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A/Note 3: I'm not a native English speaker so I'm sorry for my grammar and spelling. Thank you for reading.

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Book I – The Third

Isaac Black

2. Family Lies

I woke up with a bang. For a moment I thought I was back at the campus. My roommate Bob used to return to the dormitory early in the morning completely high and he usually collapsed on the floor before reaching his own bed. But that was not the case today.

Today I had woken up by my youngest brother, jumping up and down on my bed.

"Wake up, Boo! It's breakfast time!" He yelled enthusiastically. I groaned in response. I was hungry but it had been a shitty night for me. As JJ ran downstairs I got up, picked a few cleaned clothes and went to the bathroom to have a shower. I could hear Mum cooking in the kitchen and JJ feeding Hunter outside. The black Alaskan Husky had been a gift from the twins to JJ after he turned seven.

Everyone in the family, except for our parents, needed a pet. It started with Tyson, Harry and Will's dog. My godmother, Kim, bought me Peter, the hamster. A few months later, Sarah brought Marshmallow home with Quil's help, and she then smuggled Tiger into the house as well. Dad hated Tiger.

Eventually, Tiger, the cat tried to eat Peter, the hamster and we were both forced to get rid of them. Sarah gave Tiger to Claire, and I gave Peter to our cousin Dee. For a while there were only two dogs with us until Sarah had the idea of saving a female dog from the kennel. She named her Shadow and almost every year Shadow had puppies. She had to give her up too four years and thirteen puppies later.

After that Tyson and Marshmallow died of old age and the twins acquired Gunnar, a five-week old German Shepherd. A year before Harry and Will bought Hunter, Sarah brought Beaver, a Golden Retriever, home. As for me, after giving up Peter, I decided not to have more pets. Mum would probably have a fit if I brought one more dog home. Gunnar, Beaver and Hunter did enough damages already.

When I entered the kitchen Mum smiled at me and put a plate on the table with bacon, eggs and toast.

"Have you slept?" She asked.

"Not much."

"Did you take your medication last night?"

"Yes."

"Bad dreams?"

"No. I just… It was the first night in months since I slept in my old bedroom." I lied and I was almost sure that my mother could see right through my lie. "Where is everyone?"

"Your father left early this morning with the twins to help Quil prepare the honour walk."

If Dad had called the twins to help that meant he hadn't really punished them last night, as I expected. Whenever Harry or William got themselves in trouble they were never punished.

"I was wondering if you could take JJ to Uncle Seth's place after breakfast. He wants to go and play with Junior and Lilly." Mum asked.

"That depends."

Mum frowned. "On what?"

"Can I take the car?"

She pondered quietly before nodding. "Fine. But I want you and the car home by lunch time. Don't forget that you have to go to Old Quil's house with the others, okay?"

"I won't forget." I promised. "Where's Sarah?"

"She went shopping with Julia and Jaelle."

Julia and Jaelle were Kim and Jared's sixteen-year old twin daughters, who didn't have driver's license or a car. Since Sarah didn't take our car, it meant someone had driven them to Forks. Probably Jerry, Kim and Jared's oldest son whose best friend was none other than Jay Morris.

Jerry worked in a sports shop in Forks while Jay was a Forest Guard's junior officer. They were the same age and were friends since school. They were commonly seen together. That could only mean one thing: Sarah was with Jay in Forks. I didn't like the thought of my sister being with that creep.

As soon as JJ ate his breakfast, we left. Uncle Seth's was on the phone so we were welcomed by Aunt Gwen, who offered us breakfast again. I declined politely even though I was hungry, which was awkward since I had just eaten, but JJ attacked a chocolate cake Aunt Gwen had in the fridge while he waited for Junior and Lilly to come downstairs.

"How's college Isaac?" Aunt Gwen asked.

"Fine, thank you."

"Once upon a time I dreamed with College too." She confessed dreamingly.

"It's never too late, Aunt Gwen."

In that moment Susie Leigh came running from the living room and grabbed her mother's legs.

"I want to play outside with JJ, Lilly and Junior." She whined. Named after our grandmother, Susie was four years old and no one ever wanted to play with her since she was five years younger than her twin siblings, Seth Junior and Lillian.

"If I went to College now do you honestly think your Uncle would be able to take care of three kids on his own?" Aunt Gwen smiled picking up Susie.

"Probably not." I admitted.

"No College for me then."

I smiled at her and then I turned around to leave.

"Your Uncle wants to speak to you before you leave. He's upstairs."

My cousins, Junior and Lilly greeted me on their way to the kitchen to join JJ. Not wanting to bother Uncle Seth while he was on the phone, I waited outside his office.

"Yes, the agreement is still valid." Said Uncle Seth. "You don't need to worry Lance, your families will be safe here."

"They'll be more this time. We're used to meet the Denali once in a while but… the Cullens…" I heard Lance Dunne say. Uncle Seth had put the phone call on speaker so I could hear everything they were saying.

"The Cullens are not a threat to you or anyone. They still follow the rules."

"But there will be more of them in your territory. That might provoke some… trouble for us."

"We can't ask them not to come. It would be rude. They're friends and they want to pay their respects to Old Quil and his family."

"How many of you are there right now?"

"Thirteen. It's one of us for each of them." Uncle Seth sighed deeply. "If you don't want to come, we won't hold it against you Lance."

"That's not it Seth."

"Then what is it?"

"My daughter is feeling sick lately. She has a fever and… Rhett's only nine years old."

"My oldest are also nine years old. JJ is ten… The Cullens and the Denali have been visiting us regularly. Once or twice each year and nothing has happened not even to the older ones. They'll be staying only for two days. I don't think that's enough time to influence our kids'… special condition."

I had no idea what Uncle Seth meant by that, but Lance sure seemed worried about meeting the Cullens and the Denalis. I didn't understand why. The Cullens were our friends for ages. I had learned I had been born in a bedroom at the Cullen's mansion. Carlisle Cullen had helped delivering me, as he had done with the twins seven years before I was born.

Emmett and Rosalie were Harry's godfathers while Alice and Jasper were William's. Sarah was goddaughter of Carlisle and Esme and JJ of Edward and Bella. I was the only one whose godparents weren't Cullens.

We didn't see much of them over the last ten years. Only on special occasions. Sometimes over Christmas, other times over New Year's Eve. Lately they seemed to contact us less and less. I had heard Dad say they were travelling over Europe, but when they weren't travelling on vacation, they were in their new mansion in Montana or in the one they had bought in Idaho. So we didn't meet often.

Honestly, they were strange people. I knew Carlisle Cullen was a doctor, a very good one for he had been my Uncle's mentor. The city of Forks had a huge debt on Carlisle Cullen. The Cullen Medical Centre had been completely sponsored by Carlisle's money.

So Doctor Cullen was not only rich but also quite generous. And that was a feature all of his family possessed. Esme Cullen, Carlisle's wife had donated money to the Church and schools. Rosalie and Emmett had financed the construction of a second mall in Forks. Alice and Jasper were the founders of a music school and two restaurants. But, having been born in Forks, it had been Bella Cullen and her husband who had invested the most in the city. Soon enough there would be buildings with their names.

Still it wasn't the money that made them weird. I remember that when I was about ten, I told Mum that Alice Cullen looked the same age as Harry and Will who were seventeen at the time. Mum laughed and said that Alice frequented many beauty salons and went through a few plastic surgeries. I still had doubts about that. Their aging seemed almost fake. If I hadn't seen their ID cards once, I'd never believe Alice was almost thirty three years old and that was six years ago. I guess she had found an awesome plastic surgeon.

"When will they arrive?" Asked Lance. He seemed calmer now.

"Tomorrow morning."

"Alright. I'll summon the others. We'll be there tonight. Oh, and tell Gwen her sister Glenda has a surprise."

Uncle Seth didn't seem to like those words. "A surprise? Please tell me she has not slapped Kinley's mother again in public."

Lance laughed.

"Not quite but close enough."

"Well I can hardly wait. See you tonight Lance."

"See you Seth."

So the Heiltsuk were also coming over for Old Quil's funeral. The Quileute had friends not only in many Native-American reservations but also in Canada and everyone respected Old Quil as our Elder.

Years ago I had been to their reservation in Campbell Island. It was a nice place but I never really understood why we went there in the first place especially with only Aunt Rachel and Uncle Seth. Lance's daughter Larkin was just a baby back then and Sarah liked her so much she kept saying she wanted a baby sister too. She did have her wish come true a few months later though we had a brother not a sister. She got mad at our parents when JJ came home. She even tried to bribe them to have another baby, though it had to be a girl.

I remember Dad laughed and promised that maybe in a couple of years she'd have a little sister to play with. Mum told him if he wanted to stay in their bedroom with her, he'd have to make sure Sarah would not have her way. I guess Mum won.

We didn't stay long in Campbell but we stayed long enough for Uncle Seth to fall in love with a local girl. Aunt Gwen was a Heiltsuk. She was Dominic Valens' sister, the fourth child out of five, though Sean Junior, her oldest brother had passed away many years ago. She had a good relationship with Dominic and they spoke regularly but her relationship with her sisters Gina and Glenda wasn't so good.

Gina had a twelve-year old son named Tyler. During the time she was pregnant, her boyfriend Mick was arrested and had served time for drugs' possession. He was in the clear now but Aunt Gwen didn't like him at all, so she hardly spoke with her sister over the last years. She seemed to think that Gina was an idiot for taking Mick back.

As for Glenda, things were even more complicated. They used to argue a lot especially after Sean was born. Sean was Glenda and Kinley's son but Kinley had dumped Glenda because his parents didn't approve Glenda as Kinley's girlfriend. There was some old rivalry between their families and the fact that Glenda's father was a drunken idiot didn't help either. So eight years ago Kinley left Glenda who ended up a single mother, and married another girl who gave him two kids. Last year Kinley's wife had died in an accidental fire and Kinley went crawling back to Glenda. Gwen warned her sister that if she ever took Kinley back she would never speak to her again.

Families were complicated, I knew that better than anyone.

"Are you coming inside or what?" Uncle Seth called me.

"Sorry." I went inside and closed the door behind me. Uncle Seth's office was decorated with a simplicity matching his own personality. He was one of the few Quileutes with a degree in Medicine and he was the chief of surgeons in Forks Hospital but he never bragged about it. He also felt that he had to help people who couldn't afford medical care so he had an office at home where he could give private medical appointments to whoever was in need.

"Sit." He ordered. "Your mother called me earlier saying you'd drop JJ over. She also told me you couldn't sleep last night. Are you having nightmares again?"

Uncle Seth new about my nightmares but only the ones I had as a kid. The recent ones were a secret.

"I spoke to Dr. Townsend on the phone and she told me your anxiety increased." He added.

"I thought Dr. Townsend wasn't supposed to talk about her patients to anyone."

"I'm a doctor too." Uncle Seth said.

"And my uncle. You have a personal relationship with me and she shouldn't talk to you about my appointments." I stated. "I have a degree in Psychology Uncle Seth. Don't underestimate me."

He laughed.

"Alright. I shouldn't have called her but I was worried. I remember those dreams were quite vivid. Are you having more lately?"

"No." I lied. "It's just the finals and coming here to attend Old Quil's funeral. It's stressing for me."

"I see. Can I see your blood pressure and temperature?"

"Why?"

"High levels of anxiety might lead you to collapse. I don't want you fainting during Old Quil's funeral."

I wasn't quite sure if that was the real motive Uncle Seth wanted to give me a check-up but I knew my mother was behind this so I had no other option. The last thing he did was taking a blood sample and then he told me I was good to go.

"So… The Heiltsuk are coming." I said and he simply nodded. "And the Cullens and the Denalis."

"Yes. And many other people from several reservations. Old Quil was an Elder and everyone loved him very much."

"Lance seems to fear for his kids. Something about them getting sick because the Cullens and the Denalis are coming too. Are you afraid I might get sick as well?"

Uncle Seth looked at me with suspicion.

"You heard my conversation with Lance?"

"You put him on the speaker phone. I didn't mean to overhear your conversation. Can I go now?"

"Yes. I'll see you later."

"Sure."

I left Uncle Seth's house and drove to Forks. My initial plan was to go and take Sarah home because I didn't want her around Jay Morris even if she was with her friends but when I was driving down Forks' main road I saw my cousin's car parked outside the Fire Department.

Against Aunt Rebecca's will, her oldest son David had become a fireman two years ago. She wanted him to work in the reservation with his father, but David managed to win that battle. Out of all of my cousins, he was probably the only one I could actually call a friend, probably because his relationship with Uncle Embry was very similar to the one I had with my dad.

I found David in the Fire Department's common room, writing down something on a paper. He greeted me enthusiastically.

"I saw the twins this morning. They were showing off their cars." He said.

"Typical." I shrugged.

"So, how are you coz?" He asked. "Still in College right?"

"Yeah. I'm a nerd."

"Better a nerd than an idiot." He laughed.

"I heard you broke up with Kelly."

"She was ashamed of me, of my heritage."

"Well you better off without her then."

"I guess I am."

"Are you going to Old Quil's house later?"

"Yeah. It's mandatory. My Dad would kill me if I didn't show up."

"At least Uncle Embry knows that you exist." I mumbled.

"Just let me finish this report and we can go to Clara's Diner outside and trash our fathers while we drink something." He suggested.

"Sure."

"Call! The Captain wants to see you about that report." A guy called my cousin from the hall.

"Wait here." He told me, getting up with his report on one hand and his cellphone on the other.

"Can I use a computer while I wait?"

"Sure."

I checked my e-mail and replied to some of my friends while I waited for David to come back. Fifteen minutes later I realized I could search old reports from the Fire Department in that computer. Ten years ago part of my house had been destroyed by a fire. Even though I was inside the house I didn't remember any flames. I could only remember a hairy beast trying to get me.

Captain Kurt Reynolds had written down the final report about that incident. It confirmed the fire on the ground floor. A candle was the cause of the fire. The living room had been the most affected area. The stairs were blocked when the firemen arrived. The first floor was clear when they got there, the fire didn't reach the bedrooms. No windows were broken. There were no mortal victims in the fire.

I stopped reading the report then. Something was wrong. Mum had told me that my scars were from broken glass but Captain Reynolds wrote that no windows were broken. The bedrooms were all untouched except from the marks on my room's door. There was a picture of those marks. They matched my scars only the ones on the door were larger. And they looked like claws.

"Isaac!" David called standing right beside me. "Are you alright?"

"No…" I admitted.

"What's wrong?"

"I think my mother lied to me." I closed the report and stood up, my body shaking slightly. "Everyone lied to me."

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