A Forbidden Love-
I am going to be happy about living in La Push; I am free of my troubled passed. I can be a new person; these people's faces don't look at me with that sad, pity in their eyes like everyone back home did. I will miss my family, but I need a fresh start. I like mom's new husband, he was good to her. So good to her that I actually see sparkle in her eyes. I have never seen that before. My father had beaten that out of her with his harsh worlds and drunkenness. She was finally happy, and I would be two.
"Sophie, could you please bring your truck full of books in. I don't want John to throw out his back because you insisted on bringing all two hundred books with you." My mother's voice snapped me out of my day-dream. She was trying to be stern, but it wasn't working.
"Yes, Mama." I said with a mock-solute. We both laughed. We had been like that for a while. Laughing when you can. Loving when you can. And finding happiness in the little things, since for so long our lives had been a black oblivion controlled by my father's drunken outbursts.
I started to tug the huge trunk of books from the U-Haul. It wasn't going to budge. So I stepped in and moved another box even further from the trunk, hoping that would help my efforts. I stepped back outside, and then I grabbed the handle and pulled. Before I knew it the trunk came free and all of my pulling efforts cased me to go flying backwards. Then his arms were around me.
He was so warm, and handsome. His cropped blue-black hair shinned in the bright sun light. His russet skin covering his thick muscles made him look like one of those characters from romance novels that I had always loved to read. The type that the damsel in distress is rescued by the tall dark and handsome warrior.
I shook my head slightly to snap out of my fantasy. He was my step brother, not a character out of my fantasy. But when I came back to reality I realized that he was looking at her like no one else ever had. With this intense love that frightened me. But of course I was over-analyzing things again; he was my step brother, nothing more.
"No matter how hard I try I can never seem to keep my balance." I said laughing a bit. "Um…Thanks' for your help." I said trying to make him realize that he still had his arms wrapped around me, and his arms and body was so warm that I was near sweating. But the problem really was that I enjoyed being wrapped in his arms, like I belonged there, with him. Forever.
He shook his head, and got a goofy grin on his face. Then his arms retreated, and I felt a bit alone. "No problem. Don't want you killing yourself on the res. It might spread rumors that we kill pretty girls around here. And that would not be a great thing to have, now would it?" Then it was awkwardness, it was like he didn't know what to say to me. Like he needed to say something, but wouldn't.
I gave an awkward laugh and looked at my trunk. "Do you think it would be asking too much to have you carry this trunk for me? Mom doesn't want John to do it."
"Sure." He grabbed the trunk and picked it up like it was a sack of flour. "What's in here?" He asked curiously.
"Books." I explained with a bit of embarrassment. "My favorites. I refused to move if I couldn't bring them, so Mom said that I have to take care of packing them and unpacking them. Their kind of heavy so she was worried John would throw out his back lifting it."
I followed him into the house as he made his way to my new bedroom. "Your boyfriend brings it to the U-Haul?" He asked with a bit too much intensity.
I laughed. "No. I don't date. So my cousin Henry carried it." I could feel my face turing red under his gaze as he set the trunk down on the floor of my room.
"Why don't you date?" He tried to act casual.
"Umm… Well you see… I'm a hopeless romantic. I have too many expectations for guys. So I never make it past three dates with anyone because I find too many faults in them. I'm too idealistic." I laughed nervously as my face turned bright red.
"Huhhh." Was all he said for awhile as he stared around my room at all the boxes. "Maybe you'll change your mind."
