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"Tell me about Maria Vans." I walked out of the front doors of Forks High with Mike walking closely next to me. The clouds were now covering the sun, so it wasn't so nice out anymore. "Why do you want to know about her?" Mike asked me giving me a weird look.

I decided that I wasn't going to go see the councilor, I wasn't sure if I even had a choice. But I decided against going.

I shrugged my shoulders, there was something about her that reminded me of myself. I don't know if it was the way her face stayed the same emotion, or if it was just the way she was portrayed by a first glance. "I was just wondering, she's in my class." I waited to see what he would do next.

"She moved here not very long ago, maybe a week, and she already has a bad reputation here for doing drugs, and sleeping with guys all the time." Mike shrugged his shoulders, he looked a little confused. "I don't know if what they say is true about her, but I can't say yes or no."

I nodded my head, it was a good enough answer for me. At least he wasn't believing everything that people said, I mean, the rumours he would have heard about me. "Oh, I was just asking." I shrugged, "Is there a library or something around?"

"Yeah, a small one." Mike nodded his head, he had led me to where his car was. "Why, when are you going home?"

"I'm going home later, my... dad isn't picking me up til later because he's working." I told him, pausing on the word dad. "I could drive you home." Mike shrugged.

Had he forgotten where I lived, La Push was about a thirty minutes drive.

"Really Mike?" I asked shocked for moment, "I don't know, it's a pretty far drive for you to just have to come back right after."

"That's fine, maybe on the weekend we could go get something to eat." I was about to answer, but he cut me off. "As friends."

I nodded my head, "Yeah, then I'll go, I guess."

I bit my lip when I said yes, I felt like something was wrong. Like if going out with Mike as friends was bad even though I knew that it wasn't. I felt like I should be going places with someone else, Embry. His face came into my head, the look he was giving me earlier when he was talking about Forks.

"Are you okay?" Mikes voice brought me out of my thoughts.

I looked over at him, and nodded my head slowly. "Yeah, I'm fine." I sighed, getting into Mike's car after he opened the door.

Most of the drive back to La Push was quiet, I had Mike drop me off at Emily's house. "Thanks Mike, I'll see you tomorrow alright? Drive safe." I mumbled closing the door walking up to Emily's house about to knock on the door.

It was opened by Paul before I could even knock. "Hey." He said moving aside for me to walk in.

"Hey, what's up?" I asked sitting down on the couch next to Embry. He smiled down at me and I grinned at him, I could feel my cheeks heating up for some reason.

"We all just got here." Quil shrugged playing with Claire and Jensen on the floor. "How was school in Forks?"

"It was... school. I actually have people in my class this time." I told them with a shrug. I felt the phone in my pocket begin to vibrate, I pulled it out to see it was an unknown number from New York.

"Be right back..." I mumbled getting off the couch walking outside. "Hello?"

"Hey," I heard a familiar voice, "Is Erin there?" The voice asked.

I could exactly put my finger on who was calling, but why would they be calling me... from New York too.

"Speaking...?" I waited to hear who it was, "It's Keisha, girl! How are you?"

It was Keisha! The nerve of some people, you get them arrested and taken away then you expect redemption?

"How the hell did you get this number?" I asked with a harsh tone, remembering how I got taken off the streets in the first place.

I couldn't really complain, I was with good people and I was always around good people, ones that acted like they've known me forever.

"I know people!" She exclaimed into the phone laughing, "Right? What's wrong?"

"What do you want Keisha?" I grumbled, knowing I wasn't going to get rid of her that easily, the only thing I could come up with was be mean.

"I... I'm uh. I need help girl." Keisha sounded suddenly depressed, "What's with the sudden change in mood?" I asked, I was scared now. This couldn't be good.

"Man, I'm pregnant." She told me, I waited a minute before replying to her. "Keisha... I don't care, not to offend you or anything, we've never really been the closest... 'friends'"

"Yeah, I know Erin!" I listened to her sob into the receiver, like she was trying to say something but couldn't make it out. "I have no one else Erin, no one wants me." She cried.

I have always found Keisha kind of selfish, I think I might have mentioned this before, but she's always complaining on how no one wants her when she's the one that ran away from a family that sounded pretty good in my mind. The fact that they were her real parents too. "Go home." I told her sitting down on the front porch, trying to think of something to tell her.

I didn't pity her, hell that's the last thing one of us wants. Though, I wouldn't call her one of us, if she needed to she could afford anything she wanted. She, like I've said, was being stupid.

"I can't, they won't want me back." Keisha continued to cry, I could hear traffic on the other end, she must be on a pay phone.

"Well, are you aborting or what?" I asked, waiting for her response.

"No, I want you to be the god mother."

"Wait, what!?" I exclaimed shocked. "Ha, no. No Keisha, just... no."

"Please! Why not, the dad doesn't want it! Now you don't!?" I could picture her in my mind right now curled in a ball bawling her eyes out.

On the streets we may not trust each other 100%, but we do stick around because we all need someone to talk about our problems with. We all know each other in Satan's Lodge, everyone, you never know who's room you'll end up in.

"No Keisha!" I shouted loudly, I knew that everyone in the house could hear me now. "No, this isn't my baby to take care of! Why would I want to be responsible for the girl that got me taken aways baby!" I was pretty much screaming in the phone.

I think it was causing her to cry even harder, "Erin I'm sorry. I didn't know that was going to happen. I am honestly so sorry! Please, forgive, I need help."

"You're eighteen now Keisha, work things out." I paused for a moment. "I hope the best for you."

Before she could reply I hung up the phone, I held my breath for a second. I knew she would call back sometime. I didn't want to go back inside the house though, I just wanted to get some fresh air.

Of course that's when I heard the door open from behind me, I didn't want to look and find out who it was. "Who was that?" Embry asked sitting next to me.

"Nobody, don't worry about it." I pursed my lips, not looking at him.

He stayed silent for a moment when I felt his arm snake around my shoulders. For a moment, I was tense but it didn't take long for me to detense at his touch. I sighed, putting my head against Embry.

"Are you sure it was nobody?" He asked. I lifted my head a bit so I could look him in the eyes, I had an erge to kiss him. So I did, on his cheek.

"What was that for?" He asked with a huge grin spread on his face.

"I don't know, I felt like it." I shrugged, "Want to go for a walk."

I stood up, not really giving him a choice. Embry just followed me to the path I normally walked on, "So I can just do whatever I feel like?" Embry asked catching up to me with no problems.

"I guess..." I shrugged rubbing my temples, I couldn't get Keisha off my mind now.

What was she going to do next? Was she going to come down here and find me, I hope to hell that she wouldn't because I didn't want to deal with this bullshit I had to deal with back home. I liked it here, it was peaceful and there was no one up my ass about things. Unless you count school in, because I know if I fuck up in that Carrie and Dan would have my head.

I was pulled out of my thoughts when a warm pair of lips crashed down on my own. This was something I could do more often, he could just take away all my stressful thoughts. Embry, he was amazing I couldn't even begin to explain why I was so drawn to him either.

I pulled my arms around his shoulders, I slid my fingers through his hair gripping it lightly as I deepend the kiss. I felt Embry's one hand slide up my shirt a little just on my lower back, his other hand in my back pocket of my jeans.

I bit down on his bottom lip lightly, pulling away slightly letting the bite go as I began to kiss down to his jaw line. When Embry made a noise, I realised what I was doing jerking away from him with wide eyes. "I... sorry." I turned my back to him.

That had been the second time I kissed him without intending to entirely. Embry spun me around kissing my lips again quickly, "I love it when you do that." Embry told me softly.

"Do what?" I croaked, barely able to speak above a whisper. He left me speachless, and breathless.

"When you take control." He looked deep into my eyes, like he were looking into my soul. "How you run your fingers threw my hair and grip it lightly."

I blushed, looking at the dirt on the ground. Embry lifted my head back up so I was looking at him, we just stared at each other for moment when he took his hand away. "What are you doing this weekend?" He asked

"Not much, probably nothing." I thought for a moment, "But Mike wants me to go out and eat with him."

Embry looked a little angry, "Why?" He asked with a scowl on his face.

"Why does it matter?" I stared at him, copying his look and sending it right back at him. "It... it just does."

"I don't belong to you Embry, I have friends." I lifted my eyebrow, waiting for him to speak.

I could feel my heart aching, whenever I shot something back at him it came right back and kicked my in the heart leading to how I feel at this moment. Like shit. "I know, I'm sorry." He apologized.

"I don't have to explain myself to you." I mumbled more to myself then him in general. "Not to anyone." I whispered this time.

The wind blew as Embry and I remained silenced, "Well, do you want to hang out?" It sounded like Embry could barely make that come out of his mouth.

I sighed again, "Embry I'm sorry... again." I paused, "I'm just not used to this kind of treatment and I'm adjusting." I began to babbled and Embry pulled me into him.

"Yeah, it's okay." He laughed, "Just shut up." He kissed my head, I felt my heart flutter. Why did he make me this way?

"Yeah, I'd love to hang out." I sighed hugging him back, "Do you want to go back to Emily's?" Embry asked looking me in the eyes.

"Not really." I grinned, that's when I felt the cell phone vibrate again. "What?" I answered the phone without checking who it was.

"Erin, what have I told you about the attitude?!" Dan exclaimed into the receiver. "Oh, Dan. Sorry I thought you were someone else."

I heard Embry laugh, I punched him and pulled my hand back looking at it. I gave him a weird look and he shrugged innocently, "Who did you think it was?" He asked seriously.

"Well... uh, don't worry about it, I'll tell you when you get home." I told him, "I had Mike drive me back home."

"Mike Newton?" Dan asked, it sounded like he was fiddling with a bunch of paper.

"Yeah, maybe... I don't know his last name." I shrugged not that Dan could see me. "Maybe, blond hair, blue eyes? If yes, then I guess that hims."

"That's the one, I have to go. I'll see you when I get home okay?" Dan hung up before I could say anything. I ended the call and looked at Embry, "What do you want to do?" I asked.

"I don't know, what do you want to do?" I stared at him for a moment shrugging my shoulders. "Tell me how school was, meet anyone interesting?" Embry asked taking a seat on a near by log.

"Not really, well there was this one girl that looked like she could be from where I am. There is also a possibility because she just moved here a weak ago, that's when Satan's Lodge burnt down and a lot of orphans were taken from the custody of the burnt down warehouse." I told him.

"Oh, tell about when you lived on the streets?" Embry asked putting an arm around my shoulder when I sat down next to him.

"What's there to tell?" I questioned, "You need to ask a question for me to answer."

"Well, how did you survive so long by yourself?" Embry asked.

"I stole things from stores, from peoples pockets." I sighed remembering, "I would use some sort of charm sometimes, I'd ask for directions even though I knew New York City like it was on the back of my hand. I knew short cuts, get aways, hiding places, abandoned homes... I knew everything."

"Knew, wouldn't you still."

"Yeah, I would. I'd feel a little cautious being there now because since I somewhat have a family now they'd look for me." I told him.

"What happened to your family?" Embry asked, I turned my head to look at him. He caressed my cheek, waiting for me to answer his question. "They died." I looked away from him, to the ground.

I felt Embry's lips against my forehead, "I used to be used to all this affection when I was younger, my parents loved me. I know they did, but after dad left us everything went down hill from there."

Embry stayed silent, "I never knew my dad, I still don't to this day. I guess my mom kind of slept around because I don't know which on it my father."

I rested my head on Embry's shoulder, "My dad came home one day, telling me and my mother about how people on the streets were selfish... people like me Embry." I paused for a moment. "He thought that what we do is for no reason, he didn't understand that it was so we could live another day."

"If it was so bad, why didn't you go to a social worker?" Embry asked.

"Embry, nobody wants a grown girl who knows that they aren't her real parents. They want their kids to grow up knowing or thinking that they are their real parents. Not when I turn eighteen I'm leaving because you weren't really my parents."

"You aren't going to do that are you Erin?" Embry asked with sadness leaking from his eyes, I could feel my heart beginning to hurt again.

"I was planning on it, but I don't know if I can." I held my breath for a second, "You've all grown on me so much, but I'm scared being betrayed."

"I would never hurt you, Erin." Embry told me bringing my hand to his chest, I could feel his heart beating a million times per second.

I blushed, and pulled my lips to his. He pulled me onto his lap, where I had on leg on each side of him, my arms wrapped around his neck, one hand messed up in his hair. I bit his bottom lip again, and I heard Embry growl seductively.

We went back to kissing, I couldn't help but smile in the kiss. I felt complete for once in my life.