She judges herself enough...

She doesn't need your opinion too...

7. Forgiven, or not?

Embry

Embry, have you checked your phone lately?

Uhm, yeah why do you ask Jake?

Oh in the last two hours?

Yes, now can you tell me what you're on about!

I met your imprint, Izzy.

Yeah and?

Well she said that you wanted to hang with her, and that she sent you a text saying she would be at the beach.

She did but what does that have to do with you?

Why are you getting angry at me? Jake was getting angry now, but I didn't care I'm not the one that made her cry! Wait what?

She was crying?

Yeah.

Why?

Well she thought that you wanted to see her so she waited for two hours after her friends left. She thought you would show up.

Why was she crying though?

She now has the idea in her head that you don't like her anymore, and that you don't ever want to see her again.

WHAT! How could she think that?

Dude my… brain?

Is it okay if I go? I got to find her and apologize.

I suppose but you owe me.

Thanks Jake. I ran as close to her house as I could without going out of the woods. I phased pulled my shorts on and walked as fast as I could to her house. I knocked on the door and her mother answered.

"Hello, Embry. Izzy is not here, and I have been told to not let you in even if she is. So what can I do to help you?"

"Uhm, hi. I really need to see her could you tell me where she is?"

"No sorry, I have been told not to do that either."

"Damn. Do you think I could wait for her? I really need to talk to her, apologize for being such an ass."

"Well… I suppose but if she throws you out, it wasn't me."

"Ok, ill just wait in her room if that's okay?"

"Sure, you know which one it is."

"thanks." I walked into her room and sat down on the end of the bed. I didn't care about how long I would have to wait. As long as she came home. Id been there for half an hour when I heard her voice downstairs. I heard her laughing and joking with her sister, when did that happen? She started coming up the stairs and I shifted guiltily.

She froze in her doorway when she saw me.

"What are you doing her?" she barely got the words out, and her eyes glistened with the tears she was holding back.

"I'm so sorry baby. I didn't know you were waiting for me. I thought I would give you some time with your friends." I wasn't lying I thought she wouldn't want me to ruin the time she had with her friends, because I hoped that when we got back together she would spend a lot of time with me. I knew this was selfish, but I didn't care. She was my imprint and I needed her.

"I…I don't know what to say." She stuttered.

"Say you'll forgive me and that you'll take me back. I need you, I love you."

"You… you, love me?"

"Of course! How could I not?"

"But I thought you-"

"I know I talked to Jake. Believe me I do like you, and I do want you, forever." She started crying and I got up to put my arms around her. I took it as a good sign that she didn't flinch away when I put my hand on her little shoulder. I pulled her as close as I could and was relieved when she put her arms around my waist. I hugged her gently for a minute before I pulled her face up so I could kiss her. She kissed me back opening her lips so I could explore her mouth with my tongue. I twisted one of my hands in her long beautiful smelling hair. She pulled away panting and leaned her forehead against mine. I was breathing pretty hard as well. She pushed me away and I landed with a small thud on the end of the bed. At first I thought she was trying to get rid of me, but then she climbed into my lap so she was straddling me and kissed me with force. I put my hand on her hips and started laying a trail of hot wet kisses down her neck. She moaned and ground her hips against me.

"Oh god!" I moaned into her shoulder and brought my lips back to hers. I sucked on her bottom lip gently, and she moaned again.

"Not here." She whispered into my mouth and pushed me away with her hand on my chest.

"Why?" I started kissing down her neck again.

"Because my whole family is downstairs."

"So?" I murmured this into her collarbone and she shivered.

"Well i'm very … vocal when I-"

"Oh never mind, another time then. Uh can I have a few minutes to… calm down before I leave?"

"Huh… oh right sure. I suppose this means I should get off your lap ae?"

"Yeah that might help a little." I waited for ten minutes for my little guy to calm down before I left. When I did leave she kissed me again with so much passion, I had to try really hard to control myself. I couldn't wait till next time I saw her. I knew it was going to be good. Mental note to self, kick Quil and Seth out of the house, for the night.

"Embry your here, and in a good mood. So i'm assuming it went well?" It was Seth speaking to me. "You hungry? My mom sent some food round."

"Your mom's great Seth."

"I know." We ate in silence and then we went our separate ways. I sat in front of the TV. and flicked through the channels, finally settling on a football game. I had just received a very naughty text from Izzy when my phone disappeared from my hands. I jumped up and spun round to see Nessie standing in the corner with my phone and wide eyes.

"What does it say ness?"

"No, no, no, NO!" I launched myself over to her but was sent flying backwards by Jacob.

"It says, 'Embry, can you imagine what I could do to you, with my tongue, when I had you all excited just by kissing you, I would…." I ran over to her and grabbed the phone out of her hands. Jacob didn't stop me this time, he wasn't able to. He had collapsed onto the ground in a fit of laughter.

"Ugh i'm going out. I won't be back anytime soon."

"What did she do to make you excited?" Jake yelled after me.

I slammed the door behind me and started running. I was on the beach before I knew it.

"Embry?" I turned around and saw Sara walking towards me.

"Hey Sare's how are you?" me and her used to be best friends when we were younger and she went to middle school on the rez. I hadn't used her nickname in years. She smiled when I said it.

"I'm good how are you?"

"Just great." I hissed slightly when I said this.

"You sound it. What's up?"

"Jacob being a dick."

"Oh well that explains it then."

"Tell me about it. One day i'm going to turn around and smack him in the face."

"Embry! You shouldn't encourage violence!"

"Like you can talk Mrs. That was a great punch Izzy."

"Ha-ha shut up you loserer."

"Loserer? Wow you really need to spend more time in school."

"Well i'm smarter than you."

"That's true I can't argue with you there." I flung my arm around her shoulders and we walked own the beach chatting and joking. Just like old times.

"So what's up with you and Izzy?"

"What do you mean?"

"What's going on between you two?"

"Well we are going out, what more do you want to know?"

"I thought you would be going out, but she never confirmed it. How are things going?"

"they are going… great." A huge smile broke across my face, remembering the last time I saw her and her last text.

She gasped and covered her mouth with her hand, "oooh, Embry! If you get her pregnant I may have to kill you." She threatened me?

"Wait… what? Pregnant? How did you come to that conclusion?"

"Well you said 'great' and you had the biggest smile i've ever seen on your face. So you haven't?… you know…"

"No Sara! Plus I wouldn't tell you if we had, it's awkward! I mean it was only a few years ago that you were just 'one of the guys.'"

She laughed and punched me in the arm gently. I walked her to her car and she waved goodbye as she was pulling away. I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to go home because I knew that Nessie was there, and I didn't want to walk in on something that would scar me for life. So I went to Sam's.

"Hey Em."

"Hey Em." Emily said back to me with a smile on half of her once beautiful face, "you hungry?"

"Um, hello… werewolf!"

"Oh right, no need to ask right. You're always hungry."

"Of course! How could you not know that already?"

"Shut up! Oh i'm going to make a lot but you have to save some for your brothers."

"Which ones?"

"Brady, Collin, Seth, Nathan, Eric and the new one, I don't know if you have met him yet, his name is Andrew."

"Sweet. I hope you made enough."

"Of course." My phone rang.

"Herro?" I answered it with my mouth full and Emily chucked the wooden spoon at me. "Sorry Em."

"Hi Embry, its Izzy."

"I know its you, I have caller i.d."

"Oh right."

"Yeah so what's up?"

"Um… did you see Sara today?"

"Yea I did, why?"

"well she came round here acting all weird and asking me all these questions about you and me, and it got really awkward when she started giving me condoms." I almost choked on my food.

"She what?" I gasped.

"She gave me condoms and told me that if I got pregnant she would kill me."

"Well she gave me the same speech, so I wouldn't worry about it."

"She did?"

"Yeah, where are you?"

"At home why?" she sounded confused.

"Hold on a sec," I turned around, "hey Emily is it alright if my girlfriend comes for dinner? Its okay she's tiny she won't eat much."

"Of course Embry, she's very welcome."

"Sweet, hey Izzy you there?"

"Yeah, who's Emily?" she sounded jealous, I loved it.

"She's a good friend; i'm going to come pick you up okay, your going to have dinner with us, is that all right?"

"Of course see you soon. Ellie!" I heard her yell before she hung up. I was excited; my girl was going to meet some of my family. I said a quick goodbye to Emily and kissed little Christy on the cheek. (Sam and Emily's one and a half year old daughter.) I got into my car and drove over to Izzy's. The door opened as I got out of the car and her mom was looking at me angrily.

"Uh hi Mrs. Daniels'."

"Hello, Embry. Before you take my daughter out I have to warn you, any hanky panky and I will skin you alive."

I laughed nervously, "Um Mrs. Daniels', i'm taking her to dinner with a few of my brothers at a good friend's house, with his wife and one year old daughter. There's nothing to worry about."

"Well good."

"MOM! Ugh shut up! Why do you have to be sooo embarrassing?"

"Sorry sweetie, I just worry about you." Izzy pushed past her and grabbed my hand pulling me back towards my car. I laughed and waved goodbye at her mother. I hadn't noticed how good Izzy looked.

"Wow!" was all I could get out. She was wearing a sapphire blue top that hung off both her shoulders. It really made her piercing blue eyes stand out. She had half of her long brown hair pulled up at the back with a few new blond highlights. She was wearing black heels and dark blue skinny jeans. She looked HOT! I couldn't take my eyes off her.

"What? Is there something wrong with my makeup? Or is it my clothes?" her eyes widened in fright. I grabbed her hand and pulled her closer to me.

"Nothing's wrong babe, you look… hot. Did you get a new nose stud?"

"Yeah, how did you know?"

"I'm not really sure." I opened the passenger door for her and she climbed in. she looked a terrified, but I put that down to nerves. She was meeting quite a few people from my extended family after all. I grabbed her hand and gave it a little squeeze. She smiled and looked out the window. When we got there I helped her out of the car and led her inside. I introduced her to Sam, Emily and Christy. They all seemed to like her a lot, especially Christy. She kept staring at her and holding out her arms. Izzy bent down and picked her up she started bouncing her on her hip and when Christy giggled she looked up smiling. Emily had her mouth hanging open.

"Oh… sorry, um she wanted up but-"

"Its fine Isabelle, i'm just a little shocked that's all. Christy doesn't like anyone. So the fact that you got her giggling is a good thing."

"Oh, ok then and call me Izzy." Izzy looked embarrassed but forgot about it when Seth and Nathan came in. she put Christy down and went to say hello to Seth, but froze halfway across the room, her eyes wide staring at Nathan. He was doing the same at her.

"Na-Nathan? Oh my god is that you?"

"Isabelle?"

"Oh my god! It is you!" she ran across the room and jumped on him. My mouth dropped open as did everyone else's. She was still clinging onto him, with her legs wrapped around his waist.

I cleared my throat, "so how do you guys know each other?" I asked as Izzy finally unraveled herself from him.

"We dated for six weeks when I was living in Seattle."

"That's why you didn't want to come home, and then you suddenly decided to come back." It was Seth; he punched Nathan on the arm.

"Oh hey Seth, haven't seen you in a while." she turned to him and gave him a quick hug before coming to sit down. I was still frozen. Nathan, the man whore of the pack, my little brother of some sorts, is my girlfriends ex. She sat down next to me and started catching up with Nathan. I couldn't help but notice that occasionally she would lean closer to him but not coming back fully. Every time she did this she got a little closer. My vision burned red around the edges. I jumped up and muttered something about the bathroom before I stormed out of there. I think Sam knew something was up so he followed me.

"Embry man, what's up? They're just talking." I shook my head at him and tried to concentrate on calming down. Emily came out and put her hand on my shoulder. I stopped shaking afraid to hurt her more than she already had been. I went back into the kitchen/dining room and sat down. Izzy was now talking with Seth about what had happened to him since the party she met us at. Nathan was staring at her with admiring eyes. I felt myself getting angry again. So I asked to talk to Nathan outside, and I waited until he got up to follow me. Seth seemed to know what was going on so he stopped Izzy from coming with us.

"Nathan, what are you doing?"

"I'm talking to a good friend of mine. She looks as if she got hotter since she left Seattle. I wonder if she would go out with me again?" I growled and he took a step backwards.

"Dude, what the fuck?"

"Don't. Talk. About. My. Imprint. Like. That."

"Your imprint? I thought you imprinted on someone called Iz- oh sorry man I didn't know."

"Well you know now, so please don't try anything or I will kill you."

"Embry! That's enough, Stop now." I couldn't disobey Sam, it was an alpha command, so I went inside, sat down next to my girlfriend and took her hand. She smiled up at me and returned to the conversation she was having with Seth.