Ok, this is for all of you who were Team Collin! Thanks for reading!

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Brady's POV

I hate waiting in lines!

Waiting in the lunch line at school.

Waiting in line at the amusement park.

Waiting in line at the mall.

And now waiting in line at the grocery store so I could buy my mom a bell pepper. Seriously, one bell pepper, and it looked like I'd still be waiting in line ten minutes from now. I was dying to get home. I had left my cell phone at home and I really wanted to call Lacey.

She hadn't answered any of my texts since the day I told her about the wolf secret. She talked to me at school, but not very much. And she completely ignored looking at Collin. Strangely enough, she spoke to Jacob, Seth, Quil, and Embry. A lot. So it wasn't the wolf thing that was bothering her. So what was it?

Did she find out about the imprinting thing? No, that couldn't be it, because then she would be ignoring one of us or the other, probably Collin, but not both of us. What could it be?

I looked at the other people in line. Some old lady buying cat food (a bunch of cat food), a young woman with three kids of various ages, and a girl…

A beautiful, gorgeous, amazing, wonderful girl…

What just happened? I looked back at the girl. I didn't recognize her, but she was amazing.

I realized later that I must have dropped the pepper, but at the moment I didn't notice. All that mattered was getting to that girl and finding out who she was.

I walked up to her. "Hi," I said. "I'm Brady."

She smiled at me, and I almost melted into a big puddle of werewolf. "I'm Kathy," she said.

I looked into her chopping basket, desperate for a conversation topic. "So, you like chocolate?" I asked stupidly, seeing that that was all she bought.

She grinned. "Just a little," she said sarcastically.

"I love chocolate," I said.

"Well," she said, "You must eat something, dud you are huge! I mean, not in a bad way, but dude, I can see up your nose."

I laughed. "Yeah, well I'm looking at the top of your head," I said. It was true, too, because she was maybe five foot two. She laughed.

"Come here," she said, waving me downward. I leaned down. "Closer," she said. I bent down so that I was eye level with her. She flicked me in the head.

"Ow!" I exclaimed.

"You don't make fun of my height," she said. "Ever. Especially if you're about to ask for my number."

I gawked at her. "What?" I asked.

She rolled her eyes. " 'So, you like chocolate?' Come on, you can do better than that! But since I like you, I'll give you my number anyway." She pulled a pen out of her purse and wrote her number on a small piece of paper.

As she walked away, I watched her go. Then suddenly, I thought:

Oh crap. Lacey.

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"Lacey, I'm sorry!"

I had yelled the same thing almost fifteen times, but she was still going. It was like she didn't even need to breathe.

"You lying, stupid, effing asshole…" I tried to tune her out, but the guilt was almost unbearable.

"Lacey!" I yelled loudly, cutting her off. She was silent, staring at me. "It's not my fault! Imprinting is involuntary! But now I have to be with her."

She stared at my as if I'd grown an extra head. "You effing hypocrite!" she yelled. "You asked me out knowing Collin imprinted on me!" I wasn't aware that she knew that. "And even though you could have imprinted you asked me out. You knew you were probably going to break my heart!" She screamed.

"Get out," she said quietly. I didn't move. "Get out!" she screamed. She ran into her room. A moment later, an incredibly pissed looking Missy came in and started yelling where her sister had left off. "You broke her heart! You knew you might imprint, but you still screwed over your best friend, and you broke my sister's heart! Get out of our house!"

I had never seen the preppy, bubbly Missy with this look on her face. She really cared about her sister. I left quietly.

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Well, there you go. Well, those of you who have been waiting for Collin and Lacey to get together, you're going to have to wait a little longer, but we're getting there!