Adeline
The morning didn't feel right to Adeline. She was usually a 'morning person' and started humming old Disney tunes as she was brushing her teeth in the bathroom, but today she was silent. A lot had gone through her mind, such as the irritating fact that she couldn't guess herself that Jacob Black was a shape shifter and the solid, evidential fact that Matt had cheated on her last night.
This brought tears to Adeline's eyes early in the morning, once again after last night. She was always jolly, or came across as happy to say but Matt's indecency had struck her hard. Those pictures, that bloody WHORE. Adeline thought whilst deleting the picture of her phone, what was worse was that HE had been the one to send them, in all his drunken galore. A part of her, the non-judgemental and somewhat angelic side told her to forgive him, especially when he sent her an apology text reading
I'm so sorry, words can't describe how sorry I am. I was pissed out of my head.
Adeline huffed, stubborn as she was, a trait she got from her mother, she didn't reply and let him see that the message was 'read'. Sluggishly, realising the day won't wait for her, well school would not, she dressed in a white skater dress and an oversized cardigan. She dried her locks and let them cascade down the front of her profile.
Breakfast at the Lawson's was always a loving affair, because Adeline's parents worked during the evening most of the time, they treated breakfast as if it was dinner and sat together to start their day, as oppose to end their day. The table was served with pancakes, golden syrup, toast, cereals in small portions and sides of orange juice. A perk of belonging to a family of wizards was that, well food could be served in a matter of minutes.
'Dad, did you know there are shape shifter's in La Push?' Adeline asked, her thoughts going back to Jacob Black and his friend.
'Hmmm, that's interesting. I haven't seen one since the summer of 42, cruising and boozing as I like to call that year.' The summer of 1942 was when Damon Lawson was still a young wizard and travelling the world. He was an interesting individual to come across, even in his younger years. It was said marriage had changed him, gone was the player of Damon and came in the ever devotional husband. To explain why Damon Lawson was still a young man in the summer of 1942 comes the explanation of desired immortality. Wizards were a special kind, on the brink of human nature and on the cusp of paranormal realms, they could switch realms at any time during their life. For example, Adeline's great, great, great, great grandfather could come to the human realm at any time he pleased, it was said that at a certain point in life, a wizard grows old of the human world and decides to go to the unknown realms at any point in time.
The thing was, no wizard was allowed to disclose the secret of what was in the unknown realms, hence the name. It was punishable by the Wicazzus Elders, who were the staple guardians of wizarding identity and other paranormal affairs concerning Adeline's kind.
''We'd love to meet them!' Said Zana Lawson, of half Spanish descent and was the mother to this family. Kind and honourable, the women who brought Damon Lawson to his knees was of a wise nature and at times, Adeline's greatest weapon against the world.
'He's a douche.' Muttered Adeline, of course it was heard by her parents who said at the same time said
'Language Adeline'. Their eyes met with a hidden smirk in their expression. Times like this meant that there were those moments Adeline use to gag at when she was a pre-teen, now the looks between her parents make her realise what love must look like.
'What, you know one of them?' Asked Damon Lawson, who was cleaning up the mess from Adeline's sister's shirt.
'No, it's nothing. He just sits next to me in my English and that's all.' Adeline contemplated mentioning he stares at her all funny, but that was only once, it was time to know if he would do it again.
Zana Lawson was smirking all of a sudden.
'Adeline, he must like you!' Zana Lawson cried a menacing gleam in her eyes.
'Please mom, I have a boyfriend!'
Damon grunted at the statement and muttered something about never liking 'Matthew'.
'Alright, I'm just saying.' The smirk on Zana's face was hard to dismiss, irritating Adeline further. Sometimes her overly smart, wise, understanding mother could make hypothetical situations become the actual truth. The whole family avoided the topic, despite there being a natural curiosity to something not human entirely.
'Well, I have to go; Carlisle's hunting today so that leaves me in care of everything. Good day, family.' Damon perked up out of his chair, kissed Adeline and her younger sister on the cheek, murmuring to Adeline to 'be careful' and kissed his wife on the nose and lips before departing.
'I'll be back by 7 tonight!' He yelled going out of the door and entering his Mercedes.
Soon afterwards, like any other generic day in the Lawson home, Zana departed taking Adeline's sister with her to school, and kissed Adeline on the cheek.
That left one member of the family alone and after using a clearing spell to dry the dishes; she headed out for another gruelling day at La Push High. Listening to chart music on the radio helped to calm her, she supposed but also gave her annoying tunes now stuck in her head for the remainder of existence. Well, I could always annoy Edward with them. She thought before pulling up and parking, noticing that the glares towards her had toned down. Finally. She thought, most students had now become accustomed to her pristine car entering the school property, apart from the undiscerned notion that a new comer was here, she safely parked and got out of the door, her satchel in check.
There had been a few people Adeline became acquainted with, she didn't spend Lunch alone but sat with a table full of practically, the whole of the sophomore year at the school which consisted of fifteen students, she had no idea where the other three sat, because that would make eighteen students in the sophomore year.
'Hi, oh, your dress is too pretty!' One girl, Ava said. She was of the same tribal descent, really nice, Adeline thought, but they didn't really have much in common.
'Aww, thanks. Nice earrings.' Compliment for compliment, it was actually true, she did have nice earrings.
'I got them from Forever 21, the opened up a new store in Port Angeles. We should totally head there sometime, right Lia?' Ava signalled over to another girl to come over, which she did. Adeline smiled as warmly as she could, actually keen to get into a conversation but that all stopped when she thought, no, knew she felt eyes on her.
'Oh, my god, you have got Paul Lahote, Embry Call, Seth Clearwater and Jacob Black all staring at you.' The girl called Ava said with a sort of glee that made her smile ten times as big as it was. Adeline took a brief glimpse at them and felt her breathing hitch up. He's staring at me, maybe he knows I'm a wizard. But, why stare at me like that? Is it because they think I'm a threat. No, no, no, I'm not a threat. I have to go explain to him, to them now.
'Excuse me, I'll be right back.' Adeline said moving her way past. She walked towards Jacob Black and co with a stern look on her face.
'Look, I'm not a threat to you.' She blurted out, boring into Jacob's eyes. What was happening, Adeline thought. She always has control, why doesn't she have control now? She didn't want to say that, she wanted to ask if there was an issue.
'Why would you be a threat to us?' This came the voice of Embry call, who elongated the word 'Why'. Evidence from countless novels suggested Adeline to cover up her mistake, but that would make her look like an idiot. So, she decided to tell the truth, she wanted to hear the confession of being shape shifters from their mouths anyway.
'I- your shape shifters aren't you?' Adeline had enough sense in her to say it in a hushed tone. Jacob Blacks company looked towards him for help.
'Guys, I got it. Come on Adeline, take a walk with me.' He said, with a grin rising on his face. If it could be said, he literally glowed when he said 'Adeline', and 'me'. He has it so bad for you. Adeline cursed the voice in her head. She had class in less than five minutes.
'I have class.' She said, once his entourage were gone.
'What, a GPA of a billion is going to suffice from two hours away?' Jacob replied, hurting himself more than her. He had to keep his heart and mind on Bella.
'No, but your GPA will go into the negatives if you're not careful.' Adeline had no clue on his level of intelligence, so made a remark back that was safe enough for him not to come up with a comeback of being a high achiever, so it was impossible.
He let out an adorable laugh as Adeline thought, but then blamed it due to an imbalance of hormones that was causing this.
'You really had no clue, did you?' She didn't expect that reply, was it that obvious that her face let out her distress? Normally, people couldn't read her. It made her even more irritated.
The bell rang and Jacob Black took a few steps away from school ground. Adeline contemplated what to do, the school building was fluxing itself with students and the gates leading out towards the forest holding mystery, Adeline could probably learn more than going into school.
'Hey, wait up!' She called, not using her wizard speed in front of a school full of students. Jacob stopped dead in his tracks and waited for her to catch up.
Once she did, she said 'I know most of it anyway.'
AN: A big thank you to all my reviewers so far! You guys are wonderful for reading and commenting. And also a big thank you to the followers of the story and a huge thank you to those who favourite it! The next chapter will be in Jacob's POV. Please tell me if it is starting to go a bit downhill etc. I really appreciate criticism. As always, please review and rate!
