If you had asked me months ago if I was a believer I would've said no. A believer of supernatural creatures of the fairy tale genre? Hell no. A believer of fate? Absolutely not. Last of all a believer of soul mates and eternal love? Never in a million years. So how the hell did I end up here?
3 months earlier
"TEDDY!" I screamed as the clattering sounds of saucepans falling to the ground made me wince and run down the stairs as fast as I could without tripping.
"What the hell are you doing?" I snapped snatching a cooking utensil out of my six year old brothers hands before he could drop it to the ground and cause more noise far to early in the morning for me to handle.
Teddy grinned up at me, his blue eyes sparkling, so unlike my boring brown ones "Mommy said to wake you up after she left" He told me as if it were obvious why a six year old would be rummaging around the kitchen. I rolled my eyes of course our mother had left already gone already, I groaned and started to pick up the various pots and pans from the floor.
"I am going to kill you" I said as I stood up from the ground and stretched my body.
"Mommy said you have to stop making death threads" Teddy said with frown as he wagged a small stubby finger at me in an attempt to seem intimidating.
"Its threats idiot" I said closing the fridge "Now drink your juice, we leave at 8."
I got ready for school in record time barely running a brush through my hair as I practically ran out of the door. After I'd dropped Teddy off at elementary school I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief to be free of him for a few hours. Teddy wasn't that bad of a kid, I felt bad for him most of the time, if our mother spend half the time she spent at work raising Teddy maybe he wouldn't have turned out so annoying.
Joking. Sort of.
My next stop was to pick up my favourite pair of twins, I was half tempted to drive straight past their house, after Teddy's kitchen adventure this morning I felt a headache looming and the last thing I wanted was to drive two sisters who couldn't agree on single thing to school.
I pulled up and beeped my horn and watched as the front door was flung wide open and slammed behind my two friends, within seconds I could hear them arguing loudly. My car door was ripped open and the pair climbed in without so much as a hello.
"I cannot believe you Bethany" Brittany shouted "I specifically told you not to touch my almond milk this morning and what is the first thing you do!?"
"Hey guys" I greeted cheerfully, practically immune to their fighting after knowing them for so long.
"Okay first of all your almond milk tasted like ass" Bethany shouted back ignoring me "and maybe I forgot your dumbass request this morning because the first thing I had to look at was your face!"
I should've driven right past.
When I finally arrived at school I felt like taking a seven hour nap, after the almond milk debate the twins had spent the rest of the 15 minute drive loudly arguing about which flavour of yoghurt tasted better, they still hadn't reached a verdict by the time we got to school which is why I said a hasty goodbye and hurried away from them through the crowd.
A few people bumped and jostled me which I was used to. It wasn't that I was invisible in La Push high school it was just that I didn't particularly stand out, I was only half Quileute so my existence was forgotten most of the time.
My skin was pretty pale for La Push standards but other than that I looked completely average, nothing special. I wasn't tall but I wasn't short standing at 5'6, I had long straight brown hair with a fringe that covered my forehead.
I turned away from a locker and a football player named Ben bumped into me, he reached out and quickly steadied me "Sorry Alice" he called over his shoulder as he walked away.
"It's Al-" I stopped since he had already disappeared into the crowd.
I looked around as I turned and closed my locker and tried not to physically gag at the lovey dovey couples that filled the hallways. The worst by far were Kim and Jared, everybody knew them.
Kim had a massive crush on Jared for years and I knew this because we used to be friends yet Jared never looked twice at her until one day it all changed they started talking and never stopped. They were so sweet they gave everyone in a ten block radius a toothache.
The bell rung signalling the start of history, I enjoyed history and I was good at it though the teacher Mr. Martin was the meanest man I had ever met.
The only reason he tolerated me was because I always achieved an A grade. I hurried in and quickly found my seat, the last thing I wanted was the smell of his horrible breath as he told me I was late.
I smiled over at Elise as she sat next to me; Elise was the calmest of my friends mostly because she was shy and liked to remain silent while the twins or someone else ranted about the injustice of the education system, or something.
I was content with staring at a pen mark on my desk as the class began but a few minutes into class the guys of the La Push gang; as the rest of us liked to call them. Waltzed into class laughing among themselves interrupting a riveting lecture on the Berlin Wall, it was strange to see them considering they always seemed to skip classes, between them they been to about 5 classes and we were 5 weeks into the semester.
"Mr Call, Mr Thail, and Mr Lahote do you have a reason to be late?" Mr Martin asked with a scowl and a frosty tone that I was sure I would've cowered right there.
Embry just grinned unaffected by Mr. Martins general awfulness "Sorry Mr Martin" he said as Paul and Jared sat down in their assigned seats, Jared was next to me and Paul was in front of him with Embry on the other side. Mr Martin narrowed his eyes as they all sat down but didn't say any more about it as he continued to drone on. If I had been anyone else he would've given them detention so fast, but it was like an unspoken rule that the 'La Push Gang' did whatever they wanted.
I zoned out staring at the pen mark again until about 20 minutes later when he said something that caught my attention "Partner assigned projects"
The entire class groaned while a rare smile curved up on Martins face, he was devil I swear. What was with him and assigning things? I swear if he died he would come back to life just to assign people seats at his funeral.
Ellie and I looked over at each other nervously, both praying we would magically be assigned each other, no such luck Ellie was assigned a football player while I was left hanging.
"Allison Clarke and Paul Lahote" My eyes widened in shock, I couldn't be partnered with Paul what if I said the wrong thing and he punched me in the face or something, he was infamous for his short temperament. I saw Paul turn around and I half expected him to address me, instead he shifted to face Jared "Who the hell is Allison Clarke?"
I wasn't surprised Paul didn't know who I was, I only knew who he was because first, he was a part of the La Push gang that was infamous for selling drugs or doing them or maybe both there were many rumors it was hard to keep up. Second he held the record for starting the most fights and winning them and third he was somewhat of a ladies man and I wasn't blind, he was extremely gorgeous.
Jared hadn't replied to his question yet, I cleared my throat and awkwardly raised my hand slightly "Uh that's me" I said butting in feeling awkward and catching their attention. Paul shifted his eyes from Jared and over to me and the moment our eyes met it felt like someone had dumped a bucket of ice water over me, a chill ran through me that wasn't necessarily unpleasant.
Paul's eyes widened and his jaw went slack and all I could do was stare back at him. he closed his mouth then opened it again as if to say something though nothing came out.
I vaguely heard Jared whispering "Oh shit" this seemed to bring Paul and I back to earth and I broke eye contact but looked up at him again when Paul began to shake, his whole body moved, his desk that seemed tiny around his enormous flame shook with him and clattered against the floor.
In a flash Jared was out of his seat "Let's go Paul" He spoke in a sharp tone as he dragged Paul, who was still staring at me out of his seat and out of the classroom, totally ignoring Mr Martin's shouts of protest.
I swallowed heavily as all eyes turned to me, Embry Call leaned over "Don't worry about him, he's just not feeling himself today" He told me cheerfully, looking me up and down "I'm Embry"
"I'm A-Allie" I stuttered slightly still in shock over whatever the hell that was, I looked over at Ellie who looked equally as shocked. 'What the hell' I mouthed over at her.
The rest of the day I was hit with the strangest feeling, every class I had with Paul in it I kept looking at the door waiting for him to come in and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't shake the feeling of wanting to see him.
He didn't return, Jared did though in English, a class I had with Paul, Jared and Jacob. Jared sat down next to Jacob and immediately started talking in a low voice, in sync the pair turned around to look at me then look away when I caught them staring. Jeez did I have something on my face only possible drug dealers could see?
"Why are members of the La Push gang staring at you?" My friend Josh asked me in a low voice.
"I don't know" I muttered sounding as frustrated as I felt.
I wasn't sure what they wanted, they better not want me as a recruit I really don't think I'd be very good at selling drugs I couldn't lie to save my life.
I was confused, first of all what kind of drugs were they all on so I could write myself a mental note never to take it, and second why was I still yearning for Paul to walk through the door and look at me the way he did before.
Maybe they had secretly slipped me something already and drugged me, or maybe-
Someone was shaking me "Allie?"
"That's a crime; I've seen law and order!" I exclaimed without thinking before meeting Alex's confused expression.
"The bell has rung it's time to leave" He spoke in a slow voice like he was talking to a child.
"Right" I agreed getting up with a sheepish grin "Better go meet the twins."
Alex grinned "Good luck with that" He said.
I met the twins at the main doors who were surprise surprise still arguing about something, I decided to block them out as I walked to my car, focusing on the ground with them trailing behind me. The twins suddenly went quiet causing me to raise my head in complete surprise.
My eyes widened when I saw Paul Lahote walking towards me as he got closer the yearning feeling I had felt all day disappeared suddenly when I saw him.
"Aww" I heard Bethany whisper, I had told the twins the tale of what had happened in English and Bethany being a hopeless romantic seemed to find it sweet while thankfully Brittany sided with me and we agreed, the guy was acting like a freak.
Paul's friends started moving towards him and seemed to be speaking to him but he ignored them and headed over to me causing his friends to stop and all to stare in my direction.
Bethany snatched the car keys from my hand "We'll wait in the car" and the twins walked off before I could protest Paul was standing right in front of me.
"Hi Allison" He breathed out staring down at me from where he towered over me "I'm Paul" he introduced.
"I know" I said without thinking "I mean not that I know because I know you I just know because-" I had to force myself to stop talking, nerves had made a pit in my stomach and my mouth was moving before my brain could catch up.
He laughed and I found myself wanting to hear more of the sound, proud that I had caused it "You're kinda funny Allison"
"Its Allie" I spoke again without thinking, oh dear what if me correcting him seemed rude and he was set off again, I really didn't want to see his whole body shake again.
"I mean if you want to call me that" I hastily added "Most people do, hardly anyone calls me Allison" I finished.
"Allie" He repeated like he was testing it out. A silence fell between us "I have to go" I said quickly and watched his face fall slightly, maybe it was because he didn't have the time to convince me to sell drugs "But I'll see you tomorrow" I added, feeling the need to cheer him up again.
His face seemed to light up again a smile forming.
"Yeah!" He exclaimed nodding his head. I nodded then awkwardly walked around him and did my best to ignore the stares from his friends.
Once I got into the car I flinched at the sound of Bethany's squeal. "Look at the way he's looking at her it's like out of a romance novel!" she squealed again.
"It's weird" Brittany and I said in sync then high-fived.
"No it isn't its romantic" Bethany argued back beginning another argument between the two. I sighed and drove out of the parking lot after the day I'd had I was ready to smash my head against the steering wheel and yet I hadn't even picked Teddy up yet.
This is story I had in my head for a while so I thought I'd give it try.
Please do review if you liked it and if you would like me to continue.