It had been three days since Embry returned to School and the awkwardness with Jacob and Quil in the canteen. There had been tension everywhere, in the house on the walks when Chloe walked with the boys on the way to School. She's changed took a morning to walk with just Embry to try and give him a bit of the old times in the change of it all.

She knew it wasn't much but the older boy did seemed to find it a relief. When it was just the two of them walked together they talked about different things. Not about the pack or the boys. It was just him and she the would-be-siblings. It had been on this walk that Embry revealed something Chloe had never known about the boy.

Embry told her that his father, a man he had never met with or wanted to meet was actually Joshua Uley, Sam father. He'd known for a while that he had shared the same father as their pack leader but had never confront Sam about it, even before the older man had phased. However, the pack connection had given him the chance to bring it up.

The news had surprised Chloe but, as Embry knew if anyone would understand it would have been her, not everyone had the best family dynamics. Just look at her family, a father that didn't hat her but had no time for her and a mother who didn't like her or her father but wouldn't let her father win anything.

Upon being privy to this information Chloe had asked the wolf if the trust he felt towards Sam was effected by the family tie. If a father neither of them knew very well would cause them to grow stronger or fall apart. Embry explained that that aspect had no effect because the two didn't really care.

Nonetheless, it was the mother connection that effected the trust. Sam had been devoted to his mother before she had passed away a month before his first phasing. The thought that Sam had been the same as him in that they both loved their mothers so much more because of not really knowing their father caused Embry to connect with Sam. A connection that seemed to work as bridge to start trust.

Knowing that Embry was trusting the pack not just because she was part of it made Chloe feel proud of Embry and his ability to put parts of the past aside to move forwards. Chloe worried less about the boy because of it though not completely.

There were still things happening around that stressed her out and that were beginning to annoy her but they were things that she had no control over. So when she had walked into the house knowing that no one was inside she took the opportunity to bring Paul in.

She brought him in the house and headed to her room so the two of them could just forget all the things happening and just spend some time that was just him and her. Of course it did not stay like that forever and that was realised in a matter of hours.

X – X – X

From where Chloe and Paul were laying for their nap after their steamy make-out session the two could hear the front door open and voices trying to stay quiet. This puzzled Chloe as to why either Jacob or Billy would try to be quiet. She started to sit up from her bed but Paul's arm was stopping her.

"Where are you going" he asked still a little sleepy from their nap. Chloe had to hold in a chuckle at his hazy confused face.

"I think either Jacob or Billy is back, but for some reason their being quiet" Chloe explained, a little slower than normal so Paul wold register each word. Paul just pushed his head into her pillows with a small groan. This time the chuckle couldn't be held in.

"Come on, if it's Jake he'll freak out if he comes in and sees us like this" she said slipping out his arm towards the wall, but Paul didn't move to get up. "Oh no, you don't get to stay there" she said pushing him to the side. Sadly for Paul, it led him to falling off the bed as she may or may not have known he was close to the edge.

"And put a shirt on" she said as he sat up to give her a little glare. Once Paul set about finding his black shirt Chloe moved towards the end of the bed to swing her legs off it to stand. Next was to find a clean t-shirt from her drawers.

As she took one out she snuck a look in Paul's direction as he put his head though the neck hold and his right arm in its sleeve. Chloe thought that Paul wouldn't notice her looking at him. How wrong she had been.

"Stop looking at me and put your own shirt on babe" Paul said with a playful smirk as he pulled his shirt into place. Chloe blushed a little when she was caught looking, knowing it would go straight to his ego. She tried to snort to shrug it off which caused the smirk to stay on his face but an eyebrow to rise.

"Oh what was that?" he asked as he walked over to where Chloe was standing pulling her own shirt on. "Was that a snort of denial I heard?" he mock asked curling his arms around her pulling her up against his chest and lowering his head so he was almost breathing on her ear.

"Because I think I just caught my imprint checking me out topless" he stated, giving her ear a little nip, knowing it would deepen her blush, and it had a different effect.

"I was indeed checking out my wolf" Chloe countered, knowing that he was teasing her in a way to cause her to be embarrassed. However, she decided not to play in his hands. If she did they would end up on the bed again as she was curious as to what was happening outside her door.

"But don't let it go to your head" she finished as she freed herself from his arms and moved towards the door. Paul gave his own chuckle at his girlfriend's counter but loved that she could keep on surprising him with her reactions. But their smiles didn't last too long outside of Chloe's room.

It had been Jacob that had returned and was walking around looking in cupboards shirtless while they saw sitting at the Black's kitchen table was Bella. She had some cloth scrunched in her hand, Jacob's shirt. But that wasn't what caught Chloe's attention, it was the blood slowly trickling down her forehead.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO BELLA'S HEAD?!" she almost screamed as she rushed to the older girl taking her head into her hands and pushing it so it was facing the light. The sound of her voiced caused both Bella and Jacob to turn to her in worry while the volume of her voice caused Paul to flinch away slightly because of heighted hearing. However, Chloe wasn't the only one shocked.

"What the hell were you two doing in their?!" Jacob exclaimed at the sight that Chloe and Paul presented him, walking out her room, her hair amess, his hair a mess and she was dressed in a different top to what she had been wearing at school. Yes he did notice these things about his cousin.

"Oh grow up Jacob and don't change the subject" Chloe reprimanded. Paul stayed quiet as to not cause any more tension between the Cousins and Bella looked uncomfortable feeling embarrassed. Jacob to his credit also looked at little embarrassed by his words, but wouldn't have been easily spotted.

"Now tell me what in the spirit's name's happened to Bella and why her head it bleeding" Chloe demanded. But then something clicked in her head and her tone lowered considerably. "Was this done on the bikes?" Chloe asked coldly.

This accrete guess surprised both Bella and Jacob while Paul was confused what his girlfriend was talking about. His thoughts were clear on his face; 'what bikes?' which none were about to answer. The two's silence of the two lead Chloe concluding Bella had been injured on the bikes.

She stepped away from Bella and walked over to the cupboard by the door, the one with the first aid kit. The place sh had made appoint of telling Billy and Jacob it was for cases like this but something Jacob must have either not been listening to or had forgotten. Chloe brought the necessary bits over to the table, getting ready to treat Bella's head and stick a butterfly-stich plaster on over the gash.

"I'm going to fix this up for you and then I AM calling Charlie" she said pointedly. Both the people in trouble were about to protest, but Chloe lowered her tone with a hard look in her eyes. "I will be ringing Charlie, the end of it"

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-MSW-