Jacob was surprised. "Uh...hi, I'm Jacob. You must be the new leech girl."

"New leeches?" Sam said abruptly, turning to Edward and Alice, "You broke the treaty!"

"No we didn't." Alice said calmly.

Hermione looked up, "Treaty? What treaty?"

Jacob looked at Hermione and explained, "The treaty basically says that as long as these leeches don't bite a human, they can live here without us trying to kill them."

Hermione nodded in understanding, then she had an epiphany. "Shouldn't you come to the meeting too?"

"Meeting?" Jared asked, looking at her curiously, but all the while checking her out.

Hermione ignored his eyes and nodded, "Me and my friends were supposed to have a meeting with them." She gestured to Alice and Edward, "It's basically changing life stories and all that. Ours isn't long."

The wolves nodded. Paul spoke up, "Why are you with the leeches?"

Hermione stiffened as the insulting name was tossed around for a third time, "That's not a very nice thing to call them!"

"Ella they're just dogs," Edward said.

"No they aren't! They are werewolves apparently." Hermione said, turning to the wolves, "And my friends are vampires, not leeches, thank you very much. They have feelings, like I'm sure deep down you all do, even if it doesn't seem like you all have any. Calling each other names like that is despicable! You are all the most immature people I have ever met!"

Sam nodded, looking at Hermione with new respect. "Can we join you at this meeting Ella? I'm very sorry we disrespected your friends. It seems we've got off on the wrong foot. I'm Sam. This is Paul, Jared, Embry, Quil, and Jacob. We thank you for being equal about this. After all, no one chose this." He cut his eyes to the Cullens, "That we know of..."

She smiled at the wolves. A few smiled back but they all seemed to loosen up. What was with these people? A few words, a smile, and they are all howdy doody? She kept her smile in place though.

She could hear the tires of a car, but caught herself from looking up just in time. She wasn't supposed to be able to hear that. Thankfully Alice noticed and said, "Someone's coming. It's...Rosalie...I think."

"You think?" Edward asked.

"I'm getting blurry images right now." Alice said, obviously frustrated. Emmett's jeep pulled up seconds later, and everyone got out.

Fred and George were by Hermione's side in seconds and they both said, "They explained about the werewolves." She nodded. They turned to face the wolves and smiled. "Hey," the wolves looked uncomfortable, "I'm Jack and he's Jake." Fred continued, smiling.

Hermione frowned, confused. "No, you're Jake and he's Jack. Stop trying to confuse them! It's not polite!" She flicked him on the ear. A few people snickered, but they stopped when Hermione turned to see who it was.

"It looks like we need to go to this meeting, I'd rather not have it in the middle of a road, after all." Hermione said. Several people nodded in agreement.

"The meeting was supposed to be at our house but if you feel uncomfortable-" Edward was cut off by Sam.

"That's fine. We'll run in the woods."

The vampires and Bella got in the car, with Bella in the Volvo. It took all of Hermione's willpower to not make Edward 'accidentally' crash. After all, only Bella would get injured or die. Tempting...she gave herself a mental shake. Control your emotions.

"Edward, slow down." Bella whined, annoyed that she had to sit in the back.

"Buckle your seat belt," Edward sighed. "We'll be there in a minute. It's not even that fast." He was going 70.

"I agree." Hermione said, to annoy Bella. "He isn't going fast enough. Have you ever been to Germany on the autobahn?" Alice and Edward chuckled, because they had. Bella rolled her eyes, not getting what she meant.

They pulled up to the Cullen house. Hermione didn't stare, but she didn't look away immediately. This home was beautiful, but it was nothing compared to Hogwarts.

"Let's go," Edward said, gesturing towards the door. Hermione nodded and followed him and Bella inside. Bella looked pretty clingy at the moment. She was practically hanging on Edward's arm like an ornament on a Christmas tree. Hermione rolled her eyes, and they walked into the living room.

Hermione sat next to Fred and George on a love seat. Rosalie sat next to the small group with Emmett at her right. Alice and Jasper sat next to them with Carlisle and Esme on their right. They all sat on a very large couch. Edward and Bella occupied another love seat to the left of the twins and Hermione. The wolves were standing up, as if they didn't know whether to sit or not. Esme got up and gestured for them to sit on the extra couch, across from Hermione and the twins.

Alice's eyes glazed over and everyone looked at her and Edward. He stiffened. When her eyes came back into focus they looked from Hermione to Bella. It looked like she was trying to fight the urge to laugh or at least smile. She let go of Jasper's hand and went to sit by Hermione. She grabbed her hand. She looked at their hands for a minute and shrugged. Hermione raised an eyebrow at her. Alice bit her lip and secretly pointed to Bella. She then made a fist. Hermione got what she was talking about and burst out laughing. Alice had a vision of Hermione hitting Bella.