I woke up in Derek's bed. I glanced around and noticed that he was gone and had left a note. I picked it up and read it:

Myren, I had to go out to the grocery store to pick up some things. It should only only take 15 minutes at u! Derek

I slowly got up out of the bed and made my way to the kitchen. I walked over to the cupboards and after checking three of them, was able to put together a bowl, spoon, and some cereal. I then went to the fridge and took out some milk. Everything in the house was bought in bulk size. Why did Derek need to go the grocery store so early? It was only seven in the morning! I poured my cereal and went to the couch to watch some TV while I ate.

I couldn't find the remote and I didn't know how to turn on the TV without it, so I just sat in the peace and quiet while I ate.

Jacob came downstairs, barely awake.

"What are you doing up so early?" he asked me, yawning and stretching.

"It's Wednesday," I said. "It feels like I should be getting ready for school."

"Seems like a valid excuse." Jacob sat down next to me on the couch and pulled the remote out from under the cushion. "I put it there to hide it from Paul," he smiled.

And me apparently.

Jake put on some weird show that I couldn't really get into. Why couldn't we just watch MTV or VH1? Those channels always have something good to watch.

"Jake," I said, disrupting the hypnotic effects the TV had on him.

"Yea?"

"Can I ask you a personal question?"

Jake sighed. "Go ahead."

I knew that this would be a difficult thing for him to answer, but it's been bothering me for a long time; at least five minutes! "You really care a lot about Bella, don't you?"

"How could you tell?" Jake chuckled, but I could see the wanting in his eyes.

"Why didn't you just imprint on her?"

"It doesn't work that way Myren. We can't control who we imprint on. Like, how it was for Leah and Sam."

"I thought that Sam imprinted on Emily, not Leah," I said.

Jake nodded. "He did. But Sam was dating Leah before he knew Emily. Then the moment he saw Emily, Leah didn't matter as much to him anymore. It was all about Emily."

"That sucks for Leah."

"Yea. Another example is with you and Derek."

I sat up a little bit. "Did he have a girlfriend?" I asked.

"No," Jake replied. "He was always gay. However, before you moved here, he was in a lot of trouble."

"I know," I said. "Derek told me about how he caused a werewolf to kill it's own imprint."

"No that's not it," Jake said. "He was... not the best person to be around."

Will the drama never end with mine and Derek's relationship? "What do you mean?"

"Like, he was sort of, a horrible boyfriend. Like, he could've gone to jail if his behavior continued."

"What'd he do?"

"He would act abusive towards his previous boyfriends. Luckily, they were all smart enough to leave as soon as they saw this, but I thought that he would be destined to be alone if he continued to act this way."

"Are you sure we're talking about the same Derek? I've never seen him act anything besides nice and pathetic."

"It's the same Derek," Jake said, "at least it is on the outside. When he imprinted on you, he changed into a totally different person. He doesn't want to act abusive towards you. He told me that because he said that you already seem freaked enough to find out that he was a werewolf, but an abusive boyfriend? He changed his attitude completely to make you feel safe around him. All because of the imprint-thing. If it wasn't for you, he'd still be the same boyfriend-beating bastard."

Wow. So imprinting really is beyond a werewolf's control about how they use it, who they do it on, and how it changes them.

"Then, Jake," I said, "why pursue Bella when you're just going to imprint on someone else?"

"It's not that easy, imprinting is supposed to be really rare and usually never happen.."

That's all that's been happening in La Push.

The doorbell rang.

"That's probably Derek," Jake said. "He most likely forgot his key again."

Jake got off the couch and went up to the door. He took off the chain-link lock and opened the door. "How can I help you?" I heard him ask. It obviously wasn't Derek. Thank God Jake was shirtless right now that way the person at the door can see how much muscle he has. Very intimidating.

"Hello," the person at the door said. "I'm Steven, and I'm doing a door-to-door survey on how the residents of La Push are feeling about the endangerment of the Olympic wolves in the area."

I got off the couch and walked over behind Jake. At least I slept in a T-shirt and pajama pants that were both just black, so I wouldn't have to be embarrassed of being seen in them. The person at the door had the same build as Jacob and the rest of the pack. He had a very scary face, with green eyes that seemed to kill as they looked at you. He had Derek's complexion, pale. I think he should've had long hair, not a crew-cut, it would've made him scarier.

"I'm sorry," Jake said, "I'm busy at the moment."

"What about him?" the guy pointed at me.

"Um, just let them die," I shrugged.

"You know," the guy said, "for an imprint, you seem to hate wolves."

"Myren, go upstairs," Jake told me.

I turned and went in the direction of the stairs when I heard a big crashing. I turned around to see that Jake and Steven had phased into wolves and were fighting in the living room. I ran towards the back door and made it outside. I began to run in the snow barefoot, wishing that I had just stayed and watched the fight.

Then I heard puffing noises behind me. I turned to see a large wolf running after me. It wasn't Jake, Steven, or Derek. Who was it? Rhett!

I took off now at a faster pace and ran in the direction of the forest behind Jake's house. If I made it in the forest, then I could climb a tree and just wait up there until someone came to rescue me. Wolves can't climb trees, right? I made it to the first tree of the forest.

"Sam! Leah! Seth! Quil! Embry! Jared! Paul! Derek!" I yelled, hoping that someone would hear.

I jumped in the air and landed on the tree and I began to climb. It was only fifteen feet tall, and it had no leaves, but it could work.

Branch after branch I made it higher to the top of the tree. When I had reached the top, I sat on a branch and looked down at Rhett still on the snowy ground.

Rhett then phased back into a human. He stood there naked and shouted at me, "Sooner or later you have to come down."

"Sooner or later your penis is going to shrivel from the cold. Oh shit! It already did!" I shouted back. I then smirked, proud that even in the face of danger, I can destroy someone's pride.

Rhett growled.

"I bet even Patrick was more hung than you! But that doesn't matter now because no one can do a dead man!"

Rhett screamed and began to climb up the tree at a rapid pace. Maybe I should've been a little nicer to my murderer.

Rhett reached for my left leg, but I kicked his head and he fell a few branches down. He then started to climb back up.

The way I saw it, there was only one thing to do: Jump! I leapt out of the tree and began falling back to the ground. Maybe if I made it out far enough, I could make it back to Jake's house. I hit the ground and the wind left my body. I laid there for a while and then got back up. I took off towards Jake's house.

Then Rhett caught me and pulled me into his body.

"Don't pull me into your naked body! Freak!" I yelled.

Rhett hit me over the head with his fist and I blacked out.

Crap...