I pushed the gas pedal down harder on my car and whizzed past the little town of Forks. "Dude, you're driving like an insane person!" Quil screamed next to me. "Shut up Quil, you should be used to it. It happens all the time in our family." I said. "Yeah, well. You're still a beginning driver and you shouldn't be driving as fast as Edward and Alice." Quil said, I turned to shoot him a nasty look and he said "Look at the road!" I would've smacked him if I could get away with it.
"Why are you so angry anyway?" he asked me. "Like you don't know." I muttered. "No, I don't know." he shot back. "I didn't ask you to come with me." I said. "No, I offered because I don't want you driving when you're this angry. It's not good for you and it's definitely not good for the other drivers around you." Quil said. "Yeah, well when you grow up with a cop for a dad you can be cautious. I didn't have that kind of growing up family that ugh…" I let it trail off. Quil reached over to touch me and I pulled back from him.
There was silence in the car for a while and I passed three cars. Finally I said, "They don't even notice me anymore. I'm just a human in the background. If I killed myself they wouldn't care. I've been so invisible my whole life." I said. "You have not been invisible!" Quil replied. "Quil, I don't go to school with the good kids. I don't even know the good kids. I sit by myself, all alone. Day after day. I hang out with-" something stopped me from telling him about the gang. "I hang out with, Goths and emos. I cannot tell you how may times I tell mom I'm going to hang out with friends or I just leave the house no questions asked and I pick up my friends that have gotten drunk or high or nearly killed themselves and I have to take care of them. I'm sick of it. Next time I'll do something really dramatic." I said.
Quil sat in the front seat, just listening to me. "You're not just a stupid human. And you're to young to be dealing with all of that stuff. You should have told someone about it earlier. Before it became such a big problem. I can help you if you let me." he said. "I tried. I tried to tell someone at home and they were all so obsessed with Renesmee that they wouldn't notice if I went and got myself killed in a car accident. The first thing they hear about it would be from Charlie and maybe Carlisle." I said, scenically.
"you can't talk like this Amelia anymore." Quil said. I pushed the gas pedal down further, the speedometer flew pat 125mph. I saw a turn coming up and briefly slowed down. Just long enough to turn before speeding back up.
"How are things going with Claire?" I asked him. "She's happy. You should come over and visit us someday… … soon." he added the last part. "Oh, ho are the kids doing?" I asked. "June said her first word yesterday. And Milo is potty trained." Quil said. I could hear the pride in his voice. It happened every time he was talking about his kids. After Quil imprinted on Claire, they got married when she was seventeen. Rather young, but they couldn't help it. They were soul mates. It just happened. That's what I wanted.
I wish that I could imprint. Then I'd finally find someone that would actually love me more than anything else in the whole world and would know me extremely well. I sighed. "Is imprinting fun? Is it fun to be a werewolf?" I asked. "It was in the beginning. I loved it when I was a kid. I mean, I'm still in a kids body. But I feel so much older. Since I didn't age. I still feel like a nineteen year old boy. But it's been fun. I love my wife and kids. I wouldn't have it any other way." Quil said.
"Are you ready to go back home? Let me take the wheel." Quil said. I pulled over and traded places with him.
Quil drove me over to the movies. "Claire said there was a great chick flick out. So I agreed to let her watch it with you." he said. He handed me a ticket and ushered me inside. Claire was waiting by the popcorn stand. She smiled and gave me a much needed hug.
"Hey babe." she gave Quil a kiss and handed him Milo. June was sleeping in her car seat so we'd probably be taking her inside with us.
The movie turned out to be really great and I had a fun day with Claire and June. We ended up going out to dinner afterwards.