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Equinox: Chapter 4-Parties, EPOVI have issues with dancing. Dancing is just plain bad, people are strutting and bragging and wearing stiff tuxedoes that cost $1,000,000 per hour; not to mention that, while dancing I am a danger to others as well as myself. Too bad there was a dance in two Saturdays, it was girl's choice.
While I was wallowing about how I had to have come right before a school dance, my phone rang. "Hello?" "Hey Edward!"Mike and I said at the same time, sort of weird.
"Dude, the girl's choice dance is in two Saturdays." Wow. Weird again.
"Huh, too bad I was just thinking about it!"
"Oh, weird." he paused, "Just wanted to warn ya to do something stupid girls like, you know: a nice shirt or whatever." I laughed, I doubled over with laughing.
"Dude you sound a little too experienced in this." I guffawed again.
"I have an older sister, she's in college; she went here." You could almost see Mike pouting, "You gotta give me props for that."
"Yeah sure, whatever." I heard him swear, and I don't think it was from me.
"I'm late for the freaking bus! Erm, sorry gotta go!" I snapped my phone shut and continued to get ready for the morning.
I did take his advice, actually caring about what I wore, a green shirt and not-ripped jeans. My mom said green looked good on me; I didn't know why I cared because I'd probably bail at the last second; but in truth I kind of liked the shirt, too.
Again, too soon was I in the parking lot, leaning against my ancient red pickup, avoiding Bella's glance at all cost. Yesterday, stupid Valentine's Day, I'd been just retarded enough to ask Bella on a date. What did I think she'd do? Say yes and jump into my arms, like on one of those wedding videos? No, she said 'no', some family thing all the way in Canada; which actually isn't that far away.
Jessica walked up to me, "Um… hi, Edward." I sort of knew Jessica; I'd seen her at lunch, chatted with her in the hallway. "Well, you know that there's a dance coming up…" She gestured to a banner on the wall- how could I not know? "And it's…uh girl's choice?" She finished her sentence like a question, nerves probably- either way I didn't like where this was going, I gulped. "So are you, uh, free that night?"
A lie quickly formed in my head, so I wouldn't have to hurt anybody. "Erm, I have a… thing in Seattle that day." That worked, actually that sounded good, my dad was going on a fishing trip with Billy Black and wouldn't be here for most of the day. "Sorry." I said, she pouted.
"Oh, well, ok bye. I like your shirt," she said as she turned around. I got a text message from Mike a couple seconds later:
"Hey, could u put in a good word 4 me? –M" Huh, I'd been thinking Mike had been liking Bella. Mike, who was by the other building, but still easy to see, gave me a stare and then looked to Jessica, oh…
I reached out to Jessica's shoulder, "Hey, but I heard Mike really likes you." She turned around slowly and I gulped again.
"…Really?" to my surprise she was beaming. "Okay!" she almost skipped off. Another text message a few seconds later, again from Mike:
"Ty –M" I nodded to him, which he might not have seen because Jessica was over there.
Again, I was at lunch, after having time whoosh pass me, Mike was thanking me. "Dude, you have power over girls!"
Eric and Tyler looked at him like he was crazy. "Mike… what the Hell are you talking about…?" Tyler.
"Jessica asked him and he sent her over to me. And now I'm going to the dance!" I looked at them… it was obvious that we all thought the same thing: Big Deal.
"I thought you liked Bella, though." Eric. I chuckled quietly; that's what I was thinking! I got a look from Mike.
"Shut up about it, okay?" Mike said to Eric and then he turned to me. "You know this weekend; it's supposed to be sunny." I nodded, I knew too much about that. "Yeah, so some of us were going down to the rez." Eric's face lit up."
"La Push! You in?" (AN: ok so I sort of copied that off the movie, whatev's)
"Am I supposed to know what the Hell that means?" I asked, Mike stared/guffawed.
Eric laughed, and explained more fully: "La Push Indian Rez. You know, sort of by First Beach?" Oh! Yep, I remembered that from when I used to come here every summer until I was ten; I nodded.
"Awesome! We're all meeting at my mom's place, Newtons' Olympic Outfitters, at ten-ish, okay?"
I nodded again; my dad would like me spending time with friends- even though I barely knew them. Bio passed in a slow, awkward, silent haze, like a mute turtle… crawling in peanut butter… on Mercury, dying.
On Saturday I woke up without my alarm, but sun in my face, I was instantly awake, half smiling when I got out of bed and opened the curtains, then the window. Shoot! Bad idea! I closed the window again, as an arctic breeze wafted through the screen- though even that couldn't faze me. When I got downstairs, I flipped on the TV, looking at the clock '7:42' oh yeah, plenty of time. The news was on.
"It is freezing outside right now, folks!" Duh! I rolled my eyes. "But amazingly, it will be sunny today and next weekend in the Olympic peninsula!" My jaw dropped. That was pretty much legendary.
After a while I was in my beat up pick-up driving to Newtons' Olympic Outfitters. "Hey! Swan's here!" I heard Eric shout; I rolled down the window and waved, then rolled it back up.
"Hi guys." I said after my truck was parked. At first glance I saw Tyler, Jess, Mike, and Eric; but then I saw that people were already piling into the car. "Can I call shotgun, or am I too late?" I joked.
Eric 'pffed', "dude, you'll be lucky to fit in the trunk!" He laughed and Jessica giggled, which made Mike chuckle, Tyler made the motion of pointing over to them, them and making the circles near his head; I nodded.
We were soon looking over the ocean, huddling towards a blue fire. "That's really cool, how the fire turns blue with saltwater-logs." I said, a couple people murmured a 'yeah' or a 'sure'.
Suddenly, a booming "Hi People!" came from a Native-American- looking, oh maybe a 16-year-old guy, flanked by two peers. I gave Mike who-the-Hell-is-that look. "Jacob Black." Jacob gestured to himself, -maybe seeing my glance- then to the two others on each side, "Quinn, Embry." I nodded to each in greeting. "Edward, right?" He asked.
"Wow, news spreads like a freaking wild-fire here." I chuckled.
Angela suddenly announced that she and some other guys were going hiking, and soon it was just a few people scattered around the beach, Jacob and I were the only ones left at the fire. (AN: ha ha ha, don't ya'll even THINK about Edward being flirty with Jacob! Sicko-s.) I had to ask him a question, something that was burning my tongue, most of the most popular people were here, but no sight of the Cullens. "Do the Cullens not come here? I thought they'd be here."
His happy, puppy-dog face (yes, I had to admit it was puppy-dog-ish) turned stone cold, "No, they don't come here." He said simply
"So I'll bet you're a regular around here." I teased, it was pretty obvious.
"Yeah, my family's been here for like, a millennia." He nodded; we were walking down the beach towards a local wood-pile.
"Okay, so you could tell me why there's a huge wood-pile pretty much in the middle of a beach."
"Oh right, well, all the houses here are pretty much as old as my family, so they have woodstoves, only the newer ones have gas stoves. So it's a convenience just to have wood when we need it." He shrugged.
"Hmm that strangely makes sense." In the distance an ominous wolf-howl echoed through the trees.
"Ya know, my family was supposedly descended from wolves." He cocked his eyebrows.
Then he pretty much crash-coursed me on bits of history like the Flood- which imitated Noah's Ark-, their brethren with wolves and law against killing wolves, which somehow morphed into a brief lecture on the 'Cold Ones'.
"So like vampires, right?" I asked, he nodded yes, and a word popped into my head: Cullens!
"That's what your people would call them." He said eerily. "There are stories about them back to when the wolves were there, but some also a lot recent," He was probably just telling me these to freak me out, and it was working, even though it was clear that he didn't believe them one bit. After words, he told me how they weren't safe and shouldn't be trusted, and about the peace treaty.
"Wait, wait, you guys have a peace treaty with people that you aren't even sure exist?" That made him pause, but he regained his composure a moment later, probably hoping I didn't notice.
"Yep, pretty much." He confirmed.
"Well that's nice, now we better go back before the rest of the people think we bailed on them." He nodded in agreement. I was going to look into vampires later…
So sure enough, as soon as I got home I ran right up to my old junky PC and deleted all the crap-mail, closed all the pop-ups,… waited a millennia for it to load, and finally got onto my favorite search engine. "Vampires" I typed in… and waited… and waited… and- finally! 13,900,000 hits, I think I'll stay at the first page. I looked at classic vampires, Vlad Dracula-who everyone knows-, Erzsebeth Bathory – who was just a sadistic chick who flipping bathed in blood-
Equinox: Chapter 4-Parties, BPOV
The reason I don't usually lie is for two reasons: 1.I suck at it, I never was very good. And I have to carry out a lie, say like if I said that I would go shopping with Alice so she would simply SHUT UP, I actually had to end up going shopping with her!
So it does sort of make sense that I wouldn't lie to Edward because I really do have a family "thing" in Canada on Saturday and Sunday, which I already explained. Two reasons (again) that I wasn't going to stay here and try to live a normal life, 1. My thirst was getting so uncontrollable, so much that not only Edward- but Mr. Banner looked good. 2. There was a fox infestation in a smallish town's central park; yum.
Suddenly, Alice freaking screeches in my ear: "You're going to ask him o-out! You're going to ask him o-out!" So I do the sensible thing, I pretend that I'm a normal human.
"What? Sorry, I can't HEAR out of this ear!" I hissed. She simply smiles and then gets that faraway look in her eye. I flick the side of her head, she doesn't bat an eye. I sigh when her eyes un-glaze themselves, "How's it going to happen…?" I ask glumly, although it's finally registering that I might get to spend an afternoon with Edward. She launches into full detail that I don't even pay attention to, if it's going to happen, I'll take things as they come, the only thing I really pay attention to is when she says…
"And OF COURSE he says yes! I mean why… blah, blah, blah, blah." Zoning out….
It was just before school and I decided to ask him out "Hi Edward," It's obviously been stressed between us, so this is probably a shock. "Umm, yeah, so I feel really bad about saying no, so do you want to do some-"
"Oh sorry, I'm not going to the dance." Edward interrupted.
"No, not that, I heard you were going to Seattle." I say, he nodded. "Well, I was wondering if you wanted to go somewhere with me instead?"
"Erm… yeah I guess it sort of depends where…" He mumbled.
"Oh! Right, well… there's this really cool place, it's sort of out of the way, and we have to hike a while to get there, but it's really beautiful." I said. But then, I remembered simple logic: 1. it was sunny that weekend, and the meadow- yes, that's where I planned to take him- was totally open. 2. (and the more important one, I might add) Edward didn't know about my… little problem…. I quickly decided to spill my guts to him at lunch.
All the while I was walking to my first class, I was absolutely killing myself for not thinking of that earlier!
And that is the end to Chapter 4! (They will be having a "conversation" at lunch, but that's pretty much it aside from possibly doing blood-types) Unless I have a brain-miracle, it will most likely be the shortest chapter, just as this was the longesssssttttt.