Love doesn't walk away...

People do...

Embry

I cant believe she's moving. The last month and a half went so fast. I was currently helping carrying all her boxes of books down the stairs. She was leaving tomorrow. I was going with her but I could only spend a week there, before I had to come home and take over for Paul.

"babe, can you carry this one too its heavy."

"yeah sure, I'll just take this one down first."

"isn't that more work for you though? Why don't you just take both of them down now, I know you can carry them both."

"of course I can but I don't want your parents figuring out that i'm not exactly human."

"oh right. Sorry." She looked hot walking around in a pair of shorts and a singlet top, with her hair pulled back into a messy bun. She labeled a few more boxes before I realized that I was staring. I took the box downstairs and loaded it into the truck. I went back upstairs to see Izzy staring a t a photo album. As I watched her a single tear rolled down her cheek. I sat down next to her and pulled her into my side. Just as I had expected she was looking at photos of her time here. There were three photos on the page; one of her and her friends form forks high, one of the whole pack in la push imprints and all, and one of her and me.

"i'm going to miss everyone so much."

"I know babe, I know. But cheer up, its not like your never going to speak to them again. your coming up for Jared and Kim's wedding and Christmas remember."

"yeah, but its going to be so weird not seeing everyone almost every day. Not seeing you every day."

"you can see me on web chat, and we'll talk all the time okay, it'll be fine." I didn't tell her that it was going to kill me having to watch her leave.

"yeah but who will I call if I get cold?" I laughed

"invest in a blanket."

"I don't want a blanket, I want you." she climbed into my lap and tangled her fingers in my shaggy hair. I wrapped my arms securely around her waist, so that she wouldn't be able to move away.

"hmmm, I'll just have to fly halfway across the world to climb into bed with you so you can sleep then."

"who said I wanted to sleep?" she raised one eyebrow at me.

"hmmm, well…" I kissed her gently. "I suppose (kiss) that could (kiss) work too." Another kiss.

"ugh I hate you!"

"what did I do?"

"you're teasing me!" she pouted so I kissed her again, this time when I went to pull back she came with me, determined not to break the kiss. I ran my tongue against her bottom lip. She shivered and opened her mouth slightly. i flicked her tongue with my own and she responded passionately.

"cough, cough." She pulled back and turned to glare at Seth. "sorry guys. Izzy you mom said lunch is ready. Oh and she said thanks very much for all your help making it."

"but I didn't help?"

"yeah I think she was trying to be sarcastic, but it didn't work out too well."

"typical mom. Well come on wolf boy, i'm sure i'm not the only one who's hungry." I let her go and she jumped up and ran down the stairs. I punched Seth in the arm.

"Oww, what was that for?"

"interrupting."

"I said I was sorry."

"sure sure." Izzy was already waiting with a big plate of food for me. I smiled and sat down on the grass with her and Jared, who was holding a crying Kim. Kim was not taking Izzy moving well. Over the first seven months Izzy and I were together, her and Kim got really close.

"Kim stop crying! i'm going to see you again in just over a month."

"but who's going to come shopping with me when I need to get away from Jared?"

"hey!"

"take Emily."

"I cant she has Christy."

"take Rachael?"

"but she is always with Paul."

"go by yourself then!"

"but I wont have anyone to bitch to about all the annoying things Jared does!"

"What annoying things?"

"Jared shut up. I'm trying to say goodbye to one of my best friends."

"sorry honey."

"Kim, calm down. You can save it all up and tell me all about it when I come back for your wedding."

"i'm going to write it down and you cant go anywhere until i've bitched about all of it."

"sounds fun." Kim finally smiled and started eating.

"ugh Jared, why didn't you get me two tomatoes." She pulled a piece of paper and a pen out.

"Kim, i'm still here!"

"well, yeah but I wont have time to talk to you alone before you leave." Poor Jared looked so confused.

"come on Embry. There is still some packing to do in my room."

"do you want some help?" silly Seth, so naïve.

"uh Seth … this is … special packing for just me and Embry."

"oh well just give us a yell if you need any help." We all started laughing.

"what? What did I say?"

"it means they are going to go have some special adult time Seth." Kiara whispered into his ear. Of course all the wolves heard her and laughed harder. Seth went bright red and looked at the ground. I picked Izzy up and ran inside with her, earning a few shouts and whoops from the guy's. she laughed as I ran upstairs with her at an inhuman speed. As soon as we got to her room she locked the door and ripped my shirt off me.

"well, well, well aren't we impatient."

"just shut up and kiss me, you big wolf man." I complied, by crushing her to my chest.

"wake up! Izzy, get up we need to go to the airport. Oh and we need to go get Embry. Hurry up or I will get Stephen to knock this door down."

"I'M UP!" she screamed.

"guess that's my cue to leave. I'll see you in about half an hour." I gave her a kiss and jumped out the window. When I got to my house I found it wasn't empty like I had thought it was going to be. Kim and Jared were there as was Sam and Emily, Sara, Eric, Nathan, Collin, Brady, Seth, Quil and Kiara.

"hey Em take care of yourself over there ok, and call us as soon as you land." Emily was sniffling

"what if its in the middle of the night?"

"it doesn't matter someone will be up." Sam put in.

"this last month has gone so fast." Kim cried

"yeah I cant believe she's moving back to NZ. I'm going to miss her so much." Eric was looking really depressed. I couldn't help but growl. I went inside to get my back which Izzy had packed a few days ago. I was hoping to god that she didn't pack too much. I grabbed my back and went to wait in the lounge with the others. We all went outside when we heard a car pull up.

"uh hey guys. What are you all doing here?"

"we came to say goodbye." Kim said pulling her into a hug.

"what about the going away party we had, yesterday morning, lunch yesterday and last night?"

"we wanted to see you again."

"not that i'm complaining or anything but its 4oclock in the morning." Se shook her head and went to hug everyone. I growled again when she hugged Eric and Nathan, they held on a little longer than necessary. Izzy grabbed my hand and we walked to the car in silence; she was crying again. She had stopped crying by the time we got on the plane. It was a long flight; 12 hours. Izzy didn't talk at all. She just sat there wrapped in my arms tracing patterns on my arm.

"I miss them already." She said sighing as we got on the plane in Sydney, Australia that would take us to Christchurch.

"I know you do, but you'll see them soon enough. Don't worry about it." the flight from Australia to Christchurch took 4 hours. When we got there a short blonde girl ran straight as Izzy and bowled her over. It was the first time I had seen Izzy laugh in three days.

"Izzy, I cant believe you're here! I missed you so much."

"hey Anna, I missed you too. Do you want to get off me now?"

"not really but the floor looks dirty so I will." The girl jumped up and hugged all the other members of Izzy's family as well. I pulled Izzy up.

"thanks, that's Anna by the way. My absolutely insane best friend." Anna came skipping over.

"so I take it you're Embry?"

"yupp, that's me. Nice to meet you." I held my hand out to shake hers but she slapped it away and gave me a hug.

"wow you're hot!"

"your in Embry!" Stephan said to me.

"I meant temperature dick wad." Anna shot back. Wow, she really does speak her mind.

We got back to Izzy's house and I met the rest of her family. Including her older brother; Mark who didn't like me very much. Izzy fell asleep on the couch so I carried her to the room her mom pointed out as hers. I fell asleep on her floor because I didn't know where I would be staying.

"Embry, Wake up." I opened my eyes to see Izzy sitting on my stomach. "morning babe. You know, you didn't need to sleep on the floor. You could have jumped into the bed with me."

"and what would your parents say about that?"

"they would get over it. anyway, you have a call to make… to Emily." She continued when I didn't say anything.

"oh… right. You wanna pass me my cell phone please."

"here you go." I dialed Sam and Emily's place.

"hello."

"hey Sam, its Embry. Was just calling to let you know we got here alright."

"sweet. Emily was getting on everyone's nerves asking if they had heard from you."

"fair enough. Any … problems?"

"nah, everything's all good. no vamps here."

"cool, well I better let you go, Izzy says hi by the way."

"yeah, say hi to her from everyone and don't get angry and phase while you are over there."

"sure sure. Bye."

"so beautiful, what have we got planned for today?"

"well we are going to start unpacking the kitchen stuff. Then we are going to go grocery shopping. And after all that, I was thinking we could go to Lyttelton."

"wow so busy day then."

"yupp." She hopped up and went to go get dressed. We ended up walking through Lyttelton around 3oclock. We stopped in a dairy and got two of the biggest ice cream cones i've ever seen. We got back in Anna's car and went to Sumner beach. She took me into the little caves that are only there when the tide is out. We watched the sunset there. I was a little confused when both Anna squealed and ran off into the dark.

"her boyfriends here. She's going to go meet him and bring him over."

"okay then." I looked back out at the water. I heard people talking and looked over to see a group of about twenty people walking towards us.

"Izzy! Your back!" there were a few shouts Izzy got up. She went was about to give one guy a hug when another picked her up and spun around in circles with her.

"Dylan! Put me down!" if she wasn't laughing I would have gone over and kicked that guy's ass.

"not likely!"

"shit Dill, how much have you had to drink? I can smell it from here."

"oh you know, just the usual."

"oh so about half a bottle of vodka then?"

"yeah, round about." Wow, she really wasn't kidding when she said New Zealand teenagers liked to drink a lot.

"oh guy's and girls, this is my boyfriend Embry. He came all the way from Washington to help us move." I waved at a few people and blushed when a few people went 'Aww'.

"shit Izzy, you really know how to get around don't cha."

"shut up Ben." She punched some guy in the arm.

"no seriously though. You had what… six different boyfriends in America?"

"yeah, we'll leave it at six. Three in LA. Two in Seattle and just the one in La Push." Izzy came and sat down next to me again.

"you wanna a beer bro?"

"yeah, sure thanks."

"all goods. So where in the US are you from?"

"Washington."

"cool, have you met the president?"

"no."

"oh damn. So how did you manage to get with Izzy?"

"the usual way. I asked her out."

"ah yeah. Sweet. She's a cool girl Iz."

"she's amazing."

"yeah, great in bed too."

"what?"

"don't worry about it mate. It was just once and we were both really pissed. She always did say I was her best though." Calm, Embry, calm. I took a few deep breaths so I would stop shaking.

"yeah, well you've been overtaken."

"I find that hard to believe." Izzy was arguing with some dodgy looking guy. I went over to see what was going on.

"hey babe, what's up?" I wrapped my arms around her waist.

"nothing. I was just telling josh, that I don't do that shit anymore, and he kept bugging me."

"but you were my best customer!"

"josh. Shut. Up."

"er… customer?" I asked.

"its nothing don't worry about hun. C'mon lets go find Anna so we can go home."

"sure, sure."

"Anna! Anna! Anna where the fuck are you?"

"she's over there with Matt." Ben said as he was picking up another drink.

"damn. Nothing I need to cover my eyes for?"

"not yet. Looks like they're headed that way though."

"thanks Ben. Hey I'll see you around okay. Text me and we shall hang yeah?"

"yeah, I missed you." Izzy dragged me over to a mass on the ground that turned out to be two people not the one I was expecting. Iz ran over and pulled Anna off this guy.

"sorry Matt, we need to go now. Anna get up." Anna got up and staggered forward before falling over.

"Anna have you been drinking?"

"no." she started laughing.

"have you been smoking?"

"just a little."

"Anna" Izzy whined. She grabbed her keys off her and told me to carry her to the car. I put her in the backseat and Izzy got in the drivers.

"what's wrong with her?"

"she's just a little stoned. She'll be alright in the morning.