Chapter 9

The next whole week I spent following Mrs. Nicholson around and sucking in all her wisdom like a sponge. The students quickly took a liking of me and almost treated me like one of them, as opposed to being a teacher or teacher's assistant. I didn't know for sure if that was a good or a bad thing, but I figured time would tell. The teachers weren't all that happy with me, I figured mostly because I was so young but I didn't let that get to me. Evelyn and I talked a lot and she said that some of the teachers didn't like her either because they thought she was too young, but all and all everyone knew she was the boss.

Embry and I living together was working very well. We didn't fight at all and we took turns with all the house work. The members of the pack came around almost daily and I felt like I was a part of a big and happy family, which was a new thing for me. I was the only child in our family and after my parents died I lived my life as a rover borrowing clothes from others and flying around from one place to another. It seemed that finally I had found my place in the world.

On Saturday I was home alone while Embry was patrolling. I was just going to take a shower when there was a knock on the door. I was surprised to find Leah there looking down at her feet. I hadn't seen her around that much; it seemed that she spent most of her time either with her brother or alone in their house. When they were talking about packing up earlier, it turned out that Leah's mother was moving in with a man in Forks and left the house for Seth and Leah.

"Leah?" I asked and she looked at me.

"Can I come in?" She asked.

"Of course!" I opened the door and she walked in and sat on the couch. I sat in one of the arm chairs and waited for her to speak, but after a while she didn't say anything so I had to ask

"What brings you here?"

She looked at her hands before taking a deep breath and looking at me. "I know everyone thinks I'm a bitch and all, and I guess I sort of am" She chuckled. "But I wasn't always. Did you know that once upon a time I was engaged with Sam?" I shook my head.

"But she imprinted on Leah" I whispered. I mean come on, it wasn't all that hard to figure out. Leah nodded her head slowly.

"So you might understand why I am the way I am…" She said and I nodded.

"But have you ever heard the saying; the difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter?" I asked and she chuckled.

"Yeah I guess so. And I guess you can guess why I'm here?" Se asked and I nodded.

"You want me to find you your imprint" I said and she nodded.

"Well I have been meaning to do that anyway, but I got caught up with all that's been going on. Stay here for a few minutes, don't follow me" I said as I got up and walked outside taking my clothes off behind the trees and turning into bird. Immediately I saw Leah's string leading to Forks and I flew off to follow it. It led me to a small street behind a diner. There I suddenly saw someone lying on the street. There was no one around so I landed on the building above him and I felt like gasping. He looked hurt and beat up with bruises on his face and torn clothes. I flew back to our house as fast as I could, changing into bird behind the trees and I ran in the house gasping for air.

"He's… Lying on the street behind the diner and he looks beat up" I got out as her yes widened in shock and she took off right away.

I sat on the couch panting. Right when I got my breath under control the pain shot trough my back and I fell on the floor on my knees. You have got to be kidding me! Was the last thought I could think before the pain took over making my hands grasp the mat and I bit my lip to keep from screaming. This was even worse than the first one in the car. The only way I can describe the pain, is that it's like someone grasping your spine in their hands and trying to pull it out of your body. I tried to arch my back to make it stop but it didn't and the only thing I could to was to wait and ride it out. After what felt like almost hours but probably was only few minutes, the pain started fading and my body slumped on the floor. What the hell is wrong with me?! I cursed in my head as I pulled myself to sit on the couch and put my head between my knees. Right when I got myself under control Embry came in and saw me sitting on the couch with sweat gleaming on my face.

"What's wrong? Are you okay?" He asked as he came to sit next to me and rubbed my sore back. I winced and put my hand on his tigh as I sighed.

"I was just a little out of breath after my flight and worried about Leah" I said partly saying the truth. I was really bad at lying and luckily I didn't have to fully lie to him.

"What happened with Leah?" He asked sounding really worried.

"I followed Leah's string and found her imprint on the street beat up. His face was bruised and his clothes torn" I said as he took his hand from my back and put it on my hand.

"I'm sure she can take care of him" He said trying to make me feel a little better but he failed. He couldn't make me feel better, because he didn't know that Leah and her imprint weren't the only thing troubling me. And if it was up to me, he'd never know that there was something wrong with me. I know that if he finds out something's wrong with me he'll never leave my side and that wouldn't help things at all.

"I'm going to take a quick shower" I said as I got up and walked in the bathroom.

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I updated two chapters! For some reason I felt like putting these two (8 and 9) in two different chapters instead of one.
So, anyone want to guess what's wrong with her?

Over and out :)