Sorry this took so long guys :C I've been buuuuusy and I've been updating other stories.


When Isabella came over I'm not entirely sure what we were expecting but what actually happened, wasn't quite it. If anything, it was disastrous to the nines. Jake brought her over the following Wednesday, during lunch. It wound up just being her, Jake and I sitting in silence in the big round table. She seemed quiet and a little skittish as she took in the general area.

"This is Kai Waters. Sam's fianceƩ." Jake smirked as he brought the little brown haired girl inside my doorway.

"I'm not actually his fianceƩ, just his girlfriend." I glared at Jake as I corrected him. It was easier these days for me to talk to outsiders, I felt a lot better. My voice wasn't nearly as crackly as when I first started which was a plus.

"She says that now but just wait till he finally pops the question." Jake waggled his eyebrows at her as she gave me a small smile.

"He's not popping a question, Jacob." I bit out as I glared at him and shut the door behind the two.

"You're not listening to him every single day." Jake rolled his eyes as he ushered her to the kitchen and grabbed her a glass of water. I was almost wondering if he'd imprinted on her or if that was just how he was with the girl. Sam said he used to be that way with Irene when they were much younger and she came around during the summers. They grew apart as they'd aged, obviously. She was technically undead while his sole purpose was to protect the tribe from people like her and her family.

"So you knew Irene, right?" She looked up from her glass of water as I slowly nodded my head.

"Yes. She spent a lot of time over here." I answered carefully. Alice had hated it when Irene came over simply because she wasn't allowed to accompany her mate in wolf territory. They were an interesting couple, Irenta Swan and Alice. Irenta was quiet but very much rebellious while Alice was loud and bouncy but she was definitely the dominate one. I didn't deal with the other Cullens outside of the wreck with Richard.

"Do...do yo-" She looked hesitant but quickly grew more determined as Jake put a hand on her thigh.

"Bells...I don't know if that's such a great question." Jake pursed his lips as he warned her. She looked annoyed back at him then looked back at me, even more determined than before. She was a stubborn one. That bit ran in the family for sure.

"Do you know why she left?" Bella grounded out with quiet ferocity. I folded my hands over one another as I thought about how to tell her that her twin sister wasn't human anymore, she'd never age past 17, never have children, never grow old and die. But not really tell her all of that because she'd never believe me and I think the Cullen's wouldn't appreciate me outing them to a human. Irene told me about a volturi that already had her on the watchlist due to her gift of a serious will.

"She...and her family..." I pursed my lips. I never really understood Irene's gift. I knew Alice could see the future, her adopted mother, Esme's gift was love, and Edward could read minds, Jasper could read emotions, his mate Catharin could heal humans...but I didn't get Irene. She claimed it had to do with her stubbornness, that it was her most prominent trait as a human, so when she was turned in a Mall's back parking lot in Los Angeles, it turned into something to do with her will. If she willed it hard enough, no matter what it was, it could happen.

"Thats not her family. I was her family. Charlie and I are her family. The Cullens are just...just some weird cult that took her." I was a little taken aback at the hate she now held for the Cullen family and how she spat the word like it was poison.

"Well...the way Irene explained it to me was that there was an issue in the family. Their extended family, in Alaska, and they were needed there. She'll just finish high school there." I pursed my lips now.

I hated lying. I'd never been all that good with it which was why I used the Denali coven in Alaska as a scapegoat. The story originally had been that they weren't aging in the face and it was best they left to avoid the suspicion that was growing between Bella and Charlie over Irene's appearance and habits. They left to go stay with the Denali's after getting her mother's signature on a marriage to Alice.

"My sister...would have never left me here alone. Something changed. They did something to her, when she came back from Los Angeles, after the whole missing thing. She never ate, she never slept, she sounded different, her hair never grew..." She was muttering to herself now, angry sounding and bitter. It almost reminded me of Paul's sentiment towards the Cullens.

I knew Irene had been bitten when she was waiting on Alice to drive around with the car. They were in Los Angeles on a shopping trip that Bella had just happened to not go on. Alice was a second too late, not strong enough to suck it back out and too afraid her mate would die on the parking lot's dirty cement floor. After she tore apart the three that had bitten Irene, she stuck her in the back seat and sped on back to the Cullen's household for her father.

"She could have just been a little traumatized." I swallowed deeply, a little panicked now at the things she was noticing. The only reason I was allowed to know was the fact I'd been in the supernatural club since Sam imprinted on me. I was in it by birth and whatever drove the imprinting business with these guys.

"Don't even try to give me that crap. Charlie said that the night she came back, right when Alice "showed up" mysteriously." Bella hissed, getting a little angry with me now apparently.

"Well...alrighty then." I shrugged with tight lips and wide eyes. I took a sip of water as I stared across the table at Jake, not sure how to deal with her anger. I didn't think she'd try to get physical but I wasn't about to push it just in case. Jake looked annoyed as hell that he couldn't tell her anything but it was just how it went in this group. It had to be kept secret and safe.

"Alright, shuffle in. Shoes off at the door, you know it bugs the shit out of her." Sam's voice thundered through as the front door opened with a bang. I watched Jared, and Embry shuffle through with a grin that quickly melted away as they took in the girl sitting at the table.

"This is Isabella Swan." I introduced the girl awkwardly to the rest of the guys.

"Any one else we should be expecting?" I raised my brows as I looked across dark brown heads to see Sam.

"Paul and Quil Ateara from the pack." Sam looked a little disheartened by Quil Jr finally getting hit with the change. I think he'd been hoping it would slow down as the Cullen's had left already.

"Right." I mumbled, standing up now. Jared and Embry mutely went past the table, nodding at Jake and his friend, before they started rummaging through the cabinets. After a few minutes, the two seemed to forget about the pale stranger sitting at the table and started teasing each other about who was the faster runner.

"I beat you today, twice." Embry grinned, proudly. He pulled out lunch meats and cheese, folding them into the sandwich breads. I'd already made 24 blueberry muffins and had another batch in the oven but I wasn't sure if Bella would actually get one at this rate. I went to open the door to be stopped by Sam, he smirked at me as he quickly pulled out the pan and set it on top of the stove.

"I hope that burned your fingers." I narrowed my eyes as he winked at me. Sam came forward a few steps and hugged me to his front. I rolled my eyes and hugged him back a little, turning around after to look at everyone. The kitchen was full and warm again. I kinda liked the sight of it.

"That's cold." Embry whistled, shaking his head.

"How?" I scoffed, looking back at the guy.

"Your im-lady is wishing pain on you, man." Jared called from next to Embry at the counter, correcting himself before the term left his lips. He already had a mouthful of sandwich which left me a little amused.

"Where's Kim?" I asked curiously as I realised the chatty girl wasn't here.

"She's probably heading over after 3:30." Jared shrugged, hopping up to sit on the counter. I nodded, understanding now.

The sound of a door clicking lead my eyes to Jake and Bella as he opened the door for her and they both stepped out to the back. She seemed to feel a little thrown by the sudden rush of people, which I couldn't blame her for. The guys were great but they were big and clumsy as hell. When they'd first started coming out to our place, glasses and plates were shattered quite a bit, leaving us to get the cheapest possible.

They seemed to calm down a little with her outside, sitting down at the table as they pulled apart the muffins. Topics of conversation drifted around to really nothing but what they'd been missing while they weren't at school and what they were doing for exercises tomorrow. Sam and Jared came up with pack formations when fighting a vampire most of the time. The front door opened revealing Paul and Quil Jr to come in. Paul was grinning for once as he joked around with Quil.

"It's just a lot to take in." Quil muttered, shaking his head as he waved to all of us.

"Hey Kai. Funny seeing you here." He tilted his head as he took in my position with Sam.

"Yeah. I'm not hiding from him with a beer in my hand." I snorted as I jerked a finger back towards Sammy. He seemed to sigh into my hair at the fact that he'd now met all the guys that I'd hung around when we went to the bonfire. There was another coming up at the end of this month so we were a little excited but I wasn't meant to wander off this time. It'd be the first one since the whole Leah attacking me bit and the whole Richard thing.

"Whats with the paleface?" Paul grunted as he glanced at Jake and Bella.

"She's called Bella, Paul. Be nice." I narrowed my eyes at him. He seemed to sigh as he looked back at her through the kitchen window and froze.

"Fuck me." He had a look of both serene peace and terror happening, one after another. I looked back across to see he'd made eye contact with Bella who caught my eye then quickly looked back as Jake landed a kiss. After that, hell just sort of broke loose. Paul lost his shit, running out the backdoor to throw Jake across the back lawn while Sam and I made a mad dash after him to pull Bella away from the angry shapeshifter.

"Don't you ever fuck-" Paul was cussing Jake out as Sam placed him up against the back wall of the house, cutting off his air supply. He continued the message by growling and snarling until he just glared.

"Sorry." I mumbled to her as I went to pull Bella away. She was holding her hand to her chest, I looked down at it to see that it looked a little out of place if that made sense.

"What happened to your hand?" I asked cautiously as I picked it up and turned it over gently in my own hands. It was starting to get incredibly warm and she was hesitant about moving it.

"I punched him in the face." She deadpanned, as she looked over my shoulder to Paul, Sam, and Jake arguing. Sam was winning simply because he'd forced them to take the fight away from the house and away from Bella.

"Who?" I asked incredulously as I looked back behind me.

"The one up against the house. I was going to punch Jake but when the other guy picked him up and tossed him, I ended up punching him." She looked a little apologetic at accidentally punching our most volatile shifter. It seemed that Paul had finally found his imprint.