Mr Pretzel

Chapter 9

Previously…

"I'm sorry, that wasn't exactly what you wanted, was it?" Embry asked me as we slid into the backseat of Jared's car.

"Not exactly, but it's progress. And you can make up for it with the cookie." I said and leaned into his chest as he laughed a little. Yeah, progress.

The drive to Jared's house was fairly peaceful but, if I was being honest, jet lag was catching up with me and I was almost so out of it that a major earthquake couldn't have disturbed me. I was, however, just awake enough to notice two very large black figures dart in front of the car and into the trees as fast as lightening.

"What the hell was that?" I exclaim, bolting upright from my position against Embry's chest. I catch Jared and Embry sharing a slightly worried glance.

"Probably just some coyote's, we get a lot of them around these parts." Jared said quickly as Embry rubbed my back in a soothing gesture. Calming down slightly, I leaned back into my seat; until something occurred to me, that is.

"They were big for coyotes though, they were like mammoths." Jared's grip got a little tighter on his steering wheel and I narrowed my eyes.

"Nah, it was the shadow cast by the headlights that made it look a lot bigger than it actually is. Your eyes are probably playing tricks on you because of the jet lag babe." Embry explained and I frowned slightly, trying to go back in my memory to conclude whether it actually was my imagination.

"I guess." I say, partially convinced but too tired to go into it further. I leaned back against Embry and less that a second later, I was sound asleep. The last thing I remembered before I blacked out completely was the feeling of Embry's arms around me as he carried me from the car to the house.

My eyes fluttered open as I stretched out in the unfamiliar bed. Yawning, I rolled over to reach for Embry but found only cold sheets at my fingertips. I sat upright and ran my fingers through my hair as I looked around: bed, wardrobe, dresser, suitcases… but no Embry.

I shivered as my feet touched the cold, wooden floors as I got out of bed, fishing my dressing gown out of my duffel bag. I padded over to the door and quickly slipped through it into a corridor. I managed to navigate my way to the stairs and decided to call out a hello to see where everybody was. No one answered.

"Weird." I said to myself as I started down the stairs. I would've thought that Embry would have been there next to me when I woke up in this completely new place. Maybe he was catching up with his buds in the living room and didn't hear me.

Nope, living room contains nothing living. I got the same result for the Kitchen and Dining room. I was about to give up and go back to bed- because it was probably one of those freaky apocalypse dreams- when I heard voices coming from outside. Angry voices.

I located my pair of fuzzy green frog slippers and strolled outside with no shame- they were awesome slippers! There was a small crowd gathered outside and it looked like two people being restrained in the middle of it.

"Lying, cheating scumbag!" a feminine voice snarled from somewhere in the group of people and as I got closer, I saw Embry with his arms around a very tall girl with brown hair and freckles. Jealousy shot through me like a dagger, was the insulter talking about Embry?

"I told you Sarah, I didn't do anything." Paul growled back to the voice and that's when I realised that Embry wasn't embracing this girl, he was restraining her. They're still touching though. It was then obvious that the juvenile insult came from the very same girl as she spoke again.

"Yeah, right. I saw you and her together!" she struggled against Embry and he spoke quietly in her ear. He must have said the wrong thing because at that moment, she turned her head to her arm an started trying to bite his fingers where he held her.

"Whatever, you only saw what you wanted to see! Your delusional, you crazy bitch!" at Paul's words, she raised her head very slowly to stare at him, the look in her eyes made me flinch but Paul gazed back steadily.

"What did you just call me?" she asked, her voice quiet and lethal.

"Crazy. Bitch." He drawled out the words slowly, as if he were talking to a child. Her eyes narrowed and Embry's grip tightened. Then he saw me.

"Scar?" Embry said, distracted for a second by my presence. The girl took the opportunity and leaped out of Embry's grip and a second later, a wolf had tackled Paul to the ground. I blinked slowly, hoping that I was hallucinating but when my eyes opened up, another wolf had replaced Paul and the two wolves were going at it, teeth gnashing and claws out.

"Scarlett, go inside!" Embry commanded me, but I barely registered him. I couldn't pull my gaze away from the fighting wolves. They must have come out of the forest, they can't have just appeared. Can they? I take a few more steps toward the fight, completely entranced. Until one sent the other flying… right toward me.

I heard everyone screaming and I just shut my eyes and waited for the blow. It came. But not in the was I was expecting. My eyes were still shut but I could feel something warm above me, sheltering me. I opened my eyes to see Embry above me, crouched above me protectively. I turned my head and saw the wolf that would have hit me, turn to look at me before pouncing back on the other.

I felt something warm and wet drip onto my arm and stared at the red stuff that was slowly trickling onto the ground and me. It was coming from Embry. I let out a gasp and grabbed Embry's arm, shoving him off me so I could sit up and inspect him. I caught a glimpse of three deep scratch marks before Embry pulled his arm away from me, pulling it behind his back. I yanked it back but there was nothing. No mark. No scratch. No blood. I looked down and there was still blood on my arm; his blood. I gaped up at him in shock but his face was set as he pulled me up and towards the house.

I looked back towards the fight but there were no wolves anymore, just a tightly held Paul and the girl sat on the floor. I planted my feet and tried to stop Embry dragging me. It didn't help much.

"Don't call me crazy again." The girl told Paul before getting up and taking off towards Embry and me, totally naked. "Hey! Wait up!" I pulled against Embry and he stopped for a second, thankfully. I shrugged his hands off me.

"So, I bet that was kinda freaky, right? You'll get used to it, I just wanted to say Welcome to LaPush and I'm sorry about the bad first impression I gave. I'm Sarah." She stuck out a hand for me to shake. That was when the shock wore off and the anger and confusion set in. I didn't take her hand, instead I exploded.

"Welcome to LaPush? Seriously? The two of you just-just turned into- hell, I don't even know what happened but that was not normal! What kind of government conspiracy shit is this?" I screamed, the girl didn't even look fazed.

"Smart one you've got here, Em." She joked but her just growled in response.

"And you!" I rounded on him, "You knew about this?" he nodded, "Well some warning would have been nice! Three bloody months we've been together and you just decide to bring me here to the land of freaks and not even tell me anything!"

"Scarlett, it's not something you can just slip into conversation. Let's go inside. Let me explain." He says in that annoyingly calm voice of his, reaching for me but I jump back.

"Don't touch me!" I scream before turning on my heel and running into the forest. Those aliens or whatever can probably move quickly but none of them follow me for a few seconds so I sprint as fast as my hyper-cool slippers will let me, my dressing gown flapping in the wind behind me. Suddenly, I was yanked backwards by a pair of cold hands.

"Well, here I was, hoping for a snack and looky here; one just flew into my hands. Aren't I lucky?" a sinister voice jeered from behind me as the hands that belonged to it held me tightly enough to make bruises. I sucked in a breath to scream but a hand quickly released my arm and clamped tightly over my mouth.

"Embry!" I screamed, my cries muffled by this giant cold hands as he dragged me further into the forest. Help me!

A/n. I wholly apologise for my tardiness but I do have a good reason, my life has revolved around sickness, school work and baby sitting for the past 2 months so I'm so sorry that I didn't have time to upload. But I promise I'll try to make them more constant. I literally finished this 2 minutes ago so I'm gonna upload now to give it to you guys (hope my beta doesn't mind, love you Laura!) so it won't be proof-read. My inspiration for this was when my cute little toy poodle Bobby trotted by with one of my Mum's froggy slippers and that was when it hit me… no literally, he shook his head and it flew out of his mouth, hitting me in the head. But I finally did write this so thanks Bobby! Leave me a review telling me what I did wrong, what you want next, how much you hate me for leaving you, how much you hate me even more for the cliffy… I'll appreciate anything! Oh, and much love to my wonderful Beta who's penname is Paranormal Romance so please look her up and give her as much support as you do me. And Sarah, yes I finally out you in, yes you did get yelled at, and yes, you really are a crazy bitch but it's part of your charm.

Much love and tree hugs!

Writer-Of-Randomness