MTC POV

Paul apologized today. He stopped by after dinner and we sat on my porch and talked. He told me he was sorry for everything he had ever said to me, he seemed sincere. We talked for about 3 hours even though when he came over I didn't want to talk for 30 seconds. We even had some laughs before we made a deal. We'll try to be friends or at least friendly until he says something douche baggy in which case I'm out and he can just fuck off. He assured me it wouldn't happen.

I sat at my desk staring out the window into the darkness, waiting for River to show up. It was 9:30 when his moms car parked in our driveway. I ran out to see him as fast as I could, leaping on him and wrapping my legs around his waist.

"Hey Kiddo." He laughed as I squeezed him, "How's my favorite girl?"

"Great now that you're here. We have so much to talk about!" A wolfs howl over lapped my last few words.

We went inside to avoid getting mauled or some shit. There's been a lot of animal attack reports lately. After the mandatory hugs from my moms River and I went up to my room to catch up. I told him everything that happened with me and Paul that day.

"And after all the shit he stopped by and apologized for everything. He seemed like he meant it but I'm not sure. I'll give it a try though." I sat on the edge of my desk, pulling him closer, "Now lets get our minds off Paul, shall we?"

I pulled him in for what started as fun making out quickly turned into more. He knew my limits though. He still didn't mind asking, "Let's go farther."

"No. the answer is no." I looked him straight in the eye. It wasn't that I didn't love him but I wanted my first time to be with someone I was IN love with. "You spoiled my mood. Let's just go to bed."

River dropped me off at school on Tuesday. He was going to pick me up too which was good because I don't particularly enjoy walking in the rain. I walked into Science and took my seat. When Paul came and sat down he started asking random questions about me.

"What's your favorite color?"

"Purple."

"Favorite book?"

"A tie between Looking For Alaska and Flowers For Algernon."

"Do you like wolves?"

"I guess so, why?"

"Wolves are interesting. They're my favorite animal," he said with a chuckle. He didn't actually seem s bad when he wasn't shitting all over my day. "Are you going to the bonfire this weekend?"

"What bonfire?" I never get invited to any shit.

"The tribe elders have a bonfire and they tell the tribe legends. It's kinda fun. You should come with me." His eyes got all big when he said that. It was kinda cute.

I thought about it for a moment and agreed to go but set out the condition that it wasn't a date or any of that shit. It was two "friends" hanging out. It seemed to make him pretty happy.

I texted River most the day because I had nothing better to do. Jacob must be sick to because he's been gone. I started to realize that I ramble on with my thoughts most the time.

Art class was interesting. Embry was back, he had been gone too, and he wasn't ignoring me like he was to Quill. I could tell Quill was pretty bummed so I excused myself from Em and went and sat with him.

"What wrong, Quill?" I asked. It was a stupid question because obviously what was wrong was that his friends were ignoring him.

He sighed out, "I don't know if I was a dick or something but Embry's ignoring me and now so is Jake. By the way did you notice Paul keeps looking at you?"

I turned around and sure enough Paul was looking at me and Quill. He looked kinda angry again.

After school River was waiting by his moms Toyota with an In n Out bag and a king size Twix. Paul walked out with me but stopped when River came into view. He cleared his throat and I looked up at him, raising an eyebrow at his concerned stare.

"Everything good, man?" I asked in a slow tone. "That's my friend River, he's visiting for the rest of the week."

"What are you guys going to do?" he wondered. He looked at River like he was going to kidnap me. Being kidnapped by him would probably be a lot of fun. Who knows maybe we'd stop at Disneyland.

Although I was confused in why he seemed to care about what my friend and I were doing when Paul had hated me two days ago I told him. After all friendship is a two-way street, right? "I don't know. Eat some food, smoke some weed, play Scrabble. The usual I guess."

I walked off before he could say anything, partially because I still didn't like him much and partially because that In n Out smell was drifting over towards me. I hoped in shotgun after a quick kiss from River and we sped off to my house, laughing the whole way.