We walked out of my room and down the stairs after Aunt Emily, who was calling our names. Quil and Embry were sitting at the kitchen table for a late lunch. It was around 2 o' clock. I could see Ellie tense up in the corner of my eye, which made embry go pale. I really need to teach that girl how to put on a poker face...

"Do you guys want to sit and eat something?" Emily suggested

I wonder if she knew about it too.

"Um, no thanks. We were going to head over to the beach later, right El?"

"What- Oh oh yeah, we were just going to have some... uh, girl time. So we thought it could be cool to go to the beach just the two of us, and meet up with you guys later." She replied

"Sure girls," Emily said. She knew about Ellie's parents and what would be happening soon, and she looked at me as if she were asking if we were going to talk about that. I nodded at her. It wasnt a technical lie, im sure one of us would mention the divorce.

Quil and Embry looked pretty unhappy, but didn't disagree with us.

When lunch was over it was a little after 3. Ellie and I decided to take a walk into the forrest to talk alone. We talked about boys, Austin for me, and Tyler for her. We avoided the wolf topic, even though we were both dying to speak about it, neither of us brought it up. I think it's because we were both scared. Scared to admit that they've been lying our entire lives, and they never even thought twice about sharing such a big part of themselves to us. I was about to say something about it to El when we came across a beautiful cliff side. The water at the bottom of the cliff was shimmering from the sunlight, and the grass was a beautiful green color. The trees arching over the secluded area made it look magical.

I knew we were in need of an immediate release, and an adrenaline rush. I think Ellie was thinking the same thing, because at the same exact time we said, "Let's jump."

We looked at each other funny. Not because of the concept, but because we both needed it, and said it at the same time.

We took our shoes and laid them by a tree. I took off my skirt, revealing my black spandex underneath. El stayed in her athletic shorts, but took off her shirt, so she was in a sports bra. I took my shirt off too so i had only a bandeau and spandex on. We looked at each other with a fierce need to jump. She grabbed a hold of my hand and squeezed.

"On the count of three?" I said

She nodded, "One..."

"Two.." I continued

"Three." We said together, lifting our bodies off the ground and suspending into mid air as we squealed with excitement and fear.

I screamed and laughed on the way down, as did Ellie. We hit the water with a loud smack, and went 20 feet under. The water was cold and salty so it stung my eyes and body when i hit it.

The world around me started to blur, and i didn't know if this was a dream or not until i felt a small hand wrap around my wrist and pull me to the surface.

"THAT WAS AMAZING." Ellie said in awe.

"It feels so good to be care free once in a while, you know?" I asked as we started to tread water to shore. We were a good 200 yards away from shore, which is around a little bit less than an eighth of a mile. The water was pretty calm, and there were few movements in the tide, so i didn't doubt we would make it back safe. The sun was starting to set though, so we did start going back pretty soon.

By the time we got to shore, it looked to be about 7:30. I was surprised at the amount of time it took us to swim back to shore considering we got to the cliff at 4:30. We had to go all the way around the beach back to the cliff to get our clothes back. I guess we didn't really think that one through.

The beginning of the walk back didn't end up being that bad. It was the end of summer, so it was still very warm outside. The annoying part is that we didn't have shoes. And we were walking through a forrest. When the sun was setting. The number of freaking branches or sharp objects i had stepped on was insane. We weren't even half way there yet.

When yet another stick had pierced through my skin, I lost it and yelled, "OH MY FUCKING GOSH. IF I STEP ON ONE MORE STICK I'M GOING TO LOOSE IT."

At this point Ellie had enough too, "That's it. We're officially lost."

Fuck. Ugh this sucks. And if it couldn't get any worse, we heard a branch snap behind us, and turned to see three giant wolves growling. I didn't know who they were, but i Ellie and I assumed they were someone we knew and wouldn't hurt us.

"Oh shit." She said

"Let's just hope they're not..." I started, and tampered off, thinking that they probably could understand us. I was going to end in 'Quil and Embry' But caught myself and finished with, "going to eat us," instead.

Ellie, realizing my mistake giggled and turned to me saying, "Nice save smartass."

"Oh shut up." I said giggling at her.

The largest of them was a rusty brown/red color, one of the wolves was a sandy color, and the other was a light grey. The grey one was smaller than the other one. I wondered who that one was.

The grey one howled so loudly that it caught us off guard and we flinched at the sound. The sandy wolf made a notice that sounded like a laugh, but not quite.

We heard two more howls in the distance, and we looked at each other deciding it was best if we didn't stick around. If these two wolves weren't Quil or Embry, then they were definitely on their way now.

We started to walk away in the direction of the cliff, when the reddish wolf walked over in one stride to stand in front of us.

I stood my ground and looked into the wolf's eyes. One look and it was so obvious. It was jake. Ellie looked into the sandy one's eyes and realized the same thing, only that it was seth. The last wolf, the grey one. Was Leah.

"Step aside please." I started as Ellie began to walk passed Jake. He moved with her. They were looking at me confused on the fact of why in the world would i be speaking to them. I laughed out loud at their cluelessness. "Seriously. This isn't funny. Get out of our way." I started, and smirked when I added, "Jacob." I loved Jake like a brother, it was just really fun to mess with him. "Calm down, we're not going to tell your secret, but i'd appreciate it if we could leave and get our clothes before Quil and Embry get here."

All three of them looked shocked, and growled a very low growl.

"Please." Ellie said, "You guys would never hurt us. Now can you guys help us?" She started

They looked at us even more confused, finally settling on the matter that we knew and didn't care that much.

"We need you guys to help us get to our clothes at the top of the cliff. When they do find us, and i'm sure they will, i would prefer not to be half naked."

Leah snorted, and rolled her eyes.

"Come on leah! Please!" I said, "They're going to give us hell for going cliff jumping, i don't want to be lectured on jumping almost naked too"

Their eyes widened. I realized they hadn't know we went cliff jumping. They just knew we were barely clothed and soaking wet walking in the forrest at night.

"Please?" Asked Ellie one last time.

Jake huffed and bent down before me as a signal to get on.

"Thanks Jake, I'd never hear the end of it if they found us." I said

Jake laughed, as if he knew this was going to bite me in the ass later. I sighed as Ellie got on Seth.

We ran through the dark forrest and got to the cliff in about 3 minutes. It was even prettier than before. The moon was reflected in the water and it looked so light even though darkness surrounded us.

We got changed again, and just when i thought we could make it home, Quil and Embry emerged. Shirtless. They looked annoyed, but really upset too. My heart clenched as i realized i still loved Quil, and i was being stupid for making the choices i did.

Jake, Leah and Seth ran off into the woods; probably to change. Embry took Ellie far enough so we couldn't hear them, but close enough so nothing bad would happen.

I wrapped my arms around Quil and buried my head into his chest. I cried and cried until there were no tears left. I was a bad person for treating him like this.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry I've been acting out. We just, we wanted to have some fun without you guys worrying about us. We found out about your secret and were really mad you didn't tell us, so i thought it was okay to act out when it was't. I'm such a bad friend. I'm so sorry. You have every right to hate me"

He looked at me with a smile, "Listen Claire- I could never hate you. I care about you very much. You're choices dont make you a bad friend, they just make you learn from your mistakes. I should be apologizing to YOU because i shouldn't have kept that secret, but i was under strict orders to wait until you were 16 before i said anything. I'm sorry Claire. As for the wolf thing, we need to talk about that. There's a lot you don't know, that now that you know our secret, I will happily share with you."

I smiled and hugged him tighter.

"I love you Claire-bear"

"Love you too Quil." And i did. I loved him more than anything. But not in the same way he loved me.

He kissed my forehead, and looked deep into my eyes before kissing my cheek.

This was going to be one hell of a year for us.

A/N: I really hope you guys enjoyed!

Next chapter: Talking about wolves? No imprinting? Hmmmm...

I think i'm going to do a few chapters (4, maybe 5) of her sophomore year, but go back into summer, because that's when they spend the most time together.

Can't wait until she's 16!

Probably not going to do any chapters in Ellie's POV unless you guys really want me to.

I'll update by Next friday!

Thanks,

Liv