Sorry this took so long! A short disclaimer then I'll let you get reading. I do not own Twilight...at all...what so ever.

Chapter 5.

Kelsey's POV

The sound of the pre-game show was now blasting through the entire house and half the men in La Push were crowded around the Black's TV, placing bets and talking stats and scores. A lot of us were hanging around in the kitchen, there always seemed to be some kind of work to do there, but there were so many of us that it wasn't like we were always working.

"Hi Mom," Caleb said, poking his head in doorway.

"Hey Caleb. Why aren't you watching the game?" I wasn't sure exactly where he was on the entire wolf thing. We hadn't gotten a chance to talk since his explosion the day before.

"Can I talk to you?" he asked.

I nodded and followed him back into Seth and my bedroom. It was really the only somewhat private place in the house.

"Mom," Caleb sighed. "I shouldn't have reacted the way I did yesterday. I'm sorry, I should have believed you. I know this is hard for you, it's hard for me too," he said softly.

I sighed. "I'm glad you understand now."

"I promise Mom, I'm going to do everything I can to stop this," he said, the anxiety growing in his eyes.

I rubbed his arm. "I know Caleb, I trust you. It's a lot to take on at once isn't it. Just one thing though; will you tell me what the pack is planning to do?"

Caleb gave me a somewhat blank stare. "Uh, well, I think we're going to wait for her to get here, and once we find her, we're gonna catch her, and then...uh..."

"There you are Kelsey!" a feminine voice said. I looked over my shoulder to see Claire, my half sister poking her head through the door.

"Hi Claire!" I said, getting up to hug her.

"Hi. Quil told me about Megan and everything, I'm so sorry," she said.

"Hopefully everything will work out fine," I said. Claire and Abby had been best friends since forever. They had even been each other's maids of honor (I was extremely pregnant with Shelby for Claire's wedding and Abby asked me to do whatever it was that the mother of the bride did, I didn't remember what it was exactly, but it came with a whole bunch of other stuff which basically included planning the entire wedding). Claire would probably be just about as upset as I would be if anything happened to Abby.

"Wow, you've grown! So I guess you're part of the pack now?" Claire asked Caleb.

"Yeah," Caleb said.

"Just stick with Reese, he and Leah are the only ones with a lick of sense in there."

"Oh! Uncle Reese is a wolf too! Cool!" Caleb said.

"Yeah, he's in the living room watching the game. You should go say hi. And as for you missy, Mom is looking for you."

Caleb left and I followed Claire back to the kitchen.

"Kelsey!' Delilah said, hugging me. Even though she was my biological mother, we had never gotten close. Because I had been adopted before we met the first time, the position of mother had already been filled, leaving me somewhat apathetic towards her despite her attempts to make up for abandoning me at birth. While I did keep in touch with her and such, I was much closer to Claire and Reese.

"Hi," I said. I never really called her anything, I already called Ava Mom and I never felt comfortable calling her Delilah to her face although that's what I did when I talked about her to others.

Just then Leah came into room, making out with a guy.

"Leah, it's too crowded to be doing that in here! Now find somewhere else to be or stop making out with Reese!" Sue chastised.

"Reese?" Abby asked.

"Yeah, we fell in love, isn't that wonderful?" Leah said dreamily. I laughed. She'd waited so long for an imprint she didn't even care that she'd have to wait for Reese to grow up before she could date him when she first saw him.

Abby stared, looking confused for a little bit. I knew she thought that Leah was much older than Reese, especially since Reese was younger than Abby and still looked about 21 even though he was 26, but finally she just shrugged it off.

"Hi sister who never writes, calls, visits, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera," Reese smiled. He was tall enough to easily see over Leah's head. That was how he always greeted me since Christmas several years ago when Delilah had a conniption because I didn't tell her I was pregnant with Caleb until we went up to visit, at which point I was about 6 months pregnant.

"Who are you again?" I asked in reply.

He laughed and pulled Leah off of him. "Good to see you again!" he said, wrapping me in a big hug, his grip tight and strong despite his lanky build. He sometimes reminded me of Seth or Jacob when I first met them.

Claire was the only one of the three of us that had never turned, she was still short relatively short, but graceful, having been a ballet dancer for basically all her life, she reminded me of Alice sometimes, never being able to shut up if you could get her talking. Reese, on the other hand, was clumsy before he turned, but he was easy going and sweet, which was a good compliment to Leah, who could definitely overreact sometimes, and so naturally once he turned he imprinted on her as well.

"Well, I'm gonna go watch the game baby," Reese said, pecking Leah on the cheek. We could hear the beginning cheers of the guys as the game started up. At about half time Abby and Claire went back to the bedroom to check on Ivy and Declan, Claire's 6 year old son.

"Hey! The guys are enjoying themselves! We should go do something too!" Ellie said.

"Yeah, we should definitely go shopping!" Claire said, coming back into the room.

"Where's Abby?" I asked. I knew how paranoid I sounded, but I simply had to know, the question would torture me until I did.

"She's in the other room with Ivy and Declan and Caleb, she's fine," Claire replied, rolling her eyes.

"I don't think shopping's a good idea so close to Christmas, the stores will be packed," Leah interjected. "Why don't we just get lunch?"

"Okay, that sounds good," Claire said.

"I like that," I added.

"Okay then," Ellie said, picking up the phone.

"You're not going to invite that bloodsucker are you?" Leah complained.

"Yes, yes I am," Ellie said, pausing from her dialing.

"Let's take a vote," Leah said, "who wants Ava to come?"

Ellie and I raised our hands.

"And who doesn't want her to come?" Leah was the only one who raised her hand. "What about you Claire?"

"I'm not sure who you're talking about," Claire shrugged.

"It's settled then, she's coming," Ellie said dialing the phone.

"Looks like you were outnumbered sister!" I teased.

"I'll go ask Abby if she wants to come," Claire said, getting up again.

Abby's POV

"And then the wolves had the cold one surrounded. They pounced on him and ripped him to shreds!"

"Grrrrrrr!" Ivy giggled. "I'm a wolf, Mommy!" she said, and started running around the room pouncing on anything in sight. Sometimes it was impossible to believe that she was so shy and quiet in public.

"Me too!" shouted Declan as he joined in on Ivy's game

"Too bad, I don't think Mr. and Mrs. Black let wolves live in their house, you'll have to go live outside," I said.

Caleb snickered.

"Oh whatever will we do?" Claire laughed.

"And as for you...as much as I appreciate culture, you're going to have to stop corrupting my child," I said to Caleb jokingly.

"Hey, I'm not that bad an influence am I?" he asked.

"Who's already gotten into trouble once this week?" Shelby teased.

"Okay, okay, I'll go take the pups outside."

"Thank you," I smiled.

Just then Kelsey walked in. "Hey everyone, glad to see you're all alive," she said. Apparently she and Caleb had worked out whatever it was that they had been arguing about yesterday.

"Guess what Aunt Kelsey? I'm a wolf!" Ivy grinned.

"Me too!" Declan shouted.

"Well, you've found your best friend then, haven't you? Caleb knows all about wolves," Kelsey said.

Ivy nodded enthusiastically and bounded toward the door. "Come on, Caleb!"

Kelsey chuckled. "Looks like someone got in trouble again! Have fun!"

"I think I'll go with them," Shelby said, getting up.

"Caleb! Make sure they don't get eaten!" Kelsey called after them.

"Eaten by what?" I asked.

Kelsey seemed a little surprised by the question and thought for a second. "Wolves. There are a lot of wolves in these parts," she finally said.

"Huge wolves. Like the size of full grown bears wolves," Claire added. "The rangers think they're a giant offshoot breed of regular wolves."

"And it's safe to let the kids play outside?" I asked. I'd been here numerous times in my childhood and couldn't remember ever seeing a wolf, much less a huge one, although something did seem familiar about it.

"Oh, yeah, the wolves don't usually go near people, especially on the res where there's more woods. I wouldn't worry about it, especially with Caleb around," Kelsey said.

"Hey Abby, Leah, Kelsey, Ellie, Ava, and I are all going to lunch in about an hour. You want to come? The guys claim they're gonna watch the kids and start dinner if we were out that late, but Sue said she'd make sure they did," Claire asked.

"Sure, sounds like fun," I said.

About half an hour later we were all piling into Ellie's car because even though Kelsey's car also seated eight, Ellie insisted on driving. We went to pick up Ava, but she lived in a huge house the middle of nowhere, so it took a little while. I wondered how she got there because there were no cars in the driveway.

"Oh, yeah, they're in the garage," she said when I asked her. She was sitting in the back row of seats with me, so no one was really listening.

"They?"

"Yeah, my siblings like cars. A lot. A little too much if you ask me. They're Jacob's favorite customers. Alice and Edward actually came up too. Alice is the hot pink Porsche and Edward is the dark blue Volvo. We might run into them in town today."

"Oh, wow," I whispered under my breath. I personally just wanted to see what a hot pink Porsche would look like.

"Alice is really good at the stock market. Like, really, really good, and Carlisle is a doctor so..."

"Oh, really? My dad is the chief of surgery at Greenville Central Hospital. You said you were from North Dakota, maybe they know each other?" I asked. I was still trying to figure out where I knew her from. She wasn't just some image of my mother I had built up in my mind, I had met her before, but not a younger version of her, she looked the same in my memory.

"Probably not, he's actually doing some work in South America right now, and the rest of my family is kind of dispersed since most of us are in college right now." I could see the faintest hint of a smile on her face. "So tell me more about your dad...I think I remember him," she chuckled.

I blushed. "Sorry about him, he thinks you look like my mother," I said quietly. "She, um, died giving birth to me."

Kelsey whipped around. Sometimes it was scary how fast she could move and how even when I thought she couldn't hear me she could. She seemed rather upset. "That is not true. She gave birth, then died several hours afterward due to complications that had nothing to do with you."

Oh. Right. That. Kelsey hated it if I tried to condense the story because for most of my life I did believe that and even now I wasn't sure. I mean, if she hadn't been in labor with me they wouldn't have been in the car and the car wouldn't have crashed and there wouldn't have been any complications.

"Oh, I'm so sorry," Ava said softly.

We were almost at the restaurant. I looked out the window and saw a hot pink Porsche in the parking lot. "Hey, is that your sister?" I asked, pointing out the car, as if it needed pointing out.

Ava covered her face with her hand. "Yes," she mumbled.

A girl even shorter than Claire gracefully got out of the car. She had really short spiky hair, a little darker than Ava's and she was also very pale like Ava, and they had the same eyes. She waved enthusiastically to our SUV.

"Alice, if I knew you were coming you could have ridden with us," Ellie said.

"Hmm...thanks for the offer, but I wanted to see how my baby ran after having to leave her for..." she glanced over at Ava, Ava mouthed something, but I didn't catch it, I never could read lips, "the semester," she finished.

Alice passed up on joining us for lunch, but said she'd be near by if we wanted to go shopping later, affectionately calling me "a new Barbie".

"Don't worry, if she can pick out clothes for you and force you to try them on then she calls you a Barbie, it has nothing to do with your hair," Ava whispered.

Once we were in the restaurant, I watched the waiters all shamelessly flirt with Ava and Leah, but both rolled their eyes. "So Abby, what do you do?" Ava asked.

"I teach second grade," I said.

Everybody awwed; they always awwed! None of the other teachers at my school got awwed when they told people they taught elementary school! Of course, most of them had kids in high school or college.

So we had lunch, except for Ava who claimed she slept late and that her brother Edward had made a very large, very tempting breakfast right before Ellie called. We did a lot of talking about people and things I either knew or had heard of, but sometimes they seemed to be talking in some sort of code and I had no idea what they were talking about. Of course, I was used to it, this happened almost every time Kelsey brought me up. It was like there was some big secret I didn't know about, but Kelsey told me it was just tribal stuff and that as silly as it was I'd either have to be Quileute myself, or marry into it like Ellie, for her to tell me about it, and that it wasn't really anything interesting.

I talked to Ava a lot, she was so nice, and even though she was younger than me, she had a sort of motherly air about her. I never could figure out where I knew her from, but she asked about Dad and Luke and Ivy a lot, so I was guessing I had met her somewhere at home.

Afterward, Kelsey, Leah, and Ellie wanted to go home, so they left. We met Alice up in Port Angeles and shopped. I realized why Alice called everyone a Barbie. The rest of us hardly got to leave the dressing rooms due to Alice running around at seemingly super human speeds and asking us to try stuff on. Still, it was fun, and I got some really cute shoes out of it.

"It was nice seeing you guys again, maybe we could do something else later?" Ava asked as we pulled up to the Black's house.

"Yeah, totally," I said. I still didn't know where I knew her from, but something about her just made me so comfortable, and yet something else made me a little uneasy. It was probably her and Alice's cold, pale, skin, haunting golden eyes, and gracefulness (I had proved to be the clumsiest one there by walking into a light pole because I wasn't paying attention). It was intriguing. What was so different about her? When we walked in, half of the conversation dropped to whispers, it seemed that always happened to me these days. Scratch that. What was so different about here?

Hey! Well, I have to thank Megan and Shelby (the people, not the characters) as always for being my beta readers and giving me all sorts of help and ideas, read their stories! (ravenclawblonde1428 and twilight-chick-92). Now, I've tried to avoid saying this, but please read and review. Thank you!

Hufflepuffbrunette :)