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WhEnAlLhOpEsFaLlS

Alice4112

Chapter Three

Casey POV

"Casey Wasey, get up." I was woken with Gracie shouting that in my ear and poking me in the cheek.

"Gracie Lee, what are you doing up this early?" I asked her.

"Well I wanted to wish you good luck today. And I made you this." She handed me a little blue bracelet. I gave her a huge hug.

"Now when you're at school you can think of me." I could tell she was still sad about me going to school.

"Gracie, I'm not gonna forget you in a day." I kissed her cheek and carried her down the stairs. Hayden, Aiden and Seth. Grace went straight for Seth when she saw him. His face lit up a ton when she jumped on him.

"Good morning guys." I said while grabbing some cereal. The guys all nodded their heads at me. Five minutes later I was in Embry's car heading to my new school. I was in the back with Seth and Jared while Paul was up front with Embry. When we got to school, a girl was waiting for us. Jared couldn't get out the car quick enough.

"I take it that's Kim?" I asked Embry as he helped me out the car.

"Yeah, you'll meet her at lunch. Come on lets go get your schedule and stuff." He dragged me into the school.

It was pretty boring to start with, just the same as my old school. Bitchy behaviour, dirty looks and jerky football players. I finally got to speak to Kim at lunch, when she removed Jared from her face.

"Hi, I'm Kim." She sat next to me and we chatted. "So Embry said that you were head cheerleader at your old school. Are you gonna try out for the team?" I just about choked on my water. I glared at Embry who just smiled at me.

"No I think I'll pass this year." I ended up throwing most of my grapes at Embry.

The bell went and I headed to gym with Kim and the guys. When we got changed and all that we met back up with the guys in the gym hall.

"Today during gym, everyone who is not trying out for the cheerleading team will be playing baseball or football outside so if you are not trying out please head out there now." The teacher said. As I was going past the cheerleading coach stopped me.

"You're Casey Stella Munroe aren't you?" She asked. I nodded. "Well why aren't you trying out for the team then?" She looked a little bit annoyed.

"I'm just gonna concentrate on my studies this year." I tried to leave but they wouldn't let me. I ended up trying out and shock, earning a place on the squad. I was handed my uniform and then I was free to go.

"So you know the drill, uniform must be worn on game days and our first game is in four days. See you at practice after school." Lori, the head cheerleader said as we made our way out to the car park. I was met with Embry waiting for me.

"Hey what's with the uniform?" Embry asked opening my door for me.

"Thanks. I sort of got forced to join the team." I sighed. Embry laughed at me. We spent the rest of the journey home just joking around. Gracie was sitting on the porch with my mum when we got home. She ran up to me and I gave her a big hug.

"How was school Casey?" She asked. She started squealing when she saw my pom poms in my bag.

"You're a cheerleader again!" She took my pom poms and started dancing around with them. Paul, Colin and Brady came out of the woods in just a pair of shorts, they waved and went into the house. I looked at Embry who just shrugged and ran into the house with Casey on his shoulders.

All the guys had quite a good laugh about the whole cheerleader thing.

"So do you totally like want to date the quarter back?" Kim asked. I saw Embry's face drop slightly.

"Yeah because bonehead is my style." Me and Kim laughed. The rest of the night went like this. Embry didn't hug me when he left. Come to think of it, he didn't actually say goodbye..

The next couple of days were like this. Embry was avoiding me and I was making me quite upset. At the game I saw my family, along with Sam, Emily, Kim and Seth sitting in the bleachers watching us. I done the routine without fault and we won the game by one point. I was heading to meet with my family when Lori grabbed me back.

"I'm having this huge party tonight. You should be there." She said. I just nodded to her and ran to meet them all at the car.

"Well done Case!" Hayden and Aiden shouted.

"Thanks guys. Is it ok if I go to Lori's party tonight?" I asked my parents hoping that they would say no.

"Yeah honey that's fine. You can take the car if you want." my mum said putting Gracie Lee in the car. We drove home, I got changed and ten minutes later I was at my first high school party in La Push. I saw Lori and she waved me over.

"Casey, this is Greg, our quarter back. Greg this is Casey, our newest and most amazing cheerleader." I just waved at him. He waved back.

"So are you liking La Push?" He asked. I nodded at him.

"Yeah its been nice so far. No complaints." He just smiled at me.

"So what brought you here?" He asked again sipping his drink.

"Well my dad grew up here and he wanted to come back so my two older brothers opened up a shop here and tada, here we are." He laughed at me.

"You're funny Casey. I like you." he smiled at me. We sat talking the rest of the night and he walked me to my car when I was leaving.

"Well I'll see you on Monday." I said. He smiled and kissed me on the cheek. I drove out of the driveway and made my way home.

I spent the rest of the weekend working in the shop. It was quite fun. Kim was working there too so I had some company.

"So how was the party last night?" She asked while putting some more books on the shelf.

"Yeah it was ok. I met some guy named Greg. He seemed nice." Kim dropped the books in her hand.

"Greg. As in Mr Quarterback Greg?" I nodded. She squealed at me. "He is really cute!" her face then dropped. "So do you like him?" I tried not to laugh at her.

"I've only spoke to the guy once, he seems like a nice guy, but I've dated his type before and I'm not going there again." Her face brightened once I said that.

After work I said goodbye to Kim and we went in our separate directions home. I put my ipod in and started walking home. I decided to walk through the beach as it was quicker and I wish that I didn't. There was a group of guys hanging out on the beach. I tried to turn around but they spotted me.

"Hey there what you doing out here all alone?" One of them asked me. I just kept my head down and kept walking. They walked up to me and circled me. "Hey you're the new cheerleader at our school. I think its about time you hook up with one of us huh?" he then went to grab me. Before I could do anything, he was thrown off me and I saw a very pissed off Embry. Behind him were Aiden, Jared and Paul.

"If you ever go near her again, I will rip your head off your shoulders. GOT IT!" Embry roared at them all, causing them to scatter. Aiden ran up to me and helped me up.

"You ok sis?" He asked checking me over. I just nodded and hugged him. Embry came over to me and asked me the same thing. I just looked at him and went back to hugging Aiden. "Come on, we better get you home." He whispered in my ear.

Mum and dad freaked out when Aiden told them what happened. The rest of the guys were at the house when we got back.

"So it's agreed. Casey isn't left alone from now on. You guys can keep an eye on her at school and one of us will always walk her and Kim home from work from now on." Hayden stated. They all nodded. I went to open my mouth, but my mum covered it.

"You know how protective your brothers are of you and Gracie. This is mellow compared to what they wanted to do." She said once I took her hand away. I just nodded and headed to my room. On my way there I saw Gracie was in her room drawing.

"Hey Gracie, what you drawing?" I asked her. She looked up at me and smiled.

"Wolfs. I saw one last night, he fell asleep under my window." She said going back to colouring her picture. I ran down the stairs to tell the guys.

"We have bigger problems than some high school boys. A wolf fell asleep under Gracie's window last night. What if she went down to see it. You know what she's like when it comes to Animals, she loves them." They all slyly looked at Seth and then back to me.

"Don't worry Case. We'll sort it." Hayden said kissing my head. I was then shooed to my room. I decided to finish my homework. I had just finished my English homework when dinner was ready. Embry wouldn't look at me for some reason and it was really getting annoying. I ate dinner quickly and ran back up to my room. There was a gentle knock at my door and then a tiny hand emerged from the door. Two seconds later Gracie's head popped out from behind the door.

"I brought you cookies. You looked sad at the table." She walked over and handed me the plate and got on the bed next to me. I gave her a cookie. "Why are you sad Casey?" She asked

"I'm not sad honey, I'm just really confused and maybe a little sad." I started stroking her hair.

"Is it because Embry is being a big pain in the butt?" I looked down at her. "That's what Hayden said." I laughed and kissed her head.

We sat and ate the plate of cookies and I gave Gracie Lee her bath and took her downstairs to say goodnight once she was all dry and in her pyjamas. Of course the first person she ran to was Seth. So instead of saying goodnight to everyone, she just snuggled in his arms and fell asleep there. When I went to take her from him, he sort of growled at me, then Embry punched him full force in the arm. He just growled again and went to put Gracie to her bed. I went to thank Embry, but he just left the house and when he did, I got this really horrible pain in my chest, almost like Embry took my heart with him. I just stormed to my room and went to bed. I could hear Hayden and the guys shouting downstairs.

"He's hurting her by the way he's treating her. So much for soul mates and loving her and all that crap." Hayden shouted.

"Well its hard for him to adjusting to having a soul mate. Just give him some time." Sam reasoned.

"Well if he hurts her one more time, he's gonna be patrolling with three legs instead of four." Aiden shouted. It went silent after that. I was awoken a couple of hours later by footsteps making their way downstairs. I opened my door and saw Gracie opening the front door. I ran down the stairs after her and was shocked at what I saw. There was a HUGE wolf lying under her window and she was only about a foot away from it. I managed to grab her before she got near it, but it woke up and turned to look at us. I pushed Gracie behind me and braced myself for the attack. But it never came. Instead the wolf just stared at me and then ran into the woods. I ran into the house with Gracie Lee and locked the door.

"GRACIE LEE MUNROE! What were you thinking!" I scolded her. I felt bad for doing it, but it needed to be done. She looked up at me with teary eyes. The rest of the family had came down to see what the racket was.

"I saw the wolf and he looked so lonely. I was going to give him a hug." She said in her innocent little voice. She started crying and my dad scooped her into his arms.

"Gracie honey you can't do that. He could have hurt you." Hayden and Aiden snorted at this point. "Why don't you guys go tell Sam about the wolf problem we have." He said to the boys. They both nodded and ran out the door.

"Dad why would Sam be up at this time of the night?" I Asked him while he was cradling Gracie back to sleep.

"Well he was working the night shift so he will still be up." He kissed my head and headed up the stairs with mum and Gracie. I headed up too and when I got back into my room, I was shocked by what I saw.

"Embry?"

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