The next morning I had the pleasure of sleeping in. Oh how winter break was amazing. Well at least the sleeping in part, but the other part where I really didn't know anyone in this town was the bad side. I just laid there for about a half an hour just staring at my ceiling, thinking. Thinking about how I could be getting ready to go hang out with Paula and Dee at the mall or with Evan and Davis tonight at The Baton Bar. I missed my friends, terribly, but I would just have to suffer till the end of senior year, when I was going to Washington state, or so I hoped!

But I was still a little curious I guess you could say about last night. What was that guy's problem? I know I'm not the most attractive girl, but my god I wasn't hideous!

I got up and walked down stairs in my little shorts and my t-shirt. My hair was probably a mess but honestly is whatever. It was quiet when I reached the bottom of the stairs. I looked around and saw no one. Walking into the kitchen I saw a note on the table. My arms were crossed because it was freaking cold downstairs, and I picked up the letter reading

Went to work. See you tonight, don't get into too much trouble today.

Love mom.

I placed the note on the table rolling my eyes. What kind of trouble am I going to get into, in a town I just recently moved to? Ugh, only five more months, only five more months. I walked into the kitchen opening the fridge, seeing nothing appetizing, then the cabinets. No such luck. I turned around and my stomach suddenly growled.

"Screw this" I said to myself and walked up stairs to change. Putting on a pair of jeans, a t-shirt and the sweatshirt I had stole from Davis before I left and slipped my feet into my slip on vans. I put some deodorant on and a little bit of make up on, not too much though I didn't care that much, and grabbed my keys and ran down the stairs. Making sure I locked the door, I ran down the stairs to my dark blue cavalier. It was flipping cold outside so once I closed the car door I quickly put on the heat. I turned up the volume to hear some country music playing. This would not do at all, so I reached into the back seat a pulled out a random mix cd and popped it in. ' Brain stew' by Green Day began to play. This was an old mix cd. With that I backed out the drive way and was on a mission to fins a McDonalds or at least a convenient store.

Walking into the little gas station store I got glances from the people at the checkout counter. This must be a small town. I shook it off and walked to where the breakfast sandwiches. Bacon egg and cheese it was going to be and an energy drink. I went up to the counter and placed my stuff on the counter and looked at the kid behind it. He looked like a walking zombie, yawning as he rang up the drink. Geez it was only like 9 in the morning. I gave him my cash and walked out to my car. I sat there thinking about what I was going to do when I got home. NOTHING. I tapped my fingers on the steering wheel, and thought. There was a NCIS marathon on today. No I don't want to watch TV all day. I could be on facebook all day, but it still didn't sound appealing. Guess I'm just going to ride around in my car listening to music and eventually end up singing the words out loud making the people think I'm weird. I backed out of the spot and began my so called adventure.

I ended up on some kid of road, leading away from forks. Where I was going I couldn't tell ya. I passed a sign saying "Welcome to La Push". Where the hell was I?! I had managed to get lost, great! Just great! I got off the nearest exit to try and turn around, when I saw signs for a beach. I was at a stop sign and decided I wanted to check out this beach, for the future. Driving a little ways I pulled into the parking lot and turned my car off but leaving the keys in the ignition and had my music playing, not loudly but enough so I would be able to hear it. I grabbed my breakfast sandwich and energy drinks and got out of my car. Hell if I was going to sit in my car like an idiot and eat this, it was a semi nice day out. Still cold but I had a big jacket on so I would be fine. I sat on the hood of my car and looked out on the beach and ocean. I hummed along to "Man in a Box" by Alice in Chains. I opened the packaging around the sandwich with all intention to devour it.

" Alice in Chains huh?" a voice said and consequently scaring the ever living out of me, making me drop my sandwich fall onto the car then onto the parking lot. I sighed thoroughly disappointed looking down at the ground. I was going to give this guy what he deserved, but when I looked up, I guess I forgot. He was standing way taller then I was, brown hair, brown eyes, wearing jeans a white shirt and just a sweatshirt. He had a crooked smile as he looked down at the sandwich. He sighed "I'm really sorry about that." He said rubbing the back of his neck, and motioning towards the sandwich with his other hand. Then looked up at me. "And about last night as well, guess I gotta stop scaring you." He shrugged and smiled.

Shit! It was the guy from last night!

"Um…" he said stepping forward and over the sandwich extending out his hand," I'm Embry."

I looked at his hand and then up at him. I shook my head and placed my hand in his to shake it. "Jenny" I squeaked out.

"Well Jenny it's uh nice to properly meet you." He said still shaking my hand, which by the way was extremely warm. It felt so good against my cold fingers. I pulled some hair behind my ear, and blushed a little because he was still holding my hand.

"Yeah." I said looking up at him. "Can I have my hand back?" even though part of me didn't really want him to.

"Oh!" he said immediately letting go "sorry, guess me uh. Never mind" he laughed nervously.

I nodded, as my stomach began to turn, and it let out a loud growl. Damnit!

"Yeah now I feel like shit. First I scare you last night, then today ruined your breakfast and now you're probably going to starve to death!" he laughed making me laugh a little.

"It's okay." I said putting my hands in my pocket now standing in front of him leaning against my car.

"Yeah but…" he began looking at the sandwich and sighed, "… you looked so excited for it and I made you drop it, so I guess I owe you a breakfast."

"Don't, don't worry about it. I'll survive. I guess." I sighed, making fun of him slightly.

He laughed and looking at me again. It suddenly became a little awkward so I did the only thing I knew to do. Get out.

"Well I guess I should go. Mom worries ya know." I said totally lying.

"Yeah yeah." He said stepping back a few feet and watched me get into my car. He waved when I was in the car and began walking away. I turned the key to start the car and it made an awful sound. I turned it off then tried again. Nothing. Shit this would happen to me!

TAP TAP! I hear on my window. It was Embry and I thanked god he didn't walk away too far. I opened the door to get out.

He smiled "car trouble?" he asked.

"Sounds like it." I said running my hand through my hair.

He looked at me for a few more seconds, "pop the hood, I'll look at it." Walking around to the front of the car. I did and walked to the front to stand by him as he leaned under the hood. "Your battery probably just died. You just need to jump it." He said standing up straight.

"Oh well that's just great. How am I supposed to do that?" I said looking around the empty parking lot then back at Embry. He had his cell phone out calling someone.

"Hey … bring your truck and jumper cables… to the beach… shut up… just do it…" he said. Still on the phone he looked at me from the corner of his eyes, "… yes…Quil… QUIL! just do it." And with that closed the phone. He sighed and looked at me sympathetic smile.

And with that we leaned against my car to wait for someone to bring my car back to life, but at the moment I wasn't worried about that. What I was worried about was what the hell was I suppose to talk to Embry about…? I could tell already that I was growing a crush for him, because my stomach was full of butterflies, and I know it wasn't because I was hungry…