A very long week passed and I didn't like Forks anymore with each day that went. The small week felt more like a month, I guess time passes slowly when you're hating what you're doing and where you are. I knew that I sure was.

On the fourth day of staying in Forks, mum went to Seattle for something to do with her work, though I was shocked when she said that she would be gone for a month, but it didn't worry me. I was more than happy to be alone. I loved nothing more than to be alone and do what I like, how I liked and for as long as I liked.

I woke up to the sound of rain, yet again hitting my window. It was dark as midnight outside, but when I turned over and looked at my clock, it was 5am. I was surprised that the sun wasn't up. I lay there, trying to get back to sleep, but failed with every minute that went by. At 6am, I got up and dress into my usual and casual style of clothes: a hoodie and jeans. I slowly walked down stairs, careful not to trip with each step I took, knowing that it would be hours, if not days before someone found me if I fell.

In the kitchen, I got a bowl of cereal and filled the bowl to its rims, before heading into the lounge room to watch TV while I ate. As I turned on the light in the room, I could have sworn that I had seen a dark figure move across the room and past me. My hair had lifted in the breeze that I felt as I seen the figure. I felt eerie after it as I sat alone in the huge room. Another sound in the kitchen this time made me jump. "Is anyone there?" I shouted, getting up and looking around the house, turning on each and every light I could find. 'It's just your imagination Jade, it's just your imagination, I repeated over and over, breathing hard with fear.

I ran towards the hall door, grabbing the car keys from the small bowl beside the door. I got outside and it was still dark. I lent up against the closed door, panting. What had gotten into me? Nothing real could move that fast, so why was I freaking out so much?

I went to go back inside and something told me not to, so I headed for the car instead. Once inside the car, I had to check the back seat when I felt eyes on me and again I thought I saw a dark figure. It's just your imagination, it's just your imagination, I repeated again, driving out the driveway and into town. I had only been in the tiny town of Forks once before mum left for Seattle, but still, I knew my way around the town already. That's how small it was...

I got to the Forks Diner and went on inside. There was only one other person in there apart from me which was a customer. I ordered and sat down in the table beside the window, while I waited.

A pale teenage boy with long black hair and black eyes came into the Diner. He looked at me as he passed and went to order his food and then looked at me again as he sat down across from me. There was something about him I didn't like, something I didn't trust. He kept looking at me while I ate and while his food sat there in front of him. He wasn't taking a bite.

I walked pasted him to pay for my breakfast and as I passed, I could still feel his eyes on me. After I paid I went back out to the car and looking behind me, feeling like I was getting followed. I didn't see anyone following me, but I still felt it.

I decided to go and have a look around the place. If I had to stay here for the next two years or whatever, I most as well know what was around me. I trailed around corners and through trees, before seeing a beach in front of me. I pulled up in the parking lot and got out slowly. The sun was finally coming up over the cliffs in front of me. I gazed for a long time at the beach and everything around it. I hadn't ever seen a beach before. The rain fell down heavily upon my shoulders, with the tiniest rays of sun breaking slowly through the clouds. . I shrugged once violently, getting cold from been wet and started to head back to the car, then suddenly I stopped dead where I stood. Something was watching me.

I turned around swiftly and caught eye of the same boy who had been at the Diner, behind me. That had to be impossible; I hadn't been at the beach longer enough for him to have travelled that far, so quickly.

"Who are you?" I ordered with narrow eyes. His eyes also looked different. They were pitch black now and felt like they went on and on, endlessly forever. Fear ran through my body violently, but I ignored it.

"I am Dan," he murmured, looking down and speaking with a light and kind tone. Though his voice was kind enough, I was still alert. "And, I am you're worst nightmare!" He looked up to me with a smug smirk on his face, that scared me to my core, but his smile wasn't what scared me the most, it was his eyes. They had went deeper in black again and the middle of them… the middle of them was white a white that seemed to be glowing.

I gasped loudly in fear and went to run, but then he was in front of me. How?

"Leave me alone!" I shouted, forcing and fist at his face, only for him to catch my wrist and band it back too far. I winced as I felt a crack in my hand and wrist, though I tried to hind it.

"Never, do I leave my meals, uneaten," he said with a dark tone, twisting my hand just that little bit more as he spoke and then pushed me effortlessly to the ground. His hands were so cold. They were as cold as ice.

I looked up to him, fear flushing my face and pain flushing up and down my arm, wrist and hand. I didn't know what to do.

He leant down to me, a dark smile lighting his lips. "You cutie pie, are coming with me," he ordered, with narrow eyes.

"No I won't!" I went to kick him in the face to try and get some time to run, but again I was too slow. He caught my ankle in one hand and my knee in the other and it felt like he crushed both of them into a billion pieces. As if my wrist wasn't enough already.

I couldn't move from the pain in my wrist, knee and ankle, he had won.

"Never in my two hundred years, have I seen a human fight this violently against me. Nor have I seen one not give into unconsents from all the pain like you… But don't worry, it will be all over soon," he murmured, with another dark smile, as he stepped closer to me.

I couldn't believe what was happening. This all had to be just a dream, a nightmare more like it, one that I couldn't wake up from and no one around to help me or could help me.

I did like Dan said. I started to give into the pain. It had to be better than whatever he was going to do to me. As I started to give in, I heard a howl coming from the forest on my right and then seen grey and russet fur in front of me, I couldn't work out the figure of the colours though, but then I saw nothing. What was going on?

I shook my head slowly, my eyes slowly opening and hearing a beeping sound behind me. My head hurt, along with my wrist, knee and ankle. I couldn't remember what had gone on or where I was. My memory, thoughts and eyes were foggy. It hurt to think.

The lights or sun, wherever I was, were too bright. I could hardly see they were so bright. I felt like I hadn't ever seen light before.

"Ah, where am I?" I thought out loud, trying to move my legs, for only a flash of heat and deep pain to run up it.

"Ah," I gripped my leg hard, trying to get the pain to stop.

"Hey keep still," I heard a voice tell me.

With hearing the voice, I jumped. I suddenly remembered why my leg was so painful and then finding that like my leg, my wrist hurt too. I could see Dan's face in my eyes that was it. I couldn't see anything else, but his face.

"Leave me alone Dan," I said, trying to move back from him. It hurt my leg more and my wrist as I used them to try and get away from him. I jumped from whatever I was sitting on and was caught, I fought in his arms.

"Jade, it's me. It's Jacob, calm down. Dan is gone." Suddenly the voice that had spoken was more familiar and friendlier than Dan's. It was Jacob and I knew that I could trust him, even know I had only really just knew him for a few minutes, I knew I could. I could tell with the warmth in his voice and the warmth that was around me, he had caught me, from whatever I had jumped from. I still couldn't see anything but Dan's face in my eyes. I was so scared.

"I can't see anything apart from his face Jacob," I cried, leaning to his grip.

"Shh, its okay Jade. He scared you I know."

"W-where am I?" I stuttered.

"La Push Hospital."

I leant into Jacob's hold as he placed me back on the white bed. I wish that he hadn't put me down. I was cold and I wanted his warmth and hold, which felt so caring, and kind. Something I wasn't used to.

I looked up to him as I lay on my back. I couldn't look away from his liquid chocolate eye gaze.

"H-how did you find me?" I asked him. My voice was shaky from both coldness and fear.

"I was in the right place at the right time I guess."

"Humph… and I was in the wrong," I murmured, crossing my arms over my chest and wincing in pain at my wrist.

"Careful," he smiled, taking my wrist softly and carefully in his warm and smooth hands. Instantly my hand felt so much better. How did he do that?

My eyes closed as he stroked my wrist softly with his fingers. His touch was so soft. I smiled, keeping my eyes closed; I couldn't get over how he made me feel. I hardly even knew him. Softly, he placed my hand back beside me. I looked up at him, the smile disappearing from my face in protest.

"Where's are your parents Jade?" he asked me, his eyes dark and not looking at me.

Here comes a long story… don't say you didn't ask for it Jake…

"Well my mums in Seattle for a month with her work, my dad is somewhere around here in America and my sister is back in Australia for a while, but then she's coming here, though I don't know when and to be honest, I don't care if any of them comes back here for a month if not more…"

"Wait… why are you the only one here?"

"Because, I hate it here and I don't get along with my dad or sister and my mum only does what she wants and never listens to me and what I want."

"I guess that you really hate it now," he murmured, looking to my wrist.

"You guessed right then," I mumbled back and looked up to the nurse who had just walked in. It seemed like Jacob hadn't even noticed her come in. I almost gasped when I saw her face. Down one side was four huge and deep scares … like an animal had attacked her!

Jacob must have heard my almost gasp and looked up to the nurse. He smiled at her, like he knew her well.

"Jade this is Emily," he looked at her as he spoke.

"Nice to meet you honey," she smiled towards me kindly. She seemed kind enough.

"You too."

"Emily is a friend of mine and a nurse here," Jacob confirmed, looking back to me.

"Oh."

"You can go home tonight if you like," she told me.

"I can't… My family aren't home to look after me." I looked to my leg and wrist, hating myself. I was so stupid! I knew that I shouldn't have gone new places while mum was away! It was lucky that I wasn't killed!

I grimaced at the thought and closed my eyes tight. I felt Jacob's hand touch the top of my good hand, and as he did, a flash of a russet wolf and a grey wolf flashed into my eyes. My eyes reopened wide with the remembrance of them.

"The wolves saved me," I murmured, thinking that it was to myself. "Why didn't they turn on me?" I looked to Jacob, somehow knowing that he could hear me.

"Wolves don't always mean to attack people Jade, only when they are a threat." It seemed to be that Jacob knew a lot about wolves. How would he know that otherwise?

"But Dan wasn't threatening them?" I looked to him with questionable eyes. He sighed and looked to Emily. She only giggled in a light tone. Was I missing something?

"The wolves might have seen him threatening you and thought that he was also threating them," Emily said softly, looking to me.

I looked back down to my sheets and thought about it. Maybe she was right…

"If you don't have anywhere to stay Jade you can stay with us?" Emily offered kindly.

"I couldn't ask that of you, but thank you anyway Emily," I smiled. I couldn't believe how kind they were to me. Neither Jacob nor Emily knew me that well and it was like they were already accepting me into their family life like I was one of their own. My own father wasn't even like that…

Emily left my room, closing the door behind her as she left. Jacob's face suddenly lightened with a smile, like he had thought of something that pleased him, but then a sad look came into the corner of his eye and the smile disappeared. He looked back down to the hard ground, deep in thought or worry. How could someone go from one emotion to the opposite in two seconds just a thought? Or whatever it was. It felt to me like there was more to Jacob than met the eye, like he had something in the past that was still affecting him to this day. Something that had made him deeply sad and hurt him so, I wished that I could have made it go away. There was some connection between us that was making me want and wish that I could take all the pain he was in and heal him so that he would never feel that pain again, or any pain for that matter of fact.

Accidently, my hand moved of my side and touched his hand. He looked at me and smiled, but I only turned red and looked away. I felt so stupid! I didn't even know how my hand touched his. My hand was nowhere near him.

"Are you okay Jade?" he asked softly and kindly.

I nodded, not looking at him. If I answered in words, my voice would have turned cracked and if I looked at him, he would have seen that I was red in the face. I couldn't do anything apart from nod.

He lifted a stand of hair from the side of my face and tucked it in behind my ear. I forgot the reason why I had looked away from him and looked to him. He was smiling again, but this time, he was smiling at me. The smile reached his eyes; they glimmered in what small lighting there was in the room. I couldn't look away from his chocolate eyes. They were like warm russet chocolate eyes. Eyes that never had I seen before, they were perfect, that was the only word for them.

Carefully, he tucked another strand of my hair behind my ear, leaning close as he did so. I leant into his light touch beside my ear, catching his warm hand just as he was about to pull away. I held his warm and smooth skinned hand to the side of my face, leaning closer to him. My heart was slowly starting to pick up speed with the closer I leant into his touch. I didn't know what I was doing. I couldn't resist him any longer.

I touched my lips to his smooth and warm as sun lips, pressing softly, before snapping out of the dazed state I was in. I couldn't believe I had just kissed him like that. We hardly knew each other!

"I-I'm sorry Jacob," I stuttered, feeling embarrassed by my actions. How could I have been so immature?

He smiled at me and shook his head, 'mouthing its okay.' He truly didn't mind? I suddenly thought that it was more than likely that he had a girlfriend! Aw what have I done to him? I was feeling so stupid! Why hadn't I thought that before?

"I-I want to go home." I said, trying to get out of bed, only to fall and be caught in Jacob's arms. I turned redder in the face, leaning into his grip. Again, What Was I Doing? This boy was driving me crazy!

"You can't go home Jade, not without you're mum been there."

"I don't have anywhere else to go Jake," I cried.

"I'll look after you then."

I looked up to him, shocked. He would really do that? For me?

"Thank you, but you can't Jacob. My mum would freak if she knew if we were just friends, let alone if you looked after me. And as it is, my dad is pushing for me to go to boarding school. That would just play into his hands."

He pulled and strange face, looking to the floor near the door of my room, deep in thought. He looked back at me and smiled. "I won't tell them, if you don't. We'll be sneaky." I looked at him with narrow eyes, but in a humours way. I couldn't get over how sneaky and confident he was. "Agreed," I smiled. "But, what about your parents? You're only like sixteen aren't you? What will they think?"

Jacob chuckled at my question. I didn't see that my question was funny. "Eighteen actually and my father's fine with anything I do, as long as I stay safe."

I wondered why he didn't mention his mother. I didn't want to bring it up unless I had to. I had no idea what kind of a relationship Jacob had with his mother and if it was anything like my parents and sister, I knew it would hurt him to speak about them… I looked to the end of the bed, gazing as I thought.

"It's okay you okay know? You can ask me." I looked up to him a little shocked. I didn't know how he knew that I wanted to know about his mother, but I could tell that was what he was referring to. But I was going to play it safe for now. "You mean you're mother?"

He nodded once with a smile. "She died when I was little. Car accident, I didn't know her well."

"I'm so sorry Jacob," I murmured, resting my palm on top of his hand.

"It doesn't worry me anymore," he smiled again. "But I do wish that I had known her more."

"Can you remember her at all?"

He nodded, looking down and smiling again. "A little. I just remember how she used to sing and play around with me. She loved wolves and we both used to act as wolves, howling and playing… that and how she looked."

I smiled at his story. I loved wolves also, but I wasn't going to tell him just yet. "What did she look like?"

"Her hair was a silky long jet black, her skin was a deep russet and her eyes, her eyes were like milk chocolate." He shook his head with the same smile as before on his face. "I don't even know how I remember all this. She died when I was about three or four."

"It's because you loved her and you miss her Jacob," I smiled up at him.

We both heard the door go and looked up to Emily walking in. She smiled to us both and heading back out the door with a wheel chair that had been sitting next to my bed that I hadn't noticed until she was taking it away. Jacob got up to follow her. "Back in a sec," he said and quickly walked after her.

I sighed as I watched him leave, and lay back against my pillow. I felt different to usual, but not in a bad way, but in a good. I didn't know what it was…