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True Stories

I got into my truck ignoring Paul calling me, I was not going to stay and let him laugh at me about his tribes legends. I suddenly pulled over on to the side of the road, the legends, the scary story that Jake told me. The 'cold ones' in the story ended up being true, so the protectors must be true. But how can a human turn into an animal and be fast enough and strong enough to destroy a vampire.

I pulled back onto the road and drove home; it was impossible nothing could change from human to animal like that and still look human afterwards. I pulled into the drive and sat there for a few minutes, today had been cruel. Not only was I the centre of attention at school again for all the wrong reasons, I then became a joke to a stranger from the Reservation.

After a few deep breaths, I got out of the truck and made my way to the porch. Before I could get to the front door, Charlie opened it and held his arms open for me. I walked straight into his arms and felt as his arms wrapped around me tight before he let go and coughed. He turned around and walked back into the house and I followed him closing the door behind myself.

"Bad day at school?" Charlie asked before taking a sit in his chair.

"Yes, everything reminded me of them and people were saying things." I replied sitting on the couch and wrapping my arms around my torso.

"It is going to be hard Bells, you need to find the courage to ignore the reminders and concentrate on finishing school. As for the rumours, that is a downside to living in a small town. People have an opinion on what happened and then enjoy telling anyone who will listen."

"But not all the rumours are true." I commented.

"They never are, some of the things that were spread around the town when your mom left me was ridiculous."

"What were they?"

"That your mom was having an affair and ran off with some business man, I beat your mom and that was why she left, I was having an affair with Sarah Black. The worse was when there was a rumour that you were not mine, I'm not proud of my actions when I found out who started that rumour." Charlie told me, I sat there shocked that the town's people would really believe any of them.

"Am I your daughter?" I asked unable to hide the grin.

"Take a good look at yourself Bells, where do you think you got your eye colouring from? Your stubbornness from and your klutziness from?" Charlie replied while chuckling.

"You got a point there, so who started that rumour that I was not your daughter?" I asked him.

"Next time you are in town and see Sean Mallory, take a good look at his nose. No amount of surgery will ever get it straight."

"You hit him?" I asked shocked, that my placid quiet dad could do that.

"Yes, and I am not proud of myself." Charlie told me looking grim.

"So if I hit Lauren Mallory for starting the rumours, you won't be mad with me?" I asked knowing that I would never have the nerve to do that.

"Yes I would, back then I should have been the bigger person and walked away. As the police of chief's daughter you need to be the bigger person and ignore her."

"Dad I had no plans to hit her, that is not the type of person I am, plus I would probably lose my balance and end up on my butt even if I tried." I explained and could see the relief clearly on his face.

"Good, Bells they will get bored soon and stop bringing it up so often before everybody will forget about it. Sometimes you have to take the rough with the smooth before things get back to normal."

We were stopped from any further conversation when the doorbell went, I stayed sat on the couch until Charlie walked in with a large box of pizza.

"I guessed that when you didn't come straight home from school that you were at the beach." Charlie explained walking through to the kitchen with the pizza still in his hand.

I followed him in and sat at the table as he got out plates and two glasses of water, we ate in silence until the food was gone and I made the excuse that I had homework to do. I made my way up to my room and started to pace, thinking about the legends again. I knew that the supernatural world existed but was it really possible.

I jumped when there was a knock on the bedroom door and I quickly answered it, when it was Charlie stood there I felt relieved, I don't who I thought was knocking at my bedroom door but I was ready not to be shocked anymore.

"I could hear you pacing downstairs, everything ok?" Charlie asked as he stood in the doorway.

"Yeah, just a lot on my mind" I answered him; I didn't think it would be a good idea to tell him about my suspicious and I was sure that if all the legends were true then they had to be secret.

"I need to go down to the station for a while, a lad from Forks who was studying in Seattle went missing a few weeks ago and his parents have some more information that they only want me to see. I should be back by midnight."

"Sure dad, I will be here." I told him then watched as he walked away from my room, a few seconds later I heard the front door open and close.

I walked over to my computer and switched it on; I was going to wait until Charlie was asleep. I paced the floor a while longer as I waited for it to boot up. Once the screen was ready I loaded up the search engine and typed in Quileute legends, a few came up about a bird but nothing about men turning into wolves or anything about the 'cold ones. I shut the computer down by the power lead in frustration.

I walked out of my room to take a shower when there was a knock on the front door; I hesitated on the stairs for a few seconds before slowly making my way down. I looked through the spy hole and was surprised to see Sam Uley stood on my porch, a part of my brain was telling me to ignore it as he was probably here to laugh at me but the curious part wanted to know if what Paul had told me was true.

Before I could decide my body had made its own mind up and opened the door wide.

"Evening Bella, is it ok if I come in I need to talk to you about something? And I don't think it would be a good idea to do this on the porch." Sam asked taking a step closer to me.

"Sure, but I want to ask something first before you talk." I told him before walking into the lounge and leaving Sam to walk in and shut the door.

"Are all the legends true?" I asked as he walked into the lounge.

"Yes."

"So Paul really does turn into a wolf?"

"Yes."

"Do you also turn into a wolf?"

"Yes"

"You are not messing around, this is real?" I asked as I sat down quickly on the couch.

"No, Paul was not messing around with you. He was telling you the truth." Sam told me.

"Why me? Why did he tell me?" I asked

"Because you are his imprint, and that means that he can't keep anything from you."

"What does imprint mean?" I asked confused.

"You are his soul mate." Was Sam's reply, I could hear him say something else but my ears became blocked.

I was suddenly struggling to breathe, and becoming dizzy. I heard the front door open and wanted to shout out not to leave me as I was sure that I was going to die, I suddenly felt warm hands on either side of my face and somebody telling me to calm down.

"Bella, listen to me. Breath through your nose and out through your mouth." I heard and recognised Paul's voice.

He kept repeating himself, until I found myself calming down. My hearing started to return and I stopped feeling dizzy, I looked up to see Paul smiling at me before he stepped away.

"How are you feeling Bella?" Paul asked a few minutes later.

"Shocked, confused, surprised. I don't understand how I can be your soul mate? There is nothing special about me." I spoke in a low whisper.

"Our spirits think that there is Bella and they have chosen you to be Paul's mate." Sam suddenly said from the other side of the room.

"I'm messed up, I was involved in the supernatural world and it nearly got me killed twice, how can I be the right person when it just attracts danger to me?" I asked.

"Because you were with the wrong supernatural people, we don't kill humans. It is our job to protect them from the 'cold ones'." Paul growled out, causing me to look up at him.

"Paul calm down now or you will have to leave. Bella we are having a bonfire on Saturday night, the Elders of our tribe will be there and they can tell you all the legends." Sam shouted out causing me to jump and making Paul stop growling.

"There are more things that I want to ask, do I have to wait until Saturday?" I asked, still not happy with the information I had got so far.

"No, you can ask anything now, Paul and I will try to answer them." Sam replied.

"What does being a soul mate mean? I don't think I am ready for a relationship yet, I'm not sure I ever will be."

"Paul can be anything you need him to be, a brother, friend or lover. It is up to you, he will always be there for you." Sam answered me.

"Bella I won't force you into anything you are not comfortable with, we take it as slow as you want and if I over step any form of barrier, you just have to tell me and I will back off." Paul then said.

"Ok, we take it slow and get to know each other." I told him, hoping that my slow and his slow would be the same. I was broken and my heart was falling apart, I could not imagine even touching another male.

"That is fine" Paul reassured me with a smile on his face.

"Is there anything else Bella?" Sam asked also grinning.

"Yes, I don't understand how you can both look so human."

"Really look at us Bella, we are both nearly seven foot tall, and we have muscles that a human could only get if they were on steroids. You just heard us growl when we get angry, that is not a normal human trait." Sam started to explain before Paul stepped closer to me and held his arm out.

"Touch my arm Bella, we run at a temperature of 108 degrees. If we were human we would be dead by now, we also eat continuously and we had massive growth spurts just before and after we phased. How old do you think Sam and I are?" Paul asked taking a step back once I had touched his arm and then removed it so he was stood closer to Sam.

I looked up at Paul, taking in his facial features then looked at Sam's face. I suddenly felt my face get hot embarrassed that I might get their ages wrong.

"Well Bella, I promise we won't be offended?" Paul chuckled.

"Ok, if I am wrong then I apologise. Paul I would say you look to be about twenty five and Sam I would say about twenty seven."

"See Bella, I am only nineteen years old and Sam is twenty one. We don't know why we age so much but we do." Paul explained.

"On a serious note, we ask that you don't tell anybody about the legends and the truth in them. Also I need to warn you that we can be dangerous, we will never purposely hurt or kill you but you just saw Paul lose his temper. When he starts to growl and then starts shaking you need to step away just in case he phases too close to you." Sam warned in a serious voice.

I could only nod, before staring and Paul. I felt relieved that even though he looked serious he still looked calm.

"Bella, we need to leave, the bonfire is on second beach on Saturday. Do you know where that is?" Sam asked

"Yes, that is where I go fishing with my dad."

"Ok, well I will see you Saturday then, if you do want to talk to me then go to first beach and I will meet you there." Paul said before they walked out the door, leaving me with even more questions. How would Paul know if I was on the Reservation?

I made my way back upstairs and into the bathroom, I turned the shower on and got in trying to clear my mind of everything. I washed up quickly when I realised that all the information was just going round and round in my head and not leaving.

I left the bathroom and got dressed before climbing into bed, I led there for a few minutes wondering what colour wolf Paul was, before slowly drifting off to sleep, I didn't hear Charlie come home but that night I didn't have any nightmares. Instead it was filled with dreams of a silver wolf, Paul and dark haired children.