"You have weird friends" I announce walking back into the house around 1. I had fallen asleep on the beach and was now trying to avoid my aunt. She didn't really like when people had sunburns, she tended to go on rant about cancer, though I usually don't get burned because my skin is naturally brown because of my father.
"What do you mean weird friends?, and by the way thanks for waking me up when you left." Seth answers through a mouth full of sandwich. "I mean what I say and I say what I mean, and just returning the favor" I reply scooping some chips of his plate. "Hey! get your own!", "You don't need anymore food you eat enough for five people."
"So I hear you met Jacob?" Seth teases at dinner, a very late dinner it was around 8.
"Yes, he would be the 'weird friend' I was referring to this afternoon" I reply confused my aunt looking between the both of us.
"He said you were at the beach, throwing rocks at each other?" ...Yes, so what does it matter nosy cousin!
"Yea, well he was mumbling, it was annoying" I say airily, I wasn't going to admit I thought he was attractive. Also if I did it sure as hell wouldn't be to Seth. Knowing Seth he'd go run and tell Jacob like the immature teenager he is. Yes, sure I know I'm hypocritical BUT I usually know when to keep my mouth shut. "Why were you two talking about me anyways?" I ask narrowing my eyes over the dinner table. I was beginning to feel sorry for my aunt, this must be like when Leah still lived here, the sibling banter. "Oh, you know... guys talk" Seth answer's eyes dancing like he knows some big secret.
"Well that's surly enough of the teasing tonight, Seth don't you have somewhere to be?"Aunt Sue says staring pointedly at her son. "Yea I have pat...a party... to go to, bye!" his words jumbled and stuttered. I look between my aunt and him, my aunt looking shocked and uncomfortable.
There is definitely something going on.
"You just think she's hot right Jake?"
"This was different Seth not like that at all"
"Did it feel like you've know her all your life, like your meant to be with her?"
"Yea...wait how did you?..Sam!?"
"Oh boy, we have a problem"
I could hear the wind coming through my curtain and the bushes out side my window rustling with the wind. I could hear twigs snapping beneath the window and see the shadow of someone on my...wait.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I scream jumping up out of bed and running out of the room and into my aunts.
"Aunt SUE!!" I cry pounding on her bedroom door as it was yanked open and I fall into the room.
"Amanda what it is? Are you okay? What happened?!" she cries kneeling down on the ground beside where I had fallen.
"Someone was standing in my bedroom window looking into it! What kinda creeps do you have living here!?" I ask hysterically. Her face hardens and I watch her walk to the front door. I can hear her yell something into the night. Slowly I creep out of the room and start making my way to the front door.
"Keep him away from the house! I have a terrified eighteen year old girl in there!" My aunt yells at the unknown person. "I'm sorry Sue, I didn't think he would do that, it was a stupid thing for him to do." a deep and slightlyagitated voice answers. "Well he needs to keep his hormones in check Sam! That is completely ridiculous scaring a girl like that!"
Wait Sam? As in Seth's not so gay lover? SAM was creeping outside my window, isn't he married?
"When it happens Sue, it just can't be controlled, I'll tell him to stay away from her window at night though. I'll set some ground rules for him so she doesn't get scared again." Oh it wasn't even Sam, just some random creeper, greatttt.
"You better do that Sam, and tell him that I will not stand for his nonsense, what he did tonight was stupid and childish, not to mention he terrified her in fulfilling his needs" my aunt says closing the discussion. I bolt from the door. Fulfilling his needs oh god that sounds just so wrong.
I sit in my room acting, normal? "Don't worry it was just Seth playing a joke, go to sleep Amanda." Sure, Seth..I'll believe that, I mentally snort. "Okay, Aunt Sue, thank you, goodnight"
The wolf was back in my dreams. Not only did he seem happier but he had a new mission. He was pacing, he looked confused and lost. Torn. In front of him there were two roads, a fork in the road, he didn't know which to follow. The wolf sat down in the middle of the road staring at them both in turn. Weighing the pro's and con's of each road, finally getting fed up the wolf went down the way he came. The decision would be made another night.