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Chapter 13 – A Different Nut (Leah)

She sat beside her mother on the beach who was playing with her youngest daughter, Leah's half sister. Claire was the daughter of Sue and Charlie, born mere weeks after Charlie had died. Leah's mother was a three-time widower. Her own father, Harry, had died of a heart attack when she was only a baby at the mere age of twenty-five.

Seven years after Leah was born, Sue had moved in with Billy and his four children, and while they never officially married, they were together for four years. The twins, Rachel and Rebecca had been sixteen at the time, Jacob ten, and Seth was six, a year younger than me. A year and half later Sue gave birth to Embry, and a year after that, Quil.

Billy died when Leah was eleven after falling overboard on one of his many fishing trips and drowning. Rachel dropped out of college to come back and raise Jacob and Seth. She irrationally blamed Sue for Billy's death. The state of Washington didn't believe in common law marriages, so rather than cause strife Sue, Embry, Quil and Leah moved out.

When Leah was fifteen, Sue married Charlie, and a few months later Sue got pregnant with Claire. She was about eight months pregnant when Charlie had to play the hero and got between the convenience store clerk, Angela, and a robber with a gun.

Charlie was shot six times at point blank range. He was dead before he hit the ground. It had saved Angela's life though.

Charlie hadn't added Sue or any of her kids to his will before he died, and as such, everything went to Rosalie and Bella. Sue, Embry, Quil and Leah moved back to La Push after his death. Then Leah moved out into an apartment as soon as she had turned eighteen, and once Seth turned 18, he'd moved in with her.

As it turned out, returning to La Push had probably been for the best. Claire got the chance to grow up on the reservation, learn Quileute, and be a part of the tribe. It was what she deserved, besides, she was happy here, playing in the water and having fun with the sand.

Leah picked Claire up, laughing as she brushed her tiny sand-ridden hands through her hair. Then she pointed to a shell on the ground. "Squid," she shouted.

Leah shook her head. "No, that's a shell."

They'd told Claire this before at least a thousand times, but she insisted on calling the shells that littered the sand squids.

She looked at Leah and her lip pouted out adorably. "No, squid." Her foot kicked in to Leah's shin, trying to stomp, but unable to due to how she was holding her in her lap.

"Ow," Leah said loudly, wincing at the pain, for not even being three yet, Claire had a lot of force in her kick.

Claire found Leah's expression amusing and kicked her again, this time deliberately. She winced again.

"None of that," Leah said sternly and sat Claire down on the ground.

Claire just laughed and then turned and ran into the water. Leah turned towards her mother. "So, she starts preschool next year. Are you ready for that?"

Sue just sort of looked at her oldest daughter in a way that said she should know better than to ask stupid questions. "She's my fourth child, it's not like when it was you, and I was tempted to keep you at home until kindergarten or first grade just because I wasn't ready to let you go. But look at you now, all grown up and to be married in a couple more months. Seth's a fine young man and will do you well. You have given up those ridiculous escapades with his brother, right?"

"Mother!" Leah groaned, annoyed.

"I'll take that as a no. You can't have the best of two worlds. It's time you grow up and settle down. Have a few children with Seth and learn to be a good woman to a husband who will love you and care for you. That's something that Jacob will never give you, he's proven to you again and again that he's dedicated to Bella."

"Mother, what I do with my life is my own business."

"Not when it's plastered all over Forks and La Push. You need to straighten up, Leah. Do you know how embarrassing it is going in to the local grocery store and hear the gossip about you. Not to mention the sex tape that made it online of you and that couple. There are certain things a mother never wants to see of her daughter. And that's one of them."

Leah groaned. She was never going to live that one down. It had bee a little more than a year ago, and she had gone to her friend's bachelorette party. Kim was marrying Jared, she had invited her cousin who lived in Port Angeles to the party. Gianna got wasted that night and so had Leah. Gianna had called her husband to come get her and somehow she had ended up going with them.

Leah didn't remember much of that night, and she certainly hadn't realized they were taping it... but for all that, she didn't regret that night. It had been fun.

"It was one time mother, and I was drunk."

"And what were you doing getting drunk, I don't care if it was Kim's bachelorette party. You were too young to be drinking... You still are, for that matter."

"MOTHER!"

Sue continued her tirade, ignoring her eldest daughter. "And of course there was that time with Lizzie in Forks, in the park no less. What the hell were you thinking, Leah?"

She'd been thinking Lizzie looked hot, but her mother didn't need to know that. Leah just shook her head.

"And then there's the Joker..."

Leah raised her hands in surrender. "Hey, don't blame that on me. He's hard to resist mom, you should know."

The fact that both her mother and herself had slept with the same man was less than a pleasant thought. She hadn't realized that her mother and Emmett had been together until after she had had her escapades with him about five months ago. When she had told her mom that her had gone on a date with him, Sue had looked like she had wanted to vomit... The truth had come out shortly after that.

"I'm a grown woman and if I want to be with a younger man, I certainly can," Sue said, her voice defensive.

"He's almost half your age, mom." Leah's voice was sharp.

"As I stated, I'm well within my rights."

"Well I certainly am within my rights to sleep with whoever the hell I want, as I to, am a grown woman," Leah said before she got up and stormed off, not wanting to discuss it any longer.