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Chapter 9 Yup, we hold grudges!

I woke up -on the floor- the next day from loud voices coming from the kitchen. I went to roll over, but I ended up bumping in to something.

That something groaned so I sat up to look at what it was and found Brady and Collin asleep. We must've fell asleep when we were talking last night. I rubbed my eyes and got up to go into the bathroom.

I was still in my clothes from yesterday so I jumped in the shower then brushed my teeth and dressed in some blue skinny jeans with holes in them and a black long sleeved shirt. I straightened my bangs and left my hair curly by putting some hairspray in it. With a sigh I headed down the hall to the kitchen. I leaned against the wall and observed everyone there.

I saw Jared and Paul obviously, Jacob, Quil and Embry were there. And then there was Seth, looking even hotter then he used to look. No, dammit I will not think of him like that. If he wants to act like I don't exist then I can do the same thing to him, and that means not thinking about him as my best friend or anything else.

"Oh, Jessie you're up! Would you like some breakfast?" Emily asked me, way to perky. Everyone snapped their head towards me, making me feel extremely shy. I can speak my mind, but I get shy easily when people stare at me.

"Uh, no I'm going to River's bye." I said quickly, then turned to leave.

"Jessie wait." Jared called. Damn, so close. I stopped, but didn't turn around.

"Why don't you stay, I'm sure River can wait. And where's Brady and Collin, they weren't in there room?"

"I can't and they stayed in my err room." I told him, not exactly comfortable calling it my room.

"You can, please?" That didn't exactly sound like he was asking, so I turned and glared at him, but took a seat next to Embry anyway.

"Hey, Jes-" Embry started to say, but I turned to glare at him too and he stopped. I wasn't happy with any of these people. Just then Collin and Brady came in and was ready to leave, but like me, was made to stay.

Collin took a seat next to Jacob, far away from Seth, and Brady sat next to Quil, far away from Embry and Seth.

"I hope you three slept well. Jared and Paul told me all of your favorite foods so it's here just dig in." Emily smiled, motioning to the food.

"Sorry, I'm not really hungry." I mumbled.

"Me neither." Collin and Brady said.

I know we are acting rude, but can you really blame us? I do appreciate Sam and Emily taking us in, but I don't like them and apparently I like to put up my defenses when I'm around them and the others.

"Are you sure? I know you guys didn't eat dinner last night either."

"We're sure." Collin said.

"Can we go now?" Brady asked.

"Whatever." Paul growled.

We shot out of our seats and headed to the door. I made the mistake of looking behind me and caught Seth's eye. His eyes widened and a whole bunch of emotions shot threw them, I broke contact and followed the twins out. The last thing I heard before closing the door was Jared yelling "No fucking way!"

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We met River at the diner and ordered breakfast, thank god Kim wasn't here.

"So they tried to make you stay?" River laughed.

"Yeah" Collin snorted. "Screw that, I'm not letting them tell me what to do when no body has been doing that for years and I got by just fine."

"If they think they're just gonna start disciplining us then they're sadly mistaken." Brady continued, apparently we don't take being told what to do very well.

"I get where you guys are coming from, but maybe you guys should show them that you do appreciate what they're doing." River suggested.

"We do appreciate it, but the only reason they took us in was because they felt sorry for us and for Jared and Paul. We didn't ask for this." I said.

"I know you didn't." She sighed. "How about you all come over tonight and we could watch movies, just to get you out of the house. Brady you could come too I guess."

"Gee, thanks." He grumbled around his food.

"It's a date." I smiled.

"You think Sam would let you?" River asked.

"He better!" We all said.

"You know, sometimes I think you're triplets."

"Yeah, sometimes we think that too." Brady said with a confused look on his face.

I chuckled. "Anyway, lets fill up this entire day so we don't have to go back anytime soon."

"I could do that." River smiled.

"No! We are not shopping." Collin exclaimed.

"Oh come on! It'll get us out of La push the whole day then we'll go straight to my house. It'll be fun, I'll even buy you lunch." River bribed.

The twins thought for a minute then reluctantly agreed, while River squealed with delight.

"Then let's roll." We paid for our food then piled into River's truck.

"Good god, could your truck get anymore rigged?" I laughed.

"Shut up, it's my baby." She pouted.

Her truck was brand new, but now the front windows didn't work, to turn the heat on you had push against a shoe string and one of the backdoors didn't open. The worst part, she wouldn't take it in to get it fixed.

"Yeah well, this baby needs some new parts." Brady grumbled as he went through the window to get in.

"I don't trust the people at the garage to take care of him, so you wanna put in the labor?" Yes, her truck is a him.

"Aww, you trust me? I'm touched." Brady teased.

"Shut up! But, I will let you do it if you want." She shrugged, making me look at her weird.

"Uh, yeah I'll do it." Brady said. Me and Collin gave each other a look then shrugged.

"Okay then." I mumbled then turned up the radio so it was blasting Chris Brown's Look at me now.

We drove to Port Angeles and went into to the mall where River dragged us into every store she could.

"Are we done yet?" Collin complained a hour later.

"No, we still have to go to the Barnes and Noble for Jessie. By then it'll be lunch time, so chill."

"How about you two go to Barnes and Noble and we'll go to the arcade." Brady said.

"Ugh, fine meet us at the food court." River sighed.

"Thank god! Bye!" They both said then took off.

"Now that the boys are gone, have you seen Seth around?"

"This morning actually. It's weird, I was avoiding his eyes all morning then I looked back and when he looked at me he got this weird expression on his face."

"Like what?"

"Like, shock, then…..I don't know, I can't describe it." I shook my head.

"Huh, that is weird." She said as we turned into Barnes and Noble.

"I plan on trying to avoid all of them for ever."

"Isn't that going to be hard seeing as you live there now?" She asked, picking up a book.

"Maybe, oh my bed smells like I dude."

"Eww, did you sleep on it?"

"God no. I slept on the floor and Collin and Brady ended up sleeping there too."

"Ha! Are you planning on sleeping on the floor the whole time?"

"Probably, I don't know what happened on that bed."

River laughed and held out a book to me. "Did you read this series yet?"

"Pretty Little Liars? Yep! The shows good too."

"Well then I'll borrow your set instead of buying them. Can I ask you something?"

"Sure thing."

"What would you think of me dating someone close to you?"

"Um, you dated my brother, how much closer can you get?" I asked confused.

"Right, what I mean is, would it be weird if I were to date someone else close to you?" She asked, chewing her bottom lip.

"Someone like Brady?" I raised my eyebrow.

"Maybe." She mumbled.

"So you do like him." I teased.

"Jessie I'm serious. I don't know what to do. I'll always love Jared because he was my first, but I'm over him and isn't there like some rule about this?"

"Just go for it River. I'm pretty sure Brady likes you too and screw Jared he already moved on. He has no say on who you date even if it is his cousin."

"So your okay with it?"

"Yes, I'm okay with it." I smiled at her and she smiled back.

We continued to look through the books them met up with Collin and Brady at the food court. Right before I was about to eat, my phone started ringing.

"Hello?"

"Where the hell are you!" A voice yelled in my ear.

"Ow! I use this ear for hearing asshole." I rubbed my ear.

"Stop screwing around! Where are you and the twins."

I rolled my eyes. "We're out Jared jeez and it took you four hours to notice we weren't around? Nice one."

"Where? And you need to tell someone where you're going." He avoided the question.

"We did, River's mom so shove it!" I said then hung up, turning off my phone.

"I love how he cares now when he never did before." Collin scoffed just as his phone rang. "It's Paul."

"Don't answer it." Brady said, turning his phone off.

Collin nodded and turned his phone off also.

"Should I tur-" River started just as her phone went off. "Seriously! What the hell! It's Jared."

"Don't answer it." The three of us said.

"All right with me." she silenced it. "Voicemail, wanna listen?"

We nodded and she put the phone on speaker.

"River, tell Jessie, Collin and Brady to get back here now! They had no right to leave like that without telling anyone. Sam is their legal guardian, they need to respect him. So, get their asses back here now!"

"He's joking right?" Collin asked rhetorically.

"Doesn't sound like it, but we're not going back yet." Brady said.

"They're gonna be mad though." I said feeling slightly guilty.

"So what? We're living our lives just the way we used to and they never said anything about it then." Collin said.

I guess he was right. Before Jared and Paul started to ignore us, they did ask where we were because they usually were the ones to pick us up, but they never cared about the places or when we got home. I don't know why they're stressing us about it now, but it was getting ridiculous, especially since they haven't cared for months. So, like Brady said, we weren't going back, even if this time, we're going to have consequences.


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