I bought everything that would last us a week or two of food. When I came out of the store, Carlisle's Mercedes went by heading north.
Wait. Carlisle is still at the hospital. I thought. My mom works with him. Then who was it?
The next day at lunch I sat next to the Cullen table. Everyone was there except Edward. He wasn't there for the whole week. I could see that Bella was curious to know where he was. She almost forgot about him until he came back.
"Is he angry?" Bella asked Jessica.
"No. Is he supposed to be?" Jessica answered.
"I don't think he likes me."
"The Cullens don't like anyone. Well they just don't notice anyone enough to care."
"Oh."
I heard them when I went past their table to sit down. I don't know what was going through Edward's head. Something must have been amusing to him. I haven't had the buzzing of voices in my head for a while. I ate slowly trying to figure out what was going on but I didn't have much so I finished fast and went to Biology.
"Oh. Could you help set up for today's lab?" Mr. Banner asked.
"Yeah." I said nicely.
"Thanks. I have to run and get something. I'll be right back."
"Okay." That was weird.
As I setup for the lab, I heard footsteps coming. I was almost done. Then Mr. Banner came in and said he'd finish. Soon the room was filled with students. Talk was buzzing around the room about the dance.
"Jessica asked me to the dance." Mike said to Bella.
"That's great." Bella said.
"I told her I'd think about it."
"Why would you do that?" She didn't sound happy.
"I was wondering if you might um ... ask me to the dance."
"Oh. Well I think you should tell her yes."
"Did you already ask someone?" I saw Mike glare at Edward for a second.
"No. I'm not going to be in town. I was going to Seattle that Saturday." She was probably like me, a klutz. On the first day when she came here, it looked like she was a bigger one than me.
I heard enough. I wasn't going to the dance because I was going to La Push. I love First Beach. I go cliff diving with some friends from the reservation. I can't wait to go. If the day's nice we'll go cliff diving. We jump off the lower parts of the cliff. Only Sam and his 'gang' jump off the top of the cliff.
Yes. I heard it was going to be sunny. I thought. Awesome.
There was talk of a big group going to La Push and Bella's going. I have to tell the guys in La Push. They'll be excited especially Quil. He can be pretty wild sometimes. I met them when I was going to find some great cliffs.
Flashback
I jumped off at the top and him and his friends saw. They jumped in after me, but they were on the lower part of the cliff. They thought I was going to drown. They were surprised when I was at the beach while they were looking for me. I shouted at them and they just stared with awed faces. Then Embry went under but the other two didn't notice. I took off running and jumped into the water. When I got there, I found him fifteen feet below the water. I dived down and got him when I had seen a flash of a picture or something. When I came up, Quil and Jake just stared and there was someone else there with them. His name was Sam. Quil and Jake ran to get help. I dragged Embry to the beach. He finally came to.
"Thank you." All of them said.
"Your welcome and remember don't do that again because the current could have got you." I said the last part to Embry.
"I will." He mumbled.
"Oh. I'm Jade." I told them.
"Did you jump off the top of cliff?" Jake asked.
"Yeah. Why?"
"Oh. We jump off the lower parts." Quil said.
"Well. I went sky diving in Texas."
"How'd you do survive then?" Quil, Jake, and Embry said together.
"I had a parachute."
"Oh. I'm Quil. This is Jake, Embry, and Sam." he said pointing to them.
"Hi."
"You new?" Jake asked.
"Yeah."
"Thank you for your help." Sam said.
"No problem."
"You shouldn't jump off the top of the cliff." Sam warned me.
"Thanks. I won't I only jump from that high up once," I informed him.
"Alright then. We don't want anyone to get hurt." he said.
"Thanks. I'll remember that." I informed him.
"So do you go to school here or in Forks?" Embry asked.
"Forks but I would kill to live here. I could go to the beach everyday." I told them.
"You would kill to live here?" Jake said surprised.
"It's an expression. I wouldn't actually kill anyone." I almost screeched.
"Hey. Come over to my house. You could dry off in my garage. We were going to work on the Rabbit." Jake said hopefully.
"You're building a Volkswagen Rabbit? What parts do you need for it?" I eagerly asked.
They stared wide-eyed at me. I get overly excited about cars. I want to work at the shop in Forks but I can't because they say I am inexperienced. I know it's because I'm girl. I know a lot about cars. I can tell you the make and model of a car by looking at it.
"What? Oh. Sorry. I love cars. Well. Working with them." I told them.
"Then why don't you work in the shop in Forks?" Jake said.
"Tried and failed. They don't want to be outsmarted by a girl." I said. "So I work on my truck. I put a turbo V-8 engine in it. I also have an uncle, who is a drag racer, so he gives me tips to make it go faster than other trucks or cars."
"Cool. I could use some help." Jake said.
"Alright. Let me get my truck. You can show me where you live."
"Okay." They said enthusiastically.
When we got to my truck, they just stared at it. Probably because it's a Ford F150 with four wheel drive and a 10 inch lift. When we got to Jake's house, we went out back to the garage. When I saw the Rabbit, I knew I could help restore it. I looked under the hood. Master cylinder and maybe a new radio.
"Master Cylinder?" I asked.
"Yeah." Jake said glumly. After that I went to Jake's on the weekend.
End flashback
