SOPHIE'S POV

When Paul drove me to the high school the next morning, I felt sick to my stomach. I looked at all the strangers and felt my heart sink into my stomach. I was terrified. Slowly getting out of the car, I looked around at everyone, before turning to Paul. Pulling me into a hug, I hid my face in his shoulder.

"Have fun." He stated. I raised an eyebrow, pulling away to look at him.

"Fun? It's school, Paul." I reminded him. His grin made me pout slightly.

"You know you'll love it." He teased.

Rolling my eyes, I left him there. I made sure to watch his car drive off before turning back to the hell hole called school. All of the strangers stared at me as I walked past. I tried to ignore, but nearly everyone was looking at me. At the top of the steps, I saw Jacob standing and waiting for me, causing me to smile involuntarily. He wrapped me in a hug before leading me inside.

"So, are you nervous?" He asked. He was such an idiot sometimes. But a cute idiot. NO. Bad Sophie. I scolded myself for those thoughts.

"I think I've past nervous and hit terrified."

He laughed lightly at my comment. "It won't be that bad. Besides, at least one person from the pack is in your class. Sam made sure of that." I rolled my eyes.

"What part of 'I am not going to shift ever again' did he not understand?" I asked.

"The 'not' and 'ever'." He mocked. I then stuck my tongue out at him. Suddenly, I was being pulled away from my only friend. An arm was linked through mine, and as I turned to see who it was, I panicked. Some random, bleach blonde, fake tanned, blue-eyed, barbie doll in a pink dress and heels was dragging me towards all her other barbie-knock-off friends.

"I'm Brittany." She introduced in her nasal-dominated voice. "And you're super cute. Totally our kind of girl." She smiled falsely, her fake-white teeth blinding me.

"Thanks, but I should get back to Jake." I turned my head to see him keeping up with us. Thank goodness.

Brittany just tutted. "Jake is strictly off limits." She stated. I laughed, causing her to glare at me.

"Jake has been my target for months now. He's super hot, super tall, and super sexy." I felt my expression turn slightly smug as I remembered he wasn't going to be interested in her. "And he will be mine. I promise." She then continued shoving me at her friends-slash-clones.

"This is Lindsay." She introduced. She had darker blonde hair, more golden than anything. Her light blue eyes looked as if she were trying to scan me.

"This is Missy." She also has bright blue eyes. Her hair was a natural brown, so she looked the most normal out of the three.

"This is Ashley." Ashley had black hair and green eyes. She was smaller than the others, and also looked pretty afraid.

"What's your name?" Lindsay droned.

"I'm…" I turned to see Jake standing right behind me. "I'm leaving for my lesson, but I'll see you around…" Jake immediately put his arm around my shoulder possessively and walked me to my lesson.

We got to my science room, where I saw Embry sitting at the back. I waved slightly before handing the teacher my note and hugging Jacob goodbye. "Miss Lahote, please take a seat at the back." I realised it was next to Embry, and grinned at him. Quickly sitting down, Embry elbowed me jokingly before the teacher began. It was a long lesson, but Embry and I spent that time throwing stuff at one another. Half way through, the teacher left, and I noticed Ashley alone in the corner. She looked so sad. I looked at Embry. "Be right back." I told him, before wandering over to Ashley.

"Hey." I greeted kindly.

She looked up at me with wide eyes. "Hi."

"I'm Sophie. Mind if I sit?" I asked. She just shook her head.

"Look, Ashley, are you okay? I mean, you didn't exactly seem happy with those barbie's this morning." She smiled slightly at my barbie comment.

"I joined late last year. They were nice." I looked at her doubtfully. "The last time a girl left their clique, Brittany and her 'barbies' practically killed her." She finally admitted. I bit my lip. Class A bitches with anger problems and a desperate desire to control. I knew them well.

I sighed and tried to reason with her. "The only way to get out, is to slowly find some new friends." I looked back at Embry. " And I'm gonna give you a head-start." I grabbed her wrist and pulled her over to Embry. "Embry, this is my new friend Ashley." They locked eyes. Embry's jaw dropped, and Ashley blushed. What had I just started? But it made me smile. With Embry, she'd be protected. Maybe it wasn't such a bad thing she had been imprinted on. I sneakily swapped our stuff before the teacher came back in, allowing the love-birds to get to know one another.

Jake was waiting outside for me, like a gentleman. I turned and stood beside him, forcing him to watch my matchmaking. Embry and Ashley walked out and were almost kissing they were so close. Embry was leading her out by her hands to her next lesson, and turned around to face the same way, still holding her hand. Awwww. I thought to myself. Jacob just raised an eyebrow.

"What the hell did I just miss?" He asked me, clearly trying to figure this out.

"I may have just accidentally introduced Embry to his imprint." I explain with a smile.

Jake's grin expanded. "You little genius."

"Little?" I asked. "How dare you? I am five foot four. Before I shifted I was like five foot zero."

He smirked. "I'm still at least 6 inches taller than you." He explained. I then pouted, making him laugh.

"Come on, you little weirdo. Time for Gym." I groaned. I forgot I had to do Physical stuff. I have sucked at Gym since forever.

"Do I have to? They make the girls wear those little shorts." I reasoned. He raised an eyebrow suggestively, so I elbowed him in the chest. "Don't be an ass." I scolded. Jake then just laugh, causing a smile to grow on my face. He then led me down the hall to the changing rooms.

I stared at my reflection, horrified. I was in short shorts, which were black with bright pink edges, and a v-neck t-shirt in bright pink. She also had black knee-highs with two bright pink strips to go with the black trainers and pink laces. I glared at this girly girl. She looked like such a bitch. Brittany wrapped an arm around my shoulder.

"You should wear stuff like this more. You'd attract so many more guys." She hissed, her agenda completely clear.

"I don't know. Any guy who likes me in this over my normal clothes, probably just wants to sleep with me." She laughed.

"Why is that a bad thing?" She asked. Slut. I thought to myself. I watched her slutty-barbie figure bounce out of the room. I took another look in the mirror, tightened my hair tie, and walked out of the room.

I saw Jacob and Quil chatting, and then Jake's eyes wandered over to reside on me. He seemed stunned. Quil jokingly wolf whistled. I responded by sticking my middle finger up at him. This made them both laugh. They had decent uniforms, in dark blue and black, along with decent length shorts. And no knee-highs. Do they want the girls to look like sluts? Jake kept grinning at me.

"You look good." He teased. I smacked his arm.

"No really." Quil stated. "I could barely tell you apart from the others."

I glared. "I hate you both." I saw hurt in Jake's eyes as soon as I had said it, making me feel bad, and in pain. Stupid imprinting. I turned around to see Embry standing with his arm around Ashley. "That was fast." I commented.

"Yeah. I wish I had it that easy." Quil said. Jake nodded silently, gazing at me. Damn him. He was trying to break me down. Couldn't he be happy with us being friends? But those green-brown eyes just melted me. I turned back to Quil.

"Who's your imprint?" I asked.

His face shrunk slightly as he spoke. "Claire." He presumed I would judge.

"Does she go here?" He shook his head.

"She's three."

He was right. I was judging. I was judging so hard. Quil noticed my expression. "Imprinting isn't always romantic. It's being a brother, or friend, or lover. Whatever they need. I don't have romantic feelings for Claire. I'm sure when she's older, that will change. But I don't now." I nodded, trying to understand. It was different for him. For the rest of us, the romantic feelings were already there. No they aren't, I tried to pretend. The lesson finally began, distracting me.

After a little while, I was put on the ropes. Since I was small, I couldn't climb a tree, let alone a rope. I grabbed it, terrified. Taking a deep breath, I pulled myself up on it. I could hold on! I kept pulling myself up, managing to reach the top before the other girls. I rung the bell. Quil, Embry, Ashley, and Jake all cheered. I then looked down. Jake caught my eye and realised I was terrified of getting down. He jogged over and stood underneath. I took a deep breath and began to get down. But just as I got near the bottom, my hand slipped. Jacob caught me in his arms, making us both look each other dead in the eye.

"Thank you." I smiled a bit when saying it.

He just continued gazing into my eyes. "You're welcome."

The whistle blew.

"Next stations!" The coach screamed. Jake was still holding me, and part of me didn't want to be put down. But he did. I saw Brittany glare at me, as I smiled at the back of Jake's head. This was getting so complicated. But I was too stubborn to accept what I knew was inevitable. So I just ran to the benches instead.