thought.

"Good." She replied. I looked out the window and saw Carlisle's car driving down the road towards the hospital, he had asked me to stay here, but I wondered if I could. I walked down stairs towards where Seth and Leah were talking to Alice.

Seth gave me an apologetic look and Leah looked worried. "I'm sorry." Leah said.

"She's going to be okay, Carlisle just needs to get her to the hospital and patch her up." Alice spoke up. I was still quiet, I was worried about her. She was definitely hurt and was in total shock, I had never seen anyone so scared in my life. "You can stay here until she gets back if you like." Alice offered.

Amber's Point of View

As we drove towards the hospital I was silent, I couldn't say anything. I couldn't stop shaking, my arms and legs stung badly from the glass that had gotten stuck in my body. After what seemed like forever, we drove into the emergency room parking lot. Carlisle carried me towards the door, I couldn't move, I was terrified; I thought we were going to be attacked every time something near me moved. I couldn't stop myself from curling into a ball when I saw any sudden movement. I needed to stop, but I couldn't. After Carlisle talked to a nurse, he moved me into a hospital room. The nurse walked back in with a bag full of supplies and a shot, she walked up to me and stuck it in my arm, and I fell asleep.

I woke up the next morning feeling sore; I looked around and remembered last night's events. I sighed and the fear took over again. No one was with me, I wanted to scream. Carlisle walked in. "How are you feeling?" He asked.

"Scared, sore." I replied.

"Why are you scared?" He asked.

I thought it was obvious, but he hadn't seen what had happened, so I couldn't blame him. "When I was fighting Gabriela-"

"Who's Gabriela?"

"The dead female vampire. Anyway, she offered to help me, she hated Aaron, she was going to tell me where Michael was, but then she fell over dead. I was so scared I was going to be next, so I screamed. I still am scared that he's going to kill me." He was no matter what, but I would rather it would be later than sooner.

"I see…" He looked deep in thought. His phone rang. He answered it. "Hello….. Yes I see….. I will bring her back to our house….. Okay, bye." He hung up. "I will go get your discharge papers." He said to me. I waited for about a minute before he returned. "Sign here." He pointed at the bottom of the page, I signed. I put on some of Alice's clothes that she let me borrow and we drove back towards the Cullens. I wondered if Jacob was still there, I doubted it. He couldn't stand it in there. We drove into the driveway and I got out. I had bandages all over my arms and legs and had several stitches. I walked towards the front door with Carlisle close behind. Katie and Jacob were waiting for me. I walked in and Jacob came up and gave me a bear hug.

"You feel okay?" He asked clearly worried about me. Katie walked up towards me too. She was glaring at Jacob, she obviously hated him.

"Other than you crushing my lungs? Yes I feel better." I replied. He smiled and let me go.

"Good, we decided to-" He was interrupted by Katie.

"We decided to keep you here for a while; we don't want you to get hurt." She looked at Jacob. "Again." He looked guilty.

"Katie, cool it." I replied. "Let's go back to the house so I can pack my things, okay?" I was not going to let her abuse Jacob like that, that was my job (Haha, just kidding).

"Fine." She snapped. She gave Jacob one last death glare and walked towards the door.

Once we were outside I said "What the hell is that all about Katie?" I asked.

"Amber! He's the reason that you have been seriously hurt twice." She replied.

"And? Look Katie, I know that you are protective of me, but I can take care of myself, I don't need you to worry about me."

"Amber, I am not going to let you see him if you keep getting hurt like this."

"Katie! He saved me today!"

"Oh yeah? How?" She demanded.

"When I was fighting that vampire who bit me! Jacob ripped his head off! Literally!"

"Oh." She was silenced. We were quiet the rest of the drive home. Once we got there I stormed up to my room and began packing. I thought about leaving Forks with Jacob. No, I couldn't. When Katie and I got into a fight last time I didn't see her for a long time, I wasn't going to tear us apart again like that. I was just going to have to be more careful. As soon as I was done packing I went downstairs.

"Let's go Katie." I said.

She quietly walked towards the car and we began to drive back towards the Cullens. We were quiet the whole way there to. I knew that one of us would have to apologize, I didn't do anything really. So I couldn't figure out what to apologize for and just end the stupid thing. I searched wildly in my head, but before I could think of anything we arrived. I got out of the car. "Bye Katie." I said. I don't think she ever heard me though because she drove away as soon as I stepped out of the car. I was upset, I hated when we fought. I walked up to the Cullens door and wondered if she would even visit me during my stay here.