Sam Pov

I dropped off Leah at school. We kissed goodbye than I speeded off down the road. I didn't go straight to my mom's house though. I drove around for a while. I kept my eyes on the road and my grip hard on the wheel with both hands as I thought.

My father abandoned me when I was a child. My mother tried to raise me as best she could. She had to work two jobs though in order to provide for us, the house and put food on the table as my father never helped financially, she wasn't around much. As soon as I turned sixteen, I got a job and helped support my mom. She worked at the Tribal Office of Affairs on the made it easy for me to get a job there also. It wasn't glamorous. I mostly was an errand boy, but I was able to finally start contributing. Mom quit her second job once I was able to pay for my own things.

I had been thinking about my father a lot lately for some reason. Every time I did, I would begin to shake. My father's abandonment should have made me a rebellious, angry youth. A part of me did feel angry. In fact, I seemed to get angrier about his absence in my life every day, though I thought I put it behind me years ago. I guess not.

It was then that I saw him. Across the street was my father. I hadn't seen him in years but I would have recognized him anywhere. Fury like nothing I had ever felt before shot through my body. I parked my truck in the first spot I found. The spot was in front of a little sport shop name Newton's Olympic Outfitters. I got out of my truck and trying not to make me look weird or it being obvious I was watching him.

My father looked well fed, his stomach bulging out from his body, and he seemed like a man who was perfectly content with his life. He had his arm around a woman who looked young, younger than me.

I wanted to go across the street and rip his throat out. I was shaking so badly that when I looked at my hands they seemed blurry to me. The fever I always had lately, worsened, and the heat shot through my whole body until I felt like I was going to suffocate from it. The pins and needles sensation that had plagued my skin for weeks went from irritating to feeling like I was being stabbed by a thousand knives. Instead of killing my father like I wanted to, I jumped in my car and screeched out of the parking lot as fast as I could. I raced all the way back to La Push, shaking so hard that I could barely hold onto the wheel.

As soon as I got home, I jumped out of my car and just stood outside, I couldn't stop the shacking. I was looking at my mother's worn down house. Everything about my mom looked worn down. She was so thin that half the time it looked like a strong wind could break her. She had the look of being permanently exhausted. Compared to her, my father looked like the fat cat who swallowed the canary. Unlike my mother, he had looked like he didn't have a care in the world.

The fury I felt raged through me again. I knew that I was going to be violently sick and instead of heading towards the house, I ran to the forest. The hot pain shot through my spine again and I felt like I was going to be incinerated from the heat that was coursing through me. I didn't know what was happening but I knew one thing for sure. I was going to die.

That's when it happened. My clothes felt too tight on me. They fell away like shredded paper. My skin ripped away from my body and I felt like I had exploded. Only a second later, whatever was left of my body seemed to fuse back together and I felt taller than I had ever felt before. My lips curled back from my teeth and I tried to scream, but instead of a scream I heard a howl. I looked down at my hands, but instead of hands, I saw black paws. What the hell was going on? Was I going insane? What do I tell my mom? To Leah?!

"I've been waiting for you to phase." I stopped running when I heard Rachel's thoughts in my head.A giant white wolf came out of the trees and followed my trail. The wolf stopped in front of me.

"How is this…What is this?!" I asked. I was afraid. What am I?

"You've heard the legends." She said. I thought back to when I was younger. Before bed each night mom would tell me the legends.

"Ya but I never actually belived they were true."

"You'd be amazed." She rolled her wolf eyes. She turned around and started walking away in the direction she came from.

"Don't worry im not leaving im just running to the other side of the rez to patrol."

"Wait how are we even communicating?"

"It's a wolf pack thing my last pack took it as far as 500 miles."

"Your old pack?" There were more of us?

"Well if you can call it that. I phased and only two of the old pack were still phased. I phased the day they both stopped phasing. They taught me everything I know. I never heard the legends before I phased because no one thought it was possible for a girl to phase."

"So you're the first girl to phase ever?"

"Yep. First female to phase in Quileutte history."

"How old were you?"

"13 or 14"

"then why do you sneak out more now then you did when you first phased?" I was confused.

"Because I phased just as the Cullens, a vampire coven in Forks, moved out of town. I did not need to phase so much while they were gone."

"Then why did I need to phase? What happened to the Cullen's? Where did they go?"

"They moved away two years ago so people wouldn't start questioning them never aging. They are slowly moving back now. Having Vampires in the area cause the gene in us to react and next thing you know…"

"Poof you're a wolf!" I finished the sentence for her. She laughed. " Do you know who is going to phase next?"

"Jared Cameron. He is my guess he's already has ben complaining to his dad about not feeling good." I felt bad I did not want my friend to phase yet I wanted to have more buddies in the pack. I did not want to be distant from my friends because of this.

"Oh"

"Ya. I am going to phase back howl if any vampires or if something seems off."

"How do you phase back?"

"Calm down and think of something that makes you happy. It took me a week and a half to phase back."

"So that Is were you were. Wait how do I know what a vampire smells like?"

"Believe me you will know." Just like that she was gone. I was left to my thoughts alone just me. I felt out of it. I felt. Empty.

Jared Pov

I was just waking up. I love Saturdays. No school, Sleep, Eat, Sleep some more, use the restroom, and eat a lot more. I stretched my arms in the air and leaned to my left and too my right. I kicked my feet up over the side of my bed and slowly stood up. I made my way down stairs and grabbed a bag of chips. I slumped down onto the couch and got comfy.

The phone rang. I moaned.
"Mom the phone." No reply. "Mom the phone!" I yelled again. The ring of the phone stung my ears. "MOM THE PHONE!" I shouted. No reply. She owes me for this, I got up off the couch and answered the phone.

"Were not interested!" I growled. Did I just growl?

"Jared it is Leah. Sam is missing and I think Rachel might know something about it." Ya gossip hour with Leah. I rolled my eyes. Shoot me now, this is going to be a long day.

Leah explained to me about what she found in the woods and about conversations she had with Sam's mom and Rachel. Though the conversation with Rachel did not explain much or end well. I began to take it more seriously when she sent a text to my cell of a picture.

The picture was of Sam's white truck pulled over across the dirt road from the forest edge. There was 3 claw marks running down the side of the truck and wolf prints on the ground in front of the truck. I was beginning to freak out a little.

"Leah I'm going to figure some stuff out I will call you if I find anything usable."

"Thank you Jared."

"Ya thanks anytime Leah." Leah was like a sister to me she was my first friend since I was 2, we did a swim class together, and have been best friends ever since. I hung up the phone and dialed Sam. The ringing stopped and I was shocked.