Waking up at the Cullens' place wasn't really what you'd think it would be like. Sarah and I now shared a room in the massive house. It was all yellow and frilly. Supposedly some kind of guest-bedroom. They'd offered us separate rooms but we refused. If it wasn't even safe for us to see our families then we were making sure we didn't lose each other. Sarah was sitting on the bed, staring at me when I woke up.

"You looked like you had a nightmare." She said.

"Hm, I don't really remember." I lied. It had been a replay of that vampire's attack on Sarah the other day. Sarah looked pointedly down at her hand which was resting on my foot. I must have kicked some of the covers off.

"I saw your nightmare. I don't think you knew that I can see your dreams. I can hear your thoughts too. Just like you can hear my voice."

"Only when we're touching." I tried to say in my head. To my surprise, it worked. She really could hear me.

The rest of the family left us to our own for the most part, so we just hung around in our room. It was nice.

Jacob came in at around noon. "What was that all about yesterday?" He asked, sounding more amused then angry. Sarah looked like she was having a rough time not, you know, killing him. I told him we should talk outside and he looked like he understood. We went out the backdoor and started walking, I didn't really know where. I didn't really care either. The mud under my toes felt kind of nice and it wasn't raining so, I was okay.

He started to ask me a question, but I beat him to it. "What am I supposed to do now? Just live here for the rest of my life? My ridiculously long life." I added with a frown. "What's going to happen to Sarah? Can we ever go back to… you know, the world?"

"Look, I don't have all the answers. You guys can probably eventually live where you want. But for now, you, being that you're in my pack, are my problem. So, I'm going to put you on patrol. But I think you should meet the other guys first."

We stepped into a circle of guys and I realized that today had been pretty planned out. Jacob had been leading me here all along. Whatever. The guys looked pretty scary but then I saw Seth. He winked and I laughed.

"This is the new one?!" On of them laughed.

"She's a midget!"

"Are you sure you got the right girl?"

"She's so white!"

"Hey! I'm not that white! It's very overcast here!" I shouted, trying to defend myself. That just made them all laugh at me even harder. And that made me angry. And that made me into a giant dog.

"Whoa, someone's got a temper." Someone said. I wasn't sure who. I spun around trying to figure it out. That caused laughter. But, considering everyone around me was no longer on two legs, I wasn't sure where the laughing was coming from either.

"We're in your head, dip****."

"Don't cuss!" I though, on instinct. I didn't say words like that, but when I thought them I told myself not to. Yeah, I'm crazy, okay it's nothing new.

"HAHAHAH!"

"Gah, shut up!" I shouted. In my head…

"Guys, give her a break. She's never been phased with this many of us before." Jacob said. I loved Jacob. "We can hear each others' thoughts while we're phased. It helps us communicate."

"Great!" I sighed, will my thoughts ever be secret?

"Oh dang, she lives with the new bloodsucker?!"

"They can talk to each other?"

"Aw, Lexi really never gets a break from this." The last one was Seth. But while they had been talking I accidentally had another flash of memory from Sarah's attack. All my fellow wolves saw it in my head before I could stop them.

"Oh my Gosh! She took one of them out the first time she phased!"

"Did you see that move?"

"Look at how fast she ripped the arms off!"

I couldn't take it. They analyzed it like I had been playing football or something. They didn't even care about my friend. I lunged for the first one of them I could, not caring who it was. He pinned me in a flash, which made sense. He was at least twice my size. He held me down while I tried to claw his face. After about ten minutes I gave up. By then, half of the guys had phased back and another girl had walked up.

"The only other girl." The guy on top of me (that doesn't sound wrong at all) said. I realized now that I had tackled Jacob, the biggest one out of all of us. I apparently didn't have the best judgment.

"Yeah, I'll say. You would have been better off going for Paul." Brady said.

"True. I mean, look at you! You're even smaller than Leah!" Embry laughed. And he was right. I looked weird. The rest of them looked like okay. Like, tan or brown or grey with some spots sometimes. But me? I was completely blonde. I looked like a golden retriever or something. That made everyone in my head laugh again.

Eventually I phased back and Leah ran off to find me some extra clothes that she had stashed in the woods. I caught some of the guys sneaking glances at me.

"Hey! Keep your eyes to yourself. For all you know I could be your half sister!" They didn't try to look at me any more. Then Leah came back. She noticed how careful everyone was being to avoid looking at me and asked what I had done. I told her I'd explain later.

A/N: I'm working really hard to make up for lost time. Thanks for sticking with me!

Paz,

Lacey =)