Everything belongs to Stephanie Meyer
Chapter 3: Insults and Isolation
So, of course I missed the bus. Life just couldn't give me a break. Oh well, screw it I supposed. I put my headphones on and turned on Set It Off's new album Cinematic. I may as well get started, it's not like I live very far from the school. I live like five minutes away when driving. But I'm not driving so…I might as well keep myself entertained.
I was almost home, just a couple hundred more yards then up my driveway and into my house, when I heard a loud growl come from the side of me to the woods. It wasn't a I'm Gonna Eat You growl but more like a Please Help Me, I'm In Pain growl. I am not one of these super animal lovers; I mean my idea of a pet is a rock with googley eyes glued on but that noise was just so heartbreaking. I couldn't leave the poor thing to die trapped and hurt in some sort of way so I became an idiot and walked off of the road and into the woods toward the growl. I knew somewhere in the back of my mind that hurt animals feel threatened and that threatened animals attack even the people that usually help them. I knew that I was probably going to be hurt and then become the animal in this situation which would leave me in the woods, alone, hurt, and more than likely bleeding. Oh, what fun my life was.
I came up on this wolf that was grey and HUGE! Yep. I am going to be eaten so I guess I want all of my things to go to the orphanage in Seattle; except my guitar that Gene Simmons had signed. My dad gave me that for my tenth birthday during my 80s bands craze so I guess that should go back to him.
"It's okay. Everything will be okay. Let me just set down my phone and my other crap. Yeah? Okay, take a deep breath," I was talking to a GIANT wolf like it could actually understand what the mess I was saying. Well maybe it could…how would I know it's not like I speak wolf. The mass of grey fur just whimpered and turned away licking its paw. I smiled slightly at this and crept a little closer to the beast. When I got around to the side of it I saw that his paw had been caught in a trap and was bleeding badly. I also noticed that it was a he but that is beside the point. I shuffled closer and closer still and when he finally looked up at me I froze mere inches from his snout. That snout held tons of sharp jagged teeth and was now barred at me in a growl of suspicion.
"It's going to be okay. I'm here to help. You're not going to hurt me," I told him though I didn't know if I was talking more to the wolf or myself. The wolf stared at me for a moment then covered his teeth and laid his head down on the ground whimpering. I reached toward his paw and noticed that he almost started growling again but stopped himself. I put my hands on the release mechanism and held it down with all of my weight allowing for a gap big enough to fit his paw through. The wolf immediately noticed the absence of the pressure and stared up at me. "Go on. I can't continue doing this all day," I whispered with a grunt of strain. He then slowly lifted his paw out of the trap almost as if he had understood what I was saying. When he was free of the bondage I let go of the release mechanism and started to stand up. But as I did so the wolf did as well and then started to growl at me and limp toward me. It seemed that even without the full use of one leg this ginormous wolf scared the living daylights out of me and it managed to back me into the road just by approaching me. When I was out standing in the middle of the small dirt road it turned and quickly limped back into the trees looking in my eyes the whole time.
I can't believe that had just happened. What the peas and crackers. I started to walk toward my house almost in a dazed trance before I realized that my backpack, purse, and lunchbox were still in that forest; not to mention my phone. My phone was still in the forest….HOLY HELL! My PHONE was LEFT in the WOODS! I spun so suddenly that my foot slipped and I landed on the concrete with a loud thud. I didn't care that I had probably just severely bruised my butt I needed to get my phone so I hopped up and made a mad dash for the spot that the wolf had just pushed me out of. I remembered the wolf as I approached the edge of the thick green dangerously frightening woods. If I went back in there it would more than likely eat me. I mean surely it happened; people being eaten by bears, lions, and tigers so why wouldn't a wolf eat me. I contemplated this thought for mere moments before deciding that my parents would kill me if I told them that I had left my phone in the woods. Then they would ask me what I had been doing in the woods and I would explain that I had missed the bus….But then they would ask why I had missed the bus and I would say because of a guy and then they would assume that we had been having sex or something in the woods and I had lost my phone. Well, Hell. I guess that I can't just leave my phone in the woods or else my parents would have a conniption.
With these sudden realizations I listened on the edge of the woods for just a moment before walking slowly into the forest. I was trying to be stealthy and quiet when I overheard a pair of voices coming from the clearing where I had helped the grey wolf at. I stepped a little closer trying to discern the voices and recognize the people. I had stopped behind a tree a little ways away from the clearing when I realized that one of the voices belonged to Jared Cameron. I, of course, eaves dropped on their conversation after that.
"What the hell happened to you?" Jared asked.
"I was just walking when all of a sudden I stepped on this bear trap thing. It hurt so bad that I started freaking growling. Then your little girlfriend showed up and helped me out of the trap. I seriously owe her one seeing as how neither you nor Mr. Sand Man Sam was coming to help. Jackass," I heard another voice say. I think it was Paul from school and did he just mention Sam? There has been drama circulating him for like the past six months, weird.
"Hey, it's not my fault that you are such an idiot you got yourself hurt then had to have that random chick come and help you. She is not my girlfriend, just because I imprinted on the major freak doesn't mean that I like her. Do not ever call her mine again, got it?" Jared responded. Were they talking about me? Had Paul been that giant grey wolf that I had just helped? I am so confused. What in the world is imprinting and does that mean that Jared is supposed to like me? He obviously doesn't with what he just said.
"Sheesh man, I was just kidding. You know her name is Kim, right? And I know that you don't want to be with the nerd of the school so get off of my back about the bitch. I don't need YOU telling me that I'm an idiot. At least she didn't leave me in that freaking trap like you were gonna do. Dude, you imprinted on freak so you should feel ecstatic that she didn't just leave me here to die. Are you an animal person?"
"HA! Animal person? Only if the animal is a rock with googley eyes pasted to it. I will in no way feel happy or ecstatic about the fact that fate has set me up with the genius freak of La Push," Jared said with a snarl. I can't believe that I just heard that. They were talking about me and calling me all sorts of rude names. I don't know how to assess the situation.
"Boys! Stop having a fucking tea party and start patrolling. What the hell have you two been doing? Am I the only one who knows how to take responsibilities seriously?" another boy came up from behind the others and started yelling. I guess that is Sam…I don't know, though, but I'm pretty sure. Jared and Paul hung their heads and grumbled for a few seconds before…taking…off their…shorts? Oh Lord! I shouldn't keep looking, I shouldn't keep looking, I should not keep looking. Jared started taking off his forest green cut off shorts; he unbuttoned and unzipped them, right as I started seeing a spruce of jet black hair I found the sense to look away.
When I turned back they were gone. I rushed into the clearing, gathered all of my crap, and ran out of the forest and into my house. I set my things down on my floor in my room and sat down on my bed. What time is it? I patted my pockets and came up empty. Please don't tell me that I had forgotten my phone in the freaking woods! Are you serious?! I was absolutely furious! I got up from my bed and stomped out of the house. I stalked to the clearing in the woods not even caring if one of those boys saw me. I looked around the clearing and came up empty again. Holy Hell. I got down on all fours and searched the ground again, and again, and again. I never found it. Uh! I got off of the wet ground and brushed the dirt and grass from my jeans.
I walked back to my house in a sulk. How could this have happened? Just my luck to help out a poor defenseless animal wolf human thing and be repaid with losing my freaking phone. Just absolutely fabulous. I walked back into my room and pouted for the rest of the night. My parents had gone on some sort of romantical vacation so I wouldn't have to tell them for at least another week. I did my homework then went to bed early, I didn't want to be awake to know that my poor phone was out there somewhere probably being chewed on by some wolf. A wolf. A WOLF! If one of those jerks took my phone and are going through it right now I will kill them….Ugghh!...What if Jared was going through my phone?! I have all sorts of incriminating things on there. My obsession with him is all over my cell. I have so many Mr. and Mrs. Jared Camerons on there along with Kim Cameron and pictures of him and me photo shopped together. Oh Holy Hell. He is going to embarrass me even more at school now, I'll bet that he tells all of his friends and they will tell their girlfriends who will then tell their friends and by the end of it all I'll be the laughing stock of the entire school. And it won't stop at the school; I'll end up being the laughing stock of the entirety of La Push. I have got to find that phone.
