I Saw Her Standing There

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Title Song The Beatles Chapter Song Oasis

Chapter Seven She Is Love


Scarlett POV.

I lay in bed. It was early Friday morning, and after last night, I needed the day off.

I'd broken down and cried in my bed for an hour, until Nessie came over for biology and I ended up telling her everything about what had happened. She cried more than me.

At this very moment, I held a blow dryer to a thermometer, and a wet cloth to my head.

"Scar?" Mom called from the front door. I threw the blow dryer under my bed and put the cloth on my chest, back, neck and threw that to the other side of the room.

"Mommy?" I croaked out. I didn't feel ill at all. In fact, I expected to feel bad after the fight, but I felt... good.

"Oh, Scar!" She ran in and checked the thermometer. "You're burning up, oh, and you're sweating!"

I rolled my eyes. How many times had I done this?

"Are you okay?" She asked.

"I just... ill..."

"Scarlett, this better not be an excuse to stare at those boys, outside?"

"No! Don't be silly, mommy."

"Okay, I'll come see you later."


The Next Day

"Scarlett!" Nessie walked into my house, Jacob in tow.

"Nessie?" My mom asked, walking into the hall-living room, from the kitchen.

"Hi, Ms Hunter!" She hugged Mom and walked to the living room where I was.

"Hey, Ness, hey Jacob." I said, not looking away from the TV, and not offering any of my gummy bears to them.

"Ms Hunter, this is Jakey, he's my boyfriend." Nessie turned and looked into Jacob's eyes and just gazed.

I saw my mother gag lightly and suppressed a giggle.

"Anyway..." She turned to me and walked over. "Why weren't you at school yesterday?"

"I was sick *cough*" I lied.

"Is this about Lexi?"

"What about Lexi?" Mom asked.

"We're not really... friends anymore."

"What? Why?!" Mom was Lexi's mom's best friend. They'd grown up together dreaming that their kids would get married or become best friends.

"Seth says he's super sorry-"

"Who's Seth? You didn't fight over a boy?"

I put my hands up to shut everyone up.

"Seth's got nothing to be sorry about. Lexi and I aren't friends anymore. I did something to her that, terribly, I can't seem to regret, okay?" My mother glared at me. I don't think she's ever done that before.

"Seth wants to know if you'd like to go to his house right now..." Jacob started.

"...He doesn't have your number." Nessie finished. Ugh, couples.

"Okay. Let me go get dressed."

"Scarlett-"

"Not now, mother."


Half an hour later, I ran downstairs in skinny jeans, a superman t-shirt and sneakers. I wasn't even wearing make up (other than my trusty chapstick) and I didn't even care. I didn't think Seth would mind that much either.

"Finally!" Nessie stood up and hugged my mom goodbye, before running to the truck. I did the same, and Jacob shook her hand and left.


I was thrown to the wolves at Seth's front door. Jacob and Nessie had driven away without so much as a goodbye. I walked to the door and knocked harder than I should've.

"Scar!" Seth grinned. I immediately did too, despite wanting not too. At least feel a little bit bad about Lexi!

"Seth!"

"Come in, come in!" He pulled me through the door and hugged me. I swear I died.

"Scarlett!" Seth's mom came and hugged me tightly.

"Mrs Clearwater!"

"Please, Sue. Seth, have you offered her snacks or beverages?"

"Not yet, mom-"

"Well, make yourself at home and I'll go get you kids some!"

It felt like a 'date' your parents set you up on when you're eight, with the boy you've had a crush on for a week. I went on three. One with Larry from PE, one with Logan (which was considerably better) and one with Quil, who was fourteen and really didn't want to be on a date with me.

This, by far, has been the best one.

"Wanna... Sit?"

"I love sitting." I blurted out.

"Great!" He pulled me to a couch and we sat down. "I'm sorry about Leslie-"

"Lexi."

"Right, sorry. Anyway, I'm sorry that you lost your friend because of me."

Nessie Cullen, I'm gonna kill you.

"It's okay. It's honestly not your fault. We out grew each other years ago."

"On a different note, I'm coming to your school on Monday, maybe I'll see you?"

"Yeah, what was Lex- um... What were you guys talking about yesterday?"

"In two weeks, our schools merge for the rest of the year."

"Oh. Why are you there tomorrow?"

"Your principle-"

"Mitch."

"-Mitch, wants us to come in groups to look around and get our schedules."

"Oh. You should compare yours to the Cullens, see if you have their classes."

"Why would I? Other than Nessie, they're all seniors." I stared at him, blank faced. "Scar? I'm sixteen."

FIST POUND UP IN THE AIR.

"I'm in your grade. So is Brady and Collin. Quil said he might, but I don't know..."

"Will you be here for lunch?"

"I don't know-"

He was cut off by the obnoxious vibrating coming from my leg.

Dude, you better not be forcing yourself on poor Sethy, right now - Paul

"Um... Just Paul..."

He looked... Jealous. I smiled.

"He says for me not to force myself onto you."

So much for convincing Seth I'm not a totally dork. Oh well. He was bound find out, eventually.

He burst into laughter and took my phone.

"He's such a jerk." He laughed.

"Why do you hang out with him?" I found myself asking, I regretted it, instantly, but tried to hide that on my face.

"When he... Hit puberty, he hung out with everyone. You sort of get used to him after a while..."

"I love him! He's hilarious and mean with me so I can be normal me to everyone else."

He looked torn between anger, jealousy and laughter.

"When's your birthday?"

"Halloween."

"Awesome. Favorite food?"

"Um... Ice cream."

"Flavor?"

"Chocolate."

"Boring."

"You're boring."

"Favorite word?"

"Scarlett."

"Favorite name?"

"Scarlett."

"Favorite letter?"

"S."

"For Seth?"

"Scarlett."

"Color?"

"Beige."

"Are you kidding?"

"Yes, kiss me."

He put his hand on my chin and pulled me close to him, stopping before out lips met. I could feel his breath on my lips. I could practically taste his lips.

This was torture.

He pulled me even closer, slowly. Our lips barely brushed when-

"Ew."

We looked up, Leah stood, scowling at us.

"Leah-"

"What happened to 'she won't hang around the house'?"

"She's not hurting anyone-"

"Go." She turned to me slowly. I would've listened to her, out of fear, had my body not been frozen in place.

"Leah-!"

"Are you deaf?" She started to walk closer to me. "Did I stutter?!"

"Leah!" Seth pushed her back. I felt tears brim my eyes. She saw them and scoffed.

Seth grabbed my hand and started pulling me up a small flight of stairs and into a small room.


His room. I was sitting in his room.

His bed. I was sitting on his bed.

I was sitting on Seth Clearwater's bed.

Keep it together, Scarlett.

He stood up on the other side of the room, showing me some posters of Star Wars and some video games.

"You're such a dork." I breathed out. I was so relieved! He was weird, like me! We could go to the comic book store together, and play with the action figures and get married and-

"Oh..." He stopped smiling and sat down on the bed, near the pillow, away from me. "Sorry."

"Why are you apologizing?" I asked, moving to sit closer to him.

"...Because you're awesome and I want you to like me..."

"I do like you." I moved again and sat cross legged, facing him, as he sat on the edge.

"Sorry I'm a dork." He murmured. I grabbed his arm, without thinking.

"I'm a freak, it's okay." I smiled, hoping he'd see that I was telling the truth.

"You are a freak." He said. I frowned. He looked up and grinned.

"You are a dork." I started smiling again. "So, who'd win in a fight? You or Luke Skywalker?"

"Luke, definitely. You verses Luke... you, definitely."

"So, I could beat you in a fight?"

"No way-!"

"But you said-!"

"I'd win, hands down-!"

"There's only one way to settle this!"

"We have to find out who's stronger!"

"Thumb war." I held my hand up. This is for your pride, Scarlett. You can do this!

"Of course." He grabbed my hand. Hold it together, Hunter! Sure... his touch is nice and sends shivers down your spine...

I held as well as I could, before he decided to grab my entire body and throw me onto his bed, hovering over me, still holding out hands between us, still thumb-fighting.

His eyes locked on mine, briefly, by accident, and suddenly, the fight was forgotten, and we realized how we were lying.

"...Hi." Oh, mouth.

"Hi." He grinned, and laughed.

"This is..."

"Nice."

I was gonna say awkward, but...

"You're really pretty."

Oh god, it happened again. I don't know who said that, but I couldn't speak after it. It was like when I'd proposed to him. I couldn't say anything because if I was wrong, then I'd come across crazy.

"Thank you." He whispered, grinning.

"Sorry." Damn, I'm awkward.

"You're even prettier than me." He kept grinning.

"You're always so happy... it's nice." I smiled. I had the urge to kiss him, again, but this time, nothing special, but one of the kisses you could only do if you were dating somebody...

Not that I wanted to date Seth. Pft. Please.

"I've been told it's annoying."

"Who by? Want me to beat them up?"

"Paul, Jake, Embry, Quil, Sam, Jared, Mom, Leah-"

"Okay, I'll beat up everyone except your mom and your sister." I smiled and subconsciously put my arms around his neck.

He smiled and leaned closer to me. You'd could barely fit a piece of paper between our faces. I could feel his breath on my lips. I wanted to feel his lips on my lips.

YOU CAN DO THIS.

I listened to myself and lifted my head up, closing the gap. He seemed surprised.

How?

Had he not noticed that I liked him? I'd asked him to marry me and called him pretty. If a guy did that to me, I'd have his clothes off in a second.

You know, if I were legal...

He finally settled and got over the shock.

His lips pressed into mine and I couldn't believe that it was happening.

I mean, sure, it'd happened once, but he probably just slipped and fell onto my mouth.

He ran his down the sides of my body and rang his tongue along my lips. My eyes opened, but his were closed, so he didn't notice me freaking out.

I'd kissed four boys in my lifetime.

1) Larry Davis from PE who came to my house when we were ten, asked to play 'Doctor', showed me his thingy and then kissed me, on the mouth, for a total of three seconds.

2) Logan Wilms, my best friend, when were were eleven, after we watched My Girl and decided that we should be Thomas J and Vada... without the ending, of course.

3) Quil Ateara. My old friend/crush/current friend. He was fourteen, and I was thirteen. He wanted to kiss because that's what kids his age did on dates. I said yes, and got a short kiss from him, which was nice, but creepy, because it honestly felt like I was kissing a brother.

And, 4) Seth.

None of these kisses had ever been open-mouthed or used tongue, and I was freaking out.

I was freaking out because if I was bad at it, Seth wouldn't want to kiss me anymore, and I really didn't want that.

I opened my mouth a little bit, hardly enough to let anything but a very persistent tongue in, but Seth's was.

I felt awkward and nervous at first, but I settled into it.

In fact, I settled into it so much, that I didn't even hear the bedroom door click open. I didn't even notice the very annoyed pretty girl standing with her arms folded.

Actually, I only really registered her existence when she started shouting.

"Mom!"

It wasn't just any pretty girl.

No, it was only the very pretty girl who didn't like me at all, who just so happened to be Seth's sister.

"Leah!" Seth jumped up, and glared at her.

Stand up. You're on his bed and your shirt's riding up. His mom is almost here. GET UP!

But I couldn't. My legs were jelly and my brain was dazed.

"Is there nowhere in my house I can go where she isn't?!"

"It's my room, Leah!"

"It's bad enough that it happened to you before me, Seth, you don't have to rub it in my face!"

It was silent, and I sat up, putting my legs to the side of the bed, as quietly and as subtly as possible.

"Kids?" Sue came into the room and looked back and forth between them. Leah just turned and walked out of the room, Seth glanced at me and then back at his mother.

"Nothing, Mom, just Leah being Leah." He said, calmly. Sue didn't look convinced, but I'm sure she'd have said something to them both later on, when I'd left.

"Alright. Scarlett, sweetheart, are you staying for dinner?" She asked, looking at me, smiling.

"... Sorry, I can't. My mom will have cooked... a lot."

"Next time?" She grinned

"Definitely!" I grinned back. She was about to leave, when she looked at the room, she frowned, glared at Seth, pointed to the piles of clothes on the floor and left, closing the door, shaking her head and muttering about how important it was to 'impress the pretty girl'.

"Sorry about-"

"We keep getting interrupted. It's super annoying." I huffed. He grinned and pulled me into a hug.

"Will you go on a date with me?"

"This isn't a date?"

"Not at all. On a date, my sister wouldn't bust through the door and yell at us... twice."

I giggled and pulled away.

"Yes."

"You'll go on a date with me?"

"Yes, of course!" I screamed internally. I WAS GOING ON A DATE WITH SETH CLEARWATER. "I'll have to go, my mom'll worry."

"I'll drive you."

"Ew, no, my mom will be there."

"What's wrong with your mom?"

"She's crazy, Seth. Crazy."


He'd convinced me that my mom would be on her best behavior, so I was sitting outside my house, in his truck.

"Just wait. Five, four, three, two-"

My mother came outside and stood at my front door, bending and squinting, trying to see who I was with.

"Like I said, crazy."

He just grinned and leaned over, closing his eyes.

"If you want a kiss, that's not gonna happen."

He opened his eyes.

"What? Why?"

"My mom is there. I'll never be allowed out of the house again."

I'm allowed friends. I'm allowed friends who are boys. Hell, I'm allowed to become a lesbian, as long as I don't have a boyfriend.

It's not my mother's rule (well, the lesbian part is), it's my father's. His dream was to have a perfect son, and instead got a cynical daughter. Still, he wanted his daughter to be daddy's princess and for her to marry and nice accountant with a big house in Bel Air, and she certainly wasn't going to meet him in high school, therefore, there was no point in the silly high school romances.

He settled for holding my hand in silence for a few seconds, before I jumped out of the truck and walked to my mom.

"Is he your boyfriend?" She scowled and I realized that I needed a lie, fast.

"No. He's... In love with Jacob."

Oh mouth, you say the strangest things.


So, Seth and Scarlett are a little together! But, with Seth coming to school on Monday, will it all be smooth sailing!