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Chapter Two
I stretched out, yawning as I woke up on Monday morning. Rolling over, I saw the empty space in my bed where Embry was last night. I frowned, the indent was still there so he couldn't have left long ago. Maybe he decided to go home and get ready...
After I rolled out of bed, I noticed a note on my night table. My chest clinched. Did he have to go patrolling? Did something happen? Instantly, I felt like a spaz when I read the note.
Hey, you're dad kicked me out last night :( Guess you were right, I do snore...See ya soon, Beautiful 3 :) Embry
I smiled, of course he would say something so incredibly cute. I grabbed a pair of shorts and a t-shirt before heading to the shower. When I got out, my dad still hadn't left for work and was down in the kitchen.
"Morning," he greeted cheerfully.
I glared at him, jokingly of course. "You kicked Embry out."
"Yes, most dad's do kick their daughter's boyfriend's out after midnight when they find them in her bed," he said, amused.
"That's not fair!" I stuck my tongue out at him. "You know we weren't doing anything."
"Last night," he scoffed.
I smiled knowingly. "Exactly."
His face scrunched up. "Urgh, Sophie, can't you just stay my little girl?"
"I'll always be your little girl dad. I just grew up. And don't complain, you're the one who pushed me to even talk to him."
He laughed. "Don't remind me! Now eat and get ready. Oh, the post office called, there's a package for you there. Make sure you go pick it up after school."
I nodded, chances are it was my birthday gift from my... mom. Yeah, as a matter of fact, it was just about the usual time I got her gift. My birthday was a few months ago... "I will."
"Alright, I better get going. See ya tonight, Soph."
"'Kay, bye Daddy. Have fun."
He smiled back at me before he headed for the door. I did as I was told: ate some oatmeal, brushed my teeth, hair, and headed for the door. Screw make-up, it was so itchy! It was kind of early so Embry probably wouldn't be ready but I decided to leave anyway.
Since, the walk to school was literally less than fifteen minutes – and a drive would maybe be one minute – I found it a waste of time to drive. Even if I did have a car. Plus, I'd been walking around La Push since I was six, it would feel strange not to.
Billy was sitting on his porch when I walked by his house on my way to Embry's. I felt a pang as I realized that a couple months ago I would've been stopping and picking up Jake. I waved anyway and forced a smile.
"Good morning!" he called out to me.
I walked up to the porch. I was early, might as well stop and talk. "Hey Billy, how's it going?"
He frowned slightly. "As to be expected."
I nodded. I really shouldn't have asked that question... "So when's Rachel coming home from college?" I asked quickly, trying to get off the subject.
He smiled. "The day after you're done school, I do believe. So in a week and a half."
"That's great," I cheered. "You must be excited."
"Yup, it's been a while since she's been home, that's for sure." He glanced down at his watch. "Well, you better get going, I'm sure you don't want to be late."
I shrugged. "I'm actually kind of early. Embry's probably still asleep knowing him."
Billy chuckled. "I just figured you'd want to get there early to study. Don't your exams start this week?"
My mouth dropped. Oh shit. I'd been so excited about school being done with and so worried about Jake, I hadn't even considered that for the year to end, finals need to be taken.
Billy smirked, trying to hide his amusement. "You forgot, didn't you?"
I pondered on what I could say. He would definitely tell my dad and then I'd be in shit before the marks even came back. "Uh, no. Pshh, hell no! Don't be ridiculous." I told him, strategically backing away towards the road. "I was just fooling you. But, if my dad asks. This conversation," I gestured between the two of us, "never happened." With that, I ran for all I was worth to Embry's house. "Bye old man!"
I'm pretty sure I heard him laughing hysterically from behind me. When I arrived at Embry's house, the store wasn't opened yet so I went in through him house. Since I'd ran there, I was out of breath.
"Hey, Julia," I greeted breathlessly. "Embry up?"
She nodded. "Yeah, are you okay?"
I shook my head. "No."
Just as I said that, Embry charged into the kitchen – surprisingly he was completely dressed and ready. "What's wrong?" he demanded anxiously.
I rolled my eyes. "Someone was eavesdropping." He stuck his tongue out at me. "I just ran from Billy's to here. We can't all be freakishly fit because we run around chasing bloodsuckers all night."
Julia, Embry's mom, laughed. She knew about the werewolf thing because Embry had kept getting grounded when he went out patrolling and she thought he was sneaking out.
Embry, on the other hand, glared. "God Soph, I thought something was wrong."
I pecked him on the lips. And I'll tell you, that is a hard task; he's like a foot and a half taller than my 5'3" figure. "Then stop being such a worry-wart. But... did you know we had exams this week?"
He stared at me, dumbfounded. "Please tell me you're kidding, babe."
I smiled sheepishly. "Nope."
He shook his head. "Well, I hope you like your room because when you're dad finds out he's gonna lock you in there. Or kill you."
"Aren't you supportive," I teased.
He laughed, pulling me into his side and encasing his arms around me. "I know, right?"
His mom chuckled. "You guys are crazy. Now get to school and study, I'm going to open the store."
"Bye mom," Embry called as I also said my goodbyes. "You ready?" he asked.
I nodded. "Yeah, let's go."
He grabbed his bag and we left for the school. "So you really forgot about the exams?"
I nodded. "I'm so fucked! My dad's going to kill me."
"He'll understand."
I scoffed. "He's a doctor. He's under the impression that I should get straight A's."
He snorted, grabbing my hand. "Oh come on, Soph. No one would expect you to get straight A's. You can't expect brains and beauty." He ruffled my hair, smiling.
I mock glared at him. "Whatever. Says the guy who copies off me in Algebra."
He kissed my swiftly as we entered the school's building. "You know I'm kidding. You're very smart."
I rolled my eyes. "Suck up," I joked, kissing him.
So it turned out, unlike last year where we had one exam each day, we were having two on Monday, two on Tuesday and one on Wednesday. Just my luck, right? Luckily, I had Algebra first. I knew I would be fine with that. But, that afternoon I would have my Social Studies exam. A study subject, that I didn't study for. Great...
At lunch, our usual group ate together – Quil, Kim, Jared, Paul, Embry and I. "So how do you think you did?" Kim asked me.
I groaned and smashed my head onto the cafeteria table. "Don't ask."
Quil, who Embry had told, and Embry chuckled. "Can ya tell who forgot it was exam week?" Quil continued.
The whole table snickered. I glared. "It's not funny. What if I don't pass?"
Kim patted my shoulder. "You'll be okay. Just think positive."
"Says the girl who spent the whole weekend studying," Jared teased, in my defence.
Kim swatted at him playfully. "You aren't helping."
He apologized and kissed her sweetly on the cheek.
"I'm trying to eat," Paul complained. "Stop being so disturbing."
"We have to deal with you're face every time we eat. If we can deal, you can," I told him coldly. I would never like him. Maybe if he imprinted and started to take on some traits of a human my mind would change, but not likely.
He growled at me, which made Embry growl at him for growling at me. "Guys, settle down." They sneered at each other but listened to Jared.
"Alright," I sighed, standing up, "I'm going to study my ass off in hopes I will scrape by on my exam. See you guys."
The exam had been mostly multiple choice so it wasn't too hard. I wouldn't go as far as to say I aced it, but I'm sure I passed. After school, Embry and the guys had to do something for the pack and I had to go to Kim's. I was borrowing a dress from her for the wedding.
"I wish you'd come," I whined as I sprawled out across her bed. "It's going to be so horrible."
She giggled. "If you can't convince Embry, the whipped I'll do anything for Sophie Embry to go, you aren't going to get me to go. Besides, I'll be on vacation."
I sighed. "That sucks for me. But thanks for letting me borrow a dress."
"You're welcome. I can't believe you don't have a dress suitable for a wedding though."
I shrugged. Grabbing her squishy pillow, I smiled up at her. "All my dresses, are... a little too inappropriate for a wedding."
"It's an eighteen year old's wedding being thrown by bloodsuckers, how classy can it be?" Kim quipped.
"Ah, good point. But my dad so wouldn't approve. At least Seth is coming I guess. Even if he does like that vamp now anyway."
We dug through her wardrobe until we found a pretty, black-and-white floral dress. It fell just above my knees and had a black sash that tied just below my breasts. It was gorgeous. "Oh my god, it's so cute. Can I wear it?"
She nodded, smiling. "Of course, just try it on first. It might be too big for you."
I rolled my eyes. "Drop the low self-esteem crap, Kim. Your the same size as me. Do I have to call Jared over here to tell you how beautiful you are?"
She grinned, taking the pillow from me and whacking me with it. "Try it on!"
Laughing, I tried it on. It fit and I had to admit, it looked pretty good on me.
"You look so pretty."
I blushed. "Merci."
My phone rang with my obnoxious ring tone Embry changed it to that Rebecca Black "Friday" song and I had no idea to change it back. Ironically, the singer sang just as bad as Jake's sister, who had the same name. "Hello?"
"Hey, Soph, it's me, Em."
"Hey, Em, what's up?"
"The pack's over for dinner and Jared and Embry are whining that you too aren't here," I heard our two soul mates muttering complaints to Emily's comments through, most-likely, full mouths of food. "You two want to come over?"
"One sec." I looked over at Kim. "You want to eat at Em's?"
She nodded. "As long as she's cooking and not one of the guys."
I laughed and so did Emily who'd overheard through the phone. "Sure, I have to stop at the post office but we'll be there soon. Tell Emmy and Jare to try to survive without us. Bye!"
"Bye!" she thrilled before hanging up.
We hurried to the post office, knowing that if we were late we'd have a bunch of werewolves mad at us for delaying their dinner. Never a good thing. When we got there, we greeted Gladys and took my package.
"Are you going to open it?" Kim wondered.
I shrugged. I had been right, it was from my mom. Like always, she spelt my name "Soffie". Stupid bitch. "I guess so." I pulled off the mail packaging, then read the note:
Happy Birthday 16th Soffie! Hope you have a great one!
Love Mom
I snorted. "She spells my name wrong and got the year wrong." Apparently she didn't know I was seventeen...
Kim smiled sympathetically. "Sorry, Soph."
I really didn't care though. I was used to it. When I was little it bothered me, now though, I saw no point in caring. She hadn't even come to visit me since she left... when I was two. She wasn't worth it. Opening the gift, which was clearly going to be CD, I wondered what kind of music she thought I would like. I mean, she didn't even have me on Facebook so it's not like she could even check it there.
I scowled when I realized what CD it was.
"Uh, oh," Kim laughed, "what is it?"
"Justin... Bieber," I said showing her the CD apparently named "My World 2.0"
She chuckled, knowing my hatred for him. "Oh god. What are you going to do with it?"
I looked at her and said simply, "What else? Burn it."
Rolling her eyes, she chuckled. "Good solution. Sorry about your mom's gift, though."
"It's fine. Hey, did you say you needed to stop at the store? It's on the way to Emily's."
She nodded and we hurried a bit more. When we entered the store, I noticed Julia wasn't in and Caylee was working. "Hey Cay, where's Julie?" Normally Julia was always here when I wasn't working. Used to be Embry too, but since he was busy with patrolling, he didn't work there anymore.
"She went to a sewing club meeting with Quil's mom. Strange right?"
I laughed and nodded. "Yeah, she usually never leaves." This was to my luck though. As Kim went and grabbed the stuff she needed, I went to the back of the store and grabbed a package of condoms. Since Caylee had started working here, she'd started to like me and we were becoming pretty good friends. So it wasn't awkward buying then in front of her.
Kim paid for her stuff and then I put them on the counter. "Make sure you don't tell Julie," I said, only half-joking as I paid for them. Caylee laughed and waved us goodbye as we left.
Kim looked at me, slight disappointment in her eyes. She was a pretty big goody-two-shoes and I knew she didn't approve of me and Embry having sex. I slipped the package in my shorts' pocket and smiled innocently. "C'mon Kimmy. It's not a big deal. We are soul mates"
She sighed. "I know. I just... I just, don't think I'm ready. And it makes it worse that you and Embry are doing it. What if Jared gets mad at me?"
I smiled and wrapped my arm around her shoulders. "Don't worry, you're his imprint. He can't be mad at you anyway. And he understands so don't be silly. He loves you and he'll wait 'til you're comfortable."
She grinned widely and we continued on our way to Emily's.
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