When we got back to Fork, we all let go of each other. I noticed Catie was hugging Embry goodbye and it made my heart wrench, just thinking about Nate and Elizabeth.

I was the last one to say goodbye to Catie.

I gave her a hug and looked at her.

"Be safe ok?" I said letting her go.

She nodded to me and hugged me again. "Love you Bellsey."

I smiled and wrapped my arms around her tighter. "Love you to Catie."

We let go of each other and she teleported away.

I looked over at the pack to see them all with cheerless expressions.

We all sat around the living room, quite as can be.

I was cuddled up close to Sam, feeling his heart beat against my ear, and his thumb run over my hand.

The silence was deafening, along with the mood. I remember what Nate always used to tell me. Be strong and others will follow.

So that's what I was going to do.

"I remember one time, Catie, Nate and I were all practicing on the track. And we were jumping hurdles." I laughed a little. "We were trying to out run and jump each other. So Nate told me that my shoe was untied right before I was about to jump a hurdle, and I fell. He just laughed and kept running. So I pulled myself up and ran after him. Well when Nate looked back to me he went kind of sideways and crashed into Catie." I laughed harder.

They all laughed a little, but the silence grew. I looked down, feeling disappointed that it didn't work.

"I remember this one time," Embry started.

I smiled up at him, showing a thank you.

"When I went to Arizona with my parents, and we were walking down the streets, and I swear I saw Bella." He said like it was so real.

"So I yelled for her but she didn't turn around. My mom and dad tried stopping me from making a scene, but I swear it was you." He told me.

"So I ran all the way up to the girl and turned her around to find it wasn't you. It wasn't you at all."

He blushed. "I think I got creepy stares for the rest of the day."

We all laughed.

"I remember one time when we played football." Jake smiled.

I looked up at him and laughed.

"It was pouring rain, but we played anyways." He said.

"Blacks vs. Swans!" I shouted and everyone laughed.

"Yea well we creamed you." Quil said playfully.

I looked at him. "Pshh, yea right. We kicked your asses." I told him and high fived Embry.

Jared, Kim, Sam, Paul, Collin and Brady looked at us funny.

"You see, since the adults didn't play, we all divided up ourselves into teams."

"Jake and I were captains of our teams" I announced.

"Quil and Seth were on my team." Jake announced.

"And Leah and Embry were on mine."

"Anyways, it was raining so hard and it was so muddy. When I went to go pass the ball I ended up slipping and falling backwards." Jake said. We all laughed.

"This ended up having me ram into Bella, who slid into Quil, who slid into Embry who crashed into Seth."

"Leah was the only one standing." I said proudly. We high fived and smiled at the memory.

"So Bella pointed to something and told me to look. Of course, I was gullible and looked. She ended up grabbing the ball out of my hands and threw it to Leah. Since we were all tangled up in each other, none of us could get up and she scored the goal." Jake grumbled.

"And then your dad found us and told us to stand in the driveway to let the rain wash all of the mud off of us because he didn't have enough clean clothes." I laughed.

"So we all just busted out dancing in the driveway." Seth said laughing. Everyone was laughing and smiling.

"Anyways, when we were finally clean he let us in the house and dry off." I smiled.

"And the winning team got hot chocolate." Embry said licking his lips.

I laughed harder. "Oh yea, that was yummy." I said patting my tummy. Everyone laughed at my expression.

"Good Times." Leah said softly after everyone became quite again.

The silence just wouldn't stop creeping above us. It was like it needed to suffocate us. So I made sure that didn't happen. I talked about more stupid and adventurous things we did as kids which kept the silence far away.

After sharing a few more stories all decided we needed sleep.

Sam stayed with me while everyone else went home.

We cuddled in bed, and I think it was one of the best sleeps in a while.

When day time hit again, Kim, Leah, Emily and I decided to hit the beach.

We had to fill in Emily about everything but she didn't seem to mind. I could tell she was a little disappointed she missed story telling last night, but I re assured her that their would be lots more to come, and Paul would gladly fill her in.

While the girls laid in the sun trying to get a tan (like they needed one. Ha! They were already perfectly tan) I laid there and drew.

I drew Nate and Katie. I drew the ring on Elizabeth's finger, which I happened to notice when she came over, and I made sure to write her name in pretty letters beside that gorgeous hand of hers.

I drew the scene of when Nate was hugging Elizabeth, and the look of love between them.

Drawing them always made my heart soar. Everything about them I loved. They were some of the nicest people I have ever known, and one of the most perfect couples. I still couldn't believe they were going to get married.

It actually made me laugh a little.

When I was younger I remember Nate always saying he wanted to be a terminal bachelor and stay a 'ladies man' as he called it.

So much for that one.

"Hey girls!" the guys called.

I looked up from the sketch pad and saw the rest of the pack coming towards us.

"Hey." I said smiling towards Sam.

Of course they made a grand entrance. They were in triangular formation with Sam in the front. It must have gone by rank, because Jake was beside him and Collin and Brady were in the back. Every one of them had their shirts off and a towel on their shoulder.

"Show offs." I mumbled, knowing everyone would hear me. They all chuckled at my comment and I went back to finishing up my drawings.

Sam came over and slid up close to me.

"Hi." I said looking over my shoulder.

He was laying on his side, very close by me.

"Hey." He said and then leaned in for a kiss.

It ended up being a little more than a kiss. I dropped my pencil and rolled over on my back. One of Sam's hands wrapped around my waist, bringing it closer to him as the other propped himself up to stay that small tiny inch apart.

I could tell he was teasing me. His tongue would skim across my lip and squeeze my hip as I groaned a little. I could feel the edge of my sketchbook against my head as I arched up to Sam.

In the next moment, I felt Sam's hand leave my waist and go above my head. I wondered what he was doing, but didn't stop kissing him.

I felt the presence of my sketchbook leave me, and I quickly looked up to see Jake.

"Payback is a bitch." Sam smirked.

I looked at him shocked and wiggled my way out to get the book back from Jake.

Everyone quickly huddled in a circle with my sketchbook.

"You know you guys can just ask for the book. You don't have to play evil little games." I said looking up at Sam who wrapped his arms around my waist.

He looked down at me smirking and quickly kissed my lips.

"What fun would that be?" he asked.

I rolled my eyes and waited for everyone to be done with the book.

After they were all done looking at it, and I got it back, I went over to my spot and plopped it down on the sand.

"Come on Bells" Embry yelled to me from the water.

I smiled and nodded. I quickly discarded my cover up and ran over to them.

Everyone stopped as I got there.

"What?" I asked self conscious.

Leah whistled. "Damn girl, where did you get that body?"

I blushed.

"Can I get one of those?" she asked again.

I could feel my blush get darker and looked down. I ran my eyes over my dark green bikini top and down to my stomach. I wasn't that shaped. So what, I had like a 5 pack. Sue me!

My swimsuit was a bikini that was dark green. It wasn't anything fancy. The bottoms were the same color; it just had ties at the waist.

After it felt like forever, everyone took their eyes off of me and went back to swimming or splashing people.

I looked over to Sam to see his eyes dark with lust. I gulped.

Before he could come over and do anything, I got hit with cold water from behind.

My backside was completely went. I stiffened as the wind blew by slightly and turned to see who splashed me.

I saw Paul and Collin laughing hysterically a little ways behind me.

I narrowed my eyes at them and conjured up the water. I made a huge tunnel of water above them, almost like a faucet and dropped it above them, right over their heads.

They squealed like little girls and I stood there smiling.

"Pay backs a bitch." I said using Sam's line.

Everyone laughed at them and I swam over to Leah, Kim and Emily who were just treading water and talking.

Emily sighed suddenly.

"Summers practically over." She wailed.

Kim whimpered. "I know. Ugh. It's not fair."

I didn't really mind actually, I mean I would miss the free time with the guys, but its not like its that big of a deal.

I looked over at Leah. She quickly took her eyes off of me, and I noticed how pale she looked all the sudden.

Emily and Kim whined some more and she tried acting tough by rolling her eyes at me.

I knew something was up, but didn't say anything.

After a few minutes, I just listened to Emily, Kim and Leah talk.

It was bothering me at Leah's reaction. Then I remembered their intervention with me.

College. What was I going to do?

Forks had a nice college, it's just, everything they had was nothing I wanted to become. They didn't have anything I would be happy majoring in.

Of course, I didn't tell Sam this.

I only looked on the computer once, and I didn't dare try again.

I felt my stomach drop. I see why they don't want summer to be over- I don't think I want it to end now either.

Hands wrapped around my stomach and pulled me back into someone's warm hard chest.

I looked up to see Sam.

"Hey." He said happily.

"hey." I said with a slight edge.

"You ok?"

I nodded. I took a breath and brushed off the thoughts of the future for another time.

"Yea, what's up?" I asked a little more perky.

He looked at me funny, but dropped the subject.

"We were thinking of heading back to my house and cooking something for dinner."

I patted his hands. "Alrighty. Let's go!"

I raced him back, swimming as fast as I could. I could hear him whine as I pushed little waves towards him. (Hey, no one said I couldn't use my skills!)

I laughed and he suddenly disappeared.

"Sam?!" I called a little worried.

Hands squeezed my legs and I gasped. Sam popped up right in front of me smiling.

I shoved him a little, a hand placed over my heart. "You scared the crap out of me."

"Sorry babe." He apologized sweetly and kissed me.

When we let go of each other, I rolled my eyes. "Race you back to shore!" I yelled getting my head start.

"No cheating this time!" he yelled to me, swimming to catch up.

I ended up winning by like a second. He claims he won, but I think otherwise.

We grabbed our towels and things, and walked back to his house to start the food.