Chapter 3

Twenty minutes later, I step out in a white cotton tank top dress that reached mid-thigh on me with crochet stitching across the chest area, white flip flops, my hair in its natural waves, and white feather earrings. What can I say? Cute but simple has always been my motto. As I walk down the stairs Leah rushes to the door wailing "Finally!" before wrenching it open and bounding down our porch steps.

"Honey," Mom whispers linking our arms, "you look beautiful."

Seth strides up to my right and links our arms as well, just like old times. "I swear, if any of the guys imprints on you…" he mumbles while Mom just laughs.

We finally manage to reach a cute little house by the beach that I recognized as Sam Uley's. Suddenly I hear a high pitched scream and see Kim sprinting out of the door to me. "Kim!" I yell as she launches herself into my arms, "I've missed you so so so so so so sooooo much!"

She jumps as she hugs me and we do a weird little walk around jump dance hug thing while she replies "Best friend! I've missed you too! You are never ever leaving La Push ever again!"

Apparently we caused a lot of ruckus because while we were jumping around six other guys…wolves…came outside laughing with two women.

"Hey Jared, looks like your imprint has found a new lover!" said one of the boys, causing the others to howl with laughter. I turned to him and replied, "New? Boy I'm her best friend. Puh-lease, I was the one who stalked that one with her back in the day." Nodding over to Jared who started cracking up with the rest of them as Kim walked us closer to them all.

After clearing his throat, Seth-who never left my side through all this, introduced me. "Guys this is my twin sister Sidneigh. Sid, these are the guys. That's Jared-he imprinted on Kim, Paul, Collin, Brady, you remember Quil and Embry, that's Rachel-Jake's sister/Paul's imprint, and that's Emily-Sam's wife/mother wolf to us all haha!"

As he said this, the woman with the scars on her face, Emily I think, came and gave me a hug, "It is SO nice to meet you Sidneigh, we've been so excited for you to return home! And it is such a relief that you already know about the pack!"

I hugged her back and thanked her before she asked, "Sooo….anyone hungry?" This was clearly a rhetorical question because everyone nodded their heads vehemently. "Ok, well we can start eating then, Sam and Jake will be done with patrol soon!"

Seth turned to me and whispered, "Sid you're gonna love Jake! He's like my best friend/mentor!"

As we walked into the house the scent of fried chicken hit me and my mouth started to water. The other girl, Rachel, noticed this and giggled, "Your mom told Em that fried chicken was your favorite."

I have only known these people for maybe two minutes tops, but I already love them. There's something incredibly familiar with everyone and it might be cheesy, but I feel like I not only got my old family back, but like I also got some new family too. Everyone lined up to fill up their plates, ladies first of course, and then we all sat down and chowed down. I couldn't believe how much these guys ate! I mean damn dude! But holy crap, this food was delicious, Emily is an amazing cook!

Just as I was about to tell Emily how amazing her dinner is, the door opened and two more guys walked in-Jake and Sam I assumed. Sam waltzed over to Emily and kissed her lips, then her nose, then each of her three scars, before returning to her lips. She giggled as they separated and introduced me, "Sidneigh this is my husband Sam. And the one taking forever to shut the door is Jake."

He chuckled before replying, "Sorry Em, I keep forgetting you regular people feel the heat."

Seth jumped up and gave him a bro hug before motioning to me, "Jake, this is my twin Sidneigh! Sid this is Jake!" I laughed at his second introduction, "Nice to meet you Jake" I said, smiling as we made eye contact. And then it happened. He gave me The Look. This Look was the very look that Sam gave to Emily the moment he walked in; the one Jared gave to Kim as she walked over to him earlier, the one that Paul gave Rachel every time he looked at her. This look just told me that Jake had found his imprint, and that that imprint was me. I have never been gazed at with so much love before, I actually kind of started blushing while he snapped back to reality. "Nice to meet you too," he breathed in his husky voice.

The moment was interrupted by Mom's laughter, "Well Seth, looks like Jake just imprinted on your sister….what was it you were saying earlier, you swear to god…what was that last part?"

Seth buried his face in his hands, "Oh my god. Dude! That's my sister! Ahh!"

"Hey!" I yelled, hitting him in the arm, "Just because I'm your sister doesn't mean guys can't be attracted to me! Or um...imprint on me!" At this point everyone at the table was laughing like little hyenas while Seth just shook his head and Jake stared at me while I laughed.