You love simply because you can't help it
Disclaimer- I do not own any of the twilight characters.
Embrys POV.
It was wet. Nothing new. It always rained in la Push. I was on my own at the beach again. Everyone was busy with their imprints or busy thinking about them lately. Sam and Emily were off doing the finishing touches on the wedding, Paul and Rachel were watching some chick flick, Jacob and Nessie were hunting, Jared well I didn't t even want to know what he was doing with Kim and Quil was minding Claire. I didn't t know where Seth and Leah were but you can bet it involved Clio and Derek. It sucked before Jake, Quil and I had a routine of spending every Sunday in Jakes garage fixing cars and talking but now they had imprinted. To be honest, I didn't t want to imprint, you spend all your time with your imprint and had no social life. I was going to be different. I would stay strong but the problem was there was no-one to stay strong with. I looked at the cliff that would keep me busy. I got to the top of the cliff and jumped.
There was that rush of adrenaline as I was suspended in mid-air. I was scared but excited then I crashed into the waves. The dark water met me. I let myself sink for a second absorbing the cool water before coming up for air. I drew in a deep breath then headed for the shore. As I fought the waves, I remembered that mom wanted to talk to me. Mom had hated Sam and the gang. She thought I had joined a criminal mob or something but Billy and Sue had talked to her and she was starting to trust the pack as well as that with all the new werewolves, I had less shifts and Jacob was organising my shifts during the day. Mom was starting to trust me again. I threw my shirt on and headed home.
Mom was waiting. "Embry" she said. I looked at her. She was going to ask me a favour I could tell. "Yes?" I said hesitantly. Mom put my dinner down and sat across from me. I gulped down the food and waited for her to ask me whatever it was she wanted. I didn't t have to wait long.
"Embry, there's a carnival coming up for my playschool and I need your help." Mom ran a playschool in Forks and she loved the kids there. I had helped paint it and decorate it. Working with kids made mom so happy. "Ok." I answered. I wasn't great with children but I could stick posters up and do the grunt work. My mom gave a small smile, there was something else.
"What, Mom?" I asked hoping I wasn't going to regret it.
"I need lots of help. You know its only me and Fiona who run the playgroup and to hold a carnival, you need loads of help. You, Fiona, her daughter and I can t run it by ourselves so I thought you could ask your friends to help." That wasn t too bad. Claire went to the playgroup so Quil would be thrilled to help and Jacob would help. Leah loved kids so she was a definite as was Kim which meant Jared would help and Leah would drag Seth along and maybe Sam and Emily.
"Ok." I said. My phone vibrated it was Jacob. I left mom who was too busy planning where the cotton candy stand would go to notice. Jacob wanted to hang out. I had a feeling he was only doing this because I had complained earlier that we never hang out anymore but I didn't care.
I arrived ten minutes later at Jakes. We sat in his garage and tinkered with cars. Jake was telling me a story about Nessie which was supposed to be funny but wasn t. "Jake, remember when you thought imprinting was a another way to control you?"
Jake smiled. "Yeah, I do but I was stupid. Imprinting allows you to find your perfect piece and it teaches you how to value love."
That was a load of rubbish. "Jake, do you really believe that I mean look at you, you spend every minute with Nessie and when you are not with her, you are thinking about her, its not healthy."
Jake smiled. "Embry when you imprint, then you will understand its brilliance. Just wait."
"I m not going to imprint. I don t want to be a stupid love sick puppy who can t do anything by himself and is way too dependent on some girl." Jake laughed. I growled.
"Lets make a bet, you can bet you will never imprint and I bet you will." Jake held out his hand and I took it. There was no way I was imprinting this was going to be an easy win.
Eva s POV.
"Girls, love is not worth the pain. I thought I loved Danny but he broke my heart and then I met Brad who I thought I loved but realised later he was a jerk. Seriously, I am done with love. Never again." My friends laughed. "I'm serious." I said and stood up. I grabbed my bag.
"Eva, come on. It is funny but we are sorry that you are hurt and that must be the hundredth time we have heard the love is bad speech in the last two weeks." I pulled on my jacket and looked at them.
"I know you are but I have to go anyway. My mom is planning a carnival for the playschool and I said I would help so I can t got to the cinema Saturday either. They need me at the carnival, its just my mom, Susie, her son and his friends and me so total bore but got to go. Bye"
I walked out, waving at them as they shouted their goodbyes. I pulled open the café door and shivered. It was freezing and I had to walk home. I couldn't t wait to get a car. I loved cold weather though. The chill in the air that was so fresh. I also liked wrapping myself in scarves and hats. I was a winter person, good thing I lived in La Push. There was no fear of having too much sunshine. I pushed my key into the lock and opened the door. Mom was sitting inside. She looked up as I entered. I loved my mom, I really did but I hated her love of frills and dresses. I m a debutant because of her and now she had that look on her face that meant something girlie.
"Great news Eva. You will be taking the kissing booth with Susie s son, Embry." I screamed inwardly. A kissing booth, who s idea was this? I didn't t want to kiss any guys, I was sworn off love and as well as that what if no guy wanted to kiss me and I was left at an empty booth.
"No. Have you not been listening to me for the last two weeks? I am not going to do the kissing booth." Mom looked like she was going to cry then Dad came in. Dad never got into the playgroup activities because he was a disaster with kids even me. He looked at Mom.
"Eva promised to help me with the carnival and now she's refusing to do the kissing booth." mom told Dad. My Dad always gets me to do what he wants because he has my pocket money and because he knows my weaknesses. Dad looked at me.
"Eva, do you want to go to the Green Day concert, don t you?" Dad asked. I was caught. I nodded. "ok, if you don t do the kissing booth, no Green Day, if you do the kissing booth then you can go to the concert." I sighed. Not only did love suck so did parents and carnivals.
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Saturday came too fast. Mom woke me up at seven with "Its carnival day." as if it was a huge motivator for me to get out of bed. I ate breakfast and tried not to think about what was ahead. It was sunny today. It was sunny three days per a year in Forks and today it was sunny. Someone had a sick sense of humour. "Perfect" My mom said. I sighed and put my headphones in reminding myself this was my ticket to the Green Day concert. When we got to the field, there were about twelve people running around. Most of them were boys, shirtless boys. They were tall and most were hot. One in particular was hot, I hoped he would help the playschool by coming to the kissing booth. None of them noticed me and my mom arrive until my mom screamed in a high pitch voice. "Perfect" They all turned around and stopped doing their jobs to look at my mom in her dress suit who immediately began to talk to Susie. I looked at the ground hoping if I could not see them, they could not see me. The hottest one came over. Why was I calling him hot? I was sworn off love, I shouldn't t even be looking at guys unless it was my friend, Ross who was the only awesome guy.
"Hey" He said. I looked up. It was a mistake because he had the nicest eyes ever. Damn him. He stared at me and I looked away blushing. He should be in jail for being too cute. I bet he s an arrogant jerk. Yes, hes a jerk, I tell myself, trying to convince myself to hate the most gorgeous guy I have ever seen.
Embrys POV.
I got up at six and we reached the far field at seven. Mom was getting stressed as she yelled at Quil to make sure the merry go round was secure and asked Leah for the fourth time if she had the raffle tickets. To the packs amusement, I had ended up with the kissing stand. It was stupid but Jacob thought this might help him win the bet as I might meet my imprint. It was so childish I mean a kissing booth but Mom had insisted so here I was painting a sign saying Kissing Stand. Then I heard a scream, it was too high for my ears. Everyone dropped what they were doing. Sam dropped the box of face paint, Paul spun round knocking Rachel to the ground and Jared and Kim stopped kissing. They should have been in the kissing stand I mean they have enough practise. I looked round. It was Fiona. Then I saw the person next to her. She was unbelievable. I remembered a quote from Byron.
She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
It described her perfectly. I am attached to her in an indescribable fashion. She is everything to me, she controls me and she is my god. I run over, tripping over Rachel on the way. Paul shouts something but I don't hear it but it reminds me of Jacob. I am supposed to be impossible to imprint. Shoot. "Hey" I say. She looks up at me and I stare at her. She blushes, its so beautiful.
"Embry" My mother calls. I reluctantly stop staring and go over to my mom. Luckily none of the guys noticed anything. "I need you to help Jake. Eva, Fiona s girl can take care of the kissing booth." Eva, even her name was beautiful but she was on the kissing booth. She was beautiful so lots of guys would come to kiss her, she would be kissing lots of guys. Already the heat was rising and this was just thinking about it. Could I control myself or should I find something to get her out of that job so she wouldn't t have to kiss any other guys?