Chapter 13

Mary woke early, quite excited for the party today. She had already seen what was going to happen, but seeing it in person was very different.

Mary looked around for Paul, before remembering he was out patrolling before the party.

She looked at the clock and seen that it was only 7 in the morning. Paul would be going home in an hour to get a couple hours of sleep before the party.

Mary sighed and grabbed her things. After a quick shower, she phone Bella to see if she wanted to come early to help set up.

Bella said she would, but Edward wanted to drop her off at the border. Mary said she would 'borrow' Jakes car and meet her at the border.

So after writing a quick not to a still sleeping Jacob, she grabbed his keys and headed to the La Push border in his rebuild V.W. Rabbit. She just hoped he didn't find out that she had never gotten her drivers license, nor had anyone ever taught her. She had learned through her visions, and through watching other people.

Mary pulled over on the side of the road where Jacob and Paul had been parked the night before. She wondered if she was doing the right thing by inviting Bella down to the reservation.

Was this really the best thing to do? Who did Bella really belong with? The one she loved or the one she was meant to be with? What was really right? Mary began to realize that the person she was doing this for was really herself. She didn't want Jacob to be unhappy, because it made the rest of the pack unhappy when they were unhappy, they didn't concentrate as well and with this war brewing, they needed to concentrate on everything around them. So the question remained. Should she continue to fight for Jacob, or let Bella be happy with Edward?

Mary was broken out of her thoughts by a sliver Volvo pulling off the road in front of her. She watched as Edward gave Bella a kiss. Then Bella got out of the car and tripped a total of 3 times in the 15 feet between the cars.

Mary giggled. Maybe Bella would benefit from some etiquette lessons. The ones that make you balance a book on your head.

Ten minutes later, Mary was pulling into Emily's driveway. They both walked into the house. It was about 8:30 in the morning, but all the girls were already there and cooking up a storm.

Bella got put to work making more cake, and Mary worked with Leah icing the cookies. The reason Mary was with Leah? Because Leah looked like she was going to eat Bella.

The morning went quickly, and soon the party was underway. All the boys were there except Quil and Seth, who were out on patrol, but were due back at any time.

Mary was a nervous wreck. She had a million thoughts running through her head. From Bella and Jacob to Quil's cradle robbing imprintation. Then there was the red-headed leech wondering about and no one knew what she was up too.

Paul came up to her and wrapped his arms around her from behind.

"You ok? You look deep in thought." He asked her.

She shook her head, "I'm just thinking. There's just so much going on, I feel like I have no control over anything and that everything I came here for is for nothing."

He turned her so she was looking at him.

"Listen Mary, you are doing everything you can. You are only one person and a human at that. No one expects you to know everything. The whole pack is behind you, Mary. And as much as I hate it, the Cullens sound like they are too."

Mary opened her mouth to say something to him, when the front door opened and Quil stepped in.

Mary froze and grabbed Pauls arm making him look where she was looking. Quil's eyes scanned the room, then landed on the two little girls playing on the floor. His whole body seemed to freeze up. Mary looked around and it seemed like no one noticed anything but her and Paul.

She caught Emily's eyes from across the room and nodded at Quil. Mary watched as Emily's eyes widened when she seen that Quil had imprinted. Then her eyes about fell out of her head when she seen who he imprinted on.

Emily showed Sam who in turn quickly swept Quil out of the room. Quil didn't want to go . He was still fairly new to the whole werewolf thing, and had poor control over his wolf instincts. So he caused a ruckus.

The rest of the pack quickly surrounded him, and pushed him out the door. Bella ran over to Mary along with the rest of the imprints.

"Was that the interesting thing you were talking about?" Bella asked Mary.

"You knew who he would imprint on and you didn't say." Emily scolded.

"Wow, on a two year old." Kim murmured.

Mary took a deep breath and dragged the girls to the guest bedroom.

"Fist, yes, Bella. Second, Emily, if I had told, then Quil wouldn't have showed up. Everything will work out fine. I saw it. Right now, he's basically going to be her overgrown protector. He has no bad thoughts about her. As she gets older, his job will change. He'll be her best friend. She will be able to tell him anything, without him judging her. When she turns 16 or 17, she'll start to see him differently. Then he will be her lover and husband."

The girls all stared at her opened mouth. Kim was crying and when they asked her why, she responded that it was so beautiful.

The party continued on as normal, only with Quil now playing tea party. They got lots of pictures for blackmail. Emily promised to talk to her sister and set up some kind of visitation. Normally with imprints they didn't tell the parents, but with Clair being so young, they had too.

After everyone had left, the pack and the imprints, plus Billy and Old Quil all sat in Emily's backyard. They were all talking about todays events when they heard Bella's quiet voice address Jacob.

"Do you think you'll ever imprint?" She asked him.

Everyone seemed to freeze. They all knew that she had no idea that he had already imprinted on her. But he had no intention of ever telling her.

Mary thought it was stupid. Bella would stay with him on that if he only told her, but she did see his reasoning.

She looked at all the imprints, the perfect mates. Then there was Clair. Why would fate choose a 2 year old for a 16 year olds perfect mate? Then another thought crossed her mind.

"Hey," Mary said, and everyone looked at her. "If Quil's perfect mate was a two year old, does that mean that the rest of the guys might imprint on an old lady?"

Billy and Old Quil let out huge belly laughs. They guys that haven't imprinted yet looked horrified. And all the ones that had already imprinted looked amused.

"Can that happen? I mean is it even possible?" Embry asked seemly scared of actually imprinting on an old lady.

"No." Leah stated all of a sudden.

Everyone looked at her in a state of shock. Leah never spoke unless spoken too first.

"Oh come on...you all think imprinting is some magical thing, it's not. It's a way to find the best possible match to carry on the wolf gene."

Seeing everyone looking confused, Leah sighed. Mary had an idea of what Leah was talking about. She had though of it before too.

"Take Paul and Mary for example. Paul is hot tempered and quick to react. Not a very good thing for a werewolf. Mary is sweet, bouncy and ever cheerful, but she thinks before she acts. What do you get when you put them together? A kid who thinks before he acts, is cheerful but not overly so. Has a temper but won't explode on everything. The perfect wolf."

They all looked surprised that Leah would actually think of something like that. Mary wasn't. She knew why she did it. Mary would have done the same thing.

Sam left Leah cause he imprinted on Emily. Well why not on Leah? She would want to know why.

"I've often thought of that. I see what your saying, Leah. They can't imprint on old lady's cause then the gene won't be passed on." Mary said. She knew Leah didn't like attention, and she really put herself out there to answer the question. Leah threw her a small smile.

"Well," Billy said clearing his throat, "It's late, we all have had a lot of excitement tonight So why don't we all head home and get to bed."

Everyone said their goodbyes and headed out for the night. Mary couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was coming.

Sorry so boring. I'm kinda in a rut right now. But don't worry, it will get more exciting in the next couple chapters. Next chapter will be written and up on Monday as usual.