Finding Someone

Chapter Eight

Rogue12158

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Author's Note: I feel so incredibly sorry for my lack of updating, I've been sick, and school, and swim so I've just haven't had time. Other authors reading this surely can understand. But I'm updating now, so, all better!

Last time on Finding Someone...

Avery's P.O.V.

"Alright," I started, taking a deep breath and wiping my eyes and cheeks of any leftover tears. "It all started at the ball the town holds in the middle of every summer..."

Jacob's P.O.V.

I hate him, I hate him, I hate him. That was the solitary thought going through my mind as Avery told me what that jackass has done to her in the past two years.

"It all started at the ball the town holds in the middle of every summer. I didn't have a date so I went with some of my friends at school. It was the summer before freshman year. I wasn't too bummed about not having a date, none of my friends did, so I was a little weirded out when Wes came up too me and asked to dance. He was a year older than me and was going to be a sophomore that fall so I was flattered. I had no idea what kind of a monster he would become."

"I foolishly thought that he was my dream man, that is until the end of the next school year. But up until then he was the perfect gentleman, the kind of guy that girls will write his last name instead of their own in their diaries. But, when I found out that some of those girls' fantasies were coming true, I tried to break up with him. What girl wants to be with a guy that cheats on her? But when I suggested it, he hit me. Again and again until I had to go to the hospital. It wasn't the first time either. Wes had hit me a few times at that point, but he'd always begged for forgiveness and bought me a huge bouquet of flowers, I'm a sucker for flowers, and promised that he'd never do it again. And, thinking that I was in love with him, I agreed."

"But he never did stop, he kept on cheating so when I wanted to break up with him, and after he put me in the hospital, I threatened to call the police on him if her ever tried to hurt me again. That only set him off further. He told me that if I ever told anyone about what he did to me, he'd kill me, but not only me, Cindy too. That's the only reason that I stayed with him for the year after that, fear for my sister."

Repeat the afore mentioned, I hate him, I hate him, I hate him.

That was the end of her story so I took it as my cue to ask, "Why did you tell me?" Even though I desperately wanted the answer, my voice was barely audible. I'm sure that vampire hearing would not have been able to pick it up.

"Hmm?" She whispered to me hearing something, not necessarily hearing what, though.

"Why did you tell me, if you could get hurt by it?" I repeated myself.

"I'm not entirely sure why. But I think you can keep me safe for some reason. I'm sorry if I dumped all this on you, I just felt the need to share with you." I felt absolutely terrible for this. Because of what happened to this wonderful girl, and because she was telling me her deepest secret, and I couldn't tell her mine. If she thought having an abusive boyfriend would chase me away, then a small case of werewolf-itis would most certainly scare her out of her wits. My face crumpled in frustration due to the fact that I wanted to tell her but was afraid.

"Something wrong?" Avery leaned against my chest, brushing the back of her hand softly along my cheek while asking me.

"Nothing," I HATED lying to her. But if I told her the truth, then she might be afraid. Of course, I think of Emily, or Kim, they both know of the whole werewolf pack, and weren't afraid. And Bella. She's loved more monsters than either of them. Of course, Bella isn't a good example of anything other than a person with no sense of self-preservation. But Avery has had to lived with monsters for a while now, and I didn't want to be considered one of them.

"You sure? You look pretty sad." Wow, she's good at catching my moods.

"Yea, I'm fine, but," I have to tell her. I know I just met her yesterday, but I have to tell her. I guess this is the power of imprinting. "I, too have a secret."

"What is it? You can tell me anything," She turned around on my lap so she was facing me, still resting on my chest.

I took a deep breath and started my confession, much like Avery had, "Do you remember when I told you that my family had some sort of genetic mutation, and that's why I look twenty-five when I'm really seventeen?" She nodded, perplexed. "Well, that is sort of true. My whole tribe," I told her about being Quiluete, "has this. It goes back to the legends of our tribe. We are considered 'The Protectors,' and we are supposed to protect the tribe. And now is the real secret, you sure you want to know?" I was scared as hell to see her reaction to the whole 'werewolf thing.'

"Of course, Jake. It can't be all that bad, I mean you protect your tribe. That's good." As long as she was sure.

"Well, I'm not really sure how to explain this, so I'll say it bluntly. I'm a werewolf."

Her face dropped and her mouth was hanging open so wide I could park my Rabbit in it. "Really?" She asked. I just nodded my head. "Are you sure? Because there was a full moon last night and I'm pretty sure that you didn't go all wolfy on me."

That just made me crack up so much! Full moons! Ha!!

"Why are you laughing at me? What'd I say?!" She was frustrated because she couldn't figure out what was so incredibly funny.

"I'm sorry. But full moons are just a product of stereotyped horror movies. We don't need full moons to transform. All we need is a whole lot of pent up anger. We let it pull us under and then we transform to really big wolves."

"Oh, that makes sense, I guess." Her face was a calm mask that was now turned so that she was no longer looking at me. I could tell that she was in shock with this whole thing.

"Are you sure you're okay with this?" I asked her, using two of my fingers to pull on her chin so she was looking at me.

"Yeah, I'm fine. It's just a whole hell of a lot to process, you know? I was prepared for a lot of things for you to tell me, but I wasn't expecting that." Her eyes held sorrow. "Sorry."

"It's alright," I tucked her head under my chin and wrapped my arms around her and hers went around me. It was the best feeling in the world. Our arms around each other, with no secrets between us.

My mind found the thought that was waiting to spring, the thought that would come, and would only take a matter of time.

I'm in love with Avery Night.

How was it???

I decided that this was as good a time as any to have the secrets come out, and to add a little fluff while I was at it.

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