California Girl
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Chapter Song Radiohead
7. Creep
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When you were here before, couldn't look you in the eye,
You're just like an angel, your skin makes me cry...
Embry POV
I collapsed on my bed, sighing. Carmen really didn't like me. No matter what I did, she seemed to dislike me. Well, except for when I was a wolf.
I closed my eyes and thought of Carmen's face when she talked to my wolf form. It wasn't really fair. She only liked me when I couldn't kiss her and hold her, but, at least I still got to talk to her, or rather, have her speak to me.
At the thought of how great it would've been if Carmen had licked me today, I fell asleep.
"My mom might have made dinner!" Quil said, dropping his toy-truck on the ground. Jacob stood up and ran over to him. I stood up too.
"I'll meet you there, I have to tell my mom." I ran back in my house and told her, before running down the street. I was running as fast as I could, I didn't want Quil and Jake to eat all of the food, like I knew they would. I slowed to walking when I saw Minnie looking upset.
She was so nice, even for a six year old. She was sweet and funny and she only ever wanted to be our friend. Quil and Jake said she was getting annoying, but I didn't want to be mean, so I always included her as much as I could.
"Minnie!" I smiled and walked with her. "Where are they?"
"They ran off. They said I shouldn't hang out with you 'cause I'm a girl and you're boys and 'cause I'm only six." She frowned, which made me frown. Quil and Jake could be pretty mean, and I was sure that Jake didn't like her at all.
"Don't be silly! You're the best one of us, Minnie!" I smiled, which made her smile too. She had lost almost all of her teeth- which made Quil even more annoyed at her because she always had money from the tooth fairy- but still had a few here and there.
I saw one of her shoe laces on the grass out of the corner of my eye, and I didn't want her tripping and losing the rest of her teeth, so I stopped her bent down to tie it for her.
"Thanks!" When I stood up, she was blushing. What I didn't realize was that she was leaning forward with her eyes closed.
I didn't realize until she pressed her lips to mine for just a second before giggling and running off to Quil's house.
I stood still, not knowing what to do. Mom had told me that all first kisses were important, but that a girl's first kiss was even more important and that if I ever had a girl who wanted to kiss me, that I should be sweet and kind... She also told me that I shouldn't kiss a girl until I was married...
I tried to think of what the men, the ones in those movies my mom loved to watch, did, but I couldn't remember. I couldn't remember how to act.
I ran in the direction of Quil's house and went in to find them all sitting at Quil's dinner table. Minnie smiled at me as if nothing had happened...
The memory changed into a dream then, Minnie morphed into Carmen, twirling the ends of her hair, wearing that bright yellow dress even though it was raining outside. She smiled at me and my heart practically exploded.
She stood up and walked over to me, entwining our hands. The room around us faded away and we were outside, surrounded by trees. I looked down, I was wearing a suit. Carmen was wearing a wedding dress. I grinned. Our wedding day. The day that was sure to be the greatest day of my entire life.
She started to say something, so quietly that I was sure I wouldn't have heard her if I wasn't a wolf.
"I love-"
"Wake up!"
I opened my eyes to see Paul standing over my bed.
"Go away."
I wanted to go back to my dream. I wanted to hear Carmen tell me she loves me.
"No way, come on! We're going to the bonfire."
"No." I rolled over and buried my face in the pillow.
"Oh well... Guess I'll go see Quil and Jake and tell them that there was no point in bringing Minnie all the way here..."
"What?" I sat up and looked at him. He was chuckling, but not because he was lying.
"On the beach, talking to Rachel, right now."
"Where's Carmen?" I asked Scarlett as I walked to the bonfire.
"I'll go get her, come on Lex." Scarlett took Lexi with her down the beach, to a group of people that looked familiar but I'm not sure that I really know them. Carmen was talking, but I couldn't hear what they were saying. Something happened and suddenly, Carmen was storming away from Scarlett and Lexi.
"Carmen!" I tried to talk to her, but she ignored me.
"Thank you very much for dragging me here against my will. I'm leaving." She yelled at Jake and Quil, then stormed off the beach. I ran after her at a normal human pace.
"Carmen, wait!" She didn't turn around, which made me speed up.
"Leave me alone, Embry." I pushed my speed up to supernatural and put my hands up, stopping her from moving.
"Just talk to me, please." I was begging. I needed her to listen to me, to tell me what was wrong with her. She didn't meet my eyes and crossed her arms.
"What do you want?" She sounded harsh and angry.
"Scarlett said you were upset." That was a lie. I had heard her say something to Scarlett and Lexi and she sounded pissed, that added with how she was acting right now was a
"I am upset! I finally make normal friends and you ruin it!"
"What did I do?" I was genuinely confused, how had I messed that up as well?
"You were 'looking for me'? Why were you even looking for me?!" She yelled, which made me feel worse.
"Well... I-I just wanted to see you..." I said, quietly. I felt terrible for ruining her chance of friendship... though... I did kind of want her all too myself...
"Why? We're not dating! We're not friends! We're not anything, okay?!"
It felt like I had been punched in the face by a half-werewolf-half-newborn while I was still human and already had a broken nose. She walked passed me, but I couldn't let her go. She couldn't just... leave.
"Why can't we be friends?"
She pulled her arm back, but couldn't get it out of my hold. "Why can't we be friends?"
"Let go."
"Answer me, Carmen."
"Let go." She tried to pull her arm back, but I just pulled her toward me.
"Why can't we be friends?" I must've sounded pathetic, but I didn't care, she had to talk to me.
"Let go of me." She pulled her arm back again and I let go. She immediately started to rub her arm. Oh god. I hurt her. I hurt my imprint. I'd bruised her.
"I'm sorry, I..." I felt worse than I had originally. I wanted to hold her, tell her that I was sorry and that I'd never do it again, but she flinched away and walked toward her house.
Carmen POV
I woke to a soft tapping noise and a dark room. My drapes were closed and all I could see was a large shadow standing outside of it. I gasped as my senses caught up to me.
Rapist, rapist outside!
Wait... it's probably just...
I climbed out of bed and tiptoed to the window and pulled the drape back.
Sure enough, standing outside, dripping wet in the pouring rain, Embry.
Fricken butterflies...
His eyes were sad, which made my heart flutter for some reason.
I pulled the drape closed and tiptoed out to the living room and to the backdoor, opening it as quietly as possible.
"Embry!" I whispered as loudly as I could. He was standing in front of me in a second. Without thinking, I stepped to the side and let him come in.
This guy is totally crazy yet you let him into your house?!
"Are you okay?" He asked, quietly, leaning in closer. I nodded. "You've been crying." His hands were on my face before I could step back.
"I'm fine." I said in a shaky voice. I didn't even believe myself and I'd been convincing myself for hours that I was okay.
"Did I make you cry?" He sounded worried and almost as if he were about to burst into tears. I felt tears brim my eyes at the thought of him crying.
Wow, I'm pathetic.
"No..." I felt a tear roll down my face, but before I could wipe it away, he did it for me.
"Car-" He was cut off my the sound of a door opening.
Wow, Grammy Bird sure knows how to ruin a moment.
I pushed him through the open door of my bedroom at the very moment that Grammy stepped outside of her room.
"Hello." I mumbled. She didn't acknowledge me as she walked by, her eyes half-closed. She walked into the kitchen, still not noticing me. I was about to step back into my room when a thought hit me.
The crazy clingy freak is in my bedroom.
WHY DIDN'T I PUSH HIM OUTSIDE?
I shook the thought off and stepped back into my room, closing the door behind me. I turned around slowly to see that Embry had made himself pretty comfortable on my bed, flipping through the book that usually sat on my nightstand. I cleared my throat, making him glance up at me.
"Oh, hey." He was way too calm for what had just happened, in my opinion. I walked over, slowly. "You're reading this?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh, so you found the sex scene." I smirked. His eyes widened and he looked back at the book. "Page two-hundred and ninety-nine, Chapter Seventeen, line four? Five? One of the two." He immediately started flipping through the book, making me giggle.
"Five." He mumbled, reading a bit of it, silently, before his eyes widened even more and he threw the book away, onto the floor over by the door. I laughed again and sat on the edge of the bed.
"What are you doing here?"
"I couldn't... I couldn't leave it like that... you looked so..." He trailed off and leaned in, his eyes staring straight into mine. The butterflies were going crazy.
"I..." My words got caught in my throat when he moved to sitting right in front of me.
He leaned in ever so slightly closer and glanced at my lips, before he stared into my eyes.
His lips were soft, I remember that. They were soft and every so slightly sticky from the candy we'd all eaten back at his house.
"You're all wet." I murmured before I could stop myself. He leaned away, making me frown, but I tried to hide it. "I can hang your jacket up to dry, if you want." He took it off immediately and handed it to me.
Oh god, big mistake...
I could see his pecks and abs through his shirt as it clung to his body with the rain.
"Thanks." He grinned. He had a lovely smile...
Snap out of it! He's totally crazy!
But he does seem sweet...
But he's clingy!
But he's so hot...
I walked over to the radiator and placed the sweatshirt onto it.
I felt heat behind me and turned around to come face-to-(unfortunately)-covered-pecks with him.
"Where were we?" He said, his voice barely above a whisper. He leaned down so that our faces were in line with each other. He hesitated, before moving closer, so that our lips lightly brushed. He began to pull away, but I couldn't let him.
I just... couldn't.
I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him back down until our lips crashed together.
His lips were on fire and felt amazing against my own. They were soft and gentle, but the kiss was the opposite. It was rough and almost violent, like we'd both lost control of ourselves.
I felt his arms wrap around my waist and lift me, so I wrapped my legs around his waist. I felt the bed against my back within seconds. I pulled at the bottom of his shirt, trying to pull it up over his head. He pulled away and I thought he was going to take it off for me, but instead he just stood up and stayed at the side of the bed.
"We can't..." He mumbled, not meeting my eyes.
"W-What? Why?" I was hurt, but I tried to hide it. "B-But... you like me."
"I do, believe me, Carmen. I wish I could but-"
"But nothing!" I stood up too, and tried to kiss him again, but he stepped back.
"I won't just be a one-night-stand."
"Have you been talking to Kim and Lexi?"
Those bitches. Sure, this would probably be a one-night-stand (maybe friends with benefits (he may be creepy but he's ridiculously hot!) if I felt like it), but if he was gonna be all feminine about it, I wouldn't have said anything.
"...It's just... I know you don't really do relationships... you're not that kind of girl-"
"I'm not a whore." I whispered, not trusting myself to talk properly. I never fared well with rejection, especially not when their excuse was that I was something I didn't like the thought of becoming.
"No! Carmen, I swear I didn't mean it like-!"
"Just go." I didn't look up to meet his eyes.
"Carmen-"
I took a deep breath so that the tears that threatened to spill went away.
"Look, if you're not interested in doing something, just go, I'm not staying awake trying to convince you. I'd rather sleep, thank you." I scoffed. His face looked so... hurt... I nearly broke down at the thought of upsetting him. He just nodded and took another step towards the door, as if waiting for me to say something.
"See you around, I guess." He murmured.
"Later." I climbed into my bed, pulling the covers up to my neck and glanced at the door. He walked through, shutting it behind him. Only then did I let myself cry.
Why are you crying? He's clingy and strange and you could get any guy in a heartbeat, it's his loss!
I kept telling myself that it was his loss, but I couldn't bring myself to believe it.
A loud howl pierced the air and I felt the butterflies flutter and my heart race.
Why did it sound so... sad?
I tried to stay in bed for as long as possible, but after lying awake for hours, I couldn't bring myself to stay there for any longer. I stood up and got dressed in jeans and a plain t-shirt. It was never really my style to be so... casual, but I didn't feel pretty today and I didn't want any sadness to rub off on all of my happy clothes.
Wow, you're truly pathetic. You're sad over some guy you barely know who isn't even that hot!
Yes, he is.
No, he's not.
Yes, he is.
No, he's-
I can't believe I'm fighting with myself.
Like I said, pathetic.
As I pushed open the drapes, I half expected for Embry to be standing there, but instead was greeted with an equally as pleasant sight (not that I thought Embry was a pleasant sight...).
My wolf was lying asleep in the tree line!
I threw my hair into a ponytail and walked out and straight into the kitchen, where Grammy was sitting at the kitchen table, munching on a piece of dry-looking toast as she read a newspaper that I was certain was published before I was born.
"Morning Grammy." I said, quietly, but she still jumped and dropped what she was holding. She recovered quickly, before glancing back at me as I went to the cabinets.
"Morning... where're you off to?"
"Just... going in the backyard... I might... uh... read!" I started to collect chips and cookies, before Grammy's words stopped me.
"Well, there's some snacks in the fridge for you to take."
I opened the fridge to find a covered plate of a stack of around half a dozen, thick, blueberry pancakes, as well as a covered plate of bacon.
D-Does Grammy... know?
"W-Where did you get these?"
"Jenny from next door brought them for you." She told me. I let out a sigh of relief, but quickly tensed again.
The Ateara's knew.
"Mr Wolf!" I said, loudly enough to wake him as I walked to the tree line, but not loud enough to disrupt or alarm our neighbors (you know, the ones who knew I was best friends with a wolf).
His eyes opened groggily, but within a second, he was stood up and reactive, checking around for any threats, before he walked to meet me three quarters of the way there. I sat down on the floor in front of him immediately, and he followed, lying before me. I scratched his ear before placing the plates of food in front of him.
"I'd make a good waitress, huh?" I mumbled, picked the plate up from off of my forearm and setting it down. "Here, have some pancakes." I started to feed him with one hand, feeding myself with the other.
We finished them off quickly and settled into silence. I accidentally let out a sad sigh, which made him bump my arm.
"I'm fine." I ran my hand over his head, but he bumped me with his nose again. "I'm just a little down, is all." He bumped me again and had what I could only describe as a pained expression on his face. "Did you sleep out here all night?" He nodded, which made me heart swell. "That's sweet..."
You can't have a crush on a wolf. You just can't.
"I got invited to hang out with these people tonight, watch my all time favorite TV show... but I can't go... none of 'em like me." I let out a humorless chuckle and stroked him again. "I need friends. I almost made some yesterday, but fricken Embry ruined that."
I will blame him for everything right now, don't try and stop me.
"Like, listen up, bitch, it's not my fault that I'm hotter than you so he doesn't wanna call you anymore." I rolled my eyes at the thought of the girls from yesterday. "I do need friends though... Maybe I'll head to Port Angeles later... I wanna go to the movies."
I shuffled forward and tickled his ears again. His eyes closed and he inched a little closer, resting his wolf head right in front of my legs. I leaned down and kissed his head.
We sat like that for a little while longer, until he lifted his head up and looked towards the woods. He glanced back looking almost... regretful.
"Do you have to run off with your little wolf-friends?" I asked. He nodded. "I'll see you soon?" He nodded again and looked happier. I kissed his head. "Bye, Mr Wolf."
Embry POV
After a very long patrol of hiding nearly all of my thoughts, I went home and threw myself onto my bed. Thankfully, Mom was at work, so I wasn't gonna be grounded for staying out all night and morning.
I'd gone to her house, I'd kissed her... a lot, I'd stopped it from going to far- before I took advantage of her, I'd made her pissed, I'd left, I'd ended up sleeping outside her house all night.
Something that she'd loved, of course.
Like I said, she loves her wolf.
Me... not so much.
I hated having to leave. Stupid Sam making me go back to work. She had kissed my head in the sweetest way. She's stayed like that, her forehead resting on my head. It was nice. Peaceful.
I began to drift into a deep sleep at the thought of the kiss we shared and what would have happened if I hadn't stopped her...
"Bro!"
"Not now, Quil."
"We're going to the movies."
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