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Dedications: Dedicated to everyone who has sent me a review, because they give me a warm fuzzy feeling in my heart. Especially to you, cookie monster, because you're amazing, I used both movie suggestions.
I am horribly sorry for making you wait, but A LOT has been going on, the least of which being me grounded from the computer for two days for no apparent reason. And my uncle lives in my basement now, and he's always around being annoying, and I can't write when people are talking to me and being annoying.
I'm hoping to get enough money this Christmas to buy a notebook computer so I can write in the peace that is my bedroom. Or them finally hooking up the other computer and letting me have this one in my room. Either way me + computer + room is bliss
Anyways, if that happens I'll be very happy and more likely to have frequent-er updates. Wish me luck :)
Anyways, it's not too long, but everything that I needed to be here is here. I'm not too good at adding random scenes; I have a tendency to get straight to the point. Anyways, that's why all my chapters are short. I'm thinking that soon some of them will be longer, just 'cause there's so much content :)
Chapter five will be up soon, I hope. Unless I get annoyed to death XD
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"Why did you have to pick this one?! Can't we watch something that isn't your typical chick-flick?! Just once!?" Jacob moaned as the opening scene of the movie Nat had selected played.
"Where would be the fun in that? Anyways, this is a good movie. It's this or the Notebook." There was a menacing lilt to her pretty voice as she hissed the title of his alternative.
"What on earth are you talking about, Nally? Seriously! Mean Girls is my all time favourite movie. It's like…wonderful. Now shhh so we can watch." He said, hastily, waving his hands around in a comical mix of panic and feigned eagerness.
She grinned happily and snuggled up to his warm side, Jacob wrapping his arm around her without any thought to the action.
About half way through the fourth bowl of popcorn Jacob grabbed the remote and paused the movie, Lindsey Lohan's face frozen in a rather odd expression on the television screen.
"Nally," his voice was hesitant, eyes looking at her warily, judging her expression, "Would you tell me about Raphael?"
She visibly flinched at the name but still she nodded slowly. "You won't like it though. Are you positive you want to know?"
"Yes." His tone left no option; Jacob Black was going to find out about Raph tonight one way or another.
"Okay. Please, just don't say anything until I've finished. I don't think I'll be able to talk about it. It's hard for me, you know?"
"Please, just tell me."
She took a deep breath, steadying herself, and began, "Three years ago, when I was thirteen, I ran away from home. My parents were alcoholics and they got abusive when they couldn't afford booze. They couldn't afford it a lot. One day I just got sick of it. So I left. I was walking around in the part of the city where we lived, the bad part, and I was starting to get paranoid, but I knew I couldn't go home, because next time they would probably kill me. Then this really kind voice came out of the darkness, 'Are you all right, miss? This isn't a good place to be at this time of night, any time really. Would you allow me to take you to your destination?' I was so scared already, so I heard a kind offer from a nice voice and I didn't hesitate. I said yes. He asked me where I was headed. I said I didn't know. After all, I had just run, without a thought as to where I would end up."
Sounds familiar. Whispered Jacob's thoughts
"So he offered me a place to stay. I said yes to that too. This man was so nice I didn't see any danger. So he took me to a large house, all kinds of people staying in different rooms. 'My house. I let people in need stay.' I thought that was so kind. I stayed with these people for a long while, and then one night, everything changed. Johan, the man, brought home another 'stray' the man he brought home immediately attached himself to me, we were fast friends. Raphael. Then, one day, about four months after I started staying there—two after Raph came—Raph kissed me, and told me he loved me. And I believed him, loved him back. I was happy, for a time. And then he cheated on me. I wouldn't see him, I couldn't, it hurt too badly, you know? Raph didn't like that. He smacked me. I ran. He caught up. He forced me; he had never forced me before. I was so afraid, Jacob." Her eyes were wide, frightened, and almost hopeful, hoping that he would not be disappointed in her. "And then he beat me more, he broke my right leg so I couldn't run away. He took me to Julio, who was kind of a doctor, and he patched me up, sorta. But I still couldn't walk without help, and Raph told them all that I fell down the stairs, so nobody was worried about leaving him alone with me. He kept hurting me, not as serious, because people would be suspicious if someone who could barely walk was suddenly getting tons of injuries, simply from spending the day in bed. And he kept…forcing me. He said I belonged to him, that no matter what he did I was his that if I left him he would find me, and it would be even worse. So I stayed, even after my leg healed. It wasn't until Johan brought Doria that anyone even knew something was wrong. Me and Doria were fast companions, friends yes, but she was also my mother figure. She was, is, the mother I always wished I had. Anyways, one day I was hiding out cause I was all bruised and scraped, on my face even, so I couldn't hide it and she got really worried and broke in. I was a pretty pathetic sight, sobbing and beaten like I was, and I told her. And she got really angry. A week later our plans were done, I had barely been beaten 'cause I was cooperating all week long, so I could walk by myself, and so we packed up everything and left. Only a note for Johan telling him we couldn't come back, no reasons, no nothing. We knew that if we stayed there, he would find me quickly, so we left, and went to a different town. But he found me. And beat me, again. Broke my collarbone. Doria found him, standing over me in an alley. She called the police, Raph ran away. We left and came here. He hasn't found me…yet." She ducked her head, afraid to look at him. Then suddenly she became aware of the shakes that were running through Jacob's entire body. "Jacob? You okay?"
"I have to go!" he yelled, getting up and dashing from the room.
All he could see was red, he could feel the shakes wracking through his body, feel his wolf form begging for release, asking to be set free, because his human form couldn't possibly contain all his emotion. He needed to be a wolf. He was just around the corner, nobody in sight, when he phased. A moment of pain as he practically exploded, then breaking easily into a run, going as fast as his body would let him. Which was pretty damn fast.
Behind him Natalia still sat on the couch in the living room, staring after him. Wondering why he had run away.
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I hope you liked it :)
Please review, I'd appreciate input, or…you know…anything. [Desperation!
It's almost Christmas break, lala, that's two weeks of relative free time.