Discover Twilight

chapter xviii

Sam walks toward me with his hand out. Embry and Jared looked at me, astonished and confused as if I was the one who had just burst into a gigantic wolf. I laugh to myself but my laugh doesn't sound the same, more like a bark. Sam walks to me and lightly touches my face, "Kota, I need you to calm down. You've just Phased. Take a deep breath and imagine your human body again."

I feel my body shrink down to normal size only to be stark naked. Sam starts after the two boys that went off fighting in the woods, kicking off his shoes. Sam looks back over his shoulder looking at Jared and Embry, "Get Kota some clothes. Take them to Emily's place."

Sam disappears leaving us four to stare at each other. I look to my feet and see that somehow my jeans stayed in tact enough to cover me. I pull those on and my hoodie as Embry laughs, "Guess the wolf's out of the bag."

I look down at my bare feet and chuckle. Damn those were my favorite sneakers. Bella sits on the ground staring at me, looking as though she's gonna hurl at any second. Wait if I just turned into a wolf, does that mean when Jake said she was close with the "bloodsuckers" he meant that Cullen was a vampire? Well fuck that makes so much more sense. I blow a stray curl from my eyes as Embry and Jared half carry Bella to the truck. I toss Embry the keys, "Here. I'm still too shocked and angry to drive. Wouldn't want me to wolf out on road rage."

Jared laughs at my feeble attempt at a joke, hopping into the bed of the truck with me. I feel the rumble of the engine and the unevenness of the La Push roads as Embry cruises along the path toward my brother's home. Embry pulls the truck up to Sam's weathered house with a new window box full of marigolds. Jared jumps out and opens Bella's door.

He and Embry head toward the house with me slowly following behind them twiddling with the hem of my jacket but Bella doesn't move. Embry looks to his slightly shorter friend smirking, "Pay up. She didn't puke."

I laugh finally understanding why Jared kept mumbling to himself about someone puking and he, annoyed that he lost, hands Embry five bucks. Embry happily takes Jared's money lifting it up so the rising sun can catch it, "Told you she was tough. She does run with bloodsuckers."

At the mention of "bloodsuckers" a low growl escapes my throat, making my temperature rise, the two boys, however, find my uncontrollable reaction funny. Bella looks frantically between us and back in the direction we came, "Wait. We should go back, make sure Jacob's okay."

A part of me knew that Jake was okay, intuition I guess, but the other part of me wanted to check on him as his best friend. Jared's low husky voice scoffs, "I hope Paul gets some teeth in him. Serve him right."

I growl at him stepping to him, making our chests touch and I could feel his breath on my nose, "You want teeth? I'll show you teeth. This isn't Jake's fault. If anything it's your oh so great leader who fucking shut me out for months so I came looking for answers."

Embry gently grabs my shoulders and pulls my small body to his to remove me from Jared, not wanting me to phase again. Embry looked down at me, giving me a mischievous wink, chuckling, "No way. Jake's a natural. You see him phase on the fly? I gotta fiver says Paul doesn't touch him."

Jared looks at me, instantly forgetting I wanted to tear into him less than 15 seconds ago, "Easy money. Paul's been at it longer."

Bella looks at them appalled. Hell if I hadn't just turned into a gigantic wolf I would too but somehow this banter seems normal for me, or maybe it's because I grew up around guys and on the soccer field so betting and fights seem normal to me. My whatever I'm supposed to call guys who also turn into unnatural big ass wolves, continue into Sam's home not realizing Bella's not following them. I slowly walk up to her, not wanting to scare her, and throw my arm around her shoulders, "Come on. They won't bite."