Life Goes On

Author's Note: Thank you for the review. I will be back and forth between this story and my new Jasper/OC story called "Broken Wing". Check it out and let me know what you think. For a back story on the OC Characters of Cheyenne, Ariyanna and Brooklyn check out Let Me Love You in the Embry section (disregard the parts about Summer and Jasper, and the fact that Alice is with Garrett…I just threw that in for fun.) In the terms of the theatre…on with the show!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything Twilight that honor is reserved solely for Stephanie Meyer, I just like playing with her characters.

Chapter 7-

Noah's POV

With the threat of the two newborns that Esme created gone due to Ashley's newfound power of the sonic scream, things started to go back to normal. Ashley and Jesse were closer than ever, I just hated trying to ignore the sounds they made in her room at night. That sucked royally and I am sure that everyone else in the house would agree with me on that one. As far as the other imprinted couples were concerned, Alex quit acting like a lovesick puppy when it came to Brooklyn and started acting like my best friend again. The crazy thing? Brooklyn liked my Alex better than the whipped Alex.

Nathan was still dealing with having an imprint that was 10 years his senior but things were turning around for him. He and Summer have been inseparable as friends, but who knows where that will lead in the future. He told me that she was the best friend that anyone could ask for and Embry told me that Summer feels the same way. Embry also told me that she was torn, however, between giving in fully to the imprint and becoming his lover and just giving in to imprint and staying friends. Sooner or later fate will put them on the path they are supposed to be on whether it is as friends or lovers, it's too soon to tell what fate had in store.

Levi and Ariyanna have had their ups and downs over the past couple of weeks because Ariyanna had been talking to Ashley and Brooklyn about how they had made their bond with their imprint stronger by having sex, she wanted that. Levi felt that they should wait because the timing was off and they shouldn't just follow the pack. I told them both when it happened it happened, don't fight the moment, until then just chill.

Chloe and Manuel had been inseparable since discovering their bond. It seems that they were already very much attracted to each other even before the "Quileute Magic", as Manuel called it, came about. He didn't care that she was a wolf and she could care less that he was a vampire. All they knew is that they wanted to be together and no one was going to keep them apart.

Which brings us to his sister, Yolanda. Well that's a weird scenario, if you ask me. While Anna still remained close to my sister, she and Yolanda were never far apart. I was beginning to think that they were both…different. My suspicions were confirmed one day after school when they were both waiting at my house for Ashley to get home from her "afternoon romp" with Jesse down at the beach in La Push. I had just got home from taking Maria home and went upstairs to get ready for our date later that evening. I walked past Ashley's room and heard some noises. At first I thought that Ashley had decided to bring Jesse back here for their alone time so I kept walking. I stopped dead in my tracks when I heard two females moaning. I did a double take when I looked into Ashley's room, they had left the door open. There on Ashley's bed was Yolanda and Anna making out like I had never seen two people make out before.

"I KNEW IT!" I exclaimed, startling them both.

"Noah, I didn't hear you come in." Anna started "I know this looks bad, please don't tell Ashley. I don't know if I am ready to come out with my secret yet."

"And what is that exactly?" I asked raising an eyebrow in question.

"Noah, you know that I have the ability to tell who it is that someone will fall in love with, their soul mate so to speak. And you know that we vampires have mates, and when we find them it is for life." Yolanda said and I nodded. I closed the door behind me as I walked into Ashley's room and took a seat in the chair at her desk.

"Go on?" I said.

"Well I will admit that I had always seen a beautiful blonde woman in my future to be my soul mate. I didn't expect to find her here and I don't mean to cause any trouble. When Anna and I met she felt the spark immediately." Yolanda said.

"Noah, it's like how you felt when you first met Maria." Anna said "You know that incredible feeling you got when you looked into her eyes, the one that told you that she was the one for you?" I nodded my head hesitantly.

"Well that is what I felt when I met Yolanda." Anna said "I don't know how Ashley will take it so no one knows about this except Yolanda and Edward, and now you of course. I mean, yeah! Edward has picked up on our thoughts when we are around him but he agreed not to say anything until we are ready.

"Have you told your parents Anna?" I asked and she shook her head.

"No, that scares me shitless also." Anna replied.

"Why? Are you ashamed of what you are?" I asked and she shook her head vigorously.

"No, No, No. I am by no means ashamed that I found and fell in love with my soul mate even if she is a beautiful woman like Yolanda." she replied.

"Then why hide it?" I asked.

"Noah, have you ever seen my with a guy?" she asked and I thought about it for a second. She had talked about being with guys but none of us had actually SEEN her with one. I shook my head no to answer her question. "Yeah I have talked about guys to you all but that is because I was afraid to tell anyone that I just didn't find any of them attractive. I have NEVER seen guys in the romantic sense and up until Yolanda I had never felt it toward a woman. Yeah, I have looked but she helped me come to terms with the truth that has been eating at me for a while now." she said.

"Anna, I'll go ahead and tell you that Ash will not think any different of you for being a lesbian." I said honestly "You are her best friend, and you always will be whether you are gay, straight, bi, or celibate. But you need to tell her before she finds out the same way that I did. If that happens she will be pissed that you didn't tell her. Just please, when you do tell her please don't tell her that you told me first, that will only hurt her." I added and Anna nodded.

"I'll tell her, I'll tell her today. I am tired of hiding. I am tired of having to sneak around to be with Yolanda. I mean hell, Yolanda hasn't even told Manuel and Maria about us because I asked her not to. Maria and Manuel know that Yolanda is different and they love her the same. They never told anyone about her because they wanted to see how you acted around people like us first." Anna said.

"Anna Nicole Manning, we are a vampire family that lives with a bunch of werewolves, why would we judged either of you?" I asked and she shrugged. "You need to tell Ashley and then you need to tell your parents, I am sure that Ashley will go with you to help soften the blow but it needs to happen and it needs to happen NOW or you and Yolanda will never have a happy and peaceful relationship because you will always be hiding."

Right after I got that out in the open I heard the front door close and the sounds of Ashley and Jesse laughing and carrying all floated up the stairs. I shot Anna a look that said "It's now or never" and then left the room. Ashley came in a few minutes later with Jesse. I decided to pull him into my room to play X Box while the girls talked.

"What's up man?" he asked when he saw me craning my neck to hear what was going on across the hall in Ashley's room.

"Shh…Anna's finally telling Ash the truth and I don't know how she's going to react we both need to be on alert in case this goes bad so we can get Ash out if she decides to get pissed and phase." I said.

"Ok, what's going on?" he asked raising an eyebrow.

"It seems Anna and Yolanda have been sneaking around to be together behind everyone's back. I caught them when I got home." I said.

"I knew it!" he whispered. We both got quiet and listened to what was going on in the next room. No one was home but us so it wasn't hard to hear. We heard as Anna confessed to Ashley that she was a lesbian and she and Yolanda had been seeing each other in secret sine the welcome party about a month ago. Things got quiet for a few seconds, I guess Ashley was trying to digest it all. All of a sudden we heard Ashley exclaim "I KNEW IT!". Seems my sister and I share the same thought process because we both KNEW something was up with those two. I heard Anna apologize to Ashley for not telling her the truth and Ashley said that she didn't care. She said that she was still her sister and she still loved her even if she was into chicks and not dudes. She agreed to go with Anna and Yolanda to tell Anna's parents and then I heard the door open. Jesse and I quickly pretended to be really into UFC Undisputed when we heard a knock at the door.

"It's Open." I called. The door swung open and Ashley, Anna and Yolanda all three walked in.

"Hey guys. I am going to go with Anna and Yolanda to talk to Anna's parents. When do you leave to go pick up Maria, Noah?" Ashley asked.

"I don't leave for a while, why?" I asked feigning stupidity.

"Well it seems that my best friend and your imprints sister are a couple. I'm cool with it but Anna wants me to come with her to come out to her parents and I dunno how they are gonna take it, ya know? It may take a while. And I wanted to spend some more time with Jesse so I was wondering if you could keep him company until we got back." she said.

"Yeah, sure. Wait? You two are together?" I said feigning surprise.

"But.." Jesse started but I elbowed him hard in the rib causing him to stop dead in his tracks. "That's hot." he said instead.

"I know right, we get to see a real live girly show right in front of us" I said playing it up.

"All right you boys, it's not fantasy hour. These are our two friends here, what they do together is their business. If we happened to be around when they kiss, so be it." Ashley said and we all laughed. Ashley and the girls left a few minutes later and Jesse and I went back to our game. Ariyanna and Brooklyn came home while we were playing and they had Alex, Nathan and Levi with them. They came up to my room.

"Hey guys, where's Ash?" Brooklyn asked.

"Well she went with Anna and Yolanda to talk to Anna's parents." I said.

"Why? What's wrong?" Ariyanna asked.

"Nothing, Nothing. Anna came out today to Ashley and she is scared to come out to her parents to Ashley went with her and Yolanda." I said.

"When you say Anna "came out today" you mean….what exactly?" Alex asked. I swear that boy was dense sometime.

"She's a dyke fucktard" Nathan said playfully smacking him in the back of the head.

"That explains why they always look at each other like they are about to screw each other every time they are near each other." Brooklyn commented.

"Hey, I think it's cool she's finally being honest with herself and is not afraid to let the world know that she is in love with another woman." Ariyanna said.

"I couldn't agree more baby." Levi said kissing Ariyanna. It must be a good day for them. A while later Ashley, Yolanda and Anna came back. Anna told her parents who threatened to disown her if she didn't end it. She told them to go fuck themselves, packed her stuff and is moving in with Yolanda, Manuel and Maria. I went on my date with Maria, who was cool with Yolanda and Anna, and we had a great night. She spent the night with me and we just laid together in each other's arms. It was a great ending to an otherwise dramatic day.