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Ch 25 Omitting the truth

It didn't take us long to find out where Leah was. Seth just had to pull his puppy dog look and his mom spilled the beans. She was in Seattle, a friend she had from school lives up there so she went to stay with her for awhile.

"I have a problem." I announced to River as she jumped up and down after I told her where Leah was.

"What?" She pouted.

"Um, Sam and especially not Jared and Paul are not going to let me go." I stated.

"Shit." She hissed, crossing her arms. "What if we don't tell them the exact place we're going?"

"I can't lie to them." I rolled my eyes.

"It's not lying, it's just omitting the truth."

"It's lying and we'll probably be gone for more then a day so where exactly do you plan on telling them where we're going?"

"I don't know! I just want to get Leah back." River whined.

"So do I, but we can't do that with over protective werewolves watching our every move." I shrugged, hopping up onto her kitchen counter.

"This is frustrating!" She yelled.

"Tell me about it." I nodded, stuffing my mouth with some Doritos. "The other day I had to go to the store for some Tampons and Jared kept asking me where I was going and I definitely didn't want to tell him, so I lied but he followed me anyway. That was a lecture I do not want to repeat."

"Oh jeez." She laughed. "I guess you can't blame them though, with the red head still around and everything."

"Yeah, hopefully she decided to bounce the same time Bella did."

"God, let's hope. Anyway, we still have to go to Seattle, so use your awesome sisterly ways and make them let you go." She said, stealing my chips.

"I don't think it'll be that easy." I rolled my eyes.

"Oh! I know, you can ask Emily and tell her why we want to go, she'll let you and make Sam, Jared and Paul not stop you."

"Hmmm, that might actually work." I smiled.

"Yes!" She cheered, throwing her hands up, completely forgetting she had the bag of chips in her hand.

"Oops." She mumbled, looking at all the wasted Doritos scattered on the kitchen floor and some in my hair.

"You owe me a new bag." I glared at her, picking the chips out of my hair. No body messes with my Doritos man.

"Sure sure." She rolled her eyes. "Now get off your ass and go ask Emily!"

"God, you're so demanding." I grumbled, but got off the counter anyway.

"Yes I am, your brother loves that in me." She smirked.

"Blah, gag me." I shuddered, walking out of the house as she laughed behind me.

I found Emily in the kitchen of course as soon as I got home.

"Hey Em, need some help?" I asked, referring to the cookies she was making.

"Sure, thank you." She smiled, handing me the bowl of mix. "Everything's in there, it just needs to be mixed."

I nodded and started to stir.

"So, what have you done today?" She asked, getting a bowl to start another batch.

"Just hung out with River. So far, this summer has been uneventful." I shrugged as she laughed.

"It'll get better, I'm sure." She smiled.

"Okay, so I wanted to ask you something." I said.

"Go on."

"Well, River had this theory about Leah so she had Seth find out where she is and he did and now she wants to take a trip to Seattle and try to get Leah to come back." I explained all in one breath.

"Oh, um what exactly is that theory?"

"We're not sure so please don't say anything, but we think she likes Jacob and that's why she ran. Because, even though Bella's gone, Jacob was still hung up over her so we think Leah just gave up."

"You really think so?" She asked happily.

"Kind of." I shrugged.

She smiled, then her smile quickly went away. "Neither of them has imprinted, she might get crushed again."

"Yeah but, None of us think they've actually looked at each other since they phased so they might imprint on each other."

"Wow, come to think about it, I don't think they looked directly at each other either." Emily said with a confused look on her face.

"Exactly! So do you think I can go to Seattle with River?" I asked, with my puppy dog face.

"I want to say yes, but I don't think Sam and your brother's will approve."

"Believe me, neither do I, but if you say yes then maybe you can persuade them to do so also." I exclaimed.

Emily looked at me as a smile slowly formed on her face. "I'll see what I can do."

"Yay! Thank you!" I jumped and hugged her.

"No promises." She laughed, hugging me back.

"No."

"I don't think so."

"Absolutely not."

Those were the answers we received when Emily asked them at dinner.

"Pleaaaaase!" I whined.

"It's not safe. Why do you even want to go there anyway?" Jared asked.

I was sure that question was going to be asked, so I had come up with an excuse. Coincidently, there was this big huge sale at the mall up there, so I told them River and I wanted to attend it and we would stay at a hotel for a night and drive back in the morning. I wasn't exactly lying….much.

"You can go shopping in Port Angeles." Paul said.

"They don't have all the good stuff and it won't be on sale!" I exclaimed, throwing my hands up. Collin and Brady have just been swinging their heads back and forth watching us argue.

"Come on Sam, let her go. She'll be okay." Emily told him, putting her hand on his arm. That's right Em, use your womanly charm.

"She's 15, I don't think she should be going that far away and staying in a hotel alone." He shook his head.

"I'll have River and she's 16 almost 17."

"That's doesn't exactly make us feel better." Paul said rolling his eyes.

"Pretty please, with sugar and candy and cherries and chocolate and and and whip cream!" I begged. I was gonna freaking kill River for this. And now the twins I decided as they burst out laughing.

"What if someone goes with you?" Sam sighed.

"Please no, It was supposed to be just a me and Rive day."

"That's my offer, take it or leave it." He shook his head.

Emily smiled sympathetically at me as Paul and Jared put a smug look on their stupid faces.

"Embry!" I yelled all of a sudden.

"What?" Jared asked.

"I'll take Embry. He's 17 and can protect us from absolutely nothing." I pointed out rolling my eyes . "Plus, he's more fun to be around and he won't complain about the shopping."

"And now you're a 15 year old girl staying in a hotel with a 17 year old boy." Paul pointed out.

"Oh for the love of god! It's Embry! He's not stupid for one and for two, he won't do anything. Just let the poor girl go, she needs a girls day." Emily said firmly. The boys were looking at her shocked as hell.

'Thank you.' I mouthed to her as she secretly smiled at me.

Sam sighed and ran a hand threw his hair. "Fine, you can go and Embry will go with you."

"Thank you!" I jumped up to hug him, then I turned and stuck my tongue out at Jared and Paul.

"Are you sure?" Jared asked.

"Yes, now eat." He said, then starting eating himself.

The twins and I smiled at each other, happy that River's little plan was about to take action.

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