I was going to update yesterday but then an unforeseen error stopped me from doing so. Sorry to keep you waiting on this chapter but my sister is home and I wanted to spend as much time with her as I could. Hope you enjoy the chapter

Chapter8

I sat on the beach watching as the waves pulled in and out, I've been here for hours thinking about everything that's happened to me in the last two weeks. The craze of turning into a huge white wolf pretty much died down after a few hours and now I didn't know what to think about it. I hardly spoke to my mom or Michael, It wasn't that I was mad at them I just needed time to think and get used to their new found youth. The other wolf's where a great help, teaching me how to phase and keep my temper under control, turns out I was a natural at all of this wolf stuff. Surprisingly when I finally saw Daniel the first thing he did was wrap his arms around me and pull me into a huge hug, I was happy that he didn't care what I was after Sasha had to explain things to him and his dad. Anthony didn't care either; he loved Sasha more than anything and said he would love her no matter what she was; my mom called them true soul mates. The bond they would only ever happen once in their life time and would last even after death, she told me her and my dad share the same bond, the thought of my mom being happy and I mean really truly happy made me happy. I spent a lot of time with Embry catching up the last seventeen years he had missed and I found that I was a lot like him and not just in looks, I also spent time with Seth, he had this way of making everything better and making me laugh, it felt good to be with him and I could feel the bond we had grow stronger with every minute I spent with him. I still remember the day he told me about imprinting and how he imprinted on me, it always brought a smile to my face.

It had been a week since my first change and everything was as normal as it could get, I was spending the day with Seth, but I still couldn't understand the feeling I had for him, I thought about him a lot and when he was in the same room or area I had to be close to him. It was like something was pulling me towards him but I didn't ask because I was scared he didn't feel the same way, so I kept to myself. He was acting really weird as we walked along the beach, the conversation followed well enough but I could tell there was something up with him, like he was nervous about something.

"Are you ok?" I stopped walking and stood in front of him knowing he would stop, he looked kind of startled by my question.

"No… I mean yes I mean…" I laughed a little at him as he struggled to find the right words and he looked embarrassed, it was kind of cute.

"So is it yes or no" I smiled at him and he took a big breath and gave me a small shy smile, he wasn't normally like this and I wondered what was going on with him, we had become friends and I cared about him, even though I wanted more.

"I was hoping that we could talk" he sounded extremely nervous so I nodded my response instead of saying that we were already talking, I didn't want him feeling any more embarrassed than he already was. He let out a breath I didn't know he was holding and looked at me his eyes meeting mine. "Well we have become good friends and I'm really happy about that and I wouldn't want to ruin that for the world" he didn't break eye contact the whole time.

"Me either but where is this going" he looked nervous again but he stood looking at me for a minute, lost for words again when the look on his face changed to a determined one.

"Screw it!" his outburst made me jump a little but I knew he wasn't angry or upset maybe a little frustrated at himself "Ember in the pack there is this thing called imprinting, it's a way us wolves find our soul mates. It's not forcing you to love that person but it's the universes way of helping you to find your soul mate" he paused to look at me an but when I didn't say anything he carried on "Ember I have feelings for you that don't come from friendship and it's not only because I've imprinted on you" I stopped him there.

"You imprinted on me?" he must have miss understood the tone in my voice or the expression on my face because his entire facial expression dropped even in his eyes he looked kind of sad.

"I did and I totally understand if you don't feel the same way and if you don't could we remain friends because I don't know what I would do without you in my life, I won't mention any of the feelings I have for you I could even be like a bro-" I cut him off there by throwing myself at him and kissing him, I'm not really sure how I knew what to do since I have never been kissed or kissed someone in my life but I didn't want him to say the word brother because the last thing I wanted was for him to be my brother, sure the imprinting thing kind of freaked me out but like he said it was just a way to find your soul mate and I didn't mind if he is mine. He responded to the kiss almost immediately. I it felt like my whole body was on fire; I could get enough of him. His arms wrapped around my waist pulling me towards him and mine went to his hair so I could run my fingers through its short length. We stayed like that for a minute more before we both had to breathe again, and I'm pretty sure I was smiling like a fool and so was he, and the he laughed and started to spin me around which in turn got me laughing, he set me down and smiled down at me again. We spent the rest of the day kissing laughing and talking it was one of the best days of my life.

I was brought out of my thought by a familiar voice that sounded a lot like his annoying twin but was somehow kinder. I hadn't spent a lot of time with him and his ground for the main reason of Kyle being a total asshole all the time even though I was basically a part of the pack, I could see that Shane didn't like the way his brother behaved and I even noticed that his whole group sometimes got annoyed with his shit, I couldn't blame them.

"Hey" I looked at his smiling face and narrowed my eyes at him, I wasn't sure about him but maybe I was judging him on the acts of his brother, he put his hands up "I come in peace I swear" I looked around for his brother, the two of them where rarely apart from each other "if you looking for Kyle his not here" I relaxed a little when he said that.

"Where is the bag full of sunshine" he laughed at that and sat down next to me but not close enough to touch me.

"Running patrol with Paul" that was a surprise, Paul couldn't stand the guy and I wondered what he did to get the punishment "He broke a table after he lost a hundred dollar bet" I had to laugh at that but at the back of my mind I was wondering how he knew what I was going to ask, because today wasn't the first time he had done it.

"Well you know Paul he hardly loses bets and when he does his not too happy about it" we both laughed and fell in to silence after that so I decided to break it.

"How do you seem to know what I'm about to ask half the time" he smiled and looked at me, his eyes where so happy unlike his brothers and in my opinion it made him the better looking one.

"I observe things, you know like facial expressions body language eye contact the little things" I nodded going over his answer in my head and it made sense.

"That's pretty cool" I told him and he smiled and shrugged like it wasn't a big deal, I could see slight colour start to form in his cheeks and I chuckled but didn't bring it up.

"I'm sorry by the way about my brother" he looked so ashamed so I bumped him in the shoulder making sure I had his attention.

"The last thing you have to be sorry for is the actions of your brother and anyway I want to hear it out of his mouth not his twin brothers" He was about to say something when we heard a girl scream. We looked at each other and where on our feet in a split second when we heard the scream again, it was coming form down the beach but I didn't phase in case it was human activity. I saw Shane start to remove his shirt as we ran but I stopped him, he looked at me confused but kept running with me it took us seconds to get there because we could run so fast and I was right about it being human activity so phasing was out of the question unless we wanted to scare them away but Jacob wouldn't be too happy about that so instead we hid behind a rock that was close by to find out what was going on. My heart was racing, not from the run but by what was going on in front of us. A girl stood with he back to us he hair was long and black, facing two guys that towered over her, I heard Shane growl and I looked at him; he looked like he could punch a wall or punch the daylights out of them and I knew that he knew these guys or knew of them.

"Who are they?" I whispered, he didn't take his eyes away from what was happening but he answered in a whisper.

"They are guys from my school total assholes and they have a reputation of sexual assault though they have never been found guilty" I widened my eyes and started to feel scared for the girl, what where they going to do to her I didn't know but I would wait long to find out, the two guy started laughing and moving closer to her she took a step back towards us.

"Oh come on baby you know you want us" he purred at her but he sounded disgusting. I wanted to punch him in the face and I'm sure Shane did to.

"Yeah Emma don't you want to know how it feels to be with a real man and not that red headed white boy" the minute they said her name I got pissed but when they descried Daniel I became enraged, the next thing I knew I was jumping over the rock and running at them they looked surprised and didn't have time to do anything as I knocked the biggest one to the floor and started to punch, the other one got me off and throw me to the ground I got up fast and stepped back a bit, controlling myself like the guys taught me to.

"Who the hell are you" the one I didn't punch said as he glared at me and I glared right back, showing that I wasn't afraid of him.

"You stupid bitch you broke my nose" the other guy was holding his nose as blood poured out of his cupped hands.

"And you deserved it you prick!" I heard Shane yell from the back of me I turned to see him with Emma making sure she was ok she looked a little rattled and had a cut on her head that was bleeding freely, which made me even more pissed. While I was distracted by them one of them took the opportunity to attack me, I was surprised and was on my back with this guy on top of me with my hands above my head. I knew I could fight back but I was still shocked, he smiled down at me.

"Not so toughed now are we" he leaned down and licked my face from my chin to my forehead, I heard Shane screaming but that was it, I was blinded with white hot rage and then the guy on top of my was flying across the beach and landed with a loud thud I quickly got up in time to see the other guy charging at me, on instinct I held my hand up and he just stopped moving he looked confused and tried to move again but couldn't he was about three meters away when I somehow stopped him from moving. With my other hand I wiped the spit off my face, I walked over to him and slapped him in the face with it, and when I looked into his eyes he looked genuinely scared for his life.

"What the hell are you" his voice trembled as he said it

"your worst freaking nightmare" I moved my hand that was holding his movement slightly and he went flying and landed close to his friend in the next second I was there blocking both of their movements "if I ever see you or hear about you ever sexually touching a girl or anyone that doesn't want it, I will hunt you down and I will make sure you have no use over you reproductive organs ever again!" they looked terrified and I didn't care I let them go and they scrambled up and ran off and I watched them as they went. My anger was fading and when it was finally gone I looked down at my hand not sure of what I just did or why the hell I just acted like that I have been pissed off before but never enough to act like that, even if he did lick my face. I heard Shane run up to me and place a hand on my shoulder I knew what he was asking me even without words.

"I'm fine just give me a second" he removed his hand but didn't move away from me, I took a few seconds to breathe making sure that I was totally clam and turned to him. He looked concerned but there was no fear in his eyes for which I was grateful before I could get a word out he had me in a hug that I returned, it was comforting but it was more like a concerned brother hug than anything else, he let me go and pulled me towards where Emma was now sitting on the rock. I knew she had a cut on her head but I also saw that she was missing her jacket and her shirt was torn, she looked shocked and a little afraid but when she saw us she jumped off the rock a flew in to my arms.

"Thank you Ember I don't know what they would have down" she was crying now and I held her close comforting her.

"It wasn't only me" I said and smiled at Shane who smiled back, I decided then that he was an ok guy and a friend that I could trust.

"Em what happened" Shane asked her, she stiffened but let go of me to turn to him I could see she was shivering so I took my jacket off and gave it to her because I didn't even really need it. she smiled at me and I held her close, she like everyone else had become a really good friend to me and her and Daniel where becoming more and more like a couple each day, which Seth was freaking out about but I would normally laugh it off and say he needed to let it go which he didn't, after all she was his only niece.

"I was walking to the beach and the next thing I know they were calling me and I ignored them but they caught up, they started talking about Daniel and what a little pussy he was but I told them they were assholes and to leave me alone the then one of them ripped my jacket off and I started running they caught up to me hear and tore my shirt that when I screamed and hit the one, the other one hit me giving me the cut I have now and I screamed again and then you guys where here and you had them flying all over the place" she looked at me when she said the last part and I just hung my head and sighed, I knew they wanted answers I really couldn't give them.

"How did you do that anyway Ember I mean you stopped them from moving" I looked up again at Shane, he didn't looked upset if anything he had a smile on his face.

"I don't know I'll have to ask my mom now let's see your head I take first aid back home" I smiled at her and she turned to me, I tore a piece off her already ruined shirt and cleaned the cut but when I removed it the cut was gone I looked at her confused for about a minute when Shane dumped my in the shoulder "The cut is gone" he was then also staring and then staring at me "ok now we really have to go talk to my mom lets head back" they both nodded although Emma looked a little confused. Join the club

It took us ten minutes to get back to Leah's house where I knew everyone would be for the once a week pack supper, everyone who knew about the secret went, they didn't really notice us until Leah saw us and the state her daughter was in, she was talking to Seth so when she gasped he also turned to see what was happening, they literally ran over to us. Leah took Emma and Seth took me into the house Shane just followed behind, I didn't know why Seth was making such a big deal over me I was completely fine. When we got in a saw my mom my dad Michael, Paul and his imprint Rachael sitting around laughing about something but the room went sober when we walked in I held up my hands so they wouldn't all jump to conclusions and in the process I used my freaky power again to make them sit down again, I dropped my hands and they were able to move again. My mom and Michael shared a look and I knew they knew something.

"Ok what do you know about all this" they sighed and with one look at each other decided that Michael would take this one.

"Look kid-" I laughed and he stopped talking

"Sorry its kid of funny when you are almost my age and calling me kid" he just rolled his eyes but smiled.

"What you just did is something a 'witch' can do, now every 'witch' is born with one main power and then she or he can perform other ones with a few spells and that takes years to learn and much to my own delight" he looked back at my mom who just rolled her eyes and crossed her arms she looked kind of irritated at him "you have my power which is awesome" he looked like a child on Christmas day.

"Wait I thought you said you guys are born with one main power" Shane asked and Michael nodded but him and Emma looked confused and I knew what they were thinking but maybe the gift included me being able to heal people.

"Michael can you heal people" I asked carefully,

"No I can only move objects with my mind why?" I took a deep breath and smiled at him

"When Emma was hurt back on the beach I tried cleaning it only when I removed the cloth the cut was gone" as I was talking Michaels eyes went wide and looked shocked, I heard my mom whisper 'no' and then she stood up and did the last thing I would expect from her she picked up a knife and cut the full length of her forearm Embry tried to get up but something or someone was holding them down I suspected it was Michael.

"Heal me" I looked at her like she was crazy but she looked serious, the blood was flowing from her arm freely now as I just looked at her "Do it" she shoved her arm at me and I looked at it thinking healing thoughts which seemed to work, the blood stopped flowing and the cut started to close, in a few seconds it was gone just like I wanted it to be. I looked at her arm and the room was so quite you could hear a pin drop.

"Natasha you knew this could happen" Michael said calmly his face was like a closed book now and so was my moms, I couldn't read either of their expressions not even their eyes betrayed them.

"I know I was just hoping she wouldn't be the one"

"What do you mean the one" before anyone could answer me Daniel came flying in to the room, at first I thought he was here for Emma but he walked right up to me, I could see the hurt in her eyes and I was mad at him for putting it there after what she just went through but then he opened his mouth.

"Ember my mom's been in a serious car crash"

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