Chapter 4: Adjustment

Clarissa's POV

I quickly grabbed my daughter and uttered an apology before rushing out of there. The odd couple didn't say a single word the entire time. I was not sure what it was that prompted me to rush out of there so quickly. Maybe it was the way the boy kept staring at me? That kind of creeped me out a little bit. Or maybe it was just because they were an odd couple overall.

As days went by we got more and more settled into our new house. Joshua and I never brought up our business again and for now things seemed to go back to the way they were before. Although I knew that eventually I would have to confront him about it again. I had made up my mind and neither him or anyone else was going to change my mind about it.

I got my son into our son enrolled in Kindergarten at Forks Elementary School. He wasn't very happy about it. Somehow he had gotten the idea into his head that moving meant he no longer had to go to school. I stayed at home with Sofia while Joshua went out to look for jobs in Forks and Port Angeles. At home I just finished taking care of everything that needed to be taken care of. I knew that sooner or later I was going to have to go down to the Quileute reservation and that both excited and scared me. I wanted to find out the truth but I was afraid of how I was going to be received. I mean would they think of me as an "outsider" since I grew up away from them and their culture? What if they didn't believe me and I was rejected? I wasn't sure that I could take the rejection. I wanted to know though. I wanted to learn about that half of me and maybe even find my family. No matter how much risk was involved.

I also made my very first doctor's appointment here with a man named Carlisle Cullen. He was highly recommended.

I checked our bank accounts one morning and saw a large increase. I nearly started crying again when I thought of where all of that money was coming from.

I decided to throw on some work out clothes and go for a jog in the woods. My husband was home today so I could leave Sofia with him.

I had been gone for only ten minutes when I heard the sound of an animal in pain. I looked around and quickly saw the large wolf I had seen a few days ago limping.

He was trying to catch up to me but I could tell that he was in pain. As soon as I walked over to him he began to lick my face like crazy. I couldn't help but laugh and smile. I was just as happy to see him as he was to see me.

He yelped when I accidentally touched his paw. I was surprised when he let me pick up his right front paw. I figured out the problem right away. Somehow he had broken his paw and it had healed incorrectly.

What struck me as odd was that he was perfectly fine a week ago. Well it's entirely possible he could've broken his paw since then it's entirely impossible for it to have healed, incorrectly I might add, in such a short amount of time.

Just by feeling his paw I knew exactly where it needed to be re-broken in order for me to set it so it would heal correctly.

"You stay right here" I told him.

He cocked his head in confusion but thankfully he listened to me. I ran back to my house to grab the tools I needed and came back less then fifteen minutes later. He had not moved an inch.

"Unfortunately I don't have the medicine to numb it so please, whatever you do, don't kill me"

Maybe it was stupid I was doing. Re-breaking the paw of wild horse sized wolf that could easily kill me, without giving him any kind of painkillers. But, I had to help him in any way I could.

He howled in pain as I did what I had to do. It tore my heart to pieces but this was the only way I could help him. I set the bones quickly.

He looked at me with...surprise was it?

"I went to veterinary school" I started to tell him. "I graduated high school when I was only 15 and went straight to college. Graduated in four years with a major in biology and minor in business. Then I got accepted into our school's veterinary program and got my license to practice veterinary medicine"

He looked at me with increasing interest as if he could understand what I was saying. I didn't even know why I was telling him all of this. It's not like he understood. Yet I continued anyway.

"After I got my license I practiced for about a year before my husband demanded that I quit and stayed home to take care of the kids. I didn't want to quit but he didn't care. I still don't know why the hell I listened to him. Oh well, as much as I'd love to go back and practice again I know he wouldn't approve"

The wolf suddenly growled at me angrily. He bared his teeth at me and growled some more; letting me know that he was angry about something. What it was was a mystery to me.

"Jacob!" I suddenly heard someone shout nearby.

"Jacob I-"

A young woman with bronze curly hair suddenly appeared. She looked no older then 17 or 18 years old. She was just as shocked to see me as I was to see her.

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