I do not own any characters or plots that can be recognized from Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series.

This story takes place right after Breaking Dawn, but there was no imprint on Renesmee. All the events remain the same, and after they fought the Volturi the Cullens moved to Canada.

Chapter 2: Weird

Seth's POV:

I was walking back to Emily's with Jacob. Even though we're now two separate packs, we all gather there because Emily makes good food, and if anything happens we still communicate with each other. As I am walking towards Emily's I am distracted. For some reason today I am just on edge and anxious almost. Its hard to explain, but its not even me, its more of the wolf. Its on edge, like its waiting for something to happen. Its close to the surface which is strange for me since my wolf rarely appears when I don't want it to.

"Ow" Damn it! I walked into a tree.

"Ok what's up with you today. You were weird and jumpy all patrol, and now you just walked into a tree."

I don't want to explain to him my issue with my wolf so I settle for something far more stupider: "Uh...the tree moved?"

"Really the tree moved? That's what your going with."

"I guess"

"Sure, Whatever, Come on! I can smell Emily's muffins from here."

We walked for another minute. I made sure to be extra careful not to run into anymore trees because I know if I do it again Jacob will demand an explanation. Technically, he could alpha order it from me, and I still don't want to try to explain my problem.

We reach Emily's and walk in. We both grab a muffin. Jacob sees my sister sitting in the corner. She still rarely comes here, but her and Emily are slowly mending their relationship, and when I say slowly I mean slowly.

"Hey Leah!" Jacob starts. She just glares at them. "You know your brother thinks trees can move."

Embry who apparently is also in the room speaks up while laughing, "Why would a tree move?"

"I don't know ask him. He's the one who ran face first into it and used the excuse 'it moved'" He responds to Embry.

Sam walks in the room and immediately goes straight to Emily. He starts kissing her. Normally I would make a comment about how 'I am eating' or how 'they should do that on their own time,' but today I'm just so messed up I don't even care. After he finishes with Emily he looks towards us. I now realize almost the whole pack is here except Brady and Collin who are on patrol.

"Tomorrow there is a funeral for John Roberts. Jacob and Quil I already know that you guys will be there since John's daughters, Alexandra and Amber, and his son, Aiden, are your cousins, but I expect the rest of the pack to be there too. Brady and Collin will be on Patrol again, so the rest of you have no reason not to be there. Alexandra and the twins used to live here, but when their mother died they moved to California. After the funeral we will be having a bonfire as celebration for John's life. I expect you to show up and behave and be nice to Alexandra. I doubt the twins will go since they are only 10, but Alexandra is 16 and will most likely be at the bonfire. She is already going through a hard enough time with her dad's death, so DO NOT make her life any harder tomorrow! Got it?"

We all mutter "ok". For some reason talking about the funeral upsets my wolf. I don't know but its just more on edge now than it was before. I start shaking slightly unknowingly.

"Woah! Seth! Seriously, you've been weird all day, what is wrong with you?" Jacob asks. "I mean running into trees and now your shaking, totally not like you."

"Uh I don't know I guess funerals just remind me of my dad's a year ago." Lie, but how do I explain my wolf is freaking out for unknown reasons to everyone but the spirits. I was still shaking: "I'm just gonna go run, maybe get rid of energy or something. I don't know, but I'll see you tomorrow I guess."

I stand up and bolt out the door. Inside I can hear Jacob say, "weird" and Embry say, "Leah I don't know what your brothers problem is today, but try to make sure he is less weird tomorow for the funeral."

Leah fires back at him, "Yeah right, that kid has always been messed up. Pretty sure he was dropped on his head as a baby."

At this point I'm out of there hearing range, and I don't even notice Collin and Brady in my head until Collin speaks up: "Dude what's up with you?"

"I don't know, just on edge, its weird." I respond thinking back to me almost phasing in Emily's over absolutely nothing.

"Woah you almost phased! You never almost phase! You really are screwed up right now." Brady responds.

"Yeah I know" I growled at him.

"Woah chill, maybe you just need to find yourself a hot babe." Brady thinks. Then he starts thinking about the latest girl he hooked up with.

"Dude, I really don't wanna see that." Collin states.

"Yeah me either. I can tell you my issue with my wolf does not have to do with being sexually frustrated."

"If you say so" Brady responds.

I phase back outside my house and pull on my cutoff shorts. I walk into the living room. My mom is sitting on the couch reading a book. She looks up at me: "Oh Seth, apparently Sam already told you guys but we are going to John Roberts funeral tomorrow. When him and his wife used to live in La Push we were close family friends. They moved after the wife, Jane died. You used to play with the oldest daughter Alexandra when you were little since you guys are the same age, so be nice."

Just from her statement my wolf is back on edge and I am slightly shaking. Not about to phase shaking, just to where it looks like I am shivering. I head upstairs to my room and just lay on my bed staring at my ceiling. Seriously what is up with me. I ran into a tree, almost phased at nothing, and have been jumpy and on edge all day. At some point I ended up falling asleep and wake up to my sisters yelling:

"Seth! You have 10 minutes to get down here and ready or else."

With Leah you never want to learn what 'or else' means, so I jump out of bed. I take a fast two minute shower since I forgot to last night with all my thinking. My wolf is more on edge today then it was yesterday. It is practically waiting for something to happen. I grab my nice suit and throw it on quickly, fumbling with the tie as I descend down the stairs. I look at the clock and see its almost 3pm meaning I slept for like 15 hours. It also means I skipped my patrol which I am sure I will hear about from Jake later. I grab a plate with food on it from the counter and eat it as fast as I can. I run outside where Leah and mom are waiting and jump in the car.

We get to the council hall where the funeral is. I can feel my chest being tugged forward and my wolf almost surfaced. If I have to deal with this the whole funeral its gonna be a problem, and since I skipped patrol I have way to much energy right now also. We walk into the council hall and I immediately smell something. It smells like vanilla and lavender with an underlying scent of the ocean. The stupid wolf is literally howling at the scent and I can barely sit still. I sit there bouncing my knee up and down and my sister glares at me. I tell Leah I need to get some air. She probably thinks I just can't handle it and that the funeral reminds me too much of the events last year which resulted in my dad's death. I wish it was that. That would be less confusing than my issue right now with my wolf. I decide to just listen to the funeral from outside the council hall as the wolf can't manage to be in there.

I hear a girl speaking. She starts a speech about her father, so I am assuming its Alexandra speaking. She gives a heartfelt speech on how her father lived everyday to his best and how he loved everyone. It was really sweet and anybody could tell how much she loved her father. My issue is I only caught half the speech as I kept getting distracted by her voice which was smooth even when she stuttered. She sounded like an angel. Damn it! Stupid wolf just fix yourself. I am still leaning on the wall outside when Leah and the guys come out along with Kim and Emily. Leah looks to me and whispers, "What happened?"

"I just couldn't handle being in there. Its complicated." I respond back to her.

Jacob then looks at me, "You missed you patrol shift this morning."

"Uh...um...sorry." I respond back, not quite sure what to respond.

"Normally I would yell at you, but after how messed up you were yesterday you probably needed the sleep, but don't let it happen again."

I nod my head back at him. Jacob heads back inside while the rest of us walk over to the beach. We almost finish setting up the bonfire and all the food when Jake shows up. At this point most of us guys have changed into a pair of cutoffs and a t-shirt because the suits were obnoxiously hot, even at night. Jake and the girl get out of the car. I head over to the food table. I can hear Jacob introducing her to everyone. Then I smell it again. The same scent that was freaking my wolf out at the funeral. Jacob tells us that his cousin is gonna play a song. I look back and notice she has a guitar with her.

She starts singing and she truly sounds like and angel. When she finishes we are all amazed. I can't help but wonder if she wrote that song since I have never heard it before. Before I can even think about asking though, Emily goes up to her and asks. Turns out she did write the song which is amazing. Then, I go back to eating my food since I am really hungry because I didn't get to eat much for lunch, and I slept through breakfast.

Then I feel my chest start tugging me. I look in the direction I'm being pulled and see Alexa sitting against a piece of driftwood. I go and sit next to her. I can smell and hear that she is crying.

"Hey are you ok?" I ask. I know she isn't and its s stupid question, but I have to ask anyway. She seems startled that I'm next to her and she jumps slightly. Being this close to her the tugging is worse. The scent which it seems is her scent is overpowering my senses and making my mind slightly hazy.

"I guess, I mean not really, but I kinda have to be ok for my siblings, so yeah, I'm fine." she responds sadly. I can hear the pain in her voice. I can relate to what she is saying because that is how I felt last year, but I still had my mother at least.

"Yeah I understand. When my dad died last year I felt I had to be strong for my sister and mother. There was so much happening at the same time too. I can't imagine how hard you have it not having either parent. If you need someone to talk to I mostly understand what your going through and would be happy to listen."

"Thank you... You don't happen to be Seth Clearwater do you?"

Weird, why she would know that, but for some reason I like how my name says when she says it probably a little too much. My wolf is practically howling from inside me it is so cose to the surface. "Yeah, that's me, how'd you know."

"I talked with your mother at the funeral. She offered to take the twins to Uncle Billy's for me. She mentioned your father briefly when she was talking to me. It was just a lucky guess that i put the two together correctly."

That definitely sounds like my mom.

"Oh, well do you want to come back to the bonfire? If not I'm sure Jake will let you borrow his car to drive to your Uncle's."

"I'm honestly not sure if I can handle being around that many people for the rest of the night. They just all look at you with pity, and I don't think I can handle anymore of that tonight. So I guess I'll borrow the car and drive to Billy's. I think I know my way from here."

"Oh yeah the looks of pity, you can never forget those." I say sadly, my mind going back to last year. Everyone pitied me. My dad just died, and those who new about the secret also felt bad that I phased. I don't mind being a shape-shifter, but the timing of my phasing could not have been worse. Leah's phase caused Dad to have a heart attack. Seeing Dad on the floor and a wolf in the living room freaked me out enough to phase.

She turns to me as she is about to get up and gives me a hug and whispers "Thank you." Her voice so close to my and her scent engulfs me making my mind hazy. I barely even realized she pulled away, but the next thing I know I am looking straight into her beautiful blue eyes.