Hellloooo! Well, I'm back with a new story, and of course it's about Leah. Jacob and Embry are also the main characters. This is ALL HUMAN and there will be no imprints or anything. No wolves at all either. So, without further ado, I give you Raindrops and Leah!
Chapter 1 – Meetings
Laughing so hard my little 5 year old face turned red, I squirmed around as my dad tickled me until Mom complained that we were going to shake the house down. My dad let me up and sat me on his lap onto the faded gray loveseat. I was still giggling but it quickly subsided as my dad began to tell me stories about a book he had read and how there was a bear and an eagle. The eagle was protecting her eggs from the bear because her first pair of eggs was eaten by a bear.
"But daddy, bears don't eat birdie eggs." I had sad in a serious voice that made him laugh.
"This was the time before the thing scientist call the food chain existed Lee." He had explained, but now I know that he had made the whole story up from his head at that time.
As he continued the story, my mom had waddled into the room with her pregnant belly and told me to go to bed. I reluctantly got up and skipped to my bedroom, rubbing moms growing belly first.
I smiled in my sleep, before the goddamn alarm sounded.
That smiled quickly faded away with my grunt and I slammed my fist down onto it.
Rubbing my eyes and getting up from my bed, I walked over to my closet and grabbed the first thing I touched. It just so happened to be a cotton dress, so I put that back and found some knee length dark blue shorts and a black t-shirt and headed for my master bathroom. This was my morning routine, and if I had to do it another morning then I was going to explode. I took my hair out of its ponytail and shook it around trying to get the morning grogginess out of me. I glanced at myself in the mirror and smiled, I always did in the morning to see if I had any improvement. No such luck. The circles under my eyes were lightened a little, but it could be covered with makeup easily. My dark hair went only to my shoulders since cutting it, but that could be improved within a few weeks. I was doing my best to get over him.
Living in California was doing wonders for me, including giving me new confidence that I didn't have living in Washington. I was noticed by new guys who I knew only wanted one thing that they knew I would never give, but they still wanted me. I was done trying to get back at him by being a slut. So now, I was Leah Clearwater, The Typical California Girl. I enjoyed the warm climate opposed to the cold and damp weather of my old home. Of course my little brother Seth had come with me, not that I minded. He reminded me of whom I was on the days that I needed it, and told me the truth even if it made me slap him upside the head. No longer bitter about the hometown situation, though I was still mad at my mother for letting it happen and how she had started dating a man who had indeed been friends with my father when he was alive, she didn't even glance at me when I was depressed. She told me to be a woman and grow up, and that was what I did. I moved out, found a house and took Seth with me. I was a grown woman now and could finally be happy without having to ask for my mother's consent.
I hopped into the bathtub/shower and took a quick one, but since I knew Seth was at school there was no reason to. But I was hoping to go to my shop and see my best friends, Jacob Black and Embry Call.
My boys had been there for me when I moved to California, and they had even helped me move in when I had only known them for two days. They were both made of muscle and… well there was no other way to put it. Man. I had no feelings like that for either one of them whatsoever, but we often jokingly flirted with each other. When I cried, one of them would squish me by hugging me to tight. The other would snatch me from his arms and hug me gentler, and I would chuckle while I watched them play fight.
When I was done taking the shower I put on my clothes, slipped on my black flipflops and headed to work.
Of course they were there already, Jacob's tall figure towering over the cash register and ice-cream. Embry was mopping the ground even though it was spotless.
"You know, I don't think the customers will care if they can see themselves in the floor." I laughed, and they both jumped at the sound of my voice. I blushed and went into the back to put on my uniform before walking out to my position at the ice cream. Jacob scooted so that he was right over the cash register and Embry smiled at his behavior.
"Oh! I wanted to ask you if you wanted to come over tonight so we could find some beaches for Jake's birthday party." I asked Embry who looked at me and laughed. I frowned. What was so funny?
"The party was supposed to be a surprise Lee." He snickered. I rolled my eyes at myself and looked at Jacob. He was looking at the register with an expression that I, for the second time today, frowned at.
"What's the matter Jake?" I asked. He glanced at me and then put on a smile that I wasn't convinced by.
"Nothing. Just confused, that's all."
Of course, I didn't believe him.
The whole day both of them were acting weird, and when I asked what was wrong they'd both say "Nothing Lee" to quick and too nervous. I'd grimace at the ground and continue to work. There were a lot of customers today, which wasn't unusual. There was a beach right across the street.
At the end of the day, I hugged them both. But when I hugged Jacob, he hugged me tighter than usual and when I looked up at his face (I had too, he was 6'4 and I was 5'9) he looked at me with sad eyes and whispered something nervously in my ear that I didn't catch.
When Embry asked me for a ride home I was glad that he asked, I needed to know what was wrong with Jacob.
Once when got into my black Ford Fusion, I began to ask.
"Em, what's the matter with Jake? He seemed so… I don't know… off today and I-"
He cut me off by kissing me.