A/N: This short multi chapter story is in Edward's POV. Leah never phased. She moved to Forks High to complete her schooling, after Sam imprinted on Emily. She knows nothing about shape shifters and vampires. The following chapters will be short, and hopefully quickly updated. Hope you like it!

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"She is from La Push," Rosalie shouted, looked up from the fashion magazine she had been staring at from the past two hours rather boringly. I guess I should pat my back. It is indeed an achievement to get any reaction out of the ice queen. Most of the times she is just bored, just like Emmett is playful most of the time, Alice is hyper most of the time, Jasper is in agony most of the time, I am broody most of the….. you get my point?

"And her brother is a mutt!" she continued exclaiming when my facial expression didn't change a bit. Of course I had known that Seth, her younger brother, was a shape shifter. I could read minds for God's sake, and I had met the wolf pack once when we had been out hunting. I knew that the young guy- only fourteen years of age was a shape shifter, and I also knew that Leah- the girl of my dreams, well if I could have dreamt- felt as if her younger brother had 'abandoned' her and had joined her ex fiancé gang of shameless hooligans, her words not mine.

"What about Bella?" Alice whispered from her place in Jasper's lap as she leaned into him "Didn't you believe that she was your mate up until a few months back? She is perfect for you. If only you could see that." she finished with a firmly placed scowl.

I rolled my eyes at the expression of sheer desperate hope on Alice's face. She was hell bent on getting me and Isabella 'Bella' Swan together, despite the fact that neither of us really liked one another. The said girl had moved to Forks in January of this year to live with her police chief father. She had joined in as a junior and my first meeting with her had not been very pleasant, to put it very very lightly. She was my singer, which had been a major complication between the both of us. Her blood sang to me, and she had very nearly saved her life from ending on her first day in Forks High. Long story short- I had fled to Denali at the end of that dreaded day and had stayed there for the next two months. I could not come back to Forks. I did not want to come back to Forks. I wanted to save that girl's life in any way possible, and if that meant staying away from my family, well then be it. I could not bear to see Carlisle and Esme being disappointed in me. I had already hurt them enough earlier in my rebellious period. I owed this to them. She was young and had her entire life in front of her, and so my decision had been made. I had decided to stay away from Forks and Bella Swan till the end of her short stay in Forks. She was intelligent. She would be leaving Forks after graduation.

My mind had been set, and then Alice had arrived, meddling in her unwanted frustrating style. Apparently she had seen a vision of her and Bella being the best of friends and walking with linked arms as Alice shopped and dressed Bella in whatever she felt would suit the girl. She had claimed that Bella would be her best friend cough life sized doll and so everyone had to play nice with her. She had also claimed to have seen another vision of me and Bella being romantically involved, but I had called bull at that. It was just not possible to fall in love with your singer. How could you truly love someone when every thought of yours was about draining that person and leaving them dead? Then there was the fact that though Bella was indeed a beautiful girl, she was really not my type. In the short few minutes that I had known her and from what I had heard and seen in the other's minds about her, we had nothing in common. Okay yes I could not read her mind, but was that enough of a basis to claim someone as a mate? Being around her was peaceful, but not intellectually stimulating. She could be a complete egoistical dimwit for all I knew, or she could have an evil streak to her, or some crazy fetish that would easily put her in the 'don't go there category'. How could I decide on just the basis of one vision? Rosalie and Emmett had spent years getting to know one another before they had decided that they were the 'it' for the other. Alice, though guided by her visions, had given Jasper the time and opportunity to get to know her before she told him that she loved him. Even Carlisle and Esme had taken it very slow in the initial stages of their relationship. Then how could Alice expect me to just jump in the Atlantic without a life jacket? It was ridiculous to even think of. I was not attracted to Bella, and that had been the end of it.

Though I had really nothing to worry of, because when I had returned to Forks, on the repeated persuasion of Alice, Bella Swan had wanted nothing to do with me. She did not think of me very highly after the Biology class debacle where I had glared at her as if her smell was like that of dead rat, and also considering that she had recently started dating Mike Newton out of all, yeah, I had nothing to worry about.

"She is dating Mike." I smirked at Alice, getting the desired reaction out of her- a scowl. Jasper growled at me in return. He did not like anyone upsetting his dear wife, and so was also on the verge of overprotective.

"Calm down Jazz," Alice told Jasper before turning back to look at me "She is just mistaken. You can make her fall in love with you easily." She snapped her fingers to prove her point of how easy it could be.

"Not interested." I shrugged in nonchalance "Also, you are forgetting the fact that I am in love with someone else." I said with a huge smile. Love had done that to me. Just thinking about her was enough to light up my entire day.

"Yeah, with the mutt," Alice frowned, hatred evident in her voice.

"Correction," I stated with a grin "She is not a shape shifter. Her brother is." Like I said just thinking about Leah was enough to get me in the best of my moods.

Alice rolled her eyes harshly. She never liked it when anyone went against her, but then again this was not her life to meddle with. I had fallen in love with Leah on her first day in Forks High as a senior, her last year of schooling was left and the memories of Sam and her had become too much for her to bear. To avoid her from dropping out and falling deeper into the self created pit of loathing and anger, her father had agreed to let her change her school and complete her senior year from Forks High instead. The first day when she had walked through those corridors had been enough to garner my interest in her. There was something about her that was enough to pull me towards her. Her mind… it was painful to just hear her thoughts. There was so much pain… so much hopelessness. She was drowning in her despair, and for the life of me, I could not not listen in to her thoughts. They pulled me towards them. I wanted to know why her thoughts were so unlike any teenager I had ever met. I wanted to know the reason for her hidden tears that refused to fall. I wanted to know why she felt like her world had ended.

It started as plain curiosity, nothing more than that, but soon I would see her smile and laugh in her old memories of when she would be with that Quileute boy. I would see her strength and her courage. I would see her simplistic beauty in the way in which she worried about her brother. I would see her pain at being abandoned by another person who had left her, in the form of her brother. It would feel like I was hurting whenever she would think of her buried deep wounds. She was a mystery, a puzzle I craved to complete.

It started with curiosity, then attraction, and then finally it became love. She was beautiful- in and out. I wished to know the Leah Clearwater I had come to love- in reality. I knew her from her thoughts, but she was much more than that. She was sarcastic. She was strong. She never pretended to be weak or helpless, no matter how low her thoughts that day were. She was brave. She did not need a knight in shining armor. She was enough for herself, and I was pulled towards this brave beautiful girl. I was in love with her- even before I knew her….. Yeah, I was in big trouble. She was still in love with that Sam. What were the chances of her loving me back?

"But why didn't she phase if her brother is a shape shifter?" Emmett pulled me back from my thoughts that were bordering on melancholy.

"Girls can't phase in their tribe." Rosalie answered on my behalf, still frowning. Yeah, nothing changed there.

Emmett nodded his head, a big grin on his face…. which made me worry. Whenever Emmett smiled that big, he was about to say something stupid…..

"Don't you think she would have made a heck of a sexy wolf?" and there you go, "Imagine the competition- an only girl in a pack of seven boys?"

Yeah, out of which one was her brother and one was her ex fiancé.

I growled at him. I did not like him talking about my love like that, but before I could act on my warning, Rosalie had hit him hard on the back of his head, a sound that made the rest of us in the room wince out loud.

Rose was dangerous, and when she was angry, she was even more dangerous. She quickly got up from her seat on the living room couch and left the room- a standard reaction whenever Emmett gave anyone except her attention. Poor Emmett, my anger against him all forgotten after that monster of a hit, ran behind her, trying to convince her that she was still the only one who he thought of and wanted to think of.

Jasper, Alice and I stared at their retreating forms as they left the house and walked towards the woods that surrounded our house. Carlisle and Esme were out hunting on an overnight trip, and would not be back before tomorrow, leaving the house to us 'kids'.

"So, what's the plan?" asked Jasper, no doubt feeling the love I felt for Leah coursing in my veins. He ignored Alice's pout as he stared straight at me. Yeah, he was good at that- ignoring Alice when he knew she was being ridiculous, but nobody else could do that. No sir!

I shrugged, framing the sentence in my head "What other choice do I have? I am going to win her and make her mine."