Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight.
SPOV
Amber laid down on the bed, and my eyes couldn't help but stray to her chest, that has been growing faster than Renesmee. She smirked and fell asleep. I got off the bed and took off her shoes hoping not to wake her. I picked her up and laid her head against the pillow; I could tell she'd be out for a while. I walked into the living room and out of habit looked at the couch to ask Leah if she wanted something to eat as well. I sighed when I remembered she wasn't going to be there. I wish she would come back, I was mad that she might've left because of me.
I'd been going distant because I wanted her to get a hold of herself. I only did it because Jacob pressured me with a alpha command so I had to obey. But really I was trying to get around it, and I did. He only said to 'let get back to the way she was and keep her safe, away from her' well I could let her get back to the way she was when she was drunk she would be a happy Leah, only slurring words like a idiot.
"Hey Seth. You alright?" Jacobs voice asked. It was distant a little, and he shook my shoulder. I nodded and walked into the kitchen to look for something to eat.
"If your looking for Amber she's in my room sleeping." I muttered. When Jacob didn't move I looked at him with a confused. I laughed when he stared wide eyed at me.
"No I did not. She was just tired." I said laughing so hard tears were coming down my cheeks. He actually thought I would sleep with her when she was 16?
"Well you better get it on soon, she's getting the body of Beyonce and she's not the kind to hide it. She already has a boyfriend." Jacob muttered. I was about to run into the bitter cold and track down the dude who called himself her boyfriend but I fought the urge.
Let her make her own choices if she loves you she'll choose you, I thought.
"Hey Jacob?" I asked while I made a sandwhich.
"Yeah?"
"Do you really think that if I we didn't imprint on someone, we'd still love them?"
I risked a glance at him, and I was pitiful when I did.
"Well, it's not really the case for me. When Bella had Renesmee, I was about ready to kill her when I imprinted on her remember?"
I nodded.
"And Jared never really paid attention to Kim. And Paul… well I don't think I want to think about what would've happened to him. Probably would be in jail for breaking stuff…. Then Sam probably would've been with Emily still. Probably would've broken Leah's heart anyway." He explained. He looked at me and realized he let something slip up.
"Seth c'mon, I'm not talking down about your sister. I'm just saying she could be bitchy sometimes and-"
"You weren't saying that when you thought about her naked all the time." I snapped. It was true, I had to watch through the pack mind when they saw my sister change before phasing accidentally. And it was true, they thought about it all the time.
He looked shocked, but when I started cutting the lettuce with a little too much force he tried to clear it up.
"We have to live through her wining and arguing." He said trying to reason with me.
"She never wined. She argued because you guys would pretend she wasn't there when you talked about Sam and Emily, or when she tried corrected you about simple stuff like how long it would take us to patrol the whole perimeter of our territory. You'd make it personal and she'd walk off feeling hurt because you had got along so well the day before." I said. He growled and I just shrugged because I'd fought a vampire who was a pretty good fighter. Nothing at all scared me anymore.
"Well she'd have to get over Sam and us not caring sooner or later." He said under his breath.
"Oh so you trying to get Bella to love you is different?" I snarled and walked out the door munching on my B.L.T.
Amber walked into the kitchen a few hours later with ruffled hair. She saw me holding back a laugh and glared at me, but she giggled a little.
"What bit you in the butt?" I heard her ask Jacob. He still hadn't moved from his spot.
"Is that like your catch phrase or something now?" I said when she entered the room. She raised her eyebrows.
"I don't know. But what's wrong with Almighty Jacob?" She said sitting next to me.
"Long story short, I bit him in the butt." Amber laughed and snorted just once. It was so cute.
"I really hate it when I do that, makes me sound like a pig…" she said blushing. I kissed her cheek and turned on the T.V. her blush turning scarlet now.
Someone knocked on the door.
My nostrils flared a little, and I didn't recognize the scent. Apparently Amber did because she sprinted to the door.
"Hey Max!" she said and hugged the tall dude at the door. He had russet skin and that flippy hair thing that all girls seem to love. He wore skinny jeans and a Monster energy drink shirt. I rolled my eyes internally. I wouldn't be surprised if this dude was a pansy. I snorted.
"Seth this is Max. Max this is Seth." She introduced us. The guy looked like he wanted to ask me whether I was a close friend or sticking around to annoy the shit out of him (I would've answered both with yes) but Jacob came in.
"Who's he?" Jake asked and I nodded and mouthed boyfriend. He turned his head slowly to him and back to me. He smiled.
"Don't kill him Seth" he whispered, his angry rampage forgotten. I don't think Max could hear us.
"Trust me I wouldn't plan on it" I said sarcastically. I got up and shook hands with the dude.
"Nice to meet you." I said. Of course I was lying.
"I'm sure it's nice to meet me too." He said in a deep voice. I smirked and gripped his hand tighter. Amber quickly broke them apart and glared at me.
"I'm talking to you later. C'mon let's go in my room." She said and when he was a little ahead of her she punched me in the arm. It actually hurt. Bad.
She walked out without saying another word to me.
They were in there about 5 hours laughing and watching movies, and he would nibble at her ear and making want to barge in to break every bone in his body. Jacob held me back and I told him to give me a alpha command, but he didn't because he knew I wouldn't hurt him for Amber's sake. Jade called twice trying to find out what time to pick her up the next day, but Amber was in dream world. Jade was one of the few friends of Amber's that I liked. She reminded me of fall for some reason. Which was crazy considering she was nothing like it.
I decided to just go to phase or sleep, so I just phased and slept outside in the cold. It really didn't matter because I was so warm but I felt a cold rush of jealously every time I thought about Amber.
She's mine, the animal in me growled.
But she needs to choose not you, my reasoning side said.
Both of you shut up. I said.
I was finally able to sleep.
APOV
"Max, I don't know about that… I'm not ready." I was still wining about it. I really just didn't want to. My head was against his shoulder as we watched the movie in darkness. Max's arm was around me and I was in perfect bliss because Seth had left us alone finally.
"C'mon baby it'll be fun. Trust me, you'll like it." Max said. I probably would, but I just didn't think I was ready.
"What are you two talking about?" a voice said from the doorway. I rolled my eyes and sat up.
"Seth, I said to leave us alone!" I yelled and smacked the person at the door on the arm.
"Ouch! I'm not Seth!" cried the person at the door, and I turned on the lights. Jacob stood at the door rubbing his arm, with his eyes darker brown than usual.
"First of all, if I was Seth you shouldn't smack him like that. Second of all, this is Seth's house and I'm sure he doesn't want you cuddling in the dark in it. And third what were you talking about 'I'm not ready'?" Max was at my side and said to let it go. But Jacob growled low in his throat and Max stood his ground.
"None of your business, and where is Seth?" I asked not really caring but trying to steer the conversation in a different direction.
"He went wol- I mean he went for a run." Jacob said glaring at me.
"What would he be doing running in this weather?" Max asked. I said I'd tell him later and Jacob growled again, like I better not. I wasn't going to really.
"Now what were you talking about?" Jacob snarled.
"Like I said, none of your bus-"
"Tell me now." Jacob's alpha voice broke out, and I was forced to obey.
"Max wanted to take me to a party, but I wasn't ready to go to parties yet since I've never gone to one." I said through gritted teeth.
Jacob looked as though he was going to say he was sorry, but of course his coward of an ass didn't. He just said 'Oh' and walked out the room. I sighed and sat back down in the bean bag.
Did they really think that low of me?
"What's wrong?" Max asked.
I looked at him and he saw that I had tears clinging to my eye lashes. He smirked and wiped them off, he knew the only time I cried is if I was really upset.
"Amber… don't cry. You're too beautiful to cry." Max whispered. I sniffed and tried to hold back the tears. Max tried to calm me down but I was to upset. I began balling against his chest.
They thought I was some kind of whore. They think that, after all I'd been through Max would sleep with me so I could get Seth upset. Well they were wrong. Max had been my friend since I started school in La Push and he wasn't the kind of guy to get into the relationship to quick yet. He told me about him wanting to be a author and right millions of books. I always like that about him. He wanted to wait until he was married to make love with someone, and he wanted to find the right person. I was happy with him and didn't need sex for it, I would wait until I was absolutely in love with that person. Even though technically I wasn't a virgin, I still thought I was. Max knew about Sam and everything. He even knew about Leah, but only that she was a close friend, she had been raped, and months later she went missing and so did her ex. Max was sweet and understood the whole thing, and while I sobbed uncontrollably on his shoulders because I was so shocked he comforted me and told me it would be okay. I knew it would but I was scared that Seth thought the same way. I had been avoiding him a lot because of him not making a move on me yet. This really annoyed the hell out of me. I decided that I would just get a lufe and when he hurried and stopped shaking in his big oversized boots that he loves me and start taking me in own hands and stop trying to control my life.
I woke up on Max's chest which was heaving up and down. His black shirt was covered a little darker where my tears were. He seemed to be sleeping because he heart rate was slow and his breathing was relaxed. I looked around at the room I was in and I realized it was mine. Really it was Leah's but I slept in it so I called it my room.
Max stirred a little and sat his head up looking at the alarm clock. His eyes widen when he saw it said 11:56.
"Holy shit! My mom's going to kill me." Max said pulling me off him. I actually wasn't able to touch the bed for a minute.
"Bye Max" I said watching him gather his stuff which was all around the room. Before he walked out the door he strode back over to the bed and kissed me. Our tounges touched for a minute and he felt himself not wanting to leave. I didn't want him to leave either.
"I swear your trying to kill me Ambs." He muttered when he pulled away. I giggled and blushed, I didn't mean to.
He walked out the room with a smile on his face.
I walked out the room when I was sure Max was gone into the room across the hall that was Seth's bedroom. I opened the door to apologize, but I saw he wasn't there. I looked behind the door. He wasn't there. I looked in the bathroom, he was in there. He was in the shower muttering things to himself I couldn't hear. He must've heard me coming because he moved the shower curtain out the way and poked his head out. He smiled the Sethy smile I hadn't seen in weeks.
"You trying to see me naked so we can be even?" he said smirking. I smirked as I remembered the time when I was so mad at Sam I had just barged into the house naked and walked to the shower bumping into Set. He had saw me naked and I still had dreams about that over and over again.
"No, I just wanted to see where you were to apologize." I said smiling the smile I knew Seth loved. His cheeks flushed faintly.
"Well no need. I've been a ass and I deserved a good punch on the arm. Now… lemme take a shower in peace and you go put a movie in." he said. I nodded and tried to catch a glimpse of hatred. I didn't and I was glad.
Seth came out about 20 minutes later with washed hair and smelling like soap. I put in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and sat down on the couch with the popcorn with Seth. The right side of my face was against his face and my hand was on his chest. My legs were curled against my body and Seth had his arms around my shoulder. This was completely normal although Seth wasn't paying attention to the movie. He was paying attention to Hermione and wondering how she got so hot over the years. I would roll my eyes and tried to pay attention but when Seth breathed his breath would leave goosebumps trickling down my spine and a tingly sensation all through my body.
It's just the imprint.
Right?
SPOV
Amber heartbeat was so loud I could hear it. She was nervous about something I could tell. Maybe it was from me, but I tried not to get my hopes up. She smelled like Max, not the beautiful scent that filled my nose when I was pissed off that always calmed me down. I continued to think out loud of the character in the movie that was a known smarty pants of how she was so… I don't know.
"Hey Seth?" Amber asked when the movie ended. I looked down at her to see she was avoiding my eyes.
"Huh?"
"Do you really think I'd sleep with Max?"
I was dumbfounded. Why had she asked this?
"Why would you ask that? Of course you wouldn't. At least I hope you wouldn't…" I said the last part to myself. She was mine. Her sexy body her slightly pink lips her blue eyes. Mine mine mine. Did I mention mine?
"Because… no reason. Well, I'm going shopping with Jade tomorrow so I better start sleeping." She got up and walked into her room, changed into her pajamas and walked into my room. Curious I got up from my spot and peeked through the door.
Amber cuddled her head up against the pillow smiling. It was the smile that always made me blush like a little girl.
"Mm Seth…" she whispered before falling asleep.
I woke up without a shirt in my room with Amber at the foot of my bed with an arm hanging over the edge. I chuckled and tried waking her up. She moaned and opened one eye.
"Whhaaatt?" she groaned.
"Rise and shine rise in shine!" I sang and laughed. She giggled and raised her head up, she looked high.
What really caught my attention was a purple-brown blotch on her neck. Oh God…
"Amber is that a hickey?"
She frowned at me like I was crazy.
"That's a bruise dumbass. I got it a few days ago when I was running it just hasn't healed. You know I'm a slow healer." She said it like it was obvious. But then again, she's a better liar than Paul when it comes to relationships…
"Seth I'm not lying." She said irritably and got off the bed with a huge t-shirt.
"Who's is that Jakes?"
She laughed.
"No it's- yours" she laughed so hard she had to hold her stomach. Damn was I really that big? But then again she was 5'6.
When she was finally able to get to the door and stop laughing she seemed to notice something.
"I love you Seth." She said. She ran over, kissed me on my cheek and even though it was just a peck it made my legs go week. She trotted out the room leaving me feeling like a little kid on Christmas.
