Chapter 3

Vanessa Uley's POV

I ran our shared comb through my long straight black hair, getting ready for our first day back at school. Me and my sisters were going to be seniors and I was beyond excited. Even though we were poor like most of the locals at La Push, we were respected for being the Alpha's eldest daughters.

Theresa, or Tia as she liked to be called for as long as I could remember, had already brushed her hair. Her's looked identical to mine except the fact that she had cut it short when Tommy Call imprinted on her.

I thought it was sweet that she did whatever her imprinter wanted. It almost made me believe that she was going to start phasing soon like Tessa and I.

Speaking of Tessa, she was standing at our bedroom doorway, her short curly black hair pulled into messy pigtails. Joey Black, her imprint, didn't care what she was wearing or how she looked so she dressed that way. She did however, hang all over him as if she couldn't possibly live without touching him every moment of the day.

I hope that I never seem that desperate because of a guy. I won't have to worry about that for a while though because my imprint, Ethan Ateara, was only in the fourth grade. I would do anything for him though. Heck, I'd probably even shave my head if he asked me to.

"Hurry up girls or you'll be late!" Sam Uley, our father yelled from the bottom of the stairs. "Everyone else is in the van with your mother."

The second floor had been added after 'baby mania' as my parents call it. They had the three of us, our fraternal twin brother and sister Sam Jr. and Emilia, and little sister Miley in the span of about four years.

The three of us grabbed our bags and walked down the stairs and out the door. Samuel was sitting in the front seat, his short hair spiked with waaay too much gel. I mean, I love my brother but he cared too much about his appearance. If he ever imprinted, I hope to whoever is out there that she straightens him out.

"Get your skinny butt out of the front seat, Sammy!" Tess exclaimed, standing with her hands on her hips. They had this argument every morning.

"No!" He always responded. "I'm stuck with five sisters. The least mom and dad can do is let me sit shotgun." Then he would flex, just to show us that he was a werewolf too, his buff muscles rippling out the way that female werewolf's don't.

"You're such a pig!" Tessa would always respond, rolling her eyes and scooting to the back seat next to Tia and I.

Emilia and Miley, the only other non-werewolf sisters besides Tia, always sat in the middle row.

Emilia looked like the spitting image of Emily Young, our ever so beautiful mother despite the long scars on her face. Her scars are a reminder to every wolf and imprint left in La Push.

Emilia's long black hair is constantly in a braid because her imprinter Harry Clearwater (Seth's son named after his father) likes it that way. Her grey eyes (the only trait that non-werewolf females usually share) looked amused.

Miley has short curly hair like Tessa but not because an imprinter told her too. She's actually one of the few people at the rez who doesn't have an imprint/imprinter.

When we arrived at school, Tessa went to find Joey, Emilia found Harry, Tia found Tommy, and the rest of us stood at the grounds, the tiny dirt field in front of the school yard. Ethan was still too young to go to my school so I was stuck waiting to see him until after school when I usually go over there to baby sit.

I walked over to Tim Call, Tommy's twin brother, and he gave me a sympathetic look. He imprinted on Ethan's twin sister Lizzie over summer break and was having trouble adjusting to not seeing her all the time.

Both brothers had spiky black hair, were buff, tall, and skinny like most werewolf boys even though they were only fifteen but what do you expect from Leah and Embry's children? Those two were the top dogs in their day, besides my father and Jacob Black of course.

Their older sister Sara Sue, short wavy black hair, gorgeous brown eyes (a clear sign that she'll eventually start phasing like her brothers), and beautiful even at her young age of sixteen, was standing with Mike and Miles Clearwater, the only other teenagers her age.

Miles already started phasing but Mike was still in that awkward transition stage. They were Harry's little brothers and looked like typical werewolf boys, Mike's hair being longer since he hadn't needed to cut it to phase yet.

They looked nothing like their brother Harry though, he got his red hair and green eyes from their mother Amber (a non-Quileute woman that Seth imprinted on at Jacob's wedding to that little hybrid leech.)

Joey and Johnny Black, Rachel and Paul's seventeen year old twin boys, walked over to me and Tim; Tessa holding onto Joey's arm like a…well like a slut. But that was the way he liked her so that's how she acted. Some stupid imprint rule or something.

Man, I was thankful again that morning that Ethan didn't even begin to think that way yet. He was in his 'toy trucks are the best thing in the world' phase still.

Joey, who had been phasing since he was six and his vampire/werewolf female cousins had visited, looked like an exact replica of Johnny but he had more muscles than this brother and his hair was shorter by a few inches. Johnny had yet to start to phase but it would only be a matter of time. He had sprouted up like a weed over the summer.

"Hey, wanna see something funny?" Joey asked, nudging Tessa playfully in the ribs. "I think your sister Miley is about to find her imprinter."

We all turned in the direction he was pointing and saw Miley keep walking back and forth in front of Miles, Mike, and Sara. Her head was bent down in a book, like it usually was (the girl always had her nose buried in a book), and she didn't see that Miles' foot was in her path.

She tripped, landing with a loud thud, her book flying across the dirt ground.

"Oh, I am so sorry. Like seriously, do you need some help?" Miles said, extending his hand to her.

She nodded, her eyes filled with tears and averted in embarrassment. He helped her up then handed her a tissue.

When she looked up to say thank you, his eyes bulged out of his head practically. She blushed like a typical imprint, feeling the weight of the love behind that one look.

Aw, poor Sammy, now our brother was the only of Sam Uley's children without an imprint. Ha, take that Mr. I'm The Top Dog!

"Am I good or am I good?" Joey asked and Tessa rewarded him with a full make-out-stick-her-tongue-all-the-way-down-his-throat kiss. Needless to say, our little group migrated somewhere else, anywhere else!, to get out of their line of sight.

I whiffed the air and had to force myself not to plug my nose.

"Vampire alert. Pack meeting after school." I announced.

Even though Sammy was technically the Alpha of our pack, I was the Beta and I loved the responsibility.

All the werewolves within the vicinity (me, Tessa, Tommy, Tim, Sammy, Joey, Miles, and Harry) all nodded. The non-werewolves (Tia, Sara, Mike, Johnny, Emilia, and Miley) didn't even hear what I said because their hearing wasn't strong enough to pick it up.

That was one of the perks of going to High School on the Rez: everyone was in on the secret even if they weren't a wolf. It came with being too closely related to siblings of wolves and the fact that only wolves and their imprints lived here still. The truth is, there are only eighteen children on the entire reservation.

Three teenagers stepped out of the familiar Rabbit that belonged to Jacob Black, all in designer clothes with designer backpacks and stupid designer shoes. If their appearances hadn't given them away, their outfits sure did. No one on the reservation had enough money to even touch one of their handbags in the store, let alone own twenty different ones like I assume they all have at home.

One of the girls looked like she was a local with big brown eyes and long curly black ringlets. Her skin gave her away though, she had pale russet skin instead of the normally darker russet skin that the rest of us had. From what Joey and Johnny told us, that was Carlie Alison Cullen-Black. She smelled of wolf and smiled hugely when she spotted us all staring.

I can't say we got the same reaction from the other girl. Jazzlyn Rose Cullen-Black, or Rosie as she had told Johnny to call her all those years ago. She smiled shyly, yet fearfully. I could tell just by her expression that she was the odd-man out in her family.

She had a glittery pale russet skin tone, brown eyes that looked like they had a gold tint to them, and long straight brown hair that looked a lot like Police Chief Charlie Swan's.

Her scent confused me. It wasn't sickly sweet like a vampires or woodsy like a werewolf's but it definitely wasn't human smelling. It was sort of like a maple tree, sweet yet woodsy at the same time.

The teenage boy was, well, he was gorgeous. If I hadn't already had an imprint I would wish that he was mine. He was pale with bright green eyes that had flecks of gold in them and had short spiky bronze-black hair. He looked like a male model or something, though the one tv station that we got at home didn't exactly keep us up to date in the latest fashion trends.

Then I caught a whiff of him and changed my mind. This was definitely the vampire child that the elders had warned us about.

I cursed under my breath for even thinking he was remotely cute, but I guess even that should have tipped me off; vampires are attractive to their prey so its easier to catch the weak humans off guard.

I can't remember what his name was supposed to be; Elijah Jacob, Emmett Jacob, Edward Jacob…yeah that was it. We had been told the name had something to do with his family heritage.

But how the mighty Jacob Black could put his name on a vampire hybrid is beyond me. I know that I'd be ashamed to be related to him; now I felt sorry for Joey and Johnny for having to be cousins with the freak.

Rosie growled and Jacob had to restrain her behind him. Even though he left the Rez before I was born, I instantly recognized him from my dad's memories. He looked exactly the same, being the only original wolf that still phased despite having children.

The original Pack continued to phase until a few of their children were taught the ropes. Tessa and I were one of the first ones to phase so we got the inside scoop. I would recognize Jacob Black anywhere.

His wife Renesme Cullen got out of the car and stood protectively in front of EJ. Of course. The girl that had started this whole mess was going to stick up for the hybrid she helped create.

If you ask me, she should have told Jacob to leave her alone the second she realized his imprint on her. They just weren't from the same genetic gene pool and should have let it end at that.

"But Daddy! They keep making fun of EJ!" Rosie whined, even though her razor sharp teeth started showing.

Huh? None of us said anything about them. Now I was confused, and judging from the expressions on some of my friends' faces, I could tell that I wasn't the only one.

Rosie pointed at me and I reflectively growled.

"She thinks you should be ashamed of EJ and Mama. And Cousin Joey is thinking things much worse!" By now her whole body was shaking.

It was the weirdest thing, even weirder than her being able to read our minds, she was showing both her vampire and werewolf heritage at the same time.

Carlie had already made herself comfortable with the gang, sitting on Sammy's lap as if she owned him. (Oh, god please tell me my brother didn't imprint on her!) She looked startled when she noticed her sister throwing a fit.

"Calm down Jazz, you can't control anyone's thoughts but your own." Carlie commented rather rudely. Hmm, I think I might like this girl. "Besides, you could always have EJ shield their thoughts from you if it bugs you that much."

EJ didn't seem to be caring that everyone was staring at him or that his sisters were talking about him. His eyes were glued on Sara's and, to my shock, hers were stuck on his.

Great! Sara not only was now a wolf because of the extra vampire presences but she also imprinted on the hybrid!

I just hope that no one else starts phasing because of the Cullen-Black's arrival. The second I thought that, I heard clothes shredding and there standing before me was a small grey wolf. It couldn't be!