Things didn't feel quite right. Everything went back to what you could call normal. All potential danger was gone. Victoria had been killed, as well as Edward, and there wasn't much more that I could do. The past few months had been so crazy and dramatic that I had almost forgotten how peaceful 'normal' was.
But there was one thing about normal that I didn't particularly enjoy. It was boring. Time passed very slowly with there being nothing to fill it up with, and I was tired most of the time. I felt as if there was ever a time to be tired it wouldn't be now, it seemed more fitting that I would be tired when there were a lot of big things happening in my life. However, that seemed to be exactly what had been keeping myself up. I hadn't gotten a real good night's sleep in ages and now I just couldn't seem to get enough of it.
For many weeks there was nothing to report.
I did my share of patrolling the borders around the Quileute area and finally began to realize why my brothers enjoyed hunting vampires so much. My experience in school was over, seeing as I had nearly missed my entire senior year at Forks High School due to my becoming a werewolf and my uncontainable rage and quarantine from humanity. Now there was nothing- and as I said- nothing was very boring.
However, every wolf in the pack knew that the lapse of time between exiting events was never that long and finally, after nearly three months of tortuous normality, something happened. When it did all of us wished for normal to dawn on us again.
It was early December; beautiful white flakes of snow had been raining from the sky non-stop for at least four days creating a perfect, white blanket over the grass. The snow was about shin-deep for me, shorter for all of the taller boys who had gone through the usual growth-spurt before their werewolf transformations.
The Black's house, which I was now accustomed to calling 'home', was perfectly warm and toasty for Jacob and I, for Billy; however, it was much colder with all of the snow piled onto the roof. Two leaks had already sprung where the snow had melted to quickly; small droplets of water dripped one-by-one into a metal pail on the floor. Billy had scheduled Jacob to sweep all of the snow off the ceiling today.
Wearing nothing but cut-offs, Jacob opened the door and a wave of cold, swirling wind busted into the house. I caught the door before I closed and followed Jake out, wearing a tank top and Bermuda shorts, but he didn't seem to notice I was even there. When I saw the snow raining so gracefully down from the sky I felt nothing but the overwhelming urge to jump around and play in the snow like a little child. I thought about it for a moment and, eventually, decided against it after reminding myself that Jacob did have neighbors. They didn't live close next-door or anything, but they were still there.
The snow melted instantly wherever I touched it. At first I was a little disappointed, but I quickly realized something else. I picked up a handful of snow in my hand and gripped it firmly between both of my palms. Quickly forming it and squeezing it together, I pulled my hands away from my body and looked at my handy work.
A perfectly round snowball mostly made of ice- but not enough to hurt my target.
I glared at Jacob who was tiptoeing around on the roof with a huge broom, sweeping mountains of snow off the top of the house. His back was to me. He was still blissfully unaware of my presence- but not for long.
I hurled the ice ball from my hand and it hit Jacob square in the back. He tripped and stumbled off the roof landing face-first into a mound of snow that had been swept away. He was up immediately, three pre-made snowballs were heaved from him, two of them hitting me. I could hear the third whiz by my ear, narrowly missing my head.
"You missed." I scoffed, tightening my eyes in mock disapproval
"Naw," he chuckled pointing to something behind me, "I hit what I was aiming for."
I swiveled around to see Embry Call running to us, the snowball hadn't broken his stride, the impact point obvious on his bare chest. He looked terrified yet exited. From the look on his face Jake and I both were expecting an epic snowball fight that was more extreme than the work of simple children. That wasn't what we got.
"Watch this," Jacob called slyly to me, preparing to throw another snowball.
Embry threw his hands in the air, instantly signaling a truce. Jake pouted, but didn't throw his ammo. "What's wrong?" he whined to Embry who had finally made it up to us. He panted and placed one arm on my shoulder for support, he had clearly come a long way.
"Vampire." He wheezed, "On our land…vampire."
Jacob jolted up as if he had been stabbed with an electrical blade- his expression was confusing. Serious…at first… then confused… then exited.
"Really?" he asked, a smile in his voice. He then raised both his arms to the cloudy sky and stared at the snow. "At last!" he yelled. "Things have been so boring around here!" He brought his hands back down and cracked his knuckled loudly.
"Yea…" I replied, a little less enthusiastically, almost scared but not quite.
"We have to go now." Embry shouted, already on the move back where he came from.
"See you in just a few, babe." Jacob smiled widely, pecking my lips with his and then running away into the woods on the left. I began to vault over to the right woods and when I was deep enough in, stripped and morphed.
So where is it? I asked critically to no one in particular, knowing that someone would answer.
It turned out to be Sam who did, It's a female, he announced, she's just sitting on a rock on First Beach, may be a new Cullen or something, I'm sure she saw me and knew I was a wolf, yet she didn't attack. It's almost as if she's waiting for someone. I suppose we'll find out soon enough.
Description? Jake asked quickly, stretching out his limbs
She has really pronounced red eyes, which is why I didn't think she was a Cullen at first, and blonde hair that's pulled up. Really young too. Like a little girl.
I blinked a few times, whoever it was; it was defiantly not a Cullen. (You can never be sure; maybe those stupid bloodsuckers decided to go all demented on us. Paul chimed in, itching for a war.)
Within moments we were at first beach. There seemed to be a small little girl sitting on one of the boulders with her arms wrapped around her legs. She was staring at some unseen thing in the frozen ocean. The moment we revealed ourselves to sight she sighed and got up, looking directly into my eyes.
Her eyes were an extremely prominent scarlet color, but everything else about her, besides the unearthly beauty, gave her the appearance of an innocent child. She blinked harmlessly and three wolves collapsed to the ground, writhing in pain- Leah, Seth and Collin.
Paul leapt forward, deafening growls tearing from his throat, only to fall to the ground along with Jared, Embry and Quil. My quivering eyes darted around in panic, trying to restrain myself from making the same mistake Paul did. Sam's ear twitched, just the slightest little movement, and he and Jacob crumpled into the snow.
Only I was left standing.
"Bella." The little girl smiled at me as if nothing had happened. "You must come with me. My new master wishes for you and he doesn't want to be kept waiting any longer. He says that you were supposed to come to him long ago and you did not. He says that he's been waiting three months for you. You have two choices." She held up two of her little child-like fingers, but her eyes showed more than a child-like knowledge. "You can come the easy way or the hard way, but either way, Edward wants you now."