Chapter 3
We finally pulled up to a tiny gray house. Seth removed his arm as the guys started to get out of the car. I started to feel cold without his arm. He was really hot. Well, not like that, though he was, I mean temperature wise he was warm. It seemed as though he had a fever.
As soon as I was out of the car Seth wrapped his arm around my shoulder again. I felt Awkward since I had just met him. I didn't know a way I could ask him to remove his arm without hurting feelings so I ran over to a window box filled with marigolds and said "Look! Aren't these pretty?" At first Seth seemed slightly shocked and hurt at my movement, but then he started to laugh at my enthusiasm. "What's so funny?" I asked.
"You." he stated simply. "Come on. I want you to meet the pack." I found it slightly odd that he referred to his friends as a "pack", but it was not the first time I had heard that been done so I let it slid.
"Yeah, you two kids can flirt later. Come on." Quil said opening the blue door while cheeks turned pink. I followed the boys into the house where there were several people. There were the kids at the table Seth had greeted earlier, along with a man, two women, and little girl running around.
"It was totally awesome!" a boy from my biology class, whose name I couldn't remember, continued on. He finally noticed us walk in and exclaimed "Maggie almost puked! It was hilarious!" This was followed by laughter by the people who were already in the conversation.
Seth looked at me with concern and asked "What happened?" his concern actually looked sincere not just polite.
"She almost puked in biology! We were dissecting worms, and I thought it was totally cool, but obviously she doesn't agree." he said with a chuckle.
"I don't like blood or dead animals." I defended myself quietly.
"Whose this?" one of the women asked. She had three long scares across her face. Even with the scars she undenibley beautiful. She had tan sort of a copper colored skin tone and long black hair.
I couldn't really tell who she asked the question to so I answered shyly, "My name's Maggie." As I answered her question I saw her brefily look between Embry and Seth.
"Well, I'm Emily, and this is Sam my husband and Leah my cousin. Do you know the others?" she said pointing to the man and woman. I didn't know what to say to her question. I had had some classes with the freshmen but I didn't remember their names. I was embrassed to admit I didn't know there names, but it would be even more embarssing to have them find out later after I lied.
Before I could respond though, the boy who had been originally talking said, "This is Paul, Jared, his girlfriend Kim, my best friend Brady, and I'm Collin. We had gym and biology together." he seemed like a talker to me. The type of person where you didn't have to provide much in the conversation, I liked him already.
"Yes, I remember," I lied. I hadn't even noticed him in my gym class. I wondered how I could have not noticed him. They were all so tall! They all were at least six foot five if not taller and short hair. Besides for Emily and Kim they could all pass as siblings.
"Leah's my sister." Seth said to me. She just looked from Seth to me and glared. Even if it was cliché the saying 'if looks could kill' seemed to fit perfectly. She was shooting me a death glare and vibes that said I was unwelcome and unwanted.
"Hi," I said to them all.
"So, Maggie how old are you?" the guy Sam asked.
"Fifteen, I'm a freshmen at La Push High." I answered his question more fully than was necessary. He seemed to ponder over that and nodded his head. I wondered how they knew Sam. They mentioned earlier that he had graduated a few years ago. I suddenly remembered why I had wanted to come.
"What is imprinting?" I asked. The whole room just sort of looked at me.
"Why do you ask?" Sam asked. He looked over at the guys I had came with as if they had told me something I wasn't suppose to know.
"Embry mentioned something about it earlier and Seth said that I would find out when I came."
"First off, which of you two is it?" Sam asked Embry and Seth walking over to us. When he came towards me he suddenly stopped., "What is that smell?" he said sniffing my shoulder.
"What are you talking about?" Jared asked getting up followed by Paul.
"Why are you guys sniffing the girl?" Leah asked while the three sniffed me. It was very unusal and extremely awkward.
"She smells like wolf," Sam said as if he was naming some type of perfume.
"I thought it was just from being around Seth," said Embry while Jacob and Quil nodded in agreement.
"No its strong, like she's been around wolfs for a while." I didn't understand a word that they were saying. I smelled like a wolf? Was that an insult, like a smelt like an animal?
"Wolf?"