CHAPTER 2
"Wait here! I'll be back in ten! Don't move an inch!" I told Quil. He looked hesitantly at me, but then nodded.
"Be careful." He told me, which caused me to smile and I gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Always," I whispered to him. He got up and ran home as I walked into the house. I could see that everyone was still there, plus Ness, who was attached to Jakes side. I couldn't see my brothers or my sister so I assumed that they had left. "Hey, guys!" I waved at them, ran upstairs to my room, and grabbed my guitar. I ran back downstairs and saw everyone standing there looking confused. "Okay," I told them, "I can see you want to ask questions; so ask, but ask quickly." Emily and Ness were the first to ask me questions.
"Did Quil tell you everything?" Emily inquired. I nodded my head in response.
"What did he tell you?" Ness asked.
"Everything: from him being a wolf along with all the guys here, plus Leah, to him imprinting on me."
"And you're okay with that?" Ness asked.
"Yep," I said smiling. "I love him and you all know it, especially you Ness." She smiled at me, and then ran over to hug me. "I know everything about your family by the way; you have to show me that gift of yours soon!" I whispered to her, hoping no one heard.
She gasped, jumped back, and started to jump up and down screaming.
"Okay, okay calm down Ness. We will talk about this tomorrow, but right now I have to go! I'll talk to everyone else tomorrow as well. I love you all, and will see you later." I shouted behind me as I ran quickly out of the house. I could hear everyone else shout from the house, "I love you too!", but by then I was so far gone that their voices were faint. I ran back to Quil, who was sitting looking out over the ocean. I put my guitar down and put my hands over his eyes.
"Guess who?" I asked, and attempted to disguise my voice.
"Megan what took you so long? My girlfriend is going to be back soon. "He said laughing.
"Who's Megan?" I said smacking his head. He laughed and grabbed me around the waist, pulling me over his shoulder, and sitting me down on his lap.
"Megan Fox, who else would there be? Wait! You're not Megan Fox." Quil teased.
"Nope just little old me"
"Well you'll do; until Megan gets here."
"Well if you keep going on about Megan Fox; you defiantly won't be seeing her or me."
"Oh! Excuse me, are you jealous there C?"
"No," I said blushing. I tucked my chin into his chest, hoping he wouldn't see.
He stuck his finger under my chin and lifted it up to his eyes.
"Megan fox is nothing compared to you, you are by far the hottest women in the world. Screw Megan Fox and her fakeness." I smiled at him and kissed his cheek, then his nose, then his other cheek, then his lips, and then he said, "So Miss Young, where did you go?"
"Home, I had to get something."
"Oh yeah, what's that?"
"That," I pointed to my guitar behind him, and he turned around, grabbed it, and handed it to me.
"Why did you grab your guitar?'
"I wanted to play something for you so I had to grab it!" He opened his mouth to say something, but I interrupted, "Now before you say anything, just let me play. Then, when I'm finished, you can say something. He nodded his head.
I got off his lap, much to my unhappiness, and began to play.
"Take time to realize
That your warmth is
Crashing down on me
Take time to realize
That I am on your side
Didn't I, Didn't I tell you?
But I can't spell it out for you
No it's never going to be that simple
But I can't spell it out for you
If you just realized
What I just realized
Then we'd be perfect for each other
And will never find another
Just realized what I just realized
We'd never have to wonder
If we missed out on each other now
Take time to realize
Oh, oh I'm on your side
Didn't I, Didn't I tell you?
Take time to realize
Oh, oh I'm on your side
But I can't spell it out for you
No it's never going to be that simple
But I can't spell it out for you
If you just realized
What I just realized
We'd be perfect for each other
And will never find another
Just realized what I just realized
Wed never have to wonder
If we missed out on each other but
It's not the same
No it's never the same
If you don't feel it to
If you don't meet me half way
If you'd meet me half way
It could be the same for you
If you just realized
What I just realized
We'd be perfect for each other
And will never find another
Just realized what I just realized
Wed never have to wonder
If we missed out on each other now
Missed out on each other now
Missed out on each other now
Missed out on each other now
"I love you Quil Ateara!" I said to him. He just sat there in complete and utter shock. Once he finally spoke, he said.
QUIL POV
"I never knew you could sing like that." I said.
"No one knew, well apart from Ness, and she only knew because she walked in on me singing in her room. It was one of the nights that it was just me and her. I think it was when you guys went to Port Angeles for Jake's Bachelor Party. We were at the cottage and everyone else was at the big house; she went for a shower and a song came on that I liked, so I started to sing with it and that's when she heard me."
"Well I wish I was the first one to hear you, but its okay. I was the first one you sang a love song to." I smiled at her, and then captured her lips with my own. "You are definitely my other half and my soul mate. You are by far the hottest, funniest, sexiest, sweetest-do you want me to keep going or are you good?" She laughed at me and then smacked my arm.
"I think that's good for now."She said to me." You can tell me some more someday soon." I grinned at her and nodded.
She picked up her guitar and started to strum at the keys.
I sat there, watching her, and she looked so relaxed and at peace.
"Hey C, Embry wants to have a little party at our place for you. He wanted me to ask you if you wanted to come. If you don't I'll be bored, and he will still have the party." I stuck out my bottom lip for assurance. She rolled her eyes and said, "Okay, but if I want a beer, you have to let me have a beer. I am eighteen now."
"Okay fine, but not too much." I gave in as usual.
"Okay," she said to me, "Then, let's party!"
Claire POV
Should I ask him? What was the worst that could happen? He'd say no? I can handle that, I think.
"Can I stay there tonight?" I asked him hesitantly, trying not to sound too pleading. Quil paused. He looked conflicted, and seemed to struggle for an answer. "I'll just sleep on the couch," I added, shrugging, as though it was no big deal whether or not I stayed there. I wondered if he could hear how fast my heart was beating. Quil's ambivalence vanished suddenly, and he snorted.
"You will not. You can have my bed. I'll sleep on the couch."
My heart stuttered. Was that a yes?
"You can share with me if you want," Embry said to me.
I stood up and gave him a bid hug.
"Yeah right, like I would ever share a room with you or a bed for that matter. I would probably find porn magazines spread out all over your room."
"Hey, I would clean them for you!" Embry said in mock defense.
"Yeah, I would rather sleep outside." I looked back over to Quil. "I don't mind having the couch, Quil, it's not a big deal -" I began to say, now worrying that I was putting him out.
"No," he said, cutting me off, adamant now.
"Claire" Embry said, and I looked up at him. He smiled. "Just take the bed. If you don't, you're still going to wake up in it tomorrow. He'll just lift you into it when you fall asleep, and take the couch himself."
I gazed exasperatedly at Quil, because that sounded like just the type of thing that he would do. He'd sleep on thorns just as long as I was comfortable.
"Fine But you know you don't actually have sleep on the couch" I said blushing I looked up at him he was watching me closely when he finally spoke.
"We'll talk about it later C," I smiled and nodded.
"So Embry, what did you say you wanted?" I asked.
"Oh I didn't, but Jake and Ness sent me out here. Something about Ness knowing what you would do if you could get away with it." I felt my blood rush to my face again. "And something about Jake going crazy if you don't get back there now and tell him what you said to Ness, because she won't stop smiling and screaming whenever she remembers what you said to her." I laughed.
"Yeah that sounds like her. Come on boys, let's go!"
"Okay. Oh and Claire if people ask what you're doing when they see you packing your bags; tell them you're staying at Jakes and Nessie's tonight. Say you're doing a girls thing tomorrow in Port Angeles, and you want to get up early so you don't have to worry about time. Also, tell your mom that you'll be staying at Ness's for another night after that." Embry told me, and I looked at him confused. "If you decided to drink, and then get drunk, there's a good chance you will have a hangover tomorrow." I laughed.
"Thanks Em," I gave him a quick hug, "but why?"
"Any time sis," Embry's like my older brother, and I could count on him for anything. "Because we don't want Sam or your mom to find out, we've been planning this party for ages. It's been really hard to hide it from Sam when he can read your mind."
"What?"
"It's a wolf thing, C."
"Oh okay, well let's go. Oh, and Quily, I have an idea!" I squealed with excitement.
"You know you remind me of Ness when you do that!" I started to laugh.
"Do you love me?"
"Of course, what do you want?" I looked at him appealingly.
"Why is it if I ask you if you love me-you automatically think I want something?" I asked him, but we both knew I wanted something.
"Would you guys both hurry up, so we can get this party started!" Embry said to us impatiently, which caused me to laugh.
"Hey! It's my birthday my party, so zip it." I told the whiner, Embry.
"Well Claire, first you say, 'Oh I have a idea', and then you asked me if I love you. You want something so what is it?" Quil said to answer my question. I once again got a huge grin on my face.
"PLEASE, please, please can I have a piggyback ride?"
"Of course," He said to me. He turned around and I jumped on his back, "Jesus girl, you need to put on some weight."
"Nope, I'm good. I like being like this, because I look hot in a bathing suit; and, I kind of noticed every time we go to the beach I feel eyes on me, but when I look around there's no one their but you." I told him, poking at his shoulder.
"Oh snap," Embry yelled. Embry and I both cracked up laughing but Quil just glared at Embry.
"It's OK, Quil. You're allowed to look at the hotness that is me. If it makes you feel any better I was watching you too. Every time you got out of the water, the drops just slid down your back." It just reminded me of how gorgeous he was which caused me to shiver.
I heard Embry saunter up next to us.
"Shut up or I'll beat you with a bat," Quil threatened Embry.
"Oh, I'm so scared that I'm wetting my pants." Embry teased Quil.
"Oh good, I'm glad, for a minute there I thought you were just wetting your pants for the fun of it." Quil said causing me to laugh.
"Shut up." Embry said.
"You shut up" Quil taunted back.
"You"
"You"
"You infinity"
"You infinity and beyond"
"Asshole"
"Retard" They argued with one another.
"Would both of you just shut up? Let's get home so I can talk to Jake before he comes here rips off your jaws and shoves it up your asses."
"Oh Miss Claire Bear's got a potty mouth." Great, now Embry was going to taunt me.
"Shut up, Embry." I told him.
"You, shut up"
"No, you," He told me.
"Fine," I said pretending to zip my mouth shut and put the key in my pocket. I tapped Quil on the shoulder and pointed towards the house. He nodded and we started to walk back. Once we got outside Jake and Ness came running out.
"Claire, thank God! What the hell did you tell Ness? She won't tell me." Jake pouted. I could tell he was mostly mad because his imprint was keeping secrets from him.
"Don't tell him Chichi," Ness screamed. I tapped Quil's shoulder and he put me down. I walked over to Ness and grabbed her phone out of her pocket to text Jake.
My text read, "Hey Jake, I'm not talking at the moment. If you want to know why, ask Embry. It's his fault. I told her I knew that she was half-vamp and that it didn't care. I also said that I can't wait for her to show me her power."
I smiled and sent the message before she could read the whole thing, but by the time she was finished Jake had just started to read it. She quickly ran over to him and tried to grab his phone, so she pushed him down onto the ground and straddled his waist.
"Give me the phone, Jacob Black!" Nessie warned. Jake laughed and flipped them over.
"No," he lent down and kissed her to distract her, so he quickly read the rest of the text. "So she told you that and you wouldn't tell me because?" she laughed.
"Because I wanted to make you suffer as much as I do when you don't tell me about the Volturi. You don't think I know how they've been hanging around lately." He looked at her shocked. "What you didn't think I wouldn't find out? It's not hard when you get phone calls early in the morning, and you leaving straight after. Some days when you come home you would smell like them. Did you not think I wouldn't be able to smell their scent? Or do you not remember how I was so close to them that their smell is permanently burned into my brain." I heard her voice crack, I could see her starting to cry. "Get of my way, Jacob!" He looked at her stunned, but just shook his head. He started to reach for her arm. "NOW" she screamed, causing him to quickly back away. I quickly ran over to Jake and grabbed his arm.
"Jake, look at me," he turned his head to me, and I could see the pain in his eyes. I knew he hated it when she cried. I felt his pain. "Let her go, before she uses force and hurts you or you hurt her; because, she's going to start struggling with you and she's going to hurt herself trying to get free." I told Jake trying to be the voice of reason. When it comes to your imprint, though, there is no such thing is a voice of reason. It is all instinct.
"I don't care!" Jake told me. "she can hurt me all she needs, but I'm not letting her go. I'm not going to hurt her." I could hear the pain in his voice.
"I know that, she knows that, we all know that; but, if you keep her trapped there she's going to hate you." I leaned in closer and whispered in his ear, "she hates crying in front of you. She doesn't like you seeing her cry because she knows it hurts you and she doesn't want you to think that she's weak."I said once more, still trying to be the voice of reason, but this time reason broke through and he let her go.
"Okay," he told me. Then he kissed her cheek and got up. He was still hesitant. "Go," I told him, "Go for a run. Give her some time to calm down, and give me some time to talk to her. She needs me right now, and you can't be here. Meet us at the party in an hour, and take Quil and Embry with you. I'll have Seth give us a ride. It will give us time to talk and get ready. Go, and don't come back unless we call you. We'll see you at Quil's. I love you Jake and so does she." He nodded his head and went into the forest to phase, I assume, with Quil and Embry following close behind. I sat down next to Ness and pulled her close to me. It was then that she started to cry, I mean really cry.
"Ness, it's alright. Ness, come on let's go to my room. It will give us a chance to talk in a more comfortable setting." She nodded her head in response. We were just about to get up when I looked behind and saw a big russet brown wolf. I assumed it was Jake.
"Jake, I need you to go." I heard him whimper, and I saw a giant tear the size of a baseball roll down his nose. I felt her let me go. I turned to her and saw her blow him a kiss, then go running up the stairs. I quickly followed her, closing the door behind me.
When I got to my room I saw her lying on my bed crying. I just closed the door and grabbed her, just letting her cry on my shoulder. It took half of an hour for her to finally say something.
"I'm so sorry Claire; I'm screwing your birthday up. You should be having fun at the party."
I looked at her shocked, how could she ever think that? "No Ness, its fine. Don't worry about it! Besides, it's only 8 o'clock, so there's plenty of time to party."
"Thank you for sitting her and listening to me cry for so long." I laughed.
"Nah," I responded, "you would do the same for me."
"In a heartbeat," she replied.
"Thanks. So do you want to tell me why it is your really crying?" She looked at me confused. "Ness I'm not an idiot. I know when there's something more, and I can tell that there's something more."
"You can read me like a book Claire Young."
"So what is the matter?"
"If I tell you this you can't tell anyone, not yet at least. The only person that knows is Grandpa." If a doctor is the only person that knows, then this can't be good.
"Come on Ness; tell me. You're starting to scare me."
"Hang on," she said. "I can't. They're out there listening."
"Then write it down, and once I've read it and we have talked, I will burn it."
"Okay," she went over and grabbed a pen and a piece of paper off my desk. She wrote quickly, and what she wrote shocked me.
AN: Cliffhanger, I'll upload soon! I promise! =)