Part one: Like I need this: Leah
"God why do I have to do this?" I questioned the teacher leading me to the room were I would meet my 'older brother' why do they call it that? It's so stupid. "Why do I need some know-it-all that thinks I'm just some extra credit for psych or whatever telling me 'it's gonna be OK bud' and how do I get out of it?"
The teacher was being amazing at keeping calm, it worried me. "Because you lost your father and have known anger issues, this combined with you joining us in the middle of the year means we want to make sure we give you to best chance to stay with us and there is no way out of it." Lord, how did she manage that in one breath?
The annoyingly happy woman waved me at a door and then left. "Well I guess that's goodbye then." I muttered opening the door and stepping into the nearly empty classroom. The only occupant was a short boy, probably no taller than me, with long black hair, sitting at the head desk. I sighed, "So you're my bro. then? What a loser."
He got up and growled, "Look here miss, Clearwater is it?" He didn't wait for an answer, "I don't want to be here any more than you but we need to be in here for three hours. You leave me alone, I leave you alone and then we go our separate ways, they never follow up the siblings after the initial session." He raised an eyebrow in question, idiot.
"Fine but what am I supposed to do?" He sat down and didn't answer, jerk. I blew my hair out of my eyes and collapsed in the nearest seat. Time was gonna drag something awful, at least he had the magazine he was reading when I came in, it was almost certainly something dirty.
Taking out a pad of paper and blowing my fringe out of my eyes again I began to doodle. Man is this lame. "Yes." I looked up at the boy, had I said that out loud? But no he was talking to his what, I now realised was a car mag. Who sits and reads a car mag? Better yet who talks to them?
I managed to whittle away three-quarters of an hour before running out of room on my tenth piece of paper. I took a breath to blow my hair for what now had to be the ninth time but before I could I felt his fingers on my forehead, brushing my hair behind my ear. "Hey don't touch me jackass." I said when I remembered how to let go of the breath.
"Hey hey retract the claws. I just came over to talk cause we're both bored." He did the eyebrow thing again and again he looked an idiot, "Come on, names first. I'm Jacob Black, you?" He still seemed to have an invisible fishhook in that eyebrow.
"Leah Clearwater." I huffed.
"OK then, what you in for?" He was now perched on the desk in front of me.
"Like you care." This time I spat it at him.
"Look I can find out in your file over there, I just thought you might want to tell me in person." Why won't he drop that eyebrow?
"You're just too lazy to read." I was ignoring the fact that he had read a whole magazine in the last hour, bet it was mostly pictures. "So go on scurry away and check your notes." I swung my legs round away from him so I was sidesaddle in the seat.
Grumbling he got up and turned for the front, as soon as he wasn't looking I reached up and untucked my hair, meddler. "Right what do we have here then? You're a year younger than me and have a younger brother also joining the school. Here we go, you have pent up aggression the causes anger management issues, well I could have told you that. Oh god." The last two words were whispered, "You lost your dad."
"Yeah so?" He glanced up and I quickly looked away.
"Well it's just that I lost my mum recently and I guess what I mean is I know what you're going through." A small smile played around his face but It wasn't a 'poor you' smile. It was one of understanding. "Want to tell me how it happened?"
I opened my mouth several times but nothing came out. Swallowing I tried again, "Heart attack." I don't know why but I wanted to tell him the story, "We were in Italy for a holiday, some walled city called Volterra or something. Anyway My dad and me were shopping and I went to the next store but was pulled into an alley by a couple of burly guys." He was clenching his jaw, that was a new reaction.
"Lucky for me they only managed to beat me around a bit before some police showed up and sent them scurrying. I still don't know how they found me but they did. The stress of it all didn't really hit me but it sure hit my dad, so now he's dead because of me." My hands had balled into fists unconsciously and my nails were digging into my skin.
Jake's teeth were gritted as he spoke, "You mean they tried to . . ."
Before he could say the word I spoke up, "Yes they almost did." To my relief my tone shut him up on that subject but I could see he was internally annoyed. Dumb meddler, I knew he would be the kind of guy that would obsess over this kind of thing. "Look Jake, I got over it pretty quickly so don't drive yourself crazy over the whole thing, OK?" I blew my hair away again, that made ten times.
"Ah you do care." He said running his hand through his hair and the atmosphere was instantly relaxed. Damn it! How did he make me let my guard down?
After that the time seemed to fly and too soon the final bell went. "Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow." A smile flashed across my face, leaving quickly as if it was scared of unfamiliar territory.
Jake shook his head, his hair whipping around made me smile for another few seconds. "I go to school up on the res, they pulled me down here for this. Where are you staying?" We were stood outside under a shelter, neither of us looking forwards to stepping out into the rain.
"We got a house in town, it's near an old friend of my dad, Charlie Swan. We're going there for dinner tonight, with his daughter Bella . . ." His hand reached out to cover my mouth.
"Leah I know, Charlie's a friend of my dad, Billy." He let me go and continued, "Maybe I'll see you around. Charlie should have my number so call me, K?"
I nodded as he rushed out into the rain heading right out the gate. "Well I don't envy him, right Leah?" Bella's voice right by my ear made me jump, "At least we have the truck."
I rolled my eyes. "Bella how do you stay happy around here? Does the rain not faze you at all?" She giggled and grabbed my wrist dragging my out into the rain and towards her hand-me-down orange truck. "No Bella I wasn't ready!" She just laughed out loud, there should be a law against being so happy.
Soon, not soon enough for me since she fell over twice, we were in the truck, heat blasting out at us. "So you like little Jakey then?"
My head snapped up, "That's little Jakey?" She had told me about her childhood friend but I had not made the connection. "He was quite short I guess so it makes some sense."
"Yeah and I'd say he likes you to. When are your mum and Seth coming over?"
I so wish she would keep on track. Still reeling from the first comment it took me a moment to answer, "They said they would be there before we got home." He liked me huh. Well, glad I had another friend other than Bella but the way she had said it made it sound like there was more to it. But before I could think it over properly we were pulling in to the drive way at Charlie's home.
OK this is a twilight AU. Everyone in this universe is totaly human. All the vampires died when they should of and the shapeshifters never have a groth spurt.
Other changes are that Bella grew up in Forks and the Clearwaters have only just moved there.
The narrator will change by chapter but Leah is the main character.
pairings are LeahxJacob and SethxBella
