A/N: as promised I dedicate this chapter to my first two reviewers - I was so happy (ok, I was literally bouncing through the house^^) when I received them!!! Thank you so much!!!
Disclaimer: I don't own those wonderful characters... :( exept for Amy ;)
1. Chapter
MEETING EMBRY
„the hardest part about growing up is letting go
of what you were used to
and moving on with something you're not"
The gentle sound of rain falling softly on her window eventually woke Amy up. She had been asleep for around nine hours and was now well rested, as well rested as she hadn't been in weeks. She pushed her blanket out of the way, stretched her entire body luxuriously and eventually got up. Amy tiptoed down the stairs and into the kitchen. But it wasn't neccessary to do so as her aunti Gloria was already up and moving around the house hoovering and dusting.
"Good morning, sleepy head! Did you rest fine?"
"Morning! Yeah, I actually did... how are you?"
"I'm good, honey." Gloria flashed her a loving smile, "Don't be late for brunch at Emily's or there won't be any food left"
"I'm not that hungry anyway..." Amy grinned back.
"However, you're too skinny, sweetheart, we better get some breakfast into you"
The girl looked down on herself. She had to fight hard the smile that was about to creap on her face, her aunt was one of those people who would still shove food into you even if you were already rolling out the front door.
"Umm, anyways, how do I get to Emily's? I mean, I don't know my way around, do I?" she changed the subject.
"True, I guess you don't... but you won't get lost – that's impossible! La Push is too small for even the worst orientated person on this earth to get lost", Gloria laughed jolly, "just walk down the road to the right, take the next turn left and then you're there, it's easy"
Not really trusting her own navigation skills, Amy took off. Too caught up in trying to remember the way she had totally forgotten to take an umbrella with her. Though avoiding the puddles on the muddy road, she couldn't even keep her feet dry. When she finally arrived at Sam and Emily's house Amy's jumper and shoes were soaked. She knocked at the door – well, at least it could not get any worse, right?
Far off! A huge teenaged boy answered the door. He wasn't as tall as Sam but still of a remarkable size, so was the muffin in his right hand.
"What'ya want?" he asked in between chewing.
"umm, sorry, is this Sam Uley's house?" Maybe she had taken a wrong turn...
"yeah, 'tiz...", his eyes widened, "you another imprint? Who's are you?"
Amy looked completely nescient at the guy.
"Colin, who is it?" she then heard Emily call from inside the house.
"It's me, Amy", the young girl offered feeling the more and more annoyed the longer she was standing outside in the rain, "I can come back later if it's a bad time..."
"Nonsense" Emily appeared, "come in, come in! Colin, move for crying out loud, don't be so impolite! Amy must think you ain't any manners..."
As Amy entered the house, she was immediatly in a better mood. It was like a déjà-vu, a place she immediately recognised though she had never been there before, it was warm, smelled wonderfully and was... kind of crowded. What was going on? The entire ground floor was filled up by about a dozen over-sized guys. The tiny cottage looked like it was on the edge to bursting.
A smile lit on Emily's scarred face "these are the guys. They... umm, work with Sam. Let me introduce you" and so she began. Walking through the living room and the kitchen, she listed name after name pointing at boy after boy – some of them still very young teenagers although they all were uncommenly large. When she was done, she observed everyone closely as if she was looking for something in particular. Finally, she shrugged her shoulders saying "Seth is still working with Sam and Embry will be here soon..." Amy could not grasp what it was but here was definatly something strange about this not so little gathering.
After helping Emily finish cooking and setting up the table, Amy's cloths had dried fully. Not wanting to be a burden, she had declined to take any of Emily's.
The young girl was ordered to choose her food first. Noone seemed offended so she took a bit.
"Are you sure, that'll be enough for you? You know these lads can eat..." Emily smiled smugly, like a mother bragging with her child's first few steps on its own.
"Yeah, I'll be fine" she smiled back.
"Okay", the older woman's grin widened, "guys, come on, the food is ready!"
Within seconds – Amy could not even have blinked or she would have missed everything – they were all gathered around the big table shoving huge amounts of eggs, bacon, toast and pancakes into their mouths.
Over the noise they made she barely noticed that the front door opened and closed again. If it had not been for the sudden interruption of the feast she would not have caught it at all. Two pairs of heavy steps drew closer to the kitchen, the noise followed by Sam himself and another guy. Sam placed a gentle kiss on Emily's forehead who playfully accused him: "I thought you had one of the lads pick her up this morning – she was all soaked as she had wandered about the place for ages until she found it..."
"Umm, Emily... I did not...", Amy tried to say but Sam cut her off laughing "never mind, Emy's just teasing... But I should have send you someone, it was rude of me not to think of it... Sorry!" Amy looked dumbfounded at him. The Sam she had known as a kid would have never apologized for anything that insignificant.
"No, I wasn't..." but even Emily could not hide her grin.
"oh, ok" Amy blushed slightly. She did not like being in the middle of the attention as she was right there. The opening of the door saved her from any further bickering on her cost. And then the last one of this weird gathering, most likely the Embry guy, entered the kitchen "Hey, any food left?"
He was of average size compared to the other group members, but his slightly longer, slightly curlier dark brown hair and the kind eyes in his symetric but manly face let him differ from everyone else. Amy's heart seemed to stop and then qicken up to doubled pace. She had never seen anyone as handsome as this young man.
Hoping noone would notice her reddened face she decided to look down on her plate again until she would be officially introduced but in that instant his eyes met hers. His gaze was so intense it made an ice cold feeling ripple down her spine.
For one moment, everything was quiet. It seemed as if the world had come to a hold. Amy had never experienced something like this before. It was completly frightening, but the most wonderful thing that had ever happened to her.
The sudden laughter and screams made her twitch and return to reality. She saw the guys - still rejoicing - go back to eating and heard Emily say "I knew it, I knew it" over and over again. Felling utterly lost with her feeling of confusion Amy looked for someone to explain the sudden outburst of happiness to her. As everyone else seemed to be celebrating, she found her eyes locked with Embry's once more...
"What just happened...?" she tried to mouth.
"What do you mean?" Sam asked in a conspicuously innocent tone from her right, " let's get back to having brunch or Embry and I will be starving later on..." he trailed off, leading Embry to the table where they started to eat. Throughout the entire meal, Embry's eyes would find hers until someone would distract him on purpose breaking their gazing at each other.
Amy eventually found back to her rhythm so she could chatt and laugh with Emily and the others. But it was different now, as if her heart was beating on another cadence, as if her blood was pumping way faster through her veins. Even though she was still the same person, the world around her had changed, colors, sounds everything was more intensive. Or was it her, had she changed?
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Ok? good? bad? better or worse than the first one? Let me know, please! :D
(btw, from the next chapter onwards I like the story more^^ with these two chapters I only wanted to introduce the characters to you, now the story can develope^^)
