Chapter 1

"Luka…Luka wake up…LUKA WAKE UP OR I'M GOING TO BURN YOUR BACKUP OF PHOTOSHOP," I screamed trying to wake up my companion, damn man sleeps like the dead. Which is weird, because normal full vampires don't sleep, but half ones need a lot of sleep.

"What? I'm up, I'm up. Where's my baby? What have you done to her?" asked a frantic Luka.

I started snickering, "Oh you know, threw it out the window a couple miles back."

"You didn't!" gasped Luka, and then sighed when he found his 'baby' still in his laptop case, "Your so mean sometimes. It's no wonder you had me come with for this wedding, you have absolutely no bed side manner."

Shaking my head I replied, "Luke it's not like I'm performing surgery, besides other people find me down right lovable, of course they also happen to be strangers so they only meet me in passing but hey it doesn't matter if they never have to see me again, unless they hire me as their wedding photographer. Ya know I've decided I thoroughly hate weddings, because you just get all of the sympathy looks from these old hags when they see you don't have a ring on your finger. It's like heeeellooooo not all of us women live to serve a man. I mean seriously, I make more money then half of their husbands combined plus I get to have heartless mind numbing sex with whoever I want, whenever I want as well. Who would want to give that up?" I ranted to Luka.

He started shaking his head about half way through and when I finished said, "Yeah but they also get someone who comes home to them every night, someone to snuggle on the couch with, and someone who will love them unconditionally for the rest of their lives."
Frowning, I said, "Ya know sometimes you just know how to deflate my independent woman rant and make me wanna just throw on a wedding dress and fall in line with the rest of them."

He chuckled lightly, "Well maybe you'll finally decide to start settling down once you get home. From the pictures all those delectable boys send you I question your sanity for wanting to stay away. If it were me, you would have to pull me away with chains and threaten me with death."

*growl*

"Ok ok I know why you can't go back I'm sorry, it's just what if you fall in love with somebody and don't want to leave, then what?" he asked.

"Well, we'll just have to make sure that doesn't happen, won't we?" I told him, while biting my lip.

"How far are we from your home?" he asked.

"We already passed La Push, we're five minutes from Forks, and ten from the directions the Cullen's gave me to their house. I decided it would be best to take you their first and let you visit and I'd go visit home, alone. Just at first, I haven't been home in over 6 years, I figure I should be by myself to start out my explanation to Uncle Billy," I said, and looked at the map the Cullen's had drawn and sent to me.

"It should just be around this bend," I mumbled looking for a drive. Almost missing it, I spotted a slight clearing on my left and assumed that would be it, knowing the Cullen's and their need for privacy.

Pulling up, I was shocked. Their house was beautiful, and so open. It was definitely something I had never expected of vampires, but then again the Cullen's never did anything that was expected of them.

"Sydney! You made it! Carlislie was so worried you would miss the turn off," said Esme, as she ran to give me a hug.

"Well we almost missed it, had I not been looking for it I would have missed it, plus your map was very detailed," I said while smiling at Esme, she was the most kind hearted woman anyone has ever met, it was strange to think that she was a creature that sucked blood to survive.

Esme rushed us into the house and offered us a full spread of fruits and cheeses and the most divine little tart thingy's I've ever eaten. 'For a vampire she cooks better than most homemakers,' I mused.

Spending the next few hours catching up with the Cullen's the just what I needed to settle my nerves before heading home. "Are you sure you don't want me to go with you?" asked Luka.

"I'm sure, besides I think Jas and Em would try to kill me if I even entertained the idea of taking you away from them, unlike Edward you actually like to play Call of Duty 3 with them," I said laughing.

Shrugging Luka agreed and I was on my way home. 'Just breathe and you'll be ok. It's just home, it's not like things could have really changed much.'

Oh how I was wrong. Pulling onto the rez I heard something that made my blood run cold. Something I thought I would never hear in my life. And once I did hear it I realized, home was where I needed to be. How could I ever think that I was the only one? I was flooded with childhood memories of sitting on Uncle Billy's lap at bonfires and hearing the stories of our ancestors. Hearing the stories of the wolf man and the cold ones. At that moment I understood just how real those stories were.