The bell rang, dismissing us for the day. I waved to Aurelia as she had detention with Ms. Sykes, her English teacher. Spinning on my foot, I made my way up to my third floor locker. QTS was an average sized school with about 500 students. Pushing my way through the gaggle of girls I realized that word had gotten around of Jared's return. Our lockers were set up by class, and seeing as I had first period with him…well today will definitely not be the last day of this.
Stepping out of the way of a wayward elbow, I stumbled to the floor, books sprawling everywhere. Gathering my books and shoving them in my messenger bag, I quickly decided that my Biology textbook wasn't worth the bruises similar to the one forming on my backside. Crawling out from under the cluster of legs, I stood up and dusted myself off walking with my head held high.
"Kim!" I froze. Had someone seen me crawling out from under the legs of the females at QTS? I blushed like a ripe tomato. Some of the scenarios the students could come up with could even make Mrs. Dalloway blush.
Seeing that it was Jared I blushed even harder. Great, he probably thought I was this weirdo that had this fetish with feet…and girls.
"Hey Jared." I had to crane my neck up just to look him in the eye.
"I, ugh, I got the homework for you from Calc." I took the aforementioned homework from him. Feeling a rush of gratitude, I opened my mouth to speak only to be pushed aside by the flailing elbow of Autumn Lewis, his current girlfriend.
Dropping to the floor once again, I couldn't help but curse her repeatedly as she peppered kisses on every visible part of his upper body.
"Jared baby how are you?" Her annoyingly high voice screeched. Dear God I might have went deaf. I was conjuring up a picture of how high her voice might sound if she was being choked. Preferably by me.
Picking myself and whatever dignity I had left, I had onto Jared's hand, the only thing that was actually pulling me up. I noticed with great satisfaction that their hands weren't clasped and poor Autumn seemed a bit irritated. Serves her right.
"Thanks Jared, for the work I mean…not that I'm not thankful for you helping me up." I cut myself off, I tended to ramble. A lot.
"I think he gets the point Kimberly." I narrowed my eyes at her. Nobody with the exception of teachers and my mom called me Kimberly.
"I wasn't speaking to you Lewis." I fluttered my eyelashes as I changed the tone of my voice to that of a baby. Picking up my books yet again, I made my way to the bathroom. Walking over to the sink I turned the tap on.
"You know it's kind of obvious." I rolled my eyes, did she not know I didn't want to speak to her. I glared at her through the sink mirror. Running my eyes over her features. Russet skin and high cheekbones like every other Quileute. The trademark black hair was swapped for Red hair, her and April got it dyed together. I noticed with great appreciation that our eye colors were different. Normally I abhorred the unnatural taupe eyes. Now I cherished it like no other. It was one other thing to differenciate Lia and I to Autumn and April. It was a blessing.
"What's obvious?" Humoring her, I jumped onto the ledge and gave her my undivided attention.
"The fact that you like my boyfriend, it's pathetic." Pointing to her self to emphasize my. "Don't you get that he will never want you when all he cares for is moi." Impressive, she learnt some fourth grade french.
Scoffing loudly, I hopped off the ledge and walked right up to her. "You are the pathetic one. Can't you see that he doesn't like you?" I poked her as I spoke.
Brushing her as I walked past, I paused at the door. "I won't deny that he's unbelievably gorgeous, but I'm not you, I don't date for looks."
Holding the door open for her, "Apres vous Madame Pathetique." Shutting the door behind me, I leaned back for a second to calm my rapid heartbeat not noticing the door slipping away from me ever so slowly.
In the blink of an eye, I ended up back on the floor with the door swinging back to hit me in the head. Getting up to avoid being hit a second time, something to my left spoke.
"Ya' know, that was impressive right up 'till the end." Aurelia walked up, flipping off her hood as she spoke. Detention must have finished.
"Impressive? I thought that was down right Grammy-worthy." I accepted her hand, pulling myself up. The floors of QTS and I were well acquainted today.
Lia, wrapped her arm around my shoulders, "I'm proud of you lil' sis, Autumn deserved that blow to her ego." If I hated Autumn, Lia absolutely loathed her. In her opinion, all she did in her spare time was find new prey of the week. Last week was Paul, and this week Jared. However, Paul had a steady relationship with his girlfriend April, who was now best friends with Autumn.
"Come on, let's get going to that store in Port Angeles." Spotting Autumn and April at the front of the school, I walked up to Autumn and tapped her on the shoulder.
"Hey Lewis, you dropped something." Lia seemed to catch on as she broke her glaring contest with April.
"Yeah Lewis, you dropped something." She piped, obviously getting the lame joke that was to come.
Looking at each other, we spoke in unison. "Your dignity." I couldn't help it; the look on her face was priceless. I burst into laughter. She was absolutely livid.
Grabbing Aurelia's hand, I skipped out of the school. Nothing could ruin my day.
I threw my bag down on the kitchen island. Grabbing an apple, I swiveled on my chair. "So you never did tell me how detention went." I was curious beyond reasoning.
She shrugged. "It was okay; I got saddled with another detention with Paul. Apparently we need to work on our communication skills."
I snorted, "You know that's a load of bull, what did you do." Paul wasn't volatile. At least not toward females, males were a complete different story. All the negative physical contact came from one Aurelia Connweller.
"Well if you want to go into detail…" I waved my hand to prompt her on. She could talk for hours at a time but today of all days she chose to speak agonizingly slow.
"Well, he said, I would an amazing girlfriend if I didn't talk so much, because, and I quote "I have a banging body." I truly laughed out loud.
"That's new." Normally he would rather eat snails than compliment her. His words.
"Right, to cut it short, I told him to stop thinking with his manhood and to piss off…with much more swears words of course."
"And what exactly did he reply with?" Volatile or not, he was sure to rebuke.
"If looks could kill, I'd be chopped and screwed." I snickered. She seemed to remember my reference to sexual frustrations all the time. As she stuck up her hand in the form of an L and called me lame.
"The weird thing was he was shaking. Like having of a seizure I'm about to die shaking." Her taupe color eyes widening with curiosity.
"Maybe it's drugs?" I laughed even harder after she flipped me the bird.
"Whatever, listen I'm going to go for a walk, we'll go shopping when we go to visit mom on Spring Break 'kay." Our mom was head Surgeon down in Seattle and the unpredictable hours caused her to move there and visit us whenever time permitted.
Grabbing my jacket and running after her, I yelled for her to wait up. We normally went for walks through the Forest behind our house. Whistling to myself, I grabbed Lias' arm before she tripped over a rock. It was like clockwork, the minute I grabbed her arm she froze.
I bumped into her, courtesy of her halting her movement.
"What'd you stop?" I followed her line of sight and saw a flash of gray. It was probably a dog.
"Did you see that?" She shook me out of my mental presumptions of what animal it could be. Looking her in the eye I reassured her that it was only a dog.
"Yeah, a big dog." A twig snapped behind us. Spinning around slowly, I came face to upper body with an animal.
"Holy!" I jumped back, only to tumble into Lia as she came in contact with a dark brown colored horse. Looking up from the ground only served to make the horses look more intimidating. Cowering into Lia, I watched astonished as she started cooing.
"Lia, I get that you might've bumped your head but what the hell are you doing?" She amazed me sometimes, my sister. The scene before me was droll, a petit girl and a monstrous horse.
"Isn't it the cutest thing ever?" She started rubbing the fur of the brown colored one, which resulted in the gray one growling. Reaching for her hand, I pulled her back to my side.
"So, are you a horse?" I figured if we started talking it just might forget about killing each other and eventually killing us as well. Heads turned towards me, I slid back. A shake of the head.
"A really big dog?" That earned me a nasty snarl.
"Well what are you a wolf man?" It halted. Dear Lord I must be going insane. First I'm talking to an animal and second it's answering me. I must be nuts.
"Hehe, well we have to go, it was nice seeing you." I pulled my self off the ground. Reaching for Lia's hand, we ran for it.
Normally I'm not an athletic person, but the amount of distance I covered was remarkable. Lia looked behind us only to scream in surprise. Right there behind us was Jared in all his naked glory. I think I might have drooled.
A/N: 'Alooka is a word that my sisters and I used when we were younger, completely made up. The end might not be so great but bear with me I have an amazing story line that's to come! Reviews make me happy so don't forget to press that button! REVIEW!