Sky
I didn't know what to do.
I didn't have the first idea how to find Robin and Jess.
I was completely stuck...
"What's the matter?" a boy's voce beside me asked, and I gasped. I couldn't normally bear it when people I knew stood behind me – it startled me, frightened me, made my heart judder like mad - and this boy, even though he seemed to be from beside me not behind, was a stranger which was far worse.
I'd been warned about Stranger Danger time and time again by dad. My friends had told me usually only little kids worried about talking to strangers, but for me it was different. It was always different for me. God, I sounded whiny, I thought, temporarily distracted from the strange boy talking to me.
"I've lost my friends", I muttered, not raising my head from my hands. "They're in that crowd."
"What do they look like?"
I told him what they looked like. I might as well, I thought. It wasn't like they could come to any harm in the middle of a crowd and neither of them were stupid.
"I'll go and find them", the boy said Why? I wondered. Why do you care?
He left and I assumed he wouldn't come back. He was probably playing some weird joke. Yes, that would be it.
But a few moments later, he was back and he had Jess and Robin with him.
"Oh wow", I said, running towards them. "How did you do that?"
"It was easy." He grinned and something about him reminded me of a bear. He was quite possibly the tallest guy I'd ever seen. Maybe he found them by seeing over everybody's heads.
"Sky", Robin said, "I can't believe I lost you! I think we should just stay here from now on..."
"That's o.k. with me", I answered. "Thanks for finding them", I added to the boy.
"That's o.k." he said, grinning. "What's your name, anyway?"
"Sky" I said. "What's yours?"
"I'm Emmett. Emmett Cullen."
He was a Cullen? One of those people who wouldn't come to La Push because of some strange ancient legend? But he seemed so nice...
Next thing I knew he was offering to get us drinks and Jess had agreed, so we sent him off with our requests and lounged back on the grass. When he came back with the drinks, he smiled at me and I actually felt my heart flutter. Control yourself, Sky, I thought disgustedly. He's a Cullen. And your dad would never, never let you have a boyfriend. And you barely know him anyway.
Emmett stayed with us for the rest of the day, sitting on the grass and chatting about school, our lives, everything. When he mentioned that he was adopted and his family were dead I felt again that odd sense of connection between us.
"I'm so sorry", I told him, really meaning it. He shrugged and smiled.
"It's o.k. It happened a long time ago. Carlisle and Esmee are like my parents now."
"Except that you call them by their names", Jess said.
"Except that", he agreed.
When the festival finished and Robin's mum drove us home - I was still back before my dad so everything was o.k. - I found that I was sad because I'd probably never see him again. But then, that was what happened in life. You lost people.
I knew that by now.
