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A Tour and A Movie
Quil closed the door once he was done taking his shoes off. Right as the door clicked closed the sky decided to open up and pour sheets upon sheets of rain. Embry groaned a little.
"I am so happy we aren't in that." Aniela nodded, grateful that she got a ride home instead of walking.
Coal and Biggie ran into the kitchen, heading straight for the water bowl.
"Ok, let's start the tour." Aniela smiled at the boys, "This is the living room obviously." She motioned around the room before leading them into the kitchen.
"This is the kitchen." The boys looked around at the decent sized kitchen.
"Do you know how to cook?" Embry asked randomly, looking at the stove. Aniela smiled leading them out of the kitchen, closing the dog gate behind her, and up the stair case.
"Yes, my mother was a chef so I learned a lot from her." At the top of the stairs was a long hall way with one door at the very end and two other doors on each side.
"At the end of the hall is my brother's soon to be room. The door to the right of that is the bathroom." As she spoke she pointed to each door. Opening the door on her left she let the boys look in.
"This is the spare room."
The room had a full sized bed against the furthest wall with a window right beside it. On the opposite wall stood an entertainment center with a twenty seven inch TV in it. Next to it was a small dresser with a lamp on it and a painting above it.
The painting was of a cliff scene, angry waves below crashing some protruding rocks. The sky was a storm purple with grey rain clouds rolling in.
"Wow, that's an awesome painting." Quil said nodding his head towards the piece of art.
"Thanks. That won me the art contest in ninth grade." Aniela replied looking at her winning painting.
"You painted that?" Jacob asked surprised.
"Yeah, I like art. But I tend to use pastels and paints more then pencil though." She replied thoughtfully.
"Ok, onto the next stop." Aniela ushered them out of the room and into the room across the hall.
The room held a small desk in the corner with a lamp beside it. There was an easel in front of a large window over looking the forest around the house. A cabinet sat on the wall next to the door, boxes stacked in front of it labeled 'art supplies'. There was also a large pile of papers piles in the center of the room.
"This is the office slash art room." Aniela said walking in.
"What are those?" Embry asked pointing towards the paper.
"Oh, those are some more paintings that I still have to hang up around the house." She replied motioning them out of the room.
"Where's your room?" Embry asked raising and lowering his eyebrows rapidly with a smirk on his face. Both Jacob and Quil hit him, one on each shoulder.
"Owwww, guys that hurt." He whined rubbing his poor abused shoulders.
"That's what you get you little perv." Quil muttered as he followed Aniela down the hall. She stopped at the door to the left of her brother's door.
"This is my room."
Aniela's room held all dark oak furniture, finished with a black paint. Her queen sized bed was in the right corner of the room. It had a light purple comforter and matching pillows. At the bottom of the bed was a hope chest with a cushioned top, making it look like a bench. A window occupied the wall opposite the door, a dresser sitting to the side. The dresser it's self had a vanity mirror sitting onto of it. Against the other wall was a small stand with a TV. The top of the TV held a DVD player on it. To the side of the stand was a medium sized dog kennel, a book case next to that. The book shelf was rather tall and held a variety of movies and books. The first two shelves were all DVDs and the last four were nothing but books.
"Wow, you like books huh?" Embry asked walking over to the book shelf. Aniela nodded shyly and went over to her dresser.
"What's a so-crates?" Embry asked holding one of the many books from her shelf. Aniela laughed at the confused teen.
"It's pronounced Socrates. He's a Greek philosopher and play write. That book you're holding is called 'Antigone'." She explained sitting on her bed.
Jacob and Quil were looking at the movies she owned. Picking up one that caught his interest Jacob turned around and froze. Jacob couldn't speak as he watched Aniela lift her sweater over her head and toss it on the bed beside her.
Aniela was getting uncomfortable in her sweater and decided it needed to come off. Pulling it over her head she quickly sat it on the bed beside her and quickly fixed her under shirt. Jacob sighed mentally when he realized she was wearing an under shirt, but he couldn't stop his eyes from roaming over her hour glass figure.
"Do you guys want to hang out for a little, maybe the rain will slow up." Aniela asked the three boys standing in her room. Quil nodded excitedly.
"Yeah and we can watch this." He said holding up one of the DVDs from her collection. Embry and Jacob both looked over to see what movie he had chosen.
"Ok, let's watch it down stairs." Aniela grabbed her comforter from her bed and wrapping it around her shoulders before all four of them migrated from her room to the living room.
Taking the movie from Quil, Aniela groaned slightly when she saw what movie it was.
"Did you have to pick this movie?" She asked holding Saw III up. Quil smiled sweetly at her as he sat down on the couch, sinking into the cushions.
"Jake, Embry and I have only seen the first two and the third is supposed to be really good." Embry nodded agreeing with his friend.
"Why, you aren't scared are you?" He asked tauntingly. Sighing Aniela put the movie in the DVD player.
"You sound like my bloody brothers." She mumbled under her breath walking back to the couch.
"Aw, is Niela scared?" Embry cooed in a baby voice, "Here you can sit right, in-between Jake and me." He said patting the cushion space between him and Jacob. Smiling at him sarcastically Aniela rolled her eyes and un-wrapped her blanket from her shoulders.
"Whoa! Where'd you get those scars?" Quil asked before getting slapped from both Jake and Embry.
"How rude can you be?" Embry hissed at Quil while Jacob couldn't stop looking at the scars Quil was talking about.
On Aniela's back were two vertical scars. One on each of her shoulder blades each started a few inches below the top of her shoulder and stopped about an inch below each shoulder blade. The skin around each scar got lighter and lighter until they hit the scar tissue where it turned to a pinkish white color.
Jacob continued to let his eyes run over the two healed injuries, both Quil and Embry doing the same thing.
"Oh when I was younger I had some kind of muscle condition with my shoulders. I had to have surgery to correct it." Aniela replied nonchalantly to Quil's rather rude question.
"Ouch, it looks painful." Embry said shuddering for extra effect. Aniela just shrugged. She had been asked the same question many times and each time she gives the same lie. She had used the lie so many times that now whenever someone asked it was a reflex to tell them she had surgery.
Sitting down she repositioned her blanket so it was over her lap and in the perfect position to pull up and shield her eyes if need be. As the movie started Jacob could see Quil lie out on the unoccupied section of the couch, his feet barely hanging off the edge, and Embry leaning back into the plush cushions to get comfortable. Aniela, who was sitting a little close to him, was clutching the blanket ready to pull it up if she needed to. Jake wanted to laugh at some of the expressions she made whenever something she thought was scary happened. She even jumped a few times, causing her arm to rub against him. Feeling her skin against his made it difficult to concentrate on the movie other then the friction created between their arms. When there was about fifteen minutes left to the movie Aniela finally gave in and just kept the blanket pulled over her eyes, only listening to the noises. It wasn't until she felt a light tapping and heard Jacob's voice that she lowered the covers.
"It's safe, the movies over." He said getting up to turn off the DVD player for her. Aniela smiled with a sigh.
"Great movie." She commented dryly, making Quil laugh while Jacob and Embry just chuckled. Looking over at the clock she saw it was almost eight.
"Oh, I didn't notice it was getting so late. Are your parents going to be worried?" She asked hopping they weren't gonna be in trouble.
"Its summer and we're teenagers. I'm sure they're used to." Quil waved off her question before standing up. Embry followed suit and headed towards the door where Quil was putting his shoes on. Jake handed Aniela her DVD and joined his friends at the door.
"What are you doing tomorrow?" Embry asked tying his shoe. Aniela shrugged a little.
"I'll probably finish unpacking then try and clean the siding of the house. And if there's time I'll go get some paint. Why?"
"Call me when you start on the outside of the house, we'll come over and help." He replied causing Quil and Jacob to look at him strangely.
"Um, ok hand on I'll go get a paper and pen." She mumbled running up the stairs.
"Dude, since when do you offer to do work?" Quil asked looking at him with an eyebrow raised. Embry looked a little offended but answered anyway nodding towards Jacob.
"I do work, but I offered because Jakey over here has a crush on Niela." Jacob looked at his two grinning friends ready to say something only to get cut off by Aniela returning.
"Ok, write your number on this." She told Embry, handing him a pad of sticky notes and a pen. He did so quickly and handed it back to her.
"Thanks. Oh and do you know a good place to get paint?" Jacob nodded.
"Yeah, if you're only looking for white my dad has some. You can have it if you want. It's made for outdoors use."
"Oh, no I couldn't -" Aniela started, but Quil cut her off.
"Don't worry they were supposed to paint their house like five months ago, but still haven't done it yet. They won't be needing it." He assured her.
"Then that'd be great!" She replied happily.
"I'll call you around one tomorrow, sound good to you guys?" The three boys nodded knowing they'd be up by then. Opening the door they all said their goodbyes before walking out into the now light drizzle of rain.
Aniela waited until the car was out of sight before closing the door. She opened the gate keeping the puppies out if the living room and picked them up.
"Come on boys." She spoke softly, "Its bed time." Walking up the stairs she went into her room and put them in her kennel, watching as they snuggled into their fluffy blankets that lined the bottom. She quickly ran down stairs and grabbed her comforter. Throwing it over her bed she went to her dresser for her pajamas. Opening the very last drawer she pulled a pair of black sweat pants out and a large t-shirt she used to wear for gym back in England.
Folding them she grabbed a pair of panties before walking across the hall to the bathroom. Aniela sat the clothes on the back of the toilet and went about running hot water for her relaxing bath. She turned it off after it was filled to her liking.
Slipping out of her jeans and shirt she lowered herself into the now full tub. As the warm water relaxed her muscles Aniela let her mind wander, thinking about everyone she met today. One person continued to pop up in her mind, making her sigh to herself. Jacob was something different. At first she thought he was shy, but now he just seemed a little quiet. But his eyes were sad like something happened to him. She could tell it was something big; his soul was darker and more sorrowful then most. Sighing again she closed her eyes and rested her head against the tiled wall.
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