This chapter is dedicated to RockinThatAfroPic and RainGoddess2040 for making me want to write this chapter.

On an account of Bella, Charlie and I were driving down to La Push by ourselves because she didn't want to see the pint of junk Uley called a car just yet.

We parked in front of a good medium sized homely looking house and were about to get out of the car as a lady came out.

The curtain of ebony hair she had shielded the half of her face which was towards us since she was talking to someone inside. Then she turned and smiled at us and I couldn't help but stare.

She had four slash marks on one half of her face which were obviously given to her by some animal.

"Jacob!" Charlie hissed.

"Huh." I said smartly still staring shamelessly at the otherwise beautiful lady.

"Get out of the car."

"Uhn." I nodded, struggling with the locked door.

"Hi, I'm Emily." She said as we approached the porch. "Sam will be right out; he's kinda in the nude."

Charlie nodded while I fidgeted and shifted on my feet.

"Oh come in!" Emily exclaimed, and opened the door behind her.

We stepped into a homely kitchen, where four plated of muffins resided. About a good fifteen in each plate.

How the hell did they eat so much?

Although I wouldn't complain if this assortment appeared at the kitchen table.

We turned when we heard footsteps coming down the stairs behind us.

A tanned guy with ebony hair came through the doorway with his skin still glistening from a probable bath.

He smiled at us, grabbed a muffin and took a bite all before Emily hit in the head with a wooden spoon.

"Hey Charlie." His eyes shifted to me, "You must be Jacob?"

I nodded and grinned, "Only one I've met so far.

"Muffin?"

"Sure." I grinned.

I liked him.

"Well more than likely you're here about the car?"

"Yeah starting school and all that Jazz."

"Okay then," he set down the half finished muffin, "follow me."

"When you sit at the wheel, it's not too bad." Sam said contemplatively.

"C'mon Jake, it's a great deal." Charlie tried.

Well since it wasn't so bad, and Charlie was not the richest man on earth, and I definitely didn't want to walk to school.

"Yeah Charlie, its cool." I said.

He smiled.

"Sammy!" a voice shouted.

Sam rolled his eyes, "Seth." He whispered agitatedly.

A short, slim but somewhat fit boy came around the corner and made a beeline for Sam. Somehow he ended up on Sam's back with his arm wrapped around Sam's nose.

"Sam!" He grinned.

"Seth." Sam grunted.

Seth glanced at me. "Who's the new guy?"

"Seth meet Jacob."

"Hey. Nice to meet you." He slipped down from Sam's back and gave a megawatt grin that rivaled the sun.

"Likewise."

"So Seth you can show Jacob around these parts, while Charlie and I get some stuff sorted out."

"Sure, sure." He grabbed my bicep and dragged me away.

He led me through a part of the forest. Greens and wild life seemed to want to attack me, but stayed on the down low for now. We came out on a part of a sandy beach.

"There's a beach down here?"

"No way man, it's just water and sand."

I grinned and shoved him.

Seth laughed, and then sighed.

"You're a werewolf aren't you?"

"And I'm guessing you're one too, what was your first clue?"

"I'm the best tracker in the pack." He said proudly. "But the first clue was actually the smell."

"Hey, I took a bath this morning!"

He laughed, "But what I can't get is how you became a werewolf if you lived in a sunny, overpopulated state."

I looked at him funny, "How do you know where I lived before?"

"Sam thinks a lot, and when you're in a pack as big as mine, things tend to get around quickly. The entire pack probably knows."

"Entire," I shook my head, "You make it sound like it's a lot."

"Oh it is, "he nodded, "There's me, Sam, Paul, Jared, Quil, Leah, Embry and Collin, but Brady's not far behind."

"Whoa that's a lot." I thought for a second, "When you guys eat, you don't all go to the same place, do you?"

Seth laughed, "Naah, it'd be a Mardi Gras of sorts."

"But how can there be so many wolves at any one time?"

"Well since the Cullens moved in persons haven't stopped phasing."

"Cullens?"

"Yeah, they're this really weird coven of vampires that live in Forks." He shrugged, "I've never actually seen them except through Sam's mind."

"They give trouble much?"

"No, they're good mostly," he kicked a pebble, "Only there this playful one who likes to shake things up. Nothing drastic, just coming to the border once or twice."

"The border?"

"Yeah, it's this whole treaty thing with the vamps that they can't step on our land and all that. Oh, you'll get a kick out of this one. Okay...they're vegetarians!"

I could almost hear the crickets chirping to his supposed joke.

"Seth," I said worriedly, "I don't think Vampires can be vegetarian."

He pouted, "But they are."

"I still can't see a vampire getting blood from a plant...Is there some kind of voodoo ritual they do or something..."

"No, they eat animals."

"What?"

"Jake focus. They drink animal blood."

My eyebrows furrowed, "How odd."

"I know right." he grinned. "But for this year we're going to go to the same school, it'll be really cool." He paused, "Hey that rhymes."

I rolled my eyes.

"Hey Seth?"

"Hmm?"

"Have you imprinted?"

He gave me an odd look.

"I can't imprint Jacob."

"You can't?"

"Yeah, and neither can you."

"Seth, what are you on about."

"Jacob, Imprinting is for werewolves."

"So what are we, teapots?"

He sent a half-hearted glare my way. "No smartass, imprinting is for real werewolves."

"Oh so you're the pot, and I'll be the kettle."

"No, I'm a shape shifter, and so are you most likely. We just got the name because we kept turning into wolves instead of other creatures."

"Shape shifter?" Well it sounded better than the feared werewolf.

"And back to imprinting, only werewolves do that, but we get the name, hence the reputation. We don't exactly imprint. Sure we do have a set mate for life and all of that, but we don't fall in love immediately. You just feel drawn toward this person by a strong emotion. And the more time around them, the feeling with grow so strong until you realize that person is your soul mate." He shrugged, "Simple."

"So what happens if you don't realize that person is your soul mate?"

He finally stopped walking and plopped onto the sand.

He shrugged, "Donno never happened before."

I looked him over, "And how did you come by all of this information?"

"When you're in a pack as large as mine with everyone being older than you, Things tend to lodge in your mind...Besides, half the time I was quoting Sam."

I started laughing at him.

He pulled me to the ground just to push me on the sand.

"Jerk." He said, the corner of his lips twitching.

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I knew the truck wasn't that bad.

It just seemed that way. The creaks ad groans it made were exaggerated.

But Bella's facial expression was... different.

It seemed like a mixture between, Horror, wanting to scream and wanting to cry.

In the end she screamed, a true Bella move.

"The hell I'm going to school in that!"

Charlie patted my shoulder and gave me a somber smile.

So much for encouragement.

I went through the door and into the kitchen.

Yesterday, the rain had woken me up.

And it hadn't let up.

I wasn't very keen on going to school on my first day in rain. But that didn't mean I had a choice.

Gosh, life was unfair.

I was beginning to think I was more cat than wolf; I didn't despise or dislike rain, but I hated the thought of wet and soggy clothes clinging to my skin.

That might have explained why even my long hair was under a tam.

"You look like you're about to spend a weekend in the North-Pole and you can't bring a suitcase." Bella commented.

She had donned a mid-thigh length sweater with black corduroys.

I just looked at her.

"Well then, scaredy cat lets go. I'd actually not like to get a detention on my first day."

I rolled my eyes and grabbed the keys off the island counter.

Bella walked in front of me to the door. I watched her back suspiciously. She wasn't being as glary and harsh as usual...

Then it hit me, she was trying to be in a good mood...to be optimistic. As the engine roared to life I realized she was going to try and impress the new persons she'd meet.

Even she knew that once she was in a bad mood, it would stay with her for the day, and repel others.

She even sang to songs on the radio while we drove and didn't complain once about the sound of the old engine.

Bella was living proof that miracles do happen.

...~

We had declined Charlie's offer to show us the school beforehand. But before he left for work he had given us the directions and told us ten times not to get lost.

The school though, was relatively easy to find and even I was surprised at the size.

It was pretty big, and dismissing the thin fog that had settled around it, it was beautiful if you liked the classic brick style type of building. Reneesme would have said it had 'character.'

I'd probably retort and say that it was a fancy word for moss and slime.

Then she'd probably smack me upside the head and earn a sprain wrist.

Now I missed my best friend more than anything. I would have loved to contact her, but she didn't like technology.

I'd call her a hippie or tree hugger of sorts.

The funny thing was, her father was a tech whiz. Anything to do with computers and phones and such and he was the best.

But for now, Reneesme wasn't here, and he'd have to deal with it.

They seemed to be early, judging form the lack of cars in the parking lot.

Just parking in the first empty space, I took a moment to glace at the few persons around, while Bella unbuckled her seat belt.

Bella sighed heavily, "Jacob,"

I looked at her.

"Don't screw this up for me...you've already ruined enough lives.

With that she grabbed her backpack and hopped out of the car.

I sighed and watched her walk away.

Grabbing my own pack, I lock the door and ambled off to the part of the building that said office.

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After getting my schedule and conversing with the receptionist at the desk just to pass time, I ambled off to find my first class.

Math.

It was just my luck to be going through the door and bump into another person going in at exactly the same time.

"Seth?"

"Jacob, hey." He smiled.

"What are you doing here?"

"I told you Jake, I'm going to this school now."

"No I mean, what are you doing here? As in the upper classmen...class?"

"Oh, that...Advanced Placement dude. I've got like four more classes with this year."

"Why don't they just let you skip?"

"Donno man."

"Well at least now I know someone here."

"You really need a life Jake."

"I know man I know."

It was just how I imagined it, perpendicular triangles on the walls, and the smell of math in the morning. I was in heaven.

Shoot me now.

"Mr. Jacob Black?" Mr. Banner inquired, peering curiously over his glasses, while doing the roll call.

I raised my hand.

He smiled and pushed his glasses up with his pinky.

"Welcome to Forks High Mr. Black."

And he resumed the list, not noticeable of the blunt stares persons sent my way.

I wanted to melt in my seat.

Seth clapped my back.

"Stick it out man, stick it-"

"Seth Clearwater."

Seth squeaked.

Payback is a bitch.

"Also welcome to Forks High."

Regardless of the constant staring on my part, my bad mood diffused as I watched Seth fidget and squirm in his seat under the scrutiny of the heavy gazes sent his way.

"Ha, that's great man, you just got-"

"Mr. Black, at Forks high, we try not to scream at our peers unless absolutely necessary. Maybe you would like to practice that principle."

I crumbled, "Yes Sir."

He nodded, and looked away," Now welcome back to school, class. I trust you had a good summer."

There were quiet grumbles from all around.

"Good, now for this semester we will..."

I tried to focus entirely on his words, if only to distract myself from Seth's quiet giggles.

...~

After Math, I contemplated skipping Literature. It may have been my first day, but Shakespeare was one thing that could send me running and screaming.

He may have written the most famous romantic play ever, but I didn't fancy 'thee', telling 'thou', that one must 'doeth' whatever. It got to me.

Seth ambled behind me, chatting away a mile a minute.

"And I think Paul hates me," he ranted, "I don't know why he glares at me like he does. Maybe because his mate is my sister, and Leah never does shut up about me."

"Neither do you." I was tempted to say.

"So he's probably not getting any."

I chuckled at Seth's choice of words.

Then it hit me.

The sickly, sweet smell of vampire that I'd know since I'd phased.

Seth stopped abruptly, so I knew he had smelt it too.

Like rotten cotton candy with an array of strong perfumes.

Seth mirrored my expression; Nose scrunched up, eyes glistening from the burn and a distraught look on his face.

"I guess you'll finally meet the Cullens." I whispered to Seth.

I knew those vampire could hear me. Now where were they?

"Uh Jake, can we walk somewhere else?"

"C'mon Seth, you can't let those Vamps think your scared of them. It gives them power."

"I'm not scared, it just smells really bad."

Having heightened senses sucked sometimes.

Before I could say anything else, the vampires in question appeared.

A golden haired pretty boy with curls that rivaled those old phone cords appeared. A short girl with short brunette hair curled outward followed.

The guy looked as if he was experiencing some sort of silent pain, but the small one seemed comfortable enough.

But I was frozen to the spot when she looked my way.

Astonishing Golden yellow eyes glued me to the spot, and stared into my very soul.

We broke contact when she glanced at Seth.

We watched them walk away until they went into a classroom.

Then I grabbed Seth and grunted.

"Let's go."

"But we don't have the same class."

I sighed, "See you at lunch then."

...~

I thought that History would be the manageable of all the classes, but they made it extra special.

A huge muscle-packed vampire sat in front of me the entire time. And Seth sat at the far back.

I had come early and sat next to a Mike Newton. Who blabbered the whole time about a girl he'd met. From the description, Bella popped up first.

The vampire, who I'd gotten a name for, Emmett had come in late and the only free seat had to be the one in front of me.

I usually wasn't fearful of vampires, but this one looked like he could break me in half without even trying if the right situation came up.

And so I didn't even say a word, hoping not to provoke the deadly creature.

I actually got so sick of it, that I got used to the sickly smell.

Yeah, it tends to do that to you.

As soon as the bell rang, he was out of his seat like a shot.

I couldn't smell that bad.

I sniffed my hair.

It still smelt like watermelon.

I shrugged and went to lunch.

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How I came to be sitting at a table with an overly friendly Jessica, a girl named Angela, Mike, Seth, a Tyler and Bella was beyond me.

In a blur Jessica had grabbed me and dragged me to the table.

That girl was unnaturally strong.

Now they were talking about a movie.

"Hey Jake, you up for it?" Jessica asked.

"Sure, sure." I bit into my sandwich.

At that moment by some force of nature I looked up. I saw the three vampires I'd seen earlier, and a model, worship worthy blonde girl.

"...the Cullens."

I blinked at Jessica. "I'm sorry what?"

"Those are the Cullens." She explained.

I bit my lip. "Really?"

"Yeah, they're like mega rich and all so gorgeous, you should see their parents. They are so perfect. The entire family could be models. That's Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper and Alice."

"Alice is nice, but Rosalie's a bitch." An unknown girl commented.

She glanced at them once more. "Hm, Edward's not here." I noticed the way he said his name with a sort of reverence, and apparently I wasn't the only one.

"Edward?" Bella questioned.

"Yeah," she sighed, "He's so gorgeous and single. All for the taking. But no girl here is good enough for him." A different set to her jaw made me wonder how he'd turned her down.

But just after that I resisted the urge the smack Jessica. She shouldn't have said that.

Now Bella had that glint in her eye.

The one that meant she was ready to take on a challenge. The cogs in her brain were spinning. And I knew it had to do with the single Cullen.

And she probably knew they were vampires.

She may not have phased but I knew she could tell the inhuman different for those alive.

Bella was digging for trouble. And she'd drag me down with her.

...~

Biology class was the worst class in the history of classes.

Oh, the teacher was awesome. And I loved Biology, because I was good at it.

But the moment I'd walked through the door of the science lab, there was Bella, sitting comfortably at a table, talking to Angela.

It ran through my mind to just turn and go straight back through the door. But I'd turned and ran smack dab into the teacher.

"What did I ever do to you?" was the telepathic message I'd sent up to the ceiling.

So I had to go straight to the only other two empty seats left, directly in front of Bella's table.

"Okay class, Welcome to a new school year. I trust you all enjoyed your Summer." He smiled as they grunted, "Well I did-"

"You barely got any didn't you prof, its okay man. We understand."

The teacher chuckled. "Well Mark, the little that I got is more than you will ever get."

The class 'ooued' as Mark turned red.

"Now where was I, yes, we'll be delving deeper into the systems and the cells of the body this semester. And for all those who want to become doctors and such, this is very important for you."

He took a book out of his briefcase. "For now, you'll be put into groups of two and get a specific system, which you and your partner will research thoroughly. So turn towards the person next to you and say a nice big hello to your new partner."

Groans resounded throughout the classroom.

"Now, now people, you're all familiar with each other to an extent, don't make it sound so bad."

I looked to my left, my partner didn't seem to like me, and didn't talk much. Or it could just be that no one was sitting there.

"Hey you, with the long hair."

I glanced up as the teacher walked briskly to my table.

I wasn't exactly going anywhere.

He smiled at me, "Hey, welcome to the school. Your partner Edward Cullen is not at school today, hopefully you'll catch him tomorrow. Usually I'd make both partners pick, but since it's a two week project you can just pick and tell him tomorrow."

It took a few seconds for his first sentence to sink in.

Edward...Cullen was my partner.

As in Jessica's crush Edward. The same Edward that Bella was pining after even though she had never seen him before.

I was going to be sick.

The next day at lunch, I sat beside Bella.

If possible, I would try to restrain her if she tried to go after the Cullen we hadn't seen yet.

I'd told her time and again last night that this was a bad idea, but when on this planet did Bella ever listen to me.

So here we were, watching the Cullens come in like we were watching a fashion show.

As they came in, I'd found myself drawn to Rosalie's hip but then Bella gasped.

And when did Bella ever show surprise, it was usually just anger and horror.

So when Bella had gasped I followed her gaze.

"Oh." I said simply.

He wasn't smiling or even grinning, his face was a perfect blank slate, but that just added to the mystery.

He was tall; I didn't really have a growth spurt from my 5'5, so he was probably taller than me.

He walked with a sort of relaxed grace that only the little one had, but her's was more ballerina type grace. Though being a vampire, this was au natural.

He ran a hand through his reddish-brown hair.

I swear I saw Bella bite her lip.

He glanced up at our table as if someone had called his name, eyes landing on Jessica.

Then he looked our way.

And if I thought I'd felt glued to the floor when Alice looked at me, then now I couldn't feel my fingers.

Bella looked away, blushing because she saw him looking at her. .

His eyes flickered to her for a second and his eyebrows furrowed, and then he glanced back to me.

I really could honestly imagine myself saying, "you feeling Froggy, then jump!'

But I just stared into the depths of those golden honey eyes.

Then he looked away, back to one of his brothers, the curly-haired one I think.

And glanced back at me, saying something so low I couldn't even hear it.

Then they all got up as one and left the building.

I blinked out of my stupor.

Well that was weird.

...~

Edward Cullen didn't come to class.

Though I wouldn't come either if I was a Vampire.

It would be hard to be a vegetarian when everyone was actually purposely spilling their blood.

Bella faked fainting and went to the nurse's office.

So I worked with Angela instead since we both didn't have a partner.

She was the first person I'd met in Forks who didn't feel the need to fill every silence with relentless chatter.

It was a normal class for once.

It happened while I was waiting on Seth.

He was calling Leah to let her know he'd be coming over to my house and not to pick him up.

It all went by in such a blur, that I was surprised when I'd finally found myself in the hospital.

I was watching Bella stand beside the car watching Edward Cullen, but I didn't exactly know what he was doing, I couldn't see him clearly from where I was.

I heard Seth walking towards me and I turned to greet him when I heard the screech of tires and a crash.

When I looked back, Bella was gone and in her place was a big blue truck.

...~

I shivered, but not from the cold.

What if she had died? I may have disliked her, but isn't that what siblings do?

Just for the heck of it, Siblings argue and fight and occasionally hate.

I groaned and put my head in my hands, just to look away from the hospital lights.

No matter what Bella did to me, I didn't want her dead. I preferred if she was alive to sneer at and goad me.

Edward had saved her. He'd jumped in front of the car at the last minute. And stopped it from crushing her. I would be grateful to him if I knew that he wouldn't want anything in return...Bella's blood for instance.

I watched as a gorgeous blond who was better looking than any actor I'd even seen came out the room Bella was in and came towards me.

"Are you Jacob?" he asked with warm kind eyes, which looked sort of familiar.

"Charlie says you can go home now. Bella will probably stay over night. She hit her head pretty hard."

Then I saw Edward and Rosalie come around the corner talking. If one thought Rosalie and Emmett looked good together, they should see these two.

Emmett and Rosalie looked cute and warm and familiar together, but Edward and Rosalie looked like the perfect couple you would only find advertising something together in a magazine.

They stopped talking and looked our way.

Something in Rosalie's face changed. And she looked at me with genuine curiosity.

Edward nodded to Carlisle for some reason; it was so fast if I had blinked I would have missed it

Carlisle went to Rosalie and led her away.

He looked at me and signaled for me to come outside.

I followed him to the parking lot and he stopped beside a Mercedes.

"So you're the wolf?"

I looked up at him with wide eyes. I didn't expect such fascination in his velveteen voice

"One of them that is."

"Yeah. So?"

"Nothing," he chuckled, "You just seemed curious."

Curious. I thought that over in my head. Somehow it didn't sound right.

"Why did you save Bella, why didn't you let that van crush her?"

"You're not happy? You wanted her to be crushed? There's still time to..."

"No, I just...I just want to know why you did it."

He raised an eyebrow, but answered none the less. "Jasper sent me a message at the last minute. If blood had been spilt, he would have gone crazy."

"Oh."

A silence fell over us.

He looked at me, and I looked at the ground.

"Do you want something to eat?"

"Why, trying to fatten me up for the roasting?"

"No, you didn't eat much at lunch today, which isn't good for you."

He opened the car door, "Besides, why would I roast perfectly good meat?" And with that he slid into the car.

Somehow, no matter how I turned that over in my head, it always came out as perverted as it sound.

I opened the door and went inside.

If somehow had asked if my sanity was gone I'd say yes.

Why I was going into a car with a vampire I barely knew, and why it didn't bother me were two questions whose answers were completely lost to me.

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Okay five things:

One. Ehhh, Sorry about changing the whole process of imprinting if you'd liked it the way it was by Stephanie Myer.

Two. Uh Edward'll be in the next chapter so much more? *runs away*

I don't know why I did that but: Whoop got some exercise!

Three. About the whole Bella bitchyness thing...I just don't see it. Everyone's commenting on how much a bitch Bella is...well she is, but I've read bitchy-err. I think.

Four. About the whole Dmitri/Charlie thing. He wasn't really meant for Charlie in the story, but since persons are giving some positive feedback on him, I think you'll be seeing him a lot. Let me know how you feel about him.

And five. And also, yes, this chapter was over a four to five day period. Sorry but I wanted to give you guys something, since I probably won't be updating until July. When exams end.

Honestly this chapter was boring to me, it wasn't fun to write...or that could be because I've been reading it over and over since I started writing it...*heavy sigh*

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