3. Welcome to La Push
Callie POV
"A party?" I asked.
"A welcome to La Push party for you and your dad." I couldn't have looked convinced because he added. "It will be fun."
"Mmm." Fun was not quite the word I was thinking of.
"You can meet all the people here. Make some new friends and meet my friends. Who are boys."
"I am not that easy to please!" I told him is annoyance. Embry laughed.
"They are very good looking." He tried again to get me enthusiastic about this party he had planned.
"How good looking are we talking here, Zac Efron or Alex Pettyfer??"
"What the hell?"
"Zac is a loser and Alex is hot."
"I am so glad I don't understand girls. And Alex most definitely."
"Then I'm game but I doubt my Dad will be."
"Mom can show him all the old people like Charlie Swan and Billy Black."
"Yeah and I can meet all these cool boys!"
"Yeah, Quil, Seth, Paul, Sam, Jared, Colin, Brady and Jacob."
"How many of them are single?" I asked of the most important questions.
"Sam is engaged, Jared has a steady girlfriend, Paul is with Jacob's sister, Colin and Brady are fourteen, Quil is kind of with someone, well on a promise and Jacob is messed up."
"So basically although they are all hot only one of them is available?"
"Well two. Seth and Jake."
"You said he was messed up?"
"This girl, Bella that he loved got married and left town."
"So basically you love me so much you want me to be your mates rebound girl."
"Well Seth is nice."
"How old is he twelve?"
"Almost sixteen but he looks older."
"Is there any seventeen year old not messed up free boys in La push or am I wasting my time?"
"Honestly, you're wasting your time." I was about to carry on talking when Anna walked in the room. She looked like she had been crying.
"Mom."
"Don't Embry. Why are you doing this to me? What is so hard about not going out at midnight? That is all I'm asking, I'm not asking you to do something hard! What do you get up to anyway? Drink, drugs, sex, what?!" Embry just sat there in silence. Anna swore and left the room.
"Why do you go off every night? She is really worried about you. Why do you have to hurt her like that?"
"Is it any of your business?!" He shouted and we both looked shocked by his outburst. "Sorry."
"Don't be. You were right it was none of my business. Sorry."
"No it wasn't fair on you. Look it is just really complicated alright. I don't mean to hurt her but I don't have a choice. Just don't ask questions, please."
"Ok, ask no questions and I will get no lies. Got it!" I smiled at him and the awkwardness passed as quickly as it had come.
"So are you up for the party then?"
"Do I have any choice?"
"No."
"When are we holding this said party with all the unavailable hot guys?"
"Saturday night."
"That's tomorrow!"
"And what? Don't you have anything to wear? I could always lend you my pink shoes!" Embry put on a high pitched girly voice as he teased me and for a minute he was like Kyle.
"No problem after all why should I wait to meet all these losers?"
"Oi! They are great boys!"
"Sure they are. Anyway are there any good shops round here?"
"Port Angeles is good. I could drive you there if you want?"
"That would be nice after all we could swap pink shoes."
"Oh yes darling!" He put on his posh voice and grabbed the car keys. "I need to get out of this house!"
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"I thought you said these were good shops." I complained as I looked forlornly up and down the high street that had about four shops in all.
"It's not Houston but its ok when you get used to it."
"I really do not want to get used to it." I told him as we wandered towards one of the clothes shops on the high street. "You can go do your own thing you know."
"You heard what my mom said- I have to stay with you at all times. It is part of my bail conditions." I laughed as I thought back to when we had tried to make a break for it and Anna had caught us and it had taken half an hour of me begging her to let him come with me as I didn't know where any of the shops were. She agreed but only if Embry stayed with me at all times.
"I wouldn't tell her."
"Yeah you wouldn't tell her but she has spies everywhere! Sorry but you are stuck with me."
"No I didn't mean it like that!" I felt bad that he had thought I meant I wanted rid of him when really I was enjoying his company but felt bad that he had to traipse around after me all day.
"I know you didn't after all you need a man to hold the bags right?"
"You catch on fast! But after I have been around every possible clothes shop why don't we hit the music shop?" I hung the tantalising idea in front of him knowing he would bite.
"Hell yeah I haven't been allowed into one since I first got grounded."
"Why..." I was about to try again to get him to tell me why he snuck out when I decided it was best not to. "Ask no questions, right?" he smiled and went back looking out the window why I pondered what to wear. The problem was that I was used to the Texan weather which was hot and so I always wore skirts but here it was too cold so I was stuffed. I was debating between this pair of black skinny jeans and a red sequin top or this short, backless, black dress.
"What do you think?" I asked him and he just shrugged. I sighed but really what had I been expecting? "Well what do the other girls where to this kind of thing?"
"Dunno?" he shrugged.
"Do they wear jeans?" I asked as slowly as I could.
"Yeah, suppose so."
"So this would be what they would wear?" I asked as I held up the jeans and top.
"Yeah that's what Leah and Kim usually wear when I see them at parties." He told me and we went to pay. Both of us were desperate to get out the shop. I had never been into shopping since my mom died.
"Who are Leah and Kim?"
"Leah is Sam's ex-girlfriend and she is a real miserable cow and Kim is Jared's girlfriend. You would like her." I nodded and suddenly I felt this excitement at the thought of meeting all these people tomorrow and making new friends.
"Twenty bucks please ma'am." The cashier said and held out her hand for the money.
"Here your dad gave me this money he said he knew you would never take it off him." I begrudgingly let him pay the money. He was right. I would never have taken the money from my dad.
"You two make such a cute couple!" the cashier gushed.
"We're brother and sister." I told her. That shut her up much too both our satisfaction. We left the shop and walked up the high street and looked in all the shops. Neither of us wanted to go home. Embry was enjoying his freedom too much and I loved looking around and getting used to the small town feel.
"We should probably get going. I shouldn't push the boundaries too much." Embry said reluctantly.
"I could call Anna and say we are getting a bite to eat." I suggested.
"No I better not push it that much but would you help me pick out a gift for her. I want to say sorry but I don't know what she would like."
"Wouldn't she rather you stayed home?"
"I told you it's complicated."
"What about a nice necklace from that jewellers back there?"
"The expensive jewellers."
"I could go half with you."
"No, I couldn't ask that."
"You're not, I am offering." We walked up to the jewellers and we picked out this heart shaped necklace for her. On the way home we put the radio on loud and sang along as we chatted about the school and his friends and the party.
"Where have you two been?" Anna asked when we got in.
"Shopping you know what us girls are like." I laughed.
"Mom I got this for you." Embry gave her the box and walked off upstairs. He wasn't good at emotions.
"Ohh, it's beautiful!" she went to talk to Embry and I was left alone. I had known she would like it. My mom had when I bought it for her on the mother's day before she died. It had been buried with her. I hoped Anna was luckier.
