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CH. 5
The movie date was interesting, Shanelle and Embry shared a kiss half way through the movie, right before someone got killed. By the end of it, Shanelle was too scared to even go to the bathroom by herself. When they made it back to the house, Embry was forced to walk Shanelle all the way up to her room. Just as Embry was about to turn and walk out, Shanelle's voice broke through his head, "Embry will you stay with me tonight?"
Embry turned around to face her, "Sure, anything for you Shay," he said sitting down on her bed and putting his arms around her. But before Shanelle fell asleep she got up to put her pajamas on. Embry tilted his head to the side at the sight of her in boy shorts and a big t-shirt.
She came back and slid under the covers and Embry followed. Shanelle quickly fell asleep but Embry was wide awake. He looked down at her as she slept. Her face was soft and child like, she looked so vulnerable, and her defenses were down. She had no way to control her facial movement. She was like a sleeping angel. The moon broke through the currents and put its shimmering light on Shanelle's face, he looked down as her skinned seemed to glow in its light. A small smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, her lips look as if they were a rosy read color. Embry became enticed with her as if she was the shining moon. At that moment he knew, he had to tell her. He couldn't wait till morning it had to be done now. "Shay," he said slightly shaking her, "Shanelle, wake up." When that didn't work, he went for the next best thing. He leaned down and kissed her. For moment he thought it wouldn't work but soon enough she started to kiss him back and when she did he pulled away from her. "Are you awake?"
"Am I? I hope I am because that was one nice kiss," Shanelle said sitting up. She turned her head to see it was still dark out and then looked at the clock, "Embry, why did you wake me up at one in the morning?"
"Because I have something to show you," Embry grabbed Shanelle's hand and pick her up so he was carrying her. He walked down the stairs and out the backdoor. He put Shanelle down and looked her straight in the eyes. "Now you're not dreaming, okay?" Shanelle simply nodded her head yes, she was old enough to know the difference between a dream and real life. "Okay, do you know the legends of our tribe?"
"How could I not know? That was everything my grandfather ever talked about when I was a little girl—wolves this, cold ones that, the old man could remember those legend better than he could remember my name." Shanelle finished letting out a big yawn.
"What if I told you they were true; and that I can turn into a wolf?" Embry looked into Shanelle's questioning eyes.
"Prove it," Shanelle dared him with her arms crossed and eyes squinting in mock disbelief.
"Okay hold on," Embry started to walk to the tree line.
"Where are you going?"
"Behind that bush, I kind of have to take my clothes of unless I want ruin them"
"You can change right here just keep you under on, and borrow a pair of Seth's later," Embry simply nodded his head. He slipped his pants and shirt off, and then backed up so he was a safe distance from Shanelle. The warmth took over his body and in a matter of seconds he was in his wolf form. He got down onto his belly and crawled toward a wide eyed Shanelle. "Um okay so you turn into a big ball of fur," Shanelle's face showed pure shock. "Okay change back, we need to talk, and I need caffeine," Shanelle turned on her heels and walked back into the house.
Embry changed back but was slightly scared of what was to come. When a woman said "we need to talk" it usually wasn't good. He pulled on his shorts, and left his shirt off slightly hoping that Shanelle would get side tracked and forget what they needed to talk about. Embry walked into the house to find Shanelle sitting there with a cup of coffee in her hands. "Embry, I could care less that you're a shape-shifter, so all the legends are true. How about the ones about imprinting?"
"Well yeah those are true," Embry said look up at her.
"So all shape-shifter can imprint?" Embry nodded his head yes. "Have you imprinted?" Shanelle's hand became shaky as she held the coffee cup, in her hands. When he didn't answer, she repeated her question, "Have you?"
"Yeah, I have…on you." He looked at Shanelle waiting for her to say something.
"Okay. I have feeling that Seth, Leah, and the rest of them are shape-shifters; and Emily, Kim, and the others are imprints?"
"Yes," he said still not sure how she was taking this.
"Okay," Shanelle got a very sweet but evil smirk on her face. "I hope you know that we're not going to change our relationship, we're not going to all of a sudden become this perfect couple because you told me this, okay?" Shanelle got up and kissed him on the cheek, "but I will be your girlfriend, goodnight."
Later that day Shanelle woke up at a more reasonable time, twelve p.m., well in her world that was reasonable time. She quickly got up and threw on a pair of sweat pants that she rolled a few times at her hips because they were too big for her slender frame. Just as she finished brushing out her hair and putting a black head band around it, her phone rang. She walked over and looked at the caller I.D. A smile took over her features.
"Hello!" she sang into the receiver.
"Well, I never thought anyone would that happy to have me call them," the male voice on the other end of the phone said.
"Shut-up Trey, I just haven't heard from my big brother in so long" answered Shanelle; Trey wasn't really her big brother she has just knew him and his older twin brother, her whole life—they were the older brothers she never had.
"Yeah, I know, I've been busy, but, me and Drew are coming out there to see you. You're still in Seattle right or did you go away for the summer?" Trey's voice got softer as he talked as if someone had entered the room.
"Um yeah I'm in La Push with Leah, we're staying at her mom's for the summer," she said walking down the stairs to find something to eat.
"So, its sound like I'm making a visit to La P..." before he could finish Shanelle was screaming into to the receiver "I'll call you later, my ears can't this" and with that the line went dead. But Shanelle was still screaming in the middle of the kitchen. When she turned around she ran right into Embry.
"Stop screaming, please," Embry said and Shanelle stopped screaming but was still jumping.
"She's like a bunny" Jake said tilting his head to the side.
"No, she's like Shay-bunny" Leah said laughing, but she stop when "Shay-bunny" sent a glare in her direction. "Okay, why are you so happy?" Leah said pushing her back.
"Trey...Drew...visiting!" she said coming to a stop.
"Really, Drew?" Leah got a big grin on her face. When they came to visit, Drew and Leah became great friends.
"Who's Trey?" Embry asked a glare coming to his face.
"More importantly, who is Drew" Jacob said shaking.
"Only the best guys ever!" Shanelle announced. "There like my older brothers. They're my way too over protective brothers, but I love them; we have known each other since we where five…well I was five, they were six." Embry's eyes almost popped when he heard the word over-protective, it's not like he's scared. He just didn't like confrontation.
A few days later, Shanelle was sitting on the couch with her feet in Embry's lap as he played games with Leah and Jake. Shanelle was happily texting away on her cell phone, off in her own little world.
"Shay, who are you texting?" Embry asked when, Shanelle got a huge grin on her face.
"My ex-best-friend's, daughter's, adopted mother," she said as if it was nothing.
"What?" Jake asked getting this confused, puppy look on his face. Shanelle looked over at Leah and sent a secret message with her eyes, that only her best-friends could understand.
"Okay, so my old best-friend, Tasha had a daughter, with the star football player when she was sixteen, she was nowhere near ready to take care of a kid, so she put her up for adoption, Mia, the little girl, stayed with me and my mom for a little while when they were waiting for someone to adopt her. I became so attached to her that I made a deal with the couple—we would talk every month and that when I was old enough, I would get full custody of her." Shanelle finished and looked up at the boys. They just shrugged and went back to their game.
About an hour later there was a knock on the door. Shanelle got up and opened the door, before the person could say hello, she jumped on them. The person somehow was able to stumble their way into the house. It was now clear that it was a man, who was now on the ground with Shanelle on top of him. "Yeah, I'm happy to see you to Shanelly" the male voice said.
"I'm so happy you're here, Drew!" Shanelle exclaimed.
"Ya, I'm happy I'm here to, but do you care to explain, why there's an over-muscled punk glaring at me?" Embry held back a growl when he called him a punk.
"Oh that's just my overly jealous, boyfriend, Embry" Shanelle said standing back-up to her full height and smiling as she said he was jealous.
"Boyfriend, huh?" the other male said.
"Trey," Shanelle said as she hugged him.
"Hey, Shanelle" Trey said hugging her back. He sent a glare in Embry direction over Shanelle's head as he hugged her. Shanelle pulled back with a smile on her face as she introduced everyone but Leah. They talked for an hour, before everyone started to get hungry, Shanelle started to walk up the stairs so she could change her clothes. Leah opened her door and then quickly closed it.
"Shay, did you see the way Trey was looking at you?" Lee asked as Shanelle walked out of her bathroom with her hair straightened and up in a high ponytail.
"What are you talking about?" Shanelle asked, slipping her ruffle shirt, and her black skinny jeans on. "Lee, can you hand me those shoes?" she asked pointing to a pair of blue flats that went perfectly with her shirt.
"The way HE stares at YOU, then the way he GLARED at Embry when you said he was your boyfriend!" Leah said with her finger pointed at Shanelle.
"Lee, I think you're seeing things." Shanelle picked up her bag and slipped her cell phone in it.
"Just watch him at dinner," with that Leah got up and walked out of the room. Shanelle stood there for a second thinking about what Leah had said, but quickly thought nothing of it and made her way down the stairs.
