Chapter seven! Again, thanks to everyone for reading my fic and for your reviews, I am addicted to them. So, Neal is finally going to talk with Leah, but guess who gets in the way? Enjoy!
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7 Revelations
Leah's point of view
I finally understand why maids of honor always end up stress and irritated, is too much responsibility! And if this is only the rehearsal I don't even want to imagine how hard the real wedding is going to be! The worst part of all is that Lina, who has been in charge of everything till now, is missing, so I am starting to freak out here.
Emily wanted to get married in the beach, so we put an enormous tent were the ceremony was going to take place, and there were many tables around for the reception. Is hard to explain the place, but believe me, it's really beautiful.
"For the last time guys, there has to be only seven sits on table number nine and six on table number four, is not that hard, just follow the drawing," I repeated as nicely as I could to the people who was helping.
"Leah!"
"Lina! Finally! I thought I was going to die here. Can you help me with the flowers? That guy is making a mess with them," I told her.
"Sure, but first I want you to meet your date for the wedding day," she said excited and I turned around to look at her and her companion.
"Neal?" I asked surprised.
"Nice to see you again Leah," he said smiling at me.
"Well, considering that you already know each other and we have a flower emergency, I am out of here," Lina said before I could say something to her.
"Sorry to leave you like that yesterday," Neal apologized. "I was in a hurry and I didn't think things too much."
"You really scared me; you didn't break anything, did you?" I pretended to be worried about him, just like any girl would do in a normal situation. He doesn't know I am werewolf too, and until Jacob or Sam says it's ok to reveal my identity, I won't do it.
"No, I am a very athletic person, so nothing happened to me," he said grateful that I was concerned about him.
"Good to know, so, what are you doing here? No offense, but I am really busy right now."
"Lina said I could help you around and I think it's a great opportunity to get to know each other."
"And we need to know about each other because…?" I asked waiting for his answer.
"Well, we are going to spend all the wedding day together, and if my memory still works, yesterday you said you didn't like to speak with strangers."
I didn't know what to say, I just stood there observing him. I didn't pay too much attention to him yesterday, but know that I can take a better look at him, I have to admit that he is really good looking. He doesn't speak to me like all the other guys Lina presented me did, and the intensity of his eyes is having a strange effect on me. Well, I don't want to spend all the wedding day crying or being accompanied by a jerk, maybe getting to know Neal is not a bad idea. Besides, it can be useful to know more about his wolf life, maybe he will tell me about the rest of his pack or something like that.
"So, what exactly would you like to help with?" I asked him.
"Anything that doesn't involve flowers, ribbons or the color pink."
"Ok, why don't you help me to take a look at the Wedding Reception Table Seating Diagram Template?"
"I am sorry, the what?" I laughed at his confuse face.
"Is the name your sister put to the drawing where you can see where everyone is going to sit at the reception," I explained. "Don't worry; I didn't understand it the first time either."
"I think I still don't understand, but let me take a look at it."
I gave him the big drawing and while he looked at it I started to fold napkins inside a glass, don't ask me, it was Lina's idea. Every time I grabbed a new napkin I used the opportunity to observed Neal. He is very tall, he probably has 23 or something like that, he has nice black hair and this beautiful green eyes. Ok, maybe I shouldn't be thinking like this about someone who is a potential enemy, but if we were under other circumstances… who knows?
"Ok, I think you should change some people," he suddenly said capturing my attention.
"Who?"
"My grandfather, he doesn't have a good relationship with my father, so maybe you should change him to table number six or switch him with Miss Delaware, she is always fighting with Mr. Jones."
"Hey, thanks, I didn't know about that," I said grabbing a pen and making a new drawing.
"There are two people with your same surname, they are your family?"
"Yes, Sue is my mother and Seth is my younger brother, they'll be arriving soon," I explained.
"Mind if I ask why your father isn't coming?"
"Well, he died some years ago."
"Oh, sorry, I lost my mother too, I know how you feel."
I don't know why I feel so calm around him, it's like if he could transmit some kind of invisible mist that comforts me all the time. Maybe he has a power like Jasper, or maybe it's just him.
We kept talking for three hours and I got to really know this guy. Neal is a very funny person, a little bit grumpy, spontaneous, ingenious and he seems to understand things better than anyone else around here. This is the first time in many years that I get to know someone like him. If he wasn't on the enemy's side, I would totally consider dating him. He looks interested in me too, and that doesn't happen too often; I always scare boys away with my attitude, maybe if I start to act nicer around, people wouldn't be so scare of me all the time.
"Favorite ice-cream?" he asked.
"Vanilla with chocolate chips. Favorite sport?"
"American Football. Favorite place in the world?
"Home. How do you kill time?"
"Tricky question. Let me see, I daydream, or I sleep or I start counting the little scratches of my ceiling. What do you do on a rainy day?"
"I go out. What? I love rain; just because I am going to get wet it doesn't mean I am going to die or something. Have you always live here?"
"Yes. What?" he asked when I stared at him.
"Nothing."
"You want to say something, spit it out."
"Well, from all the things that we have talk about it doesn't seem that you want to stay here forever. It's obvious that you love your family and the reservation, but don't you want to do something just because you want to do it?" He didn't answer; he just stared at me with a surprise expression. "Sorry, I shouldn't have said that, I don't even know you and…"
"No, no, it's ok, it just surprised me," he said quickly. "It's ok Leah; really, it's just that whenever I tell people that I left my dream of becoming a lawyer they assumed that staying here is what I really want, but if they knew me better they would know that that is not what I want."
"Why don't you tell your father you want to leave?" I asked him.
"It's… it's complicated."
Just in that moment I remembered I was talking to a werewolf. Of course he couldn't leave! He was chained to this place just like we all were in La Push, but I couldn't tell him I understand him without revealing my identity, so I decided to change the subject.
"So… you probably have a lot of friends here," I said.
"Not many actually, most of them left when we finished high school, but my best friend is working in the reservation now, so I see him a lot around."
Ok, mental note: his best friend is probably member of the Makah pack.
"Neal!" we turned around to see a tall man walking towards us, he looks a little bit angry. "I finally find you."
"Leah this is my father, Jeremiah White; dad this is Leah Clearwater, Emily's cousin," Neal said and I shook the man's hand.
"Pleasure to meet you Leah."
"The pleasure is mine sir," I said taking a good look at him, he looks a lot like Neal.
"What are you doing here dad?" Neal asked him.
"Well, since I am the leader of the council, the Young family asked me to take care of the ceremony."
Say what? Oh no, no, no, no, no, no! If Jeremiah White is the leader of the council that can only mean that Neal is not only a werewolf; he probably is the alpha of the pack! Shit! I just spent the last three hours talking about personal stuff with the leader of the enemy; Sam and Jake are really going to kill me this time!
"Do you mind if I talk a few minutes with my son?" Mr. White asked me.
"Not at all, I'll go to check the guests' list," I said walking away.
I walked to the main table and pretended to be checking some lists. A normal human wouldn't hear anything from this distance, but with my extremely good senses I was able to hear all the conversation.
"What are you doing here Neal?" his father asked him angrily.
"Helping."
"Really? Because I just heard some very interest comments about you and what you did last night."
"Oh."
"Oh? Is that all you can say? What were you thinking when you confessed your feelings to Emily?"
Now I feel like if someone has just thrown a bucket of cold water at me. This can't be real, this is not happening to me… why? Why does Emily have to steal away all the men that I am interested in? And why on earth this is affecting me so much? I have only seen him twice and now I feel like I have lost a part of me.
"You know I've been in love with Emily since we were teens and she was going to marry a terrible man, so I decided to intervene…"
"Emily is not your girlfriend anymore Neal, just act like a man and deal with it!"
"Just like you did with my grandfather?"
Time lost significance for me. Neal was getting closer to me to get closer to Emily? Was he planning to destroy the wedding? Was I some kind of consolation price? Oh, I didn't get Emily, so let's try with the stupid cousin. He was planning to use me to make her jealous? What on earth was I thinking?
"Dad listen to me! Something happened to me last night, ok? Let me explain it to you."
"Leah can you help me out with this candles?" Lina asked me from a distant table.
"Sure," I said walking away from Neal and his father. I couldn't hear them anymore, but is not like I want to know anything else about him.
Neal's point of view
"You imprinted? Are you sure?" my dad couldn't believe it.
"Yeah, we discussed it with grandpa last night."
"You told your grandfather before talking to me? What kind of son are you?"
"Not now dad, please! Look I imprinted Leah Clearwater and I already apologize with Emily and her fiancée, let me take care of my own problems, I am not a kid anymore."
"You are not a kid but you certainly act like one."
"Aren't you supposed to be taking care of the ceremony?" I asked irritated.
"Don't you dare to talk like that to me Neal, I'll leave now, but we are going to discuss this as soon as we get home, is that clear?"
"Yes sir," I answered rolling my eyes.
My dad finally left and I started looking for Leah. The rest of the people were starting to arrive to the tent and when I finally found her, she was very busy indicating everyone what to do.
"Leah," I called her when the last person left her side.
"Not now Neal," she said seriously. What's wrong with her?
"Can I help you with something else?" I offered.
"No, thanks, I think you've done enough, don't you think?" she said sarcastically.
"What did I miss?" I asked confused.
"Leave me alone Neal," she ordered me grabbing a pile of papers and walking away.
Her words hurt; I knew imprinting was a strong thing, but this much? Why do I feel like a slave now? Everything that she tells me has an effect on me and no matter how hard I want to stop following her, my body keeps moving.
"What did I do to you?" I asked her grabbing her forearm to stop her.
"Nothing, just stay away from me!"
I let her go, even if seen her walking away from me was painful for me. What was wrong with her? Did someone talk to her while I was busy discussing with my dad? People were taking their places and I decided to sit in the last line of chairs. In my way there, my eyes found Sam's and I swear I saw sparks coming out of his face. He looks angry, no, he is furious, I have never seen someone so pissed off in my entire life. I know he is angry because I confessed my feelings to Emily, but I already apologized and I haven't bothered her since last night. Now that I think about it, he shouldn't be angry with me, I should be mad at him for breaking my imprint's heart into pieces! He turned her into a miserable woman who doesn't appreciate who she really is.
Emily talked to Sam and he stopped staring at me. They both tried to talk to Leah, but she moved away immediately, so they walked to the altar to take their positions. Paul tried to get closer to her, but Lina asked him not to move from the groom's side and he stayed there. I was surprised when Jared started talking with Leah, but the conversation was interrupted because she was supposed to be taking her position too. What was happening here? Was these some kind of conspiracy against me? Sam was planning this?
The rehearsal started and everyone kept quiet while my father was speaking, well, almost everyone; Emily's aunts were giving orders of all kind to everybody. In the meantime I started to accumulate my anger towards Sam; I am a very rancorous person. How dare he hurt such a beautiful woman? Why had he left her? Couldn't he appreciate the jewel he had in front of him? Was he going to hurt Emily in the future? What had he told Leah?
Suddenly a cell phone started ringing and Emily's mother stood up indignant asking everyone to turn off their cell phones. Surprising everyone, Sam took a cell phone out of his pocket and answered it. His face turned white from one second to another and after saying something he closed the cell phone.
"I am sorry, Jacob has an emergency and I have to leave," he said while he started to take off his jacket. "I'll be back soon, I promise," he told Emily.
Everyone started to look at each other confused and mumbling about the emergency, and when Emily's mother realized Paul and Jared were leaving too, she got angry, really angry.
"Sam we can send somebody else, you have to stay, it's…"
"It's ok mum," Emily said signaling Sam to leave.
What happen afterwards left me and all the guests stunned. Sam grabbed Leah's hand and he started running to one of the lateral exists followed by his friends. What on earth is he doing? If he thinks he can kidnap my imprint just like that, he messed up with the wrong guy. I ran to the altar, but with all the confuse people blocking my way, I had to start jumping from chair to chair to reach the exit they had used. I ignored the yells of my father and my sister and I ran out following Leah's scent. The strange thing is that her scent doesn't go towards Sam's car like I expected, it goes directly into the forest. Then I found her shoes and her sweater lying on the floor near the shoes of the guys, their shirts and a wild scent covering their cloths.
"Pick up, pick up, please pick up," I said to myself taking my cell phone out to call Caleb.
"Hello?"
"Red code!"
"Neal? What's…?"
"Remember your stupid theory of Sam and his friends being werewolves?"
"Yes."
"You were right, they just kidnapped Leah and they are running through the forest, called everyone else, I am going to follow them!"
"Wait!"
I hanged up and shifted as fast as I could. Every second counts and I am not going to waste time taking my cloth off. I started to run full speed praying that it wasn't too late and I let my instincts guide me.
"Hey chief, what's up?" Tristan asked. "I thought it was my turn to patrol."
There was no time to explain, so I just showed him the images of everything that had happened and he started running east to find me.
"Everyone else is almost here," Derek informed me.
"I am getting closer to them," Rick announced joining our minds. "How many wolves are we talking about?"
"Three," I answered.
"Neal there are more than five different scents here," Derek commented.
"They are more than us?" Tristan thought worried.
"We have a lot of experience kid, we are going to bring them down," Rick assured him.
"They stopped," Derek said after a while. "I think they are at the Eagle's clear."
"Wait for us," I ordered him without using my alpha tone. "Nobody is going to attack or do anything until we are together."
"Neal?" I almost froze when I heard a strange voice in my head.
"Who is this? How are you able to talk to me?" I asked confused.
"I am Sam Uley," I growled angrily and started to run faster.
"What is going on Neal?" Caleb asked.
"Sam is talking to me, can't you hear him?"
"It only works between alphas," Sam's voice answered. "I can only hear the thoughts that you allow me to hear, you can control it."
"Let me talk with this guy alone," I told my pack and concentrated to talk to Sam.
"Let her go," I ordered him.
"What?" he asked.
"Let Leah go now or I am going to kill you!"
"Neal this is not what you are thinking, she is fine!"
"Yeah right."
"Look, we have a real big deal going on here, there are vampires coming here and..."
"This is my territory! Just back off and let me handle this!"
"We have fought against these vampires before, they are part of the royal guard of the Vampire's kingdom; you can't fight against them alone!"
"How do I know that you aren't making this up?"
"Why else would I leave the rehearsal of my own wedding?"
"To kidnap Leah, obviously!"
"What? Jake I need help here," Sam thought and I felt like someone else's mind connecting with ours.
"Hey Neal, I am Jacob Black, alpha of the other pack of wolves of La Push."
"Another pack?"
"Long story, what Sam is telling you is the truth, there are a couple of vampires coming and I think is better if the three packs deal with it together," Jacob explained calmly.
"How do you now they are coming?" I asked.
"I have a friend in Forks that can see the future," Jake said showing me the image of a girl with short hair. "You know where to find us, we'll meet you there."
"Where is Leah?"
"She is with me, don't worry, she is fine, you will be able to see her when you arrive," Jacob said and I was left alone with my pack again.
"So?" Caleb asked.
I told them everything and just in a few minutes we arrived to the clear of the forest. I walked out of the forest first and my pack followed me closely. What we discovered was amazing, there were eight wolfs looking at us, but before I could say something, a weird scent burned my nose; vampires.
Oh yeah! Vampires get in the way! I think this is the longest chapter I've written so far. Please tell me what you think and stay alert for tomorrow's chapter, which is my favorite, REVIEW!
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