Part of the Pack

Chapter 8

I change into a wolf form to run back, I hear Sam telling me, Paul, and Jared to come back to Emily's. I pick up speed so I feel like a ghost while running, I get there before Jared and Paul. I do a jump shift just to be a show-off, "Show-off," I hear Paul mumble beside me. "Jack ass," I offer him back before I walk into Emily's house. There is someone sitting at the table, a newbie, great. "Sam," I say as I walk over to where Emily is at "Maggy, get over here," he says as a command. "Got Damn it," I mutter as I spin on a heel and shuffle back over to the dining table. I pull out a chair and just drop down in it. "This is, Embry Call the new member to the pack," Sam tells us introducing the boy. I look over at him and he catches my eye, I see flashes, and when they are over I blink. I get up and leave when I am out the door and start to run.

"Maggy," Sam says in my mind "What?" I snarl at him as I stomp around in circles shaking my overly large wolf head. "Come back, please," Same asks me "Emily is worried about you," he adds like that will matter right now. "In a while," I tell him as I start pacing again, I can tell that Sam left again. I take a few deep breaths before I take off sprinting again, I run and run and run until I can't run anymore. 

I look up to snowflakes in the sky, I somehow made it to Alaska. I stay hidden in the trees so that people won't see me. I jog off to a clearing just covered in a blanket of snow, I sit down and marvel at the sky. I must have sitten there for a while because the sky has darkened, I stand up and run off back to La Push.

I change back before I reach the house, Embry is waiting on the front porch. I don't even say anything before I walk up to him and lean my head against his chest. He immediately wraps his arms around me like a safe haven. We walk back inside and sit down on the couch while everyone else is in the dining room. I curl up and lean against him like I am a helium balloon and he is an anchor. 

About a month later I am sitting in my bed next to Embry going through my phone's photos and the ones I had printed out. I stop at a picture of me and Jacob, I am on his back clinging to him, my head on top of his and grinning like an idiot. I jump at the sound of a door slamming, Embry wakes up from his nap. "54!" he says as he jolts up, I can't help myself, I laugh and smile until my cheeks hurt. Embry grumbles, glares at me then walks out with me trail after him still laughing my ass off. I fake wipe tears from my eyes and are still giggling when we get to the dining room, but  I stop when I see Jacob standing in the doorway with Sam. Embry spots him and walks over and pulls him in for a hug "Jake!" he says enthusiastically. I wrap my arms around my middle not even know I did. I can feel the crevices opening again, he finally looks over at me. "Maggy?" he whispers as he walks over to me and pulls me in for a hug. "Jakey," I say with a sigh as I wrap my arms around the boy that is like a brother to me. "So this is what you couldn't explain to me," he says into my hair, I nod my head as he pulls back and grins at me. "Well at least I got my baby sister back," he says as he puts me in a headlock and musses up my hair. I flip out of his headlock and smack him in the back of the head. "Ass," I say to him as I glare at him and start fixing my hair. Once all of us go back to our daily tasks I hear Sam talking to Jacob "You can not tell Bella or anyone," he tells Jake. Who the HELL is Bella? "I'm going out," I tell Emily before I walk out the door to head down to the beach. It doesn't take me long running when I feel the sand filling my shoes. I slip my shoes off and feel the sand between my toes and breath in the clear air. I slowly start to walk towards the water and watch the waves. When I reach the water's edge I fall to my knees and say a silent prayer. I look to the horizon and reach in my pocket and pull out the Galaxy Buds and pop them in again.

Ladies up in here tonight
No fighting
We got the refugees up in here (no fighting)
No fighting
Shakira, Shakira

I never really knew that she could dance like this
She make a man wants to speak Spanish
¿Cómo se llama? (Sí), bonita (sí)
Mi casa, su casa (Shakira, Shakira)

Oh, baby, when you talk like that
You make a woman go mad
So be wise (sí) and keep on (sí)
Reading the signs of my body (uno, dos, tres, cuatro)

I'm on tonight
You know my hips don't lie (no fighting)
And I'm starting to feel it's right
All the attraction, the tension
Don't you see, baby, this is perfection?

Hey, girl, I can see your body moving
And it's driving me crazy
And I didn't have the slightest idea
Until I saw you dancing (yeah)
And when you walk up on the dance floor

Nobody cannot ignore the way you move your body, girl (just move)
And everything so unexpected, the way you right and left it
So you can keep on shaking it (let's go)I never really knew that she could dance like this
She make a man wants to speak Spanish
¿Cómo se llama? (Sí), bonita (sí)
Mi casa, su casa (Shakira, Shakira)

Oh, baby, when you talk like that
You make a woman go mad
So be wise (sí) and keep on (sí)
Reading the signs of my body (no fighting)

I'm on tonight
You know my hips don't lie (no fighting)
And I am starting to feel you, boy
Come on, let's go, real slow
Don't you see, baby, así es perfecto?
They know I am on tonight, my hips don't lie
And I'm starting to feel it's right
All the attraction, the tension
Don't you see, baby, this is perfection? (Shakira, Shakira)

Oh, boy, I can see your body moving
Half animal, half man
I don't, don't really know what I'm doing
But you seem to have a plan
My will and self-restraint
Have come to fail now, fail now
See, I am doing what I can, but I can't so you know
That's a bit too hard to explain (uno, dos, tres, cuatro)Baila en la calle de noche (yeah)
Baila en la calle de día (let's go)
Baila en la calle de noche
Baila en la calle de díaI never really knew that she could dance like this
She make a man wants to speak Spanish
¿Cómo se llama? (Sí), bonita (sí)
Mi casa, su casa (Shakira, Shakira)Oh, baby, when you talk like that
You know you got me hypnotized
So be wise (sí) and keep on (sí)
Reading the signs of my bodySeñorita, feel the conga
Let me see you move like you come from ColombiaYeah (ladies sí) (yeah yeah)
(Hey, yeah)¡Mira en Barranquilla se baila así, say it!
En Barranquilla se baila así (yeah)Hey, brra!

Yeah, she's so sexy, every man's fantasy
A refugee like me back with the Fugees from a third world country
I go back like when 'Pac carried crates for Humpty Humpty
We leave the whole club dizzy
Why the CIA wanna watch us?
Colombians and Haitians
I ain't guilty, it's a musical transaction
Bo bop so bop, no more do we snatch ropes
Refugees run the seas 'cause we own our own boats (no fighting)

I'm on tonight, my hips don't lie
And I'm starting to feel you, boy
Come on, let's go, real slow
Baby, like this is perfecto (no fighting)Oh, you know I'm on tonight, my hips don't lie
And I am starting to feel it's right
The attraction, the tension
Baby, like this is perfectionNo fighting
No fighting

I drift off to the memory of my father's eyes brimmed with tears.