My late grandfather from my mother's side always told me that "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

I never thought of life that way before until he told me that. And then I thought that the best moments I had in life were what made my life so great. That also included my embarrassing moments like burping a big one out loud in class, falling up the stairs (if that is even possible, but the only way I could describe my fall), sneezed during a class picture ( I was the only one who looked like an idiot), etc. etc.

All those moments make up your life story.

Everything that I did in life, or that has happened to me in my life, was what led me to the now.

Without all of that, I probably would have never noticed Embry.

I am glad I did and I am happy to add another moment in my life.

He told me he loved me.

I was his soul mate.

I was his imprint.

Sure, I fainted, but I think that is what will make it even more memorable.

But what was humiliating was that everyone was once again all huddled up in my room when I was coming to and all I could hear were the voices of Jacob and Quil laughing their butts off.

"Oh, Embry!" Quil exclaimed to Jacob, "I am your imprint?"

"Yes, my love, my darling, my life," Jacob responded in a Shakespearean voice, "You ARE my imprint."

"Shut the hell up guys," Embry disrupted them, "You'll wake her up."

"Too late," I muttered, "I've been awake since they started talking."

"Hey! What are you trying to say?"

"What I'm trying to say Quil is that your obnoxious voice will be the cause of death of the whole human race."

Kim high fived me while Quil went to the corner of my room to sulk.

Kim looked a bit worried, "So, you alright?"

I smiled. "Yeah, never better. And I mean it."

She smiled too.

"Yeah ok. That's great and all. I am happy that everyone is so happy, but Evelyn," he said in a stern voice, "you never told us or Embry who you were with last night."

Leave it to Paul to murder joy.

And what did he mean by---"Last night?"

Jared confirmed what I was dreading to hear. "Yeah, you slept all night and almost all through today. Embry came back from school quickly to see if you were awake yet."

I got up from my bed, stretched, and turned to Embry.

I stared up at him and he looked down at me with worry. "Are you alright?"

"Not anymore."

"Why?"

"I won't get the perfect attendance award."

"Agh!," He pulled me into his embrace, "Why must I have a smartass girlfriend?"

I chuckled, "Well, then, God blessed you."

He kissed my forehead. "I'm glad he did."

I was suddenly pulled away from Embry and I scorned at Paul. "What the hell! I finally get a boyfriend and you yank me away from him? Not cool!"

He sneered at me, "Too bad. Now answer my question! Who were you with last night?"

Then I felt the hairs of the back of my neck stand up again.

"I just wanted to think and headed to the spot where I usually met Embry," him and I winced at that awful memory, me being a bitch and all that jazz, but I continued, " and I met this guy."

"A guy?" All everyone asked.

"Yes a guy. A creepy guy. He sounded so nice and was really good looking and was nicely built, but he still looked weird."

"Weird how?" Jacob asked.

I hesitated. "He was pale and had red eyes. He told me they were contacts, but, I don't think they were."

Embry growled.

The whole group growled minus Kim and I.

"Alright,"said Jake, "We gotta go tell Sam. You girls stay here. We'll be back."

"I'll stay," Embry and Jared stated at the same time.

Jake nodded.

Everyone else left and they stayed.

"It's a vampire right?"

He kissed my temple. "You'll be fine."

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So for the rest of the week, the guys were patrolling around the area.

I told them when I was going to meet Hunter and they decided to devise a plan.

"We can ambush him!" exclaimed Paul.

"No, that's a messy plan. Something cleverer. Yet it can be surprising," Quil mentioned.

They were all discussing their plans with Sam at his house in the living room. Kim, Emily, and I were in the Kitchen.

"So, when a vamp's in town, they always get like this?" I asked Emily.

"Not really, if it isn't that much of a threat."

If it isn't that much of a threat?

"So, this vamp is a threat."

Emily stopped chopping the tomatoes and Kim stopped slicing the cucumber. They both turned to look at me with a solemn face.

"It's serious," Kim began, "but don't worry about it. They will take care of it."

Then we were startled by a loud bang from the living room.

"Then what do we do?!" yelled Paul.

"I can help." Hunter would not suspect anything if I were helping them.

"No."

The way Embry said it made me squirm a bit.

But I still persisted.

"C'mon! I can meet him like we planned and then you all could ambush him."

Sam looked like he was debating whether to go with my idea or not and I could tell that Embry was not in the least bit happy about all this.

Sam then made his decision and nodded. "Alright, that makes sense. We could go with that and have everyone surrounding the perimeter."

"So you want my girlfriend to be bait for some bloodsucker?"

Jacob sighed. "Em, it's the only way."

Embry brushed Jacob's shoulder off. "Only way my ass!" then he turned to me and said, "you are not going to be a part of this."

"Embry," Everyone turned to his authoritive voice, even I did, and "she will be a part of this plan whether you like it or not."

Embry was seething in anger. He ground out the word 'whatever' and left it at that.

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It was 12 am- now Saturday when I felt a light tapping sound coming from my window. I went toward it and saw Embry, sitting on a tree branch.

I opened the window and let him in.

"Hey," he whispered and kissed my cheek.

"Hey."

I was nervous.

I have never been alone with a boy, especially not at night.

He lied down on my bed and motioned for me to lie down too.

So we were lying on my bed until I asked, "How was patrol?"

He sighed. "We didn't find him. It's weird."

I was confused. "Why?"

"Well Paul smelled the leech-"

"Vampire," I corrected.

"Vampire on you. Yet we can't find his scent anywhere."

I shivered. "That's creepy."

"Yeah."

We were quite for a while, just listening to the sounds outside.

"Don't you ever get tired Embry?"

He looked at me with confusion, "What do you mean?"

"You look tired. You need sleep, babe."

He bent down to my face and kissed me softly. "I appreciate you trying to look out for me, but trust me, I'm fine."

"Alright," I let out a sigh, "but whenever you finish patrolling around, come here and we could sleep together. That way we're both not alone."

He decided to wiggle his eyebrows at this. "Sleep together? Why so soon, babe?"

I knew I was blushing at his comment. "Idiot, I never meant it like that."

He laughed.

And I smiled.

After he calmed down he asked me if I was alright.

"No. I'm actually scared. What if it doesn't work?"

He held my hand and kissed it. "As long as you trust me, everything will be fine."

This time I kissed him and said, "I trust you. Now let's sleep. We don't want any bags under our eyes."

Author's Note:

SO here is another chapter! Hopefully you all like it. I'm sorry that the chapter was short, but I thought it would be better to update now than later since it has been a few days since I have updated anything.

Oh by the way guys, check out my profile; no, my profile is not cool at all but I uploaded pictures that resembled Embry and Evelyn. Hopefully you'll like the pictures, but that doesn't mean that the pictures represent them exactly. You all could imagine the characters however you want, I just hope that the pictures don't disappoint. Thanks for reading my author's note! Now click away and review!!!!

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