So sorry that it's been so long. Long distance relationships really do fucking suck and so does high school. I think I'm just going to wrap this up in maybe two or three chapters. I don't really know where to really take this story to be honest. And to be even more honest I don't know if I will wrap this up soon.

As we silently trudged back to the house, shoulder to shoulder Emma kept her eyes away from my general direction. It hurt like a bitch to see her ignoring my presence, but I deserved it.

After we had finally let go of each other at the lighthouse she had suggested that we head back to the house. I silently agreed and shoved my hands into the front pocket of the hoodie I was wearing to keep them from reaching out to her.

"My hoodie looks really good on you." She said softly, breaking the silence. She cast a sideways glance at me, letting me see a hint of the smile that I loved and missed so damn much. I nodded my head in embarrassment, I didn't think she would notice that it was her hoodie.

"I've fallen in love with your hoodies and have been wearing them a lot lately." I whispered to her. I was already caught wearing one, why not just own up to the fact that I wear them all? She'll smell me all over her clothes when she gets home anyways.

She looked at me for a long few second, a slight smile on her face before it turned thoughtful.

"I know that you have a bunch shit load of questions for me." She said, stopping suddenly and turning towards me. "But can you wait and hear the answers to them with the rest of the family?" She asked me, with a hopeful look in her eyes. "Of course, but I think that we do need to speak privately."

She nodded her head saying, "Can we wait until after the family has interrogated me and vowed to never let me out of the house again?" I grinned at her and nodded my head. Her sense of humor was back or was still there.

I studied her for a minute before we started walking again. She looked older than she was. More mature.

Her face had thinned out, proof that she hadn't eaten in a while. She was standing taller than I had ever seen her before, confidence giving her a good posture and carrying her well defined muscles. Her eyes were darker due to the lack of blood in her diet.

But they weren't just dark from the lack of blood. They held the edge of maturity. The sparkle of adolescence was gone, replaced by a sharpness that proved that she had seen and gone through a lot. The mischievous sparkle that she had inherited from Alice was still present, a little dull at the moment, but still there.

When we arrived at the house just about the whole family was present except for Edward and Bella. They were more than likely at their cottage break the newest bed they had gotten this month.

After everyone had welcomed her back home with hugs and kisses. Emmett of course had cracked a joke about me being an emo kid since she's been gone. She gave me a stern look that clearly said that we'd be talking about it very soon.

"Where the hell have you been?" Leah asked after everyone got situated. Leah and Alice were cuddled up close to Emma, Kate sitting on the floor next to her sister's feet, on the couch while I sat in the armchair close them.

Emma ran a hand through her hair and let out a breath. "I went to Canada and stayed there for a few weeks. Kate was with and decided to be stubborn and stay on my tail the whole time." She said, giving Kate a gentle kick in the back. "You're my sister I'd never leave you, dumbass. I would have still been with you three weeks ago if I hadn't have lost you along the border of Mexico." Kate replied, slapping Emma's leg.

"So you've been basically traveling the country on foot for three months?" Nessie, deadpanned. Emmett bounced the leg that she was sitting on hard enough to where she almost fell off of her perch on his knee. "She's part wolf, dork. She wasn't traveling on foot, she was traveling on paw." He said, with a grin.

"Babe, did you forget that I'm part wolf too?" Kate said, unimpressed by imprint's humor for once. Emmett gave her a sheepish grin and then did a decent impression of a little boy who had just been caught sneaking goodies before dinner.

Emma rolled her eyes at her family's dynamics. "I have been traveling on foot this whole time. I stuck to the woodsy areas. I think I did get spotted by a hiker at Yellowstone Park, though. I'm pretty sure that he just thought that I was like a bear or something, he was squinting really hard. I couldn't stay away, I missed you guys too much, so I came back." She ended her story, a soft look on her face.

Her look changed to thoughtful as she looked at Alice. "Mama, you're just as surprised as everyone else that I'm here. Weren't you looking into my future and watching my decisions?" She asked.

Alice took Emma's hand and squeezed it slightly before saying, "I wanted to give you your space. We both know that if I seen where you were I would have drove like a bat out of hell to get you and bring you home. I was watching your future, but I was only looking for life threatening situations. I saw you at Yellowstone and you're right that hiker did think you were a bear."

We stayed with the family for a little while longer, everyone catching her up on what had been happening since she was gone. It reminded me of when I had first came back and Alice was catching me up. Everyone soon left leaving the twins, Alice, Leah, and I. Emma stood up and held out her hand to me, ignoring Leah's questions and lead me upstairs to our room.

She stood with her back on the shut door, facing me after we had made it inside. She looked at me as a predator would look at it's next meal.

Her eyes, full of hunger and her heartbeat strong and loud. "I know that we've got a lot of things to talk about but I just really wanna feel you right now." Her voice husky, and full of lust, want, and need.

I felt my knees shake as she strutted across the floor and crushed her lips to mine. It should have hurt, but it didn't it was soft and full of love. The little nips that she showered upon my neck would have made my heart stuttered if it could still beat.

She led me to the bed and gently laid me down. Her hands slid her hoodie off of me and attached her lips the parts of my chest that were exposed due to my tank top. She pulled back and gave me a sly grin before slowly sliding her hands under my shirt and over my ribcage.

I leaned my head back, knowing that this was going to be a very long night.

"Come Kate you throw like a wimpy chick!" Emma yelled at her twin from the other side of the beach. Emma has been back for three weeks and in that time she hasn't shifted once. When asked she just simply stated that she was a wolf for three months, the wolf was sedated at least for a little while.

Kate looked at over her shoulder to where the family was, seeing that none of the adults were looking at them she promptly flicked her sister off. Emma just laughed at her twin's antics easily catching the football that Kate hawked at her.

We were all on the pack's section of the beach, enjoying the warm weather. It was pretty funny to see all the guys, including Leah, argue over how to best grill burgers on the little portable grill they had set up.

"I think this is where we'll always going to end up on these outings." Esme, said to the rest of the us, girls as we lounged in our chairs in the sun. Alice and Bella hummed their agreement.

I watched Emma laughing at Nessie's throwing ability before nodding my head. This is where I belonged and I couldn't believe that I had once doubted it.