I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT!!

The first thing I heard when the door was opened was someone yelling about food and death. I immediately began to turn around, but was stopped by Paul and Kou's hands on my shoulders.

"Please stop! I don't wanna go in! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!"

I gave one last desperate attempt to struggle free by kicking my legs and grabbing onto the door frame. However, Paul (being the gentleman that he is) wrapped one arm around my waist and pried my fingers away from the wood.

"Stop acting so damn shy and come meet everybody," Kou chastised.

I pouted and turned to face him. "You don't tell me what to do. I am older than you and that means that you have to listen to me, okay? Do NOT test me."

I could feel the waves of amusement coming from Paul as I turned away from Kou. I shot him a glare and continued walking into the house. It really was a nice, cozy looking place. I walked into what looked like the living room and saw a mass of gigantic people. I could practically feel the walls closing in on me.

I stood in the doorway in a state of shock, trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do. I'm a naturally shy person and it takes me a while to trust being around people, so I was ultra nervous around all of the unfamiliar faces.

I was literally frozen in my spot until someone walked over to me which, of course, drew the attention of everyone else in the room. I wanted to kill this person immediately for making my presence known while I was still bracing myself.

Unfortunately my plans were dashed when I looked up and saw that it was the other guy that had been at the beach. I had wondered what had happened to him. No, let me stop lying to myself. I had completely forgotten about him. I had been completely enraptured by… Where the hell is Paul? I was about to turn around so I could yell at him for leaving me by myself, but the guy started to say something again and I decided that it would be very rude of me to ignore him.

"Hey! I'm Seth. I'm glad to see you're alright." He smiled the whole time he was talking which instantly put me at ease. I could tell he was a really nice person and that he meant what he'd said.

"Thanks Seth! That's really sweet!" Suddenly Seth moved off to the side and I could see all of the eyes boring into my soul. I didn't know what to say or do, so I did the first thing that came to mind…I ran through the first door I saw. Turns out that the fabulous DOOR NUMBER 1 led to the kitchen. And inside of the kitchen was a woman. Luckily she was too busy cooking to notice me. I was going to make a hasty retreat out of the house through the backdoor, but she turned around and spotted me. My mouth dropped open and I stuttered for a while before the first thing that popped into my head came out of my mouth. "Whoa. You're gorgeous."

"Thank you." Her eyes had lit up. "Oh crap! I'm really sorry! Sometimes I don't think before I talk and the first thing I think comes out. That must have sounded really awkward. I'm really really…"

"Hey! Calm down. It's perfectly fine." She laughed as she spoke to me. "By the way, I'm Emily." I smiled back at her as we both sat down. "I'm Renee."

"So who brought you over? Have you met all the guys yet? You probably have, they are all sitting out there."

"I was forced to come by Paul and Kou. I'm really not good around new people, and they neglected to mention exactly how many people there would be. And I actually didn't meet everyone. I kinda ran away. I was going to escape, but then you turned around and saw me. I didn't know whether to run from you or try to trick you into believing that it was all just a dream, but one thing that I'm absolutely certain about is that you ruined my attempt at freedom." I finished my story with a huff and turned my glance to the floor. I had talked so fast I didn't' know if she had understood me or not. I knew that she had when she started to laugh. I could understand why. I had looked a little crazy when she'd seen me. She tried to hold it inside, but then a giggle escaped. Then a short burst of laughter leaked out. "Go ahead, laugh. I don't want you to burst an artery or something from the strain," I smirked. At my cue, she let it all out. She was laughing so hard that I couldn't help but join in.

I had laid my head on the table to let the laughter die away. As I stopped laughing, I could feel that someone was staring, so I lifted my head to look at Emily. She was looking at the door, so I thought, 'Hey! Maybe I should look at the door too!' Unfortunately that wasn't such a good idea because every person that I had run from was standing there. I looked at the backdoor again, but Kou walked in and he knew exactly what I was thinking.

"Renee, if you so much as try to make a break for it there will be hell to pay." Without thinking I mocked him in a high, squeaky voice, "If you so much as blah, blah, blah there will be hell to pay." He narrowed his eyes at me as I stood up and put my hands on my hips. "I will stomp you into the pavement Kou. Don't think that anything's changed."

He stepped through everyone, and stopped in front of me. "I'm a lot stronger than last time."

"So am I. And I highly doubt that you want to test me." He jumped at me, but I sidestepped him and put him in a headlock and started to squeeze. He swept his arm under my legs to try to trip me, but I pushed myself up with my feet and swung onto his back. As he reached backwards I grabbed his right hand while I put my knee into his back and squeezed his neck harder with my left arm. I temporarily loosened my grip on his neck a bit so I could slide down and kick him in his kneecap with my other leg, but as soon as he started to fall I locked on to his neck again. The crash of him hitting the ground was the sound of sweet victory to my ears. "Give up."

"You can't make me." I have to hand it to him. If he was nothing else, he was stubborn. "Look. Just give up and I'll let you up. It's not that hard." "No."

Everyone at the door started to laugh. I had completely forgotten about them. I smiled at them as I continued to sit on Kou's back. "Food's ready," Emily announced as she walked away from the stove with two plates. All of the guys rushed at the food just as Paul and another guy walked in. Paul swiveled his head around until his eyes finally settled on me. He smiled before giving me a confused look. I shrugged and looked down at Kou. I jumped when Paul started to yell at Kou.

"What the hell did you do?" I looked into his face and I was shocked at the level of pissed-offedness that I saw there. "Before Kou could attempt at speaking, I answered for him. "He won't give up. He thought he could beat me. I told him he couldn't. He tested the storm. He got struck by lightning." When Paul looked back at me the anger melted from his face. The corner of his mouth tilted up as he reached out and pulled me from Kou's back. I didn't let Kou go until the last possible moment, so his arm and neck got a bit stretched. YAY FOR EXTRA PAIN!

"You need to eat," Paul stated as he set me in a chair before he went to fight for his food. Emily pushed a plate over to me and smiled. "I didn't think you'd want to struggle through that group so I got you something before they attacked it."

"Thanks a lot Emily," I smiled. I looked at the food and then started to eat. Before long I was eating almost as fast as the guys. After a minute, the scrape of utensils against glass stopped. I looked up to find everybody staring at me. "What?! I haven't eaten in days!" I looked back at my empty plate with a frown. Now everybody's gonna think I'm a pig. I snapped my head back up when a huge slab of lasagna was set in front of me, but my face broke into a smile when I saw that Paul had given me some food from his extremely loaded plate. I kissed him on the cheek and started to eat again. About halfway through my feast I paused with my fork suspended in the air and my mouth hanging open. I snapped my mouth shut, raised my head, and started to look around the room with narrowed eyes. I wasn't really looking at anything in particular, but that is yet another bad habit that I have. I do it when I'm confused about something and I'm thinking it over. Or when I'm just plain shocked. It's more of a "did that really just happen" reflex. It had finally registered that I had kissed Paul. Yes it was on the cheek, but still. It's the whole principle of the thing.

Finally that fact registered and I had gotten over it, because friends kiss each other on the cheek…when they care about each other. Right? Right. I looked back over at Paul and our eyes locked. Once again I was drowning in chocolate. Breathing was nothing compared to the feeling I got from looking at him. And once again the moment was ruined by none other than…some random guy?

"Dude it's like they're having sex with their eyes," he whispered. I jumped up and was standing beside him in a second. I gave him my sweetest smile and asked, "Aaannd what exactly is your name?" "Embry." "OK Embry. Sooo did you see what happened to Kou?" He grinned, "Yeah. That was pretty funny." I quickly exchanged my smile for a glare that could've boiled water. "If you don't want the same thing to happen to you then I suggest you keep your mouth shut," I whispered as I got closer to his face. I patted his cheek and backed away from him. Apparently he was a bit speechless at the moment. I think I got my point across.

"Well you all know that I'm Renee, but I don't know any of you." Emily came to stand by me and she pointed at everyone as she introduced them. "There's, Quil who's girlfriend Claire is my niece, Embry, Jacob who's girlfriend is Nessie, Jared who has a girlfriend named Kim that's not here right now, Paul, my husband Sam, Seth, Brady, Collin, and Leah who is not here either."

"It's nice to meet all of you," I yawned. The food has settled and I am now extremely sleepy. "You should let all of those emotions go before you go to sleep," Kou suggested. "Yeah, you're right. But I haven't done it in a while cuz I haven't been sleeping regularly, so I might need somebody to catch me." I walked outside and heard everybody right behind me. They must do everything together… I stood in the middle of the yard and turned around to make sure that Kou was a few feet behind me, and then I brought my wings out and lifted myself into the air where I dispensed of all the extra emotions that I had picked up over the days. I saw the red of anger, the vivid green of jealousy, yellows of pure happiness, the deep burgundy of lust, and the overbearing blues of natural and unadulterated sadness.

Below me I could hear Kou explaining that along with my ability to use the elements, as the Divine I also had the uncontrollable ability to feed off of people's emotions. During battles I could push those emotions through my elemental attacks and make them stronger.

I used to be horrible at feeding off of feelings. I would sometimes confuse them for my own which made it seem like I was in a constant state of PMS, but I eventually got control of it and I think I 'm pretty awesome at it.

I felt that everything that I had picked up was finally gone, and with the heaviness of those feelings out of me I began to feel a little lightheaded. I managed to gasp out an, "Oh shit," before I started to drop like a rock. Thankfully I was caught. I opened my eyes to thank Kou, but was a little surprised when I saw Paul instead. "Thanks for catching me." "No problem. Now sleep." The last thing I saw before I closed my eyes was a smile that set my heart on fire.