I twitched anxiously in my seat waiting for the plane to take off. I hated flying, if it wasn't for the necessary bags of luggage I would have chosen the hours of running. My leg kept bouncing up and down in a rhythmic way until a stone cold hand grabbed my thigh. The temperature differences sent a burning sensation tingling against my skin.
"We aren't even in the air yet." The voice whispered in my ear sending a thick invisible cloud of incense around me. I tried to relax but my stiff muscles kept their composure.
I looked over at the immortal sitting next to be in the dimly lit aircraft cabin. His golden eyes matched the shade of his disheveled hair perfectly. If I hadn't known better, he could have passed for human in this light.
"The plane could explode upon take off." I murmured back turning to stare out the window into the night. As if flying wasn't terrible enough, night flying would be torture. Silently, I cursed the sunny spell that had descended upon Maine recently.
"Don't be absurd, everything is fine." Ethan replied next to me clearly amused by my distrust of air planes.
It had taken a few months, but eventually Jacob had convinced Sam to allow me to return to La Push for visits. It took a full year for him to persuade Sam to allow Ethan to return with me. Even to this day, I wasn't sure how Jacob had managed to do it. It wasn't the first time I had brought home a boy, clearly Sam had met my parents numerous times in the past, but this time was different. I was going against my entire genetic make up by bringing home a vampire.
Of course my mother already knew the story. Sam blabbed the first chance he had when he returned home. He didn't even give me the chance to tell her first. Though Sue was more understanding than I could have imagined. Part of me felt guilty for this, it was clear she didn't want to lose me any more than she already had. The scandal spread like wild fire throughout the tiny reservation and I was grateful for not being there. I threw myself into my first year of college, taking a full course load and then some. Ethan attended classes as well, majoring in the medical field. It was useful since a lot of our classes tended to over lap as I was ironically pursuing a veterinarian degree. May be it was just the wolf in me but it was the only thing that I could see myself actually doing forever.
Seth loved the idea even more than myself. We talked daily on the phone and it pained me how much I missed my little brother. He was growing up too fast I could only imagine how much he had changed. I hadn't seen him since that night in the clearing a year ago and I was nervous to officially introduce him to Ethan. Though he had spoken to him on the phone numerous times developing a bond, in person would be different, more official.
My leg started spasming again as I felt the plane shuttling down towards the run way. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Ethan trying to disguise his smile.
"The big bad wolf is scared of flying?" I heard him whisper too low for humans to hear. I unnecessarily reminded myself to make him pay for this later.
"Watch it bloodsucker." I growled back but my bravado was destroyed as I reached out and grabbed his icy fingers the second I felt the plane's wheels left the ground.