AN: This doesn't follow my plan, but I needed to get this out, once you read it all, you'll know why! Next week there will me a new chapter, promise! I won't leave you hanging! I also want to get Smile For Me out, though its the wrong day. Its just frustrating me. Thank you all for the reviews! Over 300! I really hope you all enjoy the new chapter!

Chapter Fifteen

Something Suspicious

Nothing much changed through the week. I didn't see Anna other than the times I stalked her, as usual. She didn't have anytime around her parents so I didn't have to worry about her getting hurt by them. I also had more than a few patrols to cover from the whole Kevin thing. Seth promised to watch Anna when I couldn't so I didn't freak out so much.

The rest of the pack started giving me their patrols to, and the only person I was ever phased with was Seth. Normally, me and Sam had a few patrols together during the week because he knew I worked better with him and he wanted to make sure I wasn't planning anything stupid.

Even stranger than usual, was that Seth and Leah were hanging around more than usual. Seth I wasn't too concerned about. He likes to hang around everyone else's house. But Leah doesn't like to be around anyone except her mother, so when she started following Seth to my house it was scary to say the least.

Come Saturday morning I wasn't even surprised when I woke up to find Seth on my couch and Leah at the dining room table with breakfast. But it didn't comfort me. At all.

"Why don't you have any good horror movies?" Seth whined as I walked passed him.

"My mom doesn't like them." I yawned, flopping onto the empty couch.

"You have every war movie ever made in this country but she doesn't like horror movies?" He asked confused.

"Don't ask, I didn't pick her." I grumbled from the couch. "Why are you two even here?" I asked tiringly. The night before I had been staking out Anna's house myself because I didn't have a patrol and I got next to no sleep.

"Mom is fixing up the house with Charlie, she kicked us out." Seth answered shrugging.

"That doesn't make sense." I said suspiciously.

"She likes doing stuff with Charlie when were not there." Seth elaborated, clueless.

"That's disgusting." I gagged.

"Not that!" Seth yelled, throwing his shoe at my head.

"That's what they want you to think." I mumbled under my breath.

Seth covered his ears and dropped his head to the floor. "I need mind bleach!" He yelled as he hit his head on the ground repeatedly.

"Tequila and apple juice." Leah said knowingly from the table. We both stopped what we were doing and looked up at Leah. "What?" She hissed.

"How do you even know that?" Seth asked confused.

"I did my fare share of experimenting." Leah answered with her troubling grin.

"I'm gonna go work on Anna's car." I muttered, pushing myself off the couch and shuffling to the garage.

"Whatever." Seth said as he went back to looking through the movies.

I usually spent any free time I had on her car. I wanted her to have the car as soon as possible, so she wouldn't have to ride her bike in the rainiest city of the US everywhere. It wouldn't take much for her to catch pneumonia and I really don't want to start stalking the hospital. It's the worst smelling place in the world.

Half way through reconnecting most of the ports to the engine Seth came out of the house, looking way too happy.

"Leah said we should go out for dinner." He said trying to lean against Anna's car.

I hit him hard with the heavy ratchet I had, making him jump away. "We?" I snarled.

"Yeah, I said the diner down in Forks." He said still grinning. And that's why that little shit looks so smug. "You can see Anna." He pointed out, almost singing.

"Fine, let me finish and we'll go." I snapped, going back under the hood and Seth skipped of like a little girl who just got the Barbie Dream House she always wanted.

When I was done we all crammed in my pick up truck and I drove down to Forks. It was just after seven when we got there and hardly anyone was left in the diner. Inside we had free reign of the place Leah took a booth up front and Seth followed her. They looked like the strangest pair of Amazonians you've ever seen. I sat on the other side and stared at the kitchen door, waiting for Anna to come out.

The perky waitress that always tried to hit on me can up to the table and Leah was already rolling her eyes when Seth turned his full attention to her. Luckily the waitress knew who she had the best chances with and fell all over Seth after she took our order and disappeared into the kitchen.

Anna came out a moment later, with her empty bin on her hip and saw me quickly. I smiled at instantly and she had her own shy smile. She walked up to us and smiled at Leah and Seth.

"Hi," She said to me, looking happily surprised.

"Hey," I said back, smiling more than I normally did when she wasn't around. She looked at Leah and Seth shyly. "This is Leah and I'm sure you remember her brother Seth." I said with narrowed eyes at him.

"I remember." She said smiling. "It's nice to see you again." She told him awkwardly. I could tell she didn't know exactly what to say.

"You don't have to be nice to him, he's like a puppy that chases you around no matter what you do to it." I told her while grinning at Seth.

"It's true." Leah added as she rearranged the sugar packets.

"Hey!" Seth yelled indignantly.

The manager poked his head out of the kitchen and snapped his fingers at Anna. "Sorry, I have to get back to work." She said apologetically. I nodded, trying not to look too sad and she walked away.

"I like you more when she's around." Leah said as Anna walked away.

"Barely," Seth mumbled angrily.

"I think I might like her, she's the only normal one." Leah commented.

Thinking about it, Leah was actually right. "The truth of that statement is fucking depressing." I grumbled to myself.

"Emily is normal!" Seth yelled aghast.

"She used to be, how normal can you be with a freaking shape-shifting husband?" Leah asked, smacking Seth upside the head.

"What about Kim?" Seth asked as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Other than the fact that she's Jared's shadow to an almost creepy point?" Leah asked dryly.

"Yeah, other than that." Seth muttered.

We both stared at him blankly.

"Fine, what about Nessie?" He asked in a huff.

"Did you hear what you just said? You want to know what's not normal about that mutant?" Leah asked with a raised brow.

"I'm with Leah. She is weird." I agreed, not even caring that I did actually just agree with Leah.

"She's like two years old!" Seth yelled defensively. Leah and I looked at him knowingly. "Kind of." He muttered. We didn't stop staring at him. "Fine Claire?" He asked.

"Come on, she isn't even in school yet! This is about people who don't have adorable speech impediments." Leah said, smacking him again. Seth frowned and thought for a moment then tried to open his mouth when Leah stopped him. "Or people we don't even know anything about yet." She said, probably referring to Embry's imprint.

"I still say you're wrong." Seth mumbled, sulking like a little kid.

"I'm trying to find a logical reason not to take your head off." Leah said lowly.

"There isn't one." I grumbled.

"Here are your orders!" The waitress said with a face splitting grin for Seth.

After we ate, which didn't take all that long, we talked a little with Anna while Leah went to the ladies room. She came back holding her cell phone and looking grim.

"I just got a call from Sam, we need to go." She said seriously.

"What is it?" I asked looking at my own phone. Why didn't he call me? He tries to avoid dealing with Leah.

"Nothing bad, he just wants a pow-wow with everyone." Leah answered rolling her eyes. That I could see.

"Fine," I muttered, looking down at Anna while she cleaned one of the booths in the back. I waved at her and she did the same.

I pulled my keys from my pocket and Leah snatched them from me. "I'm driving." She said firmly.

"We're dead." Seth muttered fearfully.

I begrudgingly let Leah drive, but made Seth sit in the middle again. There was no way I was gonna be crammed next to Leah to where ever she was going to take us. We got back to La Push in fifteen minutes and I thought we were driving toward the cliffs, then she started taking some of the weird back roads and I got lost.

"Where the hell are we?" I asked impatiently.

"Just shut up and wait." Leah snapped.

"We just drove in two circles!" I yelled pointing to the same fallen tree we had passed two other times.

"I said shut up!" She yelled.

I tried to reach over to hit Leah and she tried to do the same but Seth grabbed both of our hands. "No fighting in a cramped truck!" He yelled pushing our hands into our chests.

"She's literally driving me insane!" I yelled at her over Seth.

She looked at me flatly. "Gag him." She told Seth.

"I'll put you both through the windshield first." I said threateningly.

Seth looked worried and slunk closer to his sister and away from me. Leah took a few sharp turns the stopped abruptly.

"Chill the hell out, we're here." She said rolling her eyes as she threw the keys at me and left the truck.

Seth got out on her side and I used the passenger door. Looking around we were in the middle of the woods, but a little bit ahead there were a few more cars parked and ahead of that there was a orange glow. "What is this?" I asked myself as I followed Leah and Seth's trail.

The trees got thick for a second but when I broke through I was met with almost all of the pack, a few of the younger guys were missing, my mom, some of the elders of the pack and Anna all smiling at me, gathered around a huge bonfire.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" They yelled happily.

"Oh you fuck heads." I hissed under my breath. It all made sense then. Why Leah and Seth hung around all the time, why I was taking so many shifts but no one else was phased with me. Those sneaky bastards…

Emily ran up to me first and hugged me. "You're just upset we actually pulled off a surprise party." She said triumphantly.

When Emily let go I couldn't hold back the smile. "Next time, don't use those two to distract me, they almost died." I said pointing to Seth and Leah.

"I doubt we'd need them next time." Sam said grinning as he pulled Emily away, looking over his shoulder at my mom and Anna.

I went through and smacked everyone I could for surprising me. They'd never try this without Anna because they all know I hate surprises. Half of the cake was gone within ten minutes, so I took a piece to Anna before it was completely gone.

"Sorry, I didn't say anything, they were really adamant on a surprise party." She said apologetically, taking the cake I handed to her.

I shook my head. "I know how they get." I said with a wink. She giggled and picked at the cake. "Thanks for coming." I told her honestly.

She smiled widely at me. "No problem." She murmured.

"Alright! You have presents." Mom said grabbing my arm and pulling me toward the fire.

"If they are socks, you are all going down." I said seriously.

So I didn't get socks. I actually got some pretty cool stuff. I knew it was probably just because it was my 18th birthday and it's supposed to be special, or something, but it was still cool. Everyone calmed down from there and started talking amongst themselves. I watched Anna walk a little was off from the group and followed her.

She stopped at the edge of the cliffs, out of the light of the fire. I walked up behind her, making as much noise as possible and stopped just behind her. "Did you have fun?" I asked hopefully.

She turned from the ocean and looked up at me. "Yeah, I've never actually been to a party, but I think it was great." She said smiling.

"So, you'd be up to coming to more of our Rez parties?" I asked grinning.

"If you want to invite me." She said shyly.

Maybe it was the way the fire caught her eyes, or the color her cheeks had turned at that moment, but something told me to kiss her and I couldn't find a reason to stop myself. I wrapped my arm around her back and pressed my lips to hers.

A squeak came from her lips but quickly changed into a sigh as she grabbed my arms and used them as leverage to try and raise herself. I buried my other hand into her hair and kissed her with more fervor. A part of me thought she would back down with my aggression, but she matched it. She clawed at my skin and kissed me with everything I kissed her with.

I was in heaven on earth, for a minute…

"Paul!" Collin yelled, making Anna jump a foot away from me.

I started growling lowly. "Collin, you're going to lose your-" I was about to threatening his family jewel's when the thick smell of bloodsucker filled my nose. I looked more carefully at Collin. He had already been in a fight with it, if his gnarled arm was any sign.

There was a vampire near by and it sure as shit wasn't friendly.

"Go back to Sam!" I ordered pointing toward the bonfire.

"What's going on?" Anna asked dazed.

I started rushing her back toward the party. "I need you to go with my mom." I said seriously.

"Why?" She asked frantically. I almost picked her up to get her to my mom faster.

At the cliff I saw Sam give Collin an order then he ran back into the woods. Emily was rounding up all the other imprints to put out the fire while Jared, Embry and Quil darted into the woods after Collin. I spun her to face me and looked down at her seriously. "I'll explain it later, but please, stay with her." I pled.

She swallowed hard and nodded. "O-okay," She stammered. She was entirely clueless, but she was still scared.

"Paul!" Sam yelled from behind me.

I couldn't stop myself. I dropped my head down to her lips and kissed her. I poured everything I could into that kiss because I didn't know if I'd be coming back for another one. I'd die before a leech got a hold of her.

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