Night-Day Dreamer: I'm ba-ack! After such a long writer's block _ Anyways, this chapter's just kind of a filler but I hope you enjoy it and keep on following me!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT, STEPHANIE MEYER STILL DOES, I ONLY OWN ORIGINAL CHARACTERS AND PLOT.
Chapter Eight
Before I could even comprehend what was happening, Seth landed his lips on mine. I was too shocked to respond as he kissed me. His lips were everything that I used to dream them to be; they were warm, soft and full of passion and gentleness. One of his hands had snuck up to my cheek and was gently caressing it while the other was firmly gripped on my hip, holding me close to him.
The kiss was full of so much emotion that I got swept up in it for a few seconds. I then realized three things; one, Seth was kissing me, two, I was kissing back, and three, Seth was kissing me willingly. A million different, confused thoughts were running through my head. Didn't he hate me? Why was I kissing him back? I don't love him anymore. I erased him, or tried to, from my heart. Why the hell was Seth Clearwater kissing me?
I suddenly pushed him away but only succeeded in making him stop kissing me. Was I really that weak? I yanked myself out of his grip breathing hard, staring at him hard. He just stared back at me with such love and care in his eyes that I had to look away. "Why?" I asked harshly, my voice barely above a whisper.
"Because I really like you," he stated simply.
There was no way on earth that I could respond to that. The only response that seemed reasonable at the moment was to snort and that's exactly what I did. "Yeah, and pigs fly."
"I've always liked you," he insisted, his eyes never leaving me, "I never stopped."
"Then why now?" I asked, my voice sounding too harsh, "Why now and not before when I completely believed you and everyone else hated me?"
"You weren't safe and I wanted to protect you from the supernatural world," he responded. He fidgeted a little and I knew there was something more to it. He almost looked guilty to me.
"Hey, I'm back," I heard Jacob call from upstairs. Good, my escape.
I went to hurry up the stairs but Seth called to me, "Wait, Violette! Maybe you shouldn't go upstairs!"
I, of course, ignored him. I ran up the stairs to greet Jacob and see Renesmee but what I didn't expect was to see Charlie. I silently swore under my breath. Since being turned into part vampire I hadn't been around humans and I didn't feel like testing it out on one of my dad's best friends.
I tried to sneak out of the room while holding my breath but Charlie said, "Hi Violette!"
Everyone around us froze and Seth came up the den stairs. Alec was back from hunting and quietly came over to my side. "Hello Charlie," I said carefully. I took in a careful breath, I could only hold my breath for so long!
"Where were you kiddo? I was worried when Brendan told me you disappeared. Mellie was worried too." Charlie said really looking concerned. I could tell he was looking disapprovingly at my weight loss. Yeah, I was skinny before but now I was on the edge of looking freaking anorexic.
"Umm..." was all I could say in response.
Bella walked over to Charlie and patted him on the back saying, "Need to know information only dad."
Charlie's face went blank but then he said, "Oh, right, of course. Are you staying for dinner?"
"Umm..." I said. I needed to get out of there fast. It wasn't that bad since my sense of smell wasn't as strong as a regular vampire's but still. What made it worse was that I hadn't hunted in quite a long time.
"We were just stepping out for a bit," Alec said stepping in to the rescue.
"Oh okay," Charlie said, "see you around." Bella took him and Nessie into the living room while the rest of us went into the kitchen.
"You okay?" Jacob asked me.
"She hasn't hunted in awhile, actually she hasn't hunted since she was first turned." Alec said.
"Yep so let's go," I said to Alec while everyone stared at me in amazement.
"Why do you have to take Alec?" Seth asked me looking hurt.
I was silent. Edward stifled a laugh when he read mine and Alec's thoughts. I glared at him. "Violette isn't strong enough or durable enough to wrestle with animals. She's barely fast enough to catch one." Alec said trying to hide a smile. I glared at him too.
"Aww," Emmett cooed mockingly, "she's just a baby."
I glared at him. Ooh, he was so lucky that my gifts weren't offensive. If they were, he'd be on the ground in pain. So, I just glared at him making him twitch. I was sending out a whole lot of glares today.
"I'll take her since you just got back." Seth said to Alec.
What? No, no way was Seth taking me hunting!
"Okay, but you'll have to figure out a way to carry her or something, she won't be able to keep up when you phase." Alec said grinning evilly at me. I glared at him, that evil little... UGH! Whose side was he on?
Seth grinned happily. Wonderful, Seth was taking me hunting. Great. "Come on Violette," he said happily and jumped out the huge kitchen window.
I glared at Alec and said, "You are so going to get it when I get back!"
Alec just laughed at me as I leapt out the window.
When I stood up Seth was taking off his shirt. "Yah!" I screamed, "What are you doing?"
"I need to take off my clothes to phase or they get shredded to bits," Seth said simply.
"Well go do that behind a tree or something!" I exclaimed still covering my eyes with my hands. I could hear Seth silently chuckling to himself and then I felt the air ripple. I took that as the sign that he phased. I peeked through my hands and standing right in front of me was a humongous, sandy colored wolf.
My eye bulged out of my head and I took a step back. No one told me the wolves were that big! God, they were the size of horses, if not bigger! The wolf motioned for me to get on its back. I shook my head. There was no way in hell I was jumping on that giant wolfy back.
Wolf Seth rolled his eyes at me and motioned for me to get on his back again. I sighed and slowly crept towards him. He was freaking huge. Seth rolled his eyes again at me. I pushed myself up onto his back and wrapped my legs around his torso and my arms around his neck while burrowing my face into his fur.
His fur was really, really soft. And then, he took off, without warning, into the woods at a lightening fast speed. I let out a shrill scream of surprise and shock at the speed. Trees flew past us in green and brown blurs. After a couple of minutes we came to a halting stop at a clearing full of deer. I slid off of Seth's back and landed with a thump on the ground. He stared at me for a moment before slinking off into the clearing.
I lay on the ground still feeling dazed from the incredibly fast run. We had to be in the meadow near the mountain range that Bella always talked about. Why did Seth decide now to tell me he liked me? Just when I was beginning to get over him... Or not... But still.
"Violette?" he asked me, silently walking over. His face peered down at me, "You okay?"
"Yeah," I said getting up, "Fine, just fine." I took off to where the dead deer was before he could ask any more questions.
When I finished, I stood up and started to walk away but then I was tackled to the ground. I let out a surprised shriek as I hit the ground. My shield was supposed to automatically go up when someone had plans to attack me! I looked up, it was Seth. Why did my shield never work against him?
His hands were cradling my head and his arms went underneath my shoulders. He was straddling me, keeping me firmly pinned on the ground. "Seth," I said, "get off."
"Nope," he said grinning. I pushed my hands against his chest to push him off but he was using his strength against me. If he wasn't then I would've succeeded in pushing him off but since he was, I didn't.
I squealed as he wrapped his arms around my waist and flipped us over. Suddenly I was lying on top of him. I pushed my hands against his chest again to push myself off of him but he grabbed my hands and held me there. "Seth," I growled at him.
He smiled, "I'm not giving up now."
"Well," I said, "You should."
He just smiled and a blush ran up my cheeks as I realized that he was shirtless. Of course he was. Seth smiled and ran his thumb over my cheek. I leaned into his touch. Stupid body not listening to my mind. "I'm glad that didn't disappear," Seth said.
Glare.
I stood up and Seth followed soon after. "Seth," I said my back to him, "you should just give up. I don't like you anymore. The summer after eighth grade you broke my heart and now I don't like you."
He quietly walked up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist. His lips were besides my ear as he said, "I think your heart begs to differ."
I could feel a blush flood my cheeks and I knew my heart was pounding frantically in my chest. No, I was not going there again. If what Alec told me about imprinting was correct then Seth would imprint one day and leave me again.
"No," I said pushing wrenching myself out of his grasp, "not again." Before Seth could say anything I teleported myself out of the clearing. I didn't have anywhere in mind so I had no idea where I might've teleported myself. Which was stupid. I could end up anywhere in the world. Or maybe not even on Earth.
I looked around. There were a lot of Asian people around. Okay, that meant I was somewhere in Asia.
I wandered down the pathway that led through the park trying to figure out where I was. I gave up trying to figure out since I had been wandering around aimlessly not knowing where I was going. It all looked familiar but I've been nearly everywhere in Asia so it was hard to tell exactly where I was.
As I walked around I wondered if Seth was worried, if everyone else was worried. I would have called them but a call to the other side of the world was pretty expensive, so was a text message.
My stomach growled in protest to I walked into one of the local bakeries. I stared at the prices and smacked myself in the forehead. I was in Korea! My home town. At least here if someone asked questions I could say I was a citizen here. My mother and I were living in the USA on a green card.
Even though I had been born in Korea I didn't know it that well, we moved to the USA when I had turned three. I was guessing I was in Seoul, South Korea since that was what it said on the sign of the bakery. And of course I only had US dollars and not won.
Night-Day Dreamer: From here on, everyone is speaking in Korean unless I say otherwise.
"Do you have a map?" I asked the lady at the counter.
She stared at me curiously. It was probably because I looked Korean except for my dark chocolate brown hair and green eyes.
She handed me a map of the city, "How much is it? I only have US dollars."
"No, no," she said, "please, just take it."
"Thank you," I replied and bowed. I looked at the map and walked around for a while trying to find our old apartment. We still owned it, we never sold it or rented it out.
After wandering around for quite a long time I asked some people if they knew how to get to the address. None of them did or they just looked at me strangely and kept walking.
After walking around not knowing what the hell I was going I sighed in aggravation and shoved the map into my purse and started walking aimlessly around. It wasn't like I was going to be stuck here. Once I felt that I had enough energy I would be able to teleport myself back to rainy Forks. It was kind of nice here, warmish and sunny.
I kind of hoped I wouldn't be asked if I lived here because I wasn't sure if I needed a visa to visit Korea even though I'm a citizen here. Visa and green card stuff was confusing.
I looked around at what girls my age were wearing. I noticed there was nearly no girls my age that were alone. They were almost always with another friend or a guy. Maybe that's why I was getting strange looks. Anyways, my clothes weren't much different from what they were wearing; only slightly less colorful and more sophisticated. At least I didn't stand out too much, besides the strange looks I was getting and besides my unearthly beautiful looks thanks to the vampire running through my veins. And I was a strange mix of nationalities. Sigh, I'm attracting too much attention to myself.
I wondered if Seth was freaking out or if Bella was. My dad probably wasn't too worried. Alec probably wasn't too worried either since the both of them knew I could take care of myself. Plus, Alec understood my gifts when the others did not. Will Seth be mad at me when I get back? What suddenly made him have a change of heart? Why does he all of a sudden seem to be completely in love with me after hating me for such a long time? People don't change their minds in a blink of an eye with no regrets or afterthoughts. What was with all these questions?
The one question that was nagging at my brain was, do I still like Seth? Am I still distant to him because he hurt me or just because we've become distant. Could I forgive him? What do I want to do? This was very challenging. Why did Seth have to have a sudden change of mind? If he had taken his time it would've been so much easier. Because Seth now likes me, which I still find suspicious, do I still want to go all the way to the East coast for college and go abroad? Does Seth really like me?
My brain was thinking in circles and I was giving myself a headache. I stopped walking and looked around. I was standing on a very wide sidewalk with a huge building on it. The sign read S.M. Entertainment Studios. Cool, I was standing in front one of the largest music companies in South Korea. I'm surprised I made it this far without getting hit by a driver or a crazy person on a bike.
Could my feelings change back as quickly as his did? I was pretty sure they couldn't since I spent quite a long time in pain because of him and I sort of have trusting issues now. I sighed and sat down on a bench. I should at least alert them of where I am even though I need time to myself...
I took out my iphone and quickly logged onto Facebook. Immediately, I was attacked by a message from Bella.
Bella Swan-Cullen: Where are you? Why aren't you home yet?
Sunnie-Violette: I'm in my hometown; Seoul, South Korea. I want to see my old house before returning and just wander around for a bit.
Bella Swan-Cullen: Well you better get home soon! Everyone's worried!
Sunnie- Violette: Okay, bye.
I logged off before she could respond or someone could respond in her place. I just needed time to think.
I stood up and took out my map and looked for my street. It was actually pretty close to here. I faced left and stared in that direction. I turned right and glanced in that direction. It would be really helpful if I could use the GPS on my phone but unfortunately the signal here was not good enough and the phone company did not have very current maps of the roads and stuff.
"Is that a foreigner?" I heard a nearby voice whisper quietly to someone. I could hear them thanks to my vampire senses.
"She looks Korean but..." another trailed off.
"What she looks like it lost." Someone snorted.
"We should help her," yet another said.
I heard footsteps approach me. "Excuse me, are you lost?" one of them asked.
I turned around to see five very handsome and very familiar looking teenage boys. "Ah yes," I responded smiling bashfully, "I used to live here but I haven't visited Seoul for years."
They seemed surprised by my fluent Korean and they seemed even more surprised that I used to live here. "Excuse me asking, but are you Korean?" one of them asked.
"My mother is Korean and she used to live here with my father who is Native American. I was born here."
"Ohh," he said, "are you trying to find your old house?"
"Yes, could you tell me where this apartment building is?" I said pointing to a building on the map.
"Ah, that's where we live," one of them said, "we're heading there right now, you could come with us."
"Really? That'd be great, thanks!" I replied and bowed politely, "What are your names by the way?"
They looked amused by that question. The one who was doing most of the talking introduced me to everyone; he was Jinki Lee. The really, really tall one was Minho Choi and the one with blonde tipped hair was Jonghyun Kim. The one who had his head half shaved was Kibum Kim. I personally thought his hairstyle was odd since his head was half shaved but hey, it's his choice. Then the one with really long auburn colored hair was Taemin Lee. Why did there names and faces sound and look so familiar?
Night-Day Dreamer: Please note that the people I had just mentioned I do NOT own. They are a real K-pop (Korean Pop) group that is called SHINee.
"I'm Violette Hayes but my Korean name is Hye seon Lee." I said.
"How old are you?" Onew asked me, you look very young to be traveling by yourself.
My heart just dropped to my feet. Wasn't there some rule about traveling abroad under a certain age? I was pretty sure I didn't meet that age and I was currently dressed young. Had I been dressed more maturely I could probably pass off as nineteen. But, I wasn't. "I'm sixteen," I responded.
"Ah you're very young, the same age as Taemin," Jonghyun said, "Why are you visiting Korea."
Ha... Dude are they like some immigration police undercover? "I'm checking out the apartment to see if it is still habitable since it's been abandoned for a good twelve years maybe more maybe less. I'm seeing just in case I choose to study abroad here."
"Wait, what floor are you on?" Kibum asked me.
"Sixteenth floor," I responded, "my mother told me that there is only one other apartment on that floor."
"Wow! What a coincidence, that's us." Onew said grinning.
"Ah that's great! Are there many kids in the building?" I asked very curious.
"Yes," Onew said and everyone else was obviously trying not to laugh. It was nice to be able to talk to some people who didn't know about my issues with certain people back in Forks. It was extremely nice to get my mind off of certain people and things.
"How long are you staying?" Taemin asked.
Oh shit. I did not expect that one. I shrugged and said, "I only have a twelve hour stop over in South Korea. I came from the west coast of the USA."
"Ahh," Minho said, "Where are you going?"
Come on! What's with the questions? I have no idea what the flight schedules are! "Uhm, Hong Kong, China," I responded thinking of the place that planes were always flying into that was in Asia and then noticed we were already on our floor.
"Well, thank you for showing me to my apartment," I said and bowed.
They just smiled at me and said, "No problem, it was nice meeting you."
"Same here but you guys look strangely familiar," I said and nearly laughed as their faces changed, "Well, anyways, thanks and maybe we'll meet again."
"Oh and here's your camera back," Key said sheepishly, "I was taking pictures with it."
I stared at him, "When did you take my camera? Oh well, thanks!"
I headed into the apartment after one last goodbye. They were really nice.
Home. It was still all furnished and contained a few memories and pictures. This was my home. Where my mom lived with her new husband never felt like home. La Push felt like home but it didn't seem real. Korea was my true home. Maybe I'll go to college here or travel abroad a bunch.
I drifted over towards the black grand piano that stood in a corner of the living room. It had silver adornments. Absentmindedly I played A River Flows In You by Yiruma. I sighed and looked out the window. It was getting dark and I was getting hungry.
I took the slow elevator down and the doorman bowed to me saying, "It was nice seeing you again Miss. Lee Hye seon."
I smiled at him wondering how on earth he could remember me. I shot one last look at the building before shooting the doorman a wink and disappearing off the street while no one was looking.
Night-Day Dreamer: Thanks for reading! By the way, would this be considered a long of short chapter? Please review and rate!
