Catie quickly rushed up to me. "How is he?"

I wiped the rear away and faced everyone. "Nate's ok for right now. I need to heal his ribs soon and then truthfully I don't know what to do after that."

I scanned the room again but didn't find Sam. "Where's Sam?" I asked everyone in the room.

The room suddenly felt tense, and I saw everyone get all fidgety.

"What?" I asked kind of nervous.

"He's out front Bells. He just needed to get some fresh air." Brady said. It was weird. Brady and Collin haven't really said much since I took them here. Actually, they all haven't. I swallowed and excused myself.

I quietly walked outside to the front.

The front was beautiful. It was actually my favorite part of all. It was the perfect place to watch the sun rise and set against the grassy hills. The porch was white long and wide. It had a white poled banister that wrapped all around it. It was kind of like one of those fairytale houses but not a big house. There was a hanging swing bench, just to the left of the porch, that was the perfect size to make the house complete.

I found Sam standing there on the porch just across from the bench, with his hands leaning on the white wooden railing. I bit my lip to stop my nerves from getting to me.

"Hey." I said announcing my presence from the front door.

He looked back a tiny bit and then turned back to the view.

"Hey." He said softly.

I took a breath and walked up to him. I put a hand on his arm and he looked down at it.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"I just needed to come for some air. Just to think a little." He stated.

"Well…anything you wanted to share?" I asked in a hopeful tone.

He sighed and turned to me. "Who is Nate? I mean I know he is the guy laying there on the couch bruised and beat up, but what does he mean to you? What does he mean to both of you?" he asked. I could tell he was jealous and I felt an immense amount of guilt for not straightening that up sooner.

"He's….He's my friend." I started saying. I could tell Sam relaxed a bit, but I felt as if I needed to tell him everything.

"But he is also more than that. He was the guy I could go to when I had no one else around. He was my partner in crime, and the guy I could always rely on. He's been my everything for a while." I told him biting my lip.

I looked at Sam's hands to see his grip on the banister tighten. I went over and touched them and he quickly backed away.

"What do you mean?!" he said fighting his tears.

"No. Sam it's not like that. I mean, before I moved to Forks, before I even met you, we were each others friend. Each others siblings." I tired to tell him.

Sam just looked at me with teary eyes.

"Sam. He's like me!" I said exasperated.

He looked taken back. "We became close in school and then we both learned each others secret. It's just nice to know someone else is like you. That you're not alone in the world. And when the times got hard, we were there for each other."

He nodded. I walked over to him and he wrapped his arms around me. I laid my head on his chest and listened to his heart while he rested his chin on top of my head.

"I care for you Sam, just as much as I care for him, and just as much as I would care for any member of the pack." I said looking up to him. "So please don't be jealous or angry. And please don't think he is more important than you are, because that isn't true. He's my friend and the most brotherly person I have ever had in my life. But he's not you."

He looked down at me and kissed me on the forehead. "Come on, lets get inside." He said and we made our way in the house and to the kitchen.

"Hey guys."

"Hey Bells, Sam." They all said nodding to us.

"So not to sound rude Bella. But can you tell us what's going on?" Paul asked.

I chuckled. "Yea, Paul. Sorry for being so cryptic. This is my friend Nate's house. Nate has been my friend since middle school. Nate is also like me. And Catie." I paused, letting them all take it in.

"Caitlyn?!" Everyone said shocked.

She ducked her head and blushed. "It's ok Catie. I think we have been hiding this secret too long." I encouraged her.

"So Catie, Nate and I met in middle school. We all became friends. I think it was about the summer of 7th grade year, after the track competition we told each other our secret."

Catie laughed. "Oh man, do you remember we were all mad at each other for like a whole week?

"Why?" Embry asked her.

"because we were all keeping the same secret from each other, but had no idea we were all the same." I finished, laughing along with Catie on how stupid that was.

"So what happened after?" Jake asked.

"Well we all showed off what we could do. We all figured out who was best in rank and what powers we had."

"So who was the strongest?" Collin asked.

"Nate. It went by age actually. It was Nate, Me, and then Catie."

"So do you all have different powers?" Quil asked.

"Well sort of. I mean I guess. Nate's have always developed faster than ours, but I have noticed that we have gotten some different ones."

I was going to continue, but I heard Nate groan.

"Catie, I think we need to go put him back together again." I said.

She rolled her eyes and chuckled.

"Put him back together again?" Seth asked.

"Yea, as in the whole Humpty dumpty rhyme. I mean it's kind of ironic. But it's like our own personal inside joke."

He nodded.

Catie and I stood up, ready to go and tend to Nate. I bit my lip and turned around to ask the guys for help.

"Hey guys, we have to heal Nate. And it's going to hurt. So I was thinking that maybe some of you could help me and Catie hold him down?"

"Yea, sure!" They guys said.

Catie and I went into the living room, followed by Sam, Embry, Paul, and Jake.

I kneeled down to Nate and moved his hair away from his sweaty forehead.

"Nate." I whispered.

His eyes fluttered open and he grimaced in pain.

"Hey there." I said.

"Hey." He said groaning.

"Catie and I are going to fix your ribs now ok?" I said rubbing his forehead again.

"Bells." He started to say, but then took in his surroundings.

"Who are you?" he nodded to the guys standing behind me. I looked back and smiled.

"These are my friends. This is Paul, Embry, Jake and Sam." I pointed to each one.

Nate coughed but nodded to them and gave them a small wave.

"Ah, so that the guy Catie hasn't shut up about." He said chuckling to himself. Pretty much everyone giggled along with him, including the rest of the pack who were in the kitchen, except for Catie and Embry who were blushing like crazy.

"There are more people in the kitchen?" he asked.

"Yeah, that's the rest of the pack." I said.

"Pack?" he questioned.

"Ehh, long story. I will tell you another time." I said brushing it off.

"And then that is the guy you talked about when you wanted to go to Forks?" Nate asked, pointing to Jake.

I smiled and blushed a little. "Yeah, that's him."

Nate looked over to Jake and held out his hand. Jake took a step and met him half way shaking it.

"Nice to finally meet you man. I think I have heard everything about you." Nate said.

I rolled my eyes.

Sam cleared his throat and we all looked at him. I tried to hide a smile by biting my lip and ducking my head, but Nate saw me.

"What?" he asked, his eyes flickering between me and Sam.

"This is Sam." I said again.

"Yes." Nate said like I was stupid.

"My boyfriend." I stated.

"Oh." Was all he could say.

"Wow man, it's nice to meet you. I'm sorry I didn't know. I mean, this girl over here lost communication with me after she left." He said pointing me, acting like he was annoyed. He shook Sam's hand and then smirked at me.

I rolled my eyes and stuck out my tongue. "Whatever. Come on, lets get this over with." I said getting up.

He groaned and whined. "Do we have to do this B? I mean they will probably heal on their own. Just give them a few more days."

"They would have healed already." I pointed out. "Ok. Sam and Jake get his legs, while Paul and Embry get his arms. You need to try and keep him as still as possible." I commanded.

I went back over to Nate. "You need to try and not use your powers at any point. Got it?"

He nodded.

Catie and I leaned over his stomach while the guys gave us the cue to go ahead. I looked over at Catie, and nodded my head to start. We closed our eyes and began to focus. After a few seconds I could hear Nate whimpering and begging us to stop. I wanted to open my eyes, but I knew I would loose my concentration and he would have to suffer more. So I tried to block it out and finish. The ribs began to snap back in place and the bruises were healing. Catie had to stop but I kept going. I felt as if I needed to finish this.

But after about a minute or so, I started to feel light headed and dizzy.

I groaned and began to slouch a little.

"Bells?" Sam asked.

My breath started to get a little ragged and Nate's grunts of pains were getting louder.

Catie put a hand on my shoulder and I looked at her.

"Bella your nose." She said showing me the blood.

"Bella, you need to stop." Nate said panting through his teeth looking at me.

I shook my head. "It's ok. I'm ok, just a few more seconds." I said.

It only took that short amount of time for Nate's ribs to heal completely. I gave a small tired smile at my hard work, and then slipped into darkness. The last thing I felt was Sam's arms go around me to catch my fall.