Chapter 25: You can look but can't touch, he's only mine.

It had been a month since the first weekend visit to Nick's home and meeting the rest of the family. First but not last, because Grandpa and Queen Tianna wanted us to visit them often, and we did. The only negative thing about going had a name: Vivien. She was a completely female dog all the time.

Today was December 23rd, which meant that today, Nick and I were going to La Push to spend Christmas with my family. We were staying there for the week.

The four hour car ride to La Push was awkward. I was super nervous, because Nick was going to meet my family. He only knew Seth and now he was going to meet my mom… and Charlie… and Billy… and the elders… and the La Push pack… and Sam.

"Relax, princess, they'll adore me," Nick said and gave me a cocky smirk.

"Someone's too confident about himself?"

"Leah, stop worrying about that, there's no one that can resist me." He continued with his 'I'm the best' tone.

Cocky bastard!

I sighed and he took my hand and intertwined it with his.

"What if they don't li-"

"Relax, everything will be okay. The only one I'm worried of not accepting me is you. And you adore me, so I'm not worried at all." He finished laughing.

I punched him playfully and he kissed my hand.

After 4 fucking hours we arrived to La Push. Once we parked the car in front of my house, Seth came running to us and hugged me.

"Okay, Seth, enough," I told him while shoving him off of me.

"Hey, sis. Nick, my man, you came." They did a hand shake and then Seth's face turned into a serious one. "So you're dating my sister, huh? Let's make this clear. If you hurt her, I'll kill you. Got it?"

Nick laughed and replied to Seth, "Seth, first of all, I'll never hurt her." And then he added with a dark smirk, "And secondly, you could never kill me."

"Leah, baby, you're here!" My mother shouted from the doorway.

"Mom." She hugged me and kissed me.

When the 'mother affection' was over (thank God!), she turned to Nick. When she saw him her eyes widen.

"Oh dear God! Leah, this is Nick, the guy you told me about? He's really hot, honey. You certainly know how to pick them," she whispered in my ear.

I looked at him and he was holding his laughter.

Cocky bastard with super hearing.

"Mom, this is Nick. Nick, this is my mother Sue Clearwater."

"Nice to meet you, Mrs. Clearwater."

"Please call me Sue. Mrs. Clearwater makes me look old, and I'm not too older than Leah," Mom said winking at him.

Oh dear Lordy… was she flirting with my boyfriend?

"Do I have to remind you you're a married woman?" I whispered to my mom.

That made her stop flirting with my boyfriend. "Why don't you come inside and I prepare something for you to eat?"

We both entered the house. When we entered I was tackled by Embry and Quil that jumped on me.

"Leah, you came!"

"We missed you, Leah!"

"Can you fucking get off of me?"

They both let me go and helped me get up.

"Well, it's nice to see you, dear Beta."

"Black. Do you remember Nick, right?"

"Yeah. Nice to see you man." Jake and Nick shared a handshake.

"So we are staying in mom's old room, right?"

"Actually Leah, you go to your old bedroom and Nick will share with Seth. Charlie and I are staying in my old room these days," Mom said from the kitchen.

So there won't be any time alone with my boyfriend in my house. Thanks mother!

After unpacking, I decided to go and spend some time with my boyfriend. I went to Seth's room and it was empty. Maybe he was downstairs playing some video game with the guys. I walked downstairs to our living room and found Seth, Jake, Embry and Quil imprinting on the TV.

"Sorry to interrupt you from your imprinting moment boys, but where's Nick?"

"He said he was going for a walk, sis."

"A walk? And you let him go alone?" I shouted to them. "Can't you see something can happen to him?"

"Chill out Leah, maybe he's just having a walk on the beach," Jake said.

"Relax my ass! What if Sam finds him? You know that since we couldn't rip off any leech the other day, Sam's been looking for anything to kill, right? I wouldn't like my boyfriend to be in one piece thank you very much."

"Leah, if Sam had killed him, he would have come here and rubbed that he's a better alpha in Jake's face," Embry said turning back to the TV.

I turned around, grabbed a jacket, I didn't need it but outside it was freezing cold for normal humans, so I put it on to prevent people starting to call me a freak, and went outside to find Nick.

I sniffed in the air until I found his scent. I followed it. He was sitting in the edge of the cliff, where I almost died.

"Come here, Leah," he whispered and patted the place next to him.

This was the cliff where he saved me.

"Nick, can I ask you something?"

"Go ahead, princess."

"In this place you I almost die. You were here before and you… what were you doing here?"

"I was looking for someone and then I saw you and nothing else mattered to me, only you."

"Who were you looking for?"

"Someone, I don't have time to tell you. I only have time for one thing, to kiss you."

He leaned closer to my lips but I turned my head to the side and he kissed my cheek.

He groaned. "Leah, I want to kiss you."

"And I want some answers."

"Let's make a deal. You kiss me and I tell you all you want to know," he whispered on my lips. He kissed me. When we pulled away he answered. "Alvis, Savannah's father was killed by them some days before I found you. They were in America. When I found out I wanted revenge, so I followed their scent all over the country, and it brought me here. I didn't find them but I found you."

He looked me with love in his eyes.

"But that's not important now. I want to tell you something important here, where everything started, where I fell in love with you. Leah, here I saved-"

"You saved me." I interrupted him.

"I saved us, because if you had died here, I'd have died too. You brought me back to life, you made me believe in love. When I first saw you I just couldn't stop looking at you. When you feel off, it was like you pulled me with you. You and I, we're a whole. Leah, you're my soul mate, my true love."

I shook my head.

"Why?" I questioned.

"You're asking me why this happened? I don't know, but it's not that hard to like you, Leah." Nick added smiling. He moved closer to me, placed his hand under my chin and brought up my head so our eyes were level with one another. "I do. I can't help how I feel," he said, his face inching closer towards mine. And the next thing happening was that he was kissing me. His soft lips were pressing gently against mine. I felt a wave of euphoria wash over me as the kiss deepened. I placed my hands on his shoulders, kissing him back. Nick put his arms around the small of my back and continued to kiss me.

When we separated, we laid on the ground looking up at the grey sky in silence. We must have been there for hours because it was suddenly getting very dark, but we still stayed there.

"Can I listen to your heartbeat?" Nick asked out of the blue. I chuckled and nodded. He scooted closer to me and put his ear against my chest.

After a few quiet minutes he looked up at me and smiled, then returned to listening to it. "This is my new favorite song." He whispered.

I smiled.

"I love you, Leah," he whispered softly. Slowly, he leaned down until his lips were an inch apart from mine. His warm breath filled my lungs, putting me into a slight daze. I felt my heart pounding loudly in my ears as I close the short gap between us and touch my lips with his. This kiss was much different than our first one. This kiss was soft and full of love. It was his way of showing me that he really loved me and would do anything to keep me in his arms forever.

I pulled away and looked into his eyes. I was ready for this. I felt the same way. "I love you too, Nick."

I woke up with Nick's arms around me. Somehow in between kisses I fell asleep. Not because he bored me or anything. I was sure that any woman in my situation would have gone into a comma if Nick just looked at her. This guy could make you die and bring you back to life with one kiss, one touch, a look.

I somehow managed to get out of his embrace and walked closer to the end of the cliff. I breathed in the ocean mist that fogged over the water and I bored my still sleepy eyes upon the trashing of the waves against the rocks; the sound of the water always calmed me down. The sky drenched in grey, as it always did in La Push. As the shrill noise of birds erupted into the air, Nick sighed behind me, causing me to turn to his way and cock my head.

"Is something wrong?" I asked him softly, he got up stretching himself and walked toward me.

"No. It's just that I can't imagine my life without you now," he said hugging me and kissing my cheek.

"I can't imagine my life without you either."

He sighed again. "It's just that… I was foolish to ever have doubts."

"Doubts?"

"Mmm... Well, when I saw Jake after I saved you, I thought he was your mate, and then when you went on that date with Justin-"

"Julian," I corrected him.

"Whatever. Well, I realized you were single and then when he kissed you I just thought you liked him, but you didn't, and now I'm thinking that we wasted a lot of time. Time that I could have spent doing this." He kissed my lips softly.

"Why didn't you stop?" He shifted his gaze onto me, raising an eyebrow.

"What do you mean?"

"Why didn't you ever leave me be? Why did you keep haunting me?"

"Because I couldn't let you go, you always managed to draw me to you."

He gave me a slight peck on my lips and draped his arm over your shoulder.

"So you were jealous?" I teased him.

"Pft! No," he snorted. "I was crazy. Whenever I saw you near a boy I just wanted to kill them for just breathing the same air as you did." He looked me deep in the eyes. "Leah, I lov-"

But he was interrupted when my stomach managed to growl very loudly at the exact wrong time. I looked down at it then back to him.

He laughed about it and pulled me up to my feet, hugging me against him. I laughed as he carried me to the house.

"Leah, come on! We're going to be late if you don't come downstairs now!" Seth shouted.

"Wait just a second!"

I finished my hair and ran downstairs where Seth and Nick were waiting for me.

"Wow. You look amazing," Nick commented, kissed me softly before Seth started making gagging noises.

"Could you do that when I'm not here?"

Nick laughed and told Seth, "Sorry Seth, it's not my fault your sister is this beautiful." He looked at me with adoration playing in his eyes. "You'll understand when you have a girl that drives you this crazy."

"Oh please, can you keep the eye thing, kissing and any other thing you do, for yourselves."

Nick and I laughed.

We walked to the party holding hands and kissing each other from time to time, while Seth murmured that tonight he was going to have nightmares.

"Thank God we've arrived," Seth said and ran inside to the party.

As we were going to enter, Nick cell phone's ringtone started to play.

"It's Alex."

He looked at me waiting for my approval. "Fine, answer it, I'll be inside."

He kissed my cheek and answered the call while I entered the place.

The room was huge with large tables full of food. There were a lot of people, all La Push's people. There were people dancing, and others were talking while they ate some of the delicious dishes that were over the table.

I looked around finding for familiar faces. There were the packs' boys with their imprintees and the elders. Everyone was paired with someone, talking. The imprinted guys with their imprintees: Kim and Jared. Claire was playing with Quil. Paul and Rachel. Jake was talking with Embry and Seth. My mom was with Charlie. Billy and Old Quil. And, of course, Emily and Sam.

I walked around for a while until a really fat Emily -she was only six months but she was huge already, it looked like the baby was going to plop out in any moment- came towards me with Kim and Rachel and other two girls I'd never seen in my life before. They approached me and I knew they were going to start saying things like: "You look great, did you imprint or something?" or "Oh Leah, you came alone?" or "Good for you, you're still single and you can flirt with any guy you want."

"Oh Leah, you look so pretty tonight! Did you come alone?" Kim asked.

What did I tell you? Why couldn't I wait for my boyfriend? Why?

"I love your dress! Didn't you find any hot guy in college?" Rachel asked.

"Actually, my boy-"

"Oh, I'm so happy to see you! Let me call Sam to come and say hi to you. You know, we've been thinking on names for the baby lately, so if you have any suggestions let me know. I want the baby to be called by the name her or his godmother chooses."

Oh dear Lord! She still wanted me to be the child's godmother?

Why couldn't she get the idea that I didn't want anything to do with her? I fucking didn't want to be her child's godmother or her bridesmaid! Didn't she understand that after what happened at my mom's wedding, rubbing in my face that she was going to have a baby that I could never have, I didn't want to be part of her life anymore? It seemed to me like she enjoyed humiliating me and showing me that she was having the life I once dreamt of. But you know what? I wasn't going to follow her game anymore.

Three months ago, my reaction would have caused World War III, but now, all I could think about was: "I would love to help you, Emily, but I'm very busy with classes and stuff. Why don't you ask Rachel or Kim to be the baby's godmother?" I told her with a sweet voice.

They all looked shocked that I didn't shout to Emily. Every time Emily and I talked, I ended up shouting to her. Their eyes were wide opened. Emily was going to say something but she shut her mouth immediately.

"So how's life in Seattle? Did you meet anyone?" Rachel changed the subject to break the awkward moment.

"Ha. I would like to see the freak that could choose her to date, babe. Who could even hung out with her," Paul said, making everyone laugh. And by everyone I mean the imprintees, Jared, Colin and Brady that were next to him. Sam was nowhere in sight.

"Well, Paul, let me tell you I do have friends. Jake, Embry, Quil and Seth can tell you about them."

"Really? Well then they might be ugly, blind and deaf so they don't need to see you or listen to you," he commented making his pack mates to laugh more. The girls just look to another place, pretending they didn't listen what he said.

As on cue the door was opened and there he was… my sexy and hot boyfriend. He took off his coat and looked around until he saw me. Behind me I heard Emily, Rachel, Kim and the two other girls gasped dreamily at him. People turned to look at him as he walked our way.

I knew exactly how they felt. Who could resist looking at someone like him? He was beautiful, and tonight he was even sexier than he always was. He was wearing a pair of light blue jeans and a white shirt that complimented his tanned skin. He was a god, the perfect man. And he was mine.

"I'm sorry for making you wait for me, princess," he said kissing my hand, making the girls behind me gasp again. Then he kissed me softly on my lips.

When we broke apart, I smirked and turned my eyes to all the pack boys and imprintees. Their faces were priceless. While the girls were with their mouths opened, the boys' eyes were wide open.

"Guys, this is Nick. My boyfriend," I said looking at Emily who opened her eyes wider.

I turned my eyes back to my man who had his eyes settled on me. He smiled and wrapped his arms around my waist and led me to where the food was.

I knew I shouldn't say this but I love dating this extremely hot guy and rub it in all their faces, especially in Emily's who always found a way to rub Sam on my face.

We walked around the room and I introduced Nick to Charlie who gave him 'the talk', that if he ever hurt me or try something on me, he would kill him. Later, I introduced Nick to Billy and Old Quil who were a bit worried that Nick could be a threat, but once Nick told them that the only way he could be a problem was when he phased and that only happened with the full moon, so they both relaxed and welcomed Nick to stay in La Push every time he wanted except for full moon days.

After talking with the two elders we went to get some food. Emily, Rachel and Kim where at the food table looking at Nick intensely, desire and lust in their eyes.

Did I mention that I loved having a hot boyfriend to rub it in their faces? I really did. And Nick seemed to don't mind it, because he was aware of his three new admirers, he smiled at them making them almost faint. They excused themselves and went to the bathroom.

I looked at Nick and laughed. "There you have three more girls to your fan club. They think you're hot."

"They are just trying to be nice because I'm new, they don't think I'm hot."

"What? So you're not hot?"

"Nope. I'm fine!"

"Oh please, don't be modest," I exclaimed sarcastically, rolling my eyes. He laughed which made me laugh too. "I love your laugh," I said smiling as he was leaning closer to me.

"And I love everything about you." He kissed me.

"So Nick, where are you from?" Emily interrupted us.

"Do you have any brothers?" Rachel asked.

"How old are you?" Kim asked.

I turned around ready to tell them to get the hell away and leave us alone, but I almost chocked with my drink when I saw them.

What the hell had they done on their faces?

"What the hell happened to your faces?" I asked.

Nick was coughing, hiding his laughter. He couldn't hold it any longer so he excused himself.

The girls looked disappointed that Nick left without complimenting their new looks.

"What happened in your faces?" I asked again.

"Nothing, we just refreshed our make-up."

The girls thought their mascara application was flawless, but Emily's eyelashes really looked like scary spider legs. Rachel had too much eye shadow. And Kim, well, Kim's lips now looked three times its normal size.

"Go and wash your faces, girls. Oh and one last thing about Nick, you can look at him all you want, but you can't touch him, get it?" They nodded and disappeared.

I walked around the room looking for Nick but I couldn't find him anywhere.

"Hi, Lee-Lee," someone said from behind me.

I turned around and there the person I tried to avoid the whole night, Sam.

"Lee-Lee, are you okay?"

"Stop it!"

"Stop what?"

"Don't call me Lee-Lee ever again, do you understand?"

"Why not? You loved it when I called you that."

"You said it. I loved it, not any more. "

"Really? I bet you came with that guy only to make me jealous."

What?

"Yeah, I heard you brought your boyfriend. Was it to make me jealous?"

"Really, Sam? Really? You think I brought him to make you jealous?"

"Leah, we both know you still love me. You can't love that guy. Did you pay for him to come with you?"

Oh no, he didn't just say that!

"Fuck you, Sam."

"Leah, don't-" He was cut.

"She said to leave her alone," Nick growled.

"This is a private conversation so mind your own business!"

"Leah is my girlfriend and I won't let you treat her like this."

Sam walked a step closer to Nick, like trying to intimidate him, showing him he was the Alpha. What Sam didn't know was that Nick was a werewolf, and the Alpha, the fucking King to be of his species.

Sam realized that Nick wasn't giving easily by just a look and punched him. A moment later, Sam was in the ground with Nick on top of him punching him.

People were screaming, well, it was mostly Emily who was screaming. And others were cheering like Embry, Quil and Jake, who took the opportunity to make a bet.

Paul and Jared were trembling, Seth noticed and with the help of Brady and Colin he took them outside where they could phase.

"Nick, stop!" I shouted. I behaved the whole night, being nice to people, so Nick could be accepted in the res, and now he was punching the most valuable and respected guy in La Push. "Nick, stop, please!"

He didn't. He continued hitting Sam like a mad person. Right now it wasn't Nick, it was Nick's wolf. I looked at Jake and begged him with my eyes to stop them. He understood my message and with the help of Embry and Quil he separated the two boys.

Nick was breathing hard, his hair was messier and his shirt's first buttons were undone. In one word he looked hot, but I was so angry with him that I couldn't enjoy his sexy look.

Nick looked my way and his eyes widen in realization when he saw that I was pissed at him. He looked guilty.

I couldn't look at him right now so I ran outside. I needed to be alone to think what to do. I was sure Sam was going to convince the elders to never let me with Nick. Not that I cared what a bunch of old guys decided, but I wanted Nick to be accepted in my family.

I ran throw the woods, and once I realized were I was I stopped running. I was in the Cullens' territory. It wasn't something bad, they knew I was a friend now, but I didn't want to talk to anyone now. I wanted to be alone.

Something moved from behind me. I didn't need to turn around to know who he was. Nick.

"Leah, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have reacted that way." He walked closer to me. I didn't look at him. "Leah, please look at me," he asked gently.

I looked up to him with scared eyes. I wasn't scared of him, but I was just a little freaked by what I just saw.

"I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry. Please don't hate me for that. I just got carried away. He made me so angry," he pleaded.

"You hit him, Nick. Yes, he's a jerk, but you got out of control."

"He started it. He should have shut up and never said that to you. You're my girlfriend and I won't let anyone talk to you that way," he said angrily.

I confess that I loved it when he said I was his girlfriend and he protect me from anyone, but I wanted him to work harder if he wanted me to accept his apology.

He apologized again and again, but suddenly his mood changed again, and he suddenly grabbed my hand and pulled me behind him.

"What's wrong with you?" I didn't want to shout to him but he scared me.

"Vampires. This place smells like them," he said while holding me harder. "And the smell is getting closer."

"Nick, take your hands off of me! You're hurting me."

After I said that, five vampires appeared: Edward, Alice, Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper.

Nick tensed and hid me behind him. He growled and even showed his teeth like dogs did when they felt threaten.

"Is everything okay, Leah?" Edward asked.

"Is this bastard hurting you?" Rosalie barked.

"Leah, you okay?" Alice asked worriedly.

"It's better if you leave her alone buddy," Emmett said clenching his fists.

Nick was shock that these vampires were talking to me. He turned to look at me. "You know them?"

"Of course she knows us, we're friends," Jasper told him.

"You… you're friends with leeches?" His voice getting louder at each word he spoke.

"Nick, I can explain-"

"Explain? What are you going to explain? That you're on their side. You lied to me! After all I told you about what they'd done to us. My sister, Alvis… You're friends with them!"

"Nick-"

"Stay away from me. Don't you dare talk to me ever again and forget about seeing any of the others. From now on you're our enemy too."

"Nick," I whispered. I closed my eyes to stop the tears to fall. When I opened them, he wasn't there anymore.

"Nick, come back, please," I whispered.