Stranger

The dull light of the morning shown into the windows at Nessie's Auto. Jacob was a big enough dork to name his shop after me, but it was pretty darn cute I might add. I sat at the small wooden desk to my left was a white computer that looked like it could have been from the 80's except it was just an old hand me down that we had re-done to be perfect for shop needs. To my right was the phone that rang non-stop. Jacob's shop became one of the most popular shops in La Push. The office was small and there were three large windows and a door all made of glass, I made sure we put up curtains to block the sun on those rare sunny days. The office had an old "woodsy" type feel to it, the other walls were a dark brown wood, and so was the door off to the side that led to the shop. I looked back down at the massive text book that sat in front of me. Besides helping out Jake I had to find time to do my outrageous amount of school work. As I began to read I heard the sound of the bell on the front door ring. I looked up to see an odd figure he wore a black hoodie with the hood planted over his head, and dark jeans, with black doc martins.

"Hi how can I help you?" I questioned. He was looking around like he was lost.

"I need an oil change please" he handed his keys over in my direction, still not looking directly at me but checking out the shop.

"Yes sir, which car is it" I moved my seat toward the computer and brought up the program to type in the mysterious man's information.

"The black Honda civic it's an uh 93" I moved my head to check out into the graveled parking lot to check for his car. I spotted it, it looked a lot newer than a 93, it was in mint condition and looked nicely waxed the windows were tinted.

"Name please" I looked back at the computer screen and I could feel him step an inch closer.

"Cooper Reynolds" he stated adjusting his hood but not pulling it off of his head.

"Right, okay have we done service to your car before? You don't look familiar it's a small town usually I know everyone who stops by" I looked up at him. His head finally turned to face me.

"No I'm just passing through from Canada actually" this guy had a strange scent to him it almost was the scent of a Vampire.

"Oh welcome to La Push then" I smiled slightly then went back to typing up some information.

"Please have a seat, your car will be serviced shortly" I looked up at him with a smile he did not smile nor have any expression on what I could see of his face. It was mainly just his mouth I saw, his face from what I could see was very pale. After not saying a single word he walked over towards the front windows and sat down in one of the brown waiting chairs. He shifted in his seat and grabbed a magazine that was lying on the small table next to the seats. I stood up pushing the black rolling desk chair behind me and walked toward the shop. I opened the door to the shop, the walls were white, and there were 4 doors that looked like garage doors so that a few cars at a time could be worked on. Jacob had Sam working under him, Uncle Emmett decided he wanted to join in on the fun so he joined us, and Seth was another one who loved working in the shop. He also hired some kid who just finished up training as a mechanic, he had just moved to La Push with his family a few years ago, his name was Jack Simon. His hair was short dark and spiky and his skin was a light brown.

"I got an oil change boys, 93 Civic out front" I called out as I turned back toward the white wall and hung the keys with a description of the car on the key rack behind me. There were 2 other cars at the moment being worked on. Jake and Sam were both tied up. Uncle Emmett turned to me he was over on the other side sitting on one of the wooden work benches scrambling through some paper work. He was wearing a beat up old shirt with blue overalls for getting dirty. He smiled as he walked over to me wiping his hands with a red cloth.

"Thanks Nessie" he replied as I walked back into the office in case more customers decided to arrive. I walked back in the guy still sat there with his hood over his head and the magazine in his hand. He was still he didn't move when I came back in.

"Your car is being serviced next" I spoke up as I sat down at my desk, and went back to checking out my text book. He looked up and nodded with barley a movement. I sighed heavily and began to read again.

I was stuck in the office with him for about 20 minutes when Uncle Emmett came through the door.

"The 93 Civic is done" he stood in the doorway leading to the shop. I stood up and walked toward him.

"Is that the guy?" he whispered. I looked back over at him and he was still as still as a stone statue. I nodded. I heard a small growl in his chest.

"What's wrong Uncle Emmett?" I whispered really low.

"I don't know, just give him the keys let him pay and make sure he leaves" his whisper was so low only I could hear what he had been saying. I took the keys from his hands and walked back to my desk. By the time I was there, he was standing back on the other side with $15 in his hand to give me.

"Its $15 right?" he questioned holding out the money.

"Yes sir it is" I took the money from his hands, and opened up the drawer on the left side of the desk placing the money in the tan money box.

"I hope you enjoy you trip have a great day" I finished writing up a receipt for him and handed it to him.

"Thank you Miss I'm sure I'll be back in these parts again, I like it here, it is very welcoming" I heard a hiss in his voice. My eyes locked onto his face with fear.

"Good day" he tilted his head and began to walk out. Before he reached the door, the door opened and the bell rang I looked up to see my Father swiftly walking into the shop. I watched as they passed each other it was like one of those movies where everything happens in slow motion, they looked at each other with fierce eyes. The guy suddenly pulled his hood down more over his eyes and quickly walked out.

"Hey Dad" I said getting up from my seat.

"Hey Ness" I walked over to him and gave him a big hug, I barley saw my parents anymore because of my hectic work and school schedule. I always saw Grandpa Carlisle, and Uncle Emmett but never anyone else that much.

"Miss me?" he questioned with a slight laugh.

"I always miss you Dad" I said looking up at him. He laughed again and kissed the top of my head. I pulled away from him and headed to my desk.

"Did that guy smell strange to you?" he looked at me with a suspicious eye.

"Yeah you know he was very odd, he sat there like he was a vampire so still and he never took his hood off" I stated. I looked back at the computer and opened up a word document so that I could start writing. Dad stood there for a few minutes in silence as I looked through my backpack for my flash drive.

"What did he say his name was?" he was still sniffing around the office trying to figure out who was in here.

"Cooper Reynolds" I stated checking back at the screen with customer information.

"The name doesn't sound familiar, maybe he's just strange" he shrugged his shoulders.

"I'm going to go see if the guys need any help, your Mom and Aunt Alice went shopping, Jessica's pregnant" he stated with a weird look on his face.

"Oh no another Newton" I joked. He laughed with me.

"I guess there is a baby shower being planned?" I looked at him, with the "oh great I'm going to be pulled into the whole baby shower planning" look.

"Yeah your Aunt Alice told Jessica's Mom that she would do the planning, she thinks it would be cool to start a business in party planning" my father rolled his eyes. I laughed a bit.

"Oh Aunt Alice never changes does she?" I looked back at my computer and began typing again.

"I see your busy working hard at school huh?"

"Basically, it's really hard but I'm managing a 4.0" I smiled.

"I'm going to go help out you continue your work" he smiled and walked out the door to the garage. I heard the guys talk loudly with each other, but ignored them.

The sun began to set and the skies were almost dark, I heard Jake yell goodbye to Sam and the others. The door opened and he stood there staring at me.

"You ready to go home Ness?" he questioned. I was just done with my essay and was shutting down the computer. I grabbed my flash drive so that I could print it up at the house on our nice printer rather than the office printer. I looked up and smiled at him.

"Almost just waiting for the computer to shut down" I said standing up. I bent down to pick up my bag and felt his arms wrap around my waist.

"Ew Jake you're a mess clean up before you put your dirty hands on me" I yelled jokingly. He laughed and backed away as I stood up. After the computer was off we made our way to the door locking it behind us. In the corner of my eye I saw a black civic drive away at a steady pace. I froze for a minute confused as to why it looked just like the same car that was around earlier.

"You coming Ness?" he had already locked the door and made his way to his car.

"Ness" he called again the car had just disappeared up the road.

"Yeah sorry" I shook my head and put my attention back on Jake. I quickly walked to the car and got in the passenger side. The ride home was quiet and relaxing I laid my head back and closed my eyes.

"You are tired already?" he questioned with a slight laugh.

"Those essays wear me out" I mumbled still with my eyes closed. We came to a short stop and my head jerked forward. I quickly opened my eyes we were parked right outside of our garage.

"Jake what the…." I looked up our front door was open. My heart stopped and I looked at Jake who started to growl.

"Someone was here" he opened the car door and shut it quickly and stood there as he sniffed the air. I slowly stepped out.

"Ness stay in the car" he cautioned.

"Jake I'm not…"

"Just do it Ness" he yelled back. I sighed and slipped back into the car. I watched as he made his way to the door, he took a step in sniffing the air. I watched him disappear and I waited anxiously for him to come back out and tell me it was okay to come in. About a minute later a loud banging noise startled me, someone was banging on my window I jumped and looked at the window. It was only Aunt Alice. I took in a deep breath as I slowly opened the door.

"Am I too late?" she questioned as I shut the door.

"Too late?" I looked at her.

"I saw this, I saw someone here, but it didn't fully come clear to me up until 10 minutes ago when he made his decision to come here"

"Who was here Alice?" I questioned her. Her pale face looked frightened.

"I don't know but they aren't happy with you and Jake" she took my hands.

"Nessie it's…. oh hey Alice" he came walking down the steps I noticed he didn't phase for his search. He walked over to us standing next to Alice.

"Were they still here?" she questioned.

"Wait how did you … never mind do you know who it was?" Jake questioned her.

"I can't be certain but they don't like you and Nessie together who ever it is wasn't sure if they should come when you were home or away" she explained as she let go of my hands and faced Jacob.

"Can we keep an eye on this situation?" he looked at her with concern.

"Of course we can, why don't you two come stay with us tonight and I'll try to search for something, I can't have you guys out here by yourselves if someone is looking for you" she noted. I looked at Jake.

"I think we should stay back at my old house"

"If I find this blood…." I crossed my arms and growled at him before he could speak.

"Sorry I mean I want to stay"

"Jacob please lets go to my parents we can come back in the morning when it's light out and check everything out then for now lets just go back with Alice please. It would make me feel a lot better" I told him.

"I'll meet you there okay you go with Alice I have to phase, I need to talk to Sam and the others to see if they have smelled or heard anything okay. Baby just go back to the house I'll be fine, I'll be there soon" I took in one deep breath after he had spoke.

"Fine, don't be too long please" I stepped forward and placed my hand on his cheek.

"I won't be I promise" he gave me a quick kiss on the lips and ran toward the house.

"Come on Nessie everyone would love to have you back for a night" she smiled. I took one last look back at the house and then ran off to the house with Alice.

When I reached the house I noticed my Dad pacing on the porch.

"Hey Dad" I called out. He looked at me and then at Alice with an Un-happy look.

"Hon you okay, where's Jacob?" he questioned as we got up to him.

"Jake's fine, someone or something broke into our house he's phasing to talk to the others to see if they had smelled anything"

"Alice why did I have to hear your thoughts on this why couldn't you tell me before you left?"

"Edward I had to leave in a hurry I needed to find out if she was okay" Alice snapped back.

"Guys please I'm fine look see… lets go inside so I can see everyone" I stated as I marched up the steps and into the house. Everyone was there like usual in the living room waiting for me. Mom ran over to me and wrapped her arms around me.

"Nessie I miss you so much" she said. She still looked and smelled the same I hadn't seen her in about 2 weeks or maybe a little longer.

"I missed you too Mom" I stated pulling away.

"I want you to tell me all about school and working with your Grandfather" she grabbed me and sat me down on the couch with her and Aunt Rosalie.

After an hour of talking to everyone about how my life had been going for the past few weeks I was getting anxious. Jacob had not contacted me nor had he made his way back to the house. Grandpa Carlisle, Dad and Aunt Alice were trying to figure out who else there was out there that could want Jake and I. The second I heard the door open and close I jolted up from my seat on the couch and ran toward the door. He was in human form and fully dressed when he came inside.

"Jacob" I wrapped my arms around his neck and held him tight.

"Is there any news?" my Father walked over to where we were.

"Sam had mentioned that on his way home he came up with this odd scent and he followed it, it ran deep into the woods but he couldn't find an end to it" Jacob explained. I took my arms off of him and stared back at everyone else.

"Hey Dad you don't think that guy from today had anything to do with this?" I watched his expression.

"Someone came into the shop today?" Grandpa Carlisle jumped into the conversation.

"Yeah he smelled kind of like a Vampire he drove a black Honda Civic with dark tints, and the entire time he was in the office he did not reveal his face to me, his hood covered his face" I wrapped my hands inside of Jake's and held them tight.

"You know Carlisle when I walked in we both stopped for a minute, I smelled something really off about him" my Father explained.

"Oh you mean the civic I worked on today?" Uncle Emmett questioned.

"Yeah you told me you didn't trust him either" I pointed out.

"Yeah there was something weird about him" he added. I took in a deep breath and let go of Jake's hands. I walked back over to the couch to sit with my Mom who had a worried look on her face.

"After the shop closes tomorrow since it closes around 3pm because it's Sunday we'll do some more research" Jacob stated looking around the room.

"That sounds good right now let's just relax and enjoy the night" my Father stated walking back into the living room.

That night Jacob and I slept in my old room. Just when everything was going great and we were in the clear more problems had to arise. I wanted to find out more about the guy who was in the shop today and why he is opposed to Jake and I. When your streak of good luck and happiness goes on for too long something bad is bound to come along and I was ready, ready for any harm that was to come to me and my family.