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So this is chapter 4 and the guys meet Mel. I hope you like it :D
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Without further ado...
Chapter 4
Proof, Hard Proof
Jacob Black's POV
She drove away, peering out of her window while shouting goodbye. Quil and I waved back before he whispered, "She wants you, man." I laughed and seriously hoped that was the case. She was definitely my imprint. They guys who have already have confirmed it through the pack link. The only question is...would she want me? I really, really hoped so because she's beautiful and loving, and smart and just down to earth unlike some of the other girls I've met. I just want to be with her. I watched, disgruntled as she drove totally out of sight before walking towards our previous destination – the beach.
When we got there, most of the pack was already here with their imprints. Sam and Emily sat on a piece of driftwood. Jared and Kim stood, Jared hugging her from behind. Even little Claire was here, charging towards Quil as we approached .He laughed, scooping her up and I grinned at her. She giggled and gave Quil a welcome kiss. He grinned at her.
"Hey man, have you seen her yet?" Seth asked excitedly. We nodded.
"Yeah, we've seen her and her family. She has a sister about the same age as Claire." Quil replied. Seth beamed.
"Really?" Claire screamed, excitedly. Quil nodded.
"She's a bit shy though so be careful with her." he warned her and she nodded, seriously. He chuckled.
"I don't know why but having her here makes me happy. It's weird."Seth informed us. Quil grinned and nodded, glancing at me.
"Yeah, I know someone else who's happy that she's here. Right, Jake?" Quil teased. I smirked.
"Totally." I agreed and everyone laughed.
"God, it's hard to believe she might be my sister." Quil said, amazed. Paul and Seth nodded too.
"She going to school tomorrow?" Paul asked, interestedly. I shrugged.
"I want to meet her." Leah almost whined. It was understandable. Leah's always wanted not to be one of a kind. Dangling a possibility of the opposite in front of her face was just mean.
"She, or her mother, invited Quil and I to dinner sometime." I informed them.
"What'd Mel say?" Sam asked, interested. I smiled and shook my head.
"Nothing, just smiled." I answered, nonchalantly.
"She smell any different?" he asked again. I shook my head.
"Better."
"Dude, you have it bad." Jared chuckled. I shrugged. He had no right to talk anyway.
"Do you think she'd join us?" Paul asked, abruptly. We all stood in silence, considering the possibility. Leah broke it.
"I hope so."
"Never seen you this excited before Lee-Lee." Seth commented.
"Hey, the day you find out that you're not the only genetic dead end is the day you'll be excited as me." She retorted. We laughed. I stopped abruptly when a new but familiar face appeared on the beach.
"What?" Sam asked, wheeling around to look at who I was looking at. He shrugged. "It's just a kid."
"No. That's her little brother. Dylan." Quil explained. Sam's eyebrows raised and looked back over at him. He looked towards us and froze, looking away immediately. We probably looked like a mob or something to him, especially with our size. He turned and walked the opposite way down the beach, clearly scared of us. Paul chuckled lightly at his actions. He was walking rather fast.
"Yo! Dylan wait!" I called, running to catch up with him. I sensed the others following me. He turned around and took us in, all towering over him.
"Um...Hi. Jake, right?" he said, shakily.
"Yeah, hey Dylan. You remember Quil?" I asked. He simply nodded, glancing at him. He did only meet him about an hour ago.
"Why aren't you with your sister?" Quil asked, interestedly. Dylan shrugged.
"They work faster without me." he told him, kicking the sand around his shoes. Paul chuckled again.
"Geez, we're not that scary." Paul laughed. Dylan looked up at him, frowning lightly.
"Have you looked in the mirror?" he retorted and I chuckled. He didn't deny he was scared.
"Doesn't own one." Emily joked. Dylan laughed. It was like his sister's laugh.
"Scared he'd crack it?" Dylan mocked. We all burst out laughing and some said 'OOOOO' as Paul stood there, utterly gob smacked by his cheek.
"You...You have guts, Dylan." Paul stammered. Dylan smirked. "I like you, kid."
"Thanks, I guess."
"So are you close to your sister?" Sam asked, chuckling. Dylan shrugged again, wrinkling his nose.
"Which one?"
"Mel." Sam clarified. He glanced at me.
"It's a normal little brother; big sister relationship, I guess." He admitted.
"So you are but you have a bad way of showing it?" Leah asked, amused. She knew all about that relationship.
"I guess so."
"You and your sister close to your parents?" Sam asked, subtly. I smirked a little. He was gathering information.
"Parent and Mel's more than me." he informed us.
"Where's you guys' dad?" Sam asked, hitting the nail on the head.
"Me and Mel have different fathers." he said, nonchalantly. Sam glanced at me. Dylan wasn't transforming any time soon then. "I knew my dad but Mel doesn't know hers. Though she wants to know who it is."
"Oh yeah? Do you know?" I asked, interestedly. He shrugged. My eyes narrowed.
"I heard my mom speaking to one of her friends about him. Can't quite remember his name though." he said, almost to himself. Sam and I tensed as did some others as he thought about it. He said names out to himself as if to recognise it when he did, "Harvey? Henry? Han?"
"Harry?" Leah asked in anticipation. He thought about it and frowned in concentration.
"Maybe. Started with a H anyway."
My eyes widened. I peered towards Seth and Leah, they too were wide eyed. Seth was smiling like a maniac. Leah was nearly bouncing up and down with excitement. At that moment, Dylan looked at his watch. I did also and was shocked to find that I was 4:16pm already. We'd been chatting for a while.
"I'm gonna have to go." he told us, almost sadly.
"Okay. Thanks for the chat, Dylan." I called as he walked away.
"Sure, sure!" he called back. We watched as he walked out of sight and then turned to one another, open mouthed.
"Harry Clearwater?" I asked, shocked.
"Harry Clearwater." Sam repeated, just as shocked.
"This is awesome! Fantastic! I have another sister!" Seth shouted in excitement.
"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my GOD!" Leah said in a rush. I've never seen her smile so widely. "I have a sister!"
"It's still not confirmed fully guys, calm down." I told them but they didn't listen. They were pumped and I must admit, so was I.
"I need to go inform the elders." Sam said, walking away with Emily.
"Shall I come with you?" I asked, seriously.
"Nah, I can handle it." Sam refused. I nodded, kind of relieved. That was one situation I didn't want to step into.
"This is big news, guys." Paul said, enthusiastically. "I so hope she comes to school tomorrow. I wanna meet her."
"You want to meet her? She's not your sister." Leah chuckled.
"Unfortunately."
"Dude, you've never wanted a sister." Jared reminded him, confused. Paul chuckled and shrugged.
My mind wandered away from their bickering, far away to the land of Mel that I had constructed ever since I set eyes on her. Knowing that she was Seth and Leah's sister really didn't change my opinion of her in any way, good or bad. She was what she is and I loved her for it. Whoa! Did I just say I loved her? What was wrong with me? This is getting so surreal. Love. Me...in love. Damn it, I can't be in love with her because she probably doesn't feel the same way. What does that make it? A crush? An infatuation? Whatever it was, it was was strong. I craved to smell her luscious scent again. I needed to.
I was vaguely aware of someone shouting at me for attention and I snapped out of my daydream with a startle as something hard hit the back of my head. "OW! What the hell?"
"Well, that's what you get for being ignorant! I said do you wanna dive?" Paul shouted, irritated.
"WHATEVER! Geez." I complained, rubbing the back of my head.
"Okay, let's go." Seth shouted, already ahead of us.
We cliff-dived most of the evening, jumping from absolutely stupid heights that would kill any normal human. But of course, we were durable werewolves that could withstand the most brutal of beatings so hitting water from almost 130 feet from sea level was nothing.
By 9 o'clock, we were spent. It didn't help the fact that Seth and Quil had patrol and they were almost asleep already. I looked at them, thinking.
"Seth, Quil. Go home and sleep." I ordered. They opened their eyes and looked at me, shocked.
"What about patrol?" Seth asked, tiredly whilst yawning.
"I'll do it." I offered.
"You need a second?" Paul offered. I shook my head, no.
"Nah, it's all good. You look like you could do with some sleep too." I joked.
"Well so do you." He retorted. I shrugged.
"Will you just go already before I change my mind." I ordered to them all.
"Cheers, Jake." Quil thanked but I shrugged it off again.
"Yep but you're on instead of me tomorrow evening." I informed him. Him and Seth nodded. Most werewolves preferred the evening shift anyway. They could enjoy themselves during the day, work then go to bed at midnight. "Sleep well, guys."
"See ya!" They all shouted, disappearing into the trees. A few minutes later, I followed them in and phased. There was no one phased still, all of them being at home and probably asleep already.
I set off towards something that I couldn't fully identify. I followed the usual patrol route at the start but my mind was somewhere else and it followed some sort of pull for something. It was familiar but new to me. It was weird; like I wasn't going to survive without going to this place at least once.
As a scent so potent infiltrated my nostrils. I skidded to a stop, gazing up at the side of Mel-Mel's house. A light was on and I saw a shadow crossing the upstairs room. I shot back a ways, as to not let that person see me within the trees. My heart fluttered at the sight of the beautiful Mel-Mel appearing behind the window, looking guarded but astonishing. She wore nothing but a low riding tank top that revealed much more bust than I think she realised. Her window was low enough for me to see the hem of her pants above her wolf pyjama bottoms. The sight was arousing and I nearly shot forwards, prepared to climb straight up the side of the house and crawl into her window to satisfy her beyond comprehension but I had to focus. I was a wolf. I still didn't know whether she actually did know about us being what she was. But I'd be damned if I didn't want to. I felt like I needed to. The wolf in me was screaming to claim her as something. The Alpha in me, to be exact, screamed for me to claim her as something. It was so strong. I could hardly contain it. She slid the window open and the night winds blew her scent straight to me. I stifled back a growl of hunger. She squinted into the distance as if to look for something and I crouched low. I wonder if she knew I, or someone, was out here? Did she sense us too? If she did then could see have the same pull to me as I do to her? No, she couldn't have. She isn't an Alpha. This pull is the attraction a female wolf has to the Alpha in me. I needed to claim her as my Alpha female. I was positive of that but I wouldn't do it if she didn't want it too. But could she refuse me even if she didn't want to? I would never order her but the knowledge of me being the Alpha might drive her to please me. She couldn't know that I was who I was. She has to have no influence what so ever apart from my seduction that I knew I wouldn't be able to restrain when I'm alone with her.
Eventually, she sighed and closed the window. Her scent lingered and it carried me forwards a few steps. I breathed deeply, taking in as much as I could before the winds blew it away. Her light extinguished and I heard her sigh again as she climbed into bed. Her breathing was ragged and then she started to talk to herself.
"Why is being a werewolf making my life so goddamn complicated?" she asked herself. I froze, wide eyed. I knew she was a wolf but having it confirmed by her was just shocking. Hearing it being confirmed made it real and she was actually one of us. I craved to see her form; her wolfish proportions. Would they be as perfect as her human ones? And her colour? What would it be? Black? Grey? Reddy brown like mine? What was her mind like? Was it alive and open to match her personality or would she surprise us by being dark and depressed? All this knowledge I craved to know, I almost stormed out of the trees and asked her but I caught myself from doing a stupid thing once again in these last few weeks. Her breathing became relaxed and even as she drifted off and I debated. I decided against climbing through her window to watch her sleep because I didn't know whether I could control myself in such close proximity and besides, I had patrol to finish. I looked at her window for one more minute, listening to her breathing before I turned and ran the other way. I felt the pull beckoning me again but I ignored it with some effort. Knowing that my potential girl was hardly covered in clothes was hard to walk away from. But I did it and continued on through the night on my patrol.
Sam and Jared came to take over at 4:30am as scheduled so that I could get some sleep for school later today. I phased and waved at them on my way home to my Dad and my bed.
Three hours sleep weren't nearly enough. Regardless, I dragged my ass out of bed to my alarm clock at 7:30 to get ready for school at half eight. The one thought that was keeping me from slumping back on to my bed and falling straight back to sleep was that of Melissa; Mel-Mel as I'd call her in my head lately. The thought of actually seeing and talking to her today was exciting enough. Knowing that I'd be spending nearly the whole day with her was another thing entirely. Why did I have to be a senior? What I wouldn't give to be in her classes for the whole day. There was three classes that we had in common – Calculus, English and Sport. Those were the subjects that I was excited about today. I took the liberty of checking her schedule on Friday using the office computer when no one was in there. I wasn't caught, thankfully and I got that information.
I ate in a haste, too excited. My dad watched me curiously, wondering what had me rallied. I told him it was nothing but he didn't seem convinced. I jumped in my Rabbit at 8:10 and zoomed off to pick up Seth, Quil and Embry. They seemed excited as much as me. Embry has never met her before and was absolutely psyched.
We drove into the parking lot, already spotting the huge forms of Paul, Leah, Brady and Colin, standing by their cars. They walked over to meet us as we got out the car and they were all smiling widely.
"Hey." I called, locking the car. "She here yet?"
"Nope. Do you think wed be here talking to you if she were?" Leah asked, rhetorically. I chuckled.
"You know, we can't ambush her. We need to take it slow. Explain." I told them, authoritatively. Leah sighed as did some others but their frowns turned upside down as they heard and unfamiliar voice. Or to them it was unfamiliar. To me, it was like a siren's call. I spun around and saw her climbing out of her mother's car. She began to talk to her mother; she hadn't seen us which was quite odd, considering our size.
"Mom, you sure you don't want me to look after Summer? We don't need childcare. I'll work from home." She offered in her angelic voice. No, she will not work at home! She's to work here, near me.
"Sweetheart, you need to be in school. Trust me and have a good day. Okay?" her mom replied, stubbornly. Mel sighed and shut the door. She looked up and her eyes settled on us, all together. They widened and diverted them to the back-seat door, opening it to peck Summer on the cheek, sisterly.
"Bye-bye, sis. Be good, 'kay?" she ordered.
"Sissy no go!" Summer cried, sadly.
"I have to, baby but I promise to check on you, okay?" She promised. She looked so good with her sister.
"'Kay, Mel." Summer accepted, sweetly. She smiled and Mel smiled her breath taking smile at her before giving her one last kiss and shutting the door. She waved her mom away before turning to face us. She waved at Seth, Quil and I but was apprehensive of the others.
"Hey, Quil. Seth...Jake." she greeted, hesitating on my name. I gazed at her for a minute.
"Hey, Mel. How you doing?" Seth asked, enthusiastically. I gave him a warning look that Mel didn't see, thankfully.
"I'm good. Nervous but I'm good." she admitted.
"This school is alright. No-one'll bite." Quil assured me. Paul chuckled once.
"Selena may." he contradicted. She better not. She looked at him, curiously.
"Mel, this is Paul, Colin, Brady, Embry..." I introduced in turn. Leah butted in when I got to her name, grasping Mel's hand abruptly. I saw her look at her, shocked and startled but not from the hand grabbing. She knew alright.
"I'm Leah. Leah Clearwater, it's a pleasure." she stammered, smiling like a mad woman. Mel looked at her for a minute, weirdly before smiling, grasping her hand back to shake it.
"Melissa. Mel Wolf." she replied.
"Wait, Wolf?" Paul asked, surprised. Haven't I told them that bit? Mel looked disgruntled as Paul and some others chuckled at that.
"They chuckled at my last name a month ago. What is so funny about it?" She asked, defensively. Paul answered her in breaths.
"It's nothing. It's just fitting." he explained. I gave him a warning look now. She didn't know we knew.
"And why is that?" she asked, getting irritated. I hated that she was angry because it made me angry. I could see her hands shaking as could some others and they died their laughter down.
"Well...well, it's just that..." Paul tried to explained but Quil saved him like he had me in the store a month ago.
"The school mascot is a wolf and the subject of our legends centre around wolves so...it's fitting to apply to this tribe." Quil explained, convincingly. She looked at him for a minute before shrugging.
"Oh, okay. Cool." she dismissed, fiddling with her fingers.
"So what's your first class?" Seth asked, lightening the mood. She looked at her schedule.
"Biology." she said.
"With me, Embry and Quil then?" Seth asked; she shrugged and nodded. I was officially envious of those three being able to sit and talk with her. I haven't taken my eyes off her yet and I think she's noticed. I just couldn't look at anything else but her. I looked at how her collar bones waved across her chest, one of her most dominant features. They were visible thanks to her purple, low-cut, cotton top with sleeves that stopped at her mid-forearms. I could see a fragment of her bra strap at the edge of her shirt at the shoulders – black lace. Amazing. I looked at how her hips curved beneath her tightly fit jeans that seemed to make every feature, including her backside stand out very prominently. "Shall we go?"
Seth resurfaced me and I smiled lightly when she looked at me. She nodded.
"See ya later. It was nice to meet you, guys...and girl, sorry." she apologised as she remembered Leah. Leah shrugged and smiled, waving her off.
When she was far off towards the science black, Paul whistled.
"Wow. She is something." he complimented. I didn't like his tone. His suggestive tone.
"Yeah, she is." I agreed.
"Definitely, a werewolf." He commented again. "She does smell like Leah, doesn't she."
"You know, I am here and what the hell is that supposed to mean?" she asked, offended.
"Oh no, you don't smell bad. You just have this distinct smell." Paul defended. She didn't look convinced.
"What he's trying to say is that you have a...feminine smell about you as does she. I think it's something to do with you being female werewolves, that's all Leah." I explained. She scowled at him for one more second before shrugging and heading off towards the Trig and Calc block. I sighed and headed towards History.
Today was going to be a long but very interesting day.
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