Everyone who added the old story to their alerts, I love you all so fucking much, it amazed me. I just want to try writing it this way, changing things up a bit. Hope you guys like it. Okay, so I had two reviews already! I'm happy with that! Okay, so this chapter is sort of just Jessica and Anna hanging out with an appearance from my bamf lady wolf Leah.. She's on friendly terms with Anna, more will come out on the past history of their journey to friendship through the story. So she's not just automatically like Leah's bestie or something, I realize that would be OOC. They have a history, I'll throw it into the story here and there.

Thanks again to all those who have reviewed and added this story to their alerts! You all mean the world to me and are the sole reason I keep writing this story.

CHAPTER ONE

Girls Night Out

"So you had the dream again?" Jessica asked as they sipped their drinks. Anna nodded and winced at the bitterness of her mixed drink as she sat it down and then mused aloud, "According to the dream interpretation book that the Abnormal Psych professor loaned me earlier, it's probably nothing more than my frustration at something in my real life that's lacking. Which I happen to think is total bullshit." as she sipped her drink a little more, her eyes darting up to the television that hung over the bar, her fists pounding the wooden countertop when the referree made a bad call. "Who the hell does that guy think he's calling a game for, huh? The Minor Leagues? I mean I get that it's off season but seriously, actually call the freaking game, zebra!"

"Easy, killer." Jessica stated as she eyed her longtime friend and then asked, "Do you think maybe it is just that, frustration?"

"I mean it has to be.. But over what? I'm pretty damn happy with my life." Anna assessed as she slammed back the rest of her drink and shouted along with the other people sitting at the bar currently for the runner on second to run all the way while he had a chance.

"Maybe, and humor me here, Anna, before you go laughing and telling me that you're not frustrated by your lack of a romantic life.. Maybe it literally means you're missing that connection with another person? I mean you say the dreams picked up in intensity when you moved back in with Charlie.. Who else lives close?"

"Like I want what she has.. I mean I'm.." Anna stammered a few moments, turning with a raised fist when someone was shoved into her back in the crowd before turning back around and saying to Jessica, "What?"

"Someone's a little more tightly wound than usual tonight."

"Damn it, J, are you seriously shrinking me right now?"

"Well, if the shoe fits, Anna."

"It's just the dream's so intense and racy.. I'm keyed up like this for a few days after. If it happened every damn night.. Oh man." Anna said as she waved the bartender over, nodding to the Coronas sitting on a shelf in the alcohol freezer behind the bar, taking the drink and popping the top off against the bar as she turned to Jessica and then said quietly, "My point is this, Jessica.. I don't think there's anything in my life that doesn't satisfy me.. I mean I go to class, I go to work, I hang out with you and Mike, I spend time with my family.. I'm pretty happy with things as is."

Deep down, she wasn't entirely sure that was the total truth, but she kept silent on that. The last thing she needed or wanted was Jessica and Mike setting her up on a failed blind date or something. She figured that if it were meant to happen for her, it would happen in it's own time. Unlike her sister, she wasn't in some big rush to find a guy and settle down into domestic bliss or something.

"Yeah, but.. Maybe you're missing something.. Or someone."

"Don't even suggest it, J, you know how I feel about blind date things.. It'll happen whenever it happens."

"Yeah, but sometimes, Anna, it wouldn't kill you to take matters into your own hands?"

"And what? Wind up like Charlie and Rene? Or having to make the ultimate sacrifice like we both know my idiot of a twin did?" Anna mused, taking a long sip of her Corona, watching the game on television for a few moments.

"Sometimes, Anna, good things do happen."

"Not to me they don't." Anna stated quietly as she grabbed a lime, sucking on it, laughing a few moments when Jessica eyed her with a raised brow.

"So I'm a grump." Anna said as she shrugged and discarded the lime wedge into a trash can nearby.

"So.. Onto other things, since obviously you're not going to pull your thumb out of your ass and at least try to get out there and date someone.. How has the kickboxing been going?"

"Pretty good. You should have joined with me, J."

"Yeah, how about no.. I'm not really that athletic." Jessica said as Anna shrugged and stood, pulling up her tank top to show off her abs a little, joking as she said "Punch 'em."

"Umm, no."

"C'mon, J. It's not gonna hurt."

"Last time I did something like that after you told me to, Anna, it ended with you sitting on me."

"You liked it." Anna joked as she saw Leah, her father's girlfriend's daughter walking through the door with the guy she was dating. She waved Leah over and Leah made her way over, asked Anna jokingly, "How many have you had, with your shirt up like that?"

"I have had one mixed drink and one Corona, ma'am." Anna teased gently as she asked, "So you got him to come out too?"

"Yeah. So.. Have the dream again?"

"Damn it, can we all just talk about something other than my odd animal/human sex dream?" Anna blurted, making Jessica and Leah look at her and laugh hysterically for a few moments. Leah stared at her as if she knew something and Anna, catching onto the look asked, "Okay, Clearwater, spit it out."

"It's gonna sound weird.."

"Nothing, at this point, would sound weird to me.. Minoring in Abnormal Psych, remember? And about to become a coroner? Also I frequently have animal/human sex dreams?"

"When you put it like that, Anna, no it doesn't sound weird. There's a guy.."

"Nope, ain't gonna happen."

"Just hear me out.. It has nothing to do with a date.. Why are you so against dating anyway?"

"I'm not against it, I'm just..."

"A huge dorky weenie Mcchicken." Jessica blurted out from behind them as Leah laughed and nodded, giving Jessica the thumbs up in total agreement.

"You were saying, Leah?"

"You showed me those sketches.. What if I told you that the guy you're dreaming about literally exists?"

Anna choked on her Corona and said calmly, "Bullshit." as she slid out a 20 dollar bill.

"So we're betting?"

"Yes, we're betting. This guy is a figment of my overactive imagination. Fact."

"That figment happens to look exactly like Embry Call." Leah said as Anna looked at her a few moments and then said "Gonna need to see some proof."

Leah took out her phone and scrolled through her photos, finding one of Embry that had been sneakily taken at the last bonfire by her or Seth, mostly just to show Anna. One of them had to approach the other.. And Anna being the least shy of the two.. She was clearly the better bet.

Anna spat her drink everywhere and choked, Jessica patting her on the back a few moments as Jessica looked from the photo to Anna who said quietly, "That's.. You.. How the hell..."

"I don't know how, Anna.. But he lives in La Push." Leah stated with a smirk as she looked at Anna who was finally coming out of her shock. She pocketed the 20 and then asked, "So.. Aren't you at least a little curious about him?"

"Leah.."

"Anna.."

"I don't do the whole dating thing.. Awkward as hell, remember?" Anna said as Leah shook her head and then said "Or like Jessica said.. A chicken." as she sipped a soda and looked at a girl she'd actually gotten a little close to in the recent weeks.

"Yes, there's that. A chicken." Anna mused as she sipped her Corona, finishing it, tossing the bottle at a trash bin nearby.

Leah covertly texted her little brother. Embry was going to have to dig down and find the guts to approach Anna first from the looks of things.. Or the rest of the pack would have to find some sort of way to sort of throw them together.

Either way, this was happening and as soon as the people involved could possibly make it happen, the two of them meeting face to face.