When I pulled up to Second Beach, Embry's red Dodge truck was already parked in the lot and he was leaning against the door. He looked unbelievably sexy in a pair of black cargo pants with a pair of white Nikes and a white button up with red pin stripes opened over a red tee. His short mocha brown was styled into a faux hawk that reminded me of David Beckham. I shook my head with a laugh as he smiled at me and wiggled his eyebrows. I parked my car next to his truck and got out. Embry was making his way over to me, but stopped dead in his tracks as he looked at me.

"What?" I asked as I too stopped.

"Damn…" He said softly, then that panty dropping smile came to his lips.

He closed the distance between us in three strides and wrapped his arms around my waist.

"You look stunning." He said after placing a kiss to my cheek.

"Thank you. You look nice too." I smiled as he took my hand and lead me to the passenger door of his truck.

"My lady." Embry laughed as he opened the door and held my hand as I stepped in.

"You ready?" He asked as he jumped in behind the wheel and started the truck.

I smiled and nodded. The ride to Port Angeles didn't take long. Embry held my hand in his as he drove. The conversation, as always was easy and flowed along without any awkwardness. We pulled into the lot at one of my favorite restaurant's just as the sun was setting, causing a charming glow around the water front property.

"I know how you like Chinese, so here we are." Embry said as held open my door helping me out.

I smiled and didn't let go of his hand as he lead me into the building. A young man lead us to a small booth in the back. I released Embry's hand to slide in and was surprised when he sat next to me, instead of across me. Once the young man had taken our drink orders, Embry turned to me and smiled as he reached down between us and picked my hand up, bringing it up to his mouth and placing a soft kiss to it. I felt the blood rush to my cheeks as I smiled and looked down at our joined hands as they set on his leg.

"Leah?" Embry said softly as his finger grazed my ear, tucking one of my strands of hair behind hit.

"Yeah?" I asked looking up to those soft chocolate eyes.

"Thank you for tonight." He smiled.

"Well, in case I forget, Thank you." I smiled.

"For what?"

"I've had a really good time tonight." I said.

He looked at me for a moment with a confused look, "The nights not over and we haven't done anything but drive to the restaurant."

"And still it's been the most fun I've had in a long time." I said.

Embry chuckled softly and pulled my head to him and placed a soft kiss to my temple. "You crazy girl." He mumbled.

Our waitress approached our table and took our order. I ordered the chicken with pod peas with egg rice and a bowl of vegetable chow mein while Embry had beef with vegetable chow with rice. I loved how the conversation never once fell flat or left gaps to be filled, maybe it was because we had known each other for as long as we had, but everything seemed easy, natural.

"I'm stuffed." I laughed as I pushed my bowl away from me.

"You ate enough." Embry said eyeing my empty plate and near empty bowl.

"Watch it Call." I said poking his side with my finger.

"I like that you eat like that. I can't stand those girls who only eat a few bites of food and claim to be full." He said smiling at me.

I rolled my eyes with a smile and handed him his fortune cookie. "Here."

We both pulled open our cookies apart. Embry chuckled at his.

"If most men are considered beast, this must account that most women are animal lovers." He read with a laugh. "What's yours say Lee?"

"To know one self is to know one's heart." I said staring down at the thin piece of paper. "Why are these things always so vague?"

"Dunno." Embry laughed. "You ready to go?"

"Yea." I said dropping the fortune to the table.

When we stepped out of the restaurant and into the cool night air, Embry took my hand and started to lead me in the opposite direction of the truck.

"Were are we going?" I asked.

"Well, there's a small festival down at the pier. You want to check it out?" He asked looking to me out the corner of his eye.

"Sure, sounds fun."

The water front had small blue tents set up along the front of the water, each one displaying something different. Some had art, some jewelry, others were set up as games. At the end of the pier sat a small band that was playing some song I had never heard of, but the melody was nice none the less.

As we started to walk along the tents, Embry slipped his arm around my waist and pulled me into his side. I felt the smile come to my lips and I put my arm around his and my other on the front of his hip. We didn't talk, just enjoying this moment to be a normal couple together.

"When the lady a prize." A man called out to us from one of the blue tents.

Embry stopped and looked over. The man was standing in front of a row of three basketball hoops.

"Three balls for five dollars. When your lovely lady a prize." The man smiled.

"Sure, why not." Embry laughed.

"You know these things are rigged, right?" I said.

"Please.. I've never lost on these things." He smiled as we headed over to the game.

Embry handed the man a five dollar bill.

"Here we go." The man laughed handing Embry a basketball.

Embry winked at me quickly, which made me smile and roll my eyes. He gave the ball a spin in his hands, then drew back and shot the ball. I watched as it went right in without even hitting the rim. I let out a short laugh and looked back to him. Embry snorted and shook his head and held out his hand for the next ball as the man tossed it to him.

"That's it." The man said, "One more, one more."

Embry took his shot and it too sank right in. He held his hands above his head for a moment and smiled that wonderful smile.

"Tell ya what, you already get a prize for making two, but if you make this last one, I'll let you pick out three prize's." The man said with a smile.

Embry took the final ball and sank it as well. I laughed and went to stand by him and he slipped his arm around my waist again.

"Nice." I said putting my arm around his neck.

"Thank you." He said.

"Very well done sir, very well done. Your choice of prizes." The man said gesturing to the wall of prizes.

Embry looked at the wall a moment. "I'll take the halo and wand for starters."

The man handed Embry a round halo wrapped in bright pink ribbons with small pink and purple daisy intertwined around it, with pink and purple ribbons hanging from the back and a matching wand. Embry placed the halo on my head and handed me the wand.

"Perfect." He smiled then kissed my cheek.

I laughed and swatted him away.

"You pick the last one." Embry said.

I looked along the wall for a moment until my eyes fell to a small gray and black wolf. It looked a lot like Embry when he was in wolf form. I smiled and pointed to it. Embry noticed the similarities and smiled.

"Thank you." I said to the man as he handed me the small wolf.

"You two enjoy your evening." The man smiled as we walked away.

"We need to think of a name for this guy." I said holding the wolf out in front of me.

"Guy? How do you know it's not a girl?" Embry asked.

"He is most certainly a guy." I scoffed.

"How 'bout Herman?" He laughed.

"I would never do that to him!" I laughed. "I got it! Ace!

"Ace? Where in the hell did you get that?" Embry laughed.

"Dunno, he just looks like a Ace." I said pulling the wolf into my chest and snuggling it.

Embry chuckled, "Ok, Ace it is." He took the wolf from my arms and held it out in front him, "Welcome to the fold Ace, your duty is to keep this little lady warm and safe at night, but you watch your paws mister."

I snatched Ace from his hand and pulled him back to my chest with a giggle. Embry laughed and put his hand in mine and lead me back to the truck.

When we pulled back into the lot at Second Beach, Embry came around and opened my door, helping me out again. He kept his hand in mine as he walked me to my car door.

"Thank for tonight Em, I had a wonderful time." I said as I stopped at my door.

"Thank you Leah." He said softly, running his finger along my jaw.

I closed my eyes at his touch and bit down on my lip. I heard him let out a soft sigh as he place both his hands to my face. I opened my eyes to look at him. He leaned in close to my lips and held his face there. I could feel his warm breath on me and smell his addicting earthly scent. I slowly pushed my arms up around his neck and pulled him to me. Our kiss was slow and soft causing a tingle to rush up my spine. His hands slipped from my face and down my sides to move around to my back and he pulled me to him and leaned into me, causing me to bend slightly backwards. When I felt his tongue sweep along my lip, my lips parted and a low moan escaped. He kissed me once more before pulling back with a groan. I opened my eyes to him to see him smiling at me.

"Good night baby girl." He said,

"Night."

Embry opened my door for me and closed it behind me once I was in. I pulled on my seat belt and started the car. I looked out my window to him once more and blew him a kiss which brought back that dazzling smile. He raised his hand in a farewell. I smiled, then backed out the lot.

When I arrived home, I found my mom asleep on the sofa with the tv on. I pulled the blanket from the back of the sofa, tossing it over her. I clicked off the tv and lights and made my way down the hall. When I came to my door, I found a post it stuck to it.

Something is up & it's only a matter of time till I find out who this guy is Lee. Better hope I like the jerk. Hope you had fun sis, your awesome bro- Seth.

I laughed and snatched the note from the door. Once inside my room, I pulled my hair from the pins and pulled the dress off, hanging it on my closet door hook. I put the shoes under the edge of my bed and pulled on my black tee, kissed my finger placing it to dad's picture and crawled into bed with Ace snuggled up to my chest. I closed my eyes with thoughts of the most perfect date ever racing through my mind.