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~*Break*~

Josy P.O.V.

My alarm clock woke me up with a jolt. Ugh, it was Tuesday. I still felt a little sick, like there was a rock stuck in my throat and more in my stomach. I rolled over and looked at the blood red letters on my clock and shut my eyes tighter. I was not going to school. As soon as I made that resolution my cell phone went off, blaring some My Chem song that I couldn't remember the name of at the moment.

I picked it up off of my nightstand, where it lay next to my stupid alarm clock. It was Kim. I sighed and flipped it open. Before I even put it to my ear I could hear Kim on the other end yelling at me. I set it down and let her rant for a solid three minutes. Three. I loved the girl, and she was my best friend (especially since all my other friends hadn't talked to me since I had moved) so don't get me wrong. But she was insane when she was upset.

One day, Jared hadn't been at school, so she assumed that a bus had hit him and that she was going to die alone. I didn't even try to console her on that one. I'd since gotten used to her crazy – or as used to it as you could get – and learned to deal with it from a distance.

I picked up my phone again when I heard it quiet down on the other end. "Kim," I started to say, but she interrupted me to rant some more.

"Where were you? I was so worried it's not even funny." I closed my eyes and prepared myself for a verbal assault, the likes of which had never been seen on our planet. "Seth was all pale and weird looking, your brother wasn't there, and I couldn't get any of the guys to tell me anything! Other than 'she's sick', do you know how that made me feel?" I shook my head, knowing she couldn't hear me. "It made me feel out of the loop! You're my best friend – besides Ariel of course – you should tell me these things!" I sighed deeply as I heard her take a huge breath before continuing. "I'm coming over to your house after school, and Sethy-kins -or whatever you're calling him these days – can't stop me this time!" She hung up the phone with a slight crash and I stuck mine in a random drawer in my nightstand. I didn't wanna deal with the world. And Sethy-kins? Where the heck did that come from?

I rolled over to face my door and contemplated our – I mean, her conversation. What the heck was she after, anyway? Seth was cute, and nice…and hot. So hot that I kind of wanted to lick his ab – okay, never mind. He was a friend, a very nice and caring friend that visited me when I was sick, and visited me when I hadn't showered in two days.

I rolled onto my back and stared at the ceiling that was covered with a little kid's glow-in-the-dark stars that I had yet to take off. They were kind of reassuring at night, especially when it go so dark that I couldn't see my own hand in front of my face. My alarm clock blared in my ear again, so I hit snooze with all the force my weak body could muster, and the numbers on the clock wavered a bit. My eyes snapped all the way open and paid attention to the little clock, I looked at my hand and blinked. That had never happened before, I had never had that strength. Even if I was sick and weak…I was strong.

I shook my head and sat up, my stomach had started to hurt after laying down for so long. I sat against my headboard and thought about my newfound strength. I had never been very physically strong in my upper-body, I was a runner and I didn't feel the need to lift any weights with my arms. I always did squats with the bar on my shoulders, and I did dead lifts too, but I hadn't ever almost crushed my clock. Ever.

It was something new.

Something I had never experienced.

I kind of liked it.

I finally swung my legs over the edge of my bed and hopped out to face the window. I shut my curtains to get dressed – even though I didn't face the street, I didn't want the chance of anyone sneaking a peek. I ransacked my drawers and closet for something to wear, and I couldn't find much. Only my back-up pair of jeans, a few dresses, and a lot of t-shirts that the weather wouldn't allow me to wear. I eventually found a ratty old sweatshirt with a red lion emblazoned on the front and I pulled on my back-up jeans. I was feeling – surprisingly – one hundred percent better than I had the night before, and even when I had woken up.

I grabbed a pair of my socks and my dusty black vans, I put on the socks and proceeded out my door to the kitchen. My dad was already at work, he had left a small, neon yellow post-it note on the kitchen counter.

It read:

Josy,

I called the school already and told them that you weren't coming,

Your brother has already left for school. I'll be home around two to

Give you some soup. Love you.

Dad

I smiled, but his chicken scratch was barely legible to my eyes. I looked towards the ceiling, remembering all the notes he and my mom would put in our lunches. Mom even put one in my sandwich once…I accidentally ate the corner of it. Not the greatest memory ever, but I felt loved nonetheless.

I put on my shoes, grabbed an apple, and headed out to the garage where my bike was. It seemed like I was using it a lot lately. I opened the side door of the garage and towed my bike outside where I still had to go through a gate. As soon as I undid the lock, the neighbor's dog started barking. I hung my head and sighed, then I leaned down and picked up a dirt clod that was in the grass.

I got a grip on it and threw it over the wall, I heard it hit something and the dog barked a little more then ran off. I hoped I scared it enough that it didn't bark at me again. I opened up the gate and rolled my bike through, then closed and locked the door behind me.

I hopped on my bike – my tailbone not hurting anymore, oddly enough – and pedaled down my drive way and into the street. I headed down towards the La Push city library, if I didn't find anything helpful there, I'd just have to go to the Forks city library. And if that didn't work I'd find something online or at one of the bigger Clallam County libraries.

I pedaled hard down the street, not even breaking a sweat; my muscles worked and didn't get tired, even though the library was five miles away. It took me barely ten minutes to get to my destination, and even less to get to the section I needed. It was all about the legends of the Quileute tribe and those surrounding it.

I grabbed a random book, hoping it would contain something that would help me. I opened it up and the first page had a picture of a wolf on it, it was reddish brown and kind of looked like an Ethiopian wolf.

Almost like a fox. Next to it was a legend titled "The Spirit Wolves", I turned the page and found another legend next to a picture of the ocean named "The Cold Ones". I knew all these legends, I knew the legend of the spirit wolves. Of Taha Aki and the third wife. It was what I was raised on, it was what I was put to bed to, and I never put too much stock into it.

I believed that the wolf was a spirit companion for many of our tribe, but I never believed that someone could turn into a wolf. It was crazy-talk, a man couldn't transform into an animal. It was preposterous.

Or was it? I contemplated this some more as I heard footsteps coming towards my aisle. I jumped and shut the book, trying to make it look like I wasn't doing anything. I pushed it back onto a shelf as a man blocked the aisle way. I looked over, and he looked like a young, very stern version of my Uncle Billy. I looked around and tried to find another way of escape, but the aisle I was in was backed to a wall.

"Um, hi?" I said meekly. He smiled a little bit, still managing to look stern.

"Hi, Josephine, I'm Sam," He stuck his hand out at me, I grabbed it and shook it up and down as we stared at each other. "You met me at the bonfire very briefly, I don't think you even got my name." I shook my head, still not remembering our meeting.

"I remember a little bit, but it was kind of dark," I fibbed and laughed nervously.

"Yeah, it was," he smiled. "I think you should be in school, right?" I smiled and shook my head.

"I shouldn't be anywhere near people, but I needed to come to the library for research real quick." I smiled nervously again, and tried not to look guilty. Or crazy. Or both, as I did most of the time.

"Research on children's stories?" He smiled and raised his eyebrows. "I didn't know high school students did research on that."

"It's for a paper, I'm supposed to draw parallels between the stories and the real world. How they're similar and what not…" I trailed off quietly. "Well, Sam, it was really nice meeting you again, but I have to go." I tried to duck under his right arm that was propped up against the book shelf, but he caught my arm and looked directly into my eyes with his black ones.

"Just remember, Josephine, you shouldn't get into a mess that you can't get out of." He let me go and walked away, leaving me confused by his cryptic words. I shook off the feeling that I was still being watched, and took off out of the library and got onto my bike.

As soon as I hopped on, my body started to tremble and hurt. I ignored the pain in my spine and joints and got onto my bike, feeling the urge to go into the woods on the other side of town.

My flu was coming back with a vengeance, I really wasn't feeling good. I pedaled harder than I had ever in my life and made it to the woods. As soon as I crossed the threshold of the woods, I got extremely hot. I shucked the ratty hoody, my shoes and socks, as well as my jeans. I hadn't put on a bra, so that didn't matter.

I had no idea why I was taking off my clothes, but I was too hot to care. All of a sudden my body started to change before my eyes, my fingers got longer and I could feel all of my joints popping out of place, and my bones felt like they were lengthening. It was so painful that tears were rolling down my face and I couldn't control it. All of a sudden I burst into body covered with fur and heard disembodied voices. What was happening to me?

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