"Uncle Embry!" Desiree screamed and ran into Embry's arms. He picked her up and swung her around and around while she squeeled. He the put her down and ruffled her hair.

"Hey! Don't do that! Mommy did my hair and I don't want it ruined." She then stuck her tounge out at him. He reached for her but she ran behind me, the whole time giving him raspberries.

"So, what can I do for you Bells?" Embry wondered.

"Des, sweety, can you give me and Uncle Embry a few minutes to talk? I'm sure he has something for you to do." I looked at him. "Don't you?"

"Sure do, there's a snake in the livingroom the size of your head, why don't you go look at him?" He was talking about Galen, the snake he's had for about three years now. Nobody knows why he keeps it. It was an ugly thing, all nasty and old; he bought it off of his dad because he was too old to take care of it himself. The snake had to be about eight years old.

"Cool!"

"If you want, Emily and Sam are inside so if you ask real nice Sam might let you hold him." Desiree's wanted to hold Galen for as long as I can remember, but Jacob didn't like the idea of his baby holding something that could eat her if it wished to. But that snake had been hardly able to move because it was so fat.

She ran inside as fast as her short legs could carry her.

"Now, Bella, what is it you need?" Ever since Jacob had died, Embry had been there to make sure that everything was ok and told us that if we ever needed something, we should ask him. And so we had. The way I figured it, Des needed a male adult in her life and I figured Embry was the man for the job. He didn't seem to mind.

"Embry, for the past few weeks I have been feeing like I'm being spyed on, and the feeling just won't shake! I swear to god last night while I was sleeping, someone was in my room with me. Honestly, I'm scared out of my mind. Of course I havent told Des, Heaven knows how she would act."

"So you want me to tell you if there are leeches in the area?"

"Yeah, I guess you can put it that way. So...is there?" Please say no, please say no.

"Bella, I didn't want to worry you, but there is one male vampire wondering around, but we're not one hundred percent sure who it is, if it's one of the Cullens--" I flinched. "We can't go on the territory, but we've been waiting for him to cross the line, but he hasn't. At the moment we can't do anything about it. Sorry."

"It's ok, I just don't want anything happening to Desiree. It would kill me if that happened."

"I wish I understood that, but seeing that the only thing I have close to a child is that fat snake inside, I can't completelly understand how your feeling. You can stay here, if you want." Embry seemed kind of hopeful.

"No, I don't want Des to know that anything wierd is going on. I'll just be careful."

Then she ran back outside. "Mommy, that snake is nasty! I thought snake were suposed to be warm, but it felt so oily and greesy, why?"

Embry answered, " Because it's getting old, so it doesn't shed as much, so Galen sweats, hoping to get rid of the dead skin." Then he winked at her.

"Uncle Embry, can I ride on you? I haven't been able to since--" She squeezed Alice's head again. "Daddy died." But she didn't cry. We were making progress at least.

"Sure, just give me a moment." Then he walked into the forest, obviously so he could take his clothes off before he changed. Then out walked this huge wolf that looked like it was smiling at us as Desiree starting grinning.

"Mommy, can you hold Alice for me? Please?"

"Sure sweety, just make sure when you get on, you hang on real tight." I looked at Embry. "At so help you if you drop her! There will be a new rug on my floor!"

The wolf just smiled bigger and howled. Then he got as close as he could to the ground so the Desiree could hop on his back. Then like a flash he was back into the forest. I could here his howl and my daughter's laughter as they went out of sight.

After a few hours of being at Embry's house, Des was tired so we needed to go home. After the fifteen minnute drive, she was asleep in the back. So went we finally made it to the front of the house, I carried her inside and up into her room.

When I finally made it down stairs, after singing to her, I sat im Jacob's old recliner and grabbed Pet Sementary, the book I had been reading. After about ten minutes, I started feeling nervous again. I looked up room my book and saw someone.

"Hello, Bella. It's nice to see you, again." He said with a smile.

Authors Note: So, what do you think? reviews are always wanted. It lets me know if I did a good job or not. :D