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Chapter 3: Payback

Breathe Kim. Breathe. Sucking in a breath, I tilted my head up to face him. Keeping my expression vacant, I ignored his greeting.

"Is Sam Uley in?"

Jared seemed taken aback that I was being hostile towards him, but Leah squeezed my hand for support. Jared didn't answer me. Instead, he kept staring at me. Like he was trying to memorize me.

"Excuse me, Jared. Is Sam in?" I asked again, trying to keep my composure.

"Kim?" a voice said from behind Jared.

"Sam." I said, smiling.

"Leah?" Sam said, his eyes widening in shock.

Leah gave him her signature cold glare and pretended to use her phone to avoid conversation with him.

"Sam, who's there?" another voice said.

Leah visibly stiffened as the marred, but beautiful face of Emily Young came into view. Jared still hadn't moved, much to Leah's annoyance and surprise. I stomped on her foot discreetly to prevent her from talking.

"Kim! Leah?" Emily's voice shifted from happiness to shock.

There was an awkward silence.

I cleared my voice, and all heads turned to face me. "Harry asked us to deliver this letter to you Sam." I reached into my pocket, retrieved the letter, and held it out to him. He took it and smiled gratefully. I took this as a compliment because Sam hardly ever smiled at anyone, except Emily.

"Why don't you come in for a while?" Emily's cheery voice resonated from behind Sam.

I glanced at Leah who huffed impatiently." Fine Kim, fifteen minutes. I'll wait outside."

Emily's face fell and Sam cringed seeing Emily so sad. I gave Leah a look before grabbing her and hauling her through the door.

"Thank you Em. Just for a little while." I said smiling.

Emily clapped her hands happily as she ushered us inside. Jared, who still hadn't moved from the door, followed behind me.

"So Kim, how was your day?" he said conversationally before pulling out a chair and sitting down. Leah squeezed my hand, which meant to ignore him, which I did, rather grudgingly. I turned to Emily instead and before I could even open my mouth, Paul strode in, banging the door shut behind him. He shot me a glare. I cringed behind Leah, which caused both, Jared and Leah, to glare.

"Why are you being so mean to him?" Paul said angrily, starting to shake. "He just asked you a question." I was absolutely terrified and didn't speak at all.

"Paul!" Sam barked from across the room where he held Emily, who looked nervous and tried to busy herself, close to his chest.

"God, you are such a bitch!" Paul yelled at me.

I could feel the tears threatening to spill over while his statement caused different reactions from the people around me. Emily dropped the cutlery she was holding to cover her mouth. Sam looked at Emily to make sure she was all right, before scolding Paul. Jared jumped out of his chair, walked of to Paul and pushed him up against the wall. Emily tried desperately to calm down Jared, while Sam pulled a very angry and shaking Jared away from a surprised Paul. Leah's reaction surprised us all.

"Shut up!" she yelled. The whole room quieted and turned to face her. "You had no right to call her that you idiot!" "Do you know why Kim is so cautious and unresponsive to Jared?" she said, trying not to scream. "Well, do you?"

Everybody including Paul stood dumbstruck at her.

"Jared, Paul, do you remember the prank you played two years ago to a girl in your year?" she said breathlessly.

"Yeah, we pranked her. I remember. Jared fake asked her out, stood her up, and embarrassed her by pouring a drink all over her head." He froze suddenly. "No way." Paul said, still shocked. "It was you, wasn't it?"

I guess my silence proved him right. Jared let out a string of profanities, before literally getting down on his knees and begging for my forgiveness.

"I'm so sorry Kim. I swear, I was a stupid kid. You mean the world to me and I've cha-" His apology was cut short when Leah grabbed a magazine off the table and proceeded to hit him repeatedly over the head. Sam, Emily, Paul, and I still stood frozen.

"That's it!" Leah yelled. "I've had enough! Kim, we are leaving." She grabbed my hand and dragged me out of the house. As we reached the porch, Leah threw the magazine at Jared's face which he dodged and instead his Sam (much to her pleasure).

"She will never ever forgive you!" she yelled at Jared.

Than we both sprinted down the street as we heard an anguished howl in the forest behind us.

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