Chapter 12

Soon after moving into Billy's house, I started doing something that him nor his son was able to do such as cleaning the entire house. It was horrible running into cobwebs, spiders, and dust. Even though some of my clothes sit in Jacob's house, I sleep on the couch. It's nice being in a new environment. Billy is a cool dude. He's on the council.

It been some nights throughout the week where Rachel and Paul comes to visit. You can see a speck of light in his eyes like Rachel is healing him. I'm happy for him. She is his imprint. She is his soulmate. Me? I've been seeing Melissa for the last couple of weeks. She's a sweet girl. She's cute. She's smart. She might be the one. We been thinking of taking that jump into being intimate. The cards is in her hands.

I'm sitting at the Sam's dining table playing paper football with Jacob. "Don't tell Sam that this is one of his overdue bills." Him and his friends laugh. I chuckle. Him nor Emily is around. Emily left to go grocery shopping with Kim. Sam is out patrolling. Jacob pluck the football in my left eye. "Ow." I say grabbing my eye. It don't hurt but it's the principle.

"Sorry. Next." He say looking in the living room. I frown. Next? "Me." Embry say getting up from the couch. I groan getting up myself and going outside. I yawn stretching my bones on the front porch. I look out at the sky. The sun is out full blooming. The birds are chirping. Times like this makes me think of what I have been doing with my life.

I look back at the screen door. What have I been doing? I head back in and take a seat on the wall couch next to Quil. "The last time Paul and Rachel sat on that couch, it smelt like salman and Cheetos." I tell him. They laugh. I'm serious.

"It's enough to see Paul sitting in the same spot but to drag your imprint is crazy. They gonna be sitting on the floor by the end of this year."Rachel and Paul has been doing nothing but sitting on the same couch in front of the TV. "Their spot. This is my spot." Quil say taking up for them. I glare. "We all have spots. Mia wants to start up drama." Jacob say.

"A little bit. I'm so bored. By this time, we'll be in school. I'll probably be in lunch. You all dropped out but I was expelled." I say shaking my still weighs on me over how I could've been in jail if not for Sam and Jared. The least I can do is stay out of trouble. "Eighteen. I'm going for my GED." Embry say. The rest of us agree. It seems like that's our main only goal. How else are we supposed to have jobs?

"Well, I have a massive interest in herbal medicine. Plenty of herbs and spices in the forest. Homemade remedies. Soothing meds. Just being very natural." I say hearing Sam and the older wolves walk out of the forest behind his backyard. "Auto shop." Jacob say.

"Both?" I ask his friends. "A little bit." Quil say. "Me." Embry say. "Well, that's good." I strongly say. The wolves walks into the house and out of the kitchen. Paul take a seat on the couch turning to face me. "He heard you, Mia." Sam say going up the stairs.

"You smell like Cheetos then you Cheetos." Quil shake his head. "Let's not talk about anybody." Jared say sitting next to him. "You are so right. I apologize. Just thought of what I can do in my spare time when I'm not patrolling." "Herbal medicine." He say. "Yeah. I can study herbal medicine but I can start making herbal teas."

"Where will you get the plants?" Sam ask walking down the stairs wearing a black shirt. "I can search the forest. I can go to stores. I can look online. All my resources has to be natural. I'm not afraid to pull out my green thumb in the form of flower pots. The first thing I'll do is create a recipe Tea Book. Then, I'll be able to mix and learn. In the future, I'll be able to teach our kids and others about the herbal lifestyle. Just be natural."

"I wouldn't mind learning. My granddad knows." Quil say. "Well, I live at Jacob's house. His big backyard. We can create our lab and test different teas." "I'll love to do it." Jacob say. "What you think?" Jared ask Sam. "Mia can be a herbal leader in her own right if she's serious. Study first." He say looking at us. I nod. I'll go by myself a laptop and items to study with.

Jacob pluck the football over Embry's head. "Nex-" "No." He say getting up and grabbing the football off the table. "So which one of you is dating Tristan's seventeen year old sister?" Sam ask. I raise my hand in the air. I wonder how Sam knows that. It's like he has been watching me. I keep my thoughts very restraint in the pack mind.

"Well, he's going around looking for the wolf who was in her bedroom. Was that you?" Jared ask turning in his seat. "No. I don't know where she lives. We only speak on the phone but we have been trying to take that step into being intimate. She brought it up." I add. I don't want them to think it's me.

Jared and Paul look at Sam. "Do you know who Tristan is?" "A man who don't hit on women." "Oh, he'll never hit on a woman. Have you been on the Kairo Tribe?" Jared ask me. "No." I strongly answer. "She's mostly home watching TV." Jacob say. "Or listening to Jacob rave to his father about Bella." I say crossing my legs.

All he does is talk about Bella. If he ain't on the phone then he's visiting her. He always comes home smelling like the Cullens. "I think she's using you looked, Mia." Jared say. "I am hot." "You look like Shawn." Sam say.

"It's the haircut, Sam. Plus, I have no choice but to shower. I'll talk to Marcus and talk to Tristan. I'm an adult. I'll go today and break it off." I say hearing the other wolves walk through the forest. "The meeting will start." Sam say pacing.

After the meeting was over, I ended up going to Marcus's house and talking to him about Melissa. Shawn was there. Marcus ended up driving us over to Tristan's house to speak to him about his sister but he was not home. Marcus called his cellphone and he ended up being at his parents' house so we drove over there.

Him and his sexy biceps in that baby blue shirt invited us in and instantly we knew who the hell has been in his house and mostly upstairs in his sister's bedroom. I swallow hard waiting on a reaction from Shawn. "It was me." He admits to Tristan. "Do you see this man?" I ask pointing to him. Tristan is the height of Sam. He's muscled. He has a chiseled chest. He's handsome. He's vicious under all of that skin.

From what I heard, the dude is worse than Paul. "Melissa is Sandra's friend." Marcus say. "Yeah. It was just a little bit of payback sex." He casually say. "Me and Melissa has been dating for almost seven weeks now. Why would you sleep with my girlfriend?" I ask.

"She ain't tell me that you and her was dating." He say. "You know what? You're not worth it. I'm not going back and forth with you. In the end, that's your imprint. You have to deal with that and she has to deal with sneaky ole friends. I'm good. I live on another tribe." I say shrugging. That's all I have to say about that.

"I apologize." He say to Tristan. "We don't need your apology." I strongly say wrapping my arm around his waist. Shawn shrug looking at Marcus. "You're seventeen. You know right from wrong. I can't guide you if you don't want to be guided. Your life, Shawn." "I apologize." He say in a low voice. "Did she say where she was going?" I ask Tristan.

"No." He say staring in my brother's face. "Well, when you see her then you can tell her to lose my number and she was the one who brought up sliding on me. I don't slide. I hump. Thanks, big boy." I say patting on his back and standing next to Marcus. "Your turn." He tells Shawn. I cross my arms. Very pathetic. How you gonna sleep with your imprint's friend?

"You're going to reap what you sow cause it was not a big deal when you could've handled the situation like an adult but you are a little boy. You have nothing going on in your life so you speak on me to amp up that fire. I know you bring me up every single chance you get." I say smiling.

"He did. He brought you up when he thought you was messing with his imprint. She spoke on you and Hell broke loose. It was not a big deal but you allowed your attitude and personality decide on your next action." Marcus say. "Cause he sees me as a rival. How you see your sister as a rival? Was it not over after he got Sandra?" I ask him.

"Yes, it was. His life. His choice. His consequence. Hurry up." He tell his brother disappointed. He needs too so I can hit up a store. "Hey! You think you can drive me to Forks for a laptop and some supplies? I've decided to study Herbal Medicine, Tea, and all natural things so I need to start now to make a recipe book." I say. "I gotta work but Lincoln can take the car." He say.

"I can take you. Let's hurry it up." He tells a moody Shawn. "I hate you." He say looking in my face. "I don't know why. I learned from my Alpha to control that instinct of always wanting to attack my twin brother. I'm learning even though it is still there. You gotta be calm. Sam uses his fists to tame rough wolves and I never want that."

"Arnold did the same thing." Tristan say. "I bet. Some-" He punch Shawn in the left eye sending him flying on the floor in front of the front door. We look at him. I frown. "Shawn." Marcus calls. "He's unconscious." Lincoln say. His eyes are widen open. "Let's take him and dump him in front of his yard." I say grabbing his legs. Lincoln opens the front door and gets his arms. We tote him outside. Terrible.

I walk across Billy's front yard toting my laptop box in one arm and a grocery bag full of notebooks, pens, and pencils in the other. I even got me a small pencil sharpener. It smells like Paul and Rachel are here. The front door opens up to Jacob. "Where you been?" He ask opening the screen door. "Shopping." I say walking past him inside of the house.

I greet the guests on the couch. I don't smell no food having been cooked. "You ain't start cooking?" I ask Jacob. "I ain't know what to cook. Dad went to Sue's house." He say closing the front door. "Oh. Well, the situation with Melissa was solved. It turns out that it was Shawn." I say placing my stuff in the dinner table.

"Sleeping with his imprint's friends?" Paul ask. "Yep. Shawn is an immature person so it was payback for Sandra always talking about me. She riled his buttons and he did it as payback." I say opening up the freezer and taking out the bag of frozen vegetables. "How you find out?" Jacob ask leaning on the dining chair. "We went searching for Tristan at his home and found out that he was at Melissa's house so when we went in, the smell was very powerful. It was his scent." I say nodding.

"So everybody have their own scent?" Rachel ask Paul. "Every single wolf." He say. "Someone told me that I smell like dirt." I say grabbing the bag of potatoes off floor and sitting them on the table. "Happy?" Jacob ask me. "Very happy. I dumped Melissa. We dated for almost seven weeks. I got my stuff to begin my Tea Recipe Book." I say excitedly say grabbing a knife of the kitchen counter.

"Need any help?" Jacob ask. "Yeah. You can go ask Sam for season salt. Fried Vegetables." I say pulling the dining chair out. "I'll be back." Jacob say walking past me and going out of the backdoor. I excitedly throw punches and kicks. I'm ready to start my Tea Book.