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I ran straight into Embry.
I stumbled back a few steps, checked for blood, glanced behind me and tried to run off again.
Embry grabbed my arm though, and stared at me, looking very confused.
"Kelly? What's wrong?"
"Wrong? Nothing's wrong..." I pulled my arm from his grip and set off at a brisk pace back home.
"Kells, what's going on?" I sighed, starting to move faster. Paul should have recovered by now, I wouldn't make it home in time...
"I kind of kicked Paul in the balls." I glanced over my shoulder at Embry. He stopped, a mix of confusion and slight anger briefly crossing his face.
"You what?" And then he was laughing. His face turned red, he was laughing so hard.
I blushed. It wasn't funny. Paul was probably hunting me down already...
"Kelly, just slow down for a minute." I sighed, but turned around.
Paul was running after us.
I panicked, my automatic reaction was to turn and run as fast as I could.
I would have too, if Embry hadn't grabbed my arm the second I tried.
"Paul, calm down." He was shaking. Badly. I could barely tell what he looked like.
"You have no idea how badly I..." His eyes flashed to mine, they narrowed. "You don't know what you're doing to me." I gulped, glancing around nervously. I tried to pull myself from Embry's grip again unsuccessfully.
"Paul." We all looked at the group of buff guys approaching.
I groaned. Great, just what we needed. An audience.
"What's going on?" Paul stopped shaking, his shoulders slumping.
He shook his head.
"Nothing Sam. Don't worry about it." Paul walked away, leaving Embry and I in a pretty awkward situation. I couldn't help but stare after him. I felt bad.
"Embry..." Sam and the rest of them turned to look at us. Embry let go of me, but I couldn't leave. What if they came after me?
"This is Kelly." My head snapped up when Embry said my name. I was met with six pairs of curious eyes.
I shrank back at their scrutiny. This was kind of weird.
"Is she-?"
"Nope, she's Paul's," Someone piped up from the back. His voice sounded familiar…
"Paul's?" Sam raised an eyebrow at me. Embry groaned.
"Stupid Quil..."
"So you and Paul, how'd that happen?"
"Jared..." I stared at Embry. Jared… Why did that sound so familiar?
"What?"
"It's not like that." Embry glanced at me wearily.
"I'm sorry, but what exactly is going on here?" They all looked at me with various expressions of confusion.
"Didn't he tell her?"
"Not really..."
"But she knows?"
"Kind of."
"Does she know that we're -?"
"No."
"What is she doing here then?" Silence.
"Okay," Sam said, still looking confused. "It's very nice to have met you Kelly. But maybe you should go home."
I shrugged.
"That's what I've been trying to do. Bye Embry." He smiled.
"I'll walk you home." I sighed, but let him walk with me. Some part of me knew that it was a good thing to have him alone…
"Well?" He frowned.
"What?"
I sighed. "You know what." I really hoped he did, cause I had no idea. He shook his head. "Really?" He winced.
"You didn't forget about that?" I shook my head, feeling kind of proud of myself. I knew there was something.
"Surprisingly enough, no, I did not." Well, I hadn't completely forget… "Now tell me."
"No. Don't." We stopped. Paul glared at me. I glared back. He looked away first, sighing.
"I..." He groaned running a hand through his hair. "I should tell you." His eyes squeezed shut as he spoke. Was Paul nervous?
Embry smiled. "If you're sure you can handle it..." Paul's eyes opened and he growled. A low and menacing growl.
Embry chuckled, but took a few steps back.
"I'll take that a yes." He continued to back up and my heart clenched.
"Where're you going?" Embry smiled at me.
"I'm giving you two some privacy."
"You're leaving me alone with him," I hissed back. Embry looked over me at Paul before taking a step closer to me.
"You'll be fine Kells, I'll be right around the corner." I sighed, but nodded. His proximity was making it hard to think.
"Good." He nodded at Paul before disappearing around the corner.
"Come on." I turned back to Paul, he was walking up the street. Away from where Embry was.
I hesitated for half a second, before following him.
Whatever he had to tell me better be worth it.
Paul started talking before we stopped walking. I had to run so I was close enough to hear him.
"Before we begin, I just want to make it clear that you are not my imprint." I rolled my eyes.
"Trust me, I know." That's what it was.
"Yeah, well, just making sure you knew." I shook my head, stopping.
"I get it. What I don't get is what an imprint is." Paul sighed, stopping five feet from where I was.
"Imprinting is finding your soul mate. They love you and you love them and it's mushy and gross. But it's supposed to make you happier. They're supposed to complete you." I nodded, looking away.
"So, why does this happen?" He shrugged.
"Who knows? Maybe it's cause we don't have time to find the right one, so fate does it for us." His eyes narrowed at me. "But some of us don't want it to. We're fine on our own." I looked back at him.
"Sounds like you've experienced it." He shook his head.
"No, never." I raised an eyebrow. Someone sounded defensive...
"Does Embry imprint too?"
"We all do."
"We?"
"Yeah, we. All the guys at the camp fire." I nodded understandingly. All the buff guys.
"So, did Embry imprint then?" His eyes narrowed at me.
"Why?" I shrugged and backed up. He was shaking again.
"Just curious." He started following me.
"He didn't imprint on you." I shrugged, looking around for Embry. He said I would be fine. Didn't that imply that he'd protect me?
"You never know, why else would he bring me..." I gulped I should have kept my mouth shut.
"He didn't imprint on you!" I tried to turn and run, but I took two steps before tripping and falling.
Oh God. I was going to die.
I scrambled on all fours to turn and face Paul.
Was that fur on his back? I kept crawling backwards, but I couldn't look away from Paul.
He was still shaking and growling, but... Was he getting bigger?
I stopped, frozen where I was.
I'd heard that curiosity had killed the cat, but who knew curiosity was part wolf?
Sorry it's short and I haven't updated in a while. :(
It's almost exam week, and things are kind of hectic at school. Hopefully once all the exams are over, I can update more frequently.
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