Disclaimer: I don't own the Twilight Saga, only my original characters (Astoria, Ezra, Asher, Gideon, Tobias, Dr. Reed, and Evan). Enjoy!

Chapter One

Change never scared Astoria Reed, but when her father decided to move their family from the bustling city of New York to La Push after almost a year of their mother's passing, she had a gut feeling that things will be different from thereon.

Her eyes wandered around the vast forest that surrounded their late paternal grandparents' home — a newly-renovated two-story house that leads to the beach on one side, overlooking the sea, and a high canopy of trees at the other.

"Isn't it breathtaking?" her eldest brother, Ezra, commented with a smile as he looked around before landing his gaze on her.

Astoria nodded, "Yeah, the last time I saw these many trees was at Central Park."

"It feels weird to be back here after years of not visiting since grams and gramps passed," Gideon added.

An arm wrapped around Astoria's shoulders, causing her to look away from the view, "Hey, this move will be good for us, especially for Tobias. The kid needs it the most," Asher — Gideon's fraternal twin — chuckled.

"You know that I can hear you guys, right? I'm just behind you," Tobias glared at his older siblings and shoved Gideon to the side while carrying a suitcase and headed inside.

After their mother passed last year and then with Ezra moving out for college, the siblings unknowingly started to slowly drift apart and add the fact that their youngest was currently going through what Astoria called — "a phase" — because of Tobias' constant mood swings and topping it off with the occasional rebellious acts, which caused their father to take this as an opportunity to move their family from the city to a new environment after getting a job as a resident doctor at the Forks Community Hospital. But Astoria knew the real reason why their father had insisted on moving them to a small community: to bring them all closer again together and for their youngest's own sake as well.

"I could use a little help here!" Tobias called out as he went back out of the house to get more boxes from their car. All the older siblings shuffled out and began helping the youngest with all their suitcases.

"Dibs on the room with the best beach view!" Asher hollered, grabbing some of the suitcases and ran inside.

Laughter can be heard from inside the house, causing a group of people who were nearby beachfront to draw their attention towards the house where the noises were coming from.

"Did somebody move into Old Carl Reed's house?" Quil asked, his eyes fixated towards the only house on the beach before turning back to the pack.

"Yeah, apparently his only son moved in with his kids from New York after his wife passed," Embry answered. "Also, from what I heard, Dr. Reed has five kids: four of them are adopted and only one biological," he added.

"And you know this because...?" Sam — the oldest of their group and alpha of their pack — asked, raising a brow towards the younger boy.

"I overheard my mom and some old ladies at the rez talking about it just this morning," Embry admitted with a sheepish grin.

"What else do you not know?" Seth chuckled, shaking his head as he got up and was about to join the others who were playing soccer but halted when a scream was heard coming from the beach house.

Paul narrowed eyes, "What in the hell was that?"

Before someone could even answer him, a young man with brunette hair ran out of the said house towards the beach with a horrified expression on his face.

"Gideon! Stop screaming like a girl and just throw this damn bug!" Another young man with slightly the same features as the first one followed after him while holding what looks an ordinary bug in his hand.

"It's a bug, Asher! That fucking thing might be poisonous for all we know!" the one called Gideon retorted, waving his hands around while desperately trying to make a point.

"House bugs aren't even poisonous, stupid," a third person joined the argument, this time a younger boy with completely different features than the first two boys.

"Shut up, Tobias! If I get poisoned by that bug and then die unexpectedly, I will visit you and haunt you in your sleep!" Gideon shot back.

Tobias rolled his eyes in response, "I'm so scared," he answered sarcastically.

The pack was watching the whole thing with amused and confused expressions on their faces.

Paul smirked, "This whole fuss because of a bug?" He turned to Jared who just laughed then chucked the soccer ball towards him.

The arguing suddenly stopped when another voice interrupted the whole thing.

"You dumbasses are being ridiculous right now. Look! You already gathered an audience because of this whole damn thing," the owner of the voice — a black-haired young man who looked a lot like the first two guys but slightly older — shot each of them glare at them while motioning towards the pack who were still watching them as he descended the stairs.

The three guys looked towards where the black-haired one was motioning at and their eyes widened.

"Oh, you idiots are in trouble now," a voice like an evening tryst spoke out of nowhere.

Paul turned towards where the voice came from, he froze and felt like his world stopped as his gaze landed on the brunette girl leaning against the staircase rail.

He watched her closely as she walked towards the one named Asher and took the bug from him then threw it towards Gideon guy who ran to hide behind his twin brother. Her actions made him burst out laughing, causing Jared to look at him weirdly.

Shit, did I just? He thought after realizing what just happened then making a mental note to talk to Sam later before his patrol starts. Paul began feeling a pull towards the brunette girl who was now walking towards them, along with her black haired brother.

"Hey, man, you okay?" Jared asked, nudging him while looking back and forth at the unknown girl then at his friend.

"Yeah, just spaced out for a bit," Paul answered, trying his best to lie but he knew the others would find out about it later after phasing. Fucking wolf genes, he cursed in his head.

"Sorry about all the noise. These idiots don't know how to contain themselves most of the time," the black-haired young man walked up to Sam, smiling apologetically.

"No worries, I can somehow relate with all that," Sam chuckled. "You guys must be Old Carl Reed's grandkids, I'm Sam Uley," he added, offering a hand towards the newcomer.

"Oh yeah, I think I remember dad mentioning you before. I'm Ezra Reed, the eldest out of these weird Brady-bunch," Ezra replied, shaking Sam's hand firmly. "Those rascals are my younger brothers, Gideon, Asher, and Tobias," he pointed at the guys behind him who were now trying to wrestle each other then turned to the girl who suddenly introduced herself instead.

"Astoria Reed, the unfortunate girl who won the lottery of having these stupid idiots for brothers," she joked, chuckling softly then her gaze landed at Paul who was still staring at her with a curious yet longing look in his eyes. She tilted her head, blinking back at him and flashed him a small smile.

Astoria knew she was supposed to feel uncomfortable but weirdly enough, that feeling never came. Something about the look in his eyes made her curious as to what mystery lies in his gaze.

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