Chapter 1
I snapped at my alarm clock wanting so bad for it to just shut up. I decided I was just going to close my eyes for another five minutes.
But my stupid little sister decided that wouldn't happen. "Belly!" she squeaked in my ear. I winced and shoved my pillow over my head. "Belly, daddy's gone and I don't want to wake up Mummy, cause she's still sleeping." She squeaks at me again. No getting away from it now Bella. Might as well pay attention.
I groaned "what happened now?" I asked opening my eyes. She was standing before me in her PJ's holding her bear with her dark blond hair pulled back into a messy ponytail. She's only 4 years old.
"Well, noffing happened weally I, had a nightmare. And it kind of made me tinkle in bed. Sowwy Belly I heard the alarm and fought you was getting up." She looked at me sheepishly. I surge of disgust shot threw me but I supressed it, no matter how many times you change you sister's bed sheets its always gross.
"Its ok Sasha, help me clean it up?" I offered a smile. She really was a sweet kid, she always knew when she did wrong and didn't even need to be asked, and she would always help fix it. You could never stay mad at her.
When we had that sorted out she started colouring in while I had a shower and got ready for school. By the time I was ready and heading down stairs for breakfast everyone was already awake. Sasha was still colouring in, in the lounge room. My 12 year old little brother, Damien, was sitting on the floor next to her eating his breakfast while feeding her, her breakfast. He was ready for school and offered me a tired smile. He looked just like his older brother, the way his dark brown hair was naturally ruffed up and messy, and his facial bone structure. Only difference is his older brother had green eyes like mine, instead of brown.
I walked into the kitchen and sat across from my final brother, Jamie, who was 15 nearly 16. We were closer than any of my other siblings, he was like one of my best friends. While finishing up my breakfast I reminded him we were going to Billy Blacks for the bonfire on First beach tonight. He became instantly ecstatic, he had been bugging to have a shot at the motor bikes Jacob and i had fixed up over the last couple of weeks. And surprisingly after 3 days of begging Charlie, he said as long as I was safe and wore protective gear I could ride it on billy's property only and the same rules applied for Jamie.
Sadly, Jacob went to school on the Quileute res I only get to see him and my two other best friends Quill and Embry outside of school hours.
"Hey mum?" I shouted out. Toward the living room where I heard her talking to Damien just moments ago. "Jamie and I are going to the bonfire tonight, just thought I'd remind you that we can't pick up Damian after school, you will have to."
"Yes sweetie, I know, be back before 1am though, or your father will have to get grouchy at billy again and we don't want that… those two fight like a married couple they do"
Jamie assured her we would be back on time for me since I had a mouth full of cereal. We then headed off to school dropping Damien off on the way. I found a space next to Angela's car were everyone was waiting for the bell to go and before I had turned the ignition off Jamie was out of the car heading toward his girlfriend across the parking lot. "Bye to you to" I utter under my breath while getting out of the car.
School went by pretty uneventful, although everyone was buzzing about how there were going to be new kids at school sometime over the next week. You know how small town are, someone moves in and everyone starts talking. When P.E was over I pretty much ran to my truck which Jamie was already wait at.
I turned to him "was there anything you needed from home?" he shook his head and I pretty much gunned it as fast as I could to Jake's house.
When he got there Jake pulled me into his signature bear hug before whacking Jamie on the back and asking him if he was ready to ride on the bikes. I snorted "seriously? He was talking my ear off all the ways hear about it, bouncing up and down. I'm surprised he didn't pee his pants." Jamie glared daggers and me and I put my hands up in mock surrender. "Just the truth man" I laughed out
I heard a deep elderly chuckle come from the direction of the house. "Hey Billy" I smiled at him
"Hello Bella, Jamie. How's the old man?"
Jamie and I looked at each other then said "getting older" in unison.
Billy coughed out a laugh. "Well I won't keep you. Just be safe on the bikes. Your father would kill me if something happened." Then laughed again before rolling himself back inside.
Jacob looked at Jamie them smacked him on the back. "C'mon man lets go"
After about half an hour of getting a feel for the bikes and then 1 hour of riding around the property we started packing up because it was getting to dark. We walked down to the beach to see Embry sitting on a log with Quil who was quite obviously checking out some girls who were just down the beach.
I walked behind him motioning for Embry not to say anything. I grabbed a handful of sand and dumped it on Quil's head
He shot up "what the hell was that for, Bella?" He shouted, while shaking the sand out of his hair.
I shrugged my shoulders "you were starting to drool, it wasn't attractive" I answered as seriously as I could, plainly ignoring Jamie, Jake and Embry who were having a right good laugh about it. I plonked down next to Quil who had nearly gotten all the sand out of his hair and was now glaring at me with intense fury "aw, Quily. Don't get grumpy cause I made you look like an idiot in front of the party… please" I gave a mock pleading pout. And he pushed me off the log and I fell on my ass.
This made the boys laugh even more, but I turned my head to a new laughter. It didn't take long to find the source of the laughter. Sam Uley was standing just at the tree line with a laughing Jared Cameron and Paul Lahote. They were all watching us. Sam held a serious stance while Jared and Paul were more relaxed. Paul was standing next to Sam while Jared was standing in front with his back to us, but with his face craned towards us.
Jamie helped me up and I wiped the sand off me ass before sitting back down next to Quil. Jamie crossed his arms rolling his shoulders back and returned Sam's glare.
"Jamie" I hissed. He didn't budge but his eyes travelled down to me for a second to say 'what?' "You know those boys are short tempered. Cut it out"
He seemed to not give a dam but Jake pulled him over to help his get another log. They brought the log back over and plonked it opposite up before the three boys plonked down on it. Both Jamie and I, being on the same wavelength, hunched in to give us more privacy to talk.
"Are they still giving you guy's weird looks?" I asked worried.
For about a month Sam has been looking at Embry, Jake and Quil weirdly, then whenever Jamie was on the res he would give him the same look. It was creeping us out.
They all nodded grimly. Jake was hesitant but started to speak "I… exploded… about it to dad the other day. He gave me some crap about 'when the time is right we'll understand."
I scoffed "what's there to understand! Isn't this like some kind of bulling, even if he hasn't said or done anything its intimidation. I seriously think you guys should get Charlie to have a work to him about it." And as usual they just brushed it off causing me to scoff again.
"I'm going for a walk the noise from the party is getting to my head." I said standing up.
Embry stood up to "I'll come"
We were walking along the beach and I didn't really know where I was taking us till I started walking towards the paths that took us to the cliffs. It was always different when I was on the res. I was with boys all the time because the only girls I made friends with, Quil would scare away by hitting on them. I was always with boys. Even at school, the only girl-friends I had were Angela and Jessica, maybe Loren but I'm pretty sure even after all these years she despises me secretly.
Hanging out with the Jake, Jamie, Embry and Quil always made me feel better. They were my family. It was weird with Quil and Jake for like 2 days a couple of months ago though. I had to do an ancestry project in history and I found out that Quil's grandad on his mums side and my grandma were like cousins our something. So I had Quileute blood in me and I was related to Quil, who was then by some other form, related to Jake. They refused to believe it for like 2 days because Jamie and I are so white. Then I got my assignment back and showed them the proof. They was absolutely gob smacked, Especially Quil, since I was more related to him then Jake. Like Quil was distant family, then Jake was distant, distant family. But Charlie and Billy were best friends anyway so it seemed more fitting that Jake was related. And it still makes me laugh remembering that expression on the guy's faces.
We broke through to the clearing on the cliff. I breathed in the sea salted air. I loved it up here. Especially at night, it's so beautiful. I have always wanted to live in La Push but apparently it was too far from the station for Charlie.
We stood there for what felt like an hour, but in reality it was only 5 minutes. Suddenly a very drunk couple came into the clearing. Not seeing us and were making out ferociously. I cleared my throat, but they didn't hear me.
"umm… earth to grossly oblivious drunk couple" I offered.
The guy pulled back and shot me glare. "Do you mind? Were in the middle of something"
I flinched and everything went black.