A/N: Yay thanks for the reviews guys! Here's the next chapter.
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"What did you just say?" I asked in the silence.
"You heard me," she said evenly smiling though it didn't reach her eyes. "Don't growl at me."
"What did you say after that?"
"You heard me?" she asked looking the picture of innocence.
"Shani…" I warned. She smiled prettily fluttering her eyelashes.
"Yes?" she asked. I was torn between laughing and shaking her.
"What. Did. You. Say?" she sighed.
"I know what you guys are. I saw Seth change earlier today. I knew something was up with you guys and I was curious so I decided to do some investigating."
"You saw Seth?" I asked shooting him a look. He ducked his head and pretended, well not really pretended but paid more attention to Rosy.
"Don't worry. I promise I won't tell anybody. I think it's kind of cool actually," she said smiling shyly. "Oh gosh are you gonna try to wipe my memory or something?" she said holding her hands up and backing up a little.
"No. But Shan, you're really not scared?" Carmen asked walking over to her. She shook her head.
"I've hunted mummies in centuries old tombs, giant wolves are nothing," she said waving her hand.
"Wow, I was scared out of my mind when I found out about Embry," Dionne said then smiled. "Leave it to you to not be scared."
"Yeah you took it better than me too, though I was only scared for a few minutes," Carmen said.
"What else have you found out?" I asked holding my breath hoping she didn't say anything about imprinting. I wasn't ready to reveal that much of myself to her just yet.
"Well…" she said clasping her hands together. "I know that something is…different about EJ and Rosy. Every time I put something down in one place I turn around and it's somewhere else."
"Uh…I think I can explain that one," Dionne said pulling her hair a little. Nerves. "So…uh…well last year I discovered that I was…well what I mean to say is…Shani," she smiled but it came out more as a grimace, "I'm a witch and I'm pretty sure Rosario has inherited my powers," she said in a rush. Shani gasped then let out a soft laugh.
"You think you know a girl," she said shaking her head and smiling ruefully. She was a surprise my little imprint. None of this scared her like I feared it would and I felt the love and admiration I had for her double.
"So you mean you're not going to run screaming from here?" Dionne asked running over and hugging her. Shani laughed and hugged her back.
"Of course not crazy girl. You're one of my favorite gal pals. You'll have to do more than use magic powers to scare me away."
"Oh gosh Shan I felt so bad lying to you," Emily said running over and hugging her. "You've become one of my good friends this past month." Shani smiled.
"Really? Not many girls really like me," she said blinking rapidly.
"Women," Brady said rolling his eyes.
"You love us," Carmen said fluttering her eyelashes. He smiled indulgently and kissed her forehead.
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Shani's POV
There was a knock on the door and I opened it to see Leah. I had only met her once but hadn't relaly had much interaction beyond that with her.
"Hi," I said smiling brightly.
"Hey, is Seth here?" she asked. I shook my head.
"No but I'm sure he'll be here soon. Come on in," I said stepping back. She walked past me. Her movements were very graceful but determined. There was a edginess to her that most females didn't have. She plopped on the couch and studied me for a second and I stared right back at her.
"Have you ever thought of being a model?" I blurted out. Her eyes widened.
"What?" she asked. I blushed but continued to talk.
"You have great bone structure and you're the perfect height. You could be a model if you want to." She laughed a little. "What's so funny?"
"Do you tell all the girls that?" she asked. I laughed too.
"No but I think you have great potential. You're gorgeous and I like the haircut, it suits your features," I said examining her. She looked away but I saw her cheeks heat up a little. "I'm sorry, am I coming on too strongly. I've never really been shy and I've always said what I think," I sighed. "That's probably why many girls don't like me."
"They don't really like me either," she said quietly. I looked up in surprise, I hadn't really expected her to say anything to that and she looked just as surprised as if she didn't mean to say that out loud. "Where are the babies?" she asked.
"Sleeping upstairs." We lapsed into silence again after that.
"So I heard you learned about the wolves," she said. I nodded.
"I kind of…accidentally stumbled upon the truth," I said smiling. She laughed.
"Sure," she waited a heartbeat then, "did you hear that I was one too?" I nodded.
"What's it like, being the only girl? I know you're with Jacob's pack now, you're Beta right?" she nodded.
"It's…different. But I'm like one of the boys now," she said but didn't seem too happy about it. I wouldn't be either if I was around some of the hottest guys in the world all the time and they only saw me as "one of the guys".
"How come I don't see you around much?" I asked. "If that's not too personal." She shook her head.
"No, you might as well know before anybody else tells you," she sighed and looked out the window then back at me. "Emily and I are cousins. But I used to date Sam a long time ago." I gasped.
"What?" I put my hand over my mouth. This was like some soap opera. She smiled without humor.
"Yeah, but after he phased he started acting strange, he was the first one it happened too and it really affected our relationship. And then he saw Emily…" she said shaking her head. I waited for her to continue. "Imprinting is wonderful I guess if you're the one doing it but it sucks if you're not." I frowned. Imprinting? She glanced up at me sharply and I quickly schooled my features. Something told me she had said more than she wanted too.
"Yeah I imagine so," I said trying to sound nonchalant. She nodded her head.
"How much did they tell you about imprinting?" she asked looking at me carefully. I shrugged. Absolutely nothing.
"Only a little, I guess they were still pretty shocked that I discovered your secret so they didn't really go into too much detail, at least not yet," I said praying that she would believe me.
"Hmm," she said. "Well I'm not surprised. But I'm sure you'll find out everything soon enough." She started standing up.
"Wait!" I said jumping to my feet.
"What?"
"Has everybody imprinted?" she shook her head.
"All of the couples you've seen have imprinted," she started walking to the door. "Tell Seth I was looking for him."
"Hey Leah," I said following her.
"Yeah," she said looking over her shoulder.
"Maybe you can come over some time and hang out. I mean everybody's usually busy during the day so if you have some free time…I'd enjoy the company," I said smiling tentatively. Her mouth quirked a little.
"Sure," she said and left. I smiled to myself. My next mission, find out what the hell an imprint was!
Finally! I put Leah in the story so never say I haven't mentioned her, it's all apart of my master plan (rubs hands together and cackles.) Alas I must give you some bad news, I'm going out of town (yeah i know i do that a lot but its summer and i should get some vacation time too dammit!) Anywho I of course won't be back until sunday which is when I'll update again and i fully believe we can get 100 reviews since this is the last update until then, peeps don't fail me now. Weiver please and I hope you'll enjoy. Don't worry promise the juicy parts are coming up, this story is a bit more...delicate than the others... :) until sunday.