A/N: Hey guys, I'm so sorry this has taken so long. We've both been super busy lately and are so sorry for taking so long to update. Thanks again for all the reviews and alerts, we love to hear your comments and answer any questions. To clear things up with a couple of them, there is no Nessie in this story. She never really fit in so we just decided to leave her out.
For this chapter we decided to play around with the POVs. I took over Alice's POV for this chapter and Amanda did Rose's and Edward's. We're going to continue to swap for the next chapter and see how it goes. We won't be switching Jasper and Emmett though, guess you could call them our babies.
We hope you enjoy the chapter and happy reading!
Leah POV
I looked around at the Cullens, all waiting for my news. Bella seemed to understand what I was about to say a little bit more than the others. Jake must have explained things to her.
"At first I was really mad at Jake, like you guys probably still are, but the minute he walked in … I couldn't think of anything else. I didn't really understand the imprinting thing until now. But he's not native, he doesn't know the stories or the legends to begin with, he won't understand!" I cried out in distress. Everyone in the pack had imprinted on other natives, they didn't have to worry about them freaking out. I was hopelessly in love with a man that I had only had one very short conversation with.
Flashback
I was in the HOH room waiting to surprise the rest of the contestants, I was part of the twist this year. Everyone in the house was in a relationship except me and the other guy that was supposed to be here soon. The waiting was getting on my nerves and I was already angry enough to begin with, I can't believe Jake stuck me in here with the bloodsuckers all summer. I had turned on the monitors to look at the other contestants and was laughing at Rose when he walked in. I heard his voice first, it was smooth and deep and stirred something inside of me just hearing it.
"Hi, I'm Michael, guess we're partners in crime." I looked up at him then, thinking he was super cheesy, the world seemed to stop. I looked straight into his brown eyes that were soft and carefree. Oh god, it's him, and he's not native!
"Hi, I'm Leah, nice to meet you" I responded.
"Leah, Michael, please proceed downstairs to greet your housemates." the producer's voice came over the intercom. How am I going to last in this house without giving myself away?
"He's going to freak out, he'll think I'm mental!"
"Leah, I'm sure there's a reason you imprinted on him in the first place, he will most likely understand." Bella tried to relax me.
"It was like all the cheesy romance novels and stories, I swear it was in slow motion. He walked into the HOH room with a smile on his face and extended his hand to me. I just knew the minute I looked into his eyes, I felt drawn to him. He acted kind of funny around me, he's going to reject me I'm sure of it."
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"Oh no you don't!" Rose screeched, "Stay away from me with that thing Leah!" I was running across the backyard at top speed chasing her with my blanket. The furry one that was the colour of Jake's fur. I just knew he'd be on the floor howling when he saw this.
"Oh come on Rose, it's only a little harmless blanket, it can't hurt you" I taunted trying to catch up to her.
"It almost smells like him! It's repulsive!"
I caught the look Alice was shooting me as she moved closer to the edge of the pool. Rose stopped on the one side of the pool table.
"Leah please!" she pleaded with me. Bella came over with a smile playing on her face. She stood in the doorway to the house blocking Rose's only exit. She looked around frantically and played right into the trap running in Alice's direction.
"Alice please help!" she begged. Alice had other ideas in mind though when she casually stuck out her foot and looked completely innocent while doing it. Rose was too busy screaming obscenities at me to notice Alice's foot and went splashing into the pool. I couldn't help myself and I started to laugh. I was feeling a little mean and decided to add insult to injury and threw my blanket on top of her.
"Look now it's a wet wolf!" Alice said in between giggles.
"Oh you're gonna get it you flea bag!" she huffed as she headed into the house to dry off.
Emmett POV
When I decided to go work out in the backyard I had no idea what I was coming to face. I slid the sliding door open and saw Rose storming towards me. She was soaked and she looked pissed. Oh, great, another killjoy.
"Hey Rosie, what happened, did you forget your bikini, or did you just feel the need to jump in the pool with all your clothes?" I said trying to lighten the mood. Bad idea!
"Don't hey Rosie me! That bitch chased me around with that disgusting blanket, and then our little annoying sister tripped me!" she screeched
I looked out into the backyard Bella, Alice and Leah were all keeled over laughing, the now wet fur blanket lay strewn across the grass, and I did the worst thing possible. I nearly fell to my knees in laughter. I heard Rose growl lowly and I looked up just in time to cover my face as her hand came down and caught me in the back of my head.
"Hey I didn't do anything!" I shouted and ducked another blow coming my way.
"Exactly! You didn't do anything, just like usual, go join your immature sisters and your beloved Leah if you think this is so funny. I need to change now and ugg, I bet my make-up is running now too." she bellowed and stormed off to our room.
Hmm, maybe I should go comfort her. No, that would be a bad idea, might as well let her vent, if not I might become her personal punching bag. I think I pissed her off more than what the girls did. Oh well, I will make it up to her.
"Hey girls!" I called to my sisters and Leah while walking over to the weight bench. "Leah, that wasn't very nice of you, you know how much she hates that thing. Alice and Bella, you guys are sisters you're supposed to be on her side, now I have to deal with it, thanks a lot."
"Sorry Emmett, but honestly, it was the funniest thing ever! You should have heard her squeal! It was High-larry!" Bella giggled.
I rolled my eyes and set up the right amount of weights on the barbell. I was in the middle of doing my bench press when I noticed someone was standing over me.
"Need a spotter, you got quite a bit of weight on there" Ethan said with a smug grin on his face.
"No, thanks for your offer though. But I doubt you would be able to lift this much anyway" I said in the same smug attitude. He sneered at me and went to the other bench and began to stack on the weights.
"Don't strain yourself" I laughed and put the bar back on the holders. I sauntered over to him and looked down at him and he positioned himself underneath the weights.
I watched as he struggled to raise the weights above his head. His arms shook and he scrunched his eyes and stopped breathing as he struggled.
"Well… Keep trying there kid" I laughed and went back to finish my workout. He finally gave up and went to sit on the patio furniture, lit a smoke and I felt him glaring at me in pure loathing.
Rose POV
I can't believe my sisters would do that to me. How dare they take her side! And Emmett, too, he is going to get it that was definitely not funny! It's a good thing were on camera or else I would have bitten his head off! I stormed through the house dripping water as I went. When I got to my room I ripped off my soaked clothes and tossed them into the hamper in the corner. Jacob is going to die. Screw the treaty, when I get back there he better be running because I am going to break all of his filthy paws, then I will slowly torture him until he begs me for mercy, of course I wont give it to him. After all this, he deserves it.
I spent the next ten minutes deciding what I was going to wear, and then went to the bathroom to fix my make-up. It wasn't as bad as I thought, bless water-proof make-up! I noticed Alice, Leah and Bella were back inside, they were upstairs by the HOH room and it looked like some of them were playing chess. I don't even know why they bother! Keeping up with the façade I grabbed a glass of water from the kitchen then went to lie down on our bed to calm down.
Edward POV
So I never would have guessed in my wildest dreams that this sort of thing could happen. I mean, it was just pure dumb luck that Jacob sent Leah here and she imprints. What a coincidence. Well, I still agree with Alice's previous thoughts, that it might be best for us to kick her out early so that it would be easier for us to make out escape from the house to hunt.
Just then Rose came storming through the house, dripping wet, I peered over the railing as she stormed off to her room cursing under her breath, something about being tripped? And betrayal? Oh well, that's nothing new, she can always find someway to bitch about something. Soon after Alice, Bella and Leah came in and they looked pleased about something. I bet whatever Rose was going on about I was positive they were the culprits.
"Hey Alice, how bout a little game of chess?" I called down at them.
"Oh I guess, I don't know why we bother, you know it's pointless" she sighed and started making her way up the stairs.
"Yea we will come watch" Bella said with a smirk.
Alice sat opposite to me, while Bella and Leah took the seats that faced the HOH room door. Just as we were setting up the pieces, I noticed that I couldn't hear Alice's thoughts! This is so not fair!
"Bella baby, please don't interfere." I spoke almost silently, so that the only ones that would be able to hear me was Alice and Bella.
"Oh Edward, this is actually going to be a fair game. I didn't realise that I wouldn't be able to see while Leah was here. So it would be unfair for you to see my moves, and me being left in the dark, this is going to be interesting" she said in her usual chipper tone. It was about time, I didn't know how much more Jasper could take of her being all angry, it was driving him insane.
I made the first move and moved a pawn, she countered with a move of her pawn, and this is usually where we would usually sit in absolute silence playing the game in our minds and she would ultimately sigh and knock her king over and storm off. Bella sat smirking at me and watched as the game continued.
I gritted my teeth and growled lowly when Alice started to corner my king with a bishop and knight. I had never lost against anyone in chess! I suddenly had a new respect for the game. I was finally able to take our one of her bishops and started my attack. I saw my opportunity and took out her queen which was one of her favourite attack pieces.
Alice's eyes darkened and her face tensed. The only pieces left on the board were my king, queen and a pawn of mine. She only had a knight and her king. Finally she went back to her old routine as she knocked over her king on my last advance.
"Even in a fair game I still lose!" she said exasperated. "That's the last time I play a game of chess with you Edward." She got up and went down stairs, and I heard her thoughts then something about getting Jasper to teach her some tactics so that she can challenge me again.
"Well, Bella, I'm sure you enjoyed that, I was about to lose my mind, that was really difficult even for me!"
"Oh I know, that's what made it interesting, I had to keep myself from laughing at your face, you looked like you were about to kill something." she said and leaned in and kissed me.
"Yea ok, I can't watch this, Michael!" Leah called and left Bella and I alone.
Alice POV
I walked away disappointed, I couldn't even beat him when he couldn't hear my thoughts! It was fun to try though, Bella's a genius. Jasper was great at strategy and planning, he could help me with chess and I could finally beat Edward! With a little more of Bella's help that is. Jasper was just reading some of his civil war books when I got downstairs. I eyed his outfit critically though, I couldn't have bought him that abomination of a shirt. I flung open his suitcase and started pulling out clothes at random. What was that, it was my clothes! Jasper packed some of clothes, I was elated! I flung myself at Jasper and started kissing him.
"You brought me more clothes!" I squealed kissing him fiercely.
"Darling, I knew you couldn't last with just one suitcase." he said.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" I said and resumed my kisses and started to trail them lower down his neck. My hands reached for the hem of his shirt and started to push it up his body.
"Umm, Alice?" Jasper said through excitted gasps. I pushed one finger to his lips and smiled devilishly. I threw him up against a dresser and finished taking off his shirt and let it drop to the floor. I took off the cardigan I was wearing then pounced again. Jasper fell ontop of the bed and I began to kiss him deeply. I let my lips slid from his down to his jaw line, gently sweeping my lips over his skin up to his ear then made my way slowly down his neck to his collar bone. His body tensed and he groaned, he always loved when I did this.
As I was kissing my way down his bare chest, his hands intertwined in my hair and just as I was about to unbuckle his belt I heard a gasp that didn't match Jaspers. With my hair in complete dissaray and completely surprised I saw Bella standing in the doorway with her mouth hanging open completely aghast.
