Run➳Jacob Black [Book 1]

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"Dammit!"

Kate had been working for hours with the boys but she wasn't making any progress.

"Chill out, Kate! You've only been doing two weeks. If Paul can't control his temper in that time, I'm pretty sure you can't master this in two weeks," Jared laughed.

Paul punched his arm, "You think you're so funny."

"Enough," Sam barked. The two boys stopped bickering immediately.

"Kate, concentrate," he directed at her.

She threw her hands up in frustration. After two weeks of coming to La Push to practice everyday there was still no progress. She was being stretched thin. The Saturday's with Jacob, Quil, and Embry were the highlight of the week. She and Jacob made progress on the car while Quil and Embry sat in the corner and laughed the whole time. She and the three boys bonded over their Saturday experiences and she soon found herself counting them among her friends. When she told them this, they all made fun of her for choosing rotten friends. She honestly found herself enjoying their company more than anyone else's.

But Saturdays ended far too soon for her and she was forced to face the hell that was her week. In the mornings she would go to school all day then after school she would be picked up at her house by Sam for training.

Billy and Sam stressed to her the importance of being able to fight vampires and wolves and to do that she would need to get stronger. According to tribal history of their siren, he could run almost as fast as a vampire and was almost as strong as one. Sam would push Kate to run around the forest trying to make her go faster and faster but she was still slow even by human standards. Then they would move on to controlling and strengthening her energy. Paul and Jared would come at her in their human and she would have to stop them. She couldn't even stop them at a walking pace. When Sam suggested she try lifting them, she about had a fit and the subject was not brought up for the rest of the week. They would all work sometimes well into the night. She felt like a burden on the pack but Sam kept insisting that she needed to get stronger.

When she got home she would normally do about two hours of homework before Alice would throw a stone up to her window to begin working on her siren's song. This was even worse than the physical training. Alice kept telling her Carlisle's instructions over and over again but she would just get more frustrated. On Wednesday night she flung a pillow at Alice's head but she caught it easily and chided her on her childishness. Kate felt as if she was in a rut and was just hopeless.

"Sam, I am concentrating. It's not my fault I'm going up against human bulls," she complained.

"You hurt me, Princess," Paul put his hand over his heart dramatically. Paul had started calling her that after her freak out over lifting the two boys. It had escalated to the point where he refuses to call her Kate.

Jared laughed and did the same. He put a hand on his chest, the other on his forehead, and staggered around.

Kate had had enough. She growled and waved her hand in front of her. Jared suddenly stopped laughing and toppled forcefully into Paul sending them sprawling on the ground.

"Let's call it a day," Sam sighed, "Why don't you run over to the Black's and see if Jacob is home. I'll take you home around eight."

"Really?" she asked excitedly.

Sam nodded. She let out a whoop of excitement and ran up to kiss Sam on the cheek before running off into the woods towards the Blacks' house. When the familiar red house came to view she sped up and practically jumped up the stairs.

She quit knocking a couple of days ago when Billy told her there was no point to it seeing as she was coming around so often. So she just let herself in. Billy was sitting in front of the TV with Harry Clearwater watching a game. Kate had met Harry last week when Billy wanted to introduce her to the rest of the council, which included Harry and Quil's grandfather Old Quil.