Scars never heal
Hey guys! I had an idea for a story so I wrote it down and it has got me here. This story is really close to me because something like this happened to me. (You'll find out in chapter 2)
I'd like to thank my friends who listen to all my story ideas. I love you guys so much!
Well here it is...
Walking down the corridor on that first day scared the hell out of me. I was never good at meeting new people I was always afraid they would stare and ask questions. I know people tell me all the time they can't notice it but that's because they have been around me my whole life, their used to it.
I had been forced to come here by my mum after her and my dad split up. Mum was from La Push, a small Native American reserve and Dad was from Seattle so after their divorce they both moved back to their home towns.
So here I am moved from my home in Atlanta away from all my friends to La push where I literally know no one. Though it was my choice to live with Mum we had always stood by each other so when we found out my Dad cheated, I knew immediately knew who I would stand by. My older brother, Mason stayed with Mum too. Even though he and Dad were close he didn't like what Dad had done to Mum.
Extremely tanned bodies busted in and around me, at least I didn't stand out that much. I had my Mum's skin colour a beautiful bronze, my brother's skin was a little lighter, taking after Dad a bit more.
My first lesson was history. Great! This was going to be extremely boring. I was running late as I walked in after the bell. I had a bit of trouble trying to find the room. I felt everyone's eyes on me as I walked up to the teacher, Mr Greene and handed him the blue slip the office had given me.
"Everyone this is Annabelle, she has just moved here from Atlanta. I trust you'll all make her feel very welcome."
He turned to look at me.
"There is an empty seat in the back."
I looked up and everyone had a small and welcoming smile on their lips. This made feel a bit better as I walked down the aisle to my seat. I pretty much looked at the floor the whole way down the aisle then as I sat in my seat I got my books out and looked straight ahead.
"Hi" I heard a deep voice say.
I turned to see a very tall and handsome guy sitting next to me. I'm sure he was my age or a little older but he looked at least 20.
"Uh Hi" I replied.
"I'm Jake." He said as he reached out his hand.
I shook it and nodded. He already knew my name, obviously because it was said out loud. I noticed he hadn't started staring which was a good thing maybe he didn't notice. I did have concealer and foundation on today with my hair down.
"So how do you like La Push so far?" he asked.
"It's alright, much smaller and colder than where I used to live."
"Yeah I bet it would be. Where did you live in Atlanta?"
"Georgia." I replied.
"Okay big change then."
"Yeah it's all a bit of a blur at the moment." I answered truthfully.
"So what made you move?"
I was quiet for a while before almost whispering.
"My parents got a divorce."
Jake looked at me sympathetically.
"I'm sorry." Was all he could say before Mr Greene's voice startled us,
"Mr Black, I respect your trying to welcome our new student but could you please keep your conversation to after class."
We were both quiet after that until the end of the lesson, as the bell rang I got up and put my books in my bag before I started to leave for my next class. I felt a warm hand grab my arm before I walked. I turned around and found Jake standing behind me.
"So what do you have next?" Jake asked.
"Culinary Science. You?"
"Nice. Uh Math." He said while pulling a face which made me laugh.
I liked Jake, he was good company.
"Well I better go." I said but before I could walk off Jake asked,
"Hey do you want to sit with me and my friends at lunch? I can't have you being alone on your first day."
"Uh sure, I'll see ya then." I replied with a smile as I walked off to the kitchens, which by the way I had no idea where they were. Wonderful! I'm screwed.
I walked down the corridor studying my map, trying to work out where I'm supposed to go when I ran into something hard and extremely warm.
"Ow!" I exclaimed as I fell flat on my butt.
"I'm sorry." I heard a deep voice say before I looked up. My hair fell over my face which was good I didn't want it to be the first thing this guy saw.
Though the first thing I saw was an over six foot tanned, muscular, handsome guy looking down at me. He kind of looked like Jake.
He reached out his hand to help me up. As soon as I was standing up right I dusted my butt off and looked up at the guy that had run into me.
"I'm really sorry for that." He apologized. "I'm Jared."
"Annabelle." I said
"I've never seen you here before. Are you new?"
"Yeah first day."
"Oh well what have you got? I might be able to help you find it."
"Culinary science."
"Me too." He replied.
I gave him a questioning look. What was a guy like him doing in a cooking class?
"Mum's told me if I'm going to keep eating so much I got to learn how to cook some of it." Jared explained.
"Oh." I said nodding.
He started leading towards what I'm guessing is the kitchen's. We arrived late and again I handed the note to the teacher this time it was a female teacher.
Miss Sutton.
She did the same greeting as Mr Greene and sent me to work with Jared which was good because then I kind of knew who it was.
We were cooking pancakes, luckily because I have been cooking them since I was 10.
They didn't turn out that bad and Jared wasn't horrible at cooking, if he ever lived alone at least he wouldn't starve.
Before long it was lunch, I went back to locker and put my books away before grabbing my wallet and heading towards the cafeteria. Luckily the line wasn't long so I quickly grabbed a chicken salad sandwich and a coke. As I turned around the cafeteria was full of students. Great, how was I supposed to find Jake and his friends?
I was only looking for two seconds before I was Jake walking towards me.
"Hey, I was looking for you. We're just over here." He said as he got to me.
"Okay." I replied with a small smile.
I followed behind Jake through the cafeteria, all eyes were on us. It was a bit intimidating; I put my head down so my hair would cover my face.
The table was right at the back; I look up and saw a table full of tall, handsome and muscular guys. What was with this town? Were all guys beautiful?
"Guys, this is Annabelle. Annabelle, this is the guys."
"Hi." I said quietly.
I sat down on the right of Jake. I turned to my left to see Jared at least I was sitting next to the two people I've already met.
"Well Annabelle, this is Jared," Jake said pointing to Jared on my left.
"Yeah, we've met." I told Jake
"Yep we have Culinary Science together." Jared said
Jake nodded before continuing.
"Well moving on," Jake said "Next to Jared is his girlfriend Kim."
A girl poked her head around Jared so she could see me and gave me a small smile, which I returned.
"Then you've got Quil and Seth." I looked to see two guys with goofy smiles on their faces, while stuffing their faces.
"Uh ignore them." Jake laughed "Next is Paul."
Paul looked up and nodded but didn't smile like eveyone else.
"Then there's Collin and Brady."
They were in the middle of an arm wrestle and from what I heard $20 was the prize and Brady was winning.
"Um this is Leah." Jake said sort of quietly.
Leah just nodded like Paul had.
"And finally this is Embry."
I looked up and met his eyes, suddenly Embry looking at me funny. His mouth was hanging open and his eyes had gone wide. I smiled but ducked my head. I didn't know why he was staring but it made me uncomfortable. Maybe he could see it. I felt strange it was like I was being drawn to him somehow.
I felt Jake and Jared get up on either side of me. I looked up to see Embry shaking uncontrolably. He was still staring at me.
Jake and Jared walked over so they were on either side of him and grabbed his arms.
Okay, what the hell is going on?
"No!" Embry yelled as they started to drag him from the cafeteria. "I won't leave her. I can't."
"It's okay, she's not going anywhere. You'll see her again but you've got to calm down first." Jake said.
Seriously what is happening?
Embry has fighting against Jake and Jared as they led him away.
His eyes looked pained as if it would kill him to leave.
I turned to look at Kim who gave me a smile before resting her arm on my arm.
"It's okay. He's fine."
I had no idea what just happened.
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