I had such a good time with Embry at the bonfire. We ate, we joked around, and Billy Black even told to really cool legends about their tribe. I thought it was so cool to have such interesting history like that. But sadly at the end of the night he had to take me home.

The next morning woke up around 9:30, and until 10 I just laid there trying to go back to sleep but of course I couldn't. I love sleeping but I never seem to be able to fall back sleep. I got up went downstairs. The house was quiet. Mom and Charlie were away for the weekend so I was all alone. Opening the fridge I grabbed the milk and putting it on the kitchen table, then reaching for a bowl and then the cap'n crunch cereal that I had requested. As I sat at the table in my shorts and t-shirt, I tried to figure what to get into. As I was finishing my cereal I decided to go check out the woods behind the house. So I put the empty bowl in the sink and headed upstairs. I put on a pair of jeans. A long sleeve shirt and jacket, and slipped on my boots, and grabbed my iPod on my way out of my room, and walking out the back door I put my ear phones in and put on "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele.

I was humming the song and semi dancing. Wandering around I realized that the song was on repeat which was just fine. I had no idea how long I had been walking when I saw something that was strange. It was a tree that had a thick gooey substance on the ground. I reached down and touched it, and when I brought my hand back up it was scarlet red. I stared at it in shock almost and stood up when my jacket caught on a branch. I suddenly felt a small amount of stinging on my arm. Looking where the branch was I saw a small trail of blood dripping down my arm collecting on the part of my shirt that wasn't torn. "Damnit" I murmured.

I looked up suddenly at a noise that sounded like leaves crackling. Loud enough to hear over my iPod. My heart began to race, and my breathing quickened. I looked around and in the distance to my left I saw a man standing there. Just looking at me. He had ice white hair, wearing a long sleeve dress shirt, and jeans. He just stood there, and was smiling it seemed. I felt like we were looking at each other for what seemed like forever, but suddenly he moved with such quickness I didn't realize he was almost practically right in front of me. I could feel my heart racing with fear as my eyes seemed to pop out of my head it felt with shock and being scared. He was so pale, and he was grinning at me, his eyes were a scary shade of red, of the color of blood that I found just seconds ago. If it was possibly to be so numbness with fear, it was happening right now. I stepped back but almost lost my balance, but instead of falling the man grabbed me by my shoulders and lifted me up off the ground and pushed against the tree.

I pushed myself to scream but I was so fear struck it felt like my throat was closed shut and dry. I felt helpless, there was no way for me to even prepare for the worse, and I felt a tear fall down my face.

"Aww, don't cry. "He said. He voice was some kind of soothing, but it screamed dangerous. Then he grinned even wider " we are going to play a game" he said , and I don't know what he was going to do to me or what was going to happen, but I saw his mood change in a three second span. It was now of shock and anger all at the same time. His attention turned his right, as a rumble was felt. It almost felt like thunder, but when I looked in his direction I realized that it was not thunder. There in front of us stood a massive gray wolf.

I could feel the man tighten his grip, which caused me to squeal at the pain. It felt like my bones were crushed and I could feel the bruising already, more tears ran down my face as I bit my lip and began to cry out more. I didn't want to die, not today. I could feel the rumbling again only this time more pronounced and echoing? I looked back at the wolf and now there were more. They basically had us surrounded on one side. Instantly I fell from the height the ghostly man had I held, landing scratching my hand as I landed? Within seconds I felt pounding on the ground, and growling. The wolves were running towards me. I rolled into a ball , how I thought that would help me from the pain I thought was going to come I don't know, but it never. Then I heard it fade into the distance. I slowly peeked out through my fingers to see one of the wolves was still there. I looked at it scared almost to move. Then it gave a sigh almost and I moved back it fear. Wolves were not this big, but I realized that it was that very first wolf that I saw, and it just looked at me.

Suddenly there was a noise from the direction the man and the other wolves had run to. The wolf in front of me turned to look in that direction and I used this small space of time to make a break for it. I jumped up and started to run. Run in the direction of the house. I tripped several times, but I never looked back. I was crying now, I could feel my chest tighten up, and I almost screamed when I saw the house through the trees. Then I heard a howl, and I ran faster, right to that door, it seemed so far away.

Finally I reached the door and flung it opened and locked it quickly running through the living room and up to my room shutting the door and grabbing my cell phone and hiding in my closet. I wanted to break down and just cry. I opened my phone, but then I heard the door open. I froze. Was the front door locked? I wanted to cry, I thought this was all over! Then I heard thumping footsteps coming up the stairs. I pushed myself farther behind my clothes, and clutched my phone holding back tears. I could feel my door open and the floor boards creaking as they entered the room.

Peeking through my clothes, I couldn't move quicker. What I saw made me relief. I pushed through clothes to get up when my closet doors swung open, and I was face to face with Embry. I let out a laugh/cry at the sight of him. In an instant he leaned down and swiftly picked me up off the floor and embraced me, tightly. Though I was having trouble breathing I held on for dear life, I wasn't letting go for nothing!

"Embry," I said my voice cracking, and I could feel him sigh and breathe into my neck, and it sent shivers down my body. "I'm so scared." I said but then realized something. 1. How did Embry get into my house, and 2? What the hell just happened in the woods?

I pulled away from Embry just looking up at him. Somehow it looked like he was slightly hurt at me pulling away. I felt cold on my arm and I realized that I had a cut on my arm, and I felt the bruising on my shoulders now as I made a sudden movement. I winced at the pain.

"That son of a bitch!" I heard Embry mutter to himself. I stared at Embry in shock. He was shaking furiously with his eyes closed. His hands clenched together

"Embry! You're scaring me." I said wanting to help him, but didn't know how. " Embry." I said his name again and he seemed to calm down, and opened his eyes back open.

"It's my entire fault." He said running his hand through hair.

I looked at him confused "your entire fault?"

"That you were attacked. I should have been with you! Protecting you!" he said now pacing my room.

"What are you talking about?" I asked stepping toward him and he stopped and looked at me. After a second he spoke up.

"Do you remember last night? At the bonfire, the stories that Billy was telling?" I shook my head that I did. "They aren't stories Jenny," his mood seemed to change to being somewhat relaxed "they are real. Every bit is real. The shape shifting, imprinting, the cold ones." He said the last part and looked me straight in the eyes.

The image of the man grinning at me in the woods came to mind but I just looked back at Embry, trying to understand what it all meant. "Embry, you can't be serious. I just got attacked, and you are talking about legends." I said looking into his eyes.

"But don't you seem. It has everything to do with you being attacked."

"That make believe, it doesn't exist. Embry it's not real, they are just stories."

He sighed and covered his face. "No, Jenny. It's real. All of it. That thing could have killed you in a second. I should have been protecting you."

I sat on the bed now taking everything in. if all he was saying was true then the man in the woods was a vampire, Embry was a big massive werewolf, and I was his imprint. The last thought I realized what that meant. I looked up at Embry and he looked at me and gave me a smirk as if he could read my mind or something. "This is all so much to take in, how is it possible?" I asked as he knelt down to be face to face with me.

"I don't know how it possible that we exist but we do." He said with a straight face.

"And the imprinting," I said waiting for him to respond. He just looked at me. ", is that real to?" I asked him. Still he didn't answer. "Have you…?" He nodded. I felt joy for a second but what if it wasn't me; I would look like a freaking idiot. "Oh, well anyone I know?" I seemed too asked almost afraid of the answer. He looked at me and as I looked back it was the same brown eyes that they gray wolf had back in the woods. Embry reached up and touched the side of my cheek.

"Jenny if something would have happened to you back in those woods, I, I don't know what I would have done. Since I've meet you, as cheesy and chick flick as it may seem, I felt complete." I just stared at him as he spoke. "Call it nature but Jenny, "he paused, and I think I stopped breathing. " I'm crazy in love with you." I gave a sigh of relief and looked at him and smiled.

"Good thing then." I said not knowing what else to say. He smiled back and began to lean in a little. I stopped breathing again, but stood still. He cupped my cheek in his hand and with the other wiped a piece of hair out of my face. I couldn't help smiling into his hand and suddenly are lips crashed and it was an amazing feeling.