Glass hearts are made to be broken. That's why mine's made of diamonds.
Yeah, I talk shit, just deal with it.
Red was leaning against the shiny, red paintwork of my car. I walked out of the main doors and over to him. Beth and Chloe said goodbye and good luck as they reached their cars. I stepped up in front of Red. He was taller than me, but I was way stronger and if it came to a fight I could walk through it easily. "I've been waiting for you babe." I looked over at Jake who had stopped talking to his mates, Quil and Embry I think, and was glaring at Red with hatred in his eyes.
Red took a step closer to me. He gently pulled my chin up and looked deep into my eyes. I knew, from that insanely annoying feeling that you get, that everyone was staring at us. We could do this for money, I'd make thousands.
He spoke quietly with an intoxicating, deadly voice, which spat poison, yet drew you closer, carefully and with the right amount of danger to make you curious. "I've not stopped thinking about you all day. Your little joke hurt me." I decided to tease him a little. I drew my face a little closer to his. "Get off my car, you'll scratch the paintwork. Anyway, time to go home and do wild things that my big brother will never approve of." I stepped around him and reached for the door handle of my car.
Red grabbed my other arm in a hard and icy grip. "You're my girl now Alex. I'm watching you. Every beat of your heart for another guy, every doodled name on the back of a book, every note in your locker with a single heart on it, I'll find out about. And when I do, I'll crush that guy till he's lower than the Cullens." I pulled my arm from his grip and got in my car. He walked back to his car and the crowd dispersed. People pulled out mobiles and furiously texted about the confrontation. Five minutes and everyone would be on my case.
Jake jogged over. I put down the window so he could talk to me. "Would the lady like to be drive home or am I just your escort?" I smiled and moved to the passenger seat. I really didn't feel like driving. In the car I got a call from Chloe on the way home. "Hey Alex. So tell me, I want all the juicy details, what happened with Red?" She sounded excited; she probably had millions of texts saying stuff like: "Hey Chloe, You made friends with her and she likes you, what happened, has she said." I rolled my eyes and mouthed Chloe to Jake.
"Chloe, I'm in a daze, I really don't feel up to talking on the phone right now." Jake gave me a thumb up as if to say "Great closing line" Chloe sighed dramatically "I guess I'll see you outside the mall in an hour and you can tell me in person." I smiled and said in a patronising voice "But I don't know where it is darling." She gave me directions from school and hung up. I guess I'll see you in an hour. I told Jake and he said he'd be at home when I got back and gave me his number.
The mall was in La Push, so I dropped Jake off on the way. I saw Chloe in a café holding two lattes. "You should ask for your money back, I don't drink coffee." Chloe rolled her eyes and smiled cheekily, her glossy lips curved perfectly into a smile which already told me her answer. "So, everyone's dying to know…what happened with Red today? Where do you two stand wit each other?" she said, taking a sip of her coffee. "He just wanted to tell me that he's top and wants me, and I said no." Chloe shook her head indignantly, her long brunette hair waving about as she did. "Were you asleep on the phone? I said JUICY DETAILS!" I ignored the question and looked down at her coffee "You really shouldn't drink coffee, it'll make you hyper…-err." Chloe scowled and looked deep into my amber eyes with her emerald green ones. "De-tails." She said in a slightly menacing voice. I put up my hands in surrender.
"Ok, ok, I'll tell you. After drama he offered to take me to Spanish. I agreed and he led me down the corridor. He started explaining the "Class system" and said he was top man, who he obviously is and that he could have any girl he wanted. He said he wanted me and that's where it got interesting. I asked him if I could say no. He backed me against a wall and said no. I said "So if I did say no, I'd be the first to say no to you?" He tells me I'm not going to say no. so I say there's a first time for everything and walk off."
Chloe nodded, entranced in the story. "And earlier?" I rolled my eyes and shrugged. "Come o-ho-ho-on. You know I write the gossip column of the student mag, this is great stuff." I laughed, she did seem the kind of person to write a gossip column but only her closest friends knew who wrote the column, that's how she got away with writing the most outrageous, yet true stories.
"Well, outside he was leaning against my car and he started saying how much he'd thought about me. I told him to stop scratching my paintwork and that I had to go home. He got mad and told me that any guy that I liked or liked me was dead. But the thing is, I do like another guy and I'm scared to get close to him because he'll get hurt even though if he wanted to he could smash Red easy. Don't put that bit in your column though."
Chloe drew in breath at the last bit. "Whoa, is he good looking?" I went into a daydream about Jake. All I could think about was his gorgeous eyes, cute laugh and his seducing smile. Chloe took me out of my reverie. "I guess he's really good looking then." We both laughed. She took another sip of her coffee. "So who is he? Do I know this apparently, gorgeous boy?" Chloe was such a good mate, but I missed Fern. If I tried to contact her they'd find me and my life would be locked away.
"The guy's called Jake. Jacob Black." Chloe's jaw dropped open in horror. I laughed at her expression "The really cute Quileute guy, who loves his mates but gives everyone else the cold shoulder? That Jacob Black? You haven't got a chance." I shrugged. "He likes me too you know" Chloe's face looked even more horrified. "Pleeeeeease let me put that in; I promise I won't mention names. That is such juicy gos' Please Ali?" I grinned and nodded.
"I'll tell you what you need. My dad's credit card is mine for now as mum took all his stuff to sell leaving him on his own. I love my parents divorce. But anyway, it's full of money and we are going shopping. You know you just wanna, so bad." We got up and walked into the nearest clothes shop
