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Chapter 7
He looks down at me eyes wide amazed with what I just did…Actually…I think my expression is the same. I blush violently.
"Wow," he says with a smile. I quickly sit up and hide my face with my arms. Why would I do that!? I think to myself in horror. "What's wrong?" He asks.
"I'm so, so sorry," I say, my voice muffled from my sleeve.
"What's wrong?" He repeats prying my arms away from my head.
"I'm a stupid idiot that's what's wrong," I say looking down.
"Don't say that!" He says clearly mad now. The light turns green and I don't react fast enough to get ready for the movement of the moped and fall into Seth's back when it starts to move.
I let out a high pitched yelp when I fall and I hear Seth chuckle. "Did I mention I'm a klutz too?" I whimper.
Seth's chuckling immediately stops when he hears what I have said. We ride for a little longer and I don't look up at the scenery. I just hold onto Seth's shirt and stay quiet. Seth doesn't say anything either.
"Listen to me," I hear him finally say, "I want to tell you something…Wait…" I feel the vehicle make a sharp turn and I look up to see that we are not on the main road anymore…We are in a small neighborhood. Seth stops, flips the foot stand down, and hops off the bike. He stands over me and looks down with sadness in his eyes. Suddenly I don't remember what I had done before…All I think about is what could have happened to make Seth so sad.
"What's wrong?" I ask worriedly. He doesn't answer. I sit up on my knees, I'm still not as tall as him but I can see his eyes clearly. I take off my helmet and place it beside me. I can see him much better now. I put my hands on his shoulders and look deep into his dark depressed eyes. "What's wrong with you?" I ask in a small voice.
"What's wrong with me?" He asks clearly annoyed. "What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about how you're not yourself right now," I say softly. "I'm talking about the look in your eyes right now," I say referring to the half-sad-half-hostile look in Seth's eyes.
"I'm sorry okay?" He says calming down. "I just don't like hearing you talk like that," he says looking down at me now.
"I'm sorry," I say blushing by his looking at me.
"Why did you say that?" He asks clearly curios. "Why do you feel that way?"
I look up at and drop my hands from his shoulders. I look down and think hard. I don't know, I think to myself. "I don't…" I fade off in silence.
Seth sits down beside me and we are now at the same height…Finally! "You know," he says leaning into me, "if you think I didn't like it…your wrong," he says with a smile.
I look at him dead in the eye. He smiles and leans into me more until our lips are about a centimeter apart. I smile back and lean in to close the distance. His warm lips meet mine and his long arms wrap around me. I wrap my arms around his waist and enjoy the moment we have right now. Seth pulls away and a huge grin is spread across his face. And I realize that Seth has these cute little dimples and they are just so…Cute! I kiss one of them and smile.
"Now I know why I know why I told you my secret so early," he says with a smirk.
"Because of my irresistible beauty and charming personality? Is that why you told me?" I ask like a frilly teenaged girl flipping my hair.
"How about your huge ego and warped personality? Is that why I told you" He asks with a smile.
We both laugh and I give him a huge hug. "Really tell me," I plead.
"Well one," he starts, "I think you are bipolar, Alexis," he says. I pull away and hit him in the shoulder with a giggle. "And I think I told you so early because, well- you are really just so easy to connect to you," he explains. "And I just wanted to be closer to someone because, I mean I have plenty of friends…But they have all imprinted, and they all love their girlfriends and I just really, really felt that our love would be so much stronger because I told you…Also…I thought that if it turned out you ran away I would be able to get over it easier because I didn't know you for quite as long. I thought that it wouldn't hurt as much," he says with a sad smile.
"Seth, let me tell you something," I say touched by what he said, "I will never leave…Never," I repeat. I give him a kiss on the cheek and hug him.
"I know," he says into my ear. We stay like that for a while and I think to myself, I LOVE the idea that I will be with Seth forever.
"I love you," I say. I hear me stomach grown and I blush and Seth pulls away from me.
"I'm hungry too," he smiles.
"Well…Can we go eat?" I asked sheepishly.
"Okay," he says turning around.
"So where are we going?" I ask over the rumbling of the engine.
"We're going to a place called Selly's," Seth tells me flipping up the kickstand. I get into the right position. My stomach grumbles again.
"Where is that?" I complain.
"Around the block," he says and I can hear the smile in his voice.
"Thank freaking god!" I yell.
Seth's arm wraps around me and goes strait for my helmet. I groan when he hands it to me. "We had a deal remember?" He says placing it in my lap.
"Blah, blah, blah, it's all Greek to me," I say annoyed while I put on my helmet.
"Then you should understand that perfectly isn't that correct?" Seth asks with a snicker.
I don't answer. Seth starts the moped and I hold him close as we ride to the restaurant. We ride for about 3 minutes, and just as Seth had said we parked at a place called Selly's.
Seth hopped off the moped and waited for me to take off my helmet. We both walk up to the restaurant hand in hand. From the look of the sky I could tell it was going to rain any second . . . Big surprise.
When we get into Sully's Seth looks around the large room and I follow his gaze to see only four people at the table that I know and a lot more that I don't know. I see Rachael, Zoey, Jake and Seth's sister, Leah.
"I hope you introduce me to all the rest of people I don't know," I whisper into Seth's ear clinging to his arm.
"Don't worry, I will," He assures me. We walk over to the table and I find that many tables are combined so everyone can sit. There are two seats empty and Seth and I sit in them, "Hello, sorry we're late," Seth says picking up a menu and opening it up. Seth and I scan through the menu. I decide on what I wand to order and look up at everyone else at the table. Leah is sitting next to a tall boy that I don't know and Zoey is sitting next to Jake. Rachael is sitting on the other side of Zoey and is on the end of the table next to the window. I look around at everyone else and notice that everyone except Zoey and Rachael are super tall!
"So," Jake says interrupting my thoughts, "how did you like the ride?" He asks mockingly.
"We are borrowing it again," I tell him. He looks at me confused at my response.
"Hello," Leah says with a smile, "I never really got a chance to introduce myself properly. I'm Leah, Seth's older sister," she smiles and reaches across the table to shake my hand.
Seth puts the menu down and smiles at Leah as she brings her hand back to her lap after I shake it. "Have you decided to play nice today?" He asks, his smile turning into a grin.
"No," Leah says sticking her tough out at him. "I'm naturally like this."
"Oh sure!" Seth laughs. He leans down to my ear. "Watch out she bites," he warns me.
"That's not nice," I giggle.
"What do you know about nice?" Seth sinkers, "What about you and Mike always fighting with each other?"
"That's different," I say simply.
"How so?" He prompts me.
"Because I have to deal with 5 other siblings' everyday and it care get tiring when a 7 year old acts like a smart ass," I push.
"Well," he says considering me explanation, "I was just stating a fact!" He protests once more, "She actually bit me before!" I SEE Leah smile a devilish smile out of the corner of my eye. I giggle and a waitress with a pad ready to take our order comes over.
"Hello, I'm Casey and I will be you waitress this afternoon," She introduces herself. "Should we start with drinks?"
"No," Rachael calls from the back of the table, "we're ready to order." Everyone glares at her mad that she decided that on her own.
"Okay then," Casey says hesitantly.
"What ever," Zoey sighs as she puts the menu down. "I'll have pasta with sauce please," she says. Everyone orders after her and I don't really pay attention. All I know is that Seth ordered a cheese burger deluxe with a coke and I ordered a cob salad with no drink.
"Okay," Casey says with a smile. I look at the table to see if there is any bread and butter left to eat and thankfully there is. I grab one and nibble on the end.
"So," I hear Seth call out, "everyone this is Alexis." I see a bunch of heads turn to me and I drop me bread on the table. I blush violently and hit Seth in the arm who is laughing knowing what he did would get me mad.
"Ow, what was that for?" He asks.
"1, you know that didn't hurt," I say rolling my eyes, "and 2, what were you thinking I didn't want you to do that!"
"Do what?" he asks knowing perfectly well what, "I thought you wanted me to introduce everyone to you?"
"Shut up," I say.
"Eye eye capin'!" He snickers.
I smile up at him unable to hold a grudge against him after he says something like that. "You're hopeless," I say picking up my bread.
A while later about three waiters come with our meal and we start eating. I look at my cob salad with wide eyes. The things bigger than me! I think looking at it as it is places in front of me.
"Can you help me finish it?" I ask Seth.
"You can bring it home if you don't finish don't worry," he says taking a huge bite of his burger.
Everyone eats their meal with a happy look on their face. I laugh when someone makes a joke and I answer the usually weird questions asked when I have to; and everyone seems to be having a great time. When I finally get full about one third of my salad is gone. It was so good that I decided to bring it home and guard it with my life so my family doesn't eat it.
"Can we come back here again?" I ask Seth.
"We can if you want to," he says smiling down at me and placing his arm around my shoulders. I lean my head into his chest and wait for my salad to come back in a take home box. All of the sudden I feel Seth tense up and hold me a little titer than before. I look up at him and wonder what is going on. The waiter places the box in front of me.
"Seth, is everything alright?" I ask. He doesn't answer and that gets me mad. "Seth!"
"Hold on Alexis," he says. I do as he says and wait. I feel him calm down a little but not enough for me to stop worrying. "We have to go," he says sternly.
"Why? What's wrong with you?" I ask.
"Jake," Seth says and Jake looks up, "can I borrow your truck and go to your house so I can get my car?"
"Why don't you just take the bike?" He asks.
"You can take the bike I don't want to have to worry about her scent blowing back." Jake nods and passes Seth the keys. Seth does the same with the moped keys. Seth interlocks his fingers with mine and pulls me to my feet.
"Where are we going?" I ask getting up as I grab the salad box.
"Away from here," he says softly, so soft that I could barely hear him. I let him pull me to the front door.
"No, wait," I say stopping in my tracks, "what is going on?" I demand.
Seth turns around with his hand still clasped around the door handle. "Listen, they're here."
"Who's here?" I say annoyed.
Seth hesitates, and then he looks around and quickly says, "I'll tell you in the car." He grabs my arm and opens the door.
I walk unwilling through them and into the parking lot. I walk a little faster to Seth's side and I hug him as I search for warmth. The sky is overflowing with dark ominous clouds. We walk up to-what I would imagine is- Jakes truck and I get in the car.
"Do you want to go to your house?" He asks me.
"Whatever sure, now tell me what's going on," I pry.
"Okay," Seth says starting up the engine, "there are vampires that are here that we don't want to see us. I am especially scared because they do not know about us and how we know about vampires. They will not change us to vampires or kill us because it is our right to know about them since we are werewolves…But you on the other hand…You and the other girls that know about them might have to change."
"Then why aren't the others going away like us?" I ask confused.
"Because they think that if they act normal they won't get caught. And the plan is that if one of us gets caught we act like we are the only ones who know. I just want to be as far away from them as possible," he explains.
"I thought you said you know some vampires and that they live around here?" I ask.
"I do…But they are no threat to us. They don't feed on humans and you know Rachael?" I nod my head. "She is going out with one of them. His name is Edward Cullen."
"Oh," I say, "but if she gets caught then she will have to be changed into a vampire too."
"Yes, so they also have to look out." We are on the road now and I notice Seth driving a little too fast.
"Seth," I say softly, "calm down."
"I'm sorry; just I don't want anything to ever happen to you…If anything did…"
"It wont," I assure Seth, "I'm a big girl, I'm tough," I punch him in the side of the arm childishly.
"You are," he says sincerely, "but not against a vampire."
"Wait to lower my self esteem," I pout.
By the time we get to my house Seth is calm. We are in his car and parking out front at my house. When I look up I see a car parked in our driveway. I dot recognize the car and I don't think that when Toula and Linda said that they were going out to shop it meant that they were going to buy a car. I look over at Seth and his eyes are open wide.
"Do you know whose car that is?" I ask. I reach for the handle but I feel a hand pull me away from the door.
"Stay here," Seth instructs me, "do not get out of this car until I say its okay. Do you understand?" I nod my head stiffly. Seth opens the door and gets out of the car. "Lock the doors," he says, and I do it.
When I look up Seth is approaching the car. I look down at my hands. They are shaking.
