We walked well out of earshot of the bickering Edward and Rosalie. I found a dead log. It was as thick as my waist was high. I jumped up and sat down, making sure to leave enough room on either side of me, so Nahuel could sit where he wanted. He sat on my right side, a couple of inches away. "It's your turn." I said cheerily.

"My turn for what?" Nahuel asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I told you my story, I want to hear yours. I know you're a man of few words but I want to know everything." I said.

"If you insist. My mother named me Nahuel, after the jungle cat. Her name was Pire. It is said she was extremely beautiful, my aunt says too beautiful. That was why my father chose her. He knew she was special. And how could she not be, when she gave him the son he wanted? But I am not the son he wanted, not truly. I'm getting off topic though.

As soon as Mother knew I had come into being, she went to Aunt Huilen for help. They had been very close and told each other everything. Aunt Huilen quickly deduced what had happened. Mother had been seduced by the Libishomen and I would be half Libishomen. They went on a hunt for Joham, my father for all intents and purposes. Aunt Huilen hunted for Mother when Mother became too weak to carry on. Their bond had been strong, too strong for Aunt Huilen to just sit and allow her sister to die. Anyway Mother's favorite was the jungle cat, though Aunt Huilen had only been able to catch one for her. Mother named me accordingly.

As one life enters the world, another has to leave. But why it had to be Mother, especially after I see Bella, I have no idea. My aunt never truly forgave me for taking the life of her best friend, her favorite sister, and then biting herself so she could never go back to hr family. I remember growing up, her intensions were always clear to me. Everyone's are."

"Can you read minds like Edward? Is it your special gift?" I interrupted. I was totally entranced in Nahuel's warm teak gaze. The only thing I could smell was his warm musky scent. If it weren't for the fact I have a very thick head I'm sure I wouldn't be able to string two words together.

"No. I can read people and their intentions. Their body language speaks to me. That's why I didn't react as strongly as I probably should have when you told me your story and about the imprinting. Your body language told me you were already at peace with what had happened to you and it told me that you really did love me and that it wasn't a bad thing. Your body language, the way you acted every time you said the word told me it was a very good thing."

"Oh." As Nahuel talked he used his body to display what he was saying a lot. I found it amusing. I love the way he tries to show everything he's saying. Reading people's body language must make him use his own a lot more than normal. If people can't read his body language as well as he can read theirs, he must try to over compensate for it. This is the most I've ever heard him speak. He's more of a hands on person. I like that. Samuel just talked so much, he had to explain everything, and God forbid if you didn't listen or cut him off. "What else about your family?" I asked.

"Well I have three sisters. Elizabeth is by seventy years my eldest sister. She can manipulate her body's chemical reactions. The only thing she can't mess with is venom because she has none.

My second sister Carol is also older than me, but only by fifty years. She messes with the way people think. Father has forbidden her to use her powers against my sisters, other vampires, and I. He says it is just a tool to toy with the humans, and she has great fun playing with it.

My third sister, Samantha, is the youngest out of all of us. She has the power of disguise. She can take on any human appearance, she can even make herself look like a guy. None of that would be useful if she couldn't also play the scent she outputs. Recently, a couple of years after she matured, she took on a more masculine scent very similar to mine. She said it made her smell and appear more powerful. Father was pleased with her decision because she can add the scent of venom, even though she has none in her system.

I haven't seen any of them in a while. I was planning on visiting them after we were done up here, but now I don't want to go. I find it much more enjoyable up here. Especially since my father isn't here." His whole body went stiff, displaying what he thought of his father.

"You really don't like your father, do you?"

"No. If it weren't for him, my mother and aunt would have led long and happy lives. Granted I wouldn't have been born, but such a small price to pay if it meant I wouldn't hurt them. My father is to blame, but if I had been even a girl, my mother might not have died, at the very least my aunt would've never been changed." He said.

"Hey! Imagine if you were a girl!" I said, getting slightly irritated. "That would make me like, Lesbian or something!" (I have nothing against homosexuals or how they show it. Leah on the other hand, well, she don't care so long as it isn't her and they're not flaunting it.)

"What's that mean?" Nahuel asked me. I sighed and put my head in my hands.

"You know how it's usually a guy falling in love with a girl?"

"Yes?" He said unsure of where this was heading.

I looked up, determined to see his reaction "Well, lesbianism is a girl falling in love with a girl, and if you had been born a girl, I would have become lesbian or maybe it would have been Seth imprinting on you instead of me!" His eyes got wide at the thought and he shuddered.

"Scary thought." He stated.

"What you and Seth?"

"No, if I had been born a girl, that would have been understandable. No the scary thought came from two girls falling in love. It's just not natural." (Apparently Nahuel isn't too fond of it either. No offence meant though. Please, I never thought I'd have to say this but, no flames!)

"Weird." I said grinning. "Most guys get turned on by girl on girl action."

"Not this guy." He shuddered again. "Although you are definitely beautiful enough, I mean if I were a - I'd still go out with you if we were both girls." He looked like he was trying to dig himself out of a nonexistent hole.

"Nahuel quit groveling, I know what you're trying to say. I would too, but it's still a scary thought."

"Yes." Nahuel said, then his stomach growled.

"I wonder what time it is." I said, looking at his eyes, which looked starving even though they were still their teak color. "Do you want to go eat. I just realized I pulled you away from your spaghetti."

"I think I'll take Edward up on his hunting offer." Nahuel said grimacing at the thought of human food.

"Great! Let's get going!" Edward said jumping up, effectively scaring the crap out of us. I fell backwards off of the log we were sitting on, taking Nahuel with me as he tried to catch me. Laughter filled the air as I stuck my head cautiously over the (did I mention it was fairly huge?) log to see the whole Cullen clan, and Jacob, Seth, Quil, and Embry sitting in a semicircle around the log.

"Took you all long enough to realize we were here!" Emmett boomed.

"Just how long have you all been there?" Nahuel asked, standing up and offering me a hand, which I took gratefully.

"Long enough to know you would be into me if you were a girl!" Seth said, rolling around on the ground, laughing, and hiccupping at the same time.

"Can't we ever get a minute's privacy?" I mumbled.

"Nope!" Jacob said, popping the 'p'.

"Oh shut-up!" I growled.

After a while everyone stopped laughing and Edward took Nahuel out to hunt. Before he left I told Nahuel I was going home because I didn't feel like hanging out at the Cullen's anymore. It was the not so perfect end to a not so perfect day, but still it was the best day I'd had In a long time. Who needs perfect anyway? I fell asleep, looking forward to baseball tomorrow.