The next two weeks went by pretty well I hadn't had any more near attacks but I made sure to just sit in between two girls at lunch (Angela and Jessica) and otherwise people didn't come particularly close to me but I had a feeling that it had something to do with Emmett being around or some other Cullen.

Speaking of the Cullen's I quickly figured out that I'm pretty much the only person not in their family that they talk to, and that they all have really weird qualities. One, at least two of them have lower than normal body temperature but since they are all really pale I'm guessing they all are like that. Two, even though none of them are actually related, besides Rosalie and Jasper, they all have varying shades of the same eye color. Another weird thing happened to be that Mr. and Mrs. Cullen would pull them out of school every sunny day, which granted there had only been a two in the last 19 days but still I found it a little peculiar, I mean what parent does that.

Now on Saturday I was going to the beach with Jessica, Angela, Lauren, Eric, Ben, Tyler and Mike. It had been decided that we would take two cars and since mine was pretty big I had offered to drive there with the boards and stuff with Mike took the people. Thankfully it was supposed to be sunny later in the day but right now it wasn't looking like the weather man was going to be right.

I quickly got up not bothering much with my hair and just tossed it up into a clean high ponytail and then put on some skinny jeans and a loose racer back tank top over my bikini top before heading down the stairs. "You'll be careful right?" Dad frowned looking over at me.

"Always am," I smiled and hugged him as I gathered my beach bag and perched my white wayfarers on my nose. "I'm going to stop at the store to get some snacks so do you think…"

"Here you go," He chuckled handing me a 20 dollar bill.

"Thank you," I smiled and I saw him nod before skipping out the door. The night before everyone who was bringing a board or whatever had come over and put them in or on my jeep so I could just meet them down there at 11 and right now at 10:30 I had just enough time to stop and get some snacks before heading over there so I hopped up and rolled down the windows before flipping on the stereo to a top 40 station before heading off.

I pulled into the gas station deciding that since it was on the way it would save time and hopped out. Just as I was about to walk in I heard a very loud voice, "Mines better!"

Rolling my eyes I got a wide smirk and turned around to see Emmett pulling in to the pump, "You know the more I get to know you the more I see why you chose Red."

"Oh ouch," He chuckled stepping out and quickly setting the nozzle to fill up his Jeep before walking over towards me as we walked in the station. "So what are you doing today?"

"Oh going to La Push with Angela and everyone else, you want to come?"

"Oh uh no Esme has a lot of things for us to do around the house," He gave off a small smile but looked like he regretted something.

"Are you sure?" I smiled up at him while brushing a piece of stray hair out of my face from the fan the attendant had on.

"Positive," He nodded and I noticed that he sounded a little strained.

"Alrighty," I turned towards the display and immediately picked up a bag of green apple crisps and a bottle of water. I quickly paid and we both headed outside where I noticed him untense slightly. "Well I better get going."

"Ok I'll see you Monday," he smiled as I hopped up, "umm Piper…"

"Yeah?" I turned.

"Just be careful," he frowned as my eyebrows knitted together confused, "I just don't want something to happen to you."

"I will be Emmett," I gave him a small smile and put my sunglasses over my eyes as he waved slightly and closed the door.


"Where have you been," Lauren growled as soon as I opened my door.

"I'm only 5 minutes late Lauren," I sighed as Mike opened the back and I climbed up onto the side to unhook one side with Tyler undid the other side to get the boards off the top.

"Whatever," she scoffed and soon enough we were all on the beach with Mike, Eric, Tyler, Ben and Jessica slipping into wet suits while Lauren, Angela and I found a spot on the beach. About ten minutes in the sun thankfully peeked out through the clouds and started to warm up the area.

Smiling I laid back on my towel along with Angela until we heard some loud wolf whistles. Tipping my head up I saw a couple guys walking up all three shirtless with cut offs and one of them looked a little more mature than the other two. "What are you three lovely ladies doing here?"

"Trying to pick up some guys," I replied sarcastically and they all laughed slightly obviously catching the joke thankfully.

"I'm Paul," the one that had spoken held out his hand and I sat up.

"Piper," I nodded I reached out and touched his palm before jerking back slightly at the hot touch, 'what is with body temperatures over here.'

"Jared…"

"Sam," the other two repeated the process and I noticed that they all were that hot. I felt a little weird sitting there and stood up in front of them.

"Umm this is Angela and Lauren," I gestured to them.

"Hi," Lauren smiled brightly popping up and holding out her hand.

"Hi," Angela smiled a little shyly.

"So what are you boys doing today?" Lauren stepped up getting their attention.

"We were just going to do some cliff diving," Jared supplied pointing over to what the cliff I'm guessing they would jump off of.

"Wow," I raised my eyebrows.

"Yeah why don't you try it with us?" He smirked.

"I am, in no way, jumping off that," I laughed or anything near that.

"Awe," he gave a small cocky grin kind of like Emmett's, "you chicken?"

"No, never chicken, just sensible," I smirked placing my hand on my hips.

"I must be missing that gene," he chuckled.

"Must be," I giggled.


Paul, Jared and Sam hung out with us for the rest of the afternoon until it was time for us to go at about 4 in the afternoon.

I got home soon enough to see that Mom was still at work at the fine arts center in Port Angeles and Dad was in his study going over his books for his book which he was writing about the traditions of the Native American tribes of the Northwest.

"I'm back," I poked my head in and he looked up from what looked to be an old leather bound book.

"Oh I ordered some pizza," he smiled and I walked in further.

"Ok I'll eat later what's that?" I looked over his shoulder.

"Oh this is a book I got of the Quileute tribe. It's quite fascinating actually they have legends that say they come from wolves."

"Seriously," I raised my eyebrows looking in closer.

"Yeah they would turn into wolves to protect they're families from the cold ones."

"The cold ones?"

"Yeah, basically they're versions of vampires." Quickly a picture of Emmett popped up in my head with pointed teeth. Then around him was his family with the same teeth.

"Does it say anything else?" I asked wanting to know more and he looked up surprised.

"Not that I can find in here, why?"

"Oh you know me," I pulled back smiling, "just curious."

"Oh ok," He nodded.

"I'm gonna go get some food and then go take a shower."

"Ok," He smiled and stuck his nose back in the book.

Doing as I said I would I grabbed a piece of pizza but also grabbed my laptop that had been on the table before racing up stairs. Instantly I settled on my bed and flipped it on and started scarfing down my pizza as it loaded. By the time it had the pizza was gone and my hands were free as I typed in "cold ones" in the search engine scanning over the sites I finally found a promising one and opened it and started comparing things between the Cullens and these cold ones.

'What am I doing this is crazy they are just pale…and have golden eyes…and never are out in the sun…and I've never seen any of them take a single bite of food. This is stupid they don't exist… but they are really cold and it says right here that they are cold, well of course they're cold idiot they're dead, but if they are real would that mean that the legends are true too…'

"Piper stop your being ridiculous."


On Sunday to say the whole cold ones thing was out of my head would be a lie especially when I was sitting around pretty much alone all day trying to do homework and by Monday it was in the front of my mind as I sat in the parking lot before school.

Suddenly there was a loud knock on my door making me jump and I looked over to see Emmett chuckling slightly as he leaned back against what I had figured out to be Edwards car. Pulling the handle I opened the door and hopped out.

"Hi there," He smiled and closed the door as I stepped to the side.

"Hey," I gave a slightly smile which he seemed to notice because he frowned a bit.

"What's the matter?"

"Oh I just have a lot on my mind," I waved it off and looked ahead to see the rest of the Cullen's walking ahead. "Where did you guys say you went during the sunny days?"

"Oh Esme and Carlise just like to let us enjoy the day and we go hiking or something," He shrugged.

"Oh that sounds fun," I looked down at the ground.

"Yeah it can be," he chuckled.

"So I was thinking about making cookies tonight and was just wondering what kind is your favorite kind?"

"Oh actually I'm not much of a sweets type of person."

"Oh ok what about Alice or Edward do you know their favorites?"

"Umm…" I looked up to see him visibly swallow, "no I've never noticed."

"You been living together for that long and you've never noticed their favorite type of cookie?" I baited and he just shook his head, "what about your favorite type of food?"

"Umm…"

'It can't be possible,' I looked up at him as the wind blew and visibly watched as he tensed up and watched his eye color turn from golden brown to pure black. 'It can't be true.' Glancing around I saw that Edward had stopped turning around stopping the rest of the family with him but no one else seemed to be paying attention.

"Emmett is there something your hiding?"