LAYLA'S POV
"Who was your wife?" I asked him.
"She isn't here. She ran off with my sister Alice. It's really complicated, but Alice is a psychic. She saw a vision of the Volturi coming to kill our family because of Ness. Irina, another vampire saw her and thought she was an immortal child. The punishment for that is death, but we've been wrongly accused and so they took off looking for witnesses. We have until December to find them. You're the first family that's shown up, even though it was under different circumstances." He explained. Wow, that's awful.
"Honestly, it isn't even really under different circumstances," I said. He looked at me like I was nuts, "Arissa, she came home after disappearing for a good decade and told us that she heard the Volturi over talking the trial. She recognized Dr. Cullen's name, came home, and we drove here."
"How would she know what the Volturi is planning? Is she with them?" He asked, concerned now.
"No, she was captured. She isn't the best behaved Vampire around." I rolled my eyes and laughed a little at all the trouble she's caused us in the past years. It could be a movie someday. A thriller.
"That's good, we don't want no spies around here." Emmett said, and pushed me into the pond. I was going to kill him.
"You're a dead man, Emmett McCarty!" I yelled to him as I found my way out of the pond.
"It's actually Emmett Cullen now, Layla," he corrected me. He came over and pulled me up onto the rock we were sitting at before. He pulled a towel out from a little hole in the ground and handed it to me.
"You never know," he explained.
"What was she like?" I asked him.
"Who, Rose? Well, she's something I'll tell you…" he trailed off.
"Blonde?" I guessed, laughing. Emmett chuckled a little, confirming my guess. I knew my brother too well.
"And then some. She's very motherly, she'll probably treat you more like her daughter than her sister-in-law, but she can be a handful sometimes. She has an attitude worse than a pit viper, and a bite worse than her bark. If she's yelling at you, you're at the same pace as everyone else."
"Seems like your type. You need someone to keep you in line," I laughed. I wasn't sure how I would take to any of those qualities, but I guess we would cross that bridge when we got there. Right now, it was just Emmett and I.
"Damn, can't they just leave us alone?" Emmett growled and stood up, pushing me behind him.
"What's wrong?" I asked him. I didn't like being treated like a child, especially one who couldn't protect herself.
"Werewolves. They don't know that you and your sisters are here, they must've caught your scent and got curious. We're right on the border, that's the only bad thing about this place."
"Are we in danger?" I asked Emmett. I didn't want to start a fight.
"We shouldn't be. When we first moved here, we made a treaty with them. Hopefully they'll understand that the treaty's still in tact."
"That's good," I said, not quite sure of anything.
I squinted to try and make out the dark figures that were in the woods and I instantly wished I didn't. The wolves were huge, bigger than a bear, and probably stronger than Emmett. I had heard of werewolves before, they weren't to be taken to kindly. They lacked anger management skills and if you pissed them off, you were screwed. They were also created to kill only one thing: vampires.
Out of nowhere, a man, probably in his twenties came out of the woods. He was tall, and was wearing only shorts. Emmett relaxed a little, but didn't let me move in front of him.
"You know the treaty, Cullen. You cannot bite a human," the man explained.
"We didn't bite her, Sam. Layla and her three sisters are merely visitors. You know of the current situation," Emmett told him. The man, Sam, grimaced a little. I remembered Bella playing with Renesmee in the living room, and everything Emmett and Arissa told me about the Volturi. To have to witness all of that, it couldn't have been pleasant.
"Of course, I am sorry for any inconveniences. Also, Jacob and Seth are on their way over, but Leah is at home helping Sue with something."
"I'm not sure. We were just heading back anyways, so we can send him back if he is."
"Thank you," Sam said, and walked back into the woods.
"Well, that was awkward," I said, once we started walking back to the house. Mary was probably going to kill me for ruining my clothes, but I didn't really care after all of that.
"Tell me about it. Those mutts are always trying to stick their noses into our business. They know that we're trying to find other vampires to help us out, and yet they threaten us anyways," Emmett complained. He complained the entire way back to the house. When we got there, Mia was talking to some other boy in the backyard.
"Give up on stalking Ari?" I yelled to her. She looked at me and smiled a little.
"Yeah, I have my own man to spend time with now. Layla, this is Tyler. Tyler, this is my sister Layla. Tyler and I fought together in the south before I turned you," Mia explained. Tyler had his arm wrapped around her waist. They were actually adorable together. Tyler was the perfect height for Mia, not too tall, but not too short. He was muscular, but not as big as Emmett, although they would be a fair fight.
"It's nice to meet you," I said, shaking Tyler's hand. Not many people did that nowadays, but I tried to whenever possible.
"Nice to meet you too, Layla," he responded. Nice boy.
I turned to walk into the house, but Mia stopped me before I could open the door.
"I wouldn't go in there if I were you," she warned.
"Why not?" I asked. It wasn't like it was someone's bedroom.
"Shapeshifters. They smell worse than I did after I got attacked by that skunk back in 1968," she laughed, "It's a wet dog kind of odor, the worst kind."
"I think I can handle it," I smiled. Emmett walked in without a problem, and others were in there, so it couldn't be that bad. Mia was known to over exaggerate. Except she wasn't.
I walked in, and as soon as I took a whiff, I realized that this was quite possibly one of the worst stenches I had ever smelt in my life. It smelled a little like it did at the pond, but much, much stronger.
"Come on, we don't smell that bad," a boy said, walking into the kitchen where I came in. I must've been making a face or something.
"Excuse me?" I asked him. Like Sam, he was only wearing a pair of shorts. I took another breath, and the scent was definitely coming from him, but it wasn't bad. The scent coming from him, I kind of liked it.
"Sorry, I'm Seth. Seth Clearwater," he introduced himself and held out his hand. Sam mentioned something about a Seth, but I assumed they were werewolves, not shape shifters, if there was even a difference.
"Layla. Layla McCarty," I said, and shook his hand. It was really warm compared to the average human's, so we could rule out that he was actually normal.
I checked him out a little, to my dismay. He had slightly toned abs, not as much as some other guys I've met, but he definitely had some. His hair was cropped short. He was a little taller than me, but not by much, he was the perfect height. His lips were perfectly rounded, and I could just picture myself kissing them.
"See something you like?" He asked, smiling. I broke out of my daydreaming and looked back at his gorgeous face. Is this what love was like? People always say that you know, but I never believed them. Was it really true that love at first sight existed?
"Yes. You're very attractive," I joked.
"Well, maybe you should get to know the true me a little more," he offered, "How about a movie?"
"Are you asking me out? I've hardly known you for five minutes!" Why was a protesting? Of course I wanted to go see a movie with him. Then again, I had a feeling I wouldn't be watching the movie…
"If you don't want to go, that's fine…" he trailed off, looking disappointed. Before he could walk away, I grabbed his shoulder and planted my lips right on his.
When we broke apart, I said, "I would love to go to the movies with you."
"Friday night it is then," Seth smiled. He did that a lot. He had a very handsome smile. I couldn't picture him frowning.
"Yeah," I said, "Friday." Wow.