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"I'm sorry Jacob, this is the way things have to be, we are moving away from here." Bella, Bells, my love. She meant it. I saw the certainty in her eyes…she would be gone forever. This is the last time I will see her as a human. Those dark brown eyes.
"And what about Charlie? You're just going to leave him out to dry?" I tightened my fist. I couldn't just abandon hope, surely she would come back to me…she loved me. She will come back like she always does.
"Charlie is none of your concern." Edward came forward this time stepping beside Bella with his arm around her. My body was quaking with anger.
"Jake take it easy…" Seth stepped forward and touched my shoulder.
"Jake, I love you…but I am a part from you forever, you have chosen to separate us, you have it in your head that we can never be friends because of the life I have chosen." My heart crushed, I would never be anything more to her but a second choice. I turned away and let myself be ripped and consumed by the wolf inside. I could hear Seth behind me, but right now I didn't want to stop running. I didn't want to go home to the nothing less that consumed me. Surely this wasn't my life…surely.
Chapter 1
Aleara POV
First day at a new school…never a peachy situation. I drove my white Honda down the wooded roads. All you could see was green. Literally it was everywhere. I had moved to plenty of places with my father. He was always be stationed here and there and everywhere. He was a marine. My older brother Bracken Mustang Briggs lived in New York's as chief of police. He lived with his wife and new baby boy in a two bedroom apartment. I couldn't wait till I was out on my own. My senior year couldn't move fast enough. As for my dad, Roy Armstrong Brigs, He always made sure his baby girl was taken care of. So did my older brother. It was like having a double whammy, two fathers to answer too. So as soon as my dad was drafted to "I'm not allowed to know" which wasn't anything new., It was obvious my brother didn't have room plus I didn't want to live in new York or on some military base like I had done my whole life It was my senior year a. So my last resort landed me in forks Washington close to a rez called La push. Bracken somehow knew Chief Swann…it turned out that they were very good friends. He found me a house for rent. It was a two story, three bedroom house. Bracken claimed I needed extra rooms for when Dad came home or they came to visit and check on me. Chief Swann ensured I would be safe. But my father trained me a safety machine, being the daughter of a marine didn't exactly make me helpless.
I pulled up to the school parking lot. I looked like the only pale face going to la push. And boy did they make me feel it. I wasn't the girly type, in my family I didn't have the chance to be. My first day of school attire involved jeans vans and a very loose long sleeve shirt, I used a ball cap to pull up my long hair.
"Ok let's get this over with." I spoke out loud to myself. I walked passed all the familiar crowds of dark skins and into the building straight to the small front office.
"Hello, can I help you?" An older Indian woman smiled sweetly across the counter. It was nice to see such a warm happy face.
"Umm…I hope so, my name is Aleara Hawkeye Briggs."
"Oh yes, Chief Swann told me about you. I have your schedule right here." She pulled a piece of paper over to me, taking a pencil and circling a name at the top. It read Rakestraw. "This will be your homeroom, room number 43. You meet in your homeroom class for ten minutes every morning. Then your following classes will be attended in 7 periods all about 45 minutes long." I nodded in understanding
"Ok thank you."
"Now your fist calls is art 3D it's..."
"Hey Mrs. Owens." A boy, dark hair, dark skin, handsome with a huge smile on his face came strolling in.
"Hello Seth," She smiled warmly at him.
"Here is that honey bun cake you wanted, my mom made it this morning."
"Oh, thank goodness did she leave the recipe?"
"Yes mam," He slid her what looked to be an index card. I stood there transfixed for a moment at how nice these people were.
Suddenly the warning bell rang, which seemed to bring Mrs. Owens back to where we were.
"OH I'm so sorry dear, Sue Clearwater's baking always gets me side tracked." I smiled
"NO its ok." Afraid I was being a nescience.
"Seth, this is our new student Aleara Hawkeye Briggs. Can you show her to Rakestraws homeroom?" He nodded.
"Thank you! Tell your mother the same."
"Yes mam."
I instantly grew awkward; I didn't want to be stuck with someone I didn't know.
"So Aleara Hawkeye Briggs." He smiled. "That is an unusually tough name for a girl." I laughed a little trying to break the tension, but he didn't make me feel too bad awkward.
"Yeah um, when my Dad named us, I guess he named his own military unit." He laughed.
"Your Dad in the military?"
"Well he is a marine." He nodded.
"Nice." There was an awkward silence for a little while. "I'm Seth Clearwater by the way. We are both seniors, let me see your schedule we might have more classes together." I gave it to him hoping we did. "We have second third lunch and six and seventh period, so pretty much we will be seeing each other a lot." I huffed in relief.
"So you staying on the rez?" I shrugged technically I'm half way on it and half way off. I chose this school fewer people."
"Well, you chose wisely, we have more fun than the pale faces."
I laughed and it felt good, I was making a friend.
"Ok here we go." The bell rang as the door opened.
"Good morning Seth, so glad you could make it on time this morning." The man was older pale face like me, gray hair and glasses with a GO-T …and his voice was dripping with sarcasm.
"Good morning to you too Mr. Rakestraw. I escorted our new student." Seth sat down beside an empty desk. Thank goodness I wasn't abandoned. I walked up to the teacher handing my paper to show. He took it without looking at me.
"Aleara Hawkeye Briggs." He looked at me finally.
"Yes sir."
"You may have a seat, is there a name you would like to go by?" I sat down beside Seth.
"Hawkeye sir." That earned snickers from some girls in the back of the room.
"IS something funny Sarah?" Rakestraw questioned.
"Nope." Came her curt reply, I inwardly winced. Already making enemies. I turned to get a good look at the three, all of them throwing daggers with their stares. I was almost positive it had something to do with me sitting with Seth, It was weird. It's like I was touching territory they didn't have the privilege to.
"Hawkeye it is." A few minutes later and the bell had rung. Seth showed me to the computer lab where my first class was. Business Tech. I sat down awkwardly; not knowing anyone but a younger kid in there did speak to me his name was Eric I think. I was happy to be going to lunch when the fourth period bell rang, we had anatomy this period which would turn out to be interesting, and some people weren't fond of eating and dissecting. I examined the food and realized that I wanted a fruit plate with yogurt. I sat down with Seth. There was a tray sitting on either side of him.
"Who is sitting with us?"
He shook his head…no one.
"Jesus...Seth you have three trays of food!" he grinned with a mouth full of food.
"Yeh, I'm a growing man." I scoffed
"At this rate you will turn into a giant! Where does all of it go?" He laughed.
"Do you really want an answer?" I laughed at his remark.
"Ow!" I rubbed my head as an apple hit the table after bouncing off of me.
"What the hell?" I turned around to see Sarah.
"OOPs my bad." She picked up her apple and batted her eyes at Seth before walking off. I slowly turned and looked at Seth.
"Ok I must have a death wish or something because being around you is a safety hazard." He chuckled as I rubbed my head some more. "Seriously, what is up with the girls here?"
"Not all of them are like that, but they think we are property to be owned or a prize. We never gave them the time of day and they are pissed because I'm giving you the time of day." I nodded slowly.
"Who is the "we" you are referring to?"
"My friends, we are more like brothers, Embry, Quil, And Jacob graduated two years ago, I haven't seen Jacob in a long time but they use to follow us like lost puppies, They still show up at some parties we got to . Its Embry's fault Sarah has false hope. He lost a bet and had to kiss her." He chose this moment to look over at them Sarah waved.
"But she thinks he did it because he wanted to." I started laughing, I couldn't help it.
"So what? You have a wanna be groupie...like a fan club that follows you around." His face turned serious and wide eyed.
"You're laughing but you do not realize how scary it is. I'm not scared of almost anything, but there is something about stalking girls that freaks me out." How terribly serious he was took the icing off the cake. My laughter was uncontrollable.
"Ok whatever, I'm warning you." Before I knew it my last class had ended I met Seth in the gym after changing out of my PE clothes. "Hey, I was going to tell you, it's a Friday and you should definitely come to the beach tonight, we are having a party."
"Well thanks but I don't drink."
"Neither do I, alcohol may be there but it doesn't mean you can't come."
"Ok, I'll think about it."
I drove home in silence, pondering should I go or not. I pondered on my day at school, my enemies and friends. I pulled into the drive way got out to check the mail. I smiled a letter from dad and dad number 2. I collapsed on the couch completely exhausted falling asleep forgetting to read my letters.
Jacob PoV.
"Jacob! Wake up!" I felt a small thud hit my head. I slowly sat up to see a huge book laying beside me.
"What time is it?"
"Time to go get the fire started!" Embry at this early of an hour was a hard dosage to take.
"Call get the fuck out of my face or I swear I'm going to kill you."
"Awe! Love you too man." He moved knowing I wasn't playing. Ever sense Bella had left I wasn't a joker anymore, I was always angry and I thought I reserved the right to be, I didn't care if it had been two years.
"Seriously Jake, get up we need your help, you do realize it's like seven right?" I grimaced at the sound of Quils voice it was serious Quil, everyone hated when Quil turned serious.
"Yeah yeah Dr. Phil I'm coming."
"See you at the beach." As soon as twiddle dumb and twiddle Dee left Dad came in the room.
"Jake we have a guest tonight of Charlie Swann's care, so please be somewhat pleasant."
"Sure dad I'll be pleasant." I got up and pulled on a shirt and shorts.
It felt good to be back in a way, I still thought of Bella. We spent to much time together, I haven't been in my garage in a don't remember when. I can never turn a corner without something reminding me of her. But tonight I wasn't going to think about her…well I would try. My Bells..
"Hey Jacob…" Emily came running up to me engulfing me in a hug.
"Hey Em." She pulled away smiling.
"I'm so glad you're here…where you belong." I smiled inwardly, I knew this was where I belonged. I made my way over to the fire; Leah nodded as did I in return. The boys and I had already been reunited. Embry was roasting a weenie while Quil was making a stick for him and Claire with two points.
"Qwil, now urs can roast toogefer." He picked her up.
"That's the plan Claire Bear." He smiled kissing the top of her head.
"Boys easy on the beer till Claire goes to bed with Emily." Same told them in fair warning. Embry look like a big dummy as always holding his weenies on a stick. Paul got to him before anyone else could.
"Hey Embry, those weenies taste good?"
"Shut up Paul! You're such a douche!" I laughed…once again it felt good, living so long on my own as a wolf made me miss the small things about being a human.
"Hey Quil, where is Seth?"
"He went by to get some new girl he met at school." I raised my eyebrows in surprise, I couldn't help but be excited to see him…what can I say I miss the pup.
"Oh really?" Quil laughed at my facial expression.
"He doesn't like her like that, just she is new and he is trying to make her feel welcome." I laughed.
"Sure. Whatever." I leaned back with a drink in my hand, this wouldn't be so bad. I could do this all night. I heard car door after car door shut, people I didn't even know showing up, girls everywhere. I noticed Emily and Sam with Claire in his arms headed to their car ready to go home. Now I knew it was going to get rowdy. Not me though, I plan to relax.
"EMBRY!" I heard a girly shrill of excitement, then I heard a loud groan.
"OK! Who did it! Which one of you shit heads invited Sarah?" Embry looked like he was seriously going to kill someone. "I know one of you dickheads invited her and you just wait till I find out which one it is." He pointed at all of us before walking off to hide from Sarah. Paul was rolling on the ground with uncontrollable laughter causing me to chuckle. I found myself grinning from ear to ear.
"Who did it?" I asked through a chuckle, Quil rose his hand smiling.
"He took my steak yesterday and I was really looking forward to it." Quil shrugged as if it was fair game. It felt good to be back…but there was still hurt, that small space I'm hiding and forgetting about tonight…tonight is for my brothers, my pack.
Aleara POV
I stood in front of my bedroom mirror inspecting my outfit, I decided not to worry about it, me and Seth were clearly friends so I had nothing really to fuss over. I decided to let my hair down; I wore solid black leggings with a s solid black sweater dress with thigh high black boots. No jewelry didn't have any. My sister n law was the only one who really encouraged me to be a dress up kind of girl. So it didn't happen very often. I heard Seth's car and I grabbed my house keys and ran out the door…I didn't want time to think about it, or I knew I wouldn't go. Seth stayed in the car waving for me to hurry up. I jumped in the car.
"You mean you're a girl?" He acted all surprised as he put the car in reverse. I in returned punched him in the shoulder.
"Ow!" I yelped and held my hand.
"You ok?"
"Damn! That was like hitting a tank." He laughed.
"Well thank you." I rolled my eyes and shook my hand. It was whatever. A broken hand no big deal.
"Let's get this over with." I looked out the window speaking mostly to myself.
BACK TO THE BONFIRE JACOB POV
"Jake! Come on!" Beer and soccer did not mix well.
"Nah I'll Pass." I stood by the fire watching the flames as they seemed to dance to a song I couldn't hear. They played a trick on my heart and mind, sending it into a trance making me feel numb for the moment…I didn't mind it.
"Jacob!" I was unwillingly snapped out of my trance as Seth tackled me in a hug.
"Hey Seth wats up man?"
"Nothing much. How you've been?"
"Good…" By the look on his face I knew he knew that I was lying. Then something strange happened, something caught my eye, someone on the other side of the fire. I could only see her back. Long, Long golden hair, she was wearing black. My body tingled…what was going on? I moved closer off mere instinct, I had to move towards her, I just had too…something was calling me in her direction.
"Jacob?" Seth's voice was muffled. I ignored him, who was she….I turned towards the fire, stopping myself. What was I doing? I heard Paul yelling.
"HEY! WATCH OUT!" A soccer ball with tons of force was flying right for her, before I thought about what I was doing, I ran as fast as I could pushing her down and holding her away as I turned my body to shield hers and let the ball hit me in the back. I barely noticed it. She sucked in her breath fast in surprise at my touch, it was like a small jolt sparked at me just holding her. She had her eyes closed tight as if anticipating hitting the ground. She had olive toned skin, full lips with red lip gloss. Something made me want to wipe it off so I could see their natural color. Her nose was a cute button nose. Her squared off jaw line gave her a powerful look.
"Are you ok?" I didn't remember my mind telling my mouth to speak, but my voice was heard by my own ears.
"Yes…I think so." Her voice sounded soothing, she then opened her eyes. Brown amber orbs peered up at me through almond shaped eyes. My heart stopped dead still, preparing itself for a brand new beat.
ALEARA POV
Everything happened so quick, one second I was talking the next I was grabbed by very abnormally warm hands. And when I opened my eyes I met a set of dark brown orbs…tan perfect skin and handsome features….black shoulder length hair that was half way pulled back. He looked just as surprised as me. For some odd reason my hands wanted to touch him, I reached forward with my left hand unknowingly. I went to touch his cheek. A static pulse sent goose bumps up my arms and down my legs. He lifted his hand and covered mine, closing his eyes. I wanted to speak but found that I couldn't. He drew me closer to his chest. His scent was overwhelming…it smelt like caramel and wood. I drew in a deep breath and clasp my other hand to his shirt. My face was so close to his. What happened next I couldn't explain, it happened so fast. His eyes opened into a glare, he threw my hand away from his cheek then dropped me on the ground. He pointed at me and in a loathing whisper he seethed the words.
"You stay away from me." My heart twist in ways I didn't know it could as I watched him walk about Seth and Paul watching him intently as he strode off. My chest felt like the whole world had been ripped from it. What the hell just happened?
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