Chapter 4
JPOV
I woke up in my tiny little hotel room in Adelaide. I had been here for a week and had decided to try and get some work. Now I could afford to splurge a little and having a bed seemed like a perfect idea. Adelaide was a beautiful little city, the city of churches as they called it, and boy was that right. I had spent hours running around the city the other day to get my bearings, and do a bit of sight seeing, any thing to keep my mind off of her. There was one, beautiful building just out of the city that I stopped and stared at, for god knows how long, but it was amazing, St Peters Cathedral, I think it was. It looked fairly old, and all my prejudices about Australia had been put straight. No one really rode around on kangaroos; I hadn't even seen a kangaroo until I went to the zoo. I spent a while just walking down the mall, people watching, everyone seemed to bump into someone they knew. I had to admit I found the accents a bit funny, but I got used to them after a while. I sat down in front of the 'malls balls' in the middle of the mall and realised what a perfect place I had come to, Adelaide was the complete opposite of Forks, it was sunny most of the time, though I heard quite a few complaints about the sun. Apparently, Adelaide was stuck in the middle of the worst drought in history.
As I sat, watching two girls walked past in a grey and navy blue uniform, laughing about something, one of them looked quickly at me but shied away just as fast. They looked about 16 or 17. The one that looked at me whispered something to her friend and they both looked over now. God, this was pathetic, I didn't feel like being stared at today, and they were starting to get on my nerves, I didn't want to have to put up with this. I stood up to my full height to try and scare them off a little. I leaned against the huge silver balls perched on top of each other and stared menacingly at them. The one who had first noticed me stopped and gawped a little but the other didn't seem fussed at all at my menacing façade. Her bright blue eyes looked at me mockingly and she laughed at her friend and grabbed her hand to drag her over to me.
"Hi" she said as she walked up to me.
"Haven't seen you around here before, usually I recognise a face, if you're a local, where you from?" she asked
"America" I grunted at her.
"I thought so, I don't really know everyone, I just remember seeing you at the airport the other week" she laughed. I was there picking up my cousin, he was on the same flight as you. What's your name anyway mate?" she asked curiously, but obviously just teaming up for a bit of a laugh, probably trying to show off to her friend.
"Is that all you wanted?" I grunted again, trying to get rid of them
"Yeah basically just wanted to say hi, introduce myself… wait I'm Courtney by the way."
"That's great, now could you leave me alone? I was kinda busy!" I mumbled.
"You didn't look busy, you have been sitting there for at least an hour. We walked past you about five times, I thought that you might like someone to talk to." She replied, not in the least bit deterred by my grumpy attitude towards her. I looked up at her this time, she was pretty in her own way, she had her brown hair in childish, short plaits on each side of her head. Her navy blue blazer was opened to show a grey v-neck jumper and a yellow shirt and the top of a tie, she had the top button of her shirt undone under the tie and made the uniform look a little scruffier. The uniform didn't seem to suit her; she didn't seem to like it either because my staring at it seemed to, finally, make her seem a little uncomfortable.
"What are you looking at?" she asked, watching me carefully.
"Your uniform" I answered honestly, making her look even more uncomfortable. I was starting to enjoy this. Maybe even more than she had been.
"Courtney, Pru is here, she will meet us here soon" the other girl whispered in Courtney's ear
"Ok message her and tell her to hurry up Anna" Courtney said back, she looked up at me questioningly.
"PRU!" Anna squealed, throwing her arms up in the air. I looked up to find whom she was yelling at, and that's when it happened.
A/N sorry about the cliffy :P