So finally, here it is! I got stuck, at a bit that wasn't even hard to continue on from. I guess I had no motivation.
Don't count on the next one soon because I haven't started it and I wont at least until the semester of uni is over which is the end of May. I haven't even attempted to start it because I am a good child and do not want distractions from homework.
But we can fawn about that later. For now, here's Part Three of Wild Cat.
Enjoy :)
Chapter 1:
Alexis' POV:
"Alexis, go and give your brother a shout would you?" Dad called, I was sitting upstairs in my room while mum and dad cooked a big lunch. We were having a huge lunch. And when I say huge, I mean it.
"Sure." I smiled. I walked down the stairs, high-fifed my dad as I passed him before walking out the back door.
I stood at the edge of the trees that ended our backyard, like it did for most people who lived in LaPush. I took a deep breath.
"JAMES!" I bellowed. My voice echoed over the trees and through the leaves. I shut my eyes and listened for a second. I heard three sets of paws stop somewhere off in the distance. I smiled.
"Time for lunch." I said, still shouting but not as loud. Now that I knew where they were, I didn't need to shout that loud. The neighbours were annoyed enough, and that I knew without them saying something. We were a pretty loud family. But then again, we were a big family.
Unlike some families who only considered close friends and relatives as family, our family was the entire tribe. Within this tribe was a set of, protectors, is what we called them. They protected us all from the things that lurked in the shadows. Things that hardly anyone believed in.
This was my family. And not just because my brother was one of these protectors. Two of my best friends were too. Once they all joined this, group, the entire group became my close family.
So, mum and dad had invited them all for lunch. That's why they'd made so much food.
I heard a howl off in the distance and smiled, knowing my message had been delivered.
"He's coming." I assured my dad as I walked back inside. He smiled and nodded at me.
"Need any help?" I wondered
"No I think we got it." Mum smiled, I nodded. I heard a car pull up outside the house and walked down the hallway to get the front door. The car belonged to Emily Young, Sam Uley's fiancé, she was forever cursedly by three scars that plagued her face, pulling the right half of her face down.
Sam was the leader of the 'group'.
With them was Kim, Jared's girlfriend. My first impression of Kim was that she was a nice girl, a little shy, and a little plain. She had a wide face, mostly cheekbones, with eyes too small to balance them out. Her nose and mouth were both too broad for traditional beauty. Her flat black hair was thin and wispy.
That was my first impression. But after a while of watching Jared watch Kim, I could no longer find anything plain about the girl.
The way he stared at her! It was like a blind man seeing the sun for the first time. Like a collector finding an undiscovered Da Vinci, like a mother looking into the face of her newborn child.
His wondering eyes caused me see new things about her — how her skin looked like russet-coloured silk, how the shape of her lips was a perfect double curve, how white her teeth were against them, how long her eyelashes were, brushing her cheek when she looked down.
Kim's skin sometimes darkened when she met Jared's awed gaze, and her eyes would drop as if in embarrassment, but she had a hard time keeping her eyes away from his for any length of time.
Jared held the same look when looking at Kim as Sam did when he looked at Emily. It was beautiful the way they looked at one another, and it made me sort of jealous sometimes when I watched the group.
It wasn't really a group though, the better word was pack.
Emily, Sam and Kim climbed out of the car before they unloaded a heap more food. I walked down to help them.
"Jeez, do we need more?" I questioned
"With those boys, you can never have to much." Emily smiled.
"Good point." I nodded, taking heap of plates from her and carrying them inside, Sam behind me.
Emily, Sam, Kim and I placed the food on the kitchen bench before my mother began arranging it all. I walked up to Emily and gave her a hug.
"Hey." I greeted.
"How are you?" she wondered, I shrugged
"Same as always." She smiled and stroked my hair. Normal people would find that weird. I wasn't classified as normal anymore.
"Hey Kim," I smiled
"Hey Lexi," She smiled at me.
"Did you invite Charlie and Bella?" I asked mum
"I did, but Charlie said Bella was still grounded and that coming would give her some leverage." mum rolled her eyes
"Did you mention the part that if she come here she'd be away from Edward?" I wondered, Mum nodded
"Unfortunately, I think Edward got there first." she sighed. I rolled my eyes.
Bella Swan. Her dad was Charlie swan, the chief of police and my dad's best friend, along with Billy Black.
Bella had pulled an awful stunt on us all not to long ago. She ran off with Alice Cullen to Italy, to save Alice's brother, and Bella's ex-boyfriend — now retitled, boyfriend — Edward Cullen, who went to get himself killed after he heard Bella had gone cliff diving and jumped off a cliff.
Bella had disappeared for three days and Charlie had grounded her forever because of it. Unfortunately for Charlie, Edward was still allowed to have visiting hours, plus the two went to school together, so he couldn't split them up.
Another car pulled up and this time, it was Sue Clearwater. She wasn't alone, she had her youngest child, Seth, her son, with her.
Seth Clearwater was fifteen, and like a little brother to me, littler then James that is.
"Hey Seth," I greeted, he held his fist up to me and I pounded my own against it.
"What's up, Lex?" he wondered
"Nothing, just that there's a lot of food in there." I confessed
"Really?" he perked up. I rolled my eyes and ruffled his hair before greeting Sue and guiding them through the house.
Last to arrive was Billy Black. He was on the council with my dad, Sue and Old Quil, who couldn't make it tonight for some reason. Billy and my dad had been friends since they were like five years old, the only time they'd only ever been separated was when my dad had left Forks to go to Washington D.C. for college. That was where he'd met my mum. Otherwise, the two were inseparable.
They were a lot like me and Jacob. Jacob was Billy's son. Because our family's had always been close, so had we. Only once had we had a, falling out, though we'd had several fights since then.
There was a reason for that, sort of. Cats and Dogs aways fight after all.
"Where are the boys?" Billy asked as I wheeled him inside.
"They're coming." I assured him with a smile.
At that I heard the sounds of several thundering paws against the earth floor heading towards the house.
As Billy fell into the usual conversation with my dad I walked to the back door and opened it, just in time for five very similar boys and one girl to come walking out of the trees. It's ridiculous how hot these boys are. All of them have the same russet coloured skin, dark brown or black hair and brown eyes.
The muscles on them all are something you'd only expect to get through steroids, only they weren't on any. Every single on of them, except for the girl obviously, were only wearing shorts, even in this cold weather.
I smirked as the girl walked up to me. Leah Clearwater, Seth's older sister and Sue's oldest child.
"Leah," I greeted with a hug
"Smells great!" she exclaimed looking past me
"Well hey to you too," I muttered. She smirked at me and squeezed me tighter. Her strength was unbelievable as usual, but non existent against me.
"Leah, it's not working." I assured her. She sighed and released me as I smirked at her.
"Lex, do you think you could shout any louder?" one of the boys asked. I smirked at my brother
"Probably," I assured him. James rolled his eyes at me
"How you doing Lexi?" Embry wondered. One of my musketeers. He gave me a hug
"Not bad, you?" I wondered, he shrugged
"Same old, same old." He smiled. Embry suddenly pulled me out of the way as two boys rushed past us, Paul and Jared.
"What's up Cat?" Jared asked at he passed. I gave him a scowl but didn't answer.
"Hey Lex." Quil greeted, I grinned and gave him a high-five
"What's up Quil?" I wondered
"Nothing much." He shrugged.
During the last few weeks Quil had phased. Finally.
I'd been home, as it had been a weekend and I didn't have work, when James and Embry had burst through the back door.
"Lexi!" James yelled
"What?" I asked racing down the stairs
"It's Quil," Embry explained
"Seriously?" I wondered, they nodded. I beamed. I'd hardly seen Quil and I missed my third musketeer.
I raced out the door and past the two boys
"Is he at home or at Emily's?" I asked calling back.
"His house." I was gone before they could say anything else.
I needed to see Quil, he had been so upset after both Embry and Jacob left him. And He wasn't his normal self otherwise. I'd seen him around when I'd dropped James off at school — as he didn't have a car himself to drive — I'd waved but I hadn't really spoken to him. Sam had told me not to incase I let something slip. I was fully against it but when everyone had ganged up on me, I couldn't really say no.
I reached Quil's house and wrapped my knuckles on the front door.
Old Quil answered it.
"That was quick." He admitted
"Yes, well…" Embry and James came up behind me "They gave me a lift." I smiled, both raised a confused eyebrow for a second before understanding I'd forced them into another one of my lies to the council, and by extension, my parents. I still refused to have them know about me.
Old Quil nodded and stepped aside. I rushed in to see Quil, tall, tanned, muscled and all the other physical wolf features added to him, sitting on the couch with Sam and Jacob.
"Quil!" I beamed. He stood up surprised before I ran, normally, to him and thew my arms around his neck.
"Lex…" he said, I pulled back
"Hey," I smiled with a chuckle.
"What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to express how happy I am!" I admitted hugging him again.
"Why?" Quil wondered. I looked at him again confused before turning to Sam and Jacob
"You haven't told him?" I asked
"We haven't had the chance yet." Jacob admitted with a sigh.
"Told me what?" Quil asked.
"That I know." I answered simply.
"Know what?"
"Everything." I answered grinning.
"Every —" I think he understood then "How come?"
"I'm smart." I shrugged
"Huh, yeah right." James disagreed sitting on the couch. I glared at him and he held his hands up in surrender.
"I figured it out," I admitted to Quil "Not long after James changed." I explained
"That's why you haven't been talking to me?" he half asked
"Everyone told me not to. And it's difficult to disobey six angry wolves." I muttered all four boys rolled their eyes
"What?" I asked but they shook their heads and didn't answer. I scowled at them.
Truthfully they couldn't force me to do anything now. Not even for my so called 'safety', like anything could hurt me now. I was unexplainably invincible. So far. Though I hadn't gone at a vampire yet, and all I'd really done with the wolves was avoid Paul, when he was human. They refused to go at me while in their wolf forms.
Alright, invincible to humans.
I wonder if they shot me I'd die…? The wolves don't have that problem and I was a lot like them, except for the transforming part.
"So, what colour are we?" I asked Quil
"Chocolate brown." Quil answered
"Awesome." I smirked
"How?"
"Everyone loves chocolate." I shrugged, Quil smirked.
"Yeah it's sweet and delicious," Embry laughed. Quil rolled his eyes and I glared at him
"It's better then plain old black and grey," I smirked. Embry glared at me and I poked my tongue out at him.
Sam forced Quil to sit down and he explained a lot more. It didn't seem to matter what Sam said, Quil was ecstatic about the change, just like Seth, he didn't mind it. It meant he got to be with his two best friends again after all.
It was great to see that the change hadn't effected Quil's personality.
The last of the group standing in my backyard, was Jacob Black, other then Leah, he was my oldest friend. Though Leah had spent most of her time with older girls her age, like Jacob's older sisters, Rachel and Rebecca.
Things hadn't been going well for us lately. I'd been snapping at him a lot, and mainly because he'd been angering me.
He was also really upset over Bella.
Jacob loved Bella.
They were an extremely good couple and were good for one another, except for when Jacob lost his temper and could possibly rip her apart. I'd been rooting for them to get together but I think Bella thought of that as a betrayal to Edward.
Naturally though, Edward had come back and ruined any chance of that happening for Bella had gone right back to him. Jacob had sort of gone into some sort of depression because of it.
He doesn't smile like he used to. I think out of all the pack, he was having the most trouble with the change, he hated it the most.
Because of his change, he wasn't my Jake anymore either, he no longer gave off that extremely happy air from him, the smile he always used to wear had vanished, and I hadn't seen it since we'd seen a movie with Bella and Mike.
That was the night Jacob had come down with the fever. Or the wolf fever as I called it. Mainly because when someone comes down with it, they phased into a giant wolf afterwards.
Yeah, my family were werewolves.
My mum and dad were normal, in fact all the parents were, the gene James had inherited came from my dad's side.
I'd like to include myself in the 'normal' category, but that just didn't work. Mainly cause I was anything but normal.
While my family were werewolves, the Cullen family, including Bella's boyfriend Edward, were vampires. The mortal enemy of the werewolves. Though I don't know who decided this, who decided they were enemies. It was the main reason there was so much shit going on at the moment, because the werewolves and vampires didn't like each other.
Bella and I were stuck in the middle of this little feud, only Bella was mainly on the vampires side, and I was on the werewolf side.
It's a complicated life I live.
Embry left my side to walk inside and I walked down the back steps to Jake.
"Hey," I smiled
"Hey." He answered
"How you doing?" I asked, he shrugged but let out a sigh. He didn't answer me.
I was trying to keep the frown off my face, I remember the time when he used to joke and smile. I missed that Jacob. He definitely didn't deserve the pain he was enduring.
"Alright, foods ready." my mother called from the house.
I took Jacob's hand and pulled him with me into the house.
We all sat around the big dining table, with a few exceptions of the stools at the kitchen bench as there were not nearly enough chairs for us all.
It seemed the wolves were able to keep their manners pretty clean for once while surrounded by the parents, or council members as they were also known as.
My dad, Billy, Old Quil and Sue were the council members, well and Sam but he was the pack leader, or alpha, and was more associated with that title.
The chatter peaked as everyone around the table enjoyed the immense amount of food and the company of one another. It was how we used to have lunch with the Blacks and Clearwaters before all this supernatural stuff got in the way.
It was amazing how time could fly, not two months ago I'd found out about the supernatural world, about the things that hid in the dark, I'd sort of joined that group, but we weren't totally sure about that part. And now, graduation was creeping towards us. It was literally a few weeks away.
Bella told me Edward had been handing her thousands of application forms at her for college. He could easily bribe a college to let her in despite the late entry form. Mum had done that to me a few months ago, like last year, months ago. She said that if I just apply to them all I was bound to get into one.
The thought of having to move away and go to college was sort of scary, and it wasn't on my top things to worry about at the moment.
The top involved, werewolves, vampires, myself, and Bella.
Thanks to the fight Bella and Jacob were in, and the fact that the wolves hated the vampires, I had become the middle girl for everyone. Well, except for between Edward and Bella, that was something I never needed to worry about as even Charlie couldn't separate them no matter what, despite Bella's grounding.
The boys had finally grasped the fact that I was no longer fragile. Thanks to my new strength, I could easily break the boys, but they couldn't break me. It turned out I was faster and much more, agile, then they were.
It was funny to see Paul trying to beat the crap out of me now. I took the mickey out of the fact that he couldn't touch me and he let a girl beat him in everything. In return he and Jared were still teasing me about my cat thing. What was worse was that Embry had joined in.
I was acting more and more like a cat, though I hadn't told the boys about my tree experiment a few weeks ago. As soon as I told them that, I was dead. They'd chew me out about how dangerous it was, especially seeing as we had no idea what I was capable of then.
My mother and Emily's food disappeared within half an hour, mainly because the wolves appetites were ridiculous.
I hope they still had room because the desserts both my mum and Emily retrieved were full on over the top.
There was cheesecake, trifle, pudding, custard, meringue, pastries, cake, cookies, cupcakes, sponges and pies.
"Jeez, mum." I said "I know they eat a lot but seriously?"
"Well, I wasn't sure what to make, so I just made everything." She smiled at me. I sighed but smiled. Just like my mother.
After all the food had been eaten we moved to the couches in the living room. The chatter lasted hours, until Kim yawned.
That was when Jared decided to take her home, and that one action caused everyone to agree that it was time to leave.
Embry, Quil and Seth had patrol so the other wolves were forced — by me — to go and sleep. It was terrible the amount of sleep they all got, something ridiculous like three hours a night. Well, except for Sam, I don't think Emily let him do that to himself.
So the house emptied and everyone left as quickly as they'd all arrived. Jared and Kim went with Emily and Sam as they'd give Kim a lift home. Jacob went with his dad in order to help him out with his wheel chair. Sue and Leah went in her car back home, Paul ran off as everyone was leaving.
James and I waved to everyone through the dark cold night as they all left before walking inside.
"These evenings always leave me exhausted." I admitted
"Why?" James asked
"Cause you lot are exhausting to be around." I smirked. James rolled his eyes.
"Night sis." He said, stroking my hair. I smiled at him before walking up the stairs to my room.
I crashed within two minutes of my head hitting the pillow.
"Do you think we should wake her up?" I heard a voice in the distance.
"If you do that she might break your nose."
"Yeah, she's not always good with morning." James reminded them.
"She might be pissed we're here in the first place."
"Got that right." I grumbled. The voices stopped. I groaned and raised my head from the pillow. I brushed my fingers through my brown hair, removing it from my face before rubbing my eyes.
I turned to look at Embry, Quil, Jacob and James.
"What?" I asked as they stared at me
"We're just slowly worrying that you're about to break our jaws." Embry admitted, I smirked
"It seems becoming giant wolves hasn't changed the fact that you're scared of angering me."
"Only in the morning." James shrugged. I hid my face in my pillows again.
"What time it is?" I wondered
"Ten-ish" Jacob answered, I looked at them again
"Seriously?" I asked. They all nodded
"Jeez." I sat up and removed myself from my blankets.
I walked past the four boys and into the bathroom, I shut the door and had a shower, combing through my messy hair. I washed my face before leaning against the bathroom door.
The boys were down stairs.
I wrapped myself in the towel and walked across the landing to my room, shutting that door and proceeding to get dressed.
When I was done I walked downstairs to find the boys lounging on the couch.
"Alright then, what is it you want?"
"Man, did you always take that long to get ready?" Quil questioned
I shot him a scowl
"I'm a girl, I'm allowed to take my time."
"Says who?" Embry asked
"Says me, now did you have a reason for being here or not?" I asked, annoyed by their interrogation.
"Did you ever think that maybe they came to hang out with me?" James asked
"No." I admitted without any hesitation. He shot me an annoyed look "What? I'm better then you are." my musketeers chuckled at him
"We were wondering if you'd like to hang with us today." Jacob eventually explained. I examined him, Jake seemed like he was trying to enjoy himself, and possibly succeeding.
"No patrol?" I wondered, they all shook their heads. That was different, was Sam extending the shift hours or something?
"What did you have in mind?" I asked.
They all shrugged. I rolled my eyes
"Well, that's helpful." I mumbled
"Well, we thought you'd have something in mind." Quil confessed
"I only just woke up remember,"
"So? You always had an idea on what to do before." James confessed
"Hmm," I thought for a minute before I walked into the kitchen to make myself a hot drink.
I got an idea when the kettle popped.
"When was the last time we climbed a tree?" I asked, making the question general
"You want to race us up a tree?" Quil asked
"Cat, remember, I'm sure I can keep up." I smirked
"She's got a point." Embry grinned
"We haven't done that in ages." Jacob confessed
"I'm sure it's safe enough too," I shrugged, taking my mug over to the couch as I sipped from it.
"Sounds like a plan, see if your skills have gotten rusty." James looked at me
"If anyone's skills are rusty, it's yours. We've done it more then you have." I reminded him
"But, I have the skills for it now." He was talking about his wolfiness.
"Yeah, well I bet it wont help you."
"Oooo, you're on girl." Quil decided. I smirked and put my mug down before I walked to the back door and pulled my good shoes on. I just kept all of my shoes at the back door, it was the most used door in the house now, seeing as I didn't need my car much.
When I stood up the four boys ran right past me.
"Hey! That's cheating!" I shouted after them, I heard a laugh before it changed into a barmy laugh. I knew then that it was safe for me to run past, I didn't really need to see them all in the nude.
I whizzed past the spot where they'd changed and they were already gone. I pushed off and ran faster, we already knew I was faster so I should catch up easily.
I saw the four wolves weaving in and out of the trees not to far ahead of me and grinned.
Just as I got close I ran at a tree and up into the branches, there was no way I'd be able to run through their huge figures without getting squashed.
I jumped over the branches and over their heads before jumping down in front of them. I heard a huff and a snarl from behind me. I jumped and spun in the air to see them, so that they could see my smug grin.
James snapped his jaws at me.
"Sore looser." I grumbled as I continued to run.
There was this certain clearing not far from the beach that we'd all found when we were younger and that was where we were headed. It was our tree climbing spot. It had quite a good amount of climbing trees.
I broke the trees into the clearing and skidded to a stop with a grin on my face.
A minute later the boys walked in, one after the other.
"That was so not fair," James began
"How?" I questioned.
"You can't use the trees." he continued
"How was I meant to get past you otherwise?" I wondered
"You weren't." He shrugged. I rolled my eyes
"That's not how it works." I informed him
"Who said?"
"Me." I smirked
"You really are fast though." Embry confessed
"Still think you can beat me up a tree?" I wondered with a smirk
"Do we need to chase you up it?" Quil laughed. I glared at him
"Don't make me break you." I warned. He tried to sniffle his laughter unsuccessfully. I rolled my eyes at him
"Well, come on." I decided and walked towards a tree.
"How do you want to do this?" James wondered
"Don't know, don't care, I really just want to climb." I confessed
"True that." Quil smirked before he jumped up and grabbed a branch of a tree, beginning to climb it.
"I wonder if the branches will even hold you?" I chuckled. This time they glared at me. "Hey, I didn't say you were fat, just that you were heavy."
"Isn't that the same thing?" Embry asked
"No, muscle ways more then fat." I reminded them. They were happy with that answer.
"Only one way to find out." I decided
I turned back to the tree and walked around it looking for a sturdy branch. I found one and jumped. My fingers closed around the branch and I swung myself up onto it.
The boys, except for Quil who was a branch above me, stared at me surprised.
"What?" I questioned. Only now did I realise how high I'd jumped.
"I guess being strong allows me to jump." I shrugged.
I turned back to the tree as Quil smirked down at me before he continued to climb. I stood up on the branch and jumped onto another one higher up, landing on my feet.
"Lex be careful." Jacob called, James had begun to climb the tree now.
"I'm fine." I assured him with a roll of my eyes.
I grabbed another branch, using it to swing onto another. I jumped, did a handstand and pushed with my hands to land on another branch.
"You're being unnecessarily dangerous." James called from below me.
"I'm fine." I repeated. I'd passed Quil and was the furthest one up the tree. Quil was next, then Embry, who had passed James. James was next to Jacob and both of them were bringing up the rear.
"I know what I'm doing." I promised
"You said that about the rings too." Jacob grumbled, I glared at him.
"I got distracted." I shot
"By what?" Embry questioned
"Jacob." I shrugged
"How?" Jacob asked
"I'd forgotten you were watching me." I said truthfully
"That's not my fault." Jacob defended
"I didn't say it was." I confessed. He rolled his eyes.
I turned back to the tree branches above me and jumped to the next branch. The next one being behind me, I just jumped backwards, did a backflip and landed on my feet.
"She's trying to kill herself." I heard James mutter
"She's just showing off." Embry added
"And trying to kill herself." Jacob agreed with James.
"I'm fine." I said for the third time.
"Yeah, now! But what about in ten minutes when you slip?" James asked
"What about when you do?" I asked back
"This fall wont kill us." Embry confessed
"Me either." I said under my breath. I heard a growl but ignored it.
I was almost at the top now, the branches were increasing in numbers, but decreasing in length and strength.
"I think I'm winning." I confessed, calling down.
"You got a head start." Embry thought
"By like, a second. And technically Quil should have won in that case then." I decided. I tested three branches before deciding I couldn't go any further. I sat down and watched the boys as they easily caught up.
"You know, it's not really a race as we all started at different times." James admitted
"Considering that you lot said I couldn't beat you all, that made me want to prove I could. So I'm happy, race or no race." I confessed with a shrug.
All of them rolled their eyes at me.
"Did you have to be so reckless as you did so?" Jacob questioned
"I know what I'm doing, you guys need to calm down." I said again, trying to get this into their heads.
"Have you been practicing?" Quil wondering
"No, I haven't be tree climbing in ages." I lied.
"Then how did you do all that?" James asked with a sigh.
"I'm a cat." I said simply. They looked at me confused "Cats have good balance." I tried to jog their memories.
"That doesn't mean you should be able to jump around like that." Quil thought
"Do you lot know nothing? Have you never seen a cat?"
"I've seen them get stuck up a tree." Embry smirked. I glared at him. Hard.
"I can get down perfectly." I confessed
"Well go on then." James grinned encouragingly.
I looked down to the ground. It was further then I'd jumped when I'd done it last time. I wonder if it could still work… I'd full on freak the boys out if I suddenly jumped.
"Well?" Embry said. I scowled at him and stood up perfectly on the branch. They all looked worried for me.
"You want me to get down?" I asked confidently "Fine." I agreed
I spun around, on one foot, and slipped off of the branch.
I heard all four boys gasp and reach towards me, but I looked to the ground and ignored them.
The space below me wasn't as clear as it had been the last time, which is why I was glad I went feet first.
My feet broke through the branches and I managed to avoid the big dangerous ones by swirling my way through the air. I got a few scratches and scrapes, a few leaves in my hair, before I broke through the last branches and landed in a crouch on the earth.
I hit the ground with a thud and took a deep breath before I slowly stood up, checking everything to make sure it all worked perfectly.
I turned around when I was sure I was fine and looked up the tree to the boys sitting at the top. All of them looked freaked out and were sitting so still you'd think they were statues. Their mouths were hanging open and they all looked completely speechless.
"Told you I'd be fine if I fell." I said, not bothering to raise my voice as I knew they could hear me perfectly.
They just sat there for a few minutes staring at me.
"Can't you get down?" I wondered. I think they snapped out of their surprise now, for they finally blinked.
James and Jacob jumped from branch to branch downwards, making their way down the tree on a zig zag. Embry and Quil were behind them, not as fast as they were still stunned.
It wasn't difficult to notice the serious expressions on James and Jacob's faces, they were ready to murder me for what I just did.
I took a few subtle steps back from the tree and placed my hands on my hips, awaiting the thrashing that was on it's way.
Both boys jumped from about three meters away and landed in front of me, angrily. The way they landed sounded like a heard of elephants.
"Are you crazy?" James said immediately
"I've considered it." I nodded, mainly talking to myself. To be honest I felt like we'd had this conversation way to many times.
"You could have killed yourself." Jacob pitched in
"No, I couldn't,"
"How do you know?" Embry asked, more confused then angry
"Because cats always land on their feet."
"That doesn't mean you would!" James shot
"Yes it does! I have confidence in what I can do." I admitted
"But how do you know that it would actually work?! The first time was just a fluke." Jacob said. I didn't say anything. It was easier if I kept the lies to a minimum.
Unfortunately for me, these four boys knew me way to well for my silence to work in my favour.
"You didn't?!" Quil noticed
"What?" I asked, trying to be confused
"You tested it didn't you?!" James almost yelled, his voice was raising every time he spoke.
"What stupid stunt did you do this time?" Jacob demanded
"You're freaking out at the thought that I might have done something and you want me to answer that question and make you freak out even more?" I spoke, not admitting anything.
"So you did do something?" Embry asked
"I said 'might'," I reminded him
"So you might have done something?" Quil said
"Are you a parrot?" I wondered with a smirk. He shrugged
"Just clarifying the fact that you didn't say no." He confessed, I rolled my eyes
"You told Bella off for being dangerous, you've turned into a hypocrite." Jacob accused
"How?"
"Telling her off for being reckless and then doing things just as bad." Jacob answered
"It's not reckless if I know I'm not going to get hurt." I confessed
"You could have."
"But I didn't, so will you drop it." I snapped, my eyes turning into their beautiful molten gold in response to my anger.
"What did you do to test your…" Quil couldn't think of a word for it "… 'landing on your feet' thing?" He went with
"Nothing." I shrugged and turned around to talk away from them "Anyone up for lunch at Emily's?" I wondered, changing the subject.
There was silence before anyone answered.
"I'm up for that!" Embry agreed with a sigh, they obviously knew they weren't going to get anything out of me just yet.
"Race you there." I declared, turning to grin at them
"Jeez, again?" Quil questioned
"Until you admit I'm better." I nodded firmly. James ran past me and into the trees where I knew he was pulling his clothes off.
Embry, Jacob and Quil followed quickly after him, not saying a word to me as they did so. I swear Jacob was scowling and Embry looked that tad worried.
I waited, listening until I heard four sets of paws hit the ground. I smirked and ran into the trees and shot off. I ran right through the middle of the four wolves. I heard a growl and laughed, knowing they were annoyed I didn't give them a warning.
They took off after me, but I already had a head start, and that was enough to give me a win.
I reached Emily's house and walked in gracefully through the door. Jared, Paul, Leah, Seth, Sam and Emily were all there, Emily and Sam in the kitchen while the others were seated around the round table.
"Look who's here." Jared smirked as he looked up at me.
"If it isn't the little kitty." Paul joined in as he took a bite of one of Emily's cookies that were pilled on a plate on the table. I walked behind them and hit them both hard on the back of the heads.
"Ouch," they complained
"Shut up." I ordered. I sat down as the boys came in. Quil looked at me
"You're strange." he muttered, talking about how I didn't care I possibly could have just killed myself.
"You can't talk." I reminded him, he held his hands up.
"Don't piss her off, Quil, she'll hiss at you." Paul laughed. Having been sitting next to him, I grabbed the back of his chair and pushed it backwards, causing Paul to hit the ground.
"I thought I told you to shut up." I said annoyed
"We're just teasing," Jared smirked
"Yeah, aren't you tired of it yet?" I wondered "I mean, I've broken how many bones?"
"Twenty-four." Sam answered
"Really? Only twenty-four?" I asked
"You've broken some of the same bones more then once though." James reminded me, angry tone still in his voice. I gave him a look to tell him to get over it before I answered.
"True." I nodded.
Breaking their bones was the only way I knew how the punish the two boys, though it didn't really hurt them for long.
No one noticed the exchange James and I shared.
"Alexis, try not to break my furniture," Emily sighed
"Sorry Em, but I've done pretty well in that aspect." I smiled
"Yeah, she hasn't broken anything but the boys." Sam reminded her. I felt proud of myself for this fact, the wolves broke everything around them.
"That's cause I'm more respective of other people." I smiled
"We are," Jared disagreed as Paul picked himself and the chair up. He was a little pissed but when it came to me, he was beginning to turn my rage into his laughter. It was actually annoying.
"No you're not." I argued, Jared opened his mouth but I just shot him a look. He didn't bother speaking.
My phone began to ring and I pulled it out of my pocket. I didn't really need to check to know who it was.
"Hello?"
"Is he there?" Bella asked, Jacob was out of his chair and out the door in a flash. He knew, that unlike Billy, I will force him to talk to Bella. I'd tried it already but it only ended up with me jumping away, Jacob phasing and then running off. Bella had obviously blamed herself but I'd told her it was Jacob's fault, not hers. She didn't like thinking Jacob was to blame for everything, it was the same with Edward.
I sighed.
"He just left." I confessed
"Literally?" Bella asked, but it sounded like she already knew the answer.
"The second he heard your voice." I sighed "Sorry."
"It's not your fault." She said irritated. I could just picture her shaking her head and scrunching up some paper she might have been holding.
"Bella shouldn't you be at work and not talking to me?" I realised
"It was quiet for a second." She admitted
"Careful, you don't want the Newtons to fire you." I smirked
"Yeah, then I wouldn't be able to pay for college." She sounded happy by that idea
"You know he'd do it for you whether you want him to or not." I reminded her
"I know." She sighed.
"Well, I'll talk to you later?" I asked, noticing everyone was staring at me.
"They're all with you aren't they?" she asked
"Yeah." I muttered
"Say hi for me?"
"Promise." I nodded as Leah rolled her eyes.
"See you Lex, and thanks."
"No problem." I said before the line went dead.
"Why do you bother?" Embry sighed
"Because I'm sick of being in the middle and hearing both sides." I grumbled glaring at the window.
"If you just blamed the blood sucker it'd be easier." Jared decided
"Or you could blame Bella, she's the one who strings him along." Leah said. Her distaste for Bella was no secret. She was sick of listening to Jacob's thoughts on the subject, a subject I'd heard a lot about.
"What about Jacob?" Emily asked. Everyone sighed or shrugged before looking at me. I rolled my eyes
"See this, is why I bother." I grumbled before getting up "And he wont want to talk to me at the moment." I admitted before stealing four cookies
"Why? What happened?" Seth asked. I just gave him a look before turning away, I shot James, Embry and Quil look. Everyone noticed before I followed Jacob out the door.
They were all going to find out eventually, might as well let the boys explain it.
I knew where Jacob'd be, he was sort of predictable in that sense, when he was upset he'd either go to the beach, or he'd go for a long run. The problem with the run though, was that he didn't have his mind to himself, so the beach was always the first place to start.
I didn't understand why he went to the beach though, sure usually it was quiet but he usually went there to clear his head, and considering Bella had spent almost everyday there, that wasn't helping the situation.
I broke the trees and the water came into sight. Now the problem was finding Jacob with all this sea salt getting in the way of his scent. I walked towards the piece of drift wood where Jacob and Bella had sat when Jacob hold told her about the quileute legends. The three of us considered that their spot.
I could see him before I even got close and I let out a sigh. I knew the dude too well.
I walked over and sat next to him. I don't think he knew I was there until I held a cookie up to his face. He jumped and looked at me. He pulled a grimace
"I hate when you do that," He muttered, taking the cookie
"Everyone does." I reminded him
"Here to apologise?"
"Nope." I admitted, he looked at me a little annoyed
"And for before?"
"Nope," I repeated. "I'm not going to apologise for my actions or for trying to help."
"I don't need your help." he said strongly
"No but Bella does and it involves you, so…" I trailed off leaving him to work the rest out for himself "I don't understand why you're being so stubborn?"
"We can't be friends." He answered
"Why not?"
"Because, they're my enemy." he said, talking about the Cullens. I stood up and stood in front of him.
"Then why are you still talking to me?" I asked, he looked confused "I'm friends with both you guys, and the vampires, and yet, no one seems to have a problem with sharing me." I explained
"You're different." Jacob mumbled
"How?"
"You're not dating one."
"So? What has that got to do with it?" Jacob didn't answer me. "It's not cause they're your mortal enemies." I began, he looked up at me "It's cause you're both in love with her." I said simply. He tried to keep his face plain, but I could tell I'd hit the bullseye.
I crouched down on the rocks in front of him.
"It hurts to be near her," I muttered
"How do you know?"
"I've known you the longest remember." I smirked, remembering the time he'd once said the same thing to me.
"If you know it hurts then why are you always trying to force me to talk to her?" Jacob questioned. I sighed
"Because, all she want's to do is apologise, and you can't even let her do that simple task. You're tearing her apart." he snorted "On the inside, where she's trying to keep it hidden. Just like you are. The only difference is that her minds private and your's isn't."
"I can't do it." He admitted softly
"Maybe you should try?" I offered
"I can't take that chance, I might…"
"Hurt her? Or hurt him?"
"I'm not afraid of hurting him." Jacob said fiercely
"You should be. Because hurting him means hurting her, remember." I explained "It's not as difficult as it sounds, to just, try."
"I can't put myself through something like that. It hurts enough just thinking about her." Jacob confessed. It was weird seeing Jacob so… vulnerable. He hadn't been like this since at least before he'd first phased.
I stood up and sat back next to him before placing an arm around his shoulders and resting my head on one.
"Sorry." I muttered
"For what?"
"Trying to force you to talk to her." I confessed, he sighed and rested his head on mine
"You're just trying to help." he muttered
"But at the same time I'm making it worse."
"You're only making it worse by trying to kill yourself as well." Jacob's voice was serious again,
"This was why I didn't tell you lot." I grumbled "Plus it was ages ago so can we drop it."
"Ages ago?" Jacob asked, the weight of his head disappeared
"Yeah…" I said slowly, now being careful of what I was saying.
"How long ago?" His voice was a little harsh now
"Um…" I muttered
"Alexis,"
Drat. Now I was definitely in trouble, Jake never uses my full name otherwise.
"Back when Bella went to Italy…" I said quietly.
I almost fell down head first as Jacob was suddenly gone from beneath me and no longer supporting my weight.
"What?!" he raged standing in front of me. I felt intimidated as he was so bloody tall.
"It happened, it's in the past, you can't change it, move on." I said quickly.
"What are we going to do with you?" Jacob muttered
"Nothing hopefully." I said, Jacob rolled his eyes.
"You just keep looking for trouble." Jacob sighed "You really are just as bad as Bella."
"Don't compare me to her, I'm not as clumsy and I don't attract danger and I'm not being as dangerous, those things could kill her."
"And jumping from a 100 metre or more high tree could kill you too!" Jacob said
"No, I'm a cat, I'm too agile for that."
"We don't know if that's true." Jacob admitted
"Seems to be." I grumbled. Jacob sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Can you at least try to be normal?" he questioned
"You can talk," I grinned, Jacob rolled his eyes
"But I'm not as breakable as you are." he thought
"I'm strong enough to break your bones, I think I'm fine." I reminded him
"That's me, us, something more dangerous such as a vampire, is different."
"You can't be more breakable then they are?" I thought confused, I didn't expect they would be, sure vampires are like marble but they boys weren't exactly soft, walking into them was like walking into a brick wall. As much as they didn't want to admit it, the two sides were alike, gorgeous and indestructible, just one was hot and the other was cold.
Jacob smirked at my comment and I knew I was right, he didn't think they were more breakable… then again Edward thought the opposite, he thought he was less breakable then the wolves. One day I'd like to see who'd really win out of the two of them, if it didn't end up with one of them dead afterwards.
I stood up and stretched
"So, shall we go back? I still haven't eaten anything." I confessed, Jacob rolled his eyes
"Don't roll your eyes at me, you're hungry too!"
"Not as much." Jacob shrugged, typically his stomach betrayed him by grumbling. I smirked at him and he rolled his eyes.
"Come on." he grumbled and took my hand, leading me back to Emily's house. I was glad he felt better, even if it was only for a short period. Embry had told me that Jacob feels better when he's around me, not in as much pain as when he's with the pack or when he's alone. I was glad for that, it had been the same when we were kids too.
I'm glad not everything's changed with all that's happened.