Seth's POV

What the hell was I doing? I was kissing a girl that I had just met that day, but I had also imprinted on her…. But I just met her! And I knew how she felt about how she felt about the imprint, but I also knew what it would do to her. It would make her want me, especially at her age. How could I do this? To Piper, or Jacob! Jake was my best friend and here I was kissing his daughter…. Some friend I was to him. I needed to stop this! But the thing was that I wanted to kiss her, I wanted to stay here with her forever, but I knew that wasn't possible. I wanted Piper to love me for me, not because the imprint was taking over her while she was in a vulnerable state. So I reluctantly pulled away.

After I pulled away I opened my eyes to look at Piper and I knew she was thinking the same thing I was. The look on her face was unreadable, but her eyes gave her away. Piper's gold eyes were cold and rock hard. I could tell that she knew what I was thinking; she knew what we were doing was wrong, but she wanted to do it. She wanted to kiss me just as much as I wanted to kiss her, but we had just met and we knew that it was wrong. And as much as I hated to admit it, the attraction was just physical at the moment. It was the imprint that made her feel the way she did at the moment. It was even that for me, I didn't know this girl any more than she knew me. I did have a feeling, however, that she wanted to get to know me just as much as I wanted to get to know her. I wanted to fall in love with this girl like I was meant to as an imprint. And I might have been wrong, which happened a lot apparently, but I was pretty sure that she would eventually fall in love with me. But she always had a choice. I just wanted her to choose me. Man, I was being selfish!

"Do you want to talk about this?" I asked. Piper got up and walked away from me slowly. Her back was turned to me, but I saw the way her shoulders shook as she cried silently. When she turned back around tears were running down her cheeks, though she tried to hide them. When she looked at me her gold eyes had a green tint to them as the tears distorted their beautiful color.

"There's nothing to say Seth," Piper said. She put her hand over her mouth and sighed. Then she closed her eyes and, again took a deep breath. "What happened was something we couldn't control, but it happened to fast and it was wrong. I mean we just met." I could tell that her breathing was getting quicker and shallower. She was hyperventilating!

"Whoa, whoa, whoa Piper," I said jumping up to her. "Breath…"

I put my hand on her shoulder for just one second and felt instant sparks go through her body into my hand and straight to my heart…. It literally felt like I was shocked by lightning, but the pain was replaced with bliss. Painful bliss. Piper must have felt it too for after it happened she jerked her shoulder away from me and stepped back. The look on her face was cross between fear and amazement. She was just as scared as I was, maybe even more. The look on her face made me feel so bad inside, all I wanted to do was put my arms around her and pull her close. Let her know everything was going to be okay and that we would get through this together. But I knew that it would make things any better.

"Look," she said, "I just need to take a little while for all of this to sink in. Everything just happened today and then this happens…" she put her head in her hands and sobbed one last time. When she lifted her head again, he face was completely composed, her mouth in a hard, solid line. "Things can't go this fast, nothing is supposed to go this fast."

"I know," I said quietly. To tell the truth, I didn't know what my body language was like, because my heart was racing so fast and my body felt numb. If being near her was going to make me feel like this then I might have needed to get some medication for shakes. "Look you know you have a choice Piper," I said. "Take all the time you need to let this sink in. I'll always be around. If you need a friend, shoulder to cry on, even a punching bag," I paused and she giggled a little, "I'll be there for you."

Piper smiled and sighed. "Okay good," she said. "Thank you Seth." She then stepped forward and wrapped her arms around my neck for a hug. This wasn't exactly taking it slow to me… but I wasn't going to complain. I wrapped my arms around her waist and held her there until she wanted to let go. "I think we should get back to the house," she said.

"Let me phase and ask Jacob about it," I said stepping away from her and pulling off my shirt. When I did so Piper held her breath and moved her eyes off of me; I smiled. I now knew what made her so physically attracted to me.

When I phased I made sure that I stayed at a close distance to where Piper stood still as a rock in the meadow. It was funny how she had reacted to seeing me without a shirt. She had to look away and hold her breath… it was cute the way she crinkled her nose up at the sight of me. She couldn't even look at me, that's what was funny. Another part of this physical attraction that I seemed to be clinging to at this point.

I started walking around the woods sniffing everything out. I was also trying to find someone who might have been in wolf form. I had found out after I had run away from the pack that I could say anything I wanted in my head and they wouldn't hear me as long as I concentrated hard enough, but I could hear all of them. So I waited for someone's voice to appear in my head. I got a few voices, none that I wanted to hear though. I waited for a while longer to see if I could get Jacob, Damon, or even Wyatt's voice in my mind. I didn't hear any until maybe five minutes later; it ended up being Damon. In the short time I had known Damon I figured that he was the type of wolf that would phase just to phase. For the thrill of being a giant wolf. I can't say that I shared the same thrill of being a monster. To some, like Damon, it was nothing but bliss. It was fun as hell to run on all fours and bark. But to others, like me, it was a curse that I couldn't get rid of. Well, unless I stop phasing that is, but as much as I hated doing it I couldn't stop phasing. I had made a promise that I intended to keep. The sad thing was that when I had first phased I loved it, I loved it just as much as Damon did. Maybe even more, and now the thought of going wolf made me sick to my stomach.

'Damon,' I said in my mind. I could tell the surprise in his head when he heard my voice. I was guessing that the only voice he had ever heard was Jacob's.

'Seth,' he breathed. 'You scared me.' Damon was right in front of Edward and Bella's cottage.

'Sorry man,' I said. 'Your sister is getting antsy about seeing Wyatt. She wants to know when she can come back.'

'Figures,' he said. Piper's face appeared in his head and he rolled his eyes. 'Well you can bring her home but I'm not so sure that Wyatt is going to care to talk to her.'

'Yeah she said that they had a pretty nasty fight right before he phased,' I said as I walked around in a circle.

'Go ahead and bring her home,' Damon said. I could feel something strange in his tone, like there was a hidden anger that he was trying not to show me. Then he added, 'Bring her to the cottage, but leave her in the woods far enough for her to walk. Then I suggest you get as far away from the house as possible or I will kill you.'

'What are you talking about?' I asked. I could feel Damon's anger as he replayed everything that he saw in my head about me and Piper. He saw everything that happened. Damon saw the kiss in my head. 'Oh shit.'

'Just don't show up, and I won't tell my dad,' he said carefully. Then his thoughts were suddenly gone as he phased back into a human.

Now I wasn't scared of Damon at all, but Jacob I was. I knew what would happen if Damon told Jacob that I kissed his daughter…. I would be dead. I didn't know what would be worse, death by my best friend, or knowing that I kissed my best friends daughter and then having him kill me. Usually I didn't respond to threats, especially threats from teenagers, but this one I had a feeling I should listen to. I walked back to the clearing and phased back to my human form. When I walked back to the clearing, after putting my clothes back on, and found Piper lying on her back in the grass, looking at the sky.

"Well you can go home now," I said as I sat down next to her. She looked up at me and smiled.

"The sky looks really pretty today," she whispered. I looked at her in surprise, and then I let my expression soften, for I didn't know when I'd be seeing her next. So I just smiled and went along with her smile.

Later that afternoon I had to say goodbye to Piper, and I didn't realize how hard it was to say goodbye. And the worst part was the fact that I was in wolf form so I couldn't exactly say goodbye. So I pressed me nose up against her hand as to say goodbye.

"I'll see you soon Seth," Piper said. She gave me a smile, and then a small kiss on my nose. She didn't know what that meant to me… and I knew I wouldn't be able to tell her.

As she walked away and into the cottage, Damon met her at the door. After she was safely inside he turned and gave me one hard nod. I took that as sign to leave. And so I did…. I thought it was going to be that easy, but of course I underestimated the power of the imprint.

Note: I am sorry that this is so short