Disclaimer: Nothing is mine that is already Stephanie Meyers'
*****This chapter's song is Jump In by Making April
Another really good song.
Chapter 4- Jump In, Don't Save Yourself for Last
Taylor POV
I was suddenly eager to meet his friends. I turned towards Embry. "Let's go meet your friends!"
I all but pulled him from the car (Or tried. He was WAY too strong for me to do that.), but then I realized that I didn't know my way around the school. Okay, so maybe there were only about thirty five kids per grade, so only about two hundred and seventy kids In the whole school (this included middle school as well, our school was so small, there was no need for a separate middle school).
He laughed. "This way, hon." He led me to a group of nine people. Only three were girls. All the guys were buff and tall. "This is Jake and Quil," He pointed to a REALLY tall guy and the shortest guy of the bunch. "Jared, his girlfriend Kim," The guy looked like all the others, but the girl was the shortest of the three girls. She had straight ebony hair and big almond shaped chocolate eyes. "Collin, Brady, and Seth," They looked like the youngest of the group, but they definitely didn't look young. "Leah," She was a tall, muscular girl with a short, choppy haircut. "And last but not least, Rachel, Jake's sister and one of our other friend's girlfriends." She was very pretty. "The rest of the guys and one girl are already graduated - Paul, Sam, and Emily." (A/N I know Rachel is supposed to be in college, but I didn't want Kim to be alone, Leah wouldn't be much company.)
Wow, that was a lot to take in. "Hey, I'm Taylor, but you probably already knew that." I trailed off. Curse my shyness!
Kim stepped forward. "What do you have first period, Taylor?" She asked. That seemed to satisfy everyone, because they all turned back to their previous conversations.
"Uhm," I checked my schedule "Biology. You?"
"I have Pre Calc"
"First period?" I asked in shock. "That sucks."
"I know. Do you need me to show you where your homeroom is? I have the same one."
"Uhm, no." I was still feeling a little shy. "I have to meet my friend first." I said it as an excuse, but I realized it was true.
"Okay. Bye, Taylor."
"Bye." I left in search of Giselle. It was weird. I hadn't spoken to her since the incident with the drinking. I wondered where she was. I walked down a short hallway, noticing all the other kids looked so comfortable here, the opposite of how I felt. Pretty soon, I saw her standing with a group of kids.
"Giselle!" I called.
She looked up, made eye contact then quickly looked away. She reached down and grabbed her backpack from its place on the floor. "Bye, guys." She said to the group. Then she walked right by me and disappeared into the crowd.
I was awestruck. I probably stood there for five minutes just staring at nothing. Then Kim walked up to me. She took in the look on my face, but thankfully didn't say anything.
"Do you need help finding your homeroom yet?" She joked.
"Sure." I said, still awestruck.
The day went by pretty fast and soon - thank gosh - it was lunch. I walked into the lunchroom and then decided that I was no longer relieved. Where would I sit? Well, I just decided to go with the flow and I walked up to the line. I was moving down the line and all of a sudden, someone taped my back. I turned around really quickly, and there was Kim.
"Are you sitting with us?" She asked me.
"Wow, I'm glad you asked. I was so scared I would have nowhere to sit."
"Didn't you say you had a friend that went here?"
"Well I thought I did, but she has been avoiding me and shooting me glares all day." I sighed. "I was going to talk to her at lunch, but she isn't here."
"Oh, well, are you okay?" Kim seemed concerned.
I was at the end of the line. I gave the cafeteria lady my money before answering Kim. "I hope so." I said quite honestly.
We walked back to the table where everyone from this morning was sitting. "Hi guys." I said a little shyly as I took the empty seat between Embry and Rachel.
"Hi." Everyone chorused. We talked and I was surprised how easy it was to just sit there and be a part of everything.
With Giselle, there had always only been two of us, so I always had to pay attention. When I went to Forks, I really didn't have any friends. I didn't try to anyways. They all lived in Forks, so I was fine with just Giselle.
"Taylor, Taylor, TAYLOR!" That got my attention.
"What? Oh, sorry I was, like, in my own little world there."
"We know." The guy that I thought was Quil said. Everyone chuckled a little at my expense, I just blushed.
"Well, now that we have your attention-"
"And we probably won't lose it." Quil interrupted Rachel, and was rewarded with more laughs from the group.
"Well, anyways," Rachel glared at Quil, "Would you like to come over this weekend and meet the rest of the group?"
"I promise that the rest of the pack- I mean group- isn't very scary." Jared said. But something weird happened; the rest of the table was shooting him glares. "If looks could kill…" He halfheartedly joked. Then he and Kim got up and left.
"Bye Taylor." Kim called over her shoulder. Whatever just happened, I missed it. I decided not to say anything.
"So what do you say?" Embry asked me, with a joking puppy dog face.
I laughed. "How could I say no to that face?" He looked happier. "But I don't think I can." I laughed "Just kidding. When?"
"That was mean!" Rachel tried to hide her giggle by taking on Embry's puppy dog face.
"How about noon on Saturday? I will pick you up." Embry put another piece into the conversation.
"Sure."
"Yay! It was beginning to hurt to have my bottom lip out like that." Rachel said. We laughed, again.
Seventh hour, the last period of the day, sucked. I had English. I hated English. If we were reading some book, I would have been okay with it. But we weren't. My only saving grace was the fact that Kim sat right next to me.
Halfway through the grammar review, a note landed in my lap. I picked it up. I would have texted you, but I don't have your number. It was from Kim. I sent her back a message with my name and number. Soon my phone vibrated, I pulled it out of my pocket and looked at the number. Unknown. That meant it was Kim. I saved her in my phone and looked at the text.
I hate this class. I was glad she didn't use text language. I hated text language.
Me too.
Haha! What are your plans for this weekend? Are you coming to meet the rest of us?
Yeah, I believe so.
Yay! What about after school?
I'm going to walk to Giselle's and see what's up with her. I shot back another text.
Okay, give me a call when it's over.
Sure. I really didn't know if I would.
Promise? She texted back. It was like she read my mind…
Promise. Now I defiantly had to.
"If you don't call me, I will look you up in the phone book and stalk you!" Kim joked. "No, I won't stalk you, but I will call you, so save us the hassle."
I laughed. I liked that she cared enough to do that. "Okay, bye Kim."
"Bye Taylor."
*****Thanks AliceCullen112 (my beta).
And thanks THIS IS NICOLE CULLEN, for putting me on Story Alert!
~Ellie
