Chapter 6.

Embry's P.O.V

"You could always visit me" Kate said and smiled at me. I couldn't bring myself to smile though. She was leaving tomorrow and we had been hanging out almost every day. I knew that she felt something for me, and that she didn't just see me as a friend. I could see it in her eyes and in the way she blushed sometimes when I looked at her.

"It was fun to get to know you, you're cool" I said and almost had to bite my tounge so that I wouldn't tell her what I actually wanted to say. Like the fact that I loved her more than anyone else on this earth, that she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen and that she was my soul mate and we were meant to be together. She couldn't leave me, it was against everything that was supposed to happen in the universe.

"You too" she said and I noticed that she probably wanted to say something more too. Even though she might have fallen for me it wasn't enough to make her stay, I knew that. But I also knew that we were friends now and that some day we were going to meet again and I would never stop fighting for her. I wouldn't be able to stay away for long though, it would kill me, especially now when I'd seen her almost every day for two weeks.

"Well I have to get home and eat dinner now, I'll see you tomorrow before I leave" she said and my heart sank.

"Yeah, tell your parents I said hi" I said and she nodded. I had met both of her parents by now and I had eaten dinner with Kate and her family, including her cousins, aunt and uncle. They seemed to like me but her father had glanced at me a few times and I had a feeling he didn't like me.

"Bye Embry" she said and stood up from the ground. We were at first beach sitting in the sand and watching the water. I stood up too and she gave me a hug. She had hugged me before but this time was different. I knew that she would leave soon and I wanted to never let her go. I wrapped my arms around her tightly and breathed in the scent of her. She relaxed in to my embrace and I knew that she was probably really sad about this too.

"Bye Kate" I whispered and kissed her forehead. She pulled away, gave me one last smile, and then walked away. I stared after her as she walked and had to force myself to not run after her. I knew that I would see her tomorrow before she left but still, it hurt like hell.

I walked home slowly, not caring about that my mom was probably waiting for me with the dinner ready. My mind was still with Kate. Why had his happened to me? Why did my imprint have to live so far away?

I walked inside the house and like had expected my mom was sitting at the kitchen table waiting for me.

"Hi, how did things go with Kate?" She asked as I sat down and started to eat.

"Good" I mumbled and kept eating. She knew about Kate but only that she was a girl that I had met and I think she understood that I liked her as more than a friend even though I hadn't said that.

"Well I'm glad she's turned your mood back around" she said and smiled.

Later that night I was sitting on the couch watching tv and trying to ignore the weird feeling in my gut telling me that something was wrong. I knew it was because Kate would leave tomorrow and there was nothing I could do about that anyway. Suddenly I heard someone knocking on the front door so I went to open it and was surprised to see Jacob standing there.

"The leech" he said and before he could say anything else we both ran off in to the woods. As soon as we phased I was met by the hundred thoughts of my pack mates. Well, not hundred but it felt like it.

"She's on the border between ours and the Cullen's territory, they're chasing her as well" Sam said and we all ran towards where he was already running. Paul and Jared who had been on patrol were already there trying to catch her and we saw everything though their minds. We could see the red haired leech dodging one of the Cullen vampires who lunged at her and then she jumped over the small cliff and over to our side.

I thought about Kate and how much I wanted to keep the leech away from her. We were now close enough to see the scene before us. I growled as I saw Paul attack the leech but she got away by a centimeter. I ran closer to them and lunged at her but she dodged me and jumped over to the Cullen's side again. We all chased after her for a while before she disappeared in to the sea by jumping off the highest cliff were we used to cliff dive. At first we wanted to jump after her but it would be no use. Vampires were skilled swimmers. Sam, Paul, Jared and Jacob stayed phased but the rest of us could leave.

I didn't hesitate before running straight to Kate's place and stayed where I had been for the last couple of nights. I liked to stay outside of her house, and if she knew about it she would probably kill me. I didn't care though, I needed to protect her. She was safe inside the house so I relaxed.

That's when the front door flew open and a person walked outside. It was night, who would go out now just like that?

"Kate, come back here" I could hear her mother yell after her but Kate kept walking. What was going on? "Fine, be like that. We're still leaving tomorrow" and then she closed the door. Kate glanced back at the house and then started walking along the road away from the house. I hesitated for a second before phasing back, putting on my cut offs and a t-shirt and then I ran after her.

"Kate, wait up!" I yelled and she turned around with a surprised look on her face.

"Embry? What are you doing here?" she asked and smiled. She had been angry before, I could tell. I was glad I had a positive affect on her but was worried about what she had been angry about.

"What's going on?" I asked and stopped in front of her, looking down at her beautiful face. She shrugged.

"Tried to convince my parents to stay. They wouldn't listen though" she answered and I frowned. She wanted to stay? I wouldn't get my hopes up though, her parents had told her no.

"You want to stay? How come?" I asked trying to hide my enthusiasm. She looked down on the ground.

"My dad doesn't like you, Embry" she mumbled, avoiding my question. "But I kinda do" she blushed as she said so and I felt my heart flutter. She liked me? She liked me!

"I kinda like you too" I said and couldn't help but smile. Like you? More like love you, I added to myself in my thoughts. "Is that why you... want to stay?" I asked nervously. She looked up at me and tears were forming in my eyes.

"My dad doesn't want me to stay because he doesn't want to leave me, he wants to keep an eye on me all the time" she mumbled and I frowned. She had her other family here, she wouldn't be unprotected, especially not with me here.

"Why?" I asked and the tears started to run down her face. I wiped them away with my thumb and she looked away.

"Because I had a relationship with my teacher and now my dad doesn't trust me" as soon as the worst left her mouth she threw her hand over her mouth and stared at me in shock, like she had said it on accident. "I-I'm sorry..."

Please tell me what you thought about this chapter because I was really unsure about it, but I still hope you all liked it! xoxo