You Are the Only Exception
Chapter One
"New Kid"
I stared out the window of my dad's 2008 grey Cobalt, at all the tall Evergreen trees that flew past. "Looks like its just you and me Niko." My dad sighed using my nickname he had for me. I smiled as we pulled into the Reservation, it had only one high school, and its graduating class was 321 kids. I think I'm going to enjoy this!
We pulled up in front of a cute brick house with plenty of pretty green grass. I let out a whistle as I looked at it. "This is where I grew up. Your grandmother gave it to me in her will." My dad laughed as he walked down memory-lane in his head. "It's cute dad. Now lets start unloading this cobalt!" I laughed throwing up the trunk to reveal boxes of our crap.
It only took us about 20 minutes to unload the cobalt and tiny U-Hual and take them into the living room of our house. We didn't have much furniture, mom took most claim of it. All I had was my mattress, dresser and desk. My dad had an air mattress, his desk, and the couch.
I was throwing clothes into random piles when the doorbell rang. "Nikolette can you get the door?" My dad yelled as I ran down the stairs. I opened the door to find three boys standing there. One was super tall and had shoulder length dark brown almost black hair that was thrown up in a ponytail. He wore a white t-shirt, cargo shorts, and converse. The shorter one had chest length black hair, and brown eyes. He wore a green shirt, jeans, and ratty old tennis shoes. Finally the shortest one had short black hair that was super messy. He wore a black tee, jeans, and was barefoot.
"We just wanted to say Welcome to the neighborhood." The shorter one smiled handing me a plate full of baked goods.
"You mean reservation." The taller one replied as a matter-of-factly. The two started to nudge each other and started a little rumble in my yard.
"Hi, my name is Quil. The taller one is Embry and the shorter one is Jacob. We all live on this street." The shortest one replied holding his hand out for a shake.
"Hi! I'm Nikolette Avery. You can call me Niko if you want, that's what everyone calls me." I laughed shaking his hand.
"Where are you from?"
"Birmingham, Alabama." I replied as my dad came up.
"Dad this is Quil. And the two wrestling are Embry and Jacob."
"Nice to meet ya'll." My dad smiled as Quil gave us a confused expression.
"Ya'll is southern slang for you guys." I laughed as a light bulb appeared over his head.
"OH! Well Jacob was suppose to ask you if you want to go the annual Black's spaghetti dinner tomorrow night. All of our friends are coming." Quil replied as Jacob's head shot up.
"Yeah do you want to go?" he asked as Embry pinned him to the ground.
"We would love to go. Niko it's a great way for you to meet people before you start school on Monday." My dad replied with a big smile on his face.
"Yeah I'd love to go." I smiled.
