Chapter 4: Night

Tessa:

I was fiddling with my Violin trying to clear my head… I had no idea what had happened last night... Well I remember of course but couldn't understand why I had done what I had done. It's like when you are at one side of your beliefs but you act completely different. On one side you have the Tessa that wants nothing to do with and guys and to only focus on her future and so on. Then you have a different Tessa that wants to know this guy. I can't stand it I barley know this guy and here I am going out with him. No its not a date its only dinner; people do that all the time without it being a date.

"Tessa! Are you trying to break that thing?" I stopped playing to look at Bethany who was in the doorframe of my room staring at me intently.

"No I'm just practicing…"

"Right so this has nothing to do with the date?"

"Its just dinner." I said swinging my legs over the window nook. "It doesn't mean anything." Embry had texted last night seeing if I was free for dinner… I don't know but I think he is interested and fighting the feels as much as me…

"Right what ever you say babe, so he is picking you up at six eh. That's in less than two hours. Do you know what you are going to wear?" She said walking over to my closet and began to rummage through it.

"What am I doing? He is Paul's friend and isn't weird how attracted I am like I can only breath around him and I barley know him so why should I go on a date with him."

"I thought you said it was just dinner? Babe come on have some fun okay your life isn't crazy yet so why the hell not. And after tonight if you don't like it then just end it. Ahh how about this and this." Beth held up a black skirt alone with a gold silk tank top with thin straps. "It will complement your body type."

"Uhhh… Cant I just go with-" I began

"No you may not because I don't want to know what you are going to say. Go hop in the shower and put this on. I can trust you will wear the appropriate bra with it."

"I have less than two hours can't I just practice a little longer."

"No we both know you don't care much for it so now march."

I got up and showered making sure that since I was wearing a skirt and tank top I needed to shave.

EMRBY:

I hopped out of the shower still with my head spinning. It was crazy just how things have changed just from last week... Now I had an imprint, a stronger connection then any another one, vampires running around (killed two in just the past 38 hours) and now some how got a dinner time with Tessa. I walked to my chest and opened the drawers to pull out an outfit. The pack of course knows about tonight so Emily told me what to wear. A black polo with jeans... Thankfully she didn't make me wear a suit that would scare Tess I bet. Wait so is this a date or dinner? I guess either... I put it on and walked into the kitchen to have coffee, patrols were on high alert and I have only gotten two hours of sleep the past two days.

"Where are you going now?" I looked to see my mother entering the house.

"I'm having dinner with a friend." I said back drink the coffee feeling the caffeine wake me up.

"Who?"

"Tessa Cayton."

"Cayton? Oh I remember that family... Shame about the mother and the father, those girls deserved better."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't you remember? No you were too young. Well the younger one was in the car with her mother when their car went off the cliff coming back from the Lahote's; which is why there are two layers of guard rails at the bend. Then the father left, over seas on work with two daughters nope. But then again I heard that man was one with his rights and lefts…" she mumbled putting her purse down on the table.

"I didn't know any of that." I said quietly putting the mug down.

"Are you going with the older one or younger one?"

"Tessa, the younger one." I heard her huff at that which caused the imprint of myself tense up. "What?"

"Nothing, I have just heard things about those girls from working at the dinner thats all. Just be careful with that Tessa."

Tessa:

I put on my boots and got up. My hair was down and straight, the tank top and skirt went well together and now I was wearing black boots with heeled just from remembering how tall he is. It was about the time he was going to pick me up. I had spent the time getting ready and talking to my best friends telling them what I had done. I grabbed my violin and sat down on the nook and started to play a song, Spartacus staring at me the entire time. Beth had to leave for work so it was just me. I don't know how long I was playing for before I heard a knock sending Spartacus running downstairs. I could feel who it was so I put my violin down and walked down stairs to where he was and opened the door.

"Spartucas stay back. Hey." I said to him before my heart sped up from the sight. If I thought he looked good before that was nothing to what he looked like at the moment. The black shirt he was wearing made his eyes look darker and cheekbones stand out.

"You look amazing and hey boy." He said back looking at me before he said hi to Spartacus.

"You don't look too bad yourself." Crap is this an actual date? Why does he have to be great I just want to be friends!

"Shall we?"

"Yes I just got to lock the door." I said putting Spartacus back into the house and putting the key into the door to lock it. "Whoa um is that a Rabbit?" I said as I turned around to see what car her drove.

"Yeah it's my friend Jake's but he said that I could use it for the night. You know your cars." He said as he opened the door. God can he stop being nice

"Yeah, my babysitter made me watch all of these car shows when I was younger. That was before I drove Paul insane."

"Ha I'm sure he deserved it; still does."

"Hey so where are we going?" I asked as we drove out of Forks.

"You will see."

"Your not planning on killing me are you because I haven't written a will so it will cause some issues." I said jokingly but saw him pale.

"No I'm not- oh right you said your very sassy. Might take me awhile to get used to that. I'm used to there being straight answers and no privacy."

Twenty minutes later we were in a different town, I didn't pay attention to what it was called I was just to into the conversation we were having when we pulled up to a little pub called 'the hikers shoe'.

"I know it doesn't look like much but trust me its really good. But if you don't like pub food we can go somewhere else."

"No I love this kind of food." With that he opened the door and let me go in. we went up to the hostess who gave us a booth to eat at since they didn't have any open tables.

"Did your mom ever find out that you snuck in?" I said looking at the menu.

"I'm sure that she guessed it but she is kind of used to it." He said shrugging and looking at me not his menu. I think he has it memorized.

"Its all part of the gang life there huh?" I said to him with play seeing him change his face again but it was unreadable. "Oh come on nothing happens in forks so I have heard about it plus Paul is in it. I have heard you guys chase the drug dealer out so it's not like you guys are gang bangers."

"Sorry It's just that most people don't see us in a good light, I'm just used to it."

"It just has to do with the word gang usually has a negative conitation. I couldn't see you in anything bad."

"Me not Paul?"

"Paul can be a lose cannon, don't get me wrong I love him like a brother but there were reasons why I kicked soccer balls at his face." I said making him laugh as the waiter came and we ordered.

"So do you play sports and play an instruments? I heard a violin when I came to pick you up."

"My mother again….She played the guitar and the violin but I never liked playing them but I stayed with the violin to keep out of the house. What exactly did Paul tell you about me?" I said joking but I felt tense there was so much in my past that should stay there.

"Oh just you had played but he doesn't tell me about you… Said you would try an kick his ass if he told me all about you." He said sheepishly making me laugh.

"He would be correct then, that guy knows too much about my family if you ask me." I said as our food was placed in front of us. I had ordered bacon, avocado and fried egg burger; I know its amazing…

"Do you miss him?"

"Who?"

"You dad? With him being away

I started laughing and couldn't stop. "What?, Sorry um ha ha ha no I uh don't miss that guy at all."

"Really you don't miss your dad?" I stopped laughing now and figured he wanted to go more into the conversation. ABORTT.

"What grade are you? You guys all look older then you actually are I'v gathered." I could sense that Embry looked shocked at the conversation change but seemed to go with it.

"I graduated last year now I'm just working at a shop with cars."

"That must be so nice to be done with school and doing something you actually like." I said back with a smile.

"Its perfect, I hated school and was rarely there so once I was out of there and got the opportunity to work with cars I took it without a second thought."

"How did you get into them?"

"Well my best friend Jake and his dad would work on his car all the time and I would help him out and ever since then I was hooked. That stated when I was a kid, I guess it helped me stay out of trouble and stuff." I couldn't help but laugh when he said trouble, sure sometimes a guy with his ginormous build are usually the type in trouble but the look on his face made him look like such an innocent guy. "What? What is so funny about that?"

"Nothing its just I can't picture you getting into trouble that's all."

"Well it depends on who you ask and when I was a kid I would get into so much trouble no joke. I ate dessert before my dinner."

"Oh god no! I better call the cops and get home fast there's no way I can be hanging around such a rebels."

"I calmed down a little don't worry." He said cocking his head and laughing. GOD WHY IS THIS GUYS SO DAM CUTEEEEEEEEE! I am so done for….

We had kept talking for the rest of dinner, which went well… To well if you ask me… but while dinner was ending I noticed something on the news that was on the TV behind Embry.

"Oh my god they found a hiker dead outside Forks!" I said breaking him off about a story about Jake and Quinn.

"What?!" He said and spun around to look at the TV.

The hiker was found just outside Forks in the woods. Authorities say that it was a type of animal attack but as to what animal it has not been released. Police chief Swan is telling people not to panic and that they have it under control they did in the previous years…. The news anchor was saying.

"I should get you back. Ill go pay." Embry said as he got up leaving me really confused, Embry this guy seemed so fun yet in a single instance he was tense. "Ready?"

"Uh yeah." I said getting up from the table and grabbing my jacket then following him out of the restaurant. "Are you okay?" I asked him when he opened the car door for me, this allowed me to see just how tense he was. He face was stiff and eyes shut off from everything around.

"I should just get you home." He said back leaving me to get into the car.

And that's how it went for the car ride back, Embry stiff as a board with both hands clenched on the wheel. I didn't know what to say, I can never say the right thing in these types of situations I'm the type of person who faces it face on. That's why I like soccer face what happens head on but words with this I can't do that. Soon enough however we showed up in front of my house where he parked the car but I opened the door and got out myself.

"Thanks for tonight, that place was really good." I said to him as we made our way up my walk way.

"Sorry for ending it abruptly." He said as we reached the door.

"We were done eating its fine… are you worried about the animal attack."

"We have a lot of hikers who go in La Push. You should probably keep out of the woods till the animal gets caught."

"Not my style. One thing about me is that I don't let the fear of something bad happening rule my life. But I shall be careful." I quickly added when he some how looked more stiff. "Well good night Embry."

"Night Tessa." He said and with that I opened the door to my house closed the door and went up stairs to Beth's room where she was on the bed watching TV and flopped on beside her with a sigh.

"Oh god bad date?"

"No it was great we have so much in common and its so easy to talk to him. And you have seen him and ugh."

"So what's the problem babe bad kisser?"

"He didn't kiss me, the night ended really abruptly…" With that she sat up fast and pulled me up to face her.

"Spill everything what happened!"

"Calm down sparky, nothing really happened… I don't know one second he was telling me a story that I am dying to know the ending to and the next I see on the news that a hiker was killed outside Forks from an animal and we are out the door and he is flying to get me back and get home. That's not my fault is it?"

"I heard about the hiker… maybe he remembers what happened a few years ago. The hysteria and stuff…"

"So what do I do? Do I not look appealing or what if I wasn't appealing?"

"So your interested in him hot stuff? What happened to no I don't want anything I'm tessa im really pretty and sassy but no guy nooooooo!"

"Shut up!" I grabbed a pillow and hit her.

"So what happened? His giant bicepts? The theory of tall guys…."

"Stop itttt! I don't know god he just makes me feel happy. I don't remember feeling this happy in… I don't when I was ever that happy in those two hours in my life." I said ending in whisper. It was at that moment that I realized how painful it was to talk about him but not be with him. Why is it that this guy makes me feel this way. "Now it hurts to even be away from him… It's the same feeling I had when we catered that wedding and it felt like my chest is being ripped open. WHAT THE F…"

"Okay babe this is strange but we have handled worse. Tomorrow he is going to call and probably be like "Tessa I'm sorry forgive me you are like the sun and with out you I am in the darkkk."

"Are you on drugs?"

"Aw babe you are my drug." With that I rolled my eyes and got up from the bed to go across the hall to my room only to have her fallow and land on my bed as I went to my closet. "Oh come on, you didn't do anything wrong so there is nothing to worry about." (If only that would be true)…

Embry:

"WHERE THE HELL WERE THE CULLENS?" Paul yelled.

The entire pack was at Sam and Emily's house discussing the dead hiker that was found; obvious from the vampire activity that has been around.

"It was outside Forks s o they weren't around." Sam said. "Now they killed which means they will kill again so patrols…"

"Boss we have already doubled patrols how are we going to up then without dragging us down so much that we aren't of any use…" Jared said leaning on the table.

"I know… we are keeping the schedule for now but making sure the experienced and new wolves are mixed so it's even. Then we can change it up after we get information about what's going on from the Cullen."

"And we trust their intel because?" Paul said.

"Because they want this gone just as much as we do. We don't want a repeat of two years ago this ends." Sam said. "we protect the tribe you are either sleeping, working with the Cullens or sleeping."

"Tessa." I whispered, "she's not in the tribe."

"Fuck, she's in Forks the Cullens will be around and after this they will be on alert…" Paul went on to say.

"Oh so that makes her safe!" I yelled getting to my feet causing Paul to also get on his feet.

"Listen Embry you may be her imprint and you may have a strong connection but don't ever think that you have a right to think that I don't worry for her. I know more about her than you may ever know Embry so sit your ass down."

"ENOUGH both of you, we don't have time for this." Sam yelled making me sit down. "Tessa is now part of the tribe being an imprint which means that we must find a way to get her here as much as possible."

Everyone kept talking, talking about the vamps what to do and such but now I felt the absence of her and it hurt more then I could ever imagine. What could Paul know about Tessa that she might never tell me? Oh god what does she think after I took her home so fast. 1 am… the pack has been talking for hours about the issues of vamps coming I cant call her now…