Chapter 4.

Kate's P.O.V

When I came back from the store and back home to my family I couldn't stop thinking about Embry. He seemed like a nice guy, and I hadn't met a lot of those lately. He was cute, and a little goofy. I smiled as I thought about him. This was ridiculous. We had just met, and I did not believe in love at first sight. Besides, it wasn't even first sight. I had run in to him at the airport the last time I was here.

One thing was weird though. I felt like that weird feeling that I had carried inside of me since I left was gone. At first I had thought that I just missed this place but when I came back here the strange feeling had become stronger and it felt like I was close to finding what I was looking for. It didn't make any sense though. The thing is, when I met Embry and talked to him the feeling had left.

"What are you smiling about?" my cousin, Jenna, asked. I just shrugged.

"Nothing, excited about christmas, 's all." I answered casually and kept eating.

I liked to visit my cousins, not just because I loved them and always missed them but because of La Push. It was a nice place and I had a lot of memories from my childhood here. We had moved to England when I was eight because of my dad who had gotten a job there for some reason but we still couldn't stay away. I knew that it wasn't just to visit my cousins that we went here, my parents missed this place too, they just wouldn't admit it.

"Come on, did you meet a cute guy at the store or something?" she asked and I stared at her. She must have some psychic power or something, she always knew everything that happened to me without me having to say a word. I blushed and looked down at my plate.

"You did!" she squealed and I smacked her lightly on the arm. "aw come on, tell me about him" she said and I sighed. Here it comes, the nagging.

"It's nothing, he just walked in to my shopping cart and I apologized, that's all" I said, skipping the part where he had asked a whole lot about me. What was the deal with that anyway? I wasn't really that interesting or pretty.

"Is he cute? Is he... our age?" I stared at her and she rolled her eyes. "I had to ask. I don't know, maybe you prefer guys calling you miss Gordon..."

"Shut it!" I hissed and stood up from the table. "I have to go to the bathroom, just drop the subject ok?" I said and walked away. That chick did not know how to shut up.

Embry's P.O.V

I came back to Emily's place without any candy canes but I couldn't care less. She was upset at first but when I told her and everyone else about what had happened she dropped it.

"Really? Oh my god Embry, that's awesome!" Kim said and hugged me. We didn't want my mother to hear though, she was in the kitchen. Like I'd said before, I couldn't tell her about this.

"Yeah, thanks" I said and smiled. I told them about her living in England and only visiting and they all seemed to get a little sad. They cared about me.

"Make her stay then, she's your soul mate after all" Paul said and I glared at him. I couldn't just make her stay, she lived in England. Her parents would never let her live on another continent.

"No, he's right Embry" Kim said and I looked at her skeptically. "Make her want to stay, she has her cousins here right? There's a chance her parents would let her stay with them" she sounded so sure about what she said, and after all, she was Jared's imprint. She was on the other side of this whole imprinting thing.

"She's leaving in two weeks, she barely knows me" I sighed and looked down at my hands. I couldn't make her want to stay with only two weeks to work with. Love takes time.

"Trust me, if you spend enough time with her she will never want to leave your side" she said and smiled. Maybe she was right, the imprinting affected Kate as well, this wasn't just normal teenage love.

"You think so?" I asked and she nodded.

"I know so. I was in love with Jared before he imprinted on me, but it's nothing compared to when he finally did. It was like my feelings for him became stronger. In a way we imprint too, sort of" she explained and I thought about it. Kate had talked to me and answered all of my questions without thinking I was some crazy dude. Well, she had laughed at me, but she hadn't run away. She must've felt something.

I was definitely going to try and spend as much time as possible with her before she left. I stood up from the table and everyone looked at me.

"I'm sorry" I said and looked at Emily and then at my mom. "Thanks for the food, and merry christmas to all of you, but there's somewhere I need to be" I said in a hurry and almost ran to the door.

"What about the gifts!" I heard someone yell after me but I closed the door and didn't even care enough to go the the car, I just ran straight in to the woods and phased.

I had to try and find out where she was and it wasn't that hard to know where I had to run. I just had to follow the pull. When I was getting closer I slowed down and a few seconds later I stood at the edge of the woods, staring at a white house, and I knew that she was inside. I sat down on the ground and closed my eyes, trying to listen. I could here people talking in one of the rooms. There were at least ten of them.

Then I heard her voice and I focused on it. She was talking about something that had happened when she was a kid I think, and another voice joined her in telling the story and I heard laughter. She seemed to have a nice christmas. I lay down on the grass and put my head on my paws, relaxing and listening. I didn't want to feel like a stalker, but I had suffered three months without her. I deserved this.

I don't know for how long I stayed there, but it had to be a few hours later when I heard her say good night to her family and walk upstairs followed by somebody else. She talked for a while with the person, who I think was one of her cousins, and then it went quiet and they must've gone to bed.

I listened to her breathing slow down and tried to memorize the sound of her heart beat which was hard since she was so far away, but the imprint bond made it easier for me. She was my other half, even though she didn't know it yet.

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