NEW MOON
Chapter one
Ugh. I can't believe what I had just done… that pizza was much too big for me to eat alone. Oh my god, I'm gonna throw up! Quil slapped my back with joy and I felt a lump in my throat, I don't think it was natural either.
"Do it, do it, do it!" Embry laughed at me.
I did it, but I ran to the back door first, the poor patio.
"Aw… sick man!" Quil cooed from inside.
I wiped my mouth, oh that taste is horrible. I can't believe how bad the taste of puke is, until the rare times that I do it. I turned around at my two 'friends' (the traitors) who were quite happily laughing themselves to near death on my couch. I stumbled in and fell on the couch with an 'Oomph' sound, to which Quil snickered, earning him a smack from the back of my hand.
"So Jake, why are you here anyway?" Embry asked, sitting with his feet over the arm of the couch.
"I live here." I said with disdain.
"Isn't today's that girls birthday? You know, the one everyone likes a lot?" Quil asked.
I cold tell they had been eager to get to this, probably wanting another description of how gorgeous Bella is.
"Yea today's her birthday… hey she's 18 today come to think of it!" I said, although I'd been thinking of that all night.
The two cupped their hands to their mouths to amplify their voices and began to chant, "Ooh, illegal!"
I swatted Quil again but couldn't reach Embry, who just laughed. Bella was illegal come to think of it. I was sixteen soon, she was out of my league. "Besides," I thought darkly. "She's got that… Cullen guy now."
My face must have given away what I was thinking because Embry started up the bashing the two had adopted to make me feel better.
"Cullen is an idiot. I mean sure, okay, Billy thinks he's a vampire but honestly, I think he's more like a short bus guy." He smiled.
"Obviously short bus, except he has like the whole dictionary memorized, 'Yes my possessive title is Edward Cullen, I am a homo sapien with alabaster epidermis and yellow-hued eyes.' Half the time I just wanna kick him in his alabaster n..."
"Whoa!" I said shaking my hands.
I stood up, ignoring their looks of mock concern, and addressed them both as if I was their leader.
"Listen, guys, I know that you want to help, and I know you're trying but it's just that… well, the suns coming up, it's gonna be a nice morning and I want to stop by later to give Bella her birthday present. However, until then I'd like to go work on the beast and I'd like to do it… well…" I stopped.
I didn't want to make them mad, it was an awesome night, my dad had told the stories, we three had drank two litters of root beer each and I had put down a whole pizza, but I really did just want to be alone so I could think of Bella.
"Message clear, Captain Black, c'mon Quil, I'm sure there's someone else we can annoy." Embry smiled and walked out the door after patting me on the back.
"Let's swing by Sam's, I know he's all moody with his gang lately but we could totally annoy the hell out of him." Quil laughed.
Sam Uley, gross. He wasn't that bad of a guy, but the way his gang looks at Embry it's ridiculous. It's as if they're gonna eat him or something, like he's their toy. I laid on the couch and closed my eyes… thinking of Bella's birthday present. I was attempting to carve a dog out of a piece of wood for a charm or something… but it wasn't going so well. I'd gotten the general shape but the details were hard… maybe I'd just give it to her some other time, I don't know.
I must have fallen asleep because when I woke up, it was already the next day. Well… it was almost the next day, technically it was still 4:00 a.m. so the sun wasn't up. I went for a run, which I didn't usually, and then swam back along my path to my house. By then it was almost 7:00 and I came in to find Quil there with an interesting look on his face.
"Aren't you supposed to be a school?" I asked, grabbing a towel.
"Aren't you? I got to class and saw you weren't there so I skipped. Thought we could do something, you know, fun." He shrugged, grabbing an apple.
"Sure… yeah sure I guess… I was thinking of stopping by Bella's school to see if I could get a hold of her…" I muttered, drying off.
"Hehe… I'm sure there's a lot of things you wanna 'get a hold of' when it comes to her." He laughed.
I smacked him on his head but laughed as well. He nodded as I changed my shirt, then went to scrounge for some pants in my room, Quil grabbed another apple and waited on the couch for me to get back. I settled on some cargo pants and walked out with Quil trailing me. I hopped on my dirt bike and started it up, Quil jumped on his father's ATV.
"You're not supposed to drive that you know." I said as I started my bike up.
"Yes I do know." He smiled as well.
We tore down the road, laughing as we knew we had woken the whole reserve up.
Bella's school was huge, even when the parking lot was empty. We parked in the woods and waited in a bush between the gym and the actual school. Finally cars began to arrive and I realized, as soon as I heard the familiar cry of the truck, that I didn't want Bella to see me so I jumped off the bricks and ran behind the gym, Quil following me.
"What's up? I thought you wanted to wish her a happy birthday." he asked me.
"I… I don't know I'm feeling kind of…" I muttered, I didn't want to say the actually word.
"Shy?" Quil smirked and walked off towards the parking lot.
"Wait hold up, where are you going?" I asked.
"What's more embarrassing, seeing Bella or seeing her after I get her to come out here and look for you 'cause you're shy?" he snickered and walked off, I jogged over to him in fear.
"You don't even know what she looks like!" I said.
"So I'll ask around, someone's gotta know her if she's as hot as you say she is." He laughed.
"Wait up I beg you!" I mocked following him.
The playing was cut short, though, when I saw a familiar car pull up in the parking lot, a Volvo to be exact.
"Oh god, spare me." I heard Quil mutter as Edward Cullen got out of his car.
"Spare you from what? He didn't see us." I said, looking around.
"But his brother is in some serious pain." Quil crouched down.
I ducked as well and looked at his large brother, but he looked fine to me, that is until Quil moved violently and a rock soared through the air at Emmet Cullen.
"Oh my god." I whispered as he smacked him right in his left eye.
"Run man, seriously run." Quil said as Emmet began to run towards the source of the throw.
"You are so stupid, I hate you for this, aww man why did you do that?" I hissed.
He dove into a bush as Emmet came around the corner with no visible damage.
"Did you just chuck that rock at me, chump?" he growled and shoved my chest.
What an asshole, I wasn't gonna put up with it either.
"Why? Did it hit you?" I asked, with a glare.
"Yeah… yeah it did hit me." He snarled and clenched his fist.
"Good, maybe it will fix your ugly face." I smiled.
He drew back his fist with insane speed, but I had already cocked my leg back. I hit him in his gut with my knee, heard a crunching sound and fell to the ground. I hissed as my knee exploded in pain, and so did my hand from bracing my fall. Cullen just laughed and walked away, ignoring me and my pain.
Quil came out with a crazy smile and helped me up, my knee was only bruised but hurt like hell.
"That was the craziest thing I have ever seen, what were you thinking?" he laughed.
"He pushed me." I shrugged.
"What happened? I saw your leg, I thought it was a pretty good kick." He pointed out as we began to walk to our bikes.
"I think he was wearing football pads or something, it felt like I hit a wall." I shook my head.
That wasn't true, what I had felt was definitely organic, almost like his skin had been hardened to the degree of a rock. Almost as if… as if he weren't a human, but something else entirely… like a monster.