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I am so so sorry I was just told that chapter eight...was not chapter eight. Thank you Rissbenzo for letting me know! Here is the real chapter eight!


Chapter Eight: Keep It Cool Clearwater

Seth's Point of View

Finally, first period let out and my eyes scanned the hallways eagerly but I didn't see her anywhere. I wanted to keep looking for her but my plan was thwarted when Quill came up to me and once again escorted me to my classroom. I growled at him and tried to look around hoping to catch a glimpse of her but Quill just ignored me, and my girl was nowhere in sight. Sadly I made my way to my seat not looking forward at all to my biology class. I wasn't great at it anyway but add onto the fact I just found the missing piece of my soul and I hadn't even spoken to her made it worse. It was like someone had shown me what I had been missing my entire life and had been subconsciously searching for and then put it in a glass case in a different room.

I sat down ignoring several of the girls who tried to start a conversation with me. I just kept replaying the hallway scene in my head over and over until I had memorized every part of her. Looking up at the clock I realized only ten seconds had gone by. You've got to be kidding me! There was no way I was going to make it. Class hadn't even started yet. I needed to go for a long run after this. I just felt so full of nervous energy.

RIIIIIING

I heard someone sigh in relief. I looked up and saw none other than the piece of me I had been missing. She was here. I couldn't believe it. Keep it cool Clearwater. Cool. I tried to tone it down but I couldn't help the smile that broke through.

"My name is Mr. Tamra." She looked slightly relieved at the teacher's abruptness as she returned his smile, nodded, and took the biology books he handed her. "Well Miss. Morella I see that in your last school you were taking an advanced course in Animal Studies. I do hope our simple Biology class will be entertaining enough," Mr. Tamra commented with a smile which my reason for breathing returned. He continued on, "Well I believe we have one seat left next to Mr. Clearwater in the back right." He said pointing to me.

Yes! If it wasn't for all that practice of being in control I might have jumped up and pumped my fist in the air. I saw her smile and say thanks. Just that small use of her voice left me wanting to hear it again. She walked to the end of the rows of desks and skirted up the aisle keeping her eyes down. I wanted her to look up. I wanted to see her eyes that matched my fur so perfectly, like it was meant to be. When she finally reached what was soon to be our desks her eyes met mine.

Once again I was taken with just how breathtakingly beautiful she was. I saw her blush which if possible made her look even cuter. She quickly sat down adjusting her books. I just kept staring, unwilling to look away. She glanced at me from the corner of her eyes before casting them back to her desk, her cheeks turning a darker shade of red as she picked up her pen and looked at Mr. Tamra. I knew I was probably being creepy but I couldn't help it. I couldn't stop staring. I watched as she put her pen down and let out a quiet sigh.

This is the perfect opportunity Clearwater. Just introduce yourself.

"Hey," I managed to get out in a whisper. Smooth Clearwater real smooth.

She looked up at me with those brown eyes and I smiled. She gave me a small smile in return. She was perfect.

"I'm Seth," I said introducing myself as I held out my hand.

She placed her hand in mine and replied, "Karen." Even her name was perfect.

"It's nice to meet you Karen." I said savoring her name. Nice? It isn't just nice to meet you. It's amazing, wonderful, life changing.

"It's nice to meet you too." She said shyly, before carefully pulling her hand out of mine. I felt bereft at the loss of her warmth but I managed to keep it off my face.

"So you're new here." I said more to keep the conversation going and not sound like an idiot by professing my love right then and there. She nodded her head a small smile still on her lips. "So when—" but I was interrupted by Mr. Tamra. It took a moment to process what he had said.

"Is there something you and Miss Morella would like to share with the class Mr. Clearwater?" I tried to come up with something but before I could even arrange my thoughts in order Karen answered for me.

"Seth was just catching me up on what the class has learned so far." she told Mr. Tamra with a smile. If I couldn't hear her heart beat thunder in her chest I would have thought she was completely cool and collected. Her face was a perfect mask covering her emotions. I almost believed her.

"So what have we learned so far?" Mr. Tamra asked hoping to catch her in a lie. We're done for. It's going to be my fault that she gets in trouble. I'm such an idiot. I mentally berated myself, but Karen looked fine in fact I thought I saw a tiny smile slip onto her face before quickly fading away.

"Well so far the class has learned cells, how they function, the difference between animal and plant, slightly delved into the topic of the classes of animals, and that's as far as we got in our conversation." She answered confidently.

My jaw almost hit the floor. That was exactly right.

I looked over at Mr. Tamra and saw the matching shock on his face although he hid it well. He cleared his throat and nodded at me.

"Well then…good job Mr. Clearwater." He said with a hint of what could have been respect before returning back to the lesson. After a few lingering glances the rest of the class followed suit. I heard her let out a quiet breath of relief before she turned to look at me. I openly let my disbelief and shock show. When she saw it her face broke out into a grin.

"How did you know that's what we learned?" I whispered out of the side of his mouth so as not to attract Mr. Tamra's attention again.

"I guessed." She whispered in the same manner. My respect for her grew another foot. That's one hell of a guess. "I had a class like this last year and that's the order we went in," she elaborated. I looked at her with a smile, in complete awe of her.

"So you've learned all this before?" she smiled and nodded her head ever so slightly. I just chuckled quietly.

I saw a worksheet being handed back and took mine from a guy named John who sat in front of me. I said a quick thanks before looking back over at Karen. The girl in front of her, Stacy or was it Stella, gave me a smile that I just ignored, not on purpose really it was just that Karen was so much more important.

I watched Karen's face memorizing every feature. I watched her lips purse and eyes narrow fractionally before they smoothed out in an instant before creasing into a confused look, all within a matter of seconds. She closed her eyes briefly before turning to her worksheet. I wonder what she's thinking.

Reluctantly I followed suit and wrote my name on the top of the page. I glanced over the questions trying to remember the answers but they wouldn't come to me. I glanced over at Karen to see her pen working diligently across the page. I turned back to my page hoping that the answers would just write themselves. With an inaudible sigh I looked back over at Karen.

She had placed her pen back on her desk and was looking around the classroom. One glance at her paper told me she was completely finished. I felt my jaw drop.

"How are you finished already?" She looked over at me and just gave me a smile.

"I learned this stuff already and biology—well biology is kind of my thing." she said quietly before glancing over at my paper.

"Do you want some help?" She asked.

I gave her a nod hoping it wasn't to needy and pushed my paper closer to her. She looked it over before pulling out her book and flipping through the pages.

She had pulled her bottom lip into her mouth with her teeth as she concentrated on finding the answer in the book and a strand of her hair broke free from the rest and hung in front of her face.

My eyes scanned every part of her just drinking her all in. I didn't even notice when she pointed into the book and started reading from it. I saw her lips moving, perfectly pink. Her eyes darted across the page and her hand brush her hair behind her ears unconsciously.

Then suddenly she was looking at me expectantly. I was broken from my staring and I felt a little guilty. She probably thought I was creepy.

"Seth?"

"What?" I asked dumbly, "I'm sorry I didn't quite catch that."

She just gave me a smile although I could see a little confusion in her eyes.

She's probably wondering why I'm a creep.

But she repeated what she had said previously. "See the difference between a protist and a monera cell is that the monera cell has no true nucleus. Also monerans are prokaryotes and protists are eukaryotes."

I tried concentrating on what she said but Biology was like another language to me. "Wouldn't it make more sense if the protists were the prokaryotes?" I asked. I mean they both start with a "p" it would be easier to remember.

"Well prokaryotes are the most primitive of cells and aren't very developed so they don't have a nucleus where as a Protista does." She answered. Wait what's a Protista?

Just then she raised her head. Somehow we had gotten very close, our faces centimeters apart and all I wanted to do was kiss her right then and there. Her brown eyes were warm and comforting, making me feel as if I was home.

RING! RING! RING!

Karen jumped slightly as our moment was ruined. Her lips had only been a breath away. Thickly I saw her give me a smile before grabbing her books and walking to the door.

Scrambling, I quickly shoved my books into my arm and raced out the door after her. I saw her head bobbing through the crowd, her hair slightly swishing with her every step.

"Karen!" I called out hoping to get her attention.

I saw her turn her head to look back and just caught her eyes before I almost ran into a couple holding hands. I quietly swore, I don't think the couple even heard me, although I did hear the guy say, "Watch it!" I don't really know what he was complaining about I hadn't hit them, werewolf reflexes and all. I looked back at Karen and saw she was waiting for me. My face broke out into a grin. Finally I got to her and let out a breath in relief.

"Hey," she said.

"Hey," I replied. Then I realized I had no idea what I was going to say to her. Come on Clearwater think! "Um, well since you're new here I thought I could help you find your next class." I said looking at the ground knowing full well how stupid I must look. I knew I was blushing but I hoped my dark coloring hid it. I rubbed my neck awkwardly as I felt myself drawn to her eyes once more. But, just as my eyes met hers she dropped her gaze to the floor. I frowned slightly before I replaced it with my smile.

"Um, sure," she said. My face broke out into a huge grin, one I probably should have been embarrassed by. She glanced up and gave me a small smile that did a number on my heart. It was a cute little shy smile. Okay she agreed to letting you show her around now get to it before you make an idiot of yourself standing here staring at her.

I gestured grandly with my hand and with an equally grand mock voice I said, "Ladies first." She laughed at that.

"Why thank you." She replied in the same tone. As we walked I pointed out different rooms she might need to know, the library, the computer room, bathroom, so on. She looked at all the places I pointed with interest which helped boost my confidence. As we walked I tried not to stare at her too much. I didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable. As we walked some guys from the basketball team walked by and I gave them our routine handshakes. I saw a couple of them look at Karen with interest and I had to bite back a growl not to mention keep a happy mask over my face. A couple of girls walked by and said hi, I returned it with a, "hey" but kept my focus on maintaining my composure and watching the guys. They were checking Karen out and I didn't like it one bit. Part of me hoped it was just because she was the new girl and it was just curiosity but I knew it wasn't just that. Even if Karen wasn't my imprint she was still pretty hot. She had long legs covered by her dark jeans that accentuated her legs and a semi tight t-shirt that most of the guys eyes strayed to. I had to bite back another growl as Jack Keller openly stared at her. I dared a quick glance at Karen and saw that it didn't seem that she had even noticed. Inside my wolf was wagging its tail.

I hadn't said anything for a while as we walked and I hoped she hadn't noticed the few times I had glanced her way.

"So what class do you have next?" I asked. She was looking at the rest of the students and it seemed I had caught her by surprise. But after a few seconds of regaining her thoughts she answered...sorta

"Um…I have…uh" finally I just took her schedule that she was holding and looked it over.

"Well you have Advanced Math next with Kim, she's really nice I think you'll like her…and you have lunch fourth, perfect we have that together, fifth is Economics wow that's mostly upperclassmen I think Jake is in that class. Sixth, World History honors. Sheesh, smarty pants" I teased her, "I think Embry's in that class. Seventh is Study hall that's a mix of the grades trying to "bring everyone together" um Collin, Brady, Leah, and Quill have that."

"Quill?" she asked.

I looked a question at her, "Yeah?"

"Oh, I think I met him before at the super market." I felt a flash of jealousy flare through me when she mentioned Quill. Thankfully I was able to reign in most of it. Chill out Quill already imprinted on Claire. You have nothing to worry about there. I thought to myself as I tried to calm down. Wait hadn't Quill and Emily said something about meeting a new girl at the supermarket? And her name was...Karen… yeah it was Karen.

Hoping she hadn't seen anything on my face I voiced my new thought, "Yeah I think he and Emily mentioned something about that."

"You know Emily?" She asked.

"Yeah, she makes the best muffins in the world." I said with a chuckle before turning back to her schedule hoping to forget about my small bout of jealousy. I was better than that. "And eighth is art, hey I'm in that class too, awesome." I said turning to her with what was probably a goofy smile.

Before I knew it we were in front of her classroom.

"Well here it is." I said more than a little sad. I wanted more time with her.

"Thanks for showing me," she said giving me her little smile.

"No problem. Here I'll introduce you to Kim." I said, finding a way to have more time with her and the ulterior motive part of me voiced that if Kim and Karen were friends it would make it easier for me to get to know her, and Kim could keep an eye on her for me. I walked into the classroom and weaved through the desks towards Kim's where, of course, she was reading one of her books. Kim was a sweet, quiet girl. Her and Jared's story was actually really cute. I was pretty sure Kim and Karen would get along fine.

Quietly I tapped her desk trying to startle her as little as possible. Kim was a little jumpy at times, although I guess when your boyfriend turns into a giant wolf that fights vampires that could suck the life out of unsuspecting people from Forks and the Rez you have a pretty good reason to be jumpy.

Even with the light tap Kim jumped slightly. Her head shot up to my face before breaking into a smile. I saw confusion in her eyes as she greeted me, probably wondering what I was doing in her class. I could see the small hint of fear run through her body, probably hoping Jared was alright. But since I had a smile on my face that fear quickly left leaving only the confusion.

"Hey Seth, what are you doing here?"

"I wanted to introduce you to someone." I explained moving over so she could see Karen.

Karen smiled her shy little smile and gave a little wave before saying, "Hi."

I looked at Karen starting the introductions, "This is Kim. Kim this is Karen." I said emphasizing her name ever so slightly as it rolled of my tongue like poetry. Man was I going to get an earful from the guys. I was whipped.

Holding out her hand Kim smiled and said, "It's nice to meet you."

Karen returned the hand shake, "Nice to meet you too." I watched Karen as her cheeks turned a light pink. Her skin was flawless and her coloring accentuated her beautiful eyes. Suddenly I realized that Kim was trying to get my attention. I blinked several times trying to gather my scattered thoughts. For a moment I had actually forgotten Kim was there, I had forgotten anyone was there except Karen, heck I had even forgotten my own name.

"What?" I asked feeling more than a little stupid.

Kim smiled with a knowing look in her eyes. "I said aren't you going to be late for your class?"

"Oh yeah. Got to go." I said as it all registered in my brain. I looked over at Karen and with a smile said, "I'll see you later."

I heard her say, "See you," as I turned around to leave but before I walked out the door I wanted to see her one more time to get me through my next class. I saw her looking at me, I smiled and left praying the period would go by quickly.


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