We were meant to be together...

So I'll do anything it takes...

8. I'm Your What?

Izzy

Embry sat down next to me and I took his hand in mine. He looked angry, did I do something? I continued talking to Seth about the people we both knew from school. Embry was glaring at Nathan. I couldn't understand it, was he angry that I had gone out with other guys before I had met him? I hadn't known he was the jealous type. I stopped talking to Seth when four more guys walked in. I was introduced to Brady, Collin, Andrew and the last one was Eric. He reminded me of someone I knew, I just couldn't place him.

"hey Isabelle." It was Eric talking to me.

"hi Eric, i'm sorry for staring but I feel like I know you from somewhere."

"hmmm… how about L.A.?"

"oh my god yes! That's it." We chatted some more, and I found out that he had moved here a few months ago, just before I did actually. Embry came out and seemed pleased that I was getting along with his friends. I smiled at him, but I didn't mention that Eric was also my ex, I didn't want to do that to him again. I saw his face when I told him about Nathan and me, he looked so hurt. I didn't want to be the cause of that.

"oh my god, Isabelle do you remember the time we snuck into the movies?"

"yes and the guy came in to get us,"

"and he was shining the light over everyone…" we both started cracking up laughing at the memory, it was funny at the time.

"trying to find us…"

"but he couldn't…"

"because we were making out." Shit! did he have to bring that up. I felt Embry stiffen next to me. He got up and walked away shaking. I could have been imagining things, but I swear he was blurring. I tried to run after him but Seth caught me around the middle. Eric ran into the woods were Embry had disappeared as a loud howl disrupted the silent evening air. It sounded sad.

"Seth! Let me go! I need to talk to him!"

"not right now, its too dangerous for you. He'll come back soon. Hopefully." He added as if he wasn't sure.

"he has to, I need to talk to him."

"trust me he will be back, I think Eric is talking to him now." There was another howl and Sam came running out of the house, jumped the railing on the porch and started sprinting into the woods. Brady and Collin did the same thing. I tried to fight Seth off, but he was just too strong. Emily came up and put her arms around my shoulders.

"it will be fine, he'll come round." She whispered into my ear.

"he better… I need to explain to him."

"he will talk to you, he loves you." She pulled me inside with her and I helped her prepare dinner. When we were done I took a step back and for the first time looked at how much food there was.

"there is no way all this is going to get eaten."

"oh, it will, you would be surprised at how much these guys eat." Emily replied opening a packet of paper plates. I did a quick mental count, "but there's eleven people here? And there is clearly enough food to feed about thirty."

"yeah, well, most of the guys eat about four times the normal amount anyway." I was about to say something about aliens with bottomless stomachs when Embry walked in with Sam and Jake behind him. I dropped the spoon I was holding, it was a second or two before I realized. I dropped to the floor feeling my face heat up, knowing that I would look like a tomato when I came back up.

"sorry about that Iz." Embry bent down so that he was level with me. I smiled and launched myself at him. He wasn't prepared for it so he was on his back on the kitchen floor and I was on top of him.

"whoa, is it group observation time?"

"shut up Paul!" Embry got up and pulled me with him. "Izzy, this is Paul, Paul this is Izzy."

"oh, she's your imprint… whoops maybe I shouldn't have said that." He smiled at me and held out his hand. I shook it quickly and muttered a small hello, while not looking up from the floor. Paul and Embry laughed. I helped Emily take all the food over to the kitchen table, while Paul's fiancé, Rachael stood guard over the food. After we had put all the food on the table, all the guys started edging towards the table.

"guys! Girls first, now move back or I will skin you alive. Izzy take as much food as you can so that you will be full first round, because there is no guarantee that there will be any food left." I laughed and grabbed a plate as Rachael did the same. I sat down on one of the couches and ate all I could when I got up to take my not so empty plate to the kitchen, I saw Paul and Embry fighting over the last piece of chicken.

"Embry, be nice and give that to Paul."

"ha, shame sucker. Thanks Izzy." Paul picked up the chicken and took a big bite.

"Em, you can have the last of mine." Embry smiled hugely and took the food from me. He practically inhaled it.

"told you all the food would go." Emily was in the kitchen cleaning up as best she could, "oh and good on you for the Paul Embry fight. Although I do wish it had gone on longer, those two are good entertainment." I just laughed and went back out to sit by Embry, but Seth had taken my seat. I leaned against the wall instead.

"what are you doing?" Embry asked me looking angry.

"um… i'm standing… is that okay?"

"no." he growled. He grabbed my hand and pulled me onto his lap. I smiled at him and quickly but sweetly kissed him on the lips. There were a few wolf whistles and some whooping. I blushed and hid my face in his chest.

It was well after eleven when we left Emily and Sam's. we said goodbye to everyone and got in the car. As we did this Nathan, Eric and Seth started walking off into the woods taking their shirts off and putting them down on one of the porch chairs as they went. I looked at them for a minute. Threesome? No that couldn't be right… could it? I mean I had dated Nathan and Eric. Had sex with them. They weren't gay were they?

"um… Em, don't take this the wrong way, and don't mention it to them, but are Seth, Eric and Nathan gay?"

"no! of course not. Why would you think that?"

"well they all just went into the woods together… taking their clothes off on the way, might I add."

"oh… um… they were just… going for a run." I nodded but I didn't believe him. They had some big secret. Something they were all hiding, but I couldn't figure it out. Embry parked outside my house and pulled me onto his lap again. I didn't actually say goodbye to him for another twenty five minutes. I got out of the car all pink faced and was ambushed by my sister when I got in the house. She wanted to know all the details, especially why we were just sitting in the car for twenty minutes.

"well I couldn't see! It was dark!" I looked at her, pushed her out of my room and locked the door.

I woke up from the weirdest dream.

"Embry! Embry! Where are you?" I called into the darkness. I was back in the clearing with Alice and Rosalie. Although they weren't the same as I remembered. They had bright red eyes. I flinched away from them. Four massive wolves came out of the trees, just like they had that day. But this time I wasn't scared of them, I was relieved. I ran to the big grey one with black specks and I put my arms around its huge head. It rumbled with laughter while the other wolves closed in around the Cullen's. Suddenly there were four more of them all with red eyes. Except for the little girl that looked around eight, she had lovely chocolate brown eyes. They all looked the same. The wolves went at them and what I assumed to be the whole Cullen family attacked the wolves. I was standing there screaming but no sound would leave my throat, I watched as all the wolves dropped dead and the bright red eyes came for the big grey wolf. My wolf.

I had woken up drenched in cold sweat. I felt like I needed to cry. I couldn't understand the dream, it didn't make sense. I was panting slightly as I went downstairs to get a drink of water. Went back to sleep after that and had no more dreams.

"wait what did Paul say you were?" Sara asking me, stopping suddenly.

"he said I was Embry's imprint, or something like that."

"um… imprint?"

"yeah, do you know what it means?"

"I think so … I got to go talk to Sam and find out what the hell is going on. If you're his imprint then that means that…." She gasped and took off running.

"Sara! Where are you going? What about biology?" I shouted after her. she knew something I didn't. I had to find out what it was, or die trying. I pulled out my phone and dialed Embry's number, only to get the answer machine.

"this is Embry, you know what to do… beep."

"hey… uh Embry its Izzy, we need to talk, give me a call or something. Bye."

I hadn't heard back from Embry all day and I was annoyed about it. He was ignoring me! At about eleven I went up to bed after having a bitch session with my sister. I was still angry. I crawled into bed and fell asleep quickly. I was woken in the middle of the night, by someone crawling in through my window. I picked up my pocket knife as quietly as I could. I flicked the blade out, and when the big black shadow of a person came toward me I felt the small blade plunge into skin.

"fuck! What did you stab me for?" a husky voice whispered into the dark.

"Embry?" I jumped up and turned the light on to see Embry sitting there picking the pocket knife out of his arm. I ran to my door and locked it so my parents couldn't come in.

"let me see." I kneeled on my bed next to where he was sitting and grabbed his arm. It was still bleeding but only slightly. "im so sorry, I didn't know it was you! I didn't mean to stab you, well I did but not you personally, I thought you were a robber or a murderer or something. Oh god please shut me up, why cant I stop-" Embry effectively silenced me by putting his hand over my mouth.

"Izzy, shut it."

"sorry." I murmured it wasn't easy with his hand still over my mouth.

"okay, I think i'm ready for this, go ahead and tell me what you need to say." He dropped his hand and closed his eyes.

"what's an imprint?" his eyes flashed open.

"What?"

"uh… what's an imprint?"

"wait, your not breaking up with me?" he asked looking skeptical.

"what! No! of course not, why would you think that?"

"well you said we needed to talk and you sounded angry. I just assumed you wanted to break up with me."

"Aww, I don't want to break up with you!" I threw my arms around his neck and pulled him closer to me. I felt him smile against my collar bone as he wrapped his arms around my waist.

"thank god." I laughed.

"but you still haven't answered my question."

"um… which one?"

"what's an imprint?"

"um… shit, I was hoping for more time so I could explain this properly. Don't freak out okay?"

"I promise I wont, just tell me." I was bouncing with anticipation.

"Okay, stop bouncing." I couldn't stop so he pulled me onto his lap so I was straddling him. He put his hands on my hips to keep me still. I rested my hands on his biceps. Oh god, he was so hot… concentrate, imprint, imprint, imprint.

"okay, go."

"um… well, its… you… shit."

"come on baby, you can tell me anything." He took a deep breath in and let it out slowly.

"an imprint is, how do I put this… a soul mate?"

"what?"

"um… I imprinted on you, so it kind of means that you're my soul mate."

"I'M YOUR WHAT?" I stated hyperventilating. Shit I had just yelled. I jumped off Embry and started pushing him to the closet. He looked confused but got in there anyway. The hall light flicked on and he closed the closet door. I jumped back in bed as mom knocked on the door.

"honey, are you alright? What happened?" I opened the door and saw my mother and older brother standing there.

"nothing I just had a nightmare, sorry I woke you. Go back to sleep."

"are you sure? Do you want to talk about it."

"no, mom i'm fine. Go to bed." My brother rolled his eyes and slammed his bedroom door closed.

"well okay honey, sweet dreams." She kissed me on the forehead and went back to her room. I closed the door locked it and slid down to the floor. Embry was with me in a second.

"are you okay? Babe?"

"i'm fine… I just need… a minute… my brains going… a hundred miles an hour."

"sure anything you need." He picked me up bridal style and lay down on my bed with me. I curled into his side, my arm around his warm waist. I was his soul mate? Doesn't that mean, i'm meant to be with him? Like as in forever?

"i'm so confused." I whined.

"about? You gotta tell me what you're thinking."

"i'm your soul mate? As in I have to be with you?"

"no! you don't have to! I mean I want you to be with me, but you have a choice. I wouldn't force anything on you. You…you could break up with me if you wanted to." That made me feel better, knowing that I wasn't tied down. Embry wasn't breathing.

"breathe Embry." He let out a big gust of air and I giggled. Wait… I giggled? Wow, that hadn't happened in a while. I mean I wasn't even drunk! He tightened his grip around me, apparently he didn't want to let me go.

"i'm not going anywhere Embry. You're stuck with me. Too bad for you eh."

He chuckled and kissed the top of my head.

"good, I don't want you to go anywhere, not without me, it would be extraordinarily painful for me."

"it would?"

"yeah, because of the imprint."

"explain it to me?"

"well, its sort of like love at first sight, except stronger, much stronger. It isn't always romantic love, it could be brotherly love, or friendship love, but still love in one form or another."

"please tell me you don't love me like a sister, because that would be very bad with what I imagined us doing." He laughed again and gave me another squeeze.

"no, this is romantic love."

"tell me more."

"there's not much more to tell. Um… its kind of like a pull, I can always tell when you are around me, its like gravity or something is telling me to go to you."

"I feel it too."

"you do?"

"yupp." I said popping the 'p'.

"is there anything else you want to know?"

"when did it happen? And why me?"

"the first time I met you, at the party. And I don't know why fate decided to pare me with you, Sam thinks its so we can make stronger… never mind another time. I don't want to overload you with information."

"ok, thanks Embry." I muttered quietly. My eye lids were heavy and the last thing I heard before I fell asleep was, "I love you Izzy." I drifted into a peaceful sleep in Embry's arms.

A/n. reviews would be much appreciated. (:

Jess xO