Disclaimer: everything twilight associated besides Brooke, her family, and the plot belong to SM

Chapter 3: So Magical

"Brooke!"

"Huh?" I turned around only to get hit in the face with a basketball.

I heard my nose crack and I felt the blood start to flow, "OW!!!"

"OH MY GOD!! Brooke! I am soooo so sorry!!! Oh my God! Your bleeding!" Embry rushed towards me. I had been playing basketball in gym and Embry was on my team. I personally hate basketball but my Gym coach said everyone had to play.

And now because of my stupid coach, my nose is broken.

I heard the coach's whistle behind me, "Embry! Take Brooke to the nurse now, before she bleeds all over my gym!"

Wow. Way to be sympathetic coach.

By now my hands were covered in blood as it gushed out of my nose. Embry dragged me out into the hallway and pulled off his shirt, handing it to me.

"Here, use this," He held the shirt up to my face so I could quickly grab it.

"Thanks." I said, but it sounded real muffled since I was holding his shirt to my nose to stop bleeding.

"I'm so sorry, Brooke," Embry continued to apologize as we walked to the nurse, "I thought you were ready, I didn't look, I should have looked! I can't believe it. Your nose is probably broken…"

"Embry," I said in my muffled voice, "I'm fine. Stop blaming yourself."

The pain had mostly faded away by now and the bleeding had all about stopped once we reached the nurse's office.

Embry was rambling on about what happened while the nurse checked my nose,

"…and then when I threw the ball I hit her face and I heard her nose crack and it started bleeding I think she broke it." He said quickly, taking a deep breath after he was finished.

"She's fine," The nurse said calmly, compared to Embry's rushed speech, "just a nose bleed."

Embry looked at her like she was crazy.

"But I swear! It has to be broken! I mean I even heard it break!"

The nurse checked me again, "Nope. She's perfectly fine. I'll just clean you up and you can be on your way."

She grabbed some wipes and began to clean the dried blood off my face and told me to go wash my hands in the sink. Luckily I had my hair up in a ponytail, so none of it had gotten in the way. Embry just stood off to the side, looking doubtful and a bit confused.

Once she finished she turned to Embry, "I'll just throw your shirt in the school wash if you don't mind."

"Sure," Embry mumbled, nodding his head.

The nurse finished up and gave us both hall passes to go back to gym.

Embry was quiet, until about halfway down the hallway when he turned to me, "Brooke, I can't be going crazy, right? I mean it even looked broken. I just don't understand." He looked at me, wanting an answer.

But I couldn't tell him the truth sadly

"Embry, it was just a nosebleed. I'm fine now. We should go change before the bell rings."

He looked at me with a hard stare, "Brooke-"

I cut him off, "Let's go."

I turned and walked back to the locker rooms, only peeking over my shoulder for a second to check that Embry was following.

Gym was my last period of the day, so after school ended, I met up with everyone outside in the parking lot like always. Embry was talking with Jared, Quil, and Paul as I arrived.

"…I mean it was like really broken when I saw it and then by the time we got there, it was healed!"

"Do you think…??"

"Hey guys!" I said. They all turned around to face me.

"Oh hey Brookie," Paul said. After the bonfire last week, he had insisted on calling me Brookie despite the fact I had told him not to. I think he just did it because he knew it bugged me. Every time he called me that I felt an odd sense of familiarity, like he shouldn't be calling me that and someone else should. But no matter how much I disliked it, it caught on to the point that nearly all the guys call me that. After a while, though, I had just given up on it.

"So how's that nose of yours?" He joked.

"What do you mean? What happened to her nose?!" Max said, joining the group along with Seth, Collin, and Brady. Kim wasn't far behind them.

"I just got a bloody nose in gym today, that's all."

Max turned to look at Embry since he knew Embry was in my class and he wanted an explanation that he knew I wasn't going to give him.

"She just got hit in the face with a basketball," Embry mumbled.

"You're okay though, right?" Max asked me.

"Chill Max," I laughed, "I'm fine."

"If you say so." I could tell he knew it wasn't that simple.

"Hey, why don't we head over to the diner now since the traffic has cleared out?" I suggested, trying to change the subject.

Everyone agreed and we split up too go to our cars.

Once Max and I were in my truck, he looked at me.

"It wasn't just a nosebleed was it?" he accused.

I sighed. This kid knew me too well.

"Okay, okay. He broke my nose," I confessed, "but he didn't mean to."

Max didn't look too happy, "What if someone noticed how fast you healed Brooke? How would you explain having a broken nose one second and the next your perfectly fine?!"

I stopped at a red light and looked over at my over-protective little brother, "Max, it's fine. I passed it off as a nosebleed. No questions asked, okay?"

The light turned green and I turned into our dad's diner. He named it Gracie's, after our mom.

"Alright." He gave up on his rant as I parked, "just be careful, okay?"

He turned to open the door and jump out, but I grabbed his arm first, stopping him.

"Max, I'm a wolf, not a teacup. You don't need to worry about someone crushing me. Just don't worry about it, have fun."

He sighed, "Okay."

I followed him into the diner, greeting our dad first, and then joining the guys plus Kim at our usual table.

Max's warning rung in my head as I climbed out my bedroom window, landing in the wet grass below.

Be careful…..

I'm a wolf for crying out loud! I'm stronger than a regular human and I heal in minutes. I still don't understand why Max can be so over the top sometimes.

The rhythmic sound of my paws hitting the forest floor helped calm my mind.

After hearing the Quileute legends at the bonfire, I couldn't help but think that if they were true for me maybe there were other "wolves" like me.

I mean it's possible right?

I found a high rock in the open moonlight where I sat to take a rest for a moment before I headed back home. I looked out into the moonlit forest, thinking how amazing it looked at night, so magical.

That's when something caught my eye. A huge russet colored wolf was running towards me.

My heart began to beat rapidly. My human side was telling me to run, but for some reason I didn't feel the need to run as the massive wolf kept getting closer and closer by the second. Call it instinct.

Then it stopped, maybe about 100 feet from where I was sitting, and stared right back at me.

I saw a glint in its eyes, so familiar that I just couldn't quite place it.

It began to slowly walk towards me, but by then my human fear had overtaken my wolf instinct.

So I ran.

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