Sweat ran down my face like a bucket of water had just been thrown onto me. Why would I take such a long and difficult job? Was I just trying to prove something to myself? I dropped the shovel as I felt the pain of a splinter run through my palm. Lifting my hand to my face, I see the blisters and scratches across my hand. I couldn't remember the reason that I decided to place myself into this position. I decided to pick the tool back up, maybe I deserved this pain I made this happen in the first place, allowing my mind to become fogged up by that girl... oh yeah! That's why I was doing this, The new girl at school she started in the beginning of last year in my tenth grade class. I remembered the first time she passed me in the hall; her sea blue eyes, shining with an excitement that I never would have thought that I would see in a student's eyes on their first day to a new school. She looked genuinely happy to be there. Her black hair was short and framed her small porcelain face. She had a natural beauty like she didn't have a reason to wear make-up though I saw the light shadows of it above her eyes and her red lips, they couldn't have been that naturally red right? Like rubies shining against her face.
I sucked in a lung full of air just thinking about that first day right as I felt another jab into my hand. I wasn't built for this but here I was, helping my dad add an addition to a house her house, well her parents house only I didn't think it needed any kind of addition the house was huge; with a brick foundation the house was almost made out of windows though I knew the truth. It was meant to look that way, the house, if you looked close enough had thick pieces of wood and steel between the windows they were small enough to be hidden from far away. It had been for sale a long time for two reasons; one, not many people really wanted to move to a little town like Forks what with it being rainy and in a location far away from anything exciting, Forks was meant to be a town for old people who had nothing else to do than sit on their porches and look grumpy until they decide to go to bed at 6 pm or that's at least what I thought. And two, not many people could afford this beautiful piece of work except for a doctor and his seemingly perfect family. Alice's family was perfect, too perfect if you asked me. My curiosity of the Cullen family didn't stop at just the beautiful creature known as Alice, far from it actually. I had so many questions, like why would they even want to live here. I didn't want to, I'd rather live somewhere different... like a cave where no one could find me with just me, myself, and my lovely books and video games. Let's just hope I can find a cave that has electricity. Might have to look for one on Craigslist...
Wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah, the Cullen's are a suspicious folk around here, too happy as well as friendly. Not long ago, Mrs. Cullen was handing out freshly made lemonade, I didn't take any. I'm not going to be pulled into their traps, unless Alice walked out here in a bikini with a lemonade just for me...
I was pulled out of my musings when I felt a heavy pressure collide into my back, I fell face down into the hole that I was int the middle of digging up. I look up to see my brother, Emmett looking down at me with a shit-eating grin.
" You looked a bit out of it sister, thought that I should have broken you out of it before dad came over to see you drooling all over the place. Thinking about your girlfriend?" I pushed the hand that he so graciously tried to get me to take. I pulled myself out of the hole, brushing off as much of the dirt that I could before glaring up to my brother. His huge 6 foot frame loomed over me like a blimp. A stupid and annoying blimp that would leave me alone for one minute.
"She isn't my girlfriend." I growled between my teeth as I picked up my lonely shovel and began to dig up more dirt. " Don't you have something better to do, like oh I don't know, help dad get the gravel out of the truck?" Emmett leaned against the wooden post that I had just finished putting in place, it bent slightly off which made my blood boil, I would have to fix it later. Right after I killed Emmett and buried him in one of these ditches. The cement trucks come tomorrow...
" You should make your move on her soon, looks like Jasper is making his." I look over to see Alice and Jasper standing at the porch, Jasper with one foot on the steps and Alice leaning against the guard rail of the porch, bending down towards Jasper with a smile playing on her face. Jasper had that stupid little smirk on his like he was deciding weather to smile or not, what did people call it? A crooked grin? Looks more like he was trying to take a shit or something. But he got all of the girls at school hooked on his every word.
" Fuck Jasper." I spoke sharply, stabbing another piece of wood into the ground, taking my anger out onto the ground. I didn't know what Jasper was doing, he knew about my little crush on Alice.. little? Your fascination with her has become close to being on the police bulletin for being a creepy pervert that stalked on girls with the name Alice. Okay, I admit, I do check her facebook quite often I mean it's public, if she didn't want anyone seeing it then she would put it a little more privately than she has it now and I may glance at her during lunch... a little too much.
" I didn't know that you had such strong feelings towards Jasper, Bells." I was so close to picking up my shovel and hitting Emmett with it. Only hard enough to make him black out a little...
Before I could think anymore about it, dad came over. " How's everything going, bells?" My brother stopped ruining my work and decided to go back to his. Showing my father my hands, I sit down with a heavy thud, adjusting my glasses back onto my face before sighing. He sits beside me, patting my back. Dad had no idea why I wanted to do this, especially in the summer when I could be sleeping in and playing by myself... wait that sounded wrong.
" You just tell me the word and you can stop for the summer, You still have two months left to enjoy it." I shake my head, feeling my sweaty short hair hit against my forehead. I think he had an idea as to why I had been stupid enough to try working with his construction company that he owned. I think he saw the way that I would look at Alice when I noticed that she was out here. I would see him looking at me before I would embarrassingly go back to my work.
" It's fine, dad. I can work through it. I need to get out more like you said. Mom wouldn't want me sitting around all day." It's been almost five years since mom died, it was inevitable. The cancer just wouldn't stop spreading no matter what they did. It was a monster that actually came out of my nightmares. I can barely remember her face. My dad, Charlie didn't like bringing her up unless it was to motivate us, to keep going for mom.
He grabbed my shoulder and with a small smile, he pushed himself up and made his way towards his truck. Thinking about mom, it brought up memories that I didn't want. The pain still felt fresh. Shaking my head I stand back up and look towards the porch where I last saw Alice, she was alone and looking at me. I saw her wave before walking back into her house. My stomach jumped with a nervous twinge.
She waved at me!
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