Author's note: All characters belong to Stephenie Meyers and Disney.

Please review. This is my first fanfic I hope you like it

Chapter 4 - Discovery

"Alex! Wait up!"

I hear Harper call from behind me as I leave school. I totally forgot to wait for her after school; I was still lost in thoughts of the giant wolf and Jacob.

She catches up to me, out of breath.

"Why didn't you wait for me?"

"I'm so sorry Harper. I just forgot."

"We meet up everyday after school, well except when you have detention, but anyway how could you forget? What's up with you lately? Your even spacier than usual."

I sigh.

"Come on I'll tell you on the walk home."

We start walking back to my place and I quickly get into telling her about what happened the other night.

I tell her about how I heard the wolf howling and that I went looking for Mason thinking it was him. I tell her about what I found instead: that monstrous wolf. I reluctantly tell her about me forgetting my wand and about me falling and knocking myself unconscious. Harper is such a good friend. She doesn't even make fun of me for being so clumsy and forgetful.

"Oh my god how come the wolf didn't like… eat you or something?"

I shrug. I don't know why it didn't attack me, I've been asking myself the same question.

"I don't know but some guy found me and carried me to his hotel room"

I can tell that that worries her.

"I'm pretty sure nothing happened. He actually seemed genuinely concerned about me."

"W-well what happened? Who was he? What did he say? Are you alright?"

"He looked like he was around our age. He didn't say much. I got out of there as soon as I could but he looked so sad to see me go. Maybe he's lonely or something. I don't think anyone was staying with him."

"So that's why you've been so weird the last few days?"

"Yeah… I can't stop thinking about him."

We turn onto Waverly Place and slow down so we can finish talking.

"I keep having these fantasies about him. I feel so guilty, I hardly think of Mason anymore."

"Alex you don't even know this guy!"

"I know" I sighed.

"Wow… was he that good looking?"

Jacob's cute smile, his deep, wise, brown eyes, and all his muscle flash through my head.

"Yeah… he was."

I say smiling uncontrollably.

It feels good to talk about him to someone. It seems to ease my thoughts about him.

"I want to do some research in the lair. Will you help me?"

"You! Alex Russo? Your gonna do research?"

She gives me a weird look and feels my forehead. I swat her hand away.

"Jeez Alex. What's gotten into you?"

"Are you gonna help me or not?"

I ask, frustrated.

"Why don't you just ask Justin?"

"I can't tell him what happened, he'd rat me out to my parents."

"Alright fine. I'll help you"

I smile and give her a hug.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

I cry and drag her inside.

"Alex you missed dads lesson again. You should really just give up now. You're never going to beat me."

I roll my eyes at my brother and just kept walking with Harper back to the lair.

"What are you doing?"

He calls after us.

"None of your business!"

I shout back and quickly close the lair door.

We searched every book we could find for hours and weren't finding anything. Harper was asleep with her face in a book when I found a book on old magic folklore. I glanced through it and finally found something.

"Harper! I found something."

She jumps awake, startled.

"Huh? What?"

"Come here. I think I found something."

She comes over rubbing her eyes and I point out the story I found about a tribe called the Quileutes.

"Look Harper it says they're descended from wolves, it talks about this Quileute person they called an Alpha, he's a transforming wolf."

"Alex this is just folklore. We don't know that any of this is really true."

"But I saw the wolf!"

"Alex there's no way that that wolf was this so called Alpha. This story is hundreds of years old. This transforming wolf wouldn't still be alive even if it were true. And the tribe is located in Washington State that's on the other side of the country. What would one of them be doing here?"

I gasp.

"Jacob! What if he's the transforming wolf!"

Harper rolls her eyes at me and sighs.

"Alex your seriously crazy. This isn't even possible."

I sigh.

"But it's the only thing we found."

"'I'm sorry Alex"

I'm disappointed but not truly convinced that the story about the Quileute tribe isn't true.

"Come on Alex let's just go to bed it's getting late."

"Sure, you go ahead I'm just gonna put these books away."

"I'll help you."

"No!... I mean I already made you stay up with me and research you just go to bed I'll clean up. Thanks for the help though."

"Alright… goodnight then."

She definitely knows I'm up to something but she knows me well enough not to bother asking. She leaves and I quickly throw the books on the shelf, grab the book about the tribal folklore, and sneek up to my room with it.