Chapter 2 : Meeting others

I didn't have much to unpack, just a few jeans shorts and a few shirts and underwear. I looked at myself in the mirror and decided I needed to pluck my eyebrows neatly, wash my hair, and put on my piercings (monroe and tongue piercings). Previously Emily showed me the bathroom and I saw she planned out everything for me. Towels, shampoo, conditioner, body wash and everything. I smiled at the gesture. I first washed my face with hot water and then turned to my eyebrows. Half an hour later, I was washed and ready. I looked at myself in the mirror. I already looked better.

I have straight, dark brown hair, down to my waist and I have a heart-shaped face with full lips and blue-green eyes. I was slim due to too many 'exercise' in the past, so I was happy about that. I put on short jeans shorts, white fitted tank top, chequed blouse (cowboys' style) and black army boots.

I headed down the stairs, to be welcomed by a strong and mouth watering aroma that could only be Emily's food. As I entered the kitchen, she gasped and looked at me from head to toe, seeming unable to comprehend the transformation. I stiffled a giggle and asked her if she wanted any help. She still looked shocked but told me to go get some small logs from her back garden. I went outside to get them and as I headed out, I heard a roar, which could only be interpreted as a booming laugh. Soon more joined in and I thought of those friends of Emily and Sam. Come to think of it, where did Sam go?

I headed back in with a couple of small logs and shouted to Emily where should I put them. She told me to come in the kitchen with them and that's what I did. As soon as I entered the kitchen. The front door opened by Sam ,who headed straight to Emily, and was followed by more or less 11 guys and a woman. All of them were just like Sam, except for the woman. All of them had short hair, russet brown skin – must be the complexion of the people here, I thought- muscles and really tall. The guys were all barefoot and only seemed to wear cut-offs. I ducked my head and put the logs where Emily pointed. Then Emily took out several muffins from her oven and told me to go put them on the table. The 'group' seemed to have noticed me and began eyeing me. I felt so uncomfortable that I decided to go see what Emily needed more help with. I began hearing muffled conversations, asking each other who I am, how old am I and some rather hot comments that I immediately blushed at. Emily knew I was getting uncomfortable and so she took my hand and said, "Boys, this is Melissa. She is like my niece, kinda and anyways she's going to be living here for a while now, so make her feel at home, got it?". They all muttered in unison and began introducing themselves. Their names were Jared, Paul, Jacob, Quil, Seth, Brady, Collin, Jack, Tom, Leah and Embry – who was looking at me funny. As I looked at them, I could see they were all gorgeous but Embry was the most beautiful one for me. Damn, he wouldn't stop staring. Paul, I think, looked at him and then me, and smirked. He said something to , who I think is, Seth and they both snickered. I smiled at them and then Emily called me back to her side. She said, "So what d'you think? Do you like 'em?". I muttered a yes, I mean they look friendly enough for me, so that's good.

The boys scattered around the house, but Embry stayed at the table along with Sam. He looked kinda excited and worried at the same time. Soon Emily shouted at the loud boys that dinner was ready and they all came in like they've never eaten in their lives. I was the last to sit down. I was squished by a very happy Seth and stupidly grinning Emily. As I looked around I saw the food. Why would she make so much food ! It was like she was feeding all of La Push. I saw bacon, sausages, salad, chicken, potatoes, onion rings –heaps of them-, and so much more. The boys filled their plates so much, I thought they were exagerating, but we'll see. I took a small amount of plain pasta and that's it. You see, I can't eat too much. First of all, I'm used to eating small portions and second of all, I kind of have this condition where, If I eat too much I end up throwing it back up in the toilet, and sometimes, even some blood. I don't kno why that is though. I've never been checked by a doctor or something. Sam said, "C'mon Mel, that's all you're going to eat? You just came from a 9 hour flight and you're not that hungry? ". I laughed at his facial expression. It was like he was worried about me, but I couldn't be sure, as I never had a single person take an interest in me. I replied, " Yeah, I don't eat too much." Just then, Seth took my plate and began filling it with everything. I told him that I can't eat all that stuff but his reply was, "Well, eat as much as you want, but you aren't going to eat that little bit of pasta only", he scoffed and wiggled his eyebrows at me. I giggled and began eating. Soon, Paul ,I think, asked me, "So Mel, you from here?". I told him, "No, I'm from Malta" and before he could ask where it was I gave hime the details to tell him where it was. All the guys took interest and decided to bombard me with questions like, "How is it there? Is it sunny? How are the people there ? And so on and so forth. I answered all their questions about sunny Malta. Then Jared asked me, "So, are you related to Little Emily here ?" He smiled at her adoringly. I answered," Yeah, I think I am. We think that my dad and her are brother and sister or step brother and sister or something like that." Emily shrugged and continued eating. Sam looked confused and asked "You aren't sure?" Emily replied, "Well you know my dad was kind of a player, and a few months ago, when he was dying, he called and said to me that I have some brothers and sisters at Malta. I was shocked to hear but still, I listened. Then I heard that one of his sons had a daughter who had trouble living there and I'd offered to let her stay with me. After I've seen her face and everything I wanted her to come here as quickly as possible. She smiled warmly at me, I blushed. Quil spoke up, "So why did you have trouble living there then? Malta doesn't sound bad. " I stiffened. It was a touchy subject for me. Emily only knew part of the story. She didn't know about the danger I was in. Only that I wasn't happy living there.

Still, I said, "Well, it didn't seem the right place for me. It was too small and I was kind of an outsider there. I was never too important to anyone there, so once I received the news about Emily, I agreed. I don't have anything to lose, so I went for itand here I am."

Embry stared at me open mouthed, "You mean you travelled half of the world alone ? All by yourself?" He looked like he was really angry but I couldn't figure out why. I just nodded. He cursed something under his breath and Emily shot him a warning look. By then, everything calmed down.

Now, it was Jacob who spoke, "So, how many piercings do you have? Apart from the one on your face?". I sais, "I have about four on my left ear," and I took a side of my hair to show him, "one on my right ear, and I also have a tongue piercing." He whistled and said, "Wow, you have more guts than all of us here. Can I see the tongue one ?" I took out my tongue and showed him my white tongue piercing. Emily blurted out, "No more piercings, got that?" I nodded sheepishly and looked at Jacob who smiled at me. I told him "You like piercings?" He responded, "Yeah, I've wanted to get one on my left ear but I'm too chicken to go do it, actually," blushing at the end. "You want me to pierce it ?"

All of them looked at me like I was crazy, regretting I said anything. He spoke up, "You know how to pierce ?" "Well, yeah, all my ear piercings are done by me." He looked at me in awe.

He slowly smiled and said, "Sure." I was done eating and everyone one of them looked at me in concern. Seth said, "Oh c'mon, you can do better than that !" I replied by saying "Nope, that's all I can eat." Embry then said "Next time, you're going to have to eat a lot more than that." I smiled at him and said "Maybe, we'll see" and then I turned to Jacob, "So you up for this?"

So what do you guys think? I'm sorry about the first chapter being so short, I'll try and get better! X

Chapter 3 soon coming up