Long Live Life
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Twilight characters or anything Twilight related.
So as you can see this is a look into the future after my previous story with new characters including new members of the Olympic coven. They have been given major roles in this story while the original characters of Twilight including mine are more supporting characters so you won't be hearing from them much until later maybe. Enjoy.
Let's see how Lucien's dealing it after school.
Chapter 4 – What Really Matters
Lucien's POV
I watched as the bus took off with Luna in it. Everything was dead silent until the bus disappeared and I realized that the parking lot was about to get emptied as students started leaving in their cars and I soon joined them.
"There you are, we were wondering what's the hold up." Dad said when I met up with him and mom at dad's black Cadillac CT6 car. "Listen, I got a call from my editor to talk about my new book and Nessie needs Lucina at work so you go ride with Lucas and Krystal." I guess I forgot to tell you all that dad is a writer under the alias of Bryce C. which the C stands for the Cullen name and mom and Nessie owns a shoe and handbag line called Twilight and their own cosmetics N.B.A.L.S. Cosmetics which stands for Nessie Black and Lucina Summers.
"Sure." I shrugged.
"Lucien, what's wrong?" Mom asked when she caught my tone. Oh shit.
"Nothing." I said looking down.
"Lucien, what did I tell you about lying to yourself?" Dad asked in a disapproved tone.
"I'm not." I said.
"Lucien Bryson Summers," Ah hell, here we go again with mom using the full name on me. I bet my next allowance that I'm either just in trouble or I get grounded.
When I didn't say anything, dad said, "Okay you know what, we'll talk about this later. We gotta go but we expect you to tell us what's on your mind or I'll have Edward do it for you. And don't think that he won't." Of course not and I was right on the dot.
"Fine." I sighed looking up to see my parent's expression soften. Dad patted my shoulder and got into his car as mom gave me a quick kiss on the cheek.
"I love you." She said to me mentally before she got in. As soon as those two took off, I walked over to the white Honda where Lucas and Krystal are already inside.
"Damn Lou, what did you do to piss off your parents?" Lucas asked chuckling when I got in the back seat.
"Can you not call me that? It's kinda annoying." I said kindly.
"That's the idea. At least you know what I've been through with everyone in the family." Lucas said as he pulled out of the parking lot and drove our way to the main house.
"Once again Lucas, you are so much like your dad." Krystal said shaking her head with a chuckle.
"I am nothing like that old man!" Lucas said. I sighed as I looked out the window while Lucas drives us for ten minutes in our speed when he pulled over on the driveway of the three story exterior white house. Lucas, Krystal and I walked inside to see Edward and Evan laughing while Jasper and Emmett were wrestling around on the living room floor.
"Lucas, do your thing." Rosalie said and that's what Lucas did when he held up his hand and shot an aura sphere with perfect timing hitting Emmett right in the face causing him to get off of Jasper.
"OW!" He cried as everyone laughs. "Why is it that I'm the one who gets blasted with aura spheres?!"
"I shot some to the others." Lucas said.
"One time, one time on your lunch date with Krystal and you didn't even shot one at her or Bryce or Tiffany or Lucina–" Emmett said counting off his fingers until he was cut off.
"Well maybe now you know what I have to deal with having you guys annoying the hell out of me for fun." Lucas said. I shook my head as I made my way to the kitchen to where Esme is going over a new house design and grandpa Jalen on his laptop no doubt it's about a new creation for the company.
"Hey Lucien, how was school?" Esme asked. How is she always smiling? Not that it's annoying or a bad thing.
Knowing that saying fine will make it obvious, I said, "Alright." I answered as I went to the fridge and grabbed an apple, one of the foods I can eat.
"Nice try Lucien, but your dad told us of your behavior that's different from before even by your reply." Grandpa Jalen said as I turned to see him looking up from his laptop smirking. Dammit dad, must you get everyone on my case?
"Really, I'm fine." I said taking a bite of my apple and started chewing to avoid talking some more.
"You know if you're gonna keep doing that, you're gonna need another apple because I'm going to be doing this until your parents get home." Grandpa Jalen said.
"Jalen, leave you grandson alone. I think he needs some space," Thank you, Esme. "Until he's ready to tell us." I take my thank you back.
"I'm going outside." I said walking out to the backyard where you could see the woods surrounding it. I leaned forward onto the deck handrail looking up to the sky as I took another bite of my apple.
My mind was brought back to the events that happened today in school, on that girl Luna. There I go again thinking about her. Why? Why should I be thinking about this girl when she doesn't even like me? Why should she like me? I'm nothing but trouble. Something bad always happen to the people I love. I was the reason I almost killed mom when she gave birth to me. She was out for hours. I was the reason this person kidnapped me, mom, Nessie, Evan and Sarah because he wanted to exterminate all hybrids for what one caused the death of his sister. Okay, maybe that there involved people like us but still. And… I was the reason I lost a very close friend of mine six years ago.
"Yo Lou, get your ass in here. It's really important." Evan called me in my head with his wolf-human mind reading gift. Why must everyone call me that? I look at my apple and judging by the core, I must have been out here for fifteen minutes. I chucked the core hard as it flew all the way across the woods and went inside.
"What's up?" I asked coming inside to see everyone including Carlisle who just got home from the hospital in the living room. The minute I came in, everyone was staring at me, smiling. Okay, what just happened here? I thought looking at everyone weirdly.
"So Lucien, heard you got lady troubles." Emmett said wiggling his eyebrows at me grinning. For some reason, I felt a chill coming from my chest right down to my spine and I felt like my heart just went off beat.
"W-W-What?" I asked.
"From what we're hearing, you got a thing for Luna Snow." Grandpa Jalen said smiling as my eyes widened. I turned to see Evan next to me grinning as my hand went to his shoulder in a tight grip like I wanna kill him.
"You said it was important!" I said to him mentally.
"It is; it's about your behavior change." Evan said. Behavior change?! What behavior change?!
"You are a dead dog!" I said.
"Like I haven't heard that one before." Evan said rolling his eyes as he got my hand off his shoulder.
"In Evan's defense, he wasn't the only one who knows what's been going on with you with his gift." Edward said smiling. "And I'm not just talking about me."
"Your depression finally went away, briefly." Jasper said.
"And I saw that color of your aura before it changed into being, oh what's the word, heartbroken." Lucas smirked.
"Wait what?!" I asked in dumbstruck.
"And you said not all boys are stupid." Sarah said giggling. Well they're not.
"That's because you guy are not telling me what you're talking about, and I'm the youngest here!" I said.
"Well it's obvious he doesn't know because he's experiencing his first time falling in love." Bella said chuckling. What?! No way, I can't be in love… am I? I mean sure Luna is beautiful with great hair, amazing smell,… beautiful eyes,… nice skin, and those lips –
"Dude!" Evan said snapping his fingers at my face and I felt like I was woken up from a dream. Why do I feel warm in embarrassment all of a sudden when my family started laughing?
"I saw that blush, not just from your aura." Lucas said.
"And felt it." Jasper said. Alice then started squealing.
"This is great! Now we just need to find a perfect idea of a date for you two!" She said jumping up and down.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa guys, you all are being crazy!" I said. "Besides, even if I am 'in love' with Luna which I don't know, she doesn't like me. I mean you two saw her behavior towards me." I said to Evan and Edward knowing they saw it all in my head.
"I think you might have gotten the wrong idea about her, dude." Evan said sounding serious.
"She's probably having a hard time with the classes for her first day of school." Krystal said suggested.
"After all, this girl and her family have been going through some tough times from what her mother tells me." Carlisle said.
"Just because Luna wanted to switch out of her class you have her with, doesn't mean it's because she doesn't like you." Rosalie said.
"And maybe, and I'm not saying I know, she wanted to switch out because she's too shy near you." Esme said. What? No, that would mean that Luna likes me, but,
"I don't know." I said. Does Luna like me? Why should she? After all, I bring nothing but trouble to the people I care about. Before Edward and Evan could say anything from what I was thinking, I heard voices coming in.
"We're home!" We all turned to see Grandma Tiffany coming in from her school of teaching. At that moment, grandpa Jalen swooped in, grabbed grandma in his arms and spins her around before kissing her. Should I find that gross?
"What, I don't get a kiss from my grandson?" Tiffany said smiling to me. What's up with her? I thought as I went up and kissed grandma on the cheek.
"How's it going?" I asked.
"You tell me with your sudden interest in this girl." Grandma Tiffany said smirking causing my eyes to widen.
"You told her?!" I asked Evan.
"No, I saw it." Grandma Tiffany said.
"Wait, since when did you touch me?!" I asked in surprised.
"I might have accidentally grabbed the wrong shoulder." She smirked. Oh god, kill me where I stand! "So tell me about her."
"Tell you about who?" That's when I caught his revolting stench as he flung his arm over my neck in a hold. "How's it going little buddy?" Jacob asked as I saw him smiling.
"Right now, I'm dealing with your stench. I know you patrol most of the days and you work at the shop but you could take a bath once in a while." I said.
"Then use your human nose." Jacob laughed.
"That doesn't work that way." I said.
"Then neither does my smell." Jacob smirked letting me go and thumped my back.
"So what's going on here? What are you all talking about here with Lucien?" Nessie asked looking at us all.
"Lucien here has his eyes on the new girl at school." Sarah said. That's when my godmother started squealing.
"Oh my gosh, my godson is in love!" She said happily hugging me so tight. "I can't believe it!"
"Wow little Lucien is becoming a man." Jacob said laughing with Evan.
"Guys," I said after Nessie finally lets go. "I! Don't! Know! Okay? This is just too much for me! I just… I need some space, please."
"We understand, we just want what's best for you." Grandma Tiffany said rubbing my arm.
"You deserve this." Esme said. "Fate owes you that." Owes me for what, causing trouble because I'm some sort of bad luck and for what I've done? That's when my parents came in. I'm surprised they came in later since mom and Nessie get out of work the same time. I got a feeling what's gonna happen tonight, and this time I'm one hundred percent.
Night has fallen and soon most of us went off into the woods to our cottage; Edward and Bella for themselves, Nessie and Jacob with Evan and Sarah, my grandparents for themselves and one for me and my parents.
"So what's for dinner?" I asked when we arrived at inside the dark brown modern cottage near the lake.
"Actually, it's our time to hunt." Mom said giving me a warm smile.
"Besides, we want to talk to you about earlier but also to spend time with you." Dad said placing his hand on my should with a smile. Man his charm is powerful than mine. That's one of the things I inherited from my dad apart from the reflexes and the eyes and hair. I got the looks from mom. I agreed to go and my parents and I spent the next hour hunting for animals to feed off of. I settled with a few deers and an elk. Once we were done, we walked our way home to our cottage.
"So what do you guys want to talk about exactly?" I asked on the way there.
"First of all, your mother and I would like to apologize earlier after school for being hard on you." Dad started. I looked at him in confusion. They're sorry? "It's just that seeing you like this before gets your mother worried. And when she gets worried, I get worried, you know that."
"Sorry." I sighed.
"Please don't be." Mom said. "We know things have been rough for you. Trust me, it's been hard for us too, but we all have to do our best to move on with our lives." I guess they're right, if it were that easy.
"And now for the other thing, tell us about you and Luna." Dad said and that caused me to groan.
"Why is everyone so interested about what's going on between me and Luna?" I asked as we were inside the cottage.
"Because we believe that this girl means something to you." Dad said as I sighed.
"Look guys, maybe I do like Luna, I don't know still and if I do, she wouldn't like me." I said looking down at my feet. Everything inside me hurts when I first saw Luna and her behavior towards me. Plus, is it okay to bring her in to the world that's different from hers?
"You don't know unless you talk to her." Dad said as he and mom brought me to my room built for teenage boys and we all sat down on my bed. "Get to know this girl. Who knows, maybe she has a thing for you."
"Yeah, until something bad happens to her like to others I caused. I'm nothing but trouble." I said.
"Lucien, you do not cause trouble to others." Mom said taking her hands in mine.
"Why would you say that? I caused misfortune to others like what happened years ago. And… I almost lost you mom." I said looking down.
"Sweetie, look at me," Mom lifted my head up so that I could look into her platinum eyes. "None of those things were your fault. You couldn't control what happened before and that has passed. Do I look like I'm mad at you for almost killing me?"
I didn't say anything until, "No."
"You wanna know why?" Mom asked.
"What?"
"Because I love you Lucien, you are my son." Mom said. "From the moment I found out I was pregnant, I already felt the love coming from you. I can see the kind of person you're becoming. You are just learning about life. Sure you mess up but you learn from those mistakes. What really matters Lucien is not what you did in the past, but who you are and what you do now."
I felt as if things suddenly were instantly reforming inside me as I just stared at my mom. I just can't believe she still loves me after all I done. Was I really that selfish for how I was behaving just because of what I believe myself to be? I think I should be the one getting all the hits instead of Emmett. Mom and dad both got up and were about to leave my room when,
"Mom," She turned around as did dad when I called her just as they were out the door to see me get up and ran up to her where I wrapped my arms around her so tight. My eyes were leaking of tears as I couldn't form the words out loud.
"I love you. You know that." I said to mom mentally from either touching her or not.
"I know you do." Mom replied as she softly cries wrapping her arms around me. I lifted my head and touched my dad's wrist.
"Dad, I…" I wasn't sure what to say but I didn't have to when he went over hugged me and mom.
"I know." He said. "We love you. Remember that." We stayed like this for awhile before it was time to let go of one of another.
"Okay Lucien, it's that day of the week for bed. You got another day at school and tomorrow might be special, for you." Mom said.
"Yeah okay. Night." I said.
"Good night Louie."
"Mom!" I groaned. She smiled and kissed my cheek before leaving my room yawning.
"Night sport." Dad said ruffling up my hair and followed my mom out of the room. I went to the bathroom, got washed up and changed clothes and turn off the lights before I flopped myself on my bed and began thinking. Maybe they're right. Maybe they're all right. It's time to move forward and give things a go. I just hope tomorrow things turn out okay. For the first time in awhile, I was able to sleep peacefully.
I bet you all have questions of what Lucien's talking about but don't worry. All will be revealed in time. Until then, please review.
