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Chapter 3-
Leah and I walked hand and hand out of the forest and into my tiny purple 96' Neon car.
"Purple?" Leah asked with a smirk.
"Purple's the new black, haven't you heard?" We both laughed while I put the car into drive, turned the car around and headed towards Forks.
We kept the conversation light for the most part, I avoided the more important questions. I figured she would tell me how she made a four hour hiking trip in less than an hour, I also figured she would tell me why her skin is on fire. For now though, none of that mattered, because when I look over at her in the passenger seat and see her smiling contently I realize, all is right in this world. There won't be a greater degree of perfect than this. I pulled into a parking lot for a small grease spoon diner and parked the car. We both climbed out of my hunk a' junk and walked in.
We both ordered bacon cheeseburgers and tater tots. I hadn't realized how hungry I was until I devoured the tots, the rest of my meal quickly followed suit and joined the tummy party. As soon as my plate was clean I looked over to Leah to see her just watching me with an empty plate in front of her. Okay, so add food inhaler to the list of questions to ask.
"Sam, are you feeling alright? You're staring down at my plate, you want more food?" She said with concern.
"Uh....yeah...sorry. I was just uh...looking at your empty plate." I glanced at her face while quickly putting my gaze back to the empty plate in front of her.
"Anyways, I should get going, I have another meeting to attend to..." My heart ached at the very thought of her leaving, but look at me, I'm staring at an empty plate and just ignoring her.
"Oh, do you have to leave so soon? I actually have a lot of questions for you. You know like...let me see...I still don't know how old you are. OH! And why you don't seem concerned that your skin is on fire. I kept the conversation to a whisper so no one else would hear.
"Hmm, I guess I haven't been talking much have I? This is all just a little to new to me, you know? I think it may be best if you come with me to the meeting, actually it's more of a bonfire some of the elders are putting on. I'm sure a lot of your questions will be answered by the end of the night. Besides, all my friends will be dying to meet you." Her face lit up with excitement.
I just nodded my head and leaned across the table to kiss her. Her lips were more hesitant than usual. She pushed me away.
"Okay Romeo, perhaps we get to the car first. It's a little awkward kissing you with some creepy old guy at the bar staring at us." She motioned her head towards him.
I turned my head towards the bar as I heard the old man grunt and turn the stool back towards his cheap beer. I couldn't help but to laugh, I've never been an affectionate person before, especially in public. But with Leah it was different, I felt as if I was never close enough. How could this all be happening so fast, I've known her for what? Eight hours or less? My world has completely flipped upside down, but I couldn't be more happy. I realize now that this is the first day of the rest of my life, with Leah Clearwater.
Keeping my eyes on the road was a difficult task when a radiant beauty such as Leah was sitting next to you. I was a little nervous heading to the bonfire and Leah eyed me curiously as sweat was building up on my brow. I gave her my best grin, but I couldn't help but think of her "little" brother Seth and the menacing smile he gave me in the meadow. I'm pretty sure he could eat me whole if he wanted to. I uncomfortably chuckled to myself at the thought.
"What's so funny?" Leah asked.
"Oh, nothing, just a little nervous is all." A high pitch laugh escaped my lips before I covered my mouth and eyed her through my fingers.
"What are you nervous about babe?"
"Nothing really, no worries." I tried to change the subject as fast as possible. "So...where is the bonfire going to be held?"
"Actually, take a left here, we aren't too far away." She pointed her finger towards the beach.
I took the left slowly down the empty street leading to the beach. I could see a faint tint of orange in the sky where the bonfire must have been. I pulled to the side when Leah pointed to one of the empty spaces for us to park in. I immediately took off my seat belt as Leah did the same, I went to get out of the car when I felt her hand grab my shoulder and pull me back into the car.
"Where do you think you're going? We still have a few minutes." Her hand which was still on my arm started to comb through my short brown hair.
"A few minutes huh? What did you have in mind?" I couldn't help but to smile just a little bit. Her brown eyes bore into mine, just like this morning.
As soon as the smile ran across my face she leaped into my lap and smashed her lips into mine. Her hand was still combing through my hair and I couldn't help but to grab her by the hips to pull her closer to me. I broke away from her mouth and kissed feverishly across her jawline and down her neck. She breathed deeper and I could feel her neck burning on my lips, it was intense, but I definitely liked it. She trailed her hands down to my jacket and helped me shrug it off while I continued to kiss her. She moved her lips back to mine and grabbed the sides as she slowly massaged her tongue against my bottom lip. I opened my mouth and gently met her tongue with mine. Minute my minute our tongues continued to dance in a heat of passion. Then as if right on queue, there was a tapping on the window beside me. We broke apart from our kiss as I realized Seth had planted his bare butt against my window to which both Leah and myself shuddered.
"SETH! I'M GOING TO FRIGGING KILL YOU!" I would say Leah's face turned beet red, but that would be an understatement.
Seth ran off laughing hysterically towards the fire at the end of the road. I had to hand it to him, he executed that perfectly. I turned to Leah and realized she was out of the car already and she had her head down while muttering to herself. She was quivering all over. I quickly got out of the car and grabbed my jacket. I walked over to her and put my jacket over her shoulders.
"Leah, you're shaking!" I placed my jacket over her shoulders.
"No, I'm fine, just a little annoyed at my brother." Her shaking slowly calmed down and she handed the jacket back to me. "Really I don't need this, but you will. It will get cold later."
"Oookay, shall we head to the fire?"
"Sure." I placed my arm around her and started walking towards the beach.
We walked slowly and after a few minutes we approached the large fire. Seth was the first to greet us, and he definitely had the biggest grin on his face for obvious reasons. I offered my hand towards him and he just stared at it while smiling. I withdrew the hand and put it back in my pocket. Seth then charged me and grabbed me in a bear hug before my hands could rise to protect myself.
"No handshakes in this family!" He shook me up and down like a rag doll.
"Seth! Put him down!" Leah demanded in a big sister voice, it was quite frightening. It made me happy that I didn't have a big sister to get that wrath from.
Seth put me down on the ground as he just smirked and walked back towards the fire. That's when I noticed that Seth definitely was a large young man, but sitting before me were dozens more young men about the same size or larger. Yep, she brought me here to kill me. I backed away slowly from the fire and then I felt a warm hand on my shoulder. Leah pulled me to her side and walked me to the circle where all the giants were preparing their hot dog feast. Some had already started eating their meals and I couldn't help but to compare the size of the hot dogs to the equivalent of a Little Smokie in their hands. Leah sat me down and kissed me on the cheek.
"Hello everyone, this is Samson, he goes my Sam. So I guess we'll call him Sam II." Leah sounded so excited to introduce me to the group.
"More like Sam Jr!" One of the men said. The whole group erupted in laughter and I'm sure my face was red with embarrassment by now.
This was going to be a long night.