I woke up to yelling coming from upstairs, the boys we're watching football. I could tell from the loud whistle coming from the television which would end the 2nd quarter. I glanced up to Adam whose arms seemed to have tightened during his sleep. His mouth was slightly a gap and loud snores sounded from him. It made me giggle before I decided he had enough sleep, I was so excited to see the town and I didn't want to wait any longer. I scooted up to see the time on my cell phone which read 2:43. Perfect timing, we still had a few hours he could roam around. I cleared my throat and then screamed load enough from the entire house to hear me "ADAM! GET YOUR ASS UP BEFORE I DECAPITATE YOU!" I could hear light snickering coming from upstairs
Adam slowly squinted down at me before a slight smile spread across his face. "Adam! I know your awake, I'm getting up and you have 15 minutes to meet me downstairs or I'm leaving by myself. Got it?"
He just grunted letting me go and rolled over. I silently prayed he would go back to sleep so I didn't need a bodyguard with me.
I quickly grabbed a few articles of clothing from my bag that one of the boys probably threw down here at some point during our nap and all but ran out of the room. I walked into the bathroom and pulled my hair out of its ponytail. My messily wavy dark brown hair fell down landing at my waist. I fluffed it up for about 30 seconds and decided it was presentable enough. I quickly pulled on razorback gray tank top with a navy zip up hoodie over it. I threw on overly tight skinny jeans along with some brown leather boots. I quickly glanced Adam's form when I walked in with my toothbrush still in my mouth and looked back at the time, it read 3:10. I smiled and darted up the stairs not before placing my toothbrush in the bathroom and past the boys who were so absorbed in the game they didn't even glance in my direction nor did they hear the front door slamming.
I knew Adam would be pissed I left without him but hey, I gave him a chance. Since the town was so small I decided to walk. I passed by numerous houses, kids played in the orange leaves which fell from above from the oak tree while their parents looked on with grins plastered on their faces.
One house stood out among the rest. Three little boys were diving into piles and piles of leaves. They looked as if they were having the time of their life. Their parents stood on the porch. The father looked to be around mid to late twenties while the mother looked around mid-twenties. The man had his arms around the girl's waist while the girl leaned back into him. Her arms were crossed in front of stomach and their eyes were closed and they were unconsciously swaying back and forth. I could faintly hear a melody coming from the home.
I couldn't help but feel jealous. I would never be that happy, watching my children play in the yard while they love of my life held me close to him. I had too much damage. I was ruined and damaged. I sighed and walked to a quicker pace until the home was safely behind me. About 15 minutes of walking I came across the infamous beach that Conner was so excited to see. I mindlessly walked next to the waves, it didn't bother me that my boots were most likely going to my ruined. Having a few minutes of peace was worth it.
I sat down a few inches up from the waves so I wouldn't become wet. My hair flew in all directions behind me due to the wind. I laid down and looked up to watch the sunset. I guesstimated it to be around 5:30 so I still have a few more hours to myself.
I soon heard screams coming from my right, I looked over to see about five men on a cliff and one in the water below looking up. The man in the water looked pissed while the ones on the cliff looked on with a humorous expression. The man in the water soon started swimming to the shore and to my surprise instead of walking to the men, he flipped them off and started to walk toward my direction.
He looked up and seemed surprised that he wasn't alone and then a grin replaced his former murderous one. I looked away and continued to look up as I was before I was interrupted.
Not more than five seconds later I heard a rough voice calling over to me "Hey! Girl laying down!" I looked over to him with an amused expression
"Aren't you original?" I asked with an eyebrow raised. He smirked and walked over and sat down next to me. "So I take it you saw that whole performance over there?"
"By performance you mean, you being pushed off a cliff?" "The very same one" He grinned proudly.
I giggled and replied "Yes, I did." "Nice!" He fist pumped the air. He glanced over at me " I'm Quil by the way, I haven't seen you around here? You live in Forks?"
"No, I just moved her yesterday." "Really? Why on Earth would you move here? I mean besides the fact that you get to see my beautiful face everyday."
I knew I liked this kid. "I'm Peyton" He looked at me "Isn't that a guy's name?"
I sent him a glare that he visibly shuttered at "Please, what kind of name is Quil?" He threw his hands up in defeat "Touché"
"So why did they throw you off the cliff in the first place?" He shrugged "I was getting on Paul's nerves and TRUST me, you do not want to be on his bad side, but anyway he thought the only way to shut me up was to send me tumbling down to my dome into the freezing cold water."
"Sounds like a good choice to me" I teased him. "Ha ha, aren't you a little comedian?" He retorted. I glanced up to see almost all of his friends had jumped and were now walking towards us.
One of the boys in the group whispered "Damn Paul! If I knew she was down here I would have taken Quil's place in a heartbeat." It clearly wasn't meant for me to hear but it still brought a smile to my lips.
Quil quickly got up pulling me with him quickly which gave me a little head rush. " Hey guys! Have a nice time?" Quil eagerly said. The all just rolled thier eyes.
"Anyway, this is Peyton. I just met her. Peyton this is Jake, Sam, Jared, Embry, and Paul."
I learned that the boy who made the comment about taking Quil's spot was Embry. I quickly shook their hands, Paul was the last one whose eyes I met. He didn't look like he wanted to be there. He looked me over and then looked me in the eyes. His stern and guarded eyes turned to love and adoration. The others looked dumbfounded.
"Seriously? Out of all of us? Paul?"
"No way."
"He's screwed." One glare from Paul shut them all up. He curiously looked back to me. Quil had a shit-eating grin on his face with his arms crossed in front of him.
I looked around confused and quickly looked at the time which read 7:45. "Shit!" Paul's eyes suddenly widened
"Are you okay? What happened?" He all but ran over to me looking me up and down. I raised an eyebrow at Quil who was hunched over and was emitting an snorting sound that I'm sure was meant to be a laugh but just came out like a pig being strangled.
I looked back at Paul "I have to get going I'm supposed to be home in 15 minutes. It was nice meeting you all." I gave a quick side hug to Quil who had calmed himself down considerably but was still chuckling. This action caused Paul to slap Quil upside the head.
"What the fuck? She initiated it! Not me! Geez, I always knew you'd be more of an asshole after you imp-"
And this caused another smack to the back of his head. Quil started to rub it while muttering to himself. I only caught a few words that sounded like "Overprotective jackass..."
I once again raised an eyebrow in Quil's direction before saying goodbye once again and only made it a step before a heated hand grabbed mine and spun me around to be face to face with Paul. "Umm, can I walk you home? It's pretty late. Some creeps come out at night." I quickly looked at his eyes which held determination. I felt like he was going to walk me home whether I liked it or not.
I quickly nodded my head and he had a grin plastered onto his face. He placed his hand gently on my back and we headed towards the direction of my house. We walked in silence until he got to the sidewalk that lead to my house. Out of the corner of my eye I could see Paul keep glancing at me like I was going to dissapear. "So, your new here? Right? I'm pretty sure I would have noticed you earlier."
"I just moved here yesterday actually with my brothers. This is the first time I actually went out." Paul had a smirk on his face "So Quil was the first person you met here?" "Yeah, well, besides the people I met at a party yesterday. I had to go to drag my brothers out." "Who's party? Tony's? Over down Chester st.?" "The very one."
His smirk soon turned into a glare, "Don't go near Tony, He's nothing but a man whore." I giggled for a second before replying "I didn't plan on it." He nodded approvingly before I heard a russling in the woods next to us.
I tensed and folded my hands around my chest. Paul looked over at me and walked to my other side, seperating the woods and myself b. "Don't worry it's just the wind." He glared up at the sky almost as if he was cursing the wind for scaring me. "It could be some creature coming from the woods to torture me." I cautiously looked over him and at the trees again. I could hear more rustling which made me squeal and grasp Paul's hand and scrambled closer to him grabbing his arm with my free hand.
He beamed down at me used his other and to rub my hand up and down
"Don't worry, I'll protect you from any creatures that try to come near you." I smiled up at him subconsciously leaned in a little closer just for extra security. We reached my house in about 20 minutes. He walked me up the door where I could hear the boys STILL yelling at the television about football. Paul looked at the door curiously. "Your brother have friends over?"
I remembered that I hadn't got around to telling him the amount of brother I had.
"Uhhh... sure." I lied quickly "Football night, pretty big in my house." I added on trying to make my lie more believable.
Paul shuffled around. "I'll see you around soon, right?"
I smiled "Definitely! It's good to have some friends around here. And you and the guys can stop by anytime if you'd like. I also gave my number to Quil to get in touch with me."
His eyes darkened at the mention of Quil but he shook his head and smiled down at me once again. I unlocked the door and the yelling got louder and i turned back to smile at Paul before closing the door.
Hey Guys! I haven't updated in like a year. But I'm trying! Anyway, yes. Paul is completely and utterly whipped from the moment he laid eyes on pretty little Peyton. Also, I'm sorry about the grammar and misspelled words. My computer is being weird and doesn't have spell check. Anyway... REVIEW!
