DISClaimer: I'm not Stephenie Meyer. I make no profit from this.
I know this is short, but i've got a longer one that should be up tomorrow/thursday

Hope you enjoy this.

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"Night Max." I said, my speech slurred with sleep, even though I knew it was half past eight in the morning, and today was a brand new day.

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Seth's POV

I opened my eyes and stretched forward, pulling her closer, feeling her soft hair against my cheek. Somehow, she had found her way into my arms as I had slept, but she had been hugging me when I had fallen asleep, I'm sure.

Her lips were still curved into a small smile; I resisted the urge to kiss her on the lips, along the jaw, against her temple, her cheek. She smiled again as I leaned her against me, used my free hand to stroke the hair obscuring her face away, up onto the pillow, leaving her skin exposed, her jaw twitching slightly as I played that game again - how close could I get before I caved in?

It didn't take me long this time. My lips were against hers, messing around before I could stop myself, I barely felt her slap me away, but as she shoved against me, I relented and she opened her eyes.

"What the hell?" She said, breathing heavily, "Not that I really wanted to hurt you, but… what?"

"I just wanted to start your birthday right," I replied simply, putting on my best puppy-dog face… or should that be wolf-pup face? Hmmm. New one.

"Oh." Her eyes widened and she stared for a long second, before murmuring, "Three days, Mackenzie, just three days," to herself and looking at me, smiling. "Well, you're setting it up well," she grinned.

"Good."

"I didn't hear you come in."

"I didn't want to wake you." I replied, her fingers slid down my bare arm and she shivered gently. "You cold?"

"You're warm," She replied with a smile. "And I'm not." She grinned, "Maybe we could change that?"

"You're so dopey in the mornings." I smirked and pressed our foreheads together very gently, so she would feel that heat as well. She shivered and snuggled closer to me. I grinned inwardly, sticking my tongue out.

"How do you know?" She murmured as she flicked a strand of her hair from her face and tucked it behind her ear. It was so strange to me that something I had seen Leah do a million times, Emily probably ten times that, as simple as getting a bit of hair out of her way, could be so… incredible, so sensual… so, attractive.

I felt the low, gentle growl slide up through my chest and from my lips as she raised herself on one elbow and went to get up.

"Can I-…" She started to ask about breakfast.

"Don't worry about anything," I smiled, "Today's your birthday. Nothing to worry about, today."

Max's POV

He kept repeating it. Today was a new day, today was this, today was that, today I was free to do what I liked, today I could be whoever I wanted to be. In his words, not mine,

"It's your birthday, Max. Anything goes." there was silence after his words, searching me, looking for the flaws in his argument, not finding any, and it was doing my head in.

I was a stranger, in a foreign country, in a foreign town, in a foreign house, in a foreign bedroom. Today was a new day, of course it was. But I was in a new place too, and maybe it was time I took a look around - if I was in love with Seth, which, I have to say, I don't doubt I was now, just thinking about him sent me dizzy, the dopiness he associated with the early mornings had more to do with his face being the first thing I saw.

I closed my eyes again as I sat up, found a clean top, skinny-strapped, blue and white today. I pulled my jeans from their neatly folded pile on the floor and gathered everything else, then, supposedly oblivious to his gaze, I strode to the bathroom and dressed, leaning heavily against the door as I tried to shake the shuddering from my chest.

I want to see the reservation. I told myself that about thirty times - the amount it took me to get up from the floor, lose the dazed confusion and return to Seth, who was lazing on his bed still, staring at the ceiling, his hands behind his head, his smile wide and unrelenting.

"Hey, Wolf-Boy," My words made him turn to look at me. "You wanted to give me the tour?" He raised an eyebrow.

"The tour?"

"Reservation. Somewhere I've never been… ringing any bells?"

"You want me to take you around the reserve?" His eyes had lit up suddenly, he was grinning wildly and he sat up like lightning. "Max, it's your birthday-"

"And I want to look around. You can tell me whatever you want, but I'm dead set on the idea now." He smiles, the corners of his lips curving up slightly, sexily, attractively. That seems to be the only word to describe him. Simply attractive.

I turned to go downstairs, maybe make myself some marmite toast for breakfast, because it was my birthday, and I could. Seth disappeared into the bathroom for a while; I heard the shower switch on, rushes of hot water sliding through the pipes. I could almost feel the water on my skin, knowing the heat I would feel would merely be cool on his skin, because he was so hot he should probably be dead.

I pulled one knee under me, half-crossing my legs as I sat down at the table, finding the tea bags Seth had used to make me a decent cuppa a day-and-night-ago. Sighing, I make two cups, pouring hot water into the blue mug Seth seemed to have reserved for me, and the black mug I had seen him use before.

I don't listen to anything but the whistle of the kettle, so as I turn to look at the doorway, feeling a presence standing there, watching me, I jolt.

"Hello…" She says softly.

"Hi." My blush rises in her face.

"Who are you?" Her voice is soft, but laden with warning, threat, and danger. I am a stranger here; I shouldn't even expect half a polite conversation.

"I-I'm Mackenzie… um…" I blush, my eyes now finding the floor and refusing to leave the cracked wooden tile on the left hand side of the door panel. "I'm from England…" Information is flying through my lips and I can't stop it. "Seth… Seth… I-imprinted on me." Her face pales and I take a deep breath, swallowing any other words that might want to escape, "M-maybe I should make you… a cup of tea."

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