Not All Things are Faerytales
by crazygundamgirl
Chapter One
Disclaimer: Gah, I hate these.. But I don't own Twilight. If I did, well… I'd be in it and the Cullens and the pack would get glomped many many times. And I don't own Naruto either, since I'd make it totally yaoi-ified XDJune 14 2008
(Normal P.O.V.)
Miki stared out of the window next to her bed, the High School Musical 2 soundtrack blasting from her 80 gig video iPod being the only thing saving her from complete and utter boredom. She knew what her friends in Michigan would say if they knew she liked High School Musical, but one of their old neighbors had gotten her both DVDs for the car ride, and she had fallen in love with both movies, much to her dismay. Though she isn't afraid to admit that Ryan and Kelsi are her favorite characters – they are just both awesome and have the coolest hats, in her opinion. A few minutes later, her iPod died.
"Oh come onnn…" She grumbled. Since she woke up at six in the morning, she had been trying to stay as quiet as she could so her guardians would think that she was asleep and wouldn't ask her to come and help clean. Now it's 3:30 pm. Around 7:30am, Magenta had come in to see if she was awake and discovered the girl playing Kingdom Hearts 2. Miki agreed to work on painting her room, doing as much as she could by herself. An hour ago, she had finished the first layer of paint on most of the walls, and she decided against going downstairs and doing more painting and getting her arms even more sore and just changed into her Tinkerbell nightgown and lounge pants that she had gotten from the Disney Store at the mall near her old house right before she moved and sat and listened to music on her bed.
As she was plugging her iPod into her old iHome, she realized that she hasn't eaten anything but some cookies since dinner the night before. Miki reluctantly headed downstairs to get some chocolate double stuffed Oreos – hey, who said she had to eat a healthy brunch? When she reached the top of the stairs on the second floor, she heard voices that she didn't recognize talking to Magenta.
Great. Now I can't slide down… Miki groaned as she walked down.
When she reached the bottom, she saw four teenagers standing there. Magenta turned around, having heard the squeaky stair. "Miki! I was just about to get you! Noel, Janice, Danielle and Aurora are here to see you. If you want, you can go down to La Push with them." Magenta saw the unsure look on Miki's face, and laughed softly. "You can get out of painting."
Miki grinned, "Just let me change and grab some Oreos!"
Magenta laughed as Miki sped upstairs. "Told you I'd be able to get her to go with you… Thanks for helping me out, by the way. Miki's still kinda bummed about having to leave all her friends in Michigan. Her getting out of the house with people will help."
Noel laughed, "No problem. Me and Dani had to move a few years ago, so we know how much it sucks."
"We didn't move across the country though, just up from LA…" Danielle added. "But we still know. Big city to small town isn't fun easy."
A few minutes later, Miki slid down the banister in a purple Happy Bunny shirt that says "Cute But Psyco", a denim miniskirt, and black wrap-around Birkenstock sandals over a plain dark blue bikini. Once she landed, Miki skidded through the dining room and into the kitchen. She grabbed her package of Oreos and an orange soda and stuffed them into her black Hello Kitty tote bag as she slid back into the living room. "I'm ready!"
Magenta smiled at the five teens, "Have fun, ect ect you know the rest."
The teens smiled as they walked out the door and got into Danielle and Noel's mothers 2007 Chrysler Town & Country.
"Sorry about this. Maggie was talking to our parents, and they convinced us to come and take you to the end of the year party in La Push today and the one the Cullen's are having tomorrow…" Noel said, looking at Miki through the rearview mirror.
Miki shrugged, "I was going to just paint and watch movies all day… My friends from Lake Orion are all at end of school year parties, so… I guess it'd be more fun to hang out with other people and try to make some friends to hang out with over the summer. So thanks for saving me from boredom!"
Danielle turned around and looked at her from the front passenger seat, "You weren't going to do anything?"
Miki shook her head. "Nope. Since I finished school early back in Michigan, I didn't get to meet anyone at school… All we have to do at home is finishing up the remodeling and painting."
"The house looked like it was done though.." Janice said absentmindedly. Every time she is in a car, especially when her sisters aren't there, she just stares out the window at the passing scenery, only giving half of her attention to the conversation in the car – it's something that she doesn't get to do often, with her sisters being very loud and obnoxious at times.
"Eh, Andrew's been working on it since the beginning of May. The people who owned it before us had almost finished renovations in the main rooms, so we just finished that up…" Miki sighed. "We've just got to finish the guest rooms and my room…"
The other four girls in the car nodded knowingly.
A few minutes later, the car pulled up to a beach. There were a few other cars there, some with Forks High School stickers, and one or two that were from La Push. There were a lot more people down on the beach than could fit in all the cars, so Miki guessed that some of the people from La Push had walked there. From the parking lot area, you could see and hear that there were a lot of happy people. The four that Miki had came with were headed to the party, and only Aurora noticed that Miki had stopped to stare at the scene. The pink-haired girl doubled back to Miki and put her hand on the other girls shoulder.
"M-Miki, what's wrong?" Aurora asked quietly. Miki jerked back to reality when she heard Aurora's voice for the first time since meeting her.
"Nothing, nothing… Just remembered something." Miki sighed. "Well, I guess we should join the party… That food smells good…"
Aurora looked at Miki and then followed her to the beach.
Once she reached the beach, Noel dragged Miki over to a group of gigantic men and a few much smaller girls.
"Miki, you met some girls, now you have to meet some guys!" Noel grinned. "Everyone, this is Miki Brandon. She just moved here from Michigan last week. Miki, this is Seth, Embry, Quil, Jacob, Collin and Brady."
"Ahh, so this is the girl that everyone's been talking about at school?" Collin grinned.
Miki blushed faintly, "Everyone's talking about me?"
Janice nodded, "It's not often there's new people in this area!"
"Hey, Miki, it okay with you if I go and find some of my friends?" Noel asked. Miki nodded, and Noel ran off to a group of people close to the beach.
"Hey, what's up with sourpuss?" Miki giggled, nodding at Jacob. Said boy glowered at her.
"Ahh, it's just the girl he likes moved to Alaska a few months ago. He's still not happy about it, even though a normal human would have gotten over it by now! Though we think he likes Jan" Danielle giggled.
Janice blushed as Miki patted Jacob on the back. It surprised everyone who knew about the werewolves that she didn't comment on the heat. "Poor, poor boy. You know, this is sorta like an manga I've read…"
Embry looked at her, "Which one?"
"Uhm… Okay, I might not have read it in a manga. But it is like something that would be in one!" Miki grinned.
"Hey! Emily's here!" Brady exclaimed. He ran up to help Emily bring down the food with Collin and Quil and some other boys.
Seth looked at the confused Miki. "Emily is Sam Uley's wife, everyone agrees that she's the best cook on Earth."
Soon, all the food was set up along the beach at everyone was eating. Miki was sitting with Noel, Danielle, Janice, Embry, and Seth. Even though it was obvious that Embry was waiting for something, he and Miki were still talking and having fun. The two were plotting to start a mini war with the squirt guns, but then a Sebring pulled up. When the passenger stepped out, Embry jumped up.
"Zizi! You're…" He trailed off when Zizi came around to the other side of the car so she could be seen. "P-pregnant?"
Zizi grinned sheepishly. "Yeah… Uhm… Six months. Fai wanted to tell, but I convinced him to let me surprise everyone."
Miki looked to Janice.
"Zizi is Embry's girlfriend. She had to go to New Zealand for a few months, so this party is sorta a welcome back party too." Janice explained. "She left January second… I guess it's a good thing that she's already graduated!"
Miki giggled. Seth looked at Miki, a blush on his face. Miki still hadn't realized that the Seth that she was sitting next to was the Seth she knew from MySpace and had a crush on.
A few hours later, Miki and Embry had started and lost the water gun fight – of course, that was to be expected, with it being her, Embry and Seth against more than ten people. Since mostly everyone was thoroughly soaked, they decided to go swimming. Even though the water was not exactly warm, Danielle and all of the boys from La Push minus Embry (who was somewhere with Zizi) and Seth dove right in. The people who didn't go swimming decided to play bocce ball, and Seth decided to take Miki on a hike to a area that was good for watching the now-setting sun – of course, he didn't tell Miki that, just to follow him.
"So, Miki, tell me about yourself." Seth said.
Miki shrugged, "Not much to tell… I just moved here from Michigan, which I really miss. Lake Orion was really pretty in the spring and fall… And all my friends are awesome, we all were the crazy anime and mythical creature fans of the school… I used to live in Japan, but I moved when I was three… Ah, I love fire and watching violent movies and thrillers even though I shouldn't… Cloverfield and Sweeney Toddare my favorite movies still, though Juno was pretty good…"
"Why do you say you shouldn't see thrillers?" Seth asked. He helped Miki climb over a fallen tree that was in the path, and the two smiled at each other.
Miki sighed as she jumped off the top of the tree. "I get paranoid about things easily. After I saw Cloverfield for the first time, it took a month for me to be able to walk around my room with the lights off and listening to my iPod. 'Course, not as bad as when I watched the season one finale of Psych… I had huge windows in my old house – and I'm pretty sure we had a ghost – so I kept thinking that I was going to get pushed out of one of the windows. Thankfully, that only lasted a few days…" Miki mumbled.
Seth laughed at this.
"Hey! It's not funny!"
"Afraid of windows?"
"That was only for a few days! That was before I'd even see—wait no, that was after the worst case of paranoia…."
"Worst case of paranoia?"
--cut to resulllts!!--
"I watched Steven King's IT. It's been three years this September since I've seen it, and to this day I'm still afraid of clowns."
"What else did it make you afraid of? Bathrooms?"
"Actually… Yeah… And fortune cookies, and spiders even more, and sewers, and more…."
"Seriously?"
Miki nodded. "Seriously."
"How were you afraid of bathrooms and fortune cookies?"
"Bathrooms had blood coming out of the faucet, and I'm pretty sure there were eyes and spiders coming out of the fortune cookies. Oh, it didn't help that I had to take a shower after I watched it."
Seth burst out laughing.
Miki glared at him. "So why are we going out here and are we there yet?"
"I have to show you something. We're almost there."
Miki blinked. The duo was now at a small clearing next to the water that was perfect for viewing the sunset. "Oh... wow!"
Seth grinned, "Like it?"
Miki nodded mutely. As she was walking closer to the water, she tripped on a root. But before she hit the ground, a pair of strong and very warm arms caught her. She looked up and gasped quietly as she finally realized that the Seth she had been talking to all afternoon was the Seth that she had a crush on.
"You okay?" He asked.
Miki nodded again, shaking off the strange feeling inside her.
Ack, I know, awkward end.
But I can't really help it, I ran out of ideas for the chap XP;
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