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Chapter Two: Lights (Ellie Goulding)
Third Person Point of View:
"That's bullshit and you know it!" Paul's voice boomed through the quaint house that Sam and Emily Uley so graciously opened to the group of overgrown teenagers. Slamming his hand of cards onto the white table, the tall boy leaned across the table to growl in Renemsee's face. "Stop cheating before I tear you to pieces, bloodsucker."
Smirking smugly at the wolf's display of his lack of self control, Renesmee swept the many groups of cards into her hands in order to shuffle. Most of the wolf pack of La Push was seated around the table in Emily's kitchen, the only ones excluded were Colin, Brady, and Leah because they had left for home a few hours prior.
As she flicked the newly shuffled playing cards around the table towards the boys, the half vampire winked at Seth Clearwater, her best friend in the world next to Jacob. Turning back to a violently trembling Paul, Renesmee smiled angelically. "Paul, my dear. I personally invite you to go ahead and try to even put a scratch on me. We both know who would win that fight. Now sit your ass back down and play cards."
She expected a snappy remark to escape the boy's full lips, but he fell silent and swept his pile of cards up into his hands. The chair on her right screeched against the floor as Jacob settled back into his place beside her happily. "What'd I miss?"
The entire table groaned as an unhappy growl rumbled from Paul's wide chest. Sam placed his hand on his friend's shoulder, "Calm yourself, Paul. For some reason, Nessie finds it amusing to press you until you snap. It's only a matter of time before one of you gets hurt, and no one is going to be able to stop it."
"Chill out, Sam. Ness is only having fun. That's what we're here to do right?" Jacob mumbled the statement around a bite of pepperoni pizza and leaned over to bumb his shoulder against Renesmee's. "We should play teams this time. I call Nessie."
And so the game went, each hand conveniently being won by Jacob and Renesmee. It wasn't until the half vampire absent-mindedly forgot to transfer her thoughts to Jacob under the table that Paul figured out that the pair were cheating their butts off. Although this shouldn't have surprised him, he always was a bit melodramatic about situations that shouldn't be taken too seriously. Perhaps he wouldn't have gone over the edge if Jacob hadn't shared a dopy grin with Renesmee that portrayed just how pleased he was to be around her.
Shoving away from the table for the third time that night, the tan boy threw his hands up in the air. "Why don't you just do us all a favor and bang already? I know Jake thinks about it way too often, and it would make everyone's lives so much easier, because you wouldn't be around here all the time to cheat!"
With that, Paul was gone from the room, leaving a horrified Jacob and a smirking Renesmee behind with almost two hundred dollars of winnings. Turning to Sam for guidance as to what had just happened, Jacob opened and closed his mouth a few times before croaking out his question. "Is he allowed to say that? He isn't supposed to be allowed to say that."
Sam simply shrugged in reply, quickly gathering the cards into stacks as if to signify that the party was over. Coughing uncomfortably, Jared nudged Embry and Quil before slipping from the house with mumbled goodbyes. The suddenly quiet room made Renesmee more uncomfortable than she liked so she slid her chair back slowly.
"Well…. I think that…. Last one to my house gets to try to steal the Scotch from Uncle Emmett's stash." Before the two boys had time to process her ultimatum, the tall girl was out the door and laughing at them as she ran.
Not only was it almost impossible to steal alcohol from Emmett Cullen, but they had made a deal months prior that if they were to get caught, the supplier would be the one to take the blame. None of them wanted to deal with Edward's ungodly wrath, so Jacob and Seth were at the door within moments, struggling to get through the small space before each other.
When Jacob finally won the battle at the doorway, he reached back to shove his hand in the smaller boy's face. "Sorry, brother, but there's no way I'm getting caught sneaking booze to a four year old. Looks like you're going to be dealing with Daddy Dracula tonight."
If only they knew that Edward's fatherly wrath wouldn't be the kind of horror that they would be facing tonight.
Seth's Point of View
As soon as Jake plowed through Sam's front yard ahead of me, I knew that I was screwed. Compared to the average person, I was incredibly fast, but there was no way that I would catch up to Jake once he phased. But while we were still in human form, I kept right on his heels, occasionally tripping him for a few seconds at a time.
The issue with racing with a vampire, even one that is still half human, is that they somehow seem to blend into the night so completely that they disappear for minutes at a time. It's also a problem when you only have a few pairs of shorts left and you can't risk taking them off in order to phase in case a certain sixteen year old delinquent is spying on you from the shadows. As if she could hear my thoughts like her father, Nessie's sarcastic laughter bubbled through the darkness.
"There's no way that you're going to beat me like that. Go ahead and strip, I promise that I won't look!" Her voice seemed to echo from all around me, and as I looked for her pale shape in the trees I realized that Jake was shamelessly stripping in the middle of the clearing we had suddenly burst into.
My jaw dropped as he yanked his shoes off and began to tie the strings together. "Are you kidding me? We both know that she's probably taking mental pictures of us every second to show Edward. I don't know about you, but I'm not planning on dying a brutal death any time soon."
Shrugging unconcernedly, Jake held out his hand to the darkness and waited patiently. Within moments, Nessie was standing beside him, slipping her hand into his. I watched as he pulled her to his chest, quickly covering her eyes with one of his giant palms. This was the kind of contact that made it impossible for me to believe that my two best friends were still just friends themselves.
Through the bond that we all share as wolves, I had felt the intense love that Jake felt for Nessie. And she had expressed the same feelings for him to me through her vampiric ability. Yet they hadn't crossed the line into a romantic relationship, though I could feel them teetering on the edge of it, losing their balance every day.
"Hurry up. She can't see you now, cry baby." Jake teased cheerfully, his smile blinding me in the darkness to the point that I had to look away. "Though I don't know why you'd complain about this. It's probably the only action you'll ever get."
Rolling my eyes, I yanked off my clothing and phased quickly. By the time I was in my wolf form and ready for a fair race, Jake was chasing Nessie out of the clearing with a deep chuckle erupting from his chest. Times like this almost made me crave the past years when my two best friends had actually included me in their memories.
Not that I wasn't a part of their lives, what with us still being a pack of three and Nessie and I growing closer as the days passed, but nothing could compare to the way they were joined at the hip. Sighing quietly, I pushed myself fast enough that I could just see Jake's rusty tail disappearing around the bends in the path they had chosen.
"Coming up on a road." A phantom's melodic voice called out from the trees above me. Just as the words reached my ears, Jake crossed the snake of asphalt and my long claws scraped the black pavement.
Opening my mouth to complain about being cheated out of a fair chance at winning, bright lights zeroed in on the right side of my face. I knew immediately that the little car was no match for my tough body, but I was also aware that it was going at a speed that I wasn't able to escape.
I was stuck in the center of the road, frozen, when the squealing tires broke the peaceful silence of the night.
Kiki Lopez' Point of View:
"You are certifiably insane if you think for a second that Matt Damon in the Bourne Ultimatum is any competition for Brad Pitt from Interview with a Vampire! And don't even get me started on Tom Cruise as Lestat!"
Why was it that every sentence that Alex uttered ended with some sort of infliction that suggested an exclamation point was needed? His sexual orientation was definitely not the problem, I had met tons of gay guys that didn't talk in such animated ways. But it wasn't like I could complain about him too much, he was one of the only people that I could talk to without being judged.
Reaching up to push the dark curtain of bangs away from my equally dark eyes, I shrugged largely. "You act like it's surprising that I pick Matt Damon, seeing as I've never seen anything with the word vampire in it. Being sheltered isn't something that I exactly have control over, you know."
My father, the head pastor of the extremely strick Christian church in Port Angeles, Washington, not only did not approve of vampires, but had utterly forbidden me from even thinking about such blasphemous, demonic material. I was lucky that he had miraculously allowed Alex Carpenter, the only open homosexual in my school, to be around me.
I believe his reasoning had something to do with him wanting Alex to be "saved" from the sins he had committed and would commit in the future if he wasn't careful, but the fact that I couldn't get pregnant if the dude wasn't into vagina was a big part of it. To be honest, Alex was a large part of my daily prayers anyway. But only because I was thanking God that he had brought me someone that I could be myself with completely, someone that would let me listen when I wasn't up to talking, and then unload when I was being particularly annoyed by my father.
Huffing dramatically, Alex shook his turquoise head vigorously. "That is an absolute lie, which is a sin, young lady! You just experienced your very first vampire romance. And though you frowned through most of it, you totally loved it!"
"Absolutely." My hands gripped the steering wheel tightly as I pulled my tiny car around each bend in the road. I regretted choosing the long way home from Olympia, the one that runs through the tiny town of Forks, as my eyes started to droop in exhaustion. Who in their right mind would willingly be up at 3:00 in the morning? Certainly not me, so I pushed the vehicle faster in the hope that I would get to my comfy bed sooner.
Alex turned to glare at me playfully, "Don't lie to me, missy. I saw you drooling over that perfect man's perfect a- Kiki, watch OUT!"
Paused in the center of the two lane road I had emerged onto was a sandy blonde mass of fur, somewhere hidden in all the hair were two glistening black eyes that seemed to widen in shock as I yanked the steering wheel to the right in order to keep from hitting it. Before I could question the utter humanity hidden behind the glowing orbs, the wall of green that made up the forest crushed the front of my little car back towards us.
The last words going through my head before my head hit the stearing wheel were, "God, save me".
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