Embry POV

Heaven. That's where I must be.

Though nothing around me was any physically different-the fire still raged, friends still chattered, and the waves continued to crash quietly onto the night-blackened shore-I knew that everything had changed. In this split second, this whirlwind of chance, my entire world had fallen apart. As the pieces of my life shattered down around me, I was oddly calm. Assured, even, because I knew that it would all come back together. As I stared across the green flames of the great bonfire, she was unconciously taking each aspect of my life, flipping it, and placing it back together with the rest, and leaving traces of herself with each repair.

Everything made perfect sense to me now. I could clearly see why I had had been born with the shifting gene, why I had been born at all. Why I woke up each morning, and why I risked my life each day protecting La Push from the Cold Ones. For her, all for her. It had always been for her.

Suddenly, I couldn't find a single thing in my life to be angry about. The constant arguing with my mom, my aggravation with Sam as the Alpha, my regret of ever living this way...it all seemed exteremly insignificant to me now that I was looking into the most beautiful eyes ever created.

It was her. It was finally her.

It had only been a short moment since we had locked eyes from across the beach, but so much had happened to me internally in that time, that I felt as if I had aged twenty years. She turned away from me suddenly, whipping her head around in a movement that sent her chocolate waves flying around her. My heart dropped when I couldn't see her face anymore. Just when I was about to make a move closer, to try and grace myself with her extreme beauty once again, she turned back around.

This time, her expression was different. The innocent curiosity had vanished from her perfect features; now they held very prominent traces of bewilderment, and even fear.

My stomach clenched. Was I the one she was afraid of?

I had to force myself look away, to try to let her calm down. I thought that maybe I was freaking her out with the staring; after all, if some stranger had been looking at me the way I was surely looking at her, I'd be a little afraid myself.

Emily walked past me then, and as a half-hearted distraction-I was finding it almost impossible to keep from shooting desperate glances back across the beach-I grabbed her by the arm and pulled her over.

"Embry, you almost gave me a heart-attack!" Emily clutched at her heart, laughing nervously. I didn't realize how tightly wound I had been, and I surely didn't mean to take it out on Emily's arm.

"I'm sorry, Em." I mumbled, throwing another look over the fire.

"Is something the matter?" Emily, with her crazy accurate maternal instincts. I took a deep breath, not exactly wanting to get into the details right this instant. I was still trying to wrap my head around the fact that I had just imprinted on a mysterious, beautiful girl. And she was sitting not fifteen yards from when I stood. I looked over my shoulder, again in vain.

Instead of explaining, I simply asked, "do you know who that is?" and nodded nonchalantly over to where she sat. Something was tugging at my stomach, gently, as if guiding me somewhere that I desperately wanted to be.

"Oh, of course! That's Allie. You should go introduce yourself. She just moved here, you know." Emily answered happily.

Allie. So beautiful.

"I should probably do that." I mumbled back, mostly to myself.

Allie.

I had to meet her.

A/N: Hey y'all! I know this was a shorter chapter than usual, but the actual POV from Embry was longer than I expected it to be, and I felt as though I needed to split the chapters so I wouldn't end up with one, dreadfully long one. I love the reviews, even though there's currently two, but those two are keeping this story going! So give a big thank you out to them. I may come back and edit this chapter later if I get around to it, but for now, I hope you liked it!