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6 Reinforcements
Neal's point of view
I haven't slept since my conversation with my grandfather. I've tried, but every time I close my eyes Leah appears in my mind, she was driving me crazy, in a good strange way. I called the rest of the pack early in the morning for an emergency meeting. I explained them that I had imprinted Leah and they were amazed when they saw my memories; the bond was very strong, very, very strong. After that, I was determined to apologize to Emily and I really needed to see Leah, so I decided to go to the Young's house, Lina needed to go anyway, so we ended going together.
"Neal this isn't a good idea, I heard what happened last night," my sister said while we walk.
"Is not really important right now."
"What? Neal you confessed your love to the bride!"
"It was a mistake," I said lifting my shoulders.
"A mistake? Emily probably already told Sam about this, he is going to kill you," she said worried.
"That is why I came to apologize, I'll just tell her I was too drunk last night and that I didn't really mean everything I said."
"But you can't get drunk, your metabolism is not normal."
"But she doesn't know that."
"And you think that that is going to resolve all your problems? Don't be so naive Neal, why men always act like this? What if Emily wasn't engage? What if she had fell for your charms last night? What would you tell her?"
"But the fact is that she is engage Lina, I just made a huge mistake and now I am going to arrange it."
"I can't believe it," she said massaging her forehead.
"Relax Lina, everything is going to be fine," I assured her. "Now tell me, did you already find a date for Leah?"
"No, why? Do you have someone in mind?"
"Yes, me."
"You?"
"Yeah, why not?"
"Why not? I have a million reasons to answer that, I don't like the idea of arranging a date between my only brother and a psycho."
"She is not a psycho, I met her last night, she seemed nice."
"Nice? I think you are thinking about the wrong girl."
"No, I am sure it was her, so, are you going to do it or not?"
"Well, I am desperate to get her a date and if you really don't mind, then yeah, I'll talk to her when we get there and if you survive of course."
"Thanks Lina."
"You are welcome," she said knocking the door of the Young's house. "Good morning Sam!"
Sam's point of view
"Do you have suicidal issues or something?" I asked Neal when I opened the door and I saw him standing beside her sister.
Paul and Jared had followed him last night and they saw him shift, he was too worried to realize he was being observed. He entered the house of his grandfather and a few minutes later he walked out to go to his house.
Emily told me about what happened last night between them; she said he still has a crush on her, but that it wasn't nothing serious. I know he probably told her something else, but Emily asked me to stop asking and I can't deny anything to my imprint, so I obeyed.
"Good to see you too Sam," Neal said almost laughing in my face. What's his problem? He doesn't know who he is dealing with, if he gives me just one reason, I am going to cut his head off. "You probably already know about what happened between me and Emily, sorry about that, I was too drunk and I didn't realize what was I saying."
Who is he trying to fool? I know werewolves can't get drunk, our metabolism consumes the alcohol very fast, so the effect only lasts a few seconds, but he doesn't know I know, so I'll just pretend I am ok with all of this.
"You'll have to talk about that with Emily, not me," I said. I wanted to tell him a lot of things more, but Lina was there, so I acted as a gentleman.
"So, no resentments between us?" he asked with a stupid smile in his face and extending his hand to me.
"Sure," I said without taking his hand.
I am not going to forgive him so easily and I don't want him to feel my skin temperature, that would probably wake up his interest in me. I moved away from the door letting them in and we all walked towards the dinning room where everyone was having breakfast. I wanted to smile when I saw the reaction that Neal's presence made in the rest of the family; they were all staring at him like he was some kind of parasite or something. Paul and Jared looked at me and I nodded to let them know that everything was fine.
"Emily is in the kitchen," I told Neal and he left while I sat on a chair to finish my breakfast.
They returned in a couple of minutes and Emily sat by my side.
"Everything is fine?" I asked her.
"Perfect," she said whispering with a smile. "He is acting really weird; he is not the same person anymore."
"Don't lower your guard yet Emily."
"I am serious, look at him; he isn't the person I used to know. You and I know that he is special," she whispered. "Sam I think he imprinted."
"What?"
"Look at him!"
I did as she told me and I examined Neal who was talking to Emily's uncles. How didn't I notice before? I was so concentrated in investigating if he was a threat or not, that I hadn't realize the change in him. His eyes were sparkling, he was always smiling and he got that look that all the werewolves get when they are not with their imprints; he misses her.
"What would I do without you?" I said to Emily squeezing her hand.
"He probably met her last night after talking to me. Oh! This is going to be so interesting! I wonder who the lucky girl is!" I just rolled my eyes at her comments.
"Sorry to interrupt," Lina said walking towards us. "I just want you to know that Leah is taking care of all the details in the beach and she is going to make sure that everything is ready for the rehearsal."
"What rehearsal?" I asked and both of them looked at me surprised.
"Honey, the wedding rehearsal?" Emily said with a big smile. "Is tonight."
"Oh, right! Now I remember!" with everything that has been happening with the new werewolves I had forgotten. "We probably should tell Lina about my friends."
"Right," Emily agreed.
"We are going to have more visitors?" Lina asked excited.
"Yes, four actually, some of Sam's friends are going to arrive a little sooner than we expected, they are probably going to arrive just in time for the rehearsal."
"Do you think they are going to want to come?" Lina asked me nervously, this wedding thing is driving her crazy.
"No, they are probably going to stay home."
"Oh, very good then, I'll prepare everything, just one more thing, I finally found a date for Leah!"
"Really?" Emily asked excited. "Who?"
"Well, I ran out of options, so I was thinking that maybe my brother could be with her at the wedding. I already asked him and he said he was ok with it, so…"
"I think that is a great idea," Emily interrupted her and Lina sighed with relief.
"Perfect, I'll leave you alone now, see you later love birds!" Lina said and walking away.
"A great idea?" I asked Emily.
"Of course, now Neal is going to stay near us and I'll discover who his imprint is!"
"If that makes you happy…" This is going to be a very, very long day.
Leah's point of view
"Jake!" I didn't care what everyone else was thinking, I ran towards my alpha and I gave him a big bear hug.
"Easy Leah, I think you just broke my ribs," he said returning the hug. "Looks like you really missed us."
"You know I am not going to admit it out loud," I said ending the hug. "Where are the guys?"
"Embry, Quil and Seth entered the house when they heard there was a big table with free food," he explained.
"And what are you doing here?"
"I wanted to see you first," he said smiling at me. "And someone had to take care of the luggage, so…"
"Forget it," I sighed. "What are you doing here anyway?"
"Well, after what you told me about the new werewolves and last night incident, I called Sam."
"You talked with him?"
"Yeah, then I decided to come over here to take care of the problem, Sam has enough troubles with all the wedding thing and he deserves to enjoy the moment, so the wolf problem is our pack's responsibility now."
"I am glad you are here," I admitted grabbing a few bags and leading him to the house.
"Did you just say that?"
"Yes, I had an epiphany the other day and now I am trying to change my attitude."
"That's amazing, is it working?"
"Well, I haven't screamed at anyone today, except for the men that were putting the tent, and the florist, and the baker, oh, and the caterer… well, at least I am trying!"
"I am sure you are doing fine Leah, is just going to take you some time, that's all," he said laughing.
"I wish this was easier."
"It wouldn't be a challenge if it wasn't hard, don't you think?"
"Where do you get all this moral advices?"
"Let's just say I spent a lot of time watching TV with Nessie."
"No further questions, so what are you going to do today?"
"Well, while you guys are busy with the rehearsal and all that stuff, the guys and I are going to patrol a little bit."
"Sounds good, can I go with you?" I asked knowing what the answer was going to be.
"You know you can't, besides Emily told me she was going to introduce you someone special."
"My date for the wedding? Ugh, is probably another jerk."
"Hey, what happened with your change of attitude?"
"Get lost Black."
"Hey sis!" Seth greeted me with a quick hug. "How've you been?"
"Well, you know," I said lifting my shoulders.
"She just can't live without us," Jacob said.
"I didn't say that! Jake!" I called him but he was already running down the hall.
"Sam wants to have a pack meeting before you all leave to the beach," Seth suddenly said.
"Now? I can't, I need to get earlier to make sure everything is ready, you know because I am the maid of honor and all that stuff, but you can tell me everything later."
"Ok, I'll tell him."
"See you later then."
Jacob's point of view
"What do you mean Leah is not coming?" I asked Seth when all the werewolves of La Push had arrived to Emily's back yard.
"Well she had to make sure everything for the rehearsal was ready, so she left early."
"This is not good," Sam said.
"Have you discovered anything else?" I asked him worried.
"Yes, the guys and I saw Neal this morning, he is the only werewolf we have found so far and now we are pretty sure he imprinted someone," he explained.
"Who?" Quil asked.
"We don't know, and it doesn't really matter, but if he is dealing with all the process he probably is not worried about our presence here," Sam answered.
"I think we should present ourselves, I mean, they are not enemies and we could help them around or they could help us," I proposed. I don't know why Sam didn't do it before; maybe the whole wedding stuff is too much for him to take care of everything else.
"I think that's a good idea," Sam agreed.
"So, where is the guy?" Embry asked.
"Probably trying to get rid of Leah," Paul said starting to laugh.
"What?" Seth asked.
"Neal is the brother of one of the bridesmaids and she convinced him to be Leah's date," Jared explained trying not to laugh.
"Is not funny," Sam said with a distressed expression.
"Sam?" he turned around to see Emily walking towards us. "Can we interrupt for a second, is kind of important," she said with Rachel and Kim following her.
"Something happened?" Sam asked worried.
"I think we discover Neal's imprint," Rachel said nervously sitting beside Paul.
"An hour ago I found him looking at one of the pictures that are in the living room," Kim said. "He didn't even realize I was in the room, he was too concentrated, I think he stood there for more than half an hour."
"When we entered the room looking for Kim, he had the face," Rachel said.
"The face?" Paul asked.
"You know, the face you all put when you see your imprints," Emily said. "The face."
"We make a face?" I asked surprised.
"Yeah, but that is not the point, what is important here is that he was looking at his imprint!" Rachel said.
"And that's bad because…?" Embry asked not understanding anything.
"Look at the picture," Emily said giving the little portrait to Sam.
"Leah?"
Oh no.
Yeah! Things are finally being discovered and Neal is preparing himself to talk to Leah! Don't forget to REVIEW!
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