Thanks for the reviews! If you notice, this chapter will have more personality because the first chapter was more of and explanatory chapter, so be ready for some sass. Haha.
Chapter 2
I guess I wasn't thinking when I hoped into the pick up truck with Seth. It was only five minutes later that the buzz wore off and it hit me. I'm in a random stranger's car, going god knows where, in my pajamas. We passed the Welcome to La Push sign and I realized that this is the farthest I have ever been from home. I have gone grocery shopping when Candice needed something, and even out to the mall every so often, but I have never been to La Push. My parents made it very clear that La Push was off-limits. And I was outside those limits. I smiled. I think I like being a rebel.
Seth pulled into a driveway and hopped out of the car but, I hesitated.
"Come on!" he waved his hand. I followed his lead and got out of the car. I've surprised at myself by trusting this random stranger with so much.
He grabbed my hand. I was shocked at first. This was this first time anyone has ever held my hand. Come to think of it, this is the first time anyone has really showed any sort of physical affection towards me. I close my eyes. All I want at this moment is to hold his hand forever. I stand still as he tugs me.
"Casey, lets go." He whines.
"Wait." I say simply.
"Okay." He says like a question and lets go of my hand.
"No!" I say snatching it back. I sigh and close my eyes once I have his hand again. "This is the first time anyone has ever held my hand." I tell him and sigh again.
"I'm sorry" he whispers.
"No, don't be. It's not your fault." I explained. "Just shut-up and hold my hand."
He laughs. "I'll do one better." He says and pulls me into a hug. A hug. I almost melt. I can feel some sort of electrical current between the two of us. He is so warm and I feel like I'm being surrounded in a cloud. I close my eyes again and just feel the electricity flowing between us. "Do you feel that?" I ask him.
"Yeah" he says shakily and pulls me closer.
I'm just surprising myself more and more today. I mean, here I am, at a stranger's house in La Push, hugging a very attractive native American guy that I met ten minutes ago.
"Seth" someone calls from the porch. He immediately lets go of me and I almost groan in protest. "What are you doing? Who is she?" The guy asks.
"Hey, Jake." Seth says clearing his throat. "Um, this is Casey." He says. "She's Edward and Bell's adopted daughter.
"I didn't know they have an adopted daughter." Jake says. My heart automatically pings as it did when Seth told me he didn't know who I was.
"Well they do." He says. "And, I find her quite interesting." He emphasized the word and motioned with his eyes toward me. Now, I'm confused. Jakes eyes popped and motioned with his eyes for Seth to come inside.
Seth follows him and I am now alone in the middle of and Indian reservation at nine in the morning still wearing my pajamas. Great. My breathing became heavy. Although it's nine, the sky is still dark. When Seth was here I felt adventurous. Now I feel alone and scared.
I lean against the car. What am I even doing here? Am I crazy? I don't even know what I was doing; wanting to go to art school and hating my parents. They have a good life for me. I shouldn't be doing this. I should just go back and stop thinking freely; just like my parents. I should give up my dreams of being normal and wild, and just go straight on to law school.
"Casey, come on in." Seth calls to me from the porch. Almost instantly, all my thoughts of going back on this are shattered as if I was crazy for even thinking them. I nearly run to him, still shocking myself as I do so. "I want you to meet everyone." He says like a four year old in a candy shop.
I stop walking. "No! You can't." I say. "I mean, look at what I'm wearing!" I exclaim and gesture towards my body.
He steps towards me and takes me hand again. "You look great, now come on lets go." He says and pulls me through the door.
The place it filled with people. I begin to think that this is one of those magical houses that look small but are huge on the inside. "This is Sam and Emily's house." He tells me.
We walk into the family room and three little kids run in-between my feet and out the front door. I stare after them. "Be careful boys!" shouts a worried mother from the kitchen. I feel tears welling up in my eyes but brush them away. I'm usually not an emotional person. I have learned to live the way I do and except it. But, never have I seen what life is like for other people. I have never wanted anything more in my entire life.
In the family room there is a large group of more extremely attractive Native American boys that just so happen to not be wearing shirts. What is this, some kind of convention?
"Guys, this is Casey." Seth introduces me. They all stop throwing the Nerf football around and wave at me.
"Sup'" one of them calls. I don't know what to say so I blush.
"Well, I'm going to give her the "tour" Seth says and starts to lead me out of the room.
"Who were they?" I ask once we are out of the room.
"That's just the pack." He answers simply and proceeds to show me the rest of the house. A few hours later we end up in the back yard.
"So, why are so many people always here?" I ask him.
He leans back against the porch. "Well, we all hang out here during they day. Sometimes we don't even leave. Emily is always cooking and it seems like the kids are always running around." He says, smiling. "I guess it's a life style that takes getting used to. You see, we all work for Sam, taking shifts patrolling the reservation." He says.
"Why does the reservation need patrolling? Is there a lot of vandalism or something?" I ask.
"Or something is probably more accurate." He answers and leaves it at that.
It is silent for a couple minutes, but it is a comfortable silence. It is almost noon by now and I've been introduced to everyone. I still don't see why Seth wants his family to know me. Maybe it was something to do with me being his friend's daughter. I decide to ask.
"Seth?" I say, and he looks down at me. "Why do you want to introduce me to your family and friends?" I ask. "I mean. I'm just a random girl you met a few hours ago. What's so special about me?"
"Everything." He answers simply and scrutinizes my face for a few seconds. "When we met, did you feel it too? You know, that feeling that you want, no, need to get to know that person. You felt it to right?"
I just nod.
"Well, that's why. I'm sure you don't know why you felt that way, and I will explain it soon, but all I can tell you know that you have to listen to that feeling." He explained. He was right on. I decide to take his word (irrationally) and blindly follow his lead.
He convinces me to stay for dinner. At first I was reluctant. I was sure that my parents would kill me. But, then a thought popped into my head: If they don't care for me in all the good times, why should I think they would give a shit in the bad? I follow that thought and stay. Candice won't care.
Everyone is kind and friendly as though they have known me for years. I felt weird in my pajama pants and Emily even let me wear some of her jeans. The meal was great, and by the end of the day I was dead tired. This is the latest I have ever been out. I realize now that ever since Seth showed up (although that may only be earlier today) my life has been full or firsts. It's like a whole new side of me that I never knew about was finally showing itself. I like that.
I finally called it a night, although slightly reluctant, and Seth drove me home.
At my door, he hugged me again."See you around, Casey." He says and winks at me. I'm so dazed by the hug that I can barley respond. He gets in his car and drives away, smiling the whole time. As I walk in the door, I am mauled by I big ball of Candice.
"Where have you been!" he shrieks. I and my goofy smile are too preoccupied to answer. "You didn't leave a note or anything! You didn't even call! Who were you with? Did they hurt you?" she gasps. "Was it a BOY?"
She follows me up to my room, asking ridiculous questions the whole way. By the time I get to my room, my mind is clear enough to tell the story. She sits on my bed as I tell her everything, going into detail. The only thing I don't tell her is that Seth knows Dad. Instead I tell her that he came by to drop off a package. I don't want to bring up my parents or their secret. She may know something about it.
"Young lady!" she says at the end. "That was very, very irrational thinking on your part."
"I know." I say. "But, something powerful just came over me. I don't know what it was, but, it was what I was putting all my faith in." I explain, blushing.
"I know what it is." She says. "That there, is what your first true love feels like." She says, smiling. She hugs me. "So, of course I can't be mad at you. I mean, look at you! You are practically an adult already. What is it? One month and you'll be eighteen? My, how time goes by."
"But, can it really happen that fast?" I ask her.
"If you believe in love at first sight it can." She told me.
She spends the rest of the night talking to me about how every young girl falls in love at some point and how happy she is for me. When I can barley keep my eyes open, I ask to go to bed. She kisses me on the forehead and tells me once again how happy she is for me. I make sure to tell her to keep this a secret from my parents.
I'm all comfortable under my blankets, but I can't seem to get to sleep. Once I'm just about to drift off, my thoughts take me to Seth and my stomach goes crazy with butterflies, effectively keeping me from sleeping.
Halfway through the night, I hear a tapping on my window. I glance at my clock. It is two in the morning. Carefully, without getting up, I peek at my window and see Seth's face faintly through the glass. I sigh and get up to open the window for him.
"Hi." He whispers.
"Hi" I whisper back.
There is an awkward moment of silence before I think to ask the most obvious question ever. "What are you doing here?"
"I couldn't get to sleep. I can't stop thinking about you." He says, thoroughly melting my heart.
"I couldn't stop thinking about you eith…"he cuts me off with a very urgent "Shh!"
He walks towards my bed, motions me to lie down and mouths "someone's coming". I lie under my covers and pretend to be asleep as Seth hides under my bed.
I hear the door creak open. Their footsteps are slow on my hard wood floors. I'm so scared; I can barley control my breathing. I can hear them sit down in the chair across from my bed. They rock back and forth until abruptly, the rocking stops. I hear them sniffing as they get up and walk over to my bed. I stiffen. Surprising me, they lift up the bed curtain instead of the comforters.
"Seth!?" I'm shocked to hear my Mom's voice. "I thought I smelled dog."
"Hi Bella." He whispers nervously back and climbs out from under the bed.
"I thought I told all of you never to come back here when Ness…." she took a deep breath. "But, you just love to break the rules don't you" She almost growled. "Well, I won't have it. Wolfy love magic or not, you stay away from my daughter
"Aw, come on Bells, what are you going to do? Break my shoulder…again." I have no idea what he is talking about.
"Seth, she is all I have left. Please don't take her away from me." She says.
"What are you talking about, Bella?" Seth said almost venomously. "You don't even love her."
There was a loud bang that I had to keep myself from jumping at, followed by a choking noise. "Don't you ever say that about my daughter."
"That's what she thinks." I think Seth said, as he was choking. There was a slumping noise, and gasps.
"What?" My mom asked, again sounding close to tears.
"She told me "My parents hate me." He said, mocking my voice. "That's a direct quote."
It is silent for a minute. "She really thinks we hate her?" It was silent. "How can she think that? I know Edward barley talks, but if he does it all it's always something about Casey. And, I know we keep our distance from her, but it's only for her protection." She is sobbing. "I come up here every night and watch her sleep. She is beautiful." Her voice cracks at the end.
"I agree." Seth says.
"Will you really take care of her?" my Mom asks.
"You know I will"
"Well, you have my consent. The hard part will be getting Edwards. Hey, speaking of that, what were you guys talking about today?"
"Just some nomads moving through that seemed a little sketchy." He says. "Nothing to worry about."
It is silent again, and I can tell that they are both watching me.
"Bells, you know we have to tell her." Seth says after the longest time.
Mom sighs. "Do you have any idea how dangerous that will be for her?"
"She is one of us now and we will protect her with everything we have." He says.
Mom starts gasping those dry tears that I heard in the kitchen. "This is so hard. I can- can't lose her like I did Ness…"the dry tears become too much for her and she is overcome with sobs. She finally calms down. "You should get out of here before Edward comes down." She says and without one word from Seth, I hear the window crack open and close a few moments later.
"I love you, my baby." She whispers to me. "never leave me."
With this chorus repeating from her, I nod off and sleep.
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