Chapter 1: A new home, new people, and maybe new friends
"Alright now listen! I'm not going to go through this with you again Sara, so drop it" Said the very angry voice of Ms. Uley to her daughter Sarafina. Sarafina growled in irritation at her mother and turned in the seat of the passenger side, and looked out the window to the boring scenery that was to be her new home.
"You are so unfair did you even think of me when you made this stupid dissection to move here…to this boring little town!" Sarafina said in just as much irritation and anger as her mother.
Ms. Uley sighed, "Look Sara I know that you are going to miss your friends and that you have to change schools but you'll make new friends in both, trust me when I say that it is good for both of us that we have left…that life behind."
"Good for both of us or good for you? I could have stayed with grandma and grandpa" said Sarafina in retaliation.
"Well then maybe that is where I should have left you!" Ms. Uley's voice raised again.
"Would have been fine with me" said Sarafina only to get under her mother's skin even more and it did just that. Her mother growled in frustration at her daughter's' attitude, passions, and lack of cooperation.
They drove a little further till they reached the reserve that was on the cliffs of La Push in Washington Forks. This was to be their new home so to say because her mother was trying to runaway from a divorce that had happened but not only a month ago, Sarafina did not blame her. Her father was always cheating on her mother and he was a drunk as well, and there had been too many close calls for when they got into fights, someone almost always got close to being hurt. She could see why her mother would want to get away and go somewhere but did they have to leave California to do it? Did they have to leave all of their family, and friends behind? Sarafina was torn but she was not going to tell her mother that, she did not even have the nerve to tell her friends how she really felt about the situation. As usual and as always Sarafina would grin and bear the following consequences that were turning her life upside down, she desperately wanted it to stop but who would listen to a 16 year old girl. Who was a daughter of a divorcee, they would only think that the feelings she talked about where just to get attention. In some ways they would be right, in others…Sarafina really just wanted someone to talk to and to listen and obviously that one person could not be her mother. she would and could never understand how she really felt, she would only take it as rebellion and nothing more than to get more attention.
When they pulled into the stone path driveway her mother brought the car to a halt and looked at the house through the cars windshield. Ms. Uley shivered a little looking at the house and said, "Man this place sure can send chills down your spine," she was trying to start up a conversation.
Sarafina turned her head to look at the house. Her face must have shown disapproval because Ms. Uley let out a snort of bemusement before she stepped out of the car. Sarafina snapped her head to her mother and glared at her with daggers at her, her mother obviously ignored her and walked up to the house to see if the guy she had bought the place form had left it open. Well it was no surprise that they had, her mother gave the people full instructions on what needed to be done to the house when she had made a trip here and checked it out to see if it was buy able. Sarafina knew her mother was not going to ask her to come in, there was no reason to ask the "queen of bitchy attitudes" what she thought, her mother knew her answer all too well.
Sarafina stayed in the car till her mother came back out and opened her driver side door and hit the trunk button, "You get your own stuff, and I'll get mine" she said before closing the door, Sarafina watched from inside as her mother walked around the car and to the back.
She heard the hatch open and it go up as it made the hissing sound, she listened to everything. When Sarafina knew that her mother had what she wanted and was gone she got out of the car and walked to the back to get her things. Sarafina gathered everything she needed to and took it to whatever room she decided to make her own. Sarafina choose the second to largest room, it had two windows overlooking the cliff and ocean and one that looked into the forest. The closet was spacious and fit all of her shoes and cloths perfectly, Sarafina looked around and noticed, after she had successfully moved her bed in, that she had room for her library bookcases. This pleased her for she thought that she would have to give them to her mother if there was not enough room to fit them how she liked. Once she had brought in everything else and put it away, Sarafina realized that she had done most of the unpacking while moving her furniture around. She unpacked what little she had with in an hour; Sarafina decided it was time to go outside and see if her view of the ocean was better form outside than in.
Sarafina stepped out on to the porch and finally, after ignoring it all since her arrival, looked around for the first time and took in the forest life and breathed its air. When she let it out she felt a great wave of relaxation sweep over her, she felt calm, cool, and collected. She felt the same way back in California, 'maybe…Just maybe, this place is not as different as California' Sarafina thought as she began to descend the 3 wooden steps that let you off the porch. she walked to the tree line that divided her front yard with the forest and peered in, The forest looked inviting. Beautiful rays of sunshine fell upon the leaves of the trees as it shined through the canopy, It send happy feelings through her to see an untouched forest area. Truth be told she loved wetlands and woodlands, Sarafina could never tell why but something about them drew her to them as if to say 'welcome home'. In California there was no woods but wetlands and there it made her sad to see what people did to nature, the wetlands there were mostly dust bowls anyway.
She could not resist, she stepped over the line of the divided yard and forest and began to walk to a tree that was taller than most. When she reached it and ran her hand down its bark she smiled, the tree was a healthy and is was a Sycamore tree, 'no wonder it's taller than the others' she thought. She laid her head upon the tree and closed her eyes and listed to the life all around her, she listed to the birds, the tiny animal life that ran around on the ground. To the insects that fluttered in the air, on the ground, and crawled on the trees. Sarafina took another deep breath and she felt as if the forest did the same and then let it out, she felt the forest do the same. 'It's as if we are connected?' she thought as she opened her eyes and gently stroked the trees bark again before she turned around to lean against it.
As she leaned against the tree and took in the rest of her surroundings she noticed that this was the only sycamore for miles around and that the rest where oak, cedar, pine, and a few fir trees here and there. This was quite strange and it puzzled her, 'How could only one tree such as this grow here without another to begin with?' this question pulled at the back of her mind till she heard her mother call.
"Sara! Sara, where are you?" called Ms. Uley.
"Coming mom!" Sarafina shouted back.
"Hurry, I have someone I want you to meet!" her mother called again before she went to the front of the house.
Before Sarafina went back she walked from the woods to her window to where the ocean cliff view was, 'Amazing!' she thought as she looked down upon the ocean. She gaped at the sheer drop that looked to be about 30 feet. "Wow!" she breathed in surprise as she stepped back, 'I just had to choose this room that was next to a cliff' was her thought as she walked to the front of the house.
When she reached the corner of the house she saw her mother talking to a man that was sitting in a wheelchair, for a man that looked to be about 50 or so he was very good looking. He had long black hair, and piercing brown eyes that gave Sarafina the chills, it was as if he could see right through her. His skin was a russet tan color and he wore a black Stetson on his head of long shiny black hair. He even wears the brown leather cowboy boots that gave Sarafina the feeling that he could be Indian by his clothes or by his looks. Sarafina just stood there and listened to them talk, even though she paid no mid to the conversation that was taking place between that two adults. As Sarafina watched them she had a feeling that she was being watched and the feeling felt like it was coming from…above?
Sarafina looked up and let out a startled scream. She took a few steps back and tripped over a log that she did not remember being there before and landed flat on her ass. "Ugh!" Sarafina let out another cry this time. a cry of pain. She lay on the ground hissing in pain, rushing feet could be heard and a set of wheels that she figured came from the man in the wheelchair, "Bloody Hell!" she shouted.
"Sara are you alright?" her mother asked helping her stand to her feet, her mother was trying not to laugh.
"No! I'm not bloody alright! I think I bruised my tailbone" Sarafina said in a whimper, "Mom! It's not funny!" she growled.
"Oh, I'm sorry dear" Ms. Uley stiffened her laughter, her mother then pulled her serious face back on and asked, "what happened to you anyway?"
Sarafina growled and looked up at the roof to see a russet tan skinned boy that was her age, he looked like that man in the wheelchair, except for his eyes, the boys eyes were a darker shade of brown. Everyone looked up and the man in the wheelchair sighed, "Embry, I thought I told you to be on your best behavior."
"I am, it's not my fault the girl got scared and fell" the boy said as he jumped down for the roof. He then walked to a small group of boy that Sarafina had not noticed was standing before her, but there was one thing she did notice they all looked a lot a like. All had black Hair, all had russet tan skin, and all had dark or little brown eyes.
"Oh! I see now, we bought a house on his land and he is checking up on us, great I love being invaded" She said sarcastically.
"Sara! Now that is enough! Mr. Black was kind enough to sell us his house, he didn't have to but he did and as long as he is here this is still his house, do you understand?" her mother said rather forcefully. Sarafina just stared at her mother and folded her arms across her chest and held her mother's gaze for a minute, then down casted her eyes. "Good, now please politely introduce yourself to our guest and owner of the house."
Sarafina brought her gaze back up to the man and the boys and said "Sarafina Artemis Rebecca Nathrock, but you can call me Sara."
The boys mouths gaped a bit, "wow, that's a long name" said one of the boys.
"I'd say it is" said Embry.
Sarafina just stared at them before turning her head away but it snapped back up at her mother's words, "well it won't be Nathrock much long, I plan to change it back to my maiden name."
"Oh really! What is your maiden name?" asked another of the boy's.
Ms. Uley smiled, "It's Uley."
All of the boy's mouths dropped again and one said, "You're a Uley? But you don't look a thing like them" he was slightly confused.
"That is because I look more like my mother than my father, my father is James Uley my mother is Rosa Smith. I believe you all know my cousin Samson Uley" she said with a brighter smile.
"Is she talking about Sam?" asked a boy to Mr. Black.
"Yes son, that she is" answered Mr. Black.
"So this is why you brought us along, you wanted us to meet Sam's family" said a boy that Sarafina now knew to be Mr. Black's son.
"Right again Jake" said Mr. Black, the boy named Jake looked up at Sarafina and smile a lovely smile, Sarafina wanted to blush because she thought this Jake kid was really cute. But she didn't want her mother to know that she found something she liked about La Push so she just smirked and nodded to the boy.
"Well, you introduced yourselves, so it's our turn!" Jake said with happy enthusiasm he gave a hand gestures to the other boys and his father. "I'm Jacob Black but you can call me Jake" he said winking at Sarafina.
She smirked but hid it as her mother looked over at her, Sarafina cleared her throat and said "Nice to meet you Jake."
Then the boy that stood in the middle smiled and said, "I'm Quil Ateara the fifth, but you can call me Quil" he said smiling at Ms. Uley and Sarafina, Sarafina couldn't help but smile back their happiness and enthusiasm was infectious.
Their attention turned to the boy at the end, Embry, "I'm Embry Call, but you can call me Emm" he said smile to the mother and daughter duo. He turn his full attention to Sarafina, "Sorry about scaring you earlier, I didn't mean to" he said apologizing to her.
"That's okay but…what were you doing on the roof anyways?" she asked confused and curious.
She heard Jacob and Quil trying hard not to laugh as they saw their friend turn three shades of red, "Your mom told us that you were on the side of the house and Emm here couldn't wait to get a look at you when you mother said that she had a daughter" Quil said with a chuckle.
The boy's could no longer contain themselves, they let their laughter loose. Sarafina could tell that Embry was really embarrassed, so she decided to make his day, "Oh really, Embry that is so sweet. Being a gentlemen and coming to see me first" she said sweetly, she smiled kindly at him and batted her eyes lashes.
The two boy stopped laughing, and watched as Embry went from embarrassed to smiling triumphantly at the other two boys'. Jacob and Quil both had shocked faces as they looked at Sarafina, this time it was Embry and Sarafina who had to try not to laugh but it was no use.
Sarafina and Embry's laughter filled the woods and echoed all around them, "That was great, I like her Billy!" Embry said as the other two got over their shock.
Mr. Black smiled at the young Uley child, "I like her too Embry, you seem like a fine girl Sara" he said with light praise.
"Thanks Mr. B" Sarafina said with a smirk.
"Please, call me Billy" he said with a slight tip of his hat.
"Right! Got it, no Mr. B" she said pretending to scratch it off her list.
Billy chuckled and looked at Ms. Uley, "I like her cheek Kathrin."
"Well that makes one of us" Kathrin Uley said with a shake of her head, "So!" she said again, "About the school."
"I'm out! See ya boys around" Sarafina said as she turned and walked away.
"wait just a minute young lady!" her mother called.
"Sorry mom, this is summer and I had it ruined all ready by moving. I will not have it ruined with the talk of school…and I already checked it out. The school is for locals only that live and have been living on this reserve, so it would not even matter. I would have to go to Forks High School if I went to any school" she said walking away from the group and into the woods where she had been earlier.
"careful in those woods!" Billy called.
"I will!" Sarafina called back over her shoulder.
"Boy's maybe you should go with her, knowing my daughter she will get into some sort of trouble" Kathrin said with a sigh.
"You got it Ms. Uley" Jacob said walking with the guys as they headed to where Sarafina had disappeared to.
Kathrin chuckled, "Jacob has grown so much Billy, and it has been a long time since I have been home" she watched her old friend nod in agreement.
"Sara seems to be a little bitter toured you and this place, why would that be?" he asked catching her eye.
"Billy don't give me that look, you know as well as I that Sam was never in agreement of my marriage with Jack, and things were getting worse instead of better. What was I suppose to do? I had to stay for sometime, I couldn't just up and leave. I had a daughter to take care of, and…How was I suppose to know if Sam was going to forgive me or not. I heard what he did to Emily, how was I suppose to know that I would or would not meet that same fate, and with a child I had to raise… I couldn't take that chance. Not with my daughters' fate hanging in the balance of it all, she will need a woman figure that understand what she will be going though soon, not a man figure. Plus keeping her around that drunken ass of a father wasn't helping anything, his family won't even speak to me but they will her in order to keep her with them" she said irritated.
"I know Kathrin, I know, but for all it is worth if it does ever happen to her, she will forgive you and be happy that she moved instead of staying with her father. If she ever meets Emily or Sam and see what he has done, then she will know how it is, and for all it is really worth…I'm glad that you decided to move back home" Billy said with a smile.
Kathrin returned it, she bent over and gave Billy a hung. "I hope you're right Billy, because if not…then I have most definitely destroyed her life" she said as she came down to Billy's height and rested her head upon his shoulder with a sigh of unhappiness.
Back in the woods, Sarafina decided to venture a little farther past the sycamore tree and see what was really in the woods. when she came upon a herd of deer, crouched low and sat in the tall grass watching them as they grazed. while she sat watching, she noticed a baby fawn coming her way. 'Unless this little guy hasn't smelled me yet or he is just really curious about what I look like?' Sarafina thought as the baby fawn crept closer and closer, until it was looking right at her right in the face. The fawn was only inches away, Sarafina wanted to pet the baby so very badly, she slowly raised her hand and extended it towards the baby deer. The baby gently butted it head against her hand, then let her hand run down it back, "uh!" she breather in amazement. 'Oh my god! This is the coolest thing that has ever happened to me!' she thought excitedly as she petted the fawn. Sarafina was paying little attention to her surrounding and didnt notice that she was being watched.
"Wow guys!" said Embry a little too loud.
"SHH!" the others said trying to hush him up.
"Dud she is amazing!" Quil said in an excited whisper, "I've never seen anyone able to get that close to a deer let alone a fawn, they always stick by their mothers."
Jacob watched, transfixed by Sarafina as she was doing something that no one around here was ever able to do before, "I like her" he said out loud, not meaning to.
"We know man" Embry said with a light laugh.
"So do we" Quil said as he watched Jacob watch her, Embry was watching Jacob too.
Until, "Hey! look at that!" Jacob said in an excited whisper, both boys turned back to see a doe and a buck approach where Sarafina now stood petting the Fawn.
The Doe seemed to be following the Fawns lead on this, she sensed no danger, however, the Buck seemed to be playing it more cautiously than the other two. But when he seen that Sarafina posed no threat, and was not going to hurt the Doe or Fawn he approached Sarafina with his head down low. Sarafina extended her hand to his head slowly and when it made contact with the buck, it closed its eyes. it let out slow steady calm breaths, he let her hand travel down his neck and to the center of his back but no lower. At first Sarafina was puzzled, she didn't understand why he would jerk away when she reached his hind quarters. she took a closer look and noticed he seemed to have a very tender looking pink spot, "Oh I see!" she said to the buck. "Did you get into a fight boy?" she asked, the buck stomped his hove as to say yes. "Did you win?" the buck stomped his hove again, then jerked his head to the herd of Doe and young buck and Fawn alike, Sarafina understood. "You won dominance of the herd is that what you are saying" the deer held his head up with pride and stomped his hove again, Sarafina smiled, "I'm very happy for you and you seem to be doing a wonderful job."
The deer brought his head down and licked her cheek as a way of giving her a thank you or a kiss. Sarafina giggled, "well it was lovely to have met you, I must be going now, good bye" she said to the Doe and the Fawn. Both returned with the herd as the Buck followed suit he turned before leaving with his group and bowed his head to her, Sarafina did the same in return to show respect to his leadership. When Sarafina raised her head the Buck and his herd were gone and from the bushes behind her came Jacob, Quil, and Embry. "So" she said turning around "Spying on me where we?" she asked placing her hands on her hips.
"N-NO!" Embry said with a stutter in his words giving them away.
Sarafina raised a brow, "Really? well Embry, you seems to be saying yes in your stutter and hesitation" she said pointedly.
Quil elbowed Embry in the stomach, "Nice going man…I told you she is not like any other girl you could just lie to" he said rather wise for his teenage years, which impressed her.
Sarafina smiled at them and the boy's noticed, "wow!" Jacob said not able to keep in his amazement.
"What?" She asked not seeing what he was.
"You smiled, I haven't seen you smile a real smile before" he said avoiding eye contact now realizing he was speaking what he should be thinking.
"Is that bad?" she asked teasing him.
"No! It's good—I mean great—it's a pretty smile!" he blurted out not meaning to and he mentally cursed himself.
Sarafina had a blush come to her cheeks now, she stopped smiling to say "oh, thanks", and then walked past the boys.
When she was out of ear shout Quil and Embry turned and looked at him, but iy was Quil that spoke, "It's a pretty smile! That is the best you could come up with? was that really the only thing you could say? it embarrassed her" he said in disbelief to his friend.
Embry was just as stunned as Jacob, "she did have a pretty smile though" he said smiling like a love struck puppy.
"You guys are hopeless!" Quil said exasperated.
Sarafina walked from the woods and to the house with a blush still on her cheeks and feeling a little light headed, when she was walking she was walking with her head down and she was not watching where she was going. Sarafina looked up at the last minute to see a mans back and a cop uniform shirt collide with her face, Sarafina fell to the ground and hit her ass even harder. "Damn!" she shouted and she rolled over on to her stomach to relieve the pressure from her backside, "Ow! Not again! What is it with the ground constantly wanting to meet my ass!" she said in pain, and anger. When Sarafina opened her eyes she saw shiny black shoes in front of her and a white pail hand in front of her face, Sarafina followed the hand and the arm that was attached to it. To see the face of a rugged looking man, he had short brown hair that was in the cut of a redneck buzz, he had brown eyes and to match with more brown he had a bushy brown mustache. After looking at his face Sarafina looked back at his hand and took it, she was pulled to her feet with one hand and was flung it to his arms.
The man smile down at her, "Are you alright darling?" he asked with an accent.
"Yeah I'm fine… thanks for the help" she said letting go of his hand and he letting her go out of his arms. Sarafina looked down at her pants and began to brush them off, once she was done she looked back at the cope to see him still staring at her. "Uh…? Can I help you with something? Are you looking for my mom?" the man snapped out of it.
"Oh! Uh, sorry…but yes I am. I was wondering if she was around so that I could talk to her about getting you into school once the summer ends" said the cop with pink cheeks.
Sarafina sighed, 'school, school, and school. That is all people talk about anymore' she thought before she answered his question, "Yeah, she is inside officer…?"
"Swan, Chief Swan. But you can call me Charlie, everyone else does" he said smiling.
"Okay cool, follow me then Charlie" she said leading him into the house when they entered the house they came in to the Kitchen. Sarafina called out, "Mom! Chief Swan is here!"
"What!" came her mother's panic-stricken voice. "Oh god! Sarafina what did you do now?" her mother said as she walked into the kitchen to see Chief Swan, and an angry looking Sarafina.
"You mother are not funny, and you must really not trust me" she said sarcastically as she stormed passed her mother to go into the living room where she met up with Billy Black. She sat on the sofa next to Billy's wheel chair and started to watch the Baseball game with him.
"Sara, where are the boy's?" Kathrin asked to her daughter.
"In prison, that is apparently where I came from if you think or even see me with a cop!" Sarafina called out annoyed.
Billy chuckled, he turned his attention to Sarafina, "So a cop is here huh?"
"yeah, Charlie is in the kitchen, he is here about getting me to school" Sarafina said now looking at Billy. He was smiling at her the same way that Charlie was smiling at her, and she had a pretty good hunch that if he leaned over and hugged her he would hold her like Charlie did. "Uh? Billy, are you okay, you're giving me the same look as Charlie did when he saw me outside" she said feeling a little creeped out.
Billy blinked at her and looked at the tv again saying, "Yeah I'm fine Sara, just fine."
At those words the door opened to reveal Quil, Embry and trailing behind them was none other than Jacob, at the sight of him Sarafina turned before she even caught his eye. Billy saw this out of the corner of his eye and smiled as his son came in to sit beside her, and the boy's did the same. Jacob turned to the T.V. and saw the New York Mets, playing the Phillies. He smiled and said "this should be a great game! The Mets always try their hardest but the Phillies are always better."
"You want to make that a bet Jake?" asked the voice of Chief Swan.
The boys looked up at him and said, "Hey Charlie!" all at once then turned back to the T.V., but Jack was accepting the challenge.
"Sure chief Swans, what do you wager?" he asked curiously.
"this, twenty bucks says the Mets beat the Phillies" Charlie said confidently.
"You are so on!" Jake said as he pulled out his twenty buck.
"Can I get in on that bet?" asked Sarafina.
Jake looked at her, along with everyone else, "Sure, what do you wager?" asked Jacob first.
"Thirty bucks says the Phillies win, but the ball has to be a homerun" she said handing the money over to Charlie, who was looking at her as though she had gone crazy.
"Kay, you got yourself a deal little lady" Charlie said with a smirk. with that they all turned back to the game to see who would win and who would walk away with seventy dollars lining their pocket.
Sarafina turned back to the T.V. and the only person that seemed to see the evil grin that she wore on her face was Billy, 'Why you sneaky little Imp you' he thought as he too watched the game with a smile on his face.
"There is no possible way, not unless you are psychic or something like that!" said Embry in amazement, along with everyone else, but Billy. Sarafina sat on the sofa next to Billy counting her money, and smiling evilly over at her new aquatics, Jacob was dumb struck, Quil shocked, Embry amazed, and Charlie laughing at her friends reactions.
Sarafina stood and said stretching, "I'm a little tired. I think I'm going to go take a nap before dinner, are you guys staying?" she asked looking at Billy. Billy nodded his head, then she looked over at Chief Swan. "Well how's about it Sheriff, you stay at my place tonight?" she asked batting her eyelashes, The boy's broke into an uproar of laughter at her comment and over the fact the Charlie was four shades of red. Billy could not resist either, her mother on the other hand did not find that funny.
"Sarafina Artemis Rebecca Uley, behave your self when we have guests!" her mother said with a puff of irritation.
"Oh come on mom, it was just a joke and besides the good sheriff would never take advantage of young lady such as myself, for he is upheld by the law that he himself so dutifully follows" she said in a sweet airy voice of a country girl.
Everyone laughed again and this time even Charlie and Kathrin laughed. Sarafina walked to the stairs and turned when she was on the first step, "Oh and by the way boys'" they all turn to look at her. "It's the sporting channel ESPN and that was a rerun game, hint I already saw it…Bye!" she said running up stairs.
The boy's had to think for a minute before it hit them, "Hey!" they shouted, they heard Sarafina's cackles of laughter as she was safely behind her closed and locked bedroom door.
"Oh man, that is so not fair Sara" came the laughter of Quil.
She then heard her mother say, "I can't believe you all fell for that one. it's her oldest trick in the book, and the easiest way for her to make cash."
"I want to know how she knew it was a rerun though before we did" said Embry confused, they all heard the squeak of her bedroom door and when they saw her she was still smiling.
"I pay attention to the captions at the bottom unlike most people that just through their money around placing bets; my friend this will teach you not to gambol but also teach you another very valuable lesson" she said sounding snobbish and motherly.
"What's that?" Billy asked chuckling lightly.
she turned and smiled at him while saying this to everyone "Never trust a pretty face" She then turned to the kitchen to see what her mother had made. Sarafina heard people following her and she figured that they wanted to know what her mother made as well.
"So what are we having Ms. U?" asked Jacob as he walked into the Kitchen behind Sarafina.
"Well" said Kathrine as she walked into the kitchen next, and everyone else following. "we have pasta, we have pizza, and we have lasagna which do you prefer?" she asked them all.
"All of it!" said the three teenage boys', Kathrine looked over at Billy and said, "So the black's still eat like kings?"
Billy chuckled, "Now that is saying something coming from you, now what was it again 2 large whole Pizzas you could scarf down your self" Billy said giving a hearty laugh when he saw Kathrine go red in the face. the boy's and Sarafina could not help but laugh too, Charlie just chuckled to himself as he listened to Sarafina's laughter, he drowned everything out except for her laughter. Sarafina turned her head his way and her laugh dwindled and then it turned to a smile, as she saw his face looking at her warmly as if father like. The last time she had seen that kind look was when she watched her mother drive away with her in the car, and her father look at her lovingly as if he would never forget her. She pulled her eyes away from Charlie's eyes to look at the plate of pasta that her mother had set down before her, "Wow this looks great mom!" she said happily and hungrily. Sarafina twirled her fork in her pasta and put a fork full in her mouth, "mmm!" she said making a yummy noise.
When she finished chewing her food she turned her head to see the boys talking among themselves, and Charlie was talking with Billy enthusiastically about baseball while her mother smiled at the talk around the table. Sarafina knew that her mom missed the family time and the Blacks where the closest thing to family for her, and that made Sarafina feel home sick. She missed her family and she missed her brother, she looked back over at the boys and her face saddened. her mother saw and then she looked at the boys and she knew what is was about, but before she could say anything to her daughter she stood from the table and walked to the door, and out of it. The conversation stopped as they watched Sarafina get up and walk out the door, "What's her problem?" asked Quil.
"never you mind" Billy said with a warm smile at the boys, "just finish your dinner".
Their attention was caught by Katherine as she picked up Sarafina's dish and put it in the frig, "Aren't you going to go after her?" asked Jacob.
"No, she will come back and when she does she will be in a much better mood than when she left…I hope" Katherine said sitting down and finishing her meal. The boys just looked at one another and continued to eat their meal as they were told, Charlie could not help but feel to be the cause, but when she left she had been looking at the boy. Unless?
"Kathrine, does Sara have a bother?" Charlie asked, with a fork full of pasts and it halfway to her mouth Katherine lowered it.
She turned her head towards him, "Charlie…Sarafina had a brother" she said with a sad sigh, Charlies eyes widened and the boys had stopped talking to listen. Billy sat back in his chair watching Katherine as she spoke, "I really don't like talking about my son…it's hard for both of us to talk about it and it still pains her to see other girls with their brothers whether they are little or older" she said standing from the table and putting her dish in the fridge. She could not eat if they were going to talk about her son.
"Did he die?" Jacob asked.
"Yes" Katherine said in a quiet voice, the boy's faces paled and they looked at Billy he nodded.
The boys stood and said "Thank for the meal" in unions before they headed out the door to find Sarafina, Katherine nodded and watched them leave.
She looked at Billy and said "I really hope that you were right about moving out here Billy for…I fear it were the wrong thing to do" Kathrine said in a quiet voice and she turned to Charlie and said "What do you what to know?"
Sarafina had ran back to the spot where she had met the Buck and his herd, she collapsed on to her knees and began to cry. She tried to stop her sobs but it was no use, she let them escape her throat and her body and she cried out thinking of her brother. The three boys reminded her of him it was like a dream seeing them, and then she put her brother in their place. It was scary how much she looked like them the only thing was her skin color was a little lighter than theirs, and her black hair had brown streaks going through it. Her eyes were more of a lighter brown than their darker ones, she was different from them but very much a like and it being so it made her have painful memories of her twin brother. Her cries lessened to quiet sobs and she closed her eyes and tried her hardest to listen to the sound of the wind in the trees and the sound of it swaying the branches, as she did so her cries stopped. Her tears stopped and they were dried by the wind as it gently crest her face, she lifted her head to the sound of the winds whispers. She began thinking about her brother again but this time it did not bring her pain it brought her comfort, she stood as the gentle breeze swept over her and when it did she heard a voice say her name. "Sar…a...fin...a" is whispered in her ears her eyes snapped open and she breathed out the last bit of her sorrows as she said his name, "Damien" she whispered to the wind but it said nothing back.
When it said nothing back she then knew that she had to be hearing things, and what she heard was all in her imagination. However, she could not help the fact that she felt that he was close by with her, 'He's dead Sara, get that through your head, he is dead and is never coming back' Sarafina thought sadly to herself. Sarafina then stopped and listened, she felt someone was watching her and her suspicions were more than correct, they were right on the money. "Guy's you really need to stop following me and sneaking up on me or I'm going to get me shot gun out and use it on you all!" she snapped at them, the boy's flinched from behind the trees and came out looking at her worriedly.
"You don't have it on you now do you?" asked Quil.
"You've been with me the whole time, does it look like I have a gun on me?" she asked sarcastically. Quil just rolled his eyes and the stopped talking when they were now standing in front of her.
"We only came out here to see how you were doing" Embry said truthfully.
She looked at the boy's sternly, "I don't need anyone to check up on me" she said going past them, "And I don't need a chaperon either!" she shouted over her shoulder.
"Okay! Then how about friends!" Jacob shouted back, she stopped and leans against a tree to listen, "Everyone needs friends Sarafina! Even someone just like you."
She turned back around to look down at them and a small smirk was on her face, "I'll think about it...but till then, you boy's comin' or you goin' to stay down there?"
The boy's all looked at her and then themselves, "Well it's better than nothin' " Quil said with a smirk as he followed her, the others followed him. Sarafina and the boy's walked around the cabin to the cliff where there they sat and watched the sunset and the sky turn a golden yellow, orange flames and a red as bright as fresh blood.
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