Jacob pulled up to a little red house with a ramp leading to the door and I noticed the car pull in behind us.

"Where are we?" I asked as he climbed out of truck.

"Home," he stated. I began climbing out of truck and asked,

"Yours?" He nodded. "Cool." The rest of the boys began to gather near us.

"Follow us," Sam ordered me. Walking beside Jacob, I followed the boys onto a trail in the woods around Jacob's house. While we were walking I asked,

"So, this whole werewolf thing, how long you been doing that?"

He chuckled at my phrasing. "About six months, I guess."

I was very curious so I continued to pry. "Are you the youngest of the pack, then?"

"Um, no. Embry is actually. I was third to join the pack."

"Oh, why don't we just tell her all our secrets, Jacob," Paul growled, aggravated.

"I'll find out eventually anyway."

"Oh, really? How?"

"My boyfriend's a mind reader."

"We'll that's wonderful," he growled and I shrugged. "I suppose now you're going to tell us that you have an aunt who's a pixie."

"Actually, no. But I do have an aunt in Denali who just loves obnoxious werewolves," I said, only directed at him. Some of the other boys snickered.

I was so distracted that I almost didn't notice our arrival at a large brown cabin that had a large porch with several chairs on it. It was pretty.

"Welcome to the pack house," Said the boy I think was Quil.

"Come on Bella. You can meet fiancée, Emily," Sam said, heading into the cabin. As I walked up to the porch one of the muscular boys stopped me.

"Hey! I'm Embry." He seemed happy.

"Bella."

"Yeah, I know. Look, I just wanted to warn you not stare. It bothers Sam." Huh?

I walked into a large living room which also consisted of lots of seating. I saw a young woman in a blue apron holding a basket of what appeared to be muffins. It wasn't until I saw her face that I understood Embry's comment. Half of Emily's tan have was mauled and scarred with a huge animal print. I tried really hard not to stare. Sam walked up to her and kissed her lovingly with no hesitation. They must really be in love. When she noticed me she separated from him and walked towards me, extending her hand, which I took.

"Hello, I'm Emily. It's nice to meet you." I smiled. Her voice was kind and inviting.

"Hi. I'm Bella."

"Right. The vampire girl." Someone must have called and told her about me on our way over.

I laughed a little. "So, does that make you the wolf girl?"

She chuckled. "I suppose it does!"

I like her. I smiled and she gestured for me to sit so I did. She held the muffin basket out to me.

"Here, have a muffin. There chocolate chip."

"Thanks," I said as I took one gratefully and was glad I did because the moment she sat the basket down almost all of them were gone.

"Oh, you boys are savages," she scolded but yet her voice was still kind. I ate a small piece of muffin as Sam spoke,

"Tell us about your, uh, family." Here was my chance to educate.

"Gladly. Now, all of you think my family is evil, correct?" Most just stared but Paul nodded. "Well you couldn't be more wrong. My family are just about some of the kindest people I've ever met. You see, there not like most other vampires.

"Most other vampires are bloodthirsty and, well, evil. They prey on weak-minded humans mainly. Sometimes to quench there thirst, sometimes for sport, and other times just for fun. My family is not like that though.

"My family made the hard decision to turn away from human blood and you don't understand how hard that is. When a vampire is around humans, especially a new vampire, it's like shoving a hot branding iron down there throats. They crave blood, they need it and the automatic instinct is to hunt humans, but they turned away from it.

"My family strives to be good people and do the right thing and they always succeed. When I was dropped on there doorstep, they took me in and raised me. There's not many humans that would do that.

"Carlisle is a doctor. He spends his entire life saving people not hurting people. His wife, Esme, has a heart of gold and would do anything to help someone in need. My mother, Rosalie, she can be mean sometimes but she always means well. She had her human life taken away by men who brutally attacked her in an ally and left her for dead. She was barely alive when Carlisle fount her. She later saved my Dad, Emmett, from a bear attack. He's one of the funniest guys around.

"Then there's Alice. She sees the future and try to use that to help. She sweet and way too energetic and has a major obsession with fashion. Her husband Jasper fought in the Civil War before having his human life taken away by three evil women vampires that forced him to aid them in vampire wars because he has a talent for being able to read, and change, emotions. They took advantage of him and he is still a really cool guy.

"My boyfriend, Edward, was dying of Spanish Influenza when Carlisle fount him. He's a wonderful man and always has been." My voice became thick as I continued, "My own birth mother became a vampire sometime after I was born and she had to drop me off on a doorstep because the Volturi, the vampire royalty, came after her most likely just because they didn't like her. She is now dead."

No one was eating anymore...