Part II-Chapter 1: Crying
Disclaimer. I own none of the original Twilight characters. Ownership belongs to Stephenie Meyer.
Crying-Roy Orbison
Fake it-Seether
I miss you-Beyonce
Day 1
Boarding my flight was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I cried the entire time over and when my mother told me to suck it up my dad finally stuck up for me. Something I thought would never happen in my life.
"Knock it off, Linda. Can't you see for once that you're only daughter is crying her eyes out because we're moving. She has to leave everything."
"She only has to leave everything because of your daughter, John. She comes crying for you and you run and make us all leave our home for her. This has nothing to do with me and my attitude and I'm sure Vanessa feels like the same way about all of this and she's too scared to say anything to you in fear of hurting your damn feelings."
I had never heard my mother actually talk good about me, they weren't nice things, but they were true. She did know how I felt. It was weird, my mother, the person who didn't give a care in the world about me knew exactly how I felt.
"Is that true, Vanessa?" Dad asked me quietly.
"I…I'm fine. I'll be okay."
They let it drop after that and we landed in California 2 hours later. The sun was burning bright and I had a feeling I would be darker by the time I visited La Push. We drove the quick 15 minutes from the airport to our new house and took our suitcases from the trunk of our rental car. I looked around the nice two story house. It was really big, bigger than all the houses in La Push. It had a balcony on the top floor and a palm tree next to it. I had seen pictures of the inside so I knew what to expect when I stepped in.
There were wood floors and a huge master bedroom and bath for my parents. Two giant rooms next to each other which I assumed was mine and Laura's rooms and a bathroom between them. I went to the room farthest from my parents and close to the back door and saw all my boxes unpacked there for me. The walls were painted a calm baby blue and my black bed and dresser set was set up with the blankets on the bed and books perfectly in place on the book shelves around the room.
"Nice, huh?" A soft voice asked me. I turned around to see a petite blonde in a white summer dress and sunglasses on.
"Yea, it is. Did you do this?" I asked, motioning toward the room.
"Of course, you are my baby sister after all." She smiled, removing her glasses to show me her shining blue eyes.
"Laura? You look so different!" I exclaimed, walking to hug her tightly. I felt her arms wrap around my waist.
"This place does that to you. Dorm rooms suck though! I hate the girls I was roomed with. I am so glad we get to live here now."
I love my sister, sure. I love my parents and brother too. Each in different ways but I still feel resentment toward her. If she hadn't of complained about a couple girls and being fired we wouldn't be here.
"I know you hate me right now for doing this but you will love it here. It's a completely different place from La Push. We have sun here all the time but its overcast a lot too. The beach is about a 5 minute walk from here. I go running a lot down there. It's not easy to keep in shape with all the different foods here. The one benefit of La Push." She grins.
No, the one benefit of the La Push is Embry and Leah, I thought to myself.
But all I said was, "Hm."
I walked over to the dresser and opened each drawer seeing all my clothes put neatly away. "You unpacked everything?" I questioned her.
"Sure did, it was the absolute least I could do."
"Thanks, I guess," I said awkwardly. I didn't know how I felt about having her going through all my personal things but I was glad that it was all done for me.
"Vanessa, can you come here?" I heard my mom say from the living area.
I smiled apologetically at Laura and left the room and to the living room. I saw my mom sitting on of the dining room chair looking over a piece of paper with her reading glasses on and I knew she was paying bills.
"Yes, mom?" I asked. She looked up from her paper and gave me a smile. A little weird, I thought.
"You're starting school in 2 weeks so I thought that it was time to get you a cell phone. The school says it is a necessity with it being so large and they don't have school buses so Laura or your Dad will be picking you up. It's not a combined middle school high school, it's only high school. If you change we can go to the store now and pick something out."
I was stunned, my mother never took me out anywhere except to her modeling agency. "Sure. I'll only be a minute."
I stepped out from the room and into mine where I didn't see Laura anywhere. I closed the door silently and slipped out of my clothes. I quickly put on a new pair of underwear and bra and slipped on a cotton red sundress. I put black sandals and ran a brush threw my hair quickly and threw it up in a messy pony tail. No matter how sloppy I look I somehow manage to look fresh and pretty. I wish I was ugly so people wouldn't hate me so much.
I walked out of the room and in the kitchen to see no one around. "She's in the car," Dad said as he passed me. I nodded thanks and went down the stairs and to the garage door, locking the doors before I went to the front yard and jumped in the front seat.
I looked at my mom and noticed how unhealthy she looked. My mother is only 37 years old and had me at 23 and had Paul at 20 when she was modeling. She bounced back completely after having Paul but once she had me, Dad told her to quit modeling and just be an agent. I think she blames me for that all the time because when she looks at me she sees herself. She was only 37 but she had the tiniest bit of gray going through her chocolate brown hair and wrinkles around her coffee colored eyes. Her skin use to be a vibrant caramel color but now it was a dull tan. My mother is full Native American so her skin should be dark all the time but she was getting pale if that was at all possible. I knew all this moving and her marriage falling apart had a lot to do with it.
"What mobile service does Leah have?" she asked me suddenly, turning onto the freeway.
"I'm not sure, but I think she has Verizon."
"Here." She tossed me her cell phone and I caught it in my lap. "Call Leah and ask her." I dialed Leah's number, which I knew by heart, and it rang until she picked up on the 3rd ring.
"Yes, Mrs. Skye?" Leah sounded aggravated and I almost laughed.
"It's Vanessa."
"Oh! Hey, V! I missed you so much, I was wondering when you were going to call. How is it there? Is it sunny? Are there hot guys?" She giggled.
"I wouldn't know, Leah." I sighed. "I just called because my mom wants to know what your cell phone plan is."
"Weird, ok it's Verizon. The only one that works up here in this shit hole," she grumbled. "Why does she want to know? Is she going to start stalking me now! I swear V—"
"No," I cut her off. "She's buying me a cell phone for school. When we get it I'll call you later and tell you all about California."
"Ok, bye V."
"Bye, Leah."
I hung up and Mom turned on the off ramp to where all the stores are. She turned to park in the Verizon Wireless parking and we both got out of the car. Mom locked it and I opened the door to the store for her. We walked in to the deserted store and saw a man come and greet us while helping us look at all the different phones.
"What exactly are you looking for?" the store clerk asked us.
"Well, we just moved here so we need to change all the phones. I already changed my husbands and mines phone to a different phone company but we need to change our daughters to this company."
"Wouldn't it be easier to have them all on the same plan?" he asked curiously. I wondered the same thing.
"Yes, but she has only one person she talks the most to and she has Verizon so it'll be cheaper to just have her have this one. I don't want to run up the bill long distance." She laughed. I had never seen my mom so caring before. She never cared this much before.
"Makes sense. Well we have a huge selection but I recommend for teenagers the new Droid 4. It has a great internet reception and calling service. It's the most recommended."
"We'll take it, a cover for it too if you have them available." We walked over to the counter and the clerk brought out a box and lifted it out to show a shiny black cell phone.
"Of course. We have solid colors and neon."
"Which one do you want?" Mom asked me.
"Oh, I guess neon blue if you have it." I shrugged. I was fine with getting an old prepaid phone.
"We do." He rummaged around under the counter a little before he pulled out a neon blue case and clasped it over the phone.
"Great. That's all. Set it up for unlimited texting and long distance calling."
After we pay for everything we grabbed our box filled with the charges and Mom started on the way home. It was darker now and the clock read 8:00. When we got home I went straight to my room after saying hello to my Dad. I fell onto my bed and kicked my sandals off, exhausted. I snuggled into my pillow and leant over the bed to retrieve the wolf Embry got me.
I looked at the white and black wolf and rubbed its fur softly.
"You need a name don't you?" I asked it, flipping its ear and nodding its head. "I'll name you something very special. Something that means the world to me." I thought about it for a minute and came up with the perfect name. "You'll be Lil E." I smiled. I held the wolf close to my body and fell asleep as soon as I closed my eyes.
Day 2
I woke up right before the sun was setting and stretched out my legs groggily. I rolled my shoulders in circles and finally sat fully up and swung my legs over the side of the bed. I blinked rapidly and rubbed at my crusty eyes. When I looked over at my bedside table it said 4:45am. Goodness, I thought, I haven't been up this early in a long time.
I got out of my bed and grabbed the phone that was plugged against the wall. Laura probably did this too. I flipped it open and turned it on. While it started I instantly entered Embry and Leah's phone numbers and I remember Embry saying he had Verizon too.
I sent a text message to both of them saying, "Hey, it's Vanessa. Mom got me this new phone which is from Verizon so it should be free. I miss you tons!(:"
After putting down the phone knowing they would probably be asleep for another 5 hours, I got up and went into the kitchen to get an apple. I wish we had junk food. My parents don't allow me to eat junk food because they don't want me to get fat. I wish I was fat, I'm only 100 pounds but I have those natural curves gifted to me from being Native American. I wish I could gain weight. I walked over to the trash can and threw away my apple. I hoped on the counter and looked out at the rising sun and beautiful ocean.
I heard a buzz from inside my room and I rushed back in to see what it was. When I got in the cell phone was still vibrating. I rushed over to it and saw Embry's number calling me. I picked it up quickly and said hello.
"Nessa! Oh my God, I'm so happy you texted me. Are you ok? What are doing awake so early?"
"I went to bed early. I'm so happy my mom bought me this phone, Emb. She's been weirdly nice since we got here."
"That is weird. Don't trust it, might be a trap." He laughed quietly.
"Are you still staying with Sue and Harry or are you home?" I questioned.
"I'm home. That's why I'm trying to stay quiet. I just got home actually," he explained.
"Oh, where were you?" I asked casually.
"I was picking Quil up at this party. His stupid ass got drunk and he's crashing here on my floor."
"Wow." I didn't know Quil drank.
"Guess he's trying to drown his sorrow in alcohol." Embry laughed.
"Ha, funny."
"I don't want to but I gotta go, Ness. Quil is about to be sick and I don't want you hearing that."
"Oh, it's cool."
"Text me later, okay?"
"Alright. Bye."
"Bye, Ness."
I hung up the phone and sighed through my mouth. Seems everyone's doing fine without me, I thought. I grabbed a robe from my closet before I walked out of the room again and went to the bathroom between Laura's and mines room. I quietly opened and closed the door before walking over to the shower. I stripped off my old clothes from the night before and turned the water on hot before hanging my robe up. I stepped in and shivered when the scalding water touched my skin and I instantly turned a shade of red. I quickly washed my body and hair and shaved where needed before turning off the shower and wrapping the plush towel around my body.
I toweled my hair with another towel and wiped my body off completely of water before grabbing my robe and wrapping myself. I hung up the towels and used an old rubber band to tie my hair in a bun so they would dry in ringlets instead of tangles. I padded slowly over to my room and locked the door, pointless I know, and picked out a pair of matching underwear and bra with Embry's baggy t-shirt I stole and a pair of black spandex pants and black ankle socks. I heard that annoying vibrate again and quickly went over to check my phone. I flipped it open and saw a text from Leah.
V! you've missed sooo mucho! Sam and me are officially together as of right now. I snuck out earlier becuz you never called! We went to his place…super awkward cuz ur bro was there with Jared :P err wayyy I miss you soo much call me when you have thee timee and do NOT make any new besties!(:
I laughed too myself thinking about her and then felt sad again. I shouldn't think too much about them, it's not healthy. I put down the phone and turned it completely off. I saw sun coming through my window and I heard banging coming from the kitchen. Smiling, I went into the kitchen and saw Dad walking around flipping pancakes.
"Morning," I said, sitting down at the bar.
My dad jumped high in the air causing me to chuckle before he turned around and saw me. "You should never scare a person holding a scalding pan of pancakes," he said seriously then smiled. "How long you been up?" he asked, flipping the pancake on a plate and sliding it over to me.
"Not long. I ate an apple. You can have it." I pushed the plate back.
"Gotta lose weight, child." He chuckled. "I'll give it to your Uncle when he gets here. Should be here soon." He grabbed the plate and continued filling it up with pancakes.
"You're already a stick why should you lose weight?" I asked curiously, biting my lip. "Mom's brother is coming? Doesn't he live in Washington?" I cocked my head, running a finger over my lip.
"Not her brother. Mine," he said casually, turning off the stove and placing it in the sink. He poured syrup over the pancakes and placed them in the microwave. Once he finished he turned back to me and crossed his arms over his chest.
"You have a brother?" I gaped, feeling a slight sting in my bottom lip from.
"Sure do. He's a little younger, about 10 years." He shrugged.
"So he's 28?" I knew he was but it made my dad feel wise when we mentioned he was only 38 and had an entire traveling company he owned.
"Sure is. He lives in Santa Barbara and he's going to be staying her for a week. He'll take the downstairs guest room. Speaking of guests I see his car now."
Dad stood straight and went past me to the stairs. I went over to the sliding glass window and opened it to stand on the balcony. I saw a man who looked like a younger version of my dad step out of the sleek black Mustang. He was wearing a white wife beater and dark washed jeans with converse and had a friendly smile on his face. He and my dad hugged like old friends who hadn't seen each other in years, which is probably true, and after they pulled apart he looked up at me and waved. I smiled down and waved back before I heard the door open again and Laura come to stand beside me, waving.
"He's super hot for being out Uncle, huh?"
She giggled, bumping me with her shoulder. I looked at her weird and turned back to examine his features. He had the regular Skye blue eyes and curly dark brown hair, he was taller than my dad who was already pretty tall, well over 6 feet. He was pretty bulked up, he wasn't scrawny in the least.
"That's sick, Laura," I told her.
"But, oh so true, little sister." Laura turned around, winking as she went, and left to her room.
I rolled my eyes once she left and shook my head down at Dad who smiled. His brother and him went up the steps to the front door and before his brother entered he smirked up at me and winked.
