PAULS POV
After what seemed like a day and a half, the boys were finally ready to go to this party.
It's not that I was eager to go, it's that I was eager to get it over with already. So without much effort on my part, I just changed into a white shirt, and kept the shorts I already had on.
So by the time we were already stepping into the party grounds, I was already asking what time we were leaving.
"Oh come on Paul. Lighten up." John said to me.
"Shit, Paul… That chick is here." Embry said.
"Who?" I asked yawning.
"Marlene… I don't remember her name man, she's over there." Embry said.
"Who's Marlene?" John asked me.
I looked over at the direction Embry had pointed to, and saw Mayleen dancing.
"Shit, Mayleen is here." I said, turning around so she didn't see me.
"Damn, you got with that?" Brady asked me.
"Long story." I mumbled.
"Hey Brady." I recognized Alexa's voice. I heard some sort of kiss contact.
"Well see you guys later." I heard Brady say.
"So why are you avoiding her?" John asked me.
I looked over at her, and noticed her scream something, I couldn't make out what it was over the music that was playing now.
She took a drink out of her cup, before she continued to dance. The way she moved her hips, reminded me all to well of the times we….
"Yeah, I'll wait for you guys in the woods, when you guys are ready to leave come look for me." I said to them.
"Aww come on Paul." John said.
"Have fun." I mumbled to them, I heard John asked Embry, what had gone on between Mayleen and I. Before I stormed away.
I was too busy trying to avoid from Mayleen seeing me, which wasn't that easy to do, considering, I practically towered over the others. And too busy trying to walk around the kids dancing, and the girls who were trying to rub up against me, that I didn't even notice the small girl in front of me, until she bumped hard into me.
Before she could fall, I caught her by the arm.
"Sorry!" she said. For a moment I was taken a back when I realized it was the girl from the diner and Port Angeles. As I still grabbed her arm, I noticed it was a bit cool, but not cold like the leeches.
"Are you okay?" I asked her, she looked down at my hand, I was still holding on to her arm.
"I'm fine. Thanks." she said pulling her arm away from me.
I wondered if she really was okay. I was about to ask her, but she walked off around me.
I didn't know if she was upset or angry. I told myself that I just wanted to make sure she was okay. But in reality, I just wanted to talk to her.
I looked around at the others, and noticed everyone at the party was too busy drinking, kissing or dancing.
So I walked after her.
I noticed her shake her head.
"Hey." I said.
She stopped walking, and turned around to look at me.
I noticed her stare at me confused, so before she could think I was some sort of creep following her. I said the first thing I could.
"Funny how I keep bumping into you." Was all I could think of saying.
She was avoiding my gaze, and instead looked down at my hand. I squeezed it, making my knuckles crack.
"Yeah… funny." She said, looking over at the party.
Great, she thinks you're a creep. I thought, seeing she was feeling uncomfortable.
"So what brought you here?" I asked, trying to ease the tension.
"My car." she said.
Smartass… "You know what I mean." I said, smiling.
"My friend." she said. "You?"
"My brothers… well their really my friends But their like my brothers." I answered quickly.
"I see." she said. "Well I really should get back, my brother is probably looking for me." she said starting to walk away.
"Wait." I said grabbing her arm again.
She looked down at my hand. Then back up at me. I was waiting for her to smack me, or tell me to let go of her, but she didn't.
"Sorry." I said letting go. "What's your name?" I asked.
"Hannah." she said, not looking at me.
"Hannah…" I repeated, letting it register into my brain.
"My name's Paul." I said to her.
"I know, I remember." she said.
"How old are you?" I asked.
"That's a rather rude question to ask a girl." She said smiling. Dimples formed perfectly on her cheeks.
Now that I was able to talk to her this long, I was able to notice exactly how beautiful she was. She was far more slender then other girls I was used to talking to, but her features was far more attractive and eye catching to explain. Her pale and smooth skin, reminded me so much of porcelain dolls.
"Sorry." I said smirking.
"I'm seventeen." she said.
Seventeen… Hadn't Jacob and I just spoken about the twin leeches age earlier? I sniffed the air, not too obviously, but to get a good whiff of the air. And she didn't even smell the slightest as a leech. But this is all to close to connecting…
"Hannah… what's your full name?" I asked.
"Hannah Cullen." She said smiling up at me.
To say I was a loss of words, is an understatement, so when I brought myself to repeating the last name, it was more shocking to me then.
"Cullen?" I said, almost in a whisper.
It dawned on me then, that this young girl, was in fact the very leech that had came out of Bella. Her and her brother, were the offspring of the leech we had killed… I had killed her father, I had taken my time… and I had enjoyed it… and I had wanted to kill her and her brother. I have wanted to kill her and her brother, waiting for the slightest evidence that they had slipped.
Here was my chance, no one saw us come here, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. She seemed so pure and innocent, so… controlled.
I didn't know what to say, I could only just stare are her. Until we heard people screaming, from the party.
When she turned to look, I took the chance to pry myself away from her, away from wanting to ask her more questions, from changing my mind about not wanting to hurt her…
When I knew I was far enough to phase, I did.
EMBRY! BRADY! JOHN! Report! I said, trying not to let the shock in my voice show.
John is with me, we got away from the cops. We saw Brady leave the party with Alexa, before the cops got there, he'll be more then okay. Embry said laughing.
Normally I would have smirked at this, but right now, my head was elsewhere. Meet me in front of Jakes. I said, still running past trees, crushing branches that were in my way, or on the ground.
I knew I would get to Jacobs house, way before them, which was exactly what I needed.
Okay Embry said.
As Jacobs house came to view, I phased and went around the house, to his window, opening it, I jumped in and landed right next to him in his bed.
He woke up and sat up looking at me.
"Paul! Don't do that shit man! You scared the hell out of me!" he said.
I stared at me, not knowing how to start.
"Why aren't you with the boys? Get off my bed man, I don't want your sweaty-" he said, but I cut him off.
"Jake… I found Bella's kids…" I said.
"What?" He asked surprised. He turned the lamp he had next to his head on.
"I talked to her daughter…" I said looking down at my feet.
"Did you kill her? Did she try hurting you?" he asked.
I shook my head. "The girl at the diner… its her.. Its them… the guy with her is the other one… fuck Jake you should see how controlled they are…" I said.
"How do you know its them?" he asked me.
"I asked her what was her name and age." I said.
"Wait.. how did you even run into her?" he asked.
"Party." I said.
"PARTY? I said to patrol with the boys, not to go to some party!" he said angrily.
"That's not important right now… Jake… we wanted to kill them man… you see how controlled they both are… how nice she seems… fuck man…" I said trailing my fingers on my scar. "We killed their father…"
Both Jacob and I stood quiet, I knew that just like me, we were remembering the night we did:
"Promise me, you will leave my family alone." The big leech said to Jacob.
I huffed, at him, just waiting until the moment I could rip my teeth into him. I wanted to savor the moment.
Jacob laid his paw on the big leeches shoulder. Letting him know, he had his word.
"Good bye." The leech said looking up at the sky.
I had been the first to strike, biting into his head…
"Are they a threat?" Jacob asked me.
I shook my head. "I don't think so." I said.
"So what is her name?" Jacob asked.
"Hannah Cullen… I don't know what her brothers name is." I said.
"But wait… how did it all happen exactly?" he asked.
"I'll just show you." I said.
Jacob waited for me to jump out the window, before he jumped out. There was no way we could have phased in his room, without breaking things, especially with us both there.
Just as Jacob joined me, Embry and John showed up.
"Embry… Paul needs to show up something. John, I need you to stay out of this, this was before your time with the pack, so you wouldn't understand, go upstairs, and change, you need some rest." Jacob said to John.
John phased back and obeyed. "Good night?" he said.
I could sense the curiosity burning in him, but he knew more then better, not to disobey not only his Alpha, but his brother.
Jacob and I both phased.
What's going on? Embry asked.
Jacob looked at me.
I replayed what happened earlier in my head, like a film, the images began to play into theirs.
By the time I was done, Jacob had phased back.
He was pacing back and forward, his hand at his mouth.
"She looks so much like her…" he said.
"Wait… she's the baby Bella had?" Embry asked.
"One of them, she had a twin, a brother." I said to him.
"There were two of them!? But I thought you killed them." He said looking from Jacob to me.
Jacob held his hand out at him, silencing him. "Look Embry, we made a deal with the big one, before we killed him. He exchanged his life for his family. As long as the babies did not seem a threat while they grew, then we would not have anything to do with them." Jacob said.
Embry scratched his head, he rubbed his chest, I knew he was touching the scar he had on his chest, from the night we fought the leeches.
"So what now?" Embry asked.
Jacob continued to pace. "We keep an eye on them."
"But they're not a threat." I said to him.
"Yet… who knows." He said to me.
"How are we going to do that?" Embry asked.
Jacob looked over at me. "You talk to her now… keep an eye on her… befriend her… do what you must, as long as you are sure that she, and her brother, do not harm anyone… they have to slip sooner or later especially if they go out to parties with humans. They are far too young to be so controlled." He said.
I nodded.
"This stays between us, neither John or Brady need to know anything. If they ask about it, tell them its none of their business, it was before their time, it was only during ours. Got it?" he said, knowing that John and Brady, would probably get into our thoughts.
Although they would not be able to see the fight we had with the Cullen's, or the way we killed the big leech, because it was before their time in the pack, they might still be able to see the conversation I had with Hannah. Embry was not able to hide his thoughts as Jacob and I, so we knew they would be able to see his clearly.
HANNAH'S POV
After we managed to get away from the police, we hopped on to our cars, and made our way to my house. Of course with the dark road we had to pass to my house, I winded up having to let Emmett drive moms car, and I had to drive Mulans car.
"Do you guys seriously live all the way out here?" she asked.
"All my life." I said, smiling to her.
"I can't even see out the window." She said, opening her window.
"What is there to look at? Its tree after tree." I said to her.
"Don't you get freaked out?" she asked me
"Nah, my house is well lighted, and my little Seth takes care of me." I said to her.
"Oh you have a dog?" she asked me. She opened her glove compartment, I noticed her pull out a CD. The cover said Tsunami Bomb, or something like that.
I watched her put the CD in and press play.
"Sorta, you'll see." I said to her.
The music started, I found myself nodding my head. I was going to have to ask Emmett if he could teach me to play the intro. Up until the singer started singing.
18, you think you're free. To be what you wanna be…
"A girl band?" I asked her.
"Nah, just the singer. Pretty good huh?" She said.
"Yeah." I said. Emmett turned his signal to the right, letting me know where the turn was. Emmett was able to see in the dark far better then I was, so we had agreed he'd lead the way home.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, where are we going?" Mulan asked scared. She put the music down.
"When I said I lived in the middle of the woods, I literally meant it." I said to her.
I could sense her heart beat, beat faster.
"Don't be scared, we don't bite. We're almost there. See, that's the house porch light." I said to her, pointing way ahead, to a small light.
When we got home, Emmett beeped the car loudly.
He, had to warn mom we had company, not that they couldn't have smelled Mulan's fresh blood from a mile away.
"Wow." Mulan said, as I stopped the car. "You live here?"
I turned the engine off, and watched as Emmett walked over to Mulans side, to open the door for her.
"Like I said, all my life." I said to her.
The door opened, and Seth came running out, he ran over to Mulan and sniffed her shoes.
"And that Mulan, is my Seth." I said to her.
"I've never seen his breed before she said." She squatted to pet him.
"That's because he's not a dog, he's a miniature wolf. Hard to find, but we managed to find him. Lucky huh?" asked my dad from the doorway. Joining him was my mom.
Mulan quickly got up. Emmett wrapped his arm around Mulans arm, and escorted her towards the house.
"Mulan, I would like to present you to my parents. Edward, and Isabella. Mom, dad, this is Mulan Adkah." I said to them.
She put her hands together, from palm to palm, and bowed her head towards them. As she did she said "Namaste."
My father did the same thing with his hands, and bowed. My mother smiled at Mulan, and bowed her head.
"Nice to meet you." My mom said to her
I had never seen Mulan do this before.
"Wow.. I'm sorry… but wow, you are Hannah's and Emmett's parents?" she asked.
My mother smiled and nodded.
"You two look so young." She said staring at them. She must have realized she was, because she shook her head. "My apologies, how rude of me, I did not mean to stare." She said, bowing her head again.
"It's perfectly fine. We understand. My wife and I, like to live a healthy lifestyle… vegetarians, we do a lot of running, and hunting." He said to her. He looked over me, with a twinkle in his eye.
I knew he wanted to laugh at his own joke.
"Ah." Mulan said.
"Mom, is it okay is Mulan spends the night?" I asked.
"If it's okay with her parents, then its okay with us, isn't it Edward?" she said looking up at him.
"Of course. But I would like to talk to your parents, just so they know you are in good hands." He said.
"Of course." Mulan said, as my father led her into the house.
I heard her tell him the number, as he dialed it on his cell phone.
"She seems nice." My mom said to me.
"She is." I said smiling to her.
"So how was the party?" she asked both Emmett and I.
We both looked at each other. "Oh it was good." We both said.
"Anything happen?" she asked.
"No." Emmett said.
"Oh really? Because I tried calling your grandfather, and I was informed he was out patrolling the woods, because there was a party, with underage drinking." She said, crossing her arms.
"Well… we didn't drink." I said quickly.
We all turned when we heard my aunt come in.
"I got it! Put it all on-" she stopped when she saw Mulan.
Mulan jumped, startled at her sudden appearance. I heard my dad clear his throat loudly. Clearly scowling at Alice.
"Still trying to figure out, what stock to put it in?" I asked mom.
My mom had told me that Alice once was able to see what stocks would rise, but that for some reason, her ability started to fade, and she was only able to do it once in a blue moon. Of course my parents never put all the money on the stocks she suggested.
Had they, we would have been in the ruins. Of course they never told her that, they did not want to discourage her.
My mom nodded.
"Oh, hello." She said to Mulan.
"Aunt Alice, this is a friend from school. Mulan." I said to her.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Alice." My aunt said skipping over to her.
She grabbed Mulan face and stared at her. "Wow, you have the most beautiful eyes. And very beautiful cheeks bones." She said. "You know, if you allowed me to do your makeup, you could be rather breath taking."
Mulan stared at me, not knowing what to do.
"Umm Alice, I think your scaring the poor girl." My dad said, pulling Alice away from Mulan.
"I'm sorry, its just we don't get many visitors." Alice said to Mulan.
Mulan smiled and bowed her head to her.
Once she was able to meet my grandpa, who we had to present as my uncle, for more then obvious reasons. Luckily enough she had forgot I had once said that my grandfather was a doctor. My mom and aunt had made some snack for the three of us: Emmett, Mulan, and I.
Under my fathers' supervision, they had prepared things Mulan was allowed to eat, considering her religion.
As she munched on a slice of cucumber, she enjoyed the movie we were watching.
I don't remember what the name was, but it was an easygoing film for now.
"So if you don't mind me asking, what does your family do for a living?" Mulan asked, finishing the cucumber she had.
"My uncle is a doctor, my aunt is a… makeup artist… dad is a… chef…and mom invested on the stock market. My grandfather, is actually the Chief of police of Forks." I said. Inventing a few occupations.
"Ooooh, Chief Swan?" she asked.
"Yeah." I said.
"So that's your moms dad?" she asked me.
"Yeah." I said chewing on a curried chicken wing my mom had made. Seth was trying to jump on to the bed, trying to eat some of it. He knew he was not allowed to grab any of the food in the platters by Mulan. But only what I gave him.
I gave him the bones from the chicken wing.
Mulan turned her body so she was facing Emmett and I. We were on my bed, on our stomachs. She had been sitting on the floor, with her legs crossed.
"I didn't know Chief Swan had another daughter." She said.
"Another?" Emmett asked.
"Yeah, I heard about his daughter that went missing, you know the one no one ever saw again. Shortly after they had found huge bear tracks." She said.
Emmett and I both looked at each other.
"You guys never knew?" she asked.
We both knew that, that must have been the lie everyone was told, when my mom must have been converted.
There would have been no other explanation for what had happened to her, so they must have made up a lie, and said she had gone missing.
"Oh no we did, we just didn't know others did." Emmett lied.
"Are you kidding me? I remember for years, we weren't allowed in woods at night. We still aren't but it's easier to get away with it now." She said.
"Apparently not." Emmett said, referring to earlier.
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That night, I had the same dream I did the other night. The exact same one, and just like last time, I woke up just before Paul's lips could even touch mine.
Except, unlike last time, I woke up because of a pain in my lower abdomen. I knew the pain all to well. It was that time of the month for me.
I got out of bed, careful not to wake up Mulan, who had slept in my bed with me.
I went to my closet, not even bothering to turn its light on, because the sunlight was strong today. I pulled out the clothes I would be wearing today. I settled on a pair of loose black jogging pants, and fitted red tank top. I choose red panties and a black bra to wear. Just to mix up both the colors.
After I took my shower, and changed into a sanitary pad. I took my time, with my deodorant, changing, and makeup. It was still early.
I found myself thinking about Paul, and as to why I was dreaming of him. Both times I have spoken to him, I heave dreamt of him. And where did he run off to last night?
I snapped back into my reality, when I heard a scratch at the door, I noticed Seth's small shadow from the bottom space of them door.
With my hair still wet, but fully clothed, and done up. I opened the door. I looked over at my bed, and saw Mulan was still sleeping. I picked up Seth, and left the room with him.
I peeked into Emmett's room and saw him sleeping still.
I walked down the stairs, and into my the kitchen. I needed a tea, or something warm, and quick.
As soon as I stepped into the kitchen, my dad was waiting for me at the table, with a cup of tea.
I felt my cheeks burn in embarrassment as I realized he knew.
"Where's everyone else?" I asked.
"Your grandfather went to the hospital early, he wanted to beat the sun. Your mother and aunt went to your grandfathers Charlie house. They wont be back until sun down." He said.
"Oh." I said leaning against the wall. "Why are they there?" I asked
"Your mother missed him, and we couldn't all exactly be here, it's hard to find spots to be out the suns reach, your friend would notice." He said. He pushed the tea with his finger, away from him and to the spot in front of him.
"Drink." He said. "You'll feel better."
I could feel my face warm. "Thank you dad." I said smiling.
Although I was embarrassed, I really did have to be thankful to have such a caring father.
"You don't have to be embarrassed baby. It's perfectly normal." He said.
"Thanks dad, but can we please not talk about it?" I said.
He smiled. "What are you in the mood for? I'll make you guys breakfast, before your friend wakes up." He patted my hand, the sunlight making his hand sparkle. I knew he had to hide from Mulan after he would make the food.
"Everything you make is great." I said to him.
Shortly after dad had locked himself in his room, Mulan and Emmett came down to eat, Mulan had seconds, but Emmett and I had more then a few shares.
"So what do you guys want to do?" I asked them.
"Well actually I have to go to the temple on Sundays." Mulan said.
"I'm driving her over, and I think I might stick around for a little, check it out." He said.
I knew he wanted to see Mayleen. Mulan smiled shyly to me, poor girl, she really liked Emmett, I could tell.
"Would you like to come?" Emmett asked me.
Mulan looked over at me. I knew she was hoping I said no.
"Oh no no, its fine. I was actually planning to go on a run." I said. Which was true, I always found it easing for me, this time around.
Mulan smiled. "Well thank you for everything, I had a great time, your family is so nice. Maybe next time you can sleep over at mine?" she asked.
"Yeah, sounds great." I said gathering up the dirty plates, and putting them into the sink.
"Catch ya later sis." Emmett said winking at me.
"See you tomorrow." Mulan said to me. "Give your family my gratitude."
"I will." I said hugging her.
After they had left, I went up to my room, and got my ipod. By the time I was back downstairs. I found my dad already in the stuff room reading a book about Hiduism. I told him I was going on a run. Seth tried coming with me, but I told him to stay with my dad.
I put my headphones in, and put my ipod on shuffle. My ipod set on Bodies by Drowning Pool first. One of my personally favorite songs to run to.
I stretched for a moment, before I began to run away from the house.
I can't run like my family, but I was slightly faster regular then the average human. I could well compete in a tournament, with professional athletes, without being questioned for my speed.
I was able to run for long distances. I had to develop it, but once I was able to improve my breathing properly, I was able to run for hours, with out cramping.
After some time of running, I looked down at my ipod, as it switched to a song called Wanderer by Ensiferum. Something about this song, and being surrounded by these tree's fit so perfectly to me right about now.
I had just passed the diner on Goodman Road. The same one, I had first seen Paul at. And once again my thoughts were lost back to Paul. So when someone tapped my shoulder, it was no surprise that I screamed and tripped over my own feet.
I put my hands in front of me to prevent less pain, for when I would make impact with the ground. But was stopped, when I felt a warm arm grab me around the waist.
I felt my body do a turn, so my face was now facing away from the road and now to my "hero" although they had been the one, who could have caused me to get hurt.
I looked up at Paul, who had his warm arm around my back. He said something to me, but I didn't hear him, because I still had my headphones in. I took them off.
"What?" I asked him. Great, again he see's me looking like hell and a half.
"I asked if you were okay?" he said. "I didn't mean to scare you."
"You didn't scare me, you just startled me. Big difference. You know its really rude to just sneak up on someone like that!" I said angrily.
I got up, and put my hands on my hips, tapping my foot at him.
"Is this about last night?" he asked.
"What are you talking about?" I demanded, wrapping my headphones around my ipod.
"That I left you." He said.
"No, what do I care, its not like I know you. So what do you want?" I asked.
"I just wanted to say hi. I saw you running past the diner, I was there with my friends." He said.
"Well hi. Now if you excuse me, I need to head back home." I said. I really was rather upset at him right now.
"Wait, are you hungry?" he asked.
"What?"
"Do you want something to eat?" he asked.
"No. I already ate. I'm not hungry." But my stomach betrayed me. It complained. It was as if it was waiting, to hear any word that reminded me to feed it.
"Really?" he asked me. He had heard my stomach too. "Come on." He said nodding over to the diner.
"I have no money." I said.
"I asked if you were hungry, not if you had money. Come on." He said laughing. He tried to grab my arm.
"Do no touch me." I said slapping his hand.
"Ow. Okay. Sorry. Geez you hit pretty hard." He said looking at his hand. "I just want to buy you something to eat." He said.
I looked at him uncertain. "Fine. But I'm warning you. I'm not a light eater." I said.
"Fine by me. I like a girl with a good appetite." He said smiling.
"Fine." I said. Walking past him towards the diner.