A/N: I hope you enjoyed chapter 1! If not, please let me know what I can do to change it!

If you can't tell, I modeling the chapter titles after how Jacob's chapter titles were in Breaking Dawn.

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2. Alright Calm Down...What Am I?

OK, Alex, calm down I thought to myself. I decided then that the first thing I needed to do was to see what had occurred. I remembered then that there was a pond a few feet into the forest behind our house.

I trotted into the forest, trying not to notice the paws hitting the ground under me. I also ignored the heightened sense of smell and sight I was suddenly gifted with. I just breathed in and out, and had one mission: to see what I was.

I neared the lake, and slowed my pace. As I reached the edge, and had half a mind to just forget about the whole thing. But I needed to know what had caused my already stressed-out mother to be frightened. So I slowly stepped forward until I saw, reflected in the water, a large white wolf. She was beautiful, without a spot to mar the perfect white. My black eyes, mirrored back in the lake, were still mine, and yet they weren't. I could see myself in the creature.

To be perfectly honest, I was not as surprised as one might think. While one part of my brain was dealing with the stress of the situation, the other had been going through all the possibilities. I had remembered one tale told by one of the elders when I was little of a tribe not far from here, whose young boys had turned into wolves. Although the boy part had not fit, there was no ruling it out now. Then I wondered how I was able to do this, when I was not even a part of that tribe. But more importantly, what was I going to do about this.

The only logical thing I could come up with, was that I needed to go to that tribe, and seek their help. I would do all I could to find them.

More pressing still was how I was going to get back to a state where I could actually talk to anyone. I was relatively calm now, considering the circumstances. Maybe, I thought, since it took irritation to turn me into this, the opposite will set it right. There was a problem, though. I was already quite calm. Extreme calm would have to do, then.

I concentrated, clearing my mind of all worry and planning. I thought of the most calm thing I could; a waterfall I had once seen on a field trip with my science class.

It worked. I could feel the change happening. A cooling sensation spread from the spot where heat had radiated only a few minutes ago, followed by the changing feeling. Within seconds I was standing on two feet again.

"Uh oh," I exclaimed as soon as I got my bearings and realized that I was completely naked!

I looked around, and threw myself into the nearest bush, hoping and praying that I was far enough into the trees that the neighbors would not see. Then I took off, heading for the house, threw myself into the open door, and slammed it shut. I amazed myself at my newfound speed. I had never been an athlete. Using this I ran upstairs as fast as I could and threw on the pajamas I had laid out on my bed earlier.

"Mom?" I called.

"In the den," I heard her squeak from that direction. I marveled at the fact that she had not run away.

I ran downstairs to the den, and began, "Mom, I-"

"I know," she said gravely. "I have to tell you something. You're father was not from this tribe. He was a Quileute, the wolf-people. I had heard the stories of the tribe's origins, but along with most of that generation, did not believe them. You're grandfather did. He made us promise that if we were to have a son, to send him to them when he was of age. But I had you, and so there was nothing to worry about. After your father left, I severed all ties with the Quileutes and fled here with you. It seems you, my dear, will have to go back to them now. And it seems I will never escape them, either."

"You must see a man named Billy Black, who lives on the Quileute reservation in La Push at this address," she handed me a sticky note with an address already written on it.

"I cannot go with you, this is just too much for me to handle. I know I haven't been the best mother in the world to you these past years, I just hope that you find something better there. Good luck, sweetheart. I love you."

I hugged her close, "I love you too," I said tearfully. My mother could be a handful at times, but I loved her still. But this seemed like the best way. I would miss her immensely, though.

Without turning around again, I headed for the back door. I knew that the only way I would get there in good time was to change back into the wolf, and so I searched deep inside for a trigger. It did not take as long as I thought it would. I remembered the day before when a boy I had known from school asked why I had become so tall. It had not annoyed me at the time, but for the purpose it served now, I made it work. Within a heartbeat I was racing through the forest heading northwest, towards the sea, La Push, and conceivably, my destiny.

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