Ch. 3

Shanelle walked down the steps to find Embry standing there in awe. "You look stunning," he said taking her hand and spinning her around.

"You don't look half bad yourself, Mr. Call" Shanelle said walking out the door with Embry on her tail. Shanelle was going to try and be nice today, she wasn't for it but it was worth a shot. She slipped into the passenger side of Embry's Ford F -150. It was a nice truck and reeked of a man's smell.

As they drove to a small diner in Forks, Shanelle started to like the fact that Embry wasn't trying to fill every moment with stupid small talk like so many of her dates had done before. The truck pulled into the parking lot and Embry hurried out to get to the other side to open Shanelle's door. "Thank you." Shanelle said with a slight blush that just barely showed up.

"Your welcome and oh just try and ignore the waitresses," Embry said as they walked through the door. Shanelle simply nodded her head. As they made their way to their table she quickly understood what he meant, every female in the place was making googly eyes at him. Shanelle took his hand in hers with a small smirk and kissed him on the cheek sending a glare at the last girl they past. When Shanelle pulled away Embry looked down at her and whispered in her ear "What was that for?"

"It's really annoying to have every girl in this place eyeing up my date," she said sliding into the booth. Embry looked at her with a goofy grin on his face. "What?" was all she said to him.

"Well it sounds like your jealous." Embry had a sly grin now on his striking features.

"Uh no, I'm not the jealous type," Shanelle said as she hid her face behind the menu. A few minutes later, Shanelle could still feel Embry's eyes on her head. Just when she was about to say something sarcastic about him having a staring problem, a female voice intruded her thoughts.

"Hi, I'm Sara, and what can I start you with?" she asked.

"I'll have water," Embry said. "Shanelle do you want an appetizer?" he asked. The waitress turned her head as if she had just noticed Shanelle sitting there. Shanelle pulled her menu down from her face and turned her head to look at the waitress.

"Uh no, I'll just have water too," Shanelle said, the waitress stood there looking at her.

"Oh how sweet, you're taking your friend out for dinner," she said with small smirk on her face.

"I'm his date," Shanelle cocked her head to the side, raised an eyebrow, and smirked as if to say "is that all you got"? The waitress quickly turned and walked off, muttering something under her breath. "If this is what it's going to be like every time we eat out, I think we should order in."

"Does that mean that we are going to go on another date?" A small smile was playing at the corner of his lips.

"Don't get your hopes up lover boy." Even though Shanelle knew she wanted to go on another date with him, she had played it cool and make it look like she wasn't sure if there would be another one. Embry just smiled at her as if he knew there would be another date.

One hour, one flirty waitress, and twenty questions later, they were on their way out the door, and to the beach. By the time they got to the beach, the sun had started to set and it was the perfect setting for a peaceful walk on the beach. Embry came around and helped her out of the car once again; this time he led her down to the shore line. In Shanelle's head this was perfect; she and Embry walking hand and hand on the beach, with their shoes in Embry's other hand. "So Shanelle, what do you see in your future?" Embry asked as he looked down into her eyes; he swore he could see the moon in them, even though it wasn't even out yet.

"Well," Shanelle started, breaking her longing gaze with Embry, "I want to teach history and maybe get married one day. Also in my dreams, I have two kids a boy and girl, but don't tell anyone; most people don't take me for the mother type." Shanelle's eyes gleamed as she talked about what she wanted in life. Embry hoped to himself, that somewhere in her life, a werewolf boyfriend would also fit in. "So what about you?" her eyes seemed to get lighter as a more young, innocent look overtook her face as she asked this question.

"Well, I already have a job and climbing my way to the top. Someday I'll settle down, with a special girl." Embry looked down at her as he said this, he hoped that that girl would be Shanelle, "I also want to have kids." He looked down at Shanelle, he smiled, he had only known her for two days, but she all ready had him head over heels for her. She just didn't know it yet.

The rest of the walk down the beach was filled with excruciating silence. All that could be heard were the waves crashing against the rocks as the moon shimmered on the dark blue ocean. The quiet howl of the wind as the ocean mist was brought to shore. The warm sand cooled between their toes. It was truly a perfect night.

Embry stop and turned Shanelle around. He looked down into her eyes and shivers went down his spin. Her eyes were bright in the light of the moon; her lips looked soft with a swipe of gloss across them. She was like and angel shining brighter than the moon. She was his own moon, his personal moon, his wolf moon. She was the soul of his excitement. He brought his head down to her own and wrapped his arms around her waist as she put hers around his neck. As they started to dance to a non-existent music, he leaned down and kissed her, it was short but sweet, it was just right. He moved his mouth over to her ear and whispered, "You look beautiful."