HANNAHS POV

Closing my eyes, I took a deep breath. I felt like I had just gone through something intense. I licked my lips, as dehydration quickly dried them.

I didn't bother slowing down, as I turned off the road, and into the woods. I had not even bothered to play any music. But I had put my headphones back into my ears.

The whole run home, I just couldn't keep the smile off my face off.

Had I just imagined it, or had Paul almost kissed me? Had he actually wanted to kiss me? I didn't like him, at least I didn't think I did. He was just really… really cute. Tall, dark- compared to my family- and handsome- for an ordinary human.

I didn't stop running when the house came to view, but I ran up the stairs and into the house.

Picked Seth up and spun him in my arms. He sniffed me and whimpered.

EDWARDS POV

I could hear Hannah's heart pounding as she came closer to home.

I continued reading my book, waiting for her to come in. As soon as I heard the door open, I got up and went to the next room, to be hit by an awful smell.

It smelled like what Seth normally did, but ten times worse. Although Seth was not of the mutts anymore, he still had the slight same smell as them, from what I could remember. Just way more easy to bare.

Was that Hannah? or had Seth been sneaking off doing mischief, around the house, while I was in the study? I wrinkled my nose.

It couldn't be Hannah, she knew she couldn't go near La Push, not that we ever told her why.

After what happened with Emmett, Esme, Jasper, and Rose, we had all decided that it would be for the best of us all, to forget. Don't get the wrong idea, I did not mean forget about them. But to forget what happened to them, we did not want the twins to grow up knowing the truth. We did not want them to grow up in hate, we feared they would try and seek revenge.

Before Emmett was carried away, by Jacob and Paul, he had picked me to be the twins father. And even though they were not truly mine, I loved them like they were. I raised them, I took care of them, they are my children.

"I think either you need a shower, or Seth needs one. Because it smells horrible in here." I said to her.

I wish I had been anal about this, maybe then I could have explained to her everything.

She copied me, and wrinkled her nose at me. "Fine I needed a bubble bath anyways. Seth can join me." She said.

Seth take a BATH with her!? I thought.

"No!" I said, stopping her in her tracks, from walking up the stairs.

"No what?" she asked.

"Your going to shower with Seth?" I asked.

"…yeah? What's the big deal?" she said with her hand on the stairs banister.

"But what if he see's you." I said. Even though, I knew he wasn't human anymore, he was still a man in there.

She started laughing. "Dad… its not like he's a guy. Besides, it wouldn't be the first time." She said jogging up the stairs with Seth.

NOT THE FIRST TIME!? Had that little mutt seen my daughter naked already!?

I glared at Seth, as she carried him along with her, his little paw wrapped around her shoulder, I could swear he had a twinkle in his eye.

I pointed my finger at him and shook it in a menacing way.

He stuck his little tongue out, and licked his nose.

PAUL'S POV

I spent my time trying not to think about Hannah. I didn't want the guys to get into my head, now that I was phased.

I couldn't hear them, so knowing I was safe, I allowed myself to think about her.

She was a feisty one. Beautiful, although she was part leech, so that was to be expected. But she didn't smell or seem like them. And her body… athletic and slender, and when she was stretching… well… wow… I won't complain about the sight I saw.

"Where have you been?"

I halted hard, digging my claws into the ground. I could feel the dirt burying into my nails. I phased back, and lost my balance without my claws, causing me to roll forward.

When I finally stopped rolling, I turned to see John, who had startled me from my thoughts.

I grunted hard at him, getting up and trying to brush off the pain.

"Whoa buddy." Said Embry patting my back.

"So where have you been, or more like, who have you been with?" John asked.

"Yeah, who was that chick we had to leave you with. huh?" asked Brady.

"BOYS!" Embry said in a louder tone, then he normally uses. "Mind your own business."

"Who do you think you are?" John asked Embry.

"Yeah, who do you think you are?" asked Brady.

I ignored them, walking in between them, and into Jacobs house.

Inside Jacob was watching a football game.

"BLOCK HIM! BLOCK HIM! AH! COME ON!" roared Jacob at the T.V.

I never understood why people did that, you know yell at the television screen, It wasn't like the actors or players could hear you.

What especially P'd me off, was when people did that at movie theatres. Especially since the film has been filmed before hand, it wasn't like they could change the outcome to it.

It seemed like Jacob had to tear his gaze away from the television to see me.

He got up quickly and went to me. "Well?!" he asked, rather bit excited. I was not sure if it was from the rush to get back to the game. Or if he was actually really interested in knowing about Hannah, now that he knew who she was.

I just stared at him and smiled.

"What are you smiling at?" He asked.

I didn't say anything but continued to smile at him. I didn't know how to describe Hannah. She was… something else.

He grabbed me by the shoulders, and shook me hard. "Paul, tell me." He said in a whiny tone.

"She's.. something else." I said to him.

"… Something else? SOMETHING ELSE? Your out there with her for almost two hours, and you come back with- 'She's something else?" He stepped away from me and sat back down on his couch.

He turned to look at the game again, then back at me. Exchanging glances to both at a time.

"What happened?" He asked. "Can you please stop smiling like that, its actually really fucking creepy."

I knew he wasn't used to seeing me smile. But knowing that it was driving him crazy to know about her. I continued to smile in silence.

"Show me." He said.

"No." I said continuing to smile.

"SHOW ME!" he demanded.

"No." I said crossing my arms.

He got up on his feet and glared at me. "I said… show me… NOW!" he said through gritted teeth.

I leaned against the wall by my shoulder, and smirked. "No."

His breathing started to get heavier, his shoulders were even moving.

I knew I had done it. He started to shake, and his anger was getting the best of him. "PAUL!"

"JACOB!" I said back to him.

He shook, I could hear him grunting, as he tried to control from phasing in his own house.

My eyes widened as he started to charge at me, patches of fur growing all over his body.

He grabbed me around the neck, and dragged me out the house.

As usual, my anger rose, but I knew that that's what he wanted. I didn't want to show him what had happened… not yet at least.

"Show me." He said, his voice much deeper as he said it, between phase transformation.

Patches of fur from his side, and arm were scratching at my face. I could hear Brady and John cheering Jacob one.

"Kick his ass Jake!" I heard Brady say.

"No." I said, I punched him in the side. Only angering him more.

He choked me harder. "SHOW ME!"

I could feel my air supply running low. "No." I said in a struggle.

His clothes starting tearing, he let go of himself and phased completely, I walked backwards slowly then made a run for it. I could hear the boys laughing at me.

I ran towards the woods, and climbed on to one of the trees. Quickly pulling my way up to the top.

I knew he couldn't get up on the tree. Even if he dug his nails on to the trunk to get up, his weight would only cause the trunk to give way, and drag him back down.

I sat on one of the tree trunks, and grinned at him. "Fat ass." I said to him.

He howled, and tried clawing his way up, but just as I thought, he winded up ripping some of the tree trunk in strips. Leaving large gashes.

"Oh your going to get it." Embry said to me.

"Fat ass needs to catch me first." I said to him.

"Want me to get him down?" John asked Jacob.

Jacob shook his head saying no. He walked away from the tree, giving up. Most likely back to the game. He phased back, and walked towards his house naked.

"Hey Jake! After she talked about her famo, she invited me on a run, and while she was stretching, damn you should have seen way her a-" I wanted to tease him about my time with her.

And he had, had just about enough of it. He ran towards the tree I was at, and started climbing the tree quickly. I tried scooting over on the branch, just as he got close enough, he leaped at me, and phased.

The surprise, didn't even give me much time to phase. As we both fell towards the ground, I landed hard on my back, with him on top of me.

I groaned loudly as the impact sent a water like flow, from the back of my head- to my nose. I tried to tell Jacob how I was feeling, but I blanked out.

I woke up some time later. The sun had already left the sky. Only leaving the bright stars over the reservation. I could feel the heat from a fire next to me. I looked at my hand, and noticed my skin looked orange, from the flames.

I coughed loudly, and tried to sit up. Only to feel dizzy, I brought my hand to my head as it pounded horribly bad.

"Uh." I said as I closed my eyes.

"Hey man. How are you feeling?" I didn't even open my eyes, I knew it was Jacob.

"He's up." I heard John announce.

"Hey man, are you okay?" Brady asked.

"What the hell?" I said to Brady. I opened my eyes slowly, and pushed him away from me. He was practically inches from my face, staring at me. "And you, why did you do that for?" I asked Jacob, referring to earlier.

"You wouldn't tell me." He said shrugging.

"Tell you what?" John asked.

"Stay out of this." Embry said to him.

"I was going to, I was just messing with you." I said to Jacob.

"You had to do it the hard way." Jacob said.

"I think you had a concussion." Brady said to me.

"Whatever man." I said getting up. I closed my eyes, as I tried to balance myself. Even with my eyes close, I could feel everything around me spinning.

When I finally felt I was okay, I opened them. "Okay, Embry take John and Brady inside."

Both Brady and John complained, but one glare from Jacob, had them running along with Embry.

"Jacob will tell you later." I yelled after Embry, he continued to walk, but gave me a thumbs up.

"Well?" Jacob asked.

I sat back down, in front of the fire, and watched the flames for a moment, Jacob sat down close to me, and waited for me to start.

"She's a great kid. She said her brothers name is Emmett." I started.

"Like their father?" he asked.

"Sort of. The big leech we killed, well yeah his name was Emmett, but I think they don't even know about him. They think Edward is their real father." I said.

"How do you know?" he asked.

"… because when I asked if her twin was a Jr. She said that, no because her father's name is Edward."

"They think Edward is their real father? So Bella got back with him?" he asked. I noticed anger and sadness in his voice, all at the same time.

"I don't know." I said to him.

"What else did she tell you?" he asked.

"She likes to run, she can't run as fast as the leeches though. I don't know about her brother. She's pretty strong. And I mean stronger then the other leeches, her strength sort of reminds me of her fathers. And she's a hell of a eater." I said to him.

He nodded. "Is she much like Bella?" he asked.

"I don't really know…" I said.

"What else?" he asked.

I thought about it for a moment, and only thought of the moment I felt like kissing her.

When I was on top of her, on the side of the road. But thought it wasn't important.

"That's pretty much it, to be honest. Anything else, was just small talk really." I said.

"Are you going to see her again?" he asked.

"… Maybe. She goes to the same school Bella did… I think I might you know, show up." I said.

He tapped his bottom lip with his index finger.

"Can I see?" he asked me.

I nodded, and waited for him to phase first, before I phased. As soon as I did, I knew the images and conversation were flowing into his head. I had forgot that I had thought about how beautiful she was, and that I had wanted to kiss her. Until I realized he had seen it.

We both phased back. Jacob stared at me, he narrowed his eyes and pushed me a little.

"Are you.. are you starting too have feelings for her?" he asked.

"What? No. I don't even know her dude." I said.

"You almost kissed her." He said.

"What? She's pretty hot. But I don't have a thing for her." I said. I didn't… did I?

HANNAH'S POV

"Really?" I jumped up and down happily.

I felt my loose belt move around my hips. I decided to wear my black ankle boots, over my black leggings. And loose off shoulder, grey shirt (that could easily pass as a very short dress) to school. I actually felt… cute today.

"Yeah." My mom said smiling.

I had awoken to a Monday morning, with great news from my parents. And just before school, it felt like it would be a great day.

"EMMETT! EMMETT! Moms giving us her car!" I screamed from the kitchen.

My brother came down before I could even count to two.

"I'm driving!" he said snatching the keys from my hand.

He ran out the door, book bag at hand.

"Smell ya later!" he yelled to my parents, before leaving.

"MOM!" I whined to her.

She turned smiling to my father, letting him take over.

"You two deal with it." He said smirking.

"Ugh." I said rolling my eyes, I snatched my book bag from the chair. "We'll be home later."

"Are you going to stay at school too?" my mom asked.

I turned to look at her. "What do you mean?" I asked her.

"Your brother mentioned, he was trying out for he wrestling team, maybe you should try for something… track? Cheerleading?" my mom said.

I rolled my eyes. "Shea right. I'll just wait for him at the library." I said to them.

"Have a nice day baby." My father called after me.

"Thanks." I mumbled, although I knew they clearly heard it well. I waved good bye to Seth, who was resting at the top of the stair case.

School had actually gone fairly well. And my outfit really did get attention from people.

I had compliments from girls I didn't even talk to. And a few from guys, to whom I blushed to.

Proff. Ark class was actually decent today. The only thing that went mild, was Mulan's constant repetitive conversation about my brother and Mayleen. I really didn't pay much attention to what she had said, but it was something about him ignoring Mulan to whole time yesterday.

I closed my locker and walked over to Emmett's. He was putting a few of his books into his book bag.

"So you going to wait for me?" he asked, not even looking up from his bag.

"Yeah. What time will you be done?" I asked him.

"No clue, but I'm sure you can find something to do meanwhile." He said to me.

"I guess." I said. I honestly wished he could stay with me. I guess it was because I was so close to him, that being away from him for so long at a time- felt odd. It felt like I was missing a part of myself.

"Well hey, I'll smell ya later okay? I want first dibs on the good stuff." He said kissing my cheek.

"Have fun." I said as he walked away.

"You too." He said.

I sighed as I stood by his locker. The hall quickly emptying, as many of the students either went to their clubs, team meeting, or home. I really didn't feel like doing any homework, really it wasn't going to take me much. It was all so basic to me.

I pulled my iPod out, putting it on I put it on shuffle.

I made it to the school entrance, and decided I should walk around for a little.

The day wasn't too bad. It wasn't as sunny as yesterday, and it did seem like it could rain.

I walked down the steps slowly, lazily almost. Making my way to the schools bench tables.

Taking my book bag off, I let it fall on the bench, before sitting next to it.

I set my iPod in front of me, and kept reading the songs name over and over into my head. Playing with the volume, spinning it louder, and lower.

That's when someone sat at the table across from me. I looked up and found Paul.

Surprised, I smiled at him, taking my headphones out, I turned my iPod off.

"Hey! What are you doing here?" I asked him.

"You said you came to this school, I was bored, so I thought why not come see Hannah?" he said shrugging. He was wearing a dark forest green shirt, with the word 'Hi.' on it.

"Didn't I tell you that stalking is a offense?" I said teasing.

He smirked. "You look really pretty." He said to me.

"Well I don't always look like a sweaty starving animal, like you saw me yesterday." I said to him. He smirked. "How long have you been waiting out here?"

"Eh, not that long. I didn't think you would still be here." He said to me.

"Yeah, I'm waiting for my brother." I said.

"Oh.. should I go then?" he asked.

"Oh no, no, no. It's okay. He's going to take a while, he's trying out for the wrestling team. But I'm pretty sure they go through the rule book and all that jazz." I said to him.

"Okay then." He said. "You want to walk around?" he asked.

"Um.. yeah.. yeah sure." I said getting up.

He went around the table and took my book bag from me.

"Thanks." I said smiling shyly.

"How was school?" he asked.

"Good… good." I said.

I walked with my gaze at my feet. But even then, I knew we were going towards the small playground by my school. It was usually crowded by younger kids, who used it.

"How was your day at school?" I asked him.

"Oh… it was good too." He said. He sounded like he was lying, but I didn't bother to ask.

As we approached the playground, I went to the swings, and sat on one of them.

I swung my self slowly back and forward. He watched me for a moment smiling. He seemed to be thinking about something.

"What?" I asked him.

"Nothing." He said shrugging. He casually walked around the swings, I watched him until I couldn't see him anymore. He was standing right behind me now.

He pushed me lightly. I let my legs swing back and forward, as he pushed me back and forward, along to the same rhythm

PAULS POV

I thought of what I could say to her, but as I pushed her on the swing, the silence we had was actually… nice. The only noise, were that of the birds chirping in the woods. And the swings chain.

As she starting going higher, I backed up a bit so she could swing properly.

As she did, a breeze passed us, I could smell her hair. It smelled sweet, not over powering, but enough to capture your senses.

I saw her head turn, as something caught her attention. We both turned to look towards her school. On the steps, was a couple. I wasn't sure if she knew them, but they were kissing one another.

We watched them for a few second, before I heard something grinding. It sounded like metal being crushed. I looked at Hannah, as she swung up, away from me.

Just as she was swinging back to me, the chain of the swing broke. I caught her, but lost my balance, causing me to fall into a sitting position, with her in my arms.

I looked at the swing confused, and noticed that half of the chain, was still hanging from the swing, and the half she had been holding on to, was on the floor, crushed.

Holy hell, had she done that? She was stronger then I thought.

"Did you just break the swing?" I asked her.

She was blushing furiously, her hand at her mouth. "Oh my god." She said slowly, then broke into a mad laughter.

"How did you break the swing? Your so small." I said.

"I didn't break it. Its just an old swing." She said. Although I knew very well, that she had crushed the chain. Why she did, when she saw the couple kissing, I don't know.

Then I remembered. She had said, she never had a boyfriend before… she had never been kissed… tempting… I had denied having any desire to liking her, but it seemed like the more Jacob accused me that I did. I started to wonder if I actually did. I had never liked a girl. I have had lust for girls, but I have never actually liked one. So I can't exactly tell if what I was feeling, was like for Hannah.

She made me curious. I wanted to know more about her, but I don't know if that was me liking her. I didn't have want to sleep with her. But I did want to kiss her.

She slapped my leg as she continued to laugh. "Oh god, this is embarrassing." She said.

I didn't say anything, but just looked at her. She wasn't looking at me, but instead else where. Although our faces were so close to one another.

"Do you know them?" I asked her, turning from her, to look at the couple. They weren't kissing anymore. But instead taking glances at us. They had most likely seen what had happened. But they turned away, when they noticed I saw them looking at us.

"No. I've seen them in the halls though. I think their freshmen." She said, looking at them.

I found it odd that she had not moved away. She was still practically sitting on my lap. My legs resting straight before me. I was holding myself up with my arms, which were behind my back, palms flat on the ground.

"Paul?" she said, not turning to look at me.

"Yeah?"

"Do you remember your first kiss?" she asked me.

I looked towards the woods, staring at one of the tree's trucks, thinking about the question. She turned to look at me, as I didn't respond right away.

"Yeah. It was long ago." Literally, the girl I had, had my first kiss with, had been five years older then me. And that was twenty years ago, I had been thirteen.

She laughed. "You make it sound like your old." She said. Hearing her say that, made me realize that I was old, at least next to her.

"Sometimes I feel much older then I am." I said to her. "How about you?"

She looked away from me again. "Well actually…" she mumbled the rest.

"What?" I asked her.

She sighed loudly and looked at me. "I said I've never been kissed. What are you going to laugh now?" she asked.

The temptation to want to kiss her, rose even more. If anything, hearing she had never been kissed, made me want to kiss her even more. Its like I wanted to claim the right first. What a dog instinct.

I smiled. "No. I think it's nice, that you have been waiting." I said.

She snorted. "Right."

"What?" I asked her.

She got off my lap and matched my sitting position right next to me.

"Why did you come to see me?" she asked me.

"I wanted to see you." I said honestly.

"But why." She asked.

"I don't know. I want to get to know you better."

From afar we both heard thunder, it was going to rain, it would soon carry over to where we were.

"It's going to rain." She said.

"Yeah." I said. "You want to head home?" I asked her, hoping she said no.

"No… you want to go for a walk in the woods?" she asked.

A walk? "But its going to rain." I said.

"I know. I love the smell of the trees when it rains."

"Okay." I said smiling. I got up and gave her a helping hand.

I thought she was going to let go, but she didn't. She didn't lace her fingers into mine, but kept them cupped.

HANNAH'S POV

I won't lie, and say it didn't feel like I had a swarm of butterflies, in my stomach right now.

But I decided to take the bold move to hold his hand. I had never held a guys hand before. And I mean it was just hand holding. It's not like I was going to sleep with the guy

And I would be lying to myself, if I didn't say I thought I liked him. I know it seems crazy to think, because we had only met. But just like he said, I wanted to get to know him better.

I looked up at him, and held our hands up. "Is this okay?" I asked him.

"I'm pretty sure, I will have to have a priest bless my hand later. But I'll bare with the horror for now." He said smiling.

I pushed him with my shoulder, knowing he was joking. Reaching the woods I hopped off the schools ground, and on to the woods dirt.

There was another thunder, this time louder then the first one we had heard, as it was getting closer.

"Your going to get wet, and you look nice." He said.

"Eh." I said shrugging. I let our hands swing, as we walked through the woods. "Do you have any animals?" I asked him.

"Besides myself, do my friends count?" he asked.

I laughed. "No. I mean four legged pets." I said.

I noticed him smirk, as if what I had said, amused him.

"No." he said. "Do you?"

"Yeah." I said smiling, thinking about my little Seth. "I have a miniature wolf. My parents said I found him when I was little. I don't remember, but he has been with me since I could remember." I said.

He stopped walking, and looked at me. "A miniature wolf?" he asked confused.

"Yeah. He looks just like a wolf, just smaller. Sort of like those small purse dogs, rich people have. His name is Seth." I said.

His expression changed from confusion, to something else. I don't know what to call his current expression. But it defiantly wasn't confusion anymore.

"How old is he?" he asked me. His voice much deeper now.
" Maybe a little over seventeen I guess. Like I said, my parents said I found him when I was little, and even then I don't think he was a small pup." I said.

"What color is his fur?" he asked.

"It's a sort of tan color, its hard to describe. Its like a very light brown-"

"Like sand?" he asked in a hushed voice.

"Yeah! Yeah that's just the perfect match to it. Like sand." I said excited, to finally have found a match to it. "Why? Have you seen his breed before?" I asked.

There was a loud roar from the thunder, and with it rain came down. I could see it pouring down on the schools ground, the tall tree's around us were preventing the same amount of rain from falling quickly on us. But it would soon get there. My clothes were quickly become wet.

I looked up at him. He looked like he had just seen a ghost. "Hey, are you okay? What's wrong?" I asked.

He shook his head, and smiled. "Nothing. Come on, let's find a place so we don't get drenched."

He pulled me along with him, we both jogged together, still holding hands.

We found a area under a tree, that had many branches and moss like leaves on it. We would still get wet, but not as much if we didn't get under it.

We both jogged to it faster, and sat under it. I was laughing.

"Do you smell that?" I asked him.

He sniffed the air. "No?"

"The way the woods smell, the way the rain makes everything smell. I could never get tired of it." I said to him.

"You like it huh?" he asked.

"Love it." I said. I shivered a little, as I finally realized how cold the rain was.

He wrapped his arm around me, and brought me closer to him.

"Hannah?" he asked.

"Mmm?" I said, letting my head rest bear his chest. I could feel his chin resting on the top of my head.

"Would it be crazy for me to say, that I think your beautiful, and that I think I like you?" he asked.

I could feel the butterflies having a frenzy in my stomach right now.

I stood quiet. I suddenly felt very shy, but I brought myself to look up at him.

"I think you're mental for thinking I'm beautiful." I said.

"Do you think I'm mental for how I feel?" he asked.

I didn't answer him. I just stared at him.

"Can you please say something?"

"Why do you think you do?" I asked him.

"Since the first day I saw you, I am constantly thinking about you." He said.

"Well then I think we're both mental… I like you Paul. And even though we barely know each other, I feel so comfortable with you." I said.

We didn't say anything, but just listened to the rain pouring around us.

"Hannah?" he said again, breaking the silence.

"Mm?"

"Can I kiss you?" he asked.

I didn't respond, but instead closed my eyes, and leaned forward until my lips touched his.