AN: This story is just going to be small drabbles over the time that Adrienne gets to know Quil, Jacob, and Embry. As annoying as it sometimes is, the chapters will be varying between POV's. I'd also love some opinions on how you all think this has started out, so please review.
Disclaimer: I own Adrienne, but not Twilight.
Chapter 1 - Embry
June 2009
I was sitting at the old plastic table outside the ice cream stand with Quil and Jacob when I saw her. She was directly in my line of vision, only about seven feet away, and she was absolutely beautiful. Her skin was a cream white stretched across her body, and a mixture of dark brown and black curls fell down to the middle of her back. She was dressed in a pair of shorts and a tank top that hugged her body in the best way. But the most noticeable thing about her appearance that I saw was that she was healthy. She was thin, but not too thin. She had small curves at her hips, and her legs looked strong.
Just then she turned her head in my direction and I caught her eyes, they were a deep hazel, and she gave a small smile to me. At the same time I heard Quil's voice boom.
"Yo, Embry, what are you staring at?" he turned around in his chair and caught sight of her and she blushed, turning back toward the ice cream stand.
Jacob noticed her too and then they were both staring at her and I kicked their legs under the table. "Could you be a little more discreet?" I whispered to them.
Jacob scoffed. "You're one to talk." I rolled my eyes, stealing another glance at her, knowing that she'd probably be leaving soon.
The man behind the counter handed her a cone with strawberry ice cream and she gave him a five dollar bill. She took the change from him and glanced back to me, a smile still on her lips. I averted my eyes to the milkshake that was on the table in front of me.
"Shut up," I said to Jacob, a little too late.
"Oh, come on dude, go talk to her," Quil loudly whispered.
I heard Jacob snort. "I don't think he'll have to."
"What?" Quil and I said at the same time but our question was answered when I saw the girl out of the corner of my eye, and she was right next to me.
When our eyes met she grinned with perfect teeth. "Hi!" she exclaimed excitedly. She was even more beautiful up close. "Do you mind if I sit with you?" she gestured to the open seat between Quil and I.
I shrugged. "Sure."
"Thanks," she dropped her bag on the ground by her feet and plopped into the seat with a sigh, tossing her phone onto the table. "I'm Adrienne by the way."
Quil was the first one to speak. No doubt he's the one that's always trying to go after girls. "I'm Quil," he replied, flashing a bright smile. He was flirting, of course. "This is Jacob and Embry." He pointed to us as he said our names and she nodded politely.
"Cool," she took a large bite out of her ice cream before continuing. "So you guys live on the reservation? Or are you just visiting?"
"We live here," Jacob answered. "What about you? Do you live in Forks?"
She nodded, a slight grimace playing on her face. "Just moved here from Indiana."
"That's pretty far," I commented. It was the first thing that I said and she grinned at me.
"Yeah but the summers there are brutal. They're crazy humid, so it's kind of nice here at least for now."
As if on cue, a small breeze blew by and she let her head fall back to enjoy it. Her phone buzzed twice and she glanced at the screen but didn't bother to pick it up.
"How old are you guys?" she asked curiously, running the hand that wasn't holding the ice cream cone through her hair.
"Fifteen," Jacob replied. "You?"
"Me too," she beamed at us. None of us really knew how to respond to this girl talking to us. Not that we hadn't talked to girls, but mostly just that we'd known all those girls since kindergarten.
There was a small silence between us as she watched people pass by and finished the rest of her ice cream.
"So what do people usually do around here in the summer?" she questioned us. "My step dad won't be here to pick me up until 5 or so tonight."
I checked my phone and it was only 11:45.
"Well we usually just come here or go to each other's houses," Quil answered her. "Today we were goin' to go to Jake's and work on the rabbit."
That sparked her interest and she raised her eyebrows. "What's that? A car?"
"Yeah, it's a car Jake's building."
"Cool, like from scratch?"
"Sort of," Jacob replied. "You can come over and check it out if you want, since you don't have anything else to do. "
She smiled back at Jacob and we had our answer.
The garage was a mess, with tools and old pop cans scattered all over the ground. As far as I knew, Jacob had never had a girl in here, probably not even his sisters. But Adrienne didn't seem to mind, she just eyed the rabbit which was barely close to being finished.
"I started on it about a year ago, and it's been taking a while. I'm pretty low on funds," Jacob admitted but she smiled anyway.
"I think it's awesome," she gushed. "I mean, I don't really know that much about cars, but it seems like it's a lot of work and it's really cool that you're committed to something like this." Jacob grinned with pride. "Besides it's not going to matter how long it took you, you'll just feel so good after it's finished."
She was just boosting his ego and I saw Quil roll his eyes. "Oh he's not doing the whole thing by himself. We're helping him."
Jacob snorted. "Yeah right, do you guys even know how to change a tire?"
I just shrugged.
"I know how to change a tire, and how to change the oil." Adrienne exclaimed proudly.
Jacob raised his eyebrows. "Really?"
She nodded. "Yeah my dad taught me how when I was like, in case of an emergency, and before my mom met Dave it came in handy a lot."
"Dave's your stepdad?" Quil asked.
"Yup," she answered. "They met when I was in eighth grade and that's why we moved here. They got married but he wanted to be able to settle down where he grew up, which was Forks."
"Do you like him?"
"He makes my mom happy and that's really all that matters to me."
"What about your dad?"
"Oh my dad still lives in Indiana," she explained, but I noticed that her face fell for a moment as she said that. "My parents were never married. They had a really short-lived romance while my dad and his wife, who's my step mom, were split up. Which is how I came along."
She was so open and willing to talk about anything and it was sort of captivating. I found myself starting to ask the questions because I wanted to know more. "But you knew your dad well?"
"Yeah I stayed with him all the time in the summer and on weekends. We only lived a few hours away at the time. In fact I'm actually supposed to be going there on August 1st up until school starts, but that all depends on how cheerleading tryouts go."
Quil left pretty soon after that when his sister called and asked to babysit her daughter Lily, so the rest of the afternoon Adrienne sat next to Jacob asking him questions about the rabbit and life living right next to the beach until we heard Billy yelling for him around 3:30. When we walked out of the wooded area Billy was at the top of the ramp in his old wheelchair, eyeing Adrienne suspiciously.
"Hey kids," Billy yelled to us. I nodded my hello but Adrienne made a beeline for the porch.
"I'm Adrienne," she said as she bounded up the ramp, grinning. "You must be Billy."
"That's what they call me," he took her hand and smiled back at her. "They aren't holding you captive now, are they?"
Jacob rolled his eyes. "What did you want, Dad?" he asked, trying to quickly change the subject.
"Charlie just called and was wanting to know if we wanted to get together tonight and watch the baseball game, what do you think about that?"
Jacob immediately perked up and we all knew why.
"Will Bella be there?"
Billy grinned. "I don't know, I guess we'll just have to see. The game starts at 4."
"I'll go wash my hands and then we can go," Jacob ran passed his father and into the house without another word.
"I should probably head back to the beach in case Dave shows up early," Adrienne began. "It was really nice to meet you Billy."
He nodded to her. "Likewise, hopefully I'll see you again."
"Yeah I'm gonna head back too," I called to Billy. "Tell Jake we said bye!"
Billy rolled back into the house and I heard him mumble. "Sure, sure."
I turned back to Adrienne and she had already started to walk the hill towards the beach. I caught up to her and she smiled but didn't say anything. We walked side-by-side in a peaceful silence in a while before she spoke up.
"So who's Bella?" she asked curiously.
"Oh she's the daughter of Billy's best friend, Chief Swan," I explained while she listened intently. "She moved here about halfway through the school year from living with her mom, and Jake's got a huge crush on her."
"Does she like him back?"
I shook my head. "No, she's got a boyfriend in Forks, but Jake's just biding his time. Waiting to swoop in and catch her. He's way over his head."
She shrugged mindlessly. "Well hopefully things go good for him," she sounded genuine and I found myself thinking of questions that I'd like to ask her.
Once we reached the boardwalk, she took a seat at a small piece of driftwood by the trees.
"Do you want me to wait with you?" I asked her.
"Sure," she replied with a small smile and I sat down next to her. It was quiet again for a moment before she started to talk. "So if you don't work on cars, what kind of stuff do you do?"
I was caught off guard by her question. She had seemed more interested in what Jacob did than me, but I was mostly used to that because Quil and Jacob were always more outgoing than I was with strangers. Not that they ever got girls either, we were pretty low on the totem pole around the rez because we were so young.
"I like to build stuff," I explained. Her hazel eyes filled with curiosity at my words and I blushed slightly as I continued. "I like to build anything really, I'm pretty into construction or architecture."
The only people that really knew that about me were the guys and my mom. I was a pretty private person, but I felt like I could tell her anything.
"Can you draw?"
"A little bit, but mostly just buildings," I replied. "Can you?"
She nodded, a small blush creeping into her cheeks now. "Yeah but I hate drawing buildings," she admitted. She reached into her bag and pulled out a small sketchbook. "I like to draw people, I find them fascinating. When I lived in Indiana, I'd sometimes go to the nearest park and just sit on the swings and watch people."
The drawings that were in her sketchbook were incredible. There was so much detail in every feature, I felt like I was looking at a black and white photograph. One sketch was of a toddler sitting on a blanket, another was of an old couple relaxing on a bench. "These are really good," I told her and she smiled triumphantly.
"I don't usually show people my sketchbook," she said as I handed it back to her. "So consider yourself lucky."
A vibration came from her phone and she glanced at it for a second and then she opened her sketchbook and wrote something in the bottom corner of the page, ripping it off. "Dave is here so I've got to go, but here's my number. Let me know next time you'll all be hanging out and, if it's okay with Quil and Jacob, I'll tag along."
"Will do."
She leaned over and kissed me very lightly on the cheek. "Thanks for keeping me company today, Embry," she said with a grin. "I'll see you soon."
Then she ran across the sand to the parking lot, disappearing into someone's car and leaving me alone at the bench with a phone number in my hand and her on my mind.
