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Serena's POV

My days with the Cullens were a lot happier than my days at La Push. I had so much more freedom. Given, when I was human my body was weak as a result of my near drowning. But it was easier than living with humans. I missed La Push every day of course, but I was pretty content with where I was. I hadn't spoken to anyone after that day with Quil. I knew that they didn't hate me it was just… we were in different worlds. I'm sure we would interact at some point but for now, I was willing to wait until that day came. Rather than dwell on the past Edward taught me about literature and music. He taught me different songs on the piano almost daily. Rosalie and Alice loved dressing me up. Once, they even let me go shopping. They bought everything they wanted for me, I never asked for anything except a pair of black leather gloves. My gift wasn't completely under control and I didn't like focusing on having to shut things out every time I touched someone.

"Serena, none of us want to hide anything from you, there's no problem," Alice had said reassuringly.

"It's not that Alice, it's just I don't want to know everything haha. I like having my own thoughts and memories." She stared at me and sighed giving up, fine you're lucky they're cute." I beamed.

I only went shopping the one time. Carlisle said it was still too risky for people to see me since my clothing wasn't always able to fully cover my skin so he didn't want to risk me freaking out over a human's thoughts. Jacob had found me in the water in the winter, just after New Years, I had stayed with him until April and was bitten, I remained with the Cullens for the rest of the summer learning and adapting to my new life as a vampire, in Forks it wasn't that hot or sunny but rather cold. Carlisle still, wanted me to get used to their lifestyle so one night he announced that like my siblings I'd mingle with the humans in the spring semester "You'll enroll in the High School next year as Alice's long lost sister. Since you look more similar to her in appearance compared to the others. You'll be in the same grade as Renesmee." He felt confident asking Jazz to forge my transcripts because I was a 'quick learner' as Bella called it. Anything I read I was able to remember quickly. Plus, I only had to touch a Cullen's hand to gain vast knowledge on any submit ject. Jasper had given me numerous practice tests to make sure I understood the material. Oddly enough some of it looked familiar. Like I had learned it in a past life. Soon the Fall came and everyone had to start at the High School. "It's been 10 years since the last time we've been to that place." Emmett mused.

"Well time for the return of the freaky Cullens." Alice laughed.

While the other Cullens went to school in the fall I hunted by myself. Jasper and Alice were always hesitant to leave me. They were after all closer to me than the rest.

"Guys, she's pretty capable of taking care of herself she doesn't need mummy and daddy to hold her hand anymore." Emmett shot a goofy grin my way.

"Emmett is right, I am perfectly capable of living without you both. Just go." I laughed as Alice hugged me. "I'll come running the moment I see something bad happening."

"Nothing bad is going to happen and please don't run anywhere. Use the car." Jasper laughed at my eye roll kissing my head before leaving with the rest of them. I waved goodbye from the porch. They all peeled out of the driveway leaving me alone.

"Serena! Wanna watch a movie?" Esme's mother hen instincts must have been kicking in, I laughed running inside, "Not today Esme, I think I'll just hunt for a while and sketch."

"Okay be careful hun, remember don't go too far. And if you smell a human—"

"Don't attack and if I want to run back to the house. I know." I flitted upstairs and grabbed by bag with my sketchbook and charcoal were already packed and went to hunt.

Being by myself reminded me of the times back at La Push when I'd sneak out and climb trees.

I was hunting a deer in a clearing when I saw it. A wolf. Not just a normal one, a werewolf. I hadn't met this one before, I hunted through my fuzzy human memories and found nothing. I stared in awe at his sandy fur. He was watching me from across the clearing. We stood there on opposite halves just staring at one another. It was weird. I had gotten into the habit of wearing shoes so my connection to the forest wasn't on at the moment, I couldn't figure out who he was through that. I took a step closed and he cocked his head at me, taking his own step. That's how it went, like a game of checkers we moved one after another until we were in the center of the clearing. He then broke the unspoken rules and stepped into my half, I backed up and as soon as I did he leapt on top of me pinning me down with his huge body. This felt so intimate to me. He just looked down at me and I lay on my back looking up at him. It was weird. He moved his paws off of my arms but remained caging me in. I laughed and he stepped back.

"Well you're a weird one." I got up taking the grass out of my hair. "I'm Serena." I looked at him smiling. "And you are?"

The wolf sat down and stared back at me.

"Not gonna shift back and tell me?" I moved closer, hoping he wouldn't run away. Closer, closer. I took of my glove and reached for his neck. The moment I made contact he shifted, slipping shorts on as he did. I leapt back completely shocked by his sudden shift to human form. I swear if I wasn't full vampire right now my heart would have leapt out of my chest.

He laughed, actually laughed, "Never thought I'd spook a vampire." He smiled at me. In a way that made me feel safe with him. He took a step toward me, I took a step back. He frowned, "Hey, I'm sorry I scared you." He looked at his hands then back up at me. "I'm um, Seth Clearwater." He smiled again and stuck his hand out. I stepped toward him warily. Then I took his hand and shook it.

"We were supposed to meet...at the bonfire."

"I was hunting the nomad with Jake."

"Oh, I see. Um…" I looked down suddenly self conscious. "Are you sure we should be talking?" I realized that we were still holding hands since images of Quil, Embry, Leah and Jake flowed into my head, feeling a pang in my chest I glanced at our hands then back until at him, he looked at our hands and immediately pulled away.

"Crap, sorry!" He was so...cautious. Great did he think I was going to eat him?

"Listen, if you're here to try and gauge my bloodlust I can assure you that I am perfectly fine!" I flitted away only for him to chase after me. Ugh!

"W-what? Wait, Serena! C'mon hold on a sec. Please?" I looked back to find his eyes pleading with me. He grabbed my wrist again sending a wave of emotion through me. I snatched my hand back and he looked hurt by that.

"Sorry, I'm um… sensitive to touching." He perked up a bit.

"Is it the smell?" He said.

"No I hardly notice the smell since Jake hangs around the house a lot."

"It's, um… I'm gifted. It's associated or triggered by physical contact. I'm trying to control it more but, I kind of try to avoid the physical contact unless I make the first move."

"Oh so you're making moves?" He smirked. I actually laughed. I hadn't laughed with someone other than the Cullens in a while.

"You should smile more." He said it quickly. I was suddenly really nervous. He quickly got concerned, "What was with the burst of anger?"

"I don't really, well, I'm not really allowed to talk with the wolves." He sat down on a patch of grass, gesturing for me to sit next to him. I sat down warily. He laid back on the grass.

"I saw what happened with Jacob." He actually sounded pissed off, "I'm sorry about that. But, I thought you guys were okay now?" Why was this guy so interested in this?

"It's an unspoken rule. Jake and I barely exchange the basic formalities."

"He still cares about you y'know. So does everyone else. They're all worried about you."

"Ha! Everyone is worried, always worried about me. There's no reason to worry I'm not going to slaughter the town!" I cried in frustration.

"What? No, that's not what I meant. It's—ugh, may I?" He brought his hand close to mine. I grabbed it and focused on his memories of the wolves I love so dearly. I noticed that they weren't worried about what I'd do they were worried about how I was doing. I let go quickly.

"Oh."

"Yeah," he grinned, "I get that Jake doesn't want them hanging around because of how painful i/ supposed to be for you, but they still care."

"And you Seth Clearwater? What brings you here?" I smiled back, he looked shocked, awed by the tiny action. I'm pretty sure if I could blush right now I would.

"You." He said staring at me. I blinked, What?

"Um, I mean you wanted to know who I was right. And um, I owe you from the bonfire." He laughed nervously.

"I see."

"What's in the bag?" He looked down at the black messenger bag that Alice had bought me.

"My sketchbook." I pulled it out handing it to him. He started flipping through it, stopping on a picture of Leah.

"My sister?" He looked at me quizzically.

"It's not that good my memory is still kind of blurred so I tried to make it look close to her appearance."

"It's good. You're really good."

"I like to stay in practice."

"I have a place you'd love. It's a cave up the mountain, there's a waterfall in front of it and there's this point when the sun sets and the color reflects onto the cave. There's some clear quartz there and it makes this really great sort of light show."

I gestured to his hand, "Can I see?"

"No."

"What? Why not?" He grinned at me and in a quick move pinned me down again and stared at me, "Because then you don't have an excuse to see me again." I stared up at him, and started to notice his face. He was chiseled, his jawline sharp and his skin was tan like Jacob's but he was super tall, I crept down to his chest and noticed he was really fit. Unconsciously I placed a hand on his chest, listening to his heartbeat, feeling it beneath my palm. He stayed completely frozen. It was like time stopped and all there was, was me and Seth staring at each other. Listening to his heart beat. He leaned a down more,

"You really do have beautiful eyes," he whispered. I could feel his breath hit my face, I began to feel lost, unsure of why I was glued to the ground and why my hand was touching his chest and I could only lay there and listen to his heart.

"You're warm." I said, he got off of me slowly and I sat up, I pulled back.

"I-I should go." I looked back toward the direction the house was.

"Me too."

Neither of us moved. Crap. My instincts are starting to take over.

We talked more, learning a lot about one another. I told Seth stories about the Cullens, and he told me everything there was to know about him. We laughed and raced. We hunted together. We were fighting over who caught the bigger stag but that turned into a pinning match and he won, given that I let him but we were so close to each other. The laughter that came with the match stopped and Seth was leaning down getting extremely close to me. Suddenly his eyes looked shocked and he moved off of me.

"Serena," He whispered, getting up.

"Yeah?" I got up and stepped closer to him, he was starting to breath faster.

"I can't, um control myself around you." He balled his hands into fists at his sides. What does that mean? I didn't care. I wanted to know more about the strange tan wolf I found in the clearing. I wanted to get closer to him, I wanted him to lean into me again.

"Yeah." I said, somehow I ended up a breath away from him drawn in by his warmth, his wolfy grin, his heartbeat.

Seth's POV

Crap, this wasn't good. I was just hunting a rabbit and bam I bump into the most painfully beautiful vampire I've ever met. And when she looked at me, I was a goner.

I had finally imprinted. On Serena Summers the Cullens newest little sister and the girl who we weren't supposed to contact. Too late for that Seth.

She was about an breath away from me, I could feel her there. I could taste her sweet scent. Shit, she was so freaking beautiful, blue eyes that drew me in and a laugh that basically made me want to kiss the hell out of her. Her proximity wasn't helping with that. Oh god, I wanted her, in every way.

"Seth," She said.

"Serena," I replied, something snapped in her eyes and she immediately backed away.

"Um, I seriously have to go Esme will...be worried." I never wanted her to go. I wanted her to stay, to laugh and smile here in the clearing.

"No." She raised an eyebrow, shit, I said that instinctively, "Um, waterfall, tomorrow. I'll take you."

"I can't exactly go to La Push Seth, it'd be a bad idea right now, I'll see you around I guess." We both knew that meant I wouldn't see her which meant, I had failed at having an imprint and also meant that I would lose time with the girl who had ensnared my soul. Stupid wolf instincts, Thanks. "Here." I blurted.

"English, Clearwater." She rolled her eyes still smiling.

"We'll meet here. It's not in La Push territory, we'd get there fast."

She squinted her eyes, wary. Please say yes.

"Alright, I'll come as soon as everyone heads to school. Better be worth it." She smirked and flitted away. I let out a breath I didn't even know I was holding and sunk to my knees. Shit. Jacob, no the whole pack, is going to throw a fit…

Serena's POV

When I made it back to the house Alice and Edward were in the living room with Esme.

"Oh my god, Serena! What the hell happened to you?" She sounded livid.

"Um, nothing?"

"Nothing? One minute, I'm watching you chase a rabbit into a clearing, the next you're freaking out of my sight!"

"I um…"

"She ran into Seth." Edward, crap he'd seen everything. Shit.

"And you're seeing him again tomorrow?" She whined.

"There's a waterfall…"

"Serena, maybe that's not the best idea… I mean it's harder for us to keep track of you." Edward looked at me warning me.

"I'm fine. Seth's nice!" All three of them stared at me.

"Nice. Nice. Nice! Oh my, you have feelings for a freaking werewolf!"

"Alice." I scoffed.

"Edward?" She ignored me. Don't I warned.

"She does." Bastard.

"Ugh what's wrong with it?"

"Why, why why do all of my favorite girls always get mixed up with stupid werewolves?" Alice huffed rubbing her temples.

She waved a finger at me. "I swear to God, Serena Summers if you so much as get a freaking paper cut I will lock you in that attic. There better not be any trouble while you're with him. Please please please, be careful!" She hugged me and ruffled my hair. I grinned triumphant. I was going on a date with Seth Clearwater.

"Serena," Alice said, "wear the black dress and silver flats."

I smiled, grateful that she wasn't as mad anymore. I went to the living room and decided to practice the piano, today I wanted to master Clair de lune. Edward sat next to me on the piano bench.

"Are you sure you're alright with this?" He stared at me.

"Edward I'm fine don't worry I'm not

planning on running away to La Push."

"What of he imprinted." He said cautiously.

"Then I'd leave him alone—"

"No. What if he imprinted on you." I whipped my head up to stare back at him.

"He didn't."

"Based on your memories, I'm pretty sure he did."

"No—I…"

"Serena…"

"That's why you're worried. Because if Seth really did imprint there's nothing stopping me from actually going back to La Push, the wolves can't hurt me anymore and I can actually interact with them now."

He smiled sadly, "You miss them."

"Of course I miss them Edward, they raised me, they were the only family I had when I was human—"

"And now you have a way back in…"

"Edward—"

"But it's not real, they just have to be nice because you're Seth's imprint, do you really want that kind of false kinship?"

"Edward! First, that was a cruel jab. Second, I'm not leaving you guys for the wolves! I love you all very much and you're more like my family than the wolves ever were. I miss La Push, sure but, I don't want to go back because I've found my home, here. And an imprint isn't going to change that, I don't care how attracted I am to Seth, you are my brother Edward, Esme is basically my mom and Carlisle my father. You know how much I care for Jazz and Alice, so quit being insecure. I'm not going anywhere."

"Correction: you're going on a date with Seth Clearwater." Alice chimed in, no doubt hearing everything. She wrapped her arms around me while I was still sitting at the piano. I placed a hand on hers and tried to enhance her light like I would but it didn't work. "Nice try," she smiled.

"Shouldn't you both go back to school?"

"Yeah right, I'd rather dance with my sister!" Alice pulled me off the bench and Edward began to play an upbeat song at the piano. I laughed and danced with Alice. We were still dancing when everyone else came home. Jasper pulled me over to him and dipped and spun me like a pro. I laughed, realizing that Alice had seen this in one of the first visions she showed me. When we were done dancing, I told everyone about my day.

Emmett made fun of me of course but they all seemed happy and worried for me at the same time. I practiced the piano for the rest of the night until the sun rose.

After numerous warnings from Alice and Jasper before they left, I finally made it to the clearing where Seth and I agreed to meet. He was tall, tan, his hair was short like the rest of the pack and he was shirtless. Oh god. He smiled at me,

"Hey, nice dress."

"Nice chest—I mean um," Shit. He laughed.

"Thanks? Sorry I, shifted to get over here and it's easier for me to stay, cool like this. I have a shirt, if you'd prefer."

"No!" He smirked, "I mean if you're more comfortable like that I'm fine with it." He smiled reaching for my hand. I took it reminding myself to stay focused and not absorb everything about him, I walked along side him in silence.

"So where exactly—" I started just as he asked,

"Do you know what imprinting is?"

We stared at each other.

"Yeah, Jacob explained, and I'm your imprint right?" He let go of my hand shocked. I could hear the waterfall now and ran ahead until I saw it.

"Wow, you weren't kidding it's beautiful here." I was awestruck. The waterfall was surrounded by green and the pool it fell into looked really blue. Seth had finally caught up beside me.

"You knew?"

"Edward brought it up. Judging by the way you look at me, I'd say he was right." I smiled at his guilty expression. "It's fine Seth, I don't mind it. At first I was taken aback, I mean I'm a vampire, you're a werewolf." I jumped into the water, "But, I like you. So no matter what, I'll stick with you."

He was slack jawed. I laughed. "So where is this cave?"

"Um, it's through that part of the mountain."

I got out of the water, then grabbed his hand. We jumped up and through the water into a cave lined with clear quartz.

"Wow, if we weren't supernatural, we'd have never noticed this."

"I know. The mountain next to it is too dangerous to climb. No human would ever be able to access this."

"So since the sun is still high up I guess we wait until it sets huh?" I sat down staring at the waterfall. He sat down next to me.

"Serena, I'm sorry I didn't tell you before."

"Seth it's fine really, I don't want to not talk to you or be away from you so we're stuck with each other, imprint or not." He smiled at me and scooted closer.

"So I guess I'm your favorite wolf huh?"

"Mmm no, that would be Quil, although Embry is a close second." He frowned rolling his eyes. We sat there talking until sunset. He told me more about the wolves and their reaction to his imprinting.

"Jacob almost damn near killed me," He sighed, "There was a huge argument."

"Sorry,"

"They all really care about you. I mean to Jake, Quil and Embry, you're still like their kid sister. So they all chewed me out for even being near you. It's not like I can help it, I just saw you and bam, imprinted." He growled in frustration, I raised an eyebrow at him, "Not that there's anything wrong with you. No you're great! It's just...they treat me like a kid because I'm the youngest. I've grown up, I mean I'm 23 I just look 19 because of the slower aging thing."

"23, wow you're older than me."

"You were 17 right?" I nodded.

"And I'll stay this age forever."

"Well if it means anything, um so will I."

"What do you mean,"

"I mean, the imprint makes it so that I live, with you. So if you're stuck, so am I."

"I didn't know that…" I looked thoughtfully at the water falling in front of the cave. The sun was starting to set and a burst of color flourished in the cave. I looked around in awe.

"Wow this really is something." I looked at Seth who was smiling at me as always. I suddenly felt extremely self conscious. "Seth, really it's beautiful, I'm glad I got to see this." He grew serious, and came closer to me, we were once again a few inches away from each other, I could hear his heart rate increase, feel the warmth from his skin. The waterfall and beautiful lights in the cave were in the background, it was just me and Seth. I took my gloves off, he grabbed my hand. "You are, really beautiful."

I looked away, "Seth c'mon." He ducked down to meet my eyes brushing my hair out of the way. "What?" he asked softly, "I mean that."

I looked up into his brown eyes and closed the gap between our faces, kissing him slowly. he pulled back shaking his head. "Serena, this wasn't— it doesn't have to be a romantic thing because of the imprint, you don't have to force yourself." I laughed softly.

"You know, Clearwater, when a girl kisses you, you're supposed to kiss back because it means she wants you to kiss her back." He looked pained, I couldn't help but enjoy how he looked, torn between what I knew he desired and what he thought would be best for me. He groaned and pinned me down onto the cool floor of the cave, leaned down and kissed me, slowly at first, I fought to stay in control of my gift but his warm touch just felt so good. I started to lose focus. Our kiss went deeper his tongue dancing with mine, I pulled him down closer and his warm body was pressed on top of mine. He moaned, lifting me off of the ground never breaking off from the kiss and pushed me against the wall, I felt his feelings flow into me, his desire mixing in with my own. I also copied his temperature feeling heat radiate throughout my body, his hands were tangled in my hair and since he was shirtless my hand roamed all over his back and his chest, I don't think I can stop, I heard him say, crap I felt my heart start to beat the way it did when I was half Vampire, I was losing control. I broke of the kiss gasping and pushed him back a few inches. We both were breathing hard lost in the electricity that made us so drawn to each other. I blinked, "I can't...um, it's too much. My gift is um, on overdrive right now. Especially with all the um, touching."

He stepped back, "Sorry but, you started it."

I laughed. "Well you certainly tried to finish it."

He grinned as I sat down, yawning,

"I thought vampires didn't—woah you're heart is beating!"

"My gift. I guess I can't copy your werewolf half so, I must've just taken the human part. I guess I can't turn completely human so I just turned into a hybrid." I told him more about my gift and he was as interested as Carlisle was. I rolled my eyes, suddenly feeling tired I shoved him so that he would lie down.

"Ready for another go?" He smirked mischief glinting in his eyes.

"No, your human qualities are on overdrive right now and I feel exhausted." I laughed.

"Should we go?" He looked down at me immediately concerned.

"No," I kissed him before he could say anything else. Then made myself more comfortable on his chest, "I'll just rest my eyes for a bit." We stared at the waterfall in silence. Me laying on Seth who was stroking my hair. The last thing I heard was Seth's breathing slow as he slept. I smiled my lips still tingling from that kiss, as sleep came over me.

A/N: Okay I finished it! Hope you all enjoyed it! Until next time!