"Riley?" Seth asked looking at me. I jumped up and stared up at him. He looked one hundred percent human, but there had to be some kind of sign of what he really was. The short hair, bulging muscles, tribal tattoo. I took a step back and started to fall, Seth caught me with inhuman speed. I stood up and yanked my arm out of his grip. His skin was scalding hot.

"I'll be right back." I said and ran into the woods, far enough that I couldn't see or hear anyone, but not so far that I wouldn't be able to easily find my way back.

I sat down on a fallen tree started rubbing the crease in-between my bicep and forearm. A habit I'd picked up when I was small since that's usually where they drew blood for my tests.

I processed everything that I'd just learned. The Quileute tribe was a bunch of werewolves.

It sounded silly even in my head. Although a lot of girls in my school fantasized over Vampire and Werewolf relationships, I'd never given it a second thought.

I loved horror movies but I never watched the ones with mythical fairies. Because that's what they were. Mythical.

I was over-thinking this. I had to be wrong. I mean werewolves? I mentally laughed. They were stories. They were just going over old stories.

But the guys matched the descriptions perfectly. And Dylan talking about Sam's fur.

And just the way everyone acted. It felt true.

"Figure it out have you?" A rough voice said behind me. I jumped up and turned around.

Paul stood there looking down at me. I was 5'7" so I usually felt tall but Paul was at least 7' so he towered over me. He was still wearing a gray shirt and blue jeans that were ripped at the knees. His eyes were a caramel brown. His hair was as black as the night and even though it was short there were a few strands sticking out all over the place.

"It's true then." I asked.

He nodded.

"Well, I just stepped into an asylum didn't I?"

"What's so crazy about werewolves? I mean there's a creature that breaths underwater, never swims backward, has over 100 razor-sharp teeth and kills on sight."

"What is it?" I asked suddenly scared.

"A shark." He replied.

I laughed. "Yeah, I guess when you look at it like that."

"Well most people don't get all the details you did."

"Why did the tribe—or pack I guess, tell me? Obviously this is some kind of big secret."

"I think it was because of your mother."

"What about my mother?" I asked suddenly. "What is she a demon?"

"No. She's a filthy bloodsucker." He spat surprising me with his turn on attitude.

I was stunned. It took me a minute to find my voice. "She's a vampire?" I asked slowly.

He nodded. "She was a human when she had you. Then a year after that she was changed."

"How? Tell me everything." I commanded. I expected him to scoff and for a second it looked like he would but then he started explaining in a very fast voice.

"She married a vampire. Not your father, another guy. His name was Edward Cullen. The Cullen's were in the stories you heard tonight. The coven that drank the blood of animals instead of humans. She was dating the guy, Edward and then out of nowhere they left her. All of a sudden they just picked up and left. It really hurt her and she was acting all strange like a zombie. It was horrible. Then this vampire was after her so she came to us and we protected her and she was like part of our family. Then a year-later the Cullen's came back and she got back together with Edward and she left us. They got married and they turned her into a vampire."

"I can't believe she did that." I said feeling a little empty. The fact that she would just walk out of their life to be with someone who left her, made me feel a little disappointed. I had always kept my parents on high pedestals, making up reasons why they gave me up. I vaguely wondered if she gave me up to be with this Edward person.

Paul looked like he wanted to comfort me. He took a step closer and lifted his arms slightly as though he was going to hug me then seemed to think better of it and took a few steps back. Which was fine by me. Hugs weren't really my thing.

"It's not really the whole story, but I don't really know much of it."

"You weren't close to her, then?"

He grinned sheepishly. "Not really. I kind of accidently almost killed her when I phased."

I laughed loudly then I blushed. "I probably shouldn't be laughing."

"Nah, if you saw her face."

"I can't imagine any of you turning into wolves." I said shaking my head.

"Well believe it. You'll see it soon."

"I'm heading back to Portland tomorrow."

An emotion I couldn't pin-point flashed across his face. Then he sighed. "Why are you here anyway?"

"Applying for emancipation."

"Why?"

"Ever been in foster-care?" I asked.

"Nope."

"Then you wouldn't get it."

"Guess not."

"Oh hey, what's imprinting?" I asked curious.

He stared at me for a long moment and then said in a quiet voice, "Nothing important."

Author's Note: Hey! So I caught a crazy sudden flu and since I couldn't sleep I wrote this instead. A little Riley/Paul bonding in this one. I tried to keep her reaction to this realistic but I failed miserably. I feel like if I found out that Vamps and Weres are real I would probably take it calmly. Although I feel like Riley should be taking this with a little more freak-out but instead I just wrote a stupid little shark part. Next chapter will be better and hopefully a little longer since the last one was so long but it didn't have much of my own writing. I'm trying to keep fairly long chapters so my #1 rule will be that no chapter will be under 900 words. This one is a little over 1,000.

Next Chap: Riley meets Bella and we find out who Riley's father is. Hint* the name Cullen isn't in Riley's file because of Bella.