Leah sat down on a rock on La Push Beach. She was a freshman, and this was her senior boyfriend's party. He had ditched her. His name was Brad Uley. They had been dating for a few months, but she knew he had been cheating on her since day one. She was hoping he would stop the nonsense of cheating on her. She thought he would realize that she was lovable too and she felt as though she wasn't good enough for him, that's why he was cheating. Her self-esteem was going down more day by day. He always lied to her. She had introduced him to her parents, but he wouldn't take her to his house at all. He promised he talked about her a lot and his family already knew who she was.

Currently, he was off somewhere farther up the beach with his "friends". Leah knew them as the sluts of the school. She curled up in a ball on the rock she was sitting on, and figuring she was alone let herself cry. She felt a tap on her shoulder after a few minutes, and a guy that resembled Brad some was standing above her looking concerned. When he saw her face he squeaked out, "Hey, are you alright?" Leah just shook her head. The guy frowned and sat down on the rock next to the one she was on. "Then what's wrong? "

Leah looked up at him, realizing how gorgeous he was. He reminded her of Brad in a way, but he was better than Brad in every way she could think of. His eyes were slightly darker than a chocolate brown, and they were sparkling with concern. Concern for ME! She caught herself thinking happily, she stopped quickly. What? You're going to fall for another guy at your boyfriend's party? She scolded herself. Whatever, he doesn't care, it's time to break it off anyway, and he's been cheating since the first day he asked me out.

"What's wrong?" The mysterious stranger repeated. Leah shook off her mind babbling.

"Just, my boyfriend, he's been cheating on me since the day we started dating, and he invited me to this stupid party of his. He's probably up the beach making out with one of those sluts right now…" Her voice cut off and she looked down.

"Oh, my brother, figures, he's such a jerk when it comes to treating girls. Surprised he's cheating on you though, actually I'm surprised he hasn't even mentioned to us that he has such a beautiful girlfriend." Leah blushed, which caused the stranger to smile. She sat up and wiped the tears away and looked at him. He looked down at her. "I can go kick his ass for you, you are free to watch."

She giggled lightly. "So he has a brother? He lied to me again, not that it's a surprise… he said he didn't have any siblings. So….." she started to ask timidly. "What's your name?"

He looked at her. "He tends to tell people that. I am his only sibling, but since he tends to date younger girls, I guess he figures I would snatch them up better than him. I'm two years younger than him." When she asked what his name was he frowned. "Sorry how rude of me! My name is Samuel Uley; though most just call me Sam..." Sam looked at her. "So, what's your name cutie?"

"Oh, my name's Leah, Leah Clearwater. Nice to meet you, Sam." She smiled. Sam and Leah talked about everything and nothing for the rest of the night, sitting around a fire, after traveling up a little toward where Brad and his friends were.

Later, Brad came down the beach to find where his girlfriend had gone. When he saw Leah and Sam laughing and smiling and talking to each other, he flipped out. "Sam, what the hell are you doing with MY girlfriend!?" He asked possessively, pulling Leah off her feet and pulling her to him, and kissing her on the lips, being a little showy.

Leah pulled away angrily. "YOUR girlfriend, huh? We're over Brad. There's been too much cheating and you don't care about me. I'm done telling myself that you do! Sam saw me and didn't even KNOW me and wanted to COMFORT me. Your brother didn't even know you had a girlfriend and I didn't even know you had a brother!" She smacked Brad across the face and ran off.

Sam watched Leah run off then he looked at his brother, who was staring angrily at him. "Hey, you really hurt her, and you really need to learn how to tell a girl the truth. She was crying. She's actually really nice and very beautiful, I'm glad she dumped you."

Brad was fuming at this point. "What? You think you are going to make her happier than I did?"

Sam shrugged. "I don't know, I'm going to let her make the first move though, she will probably be hurt for a little while because of how much of a jerk you are." Sam glared at him. "Now, I'm going to go home, Mom's probably worried." With that Sam walked off into the darkness, leaving a still fuming and shocked Brad alone on the beach.

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