So here we are everyone! One of the longest chapters yet! Boy was it a pain to write too! I hope you enjoy it, so hopefully this will encourage your guys to write longer reviews? :D

I also will be starting a contest to decide who Asher's imprint will be, read the bottom of the chapter for details!

And don't forget, there are pictures available of Audie, Asher, Jace, and Noah on my profile, so check them out! (:

- Cherryfilling

This chapter is dedicated to 0bsethed1, for the idea of blacking out. Thanks for your input, 0sethed1! I really appreciate it! And to answer your question, it takes place after Breaking Dawn, sorry that was never specified!

Darkness shrouded my mind, and soon it felt like my mind and body were separate from each other. I tried to remember what had happened... a lot was a blur. I remembered Asher's birthday and he stomped off, and Thursday when Embry didn't talk to me except for when he reminded me of our date. We had a few change of plans however, and instead of going straight after school, I'd go home, get ready, and he'd pick me up...

Then there was Friday. The day passed, and my cheek was practically ripped apart. I tended to bite on the side of my mouth when I was stressed. The day passed by fairly quickly, I remembered, because of the event I wasn't looking forward to. That silly date. My memories started to become foggy up to that point.

I walked home after school to get dressed... then... I couldn't remember what happened after that point.

Darkness and confusions layered my brain as I tried to think harder and harder.

Father. It was father, and he was pissed about... well, I couldn't remember. He kicked me hard all over...

At least I think that's what happened, I wasn't sure, it was all a blur.

Wait, was Asher okay?

Then it hit me. That's why Father was pissed off. Asher disappeared, ever since his birthday, he just ran away!

Here I was currently stuck in my mind, worrying about my runaway brother after being beaten half to death, if that tells you anything about myself.

Slowly, I started coming a little bit more to my senses, and listened to my surroundings as I laid there motionless, my body mostly numb as I laid in the corner of my bedroom.

I heard thumping, but wasn't sure where it was coming from, but with time passing slowly, it got louder and louder. I heard a creak, the sound still seeming distant to my ears.

"Oh fuck!" I heard someone yell.

I knew it was a loud tone, but it was still hazey and distant.

I tried to open my eyelids, but they were heavy, and screamed when they tried to be heaved open.

"Audie? Audie are you okay?" I heard the distant voice ask wildly, but it sounded like it was a mile away.

I felt warm arms reach around me, to attempt to heave me up. Instant pain shot throughout my torso, and this time I didn't hesitate to open my eyes.

"S-stop! Ouch... it's hurts..." I flinched away from the warm hands. Then I realized it was Embry that had entered my house. Oh yeah, the date I had promised him.

He stared down at me, his eyes were wide with shock. I guess I was in pretty bad shape. I sure as Hell felt like I was in awful condition.

Slowly, his large dark skinned hand reached for my shirt, and he slowly carefully pulled it up. Even as he did that, I flinched as the cloth brushed against my tender skin. He seemed to be looking at my side, which was a dark shade of purple and blue.

(Not worry, he's not raping her or anything. XD )

I watched him as his thick eyebrows knitted together in confusion, as well as anger.

"Who did this to you?" he snapped.

"I... I fell down the stars..." I tried to insist like I had last time.

"Don't you pull that crap on me, Audie. You're freaking upstairs..." Embry hissed.

"Now I'm going to help you up, and take you to someone who can help. And you're going to tell me what happened on the way there."

And I knew it wasn't a question. Slowly he helped me to my feet, and together we walked down the stairs, my arm around his waist for support. Embry then opened the passenger door for me, and helped me into his car.

I was so sore, my whole left side was beat-up, mainly in my rib and stomache area. I knew I had fallen, and at that point my father had kicked me, again and again.

"So... you plan on telling me what happened?" Embry snapped, as he clenched his steering wheel tightly.

"I... well..." I really didn't want to tell him what had happened. The only people who really knew of my situation was Jace and Noah, I tended to keep my personal business pretty much to myself.

I guarentee he'd find out sooner or later by the looks of it.

"My father." I said in a weak whisper, with my head kneeled over, eyes glaring at the floor.

There was a long silence, and I finally looked up. Embry's eyes were set hard on the road, and his body began to tremble.

As I watched him, it started to remind me of Asher a few days ago.

"Embry, you're scaring me..."

He looked down at me, frowning.

"And where do you plan to stay tonight, Audie?" he questioned.

"Jace isn't home, she's visiting a relative. I guess I'll have to just go back home and..."

"I'm not letting you go back home, you know." Embry rudely interrupted.

Tears slowly began to form in my eyes, and I sniffed my runny nose. The car stopped, and Embry turned to me. His hand came awful close to my face, and I instinctively flinched away from him. But it turned out that he had wiped a tear running down my face. "It's okay, Audie. We'll figure it out, I promise."

He opened his car door, got out, then helped me out as well, and we walked together up an unfamiliar porch, and he entered the house without knocking, which made me assume it was his own home. But he assured me it wasn't.

Inside, there was a woman in the kitchen stirring something away in a big bowl. The smell of something terribly sweet hit me, and it actually made my mouth water. The woman turned, and I saw long thick claw strokes running down her beautiful face. Besides the scars, she was a very pretty young woman.

"Emily, Audie is hurt, we need you to doctor her up."

Soon, we passed through the living, which had a few bulky good-looking guys on the couch watching something on television, and she led me to a more private bedroom. Emily carefully tended to the cuts, and began to bandage me up in many different places, without asking any questions, which made me more comfortable.

She was very kind, and gentle as she took care of me.

"Thank you, so very much," I mumbled as she finished. She gave me a smile and a small nod.

We came back in the living room, and there sat Embry, Jared, Kim, and Seth. I knew Seth as being one of Asher's former friends. But they hadn't talked to each other recently.

"There's the girl you won't shut up about, Embry?" Seth said quite loudly, that I knew he was just trying to be obnoxious. That actually made me smile, and right then I decided I was going to like Seth.

"Now that you're feeling a little bit better, would you like to play a game with us, Audie?" Embry asked. Slowly, my mood had changed, and began I forgot the aching pain in my side.

"Okay, you've got to guess who who I am!" Seth shouted. "Category is..." he squinted at the card he recieved, "well-known movie characters!"

We were playing a game of charades, with categories and cards telling you who or what you had to act out.

Seth then started to limp awkwardly across the living room, and everyone in the room cracked up.

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame!" Jared yelled excitedly, and everyone died laughing again.

But Seth continued hobbling around the living, so we knew that wasn't the right answer.

There was a pause as everyone tried to think of who Seth was trying to act out.

Then Seth stopped, and did a bizarre looking leg shake that reminded me of Elvis.

"Forrest Gump!" Embry yelled among the cracks of giggles.

"Yep, you got it Embry, your turn!" Seth smiled.

Lifting up a card, he looked at the back of the card, and read aloud.

"This round of charades involves a second person. Secretly discuss your charade beforehand. Pick someone else to join you."

Instantly, I rolled my eyes. I guarentee he was going to choose me.

"Seth, get back up here! Guys, the category is plays."

The two left the room, and Jared and Kim talked together while I sat patiently, waiting for Seth and Embry to start their charade.

A little while later Seth came in, wear one of Emily's dresses. We instantly died laughing, and Seth had a hard time not laughing himself.

He layed on the floor, then Embry came in, and fell to his knees in silent sobs. He grabbed a coke from the nearby table, and chugged it down. He collapsed to the floor then.

"Stay dead!" Jared yelled, laughing incredibly loudly. Even Emily came in to watch the performance!

Then, Seth woke up. They went so far into the planning of their performance, that his make-up was smeared like he had been crying! He pointed a nerf gun to his chest, shot, then they both laid motionless on the floor. We all clapped, and they both rose, and bowed.

"Romeo and Juliet!" I snickered.

Finally, Jared rose, and gave Kim a kiss on the cheek. "Well guys, you were very entertaining, I must say, but I've got to go to work now."

Embry frowned at Jared, then looked to me. "That means I've got to go too, I have work with Jared."

Emily came, and gently set her hand on my shoulder. "Would you girls like to spend the night? We could have a ladies night!"

I looked at Kim, smiling wide. "I'd be fine with that." I agreed.

Kim also nodded.

"I'm up for that too, Emily!" squeeled Seth as he twirled in his Juliet dress.

So the ladies night was set.

And Seth wasn't kidding about spending ladies night with us.

Embry looked to me, giving a shy smile. "So, did I do an okay job tonight, Audie?"

I sighed, and gently pulled my hair behind my ear.

"Yeah, I guess you did, Embry." I said gently, as I bit my lip.

"What's the matter, did I do something wrong?" he asked, sounding panicky.

"It's just Asher." I murmured.

"What about him?"

"He's, well he's gone, Embry! He's been gone since Wednesday! I thought he would have been back by now, and I'm starting to worry. And Jace is spending all her time with her cousin now. My family is gone, and I think something's wrong!" I began, starting to enter panic mode.

"Audie, calm down. Asher is fine, I know it. He's been frustrated this week, remember? I've seen how he's been acting! You have too, don't deny it! Maybe he's just staying at a friend's house..."

Embry said this so confidently, I wanted to believe him. But also saying that with such confidence also bothered me, as if he knew exactly where he was.

No, I knew that couldn't be possible.

"Okay..." I finally said reluctantly. Embry leaned in, and gently wrapped his warm, dark, arms around me.

I wrapped my arms around him too, and we hugged for a very long time. It felt wonderful, and awkward at the same time.

Wonderful, because I felt like we were made for each other. I felt like an incomplete puzzle, and he was that missing piece.

It felt awkward because the memories of when he slapped me, and when he burned my art supplies still lingered in the back of my mind.

When we pulled away from each other, he looked at me longingly, like he wanted to kiss me.

Inside me it was a battle, half of me said yes! Yes! Go for it!

The other side persisted, yelling at me not to forget that that jerk hurt me. Kissing him would only hurt me more.

He turned, said good bye, and left the house.

Turning to Emily and Kim, who acted like they weren't watching our every move. Seth emerged from one of the rooms with a variety of nail polishes.

"It's nail time girls!" he said in a very girlish tone.

We all laughed, and sat around a table and picked out different colors, including Seth.

And at that point, I was honestly worried for Seth's state of mind.

After painting nails and watching a few movies, I fell asleep on one of the living room couches, and Kim fell asleep on the other, as Seth slept on the floor.

"What? Are you going to fucking let me go home now?" I heard a very loud voice interrupt my sleep, that sounded like it came from the kitchen. My eyes fluttered open, and I squinted to see the time glowing in bright green letters on the dvd player, which read 3:14 in the morning.

What were guys doing awake and yelling at this time?

"By the way you've been acting, I don't think you're ready!" I heard another, deeper and older voice shout.

"I need to go home! She needs me!" that first deep and familiar voice yelled back.

"You've hurt her enough with your foul temper! But now you really have a chance of hurting her now that you've changed!" A third voice snapped back, that sounded like Embry.

At that point, I pulled the quilt off of me, I was wearing a borrowed pink nightgown from Emily, that was a little big, but it still worked.

When I entered the kitchen, there stood Embry, a tall older man I knew was Sam, because Emily spoke so fondly of him, and another large man with cropped hair, another protector that I hadn't met.

All three men looked at me, shocked.

Then, I did a double take. That third man I thought was a stranger... was actually Asher. He was muscled up, he grew so much in height, his hair was cut, and he looked pissed.

"A-asher?" I questioned, in disbelief.

"I'm sorry, did we wake you, Audie?" Embry asked, concerned.

I whipped my head toward Embry. "What the fuck did you do to my little brother?" I shouted, cutting loose in my language.

"I didn't do anything Audie, I-" he began.

"Shut up, Embry! I trusted you for a second there, and you go off and what, brainwash my little brother?" I quickly snapped.

I looked to Asher, and looked at him up and down. This wasn't my Asher... the one I knew and loved. My life was ruined. My only true family member was just brainwashed into being one of those protecting squad jerks, or whatever the Hell they were.

I stomped to the living room, grabbing my things, and I made my way out of the house.

"Audie, where are you going to go?" Embry asked. "Anywhere but here." I huffed.

Just as I was about to leave, Asher said, "Audie, please don't just leave like this."

I shot my worst, venomous look at him. "Don't you even think about talking to me after you left me for three freaking days days, Asher James Shane! I was worried sick about you, and you don't even care!" I hissed.

Then I left, with nowhere really to go. So I decided to go to a cafe that was still open, and that was where I changed from the nightgown to normal clothes.

Then, I sat a booth, and requested a coffee to drink.

I pulled my phone out, which said the time was 4:16.

Scrolling through my cell phone's address book, and stumbled upon Noah's number.

I stared at the number for a few minutes, then finally decided to text him.

Awake much? I typed, then sent the message. As I casually sipped my drink, my phone vibrated. Once looking at it, I was shocked to see that Noah had actually texted back.

Just playing a video game. What are you doing up at this hour missy? lol

I found myself smiling at the message, and typed,

At the Muddy Waters Cafe. Care to join me? :P

I closed my phone, and sighed as I shut my eyes, still a little sleepy from being so rudely awaken.

Then, I got another message from Noah.

I'd love too. Be there in a jiffy.

Rolling my eyes I texted quickly,

Who says jiffy nowadays?

And he quickly responded with,

Who says nowadays nowadays? lol

Then before I knew it, the tall and awkward looking Noah came, and slid in the booth seat in front of me, smiling big and wide like an idiot. I smiled faintly, and I knew he detected something was wrong. After he'd asked what was up, I told him most everything. About how I trusted Embry, and then he goes, and practically brainwashes Asher into being a protector. I described Asher being tall and huge, with cropped hair and bad attitude, and Noah didn't nearly believe me! His jaw nearly dropped onto the table.

"Embry has a thing for you?" Noah asked finally after my decription of my awful week.

"He won't stop bothering me." I grumbled.

Then a plan had begun to form in my head.

"Noah, would you fake go out with me to get Embry to stop bothering me?"

Noah's face instantly brightened up.

"I'd love to go out with you, Audie!" he said excitedly.

"Noah... just for pretend though." I corrected.

"Sure, sure... I gotcha. I bet that'll stop your stalker, Audie!" he squealed.

We spent the rest of the morning together talking. Overall it was comfortable, and not at all awkward. Which was surprising seeing that we just planned to fake go out with each other, which would officially start on Monday, when we were sure Embry was watching us.

When we parted and Noah went home, I looked at the time. It was 7:30 in the morning, and I knew Jace would be up. I planned that I would spend the rest of the day with her, so I didn't have to go back home, or have a chance of running into Embry or Asher.

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