AN: ok here is chapter 7 and it took me forever to write and edit with all the interuptions that i got, but i did finish it so yay me!
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CH-7: Confused
I was in the state of consciousness where your still sleeping but you can hear everything going on around you. At first it was just a bunch of incoherent mumbles, but then they started to become clear the more my brain started to awake.
"I think they look cute together." Someone said
"Yeah well you have a special way of thinking Seth." Another said but apparently the first voice was Seth.
"Don't be so mean Jared, they do look cute together and you should be happy, for the both of them," a motherly voice scolded, at apparently Jared
"No, I shouldn't, and they are not together, she still has a choice, she can to tell him no." Jared said.
"Yes she still has a choice, but have you seen the way she looks at Paul." the motherly voice said, which after some thinking I figured way most likely Emily.
"Yeah, unfortunately I have seen the way she looks at him." Jared said, in a way which I could hear the pout in his voice and picture it on his face.
"Could you all stop talking about us like we're not here?" A voice that I knew was defiantly Paul's asked.
"Fine we'll just talk about you when your not here." Another voice said
"Well it's not like you don't already do that." Paul murmured
"True, very true." The other voice said, I had placed all the other voices but I couldn't figure this one out.
"You should probably get her home." Emily told someone
"He is not taking her home!" Jared yelled
"Be quiet," she scolded again "and who do you suppose takes her home, you? If you move her from his arms to yours you will most likely wake her up."
"Fine, but he's not taking her home by himself me and Kim will come with them and drop Kim off on the way to Meg's house." Jared said
"Whatever Jared, lets just take her home before her Uncle and Aunt start to worry." Paul said.
"Fine, did she bring anything with her?" he asked
"Just Bert, and speaking of him, where is he?" Paul asked
"I have no idea." Jared said sounding completely honest
"Embry give Bert back!" Yelled Emily after a minute, from what sounded like kinds far away.
"No, she keeps hitting me with it, if I give it back she'll just keep doing it." Embry whined in his annoying whine.
"Embry you give it back now or you'll get it worse than Bert." Emily threatened, I'm not really sure what happened next but I herd a little scuffle going on and then Emily's triumphant cheer.
"Here you go Kim you can take that out to the car." Emily told Kim, I felt some shifting under me then Paul's lap disappeared below me, I suppressed the urge to scream and let Paul carry me to the car, I felt some more shifting, a seat go below me, and a seat belt go around me. My head fell back onto the head rest and I continued to somewhat pretend to be asleep. I wasn't totally pretending because my eyes did not want to open right now, but my brain was totally awake and I could hear what was going on around me. I herd some doors open and close and I felt someone slide into the seat next to me. I felt the car start and figured we were now driving down the road to either Kim's house or mine.
"Paul, I think I should tell you some things about Meg, before you start trying to get into a relationship with her." I herd Kim whisper and the seat I was on shift again.
"Well shouldn't you wait to tell me these things when she's not in the car with us?" Paul asked her.
"I would but one, she's asleep, and two I don't think I can tell you late, there's always people around and you should really know this now."
"Fine, what do you have to tell me?"
"well first, I want you to just be carful, Meg lives in California Paul she's not from here she only visits for the summer-" Kim said and was going to continue but Paul cut her off
"I know that she's from California Kim, well figure something out, I can visit and call her you know, a long distance relationship."
"That's the problem Paul she doesn't do relationships, Meg's dad doesn't even let her date, her Uncle Jay only lets her date during the summer if she wants to. She's never had an actual relationship she's only had flings with a bunch of guys she never even cared about in the first place, that last less than a month, and she loves to flirt she probably flirts with every guy cute guy she comes in contact with." Kim whispered to him, I was kind of shocked that she was telling him this, yeah I know its true but I really like him, and right now I mean, I REALLY like him for some bizarre reason. So I'm sort of feeling betrayed by my best friend here, I know I haven't told her how much I like him cause we haven't has a chance to talk by ourselves today but couldn't she see me flirting with him and not the other guys, and the looks we were giving each other, or at least the looks I was giving him. She's my best friend and right now she may be ruining my chance to go out with the one guy I actually care about.
"So you think she's just going to flirt with me and go out with me during the summer than a little while before she leaves she's gonna break up with me and say she never really cared about me just like all the other guys."
"Well I'm not saying that is what she's going to do, I'm just telling you what she has done with all the other guys and to be carful, I know you have that bond because of." Kim paused for a second "well you know, but that doesn't mean that she won't do the same thing to you that she has done to others."
"I get what you're saying but I'm going to be different, I'm not going to be like all those other guys, but thanks" Paul said
"Ok, but just be carful you don't get hurt, and you don't hurt her either." Kim warned, as we came to a stop, I'm not sure where we are cause my eyes are still close feigning sleep.
"If Meg wakes up before you drop her off tell her I'll call her tomorrow, oh and don't forget to give her Bert back, I left him on my seat." Kim said as one of the doors opened and the seat I was on shifted, then the door close. I felt that the car was still on we just weren't moving. I figure that Jared walked Kim to her door and they were probably making out right now. A couple minutes went by and then one of the doors opened then closed and we started driving again. I didn't here any talking or even the radio all I could here was the sound of the car. It had been a while since we dropped Kim off and since nobody was talking I figured that I would finally open my eyes and let them now I'm not sleeping any more. I moved a little bit so that the seat made noise and they could maybe figure out I was becoming conscious, after a little more moving my eyes fluttered open and I saw that I was in the back seat of Paul's truck and he was in the drives seat with Jared in the front. Jared turned around, looked at me, smiled and said
"Good morning sleepy head."
"Jared, it's dark out side it's not the morning." I said in a groggy tone
"Well I didn't mean it literally."
"So where are we?" I asked
"We are on our way to take you home." Paul answered, putting a little emphasis on the word home.
"Are we almost there?"
"yep." He answered. There was silence after that, cause I don't think any body knew what to say, especially after what Kim told them about me. The silence was really awkward so I was somewhat thankful when we pulled up to my house.
"I'll walk you inside, maybe Aunt Haley is still up, so I can say hi to her." Jared said giving Paul a glare for some reason; I opened my door, got out, and headed toward the front door with Jared behind me. When we were almost to the door Paul called out my name.
"Yeah?" I asked turning to him, and saw that he was coming toward me.
"Here you almost forgot this." He said, as he handed me Bert.
"Thanks, I don't know what I would do with out him." I said laughing
"Well you wouldn't be able to smack people all the time, that's for sure." he said
"Very true," I said smiling up at him, and I do say up cause he is really tall, I mean yeah I'm tall, well for a girl any way but I mean he is really tall, probably 6'5 or something like that.
"Well I guess I'll see you later than." Paul said
"Yep, later." I told him and he ran back to his car, Me and Jared went to my front door I
grabbed the key from its hiding spot and unlocked the door.
"You coming in?" I asked Jared
"If that's ok with you?" He answered
"Yeah, sure." I told him as I opened the door. We came into the house and I headed toward the kitchen because I saw a light on in there, Jared just kept following me.
When I got to the kitchen I saw that Jay was still up and he was eating a bowl of ice cream at the table.
"Hey." I said making our presence known to him, if he didn't already know we were there.
"Hey Kiddo, your home a little late." Jay told me
"I am? What time is it?"
"About 11:00"
"Oh, sorry I fell asleep over at Sam's house and Jared took me home."
"That's ok," he said "hey Jared how are you?"
"I'm good, is Aunt Haley around or is she asleep?" Jared asked
"She went to sleep a couple hours ago, she was really tired today."
"That's ok; just tell her I said hi."
"Will do. Well I'm going to go up stairs and to bed, don't stay up to long Meg, and it was good seeing you again Jared you really should come by more often your aunt misses you." Jay told us as he put his empty bowl in the sink and headed upstairs. I turned back to Jared and gave him an expectant look.
"What?" he asked
"Well you came in here with me so you must want something, cause if you don't I'm gonna go to bed." I said and started to turn toward the stairs.
"Wait," he said "I do actually have something I wanted to talk to you about."
"And what might that be?" I prompted
"Ok well, I know I haven't actually known you all that long, but I feel like I have cause of all the things I've heard about you from Kim, Jay, and Haley. And since we're actually cousins I feel protective of you. So I just want you to be carful about Paul, cause I'm not stupid, I saw the looks you were giving each other today." Jared paused
"Are you saying there's something wrong with Paul, because I thought you guys were friends?"
"Yes me and Paul are friends, Best friends actually, and there is nothing wrong with him, he just has a temper and I just don't want either of you to get hurt." Jared sincerely said
"Paul has a temper, really? He seems so sweet to me, and you know what? I have a temper too so we're all good." I told him
"Yes meg I know you have a temper too, but the thing with Paul is that when he gets mad he can be dangerous."
"no." I said
"Yes he can be.'
"No, I don't believe he is dangerous." I said determinedly
'ok fine Meg, believe what you want just be carful ok?" Jared pleaded
"Ok."
"Good, well I have to go and you really should get to bed, oh and Kim said she would call you tomorrow."
"'Kay, goodnight Jared."
"Night Meg." Jared said as he shut the front door behind him. I locked the door and went upstairs to my room. I set Bert on my desk and changed into my night clothes, I went to the bathroom, brushed my teeth and hair than went to sleep.
I woke up about 7:15 in the morning, I didn't sleep well last night, I just kept tossing and turning all night long. So I finally decided that I should wake up and do something. I decided that I would go for a run, I haven't ran in a couple of days and figured I should, besides it always help me when I'm stressed out cause it just gives me time to think. And right now I was kinda stressed out and my brain just wouldn't stop thinking about what Jared said about Paul being dangerous and what Kim had told Paul about me. I got out of bed and put on my green Capri sweat pants, a sports bra, a black tank top, a pair of socks, and my running shoes. I grabbed my I-pod and headed down the stairs and out the front door. I was running toward the beach, which was only about 10-15 minutes from here when jogging. I put my I-pod on shuffle and stared listening to random songs while I thought about everything. I was having a real hard time believing that Paul could be dangerous, I know Jared wouldn't lie to me, but Paul just doesn't seem like the bad type and I still couldn't believe that Kim would tell him that stuff about me, and yeah I know that Paul said he didn't care that he was going to be different and so far he was, I just couldn't stop that feeling of betrayal that came over me when I thought about what she said. I only got here on Thursday and today's Sunday so I've been like four days and things are already stressing me out. But since today was Sunday and I didn't have to go to work or do anything. But for some reason I just felt the need to see Paul again, and here's another thing that is stressing me out, why do I have such strong feelings for a guy that I've only known for about half a day, and to be honest with my self I really have never met any guy that I like this much or even one- third the amount that I like Paul and I barley even know him. I was at the beach now and was running on the sand by the water. The sound and smell of the ocean always calms me down for some reason. I stopped running and laid down on the sand with my knees up. I paused my I-pod so that I could here the sounds of the waves and just closed my eyes calming down my body and brain. After a little while I herd someone clear their throat from above me, I opened my eyes and saw Paul leaning over me with a small smile on his face.
"Hey." I said
"Hey, what 'cha doing?" he asked
"Well I was running, but now I'm laying down listening to the waves."
"Mind if I sit down?"
"Nope." I said, and as he sat down I sat up in a sitting position. We were quite for a little while then Paul said
"Why are you so quiet today?"
"I just have a bunch of things on my mind."
"Really? Like what?" He asked
"Oh, you know just…..stuff." I said lamely, but come on I wasn't going to tell him that almost everything on my mind had to do with him and my confusion about my feelings for him.
"Yeah I have stuff on my mind too." I nodded at him and wondered what kind of stuff was on his mind.
"How 'bout we stop vaguely talking about what's on our mind and talk about…."I stopped to think for a second "20 questions, yeah lets finish our game of 20 questions."
"Ok, sure. I believe it was your turn, so go ahead." he told me
Ok let's see, what is your….. Birthday?"
"June 9th, what's yours?"
"October 1st….. How old are you?"
"18, you?
"17, ummm….what's your middle name?"
"William, yours?"
"Mercy."
"That's different." Paul stated
"Yep, it is." I said, I figured that I should probably get home now even though I was feeling reluctant to leave Paul, I got up, brushed the sand off my butt and said
"Hey I got to get home."
"Ok." he said and paused for a second, "well why don't you let me walk you back?"
"Ok, sure." I agreed, "As long as you don't mind running."
"I don't mind." He said and we started jogging back to my house in silence at first.
"Do you have any siblings?" I asked Paul resuming our game
"So where still playing the game."
"Yep, well we are if you want to?"
"Yeah, I want to."
"Ok, good, so again I ask do you have any siblings?"
"Yeah I have 2 little sisters." He said with a loving smile
"How old are they?" I asked skipping over his turn, but he didn't seem to notice
"They're 13." He told me
"Both of them?"
"Yep, their twins, fraternal twins."
"What are their names?"
"Shane and Shawn."
"Aren't those guys' names?" I asked perplexed
He laughed and said "yes they usually are." I gave him a confuse look and he went on
"well the thing is that my mom swears that she can tell the gender of her babies before they are born, a since she got it right with me she was absolutely positive that she was right about the twins, so she thought they were both boys, so she picked out the perfect names for her supposed twin boys and didn't even bother to think of girls names, so when they both ended up being girls she couldn't think of any names that she liked ,so she just used the names she already came up with, and there we have Shane and Shawn."
"If you think about it its kinda funny." I told him laughing
"I guess it is." He agreed "but you do realize that you just asked me a bunch of questions with out giving me a turn."
"Yes I realize that but too bad, I was curious, I can tell you love them a lot by the way you talk about them."
"Yeah I do love them a lot." He said with that gorgeous loving smile again.
"That's sweet, I always wanted a big brother, but hey on the bright side Jared is starting to act like a big brother, and it's really fun to annoy him."
"Yeah Jared is very protective of you."
"Yep he is." We jogged in silence for a little ways until Paul asked
"Do you work tomorrow?"
"Yeah I do from 10-5."
"That's nice." He said, but it sounded like he was thinking about something and just said whatever made since. We got to my house after a couple more minutes and I stopped at my front door and turned to Paul
"Thanks for walking me home, your good company."
"No problem, it was my pleasure."
"Well I guess I'll see you around." I said
"Yep see ya around." He told me and turned and walked down the drive way, I opened the door and walked into the house. I shut and locked the door behind me and stood there for a minute coming to the conclusion that Paul was NOT dangerous and that he still like me despite the things that Kim said.
AN: ok thank you everyone who read this and please review any feedback is welcome, my cousins are still here so i'm not sure when
my next post will be, but hopefully it will be sometime next week. but no promises.
