So this is chapter 3! It's a little boring to me, not that much happening in it, but it does introduce Embry Call!


Chapter 3 - Embry Call

(Brianna's POV)

"Emily, please tell me, what's going on?" I pleaded

"I don't know," She said finally. "I'm not that much older than you. My parents adopted your father, they didn't think they could have children, so I was a total surprise. When I was born, your dad was just going to college. He came back for holidays and then one day he just left. Then before my parents died, my father gave me this key. He said '[i]Now you and our brother have one. He will tell you everything. Of course, I havent talked to you father since."

"Do you know anything?"

"I'm sorry, I wish I did."

I let out a sigh, I was getting no where. I was thousands of miles from home and I was alone.

"I'm sorry to have bothered you." I said "I'll go."

"Oh you don't have to! You can stay, we can talk about things." Emily said grabbing my hand.

"Thank you for the offer, but I need to go to Fairbanks. When I came to America I went to California when tad lived, most of his friends had moved away. I found some of them, most were dead, but one lives in Fairbanks Alaska, has done since tad moved, I talked to him last night before I made my way here. I'm meeting him in three days and in order to get there in time I have to get moving."

"Hah! I told you she was English!" one of the men shouted, point a finger at a guy sitting on the floor next to me.

I turned towards the guy who had shouted out, "I'm not English," I said smoothly, "I'm Welsh, there's a big difference."

"Is that why you call your father [i]'tad'[/i]?" a deep voice asked.

I turned to look at the guy who spoke, and my heart picked up double time. He was georgous, I had to focus on trying to keep my mouth closed. He sitting crossed legged on the floor, he didn't have a shirt on so I could see his perfectly sculptured chest, but it was his face that held my attention. He had the most perfectly shaped face I had seen in a while, he lips were…well just kissable. His eyes, well his eyes were mesmerizing, I could stare at them forever. A small cough behind me brought me back into the reality.

"Huh? Oh yes, it the Welsh version." I said hastily turning away form the guy.

"Did you say you were going to Fairbanks?" the guy asked again.

"Yes, I did."

"In Alaska?" He questioned

"Yes"

"I'm heading up there, how about we go together? I'm sure you're really tired and need some rest. I could drive us up there, then you can come back and spend more time with you aunt." He smiled, and my heart felt like it wanted to jump out of my skin.

I was tired, and did need the sleep but could I trust a stranger? I know that he was a friend of Emily's so he wasn't a 'nutter' and I had this strange feeling like I could trust him with my life, but I also had this feeling that someone or thing was after me and that they would go after him if I went with him.

"I don't know. I don't even know your name…" I began

"It's Embry Call." He interrupted.

"Oh, I suppose it would be okay, but I have a favour to ask. Can I drive?"

He smiled, "You can drive but you'll be really tired driving for three days solid. How about we take it in turns?"

"Sure."

"Give me five minutes to get my bag and we can go.

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The journey was quiet, not an awkward quiet, but it was … nice. There was music quietly playing on the radio, every now and then Embry would tell me to go a different direction than going on the main route – a side road, shortcut, whatever you want to call it – that made the journey quicker.

We talked, of course, about many different things. He wanted to know how life in the UK was like, how I was in America on my own and didn't have to worry about attending school, at the age of 17. I was laughing a lot when I was explaining about [i]GCSE's[/i] and [i]AS/A-Levels[/i].

"Nope, still not getting it." He said

"It's easy!" I exclaimed while laughing. "GCSE's are exams British kids take at the age of 16, if they pass a certain amount, and want to go to university, they stay in school, or go to college and study [i]AS Levels[/i] for a year and if they pass them they do [i]A2 Levels[/i], their [i]AS[/i] and [i]A2[/i] marks are added together and they get a grade and then go to university."

"How many passes do you have to get?"

"To stay on? Depends on the school, mine wanted 5 passes."

"What is a pass?"

"Anything between a [i]C[/i] and a [i]A*[/i]."

"What did you get?"

"I had [i]6A*'s, 1A, 2B's and 2C's[/i]."

"Wow." He said stunned, "Why didn't you stay on?"

"I did … but after the incident with my family … I was moved about a bit … and then I came over here." I edited the real reason out, I didn't think I could tell him why I was [b]really [/b] here. He seemed to know that I was editing, because he sighed.

"You can tell me you know."

I didn't say anything, he was still a stranger. We were quiet again.

After about another hour or two, he sighed again.

"Shall we swap now and get some food? It's getting dark, and you have driven a long distance."

"Sure."

He directed me to the service station.

"I'll put the petrol in, you go in and grab some food and pay for the petrol?" He asked opening the door.

"How much should we put in?" I asked.

"About 50 dollars? If we run out I'll put some more in when I'm driving."

"Okay. What do you want to eat?"

"Anything, I'm starving!"

Laughing, I walked into the little shop and grabbed a basket, filling it up on junk food.


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