Life of A Reluctant Mate

Twilight

Chapter Nine: Avery's Cute Shoes

"It's freezing!" Avery's teeth chattered loudly. Wasn't La Push supposed to be one of the few WARM places here?

"I'm paddling out, Coates." Tyler was crouching it, in only swim trunks and a padded vest coat.

"I'll miss you when you're gone!" Avery called after Tyler. Tyler turned around and flashed her a flirty grin before giving a big wink. She actually was kind of gonna miss him, he'd been helping Angela give her body heat.

"I don't know if it's worth it anymore." Eric tried to get out of it. He, Mike, and Jessica had all put on wet suits in hopes of retaining some heat, but that was pretty stupid seeing as the area they should have been covering was their head and feet, both of which would be very exposed. She never got the point of that logic.

"You drove all the way out here!" Avery scoffed at him.

"So, I keep thinking Eric's gonna ask me to the prom, and he just…doesn't"

"Maybe you should ask him. Take control. You're a strong independent woman." Bella encouraged.

"I am?" Angela asked meekly.

"Yes."

"Girl power!" Avery raised a fist with her attempt at a very serious face. Angela and Bella simply laughed at her before Bella threw a twizzler at her head. "Now that was uncalled for." Avery plucked the red candy out from Bella's hand before taking a large bite.

"Hey, will you zip me up?" Jessica asked the girls. Angela helped her while Avery snuggled further into the large coats and blankets.

"Bella!" Avery looked up to See Jacob Black and two of his friends come forwards.

"Hi, Jacob. Guys, this is Jacob." Bella did the introduction.

"Hey guys. How you doing?"

"JAKEY!" Avery didn't move from her position laying in the back, instead she simply waved her hand and gave him a high five.

"What are you, like, stalking me?" Bella joked.

Jacob scoffed. "You're on my rez, remember? Are you surfing?" Bella shook her head.

"Defiantly not!"

"What about you, Avery?"

"I'm so cold. This must be what the Donner party felt like." Avery whined as she cuddled into Bella. Only Bella laughed, understanding her sick sense of humor.

"What, can't take the cold? You're a horrible Dorothy, where's the risk taking?"

"Dorothy had a big advantage! Sun! Put her in 50 degree weather in Spring and I guaranty you she wouldn't be singing down the yellow brick road. She'd be freezing her ass off with me! Plus she had those wonderful little slippers. " the group laughed as Avery got a far off look in her eyes. She didn't care about the slippers she just like the idea of going anywhere you wanted….such as a nice tropic WARM place instead of the freezing beach.

"You guys should keep Bella company. Her date bailed." Jessica told the three Quilets.

"What date?" Eric asked with a face full of pure panic and surprise.

"Smooth, Eric, really." Avery nodded at him. He blushed lightly but said nothing else.

"she invited Edward."

"To be polite, that's it."

"I think it's nice she invited him. Nobody ever does." Angela was by far one of the sweetest people Avery knew. She reminded her so much of one of her best friends back in Kansas, Marguerite. Nice, smart, pretty and always trying to be the piece keeper and friend to all. Oh, she really missed Marguerite.

"Yeah, cause Cullen's a freak." Mike had to put in.

"You got that right." Jacobs friends agreed. Avery propped herself on her elbows to look at them.

"The Cullen's don't come here." The other one said. Avery suddenly felt very uncomfortable thinking about her kiss with Jasper only to find out some of her friends didn't like him or his family.

It was a few minutes later Jake asked to show her around the beach,

"You coming?" Bella asked her politely.

"Nah, go ahead, Say 'Hi' to Billy for me, Jakey."

"Will do." He seemed to be a bit grateful she wasn't coming and Avery didn't know what to feel about that. She chalked it up to Jacob wanting to spend alone time with his old friend.

"You okay?" Bella asked her. "you look a little pale."

"Nah, I'm fine, just really cold. I didn't sleep last night, so I'm gonna get some shut eye and just hang with Angela."

They left moments latter and as soon as Jacobs friend had moved onto visiting their own friends on the Beach Angela pounced.

"So what's up with your love triangle?"

"What love triangle?"

"The Alice, Jasper, Avery love triangle." Angel smiled. She nudged her gently in encouragement. "Come on, you can tell me!"

"It's nothing, I just…it, we, you know…oh fuck!" Angela laughed loudly as Avery became as flustered as Bella. "I like him, but-"

"He doesn't like you?"

"Not exactly, we uh, we kissed…"

Angela gave loud eeeep sound in excitement. "Oh my god, does Alice know? Are you guys having an affair? Oh forbidden love is so hot!" Angela started spacing out.

"Wow! Chill Angie! It's not an affair and it's not forbidden. It's just…complicated."

"I think you and Jasper would make a much better couple than Alice. Oh, you'll make the cutest blonde babies. I mean yeah they're weird but you know if he makes you happy then it's fine. Who knows maybe you'll make him more. Normal." Angela continued to ramble until she finally ran out of breath.

"Okay, we're not gonna talk about this ever again. I'm going to hibernate, wake me when the temperature gets to 70 degrees."

"Avery, wake up." Avery startled awake as Bella gently slapped her forehead.

"Ow, for a tiny girl, you got hands like a fucking lumberjack." Avery grunted as she rubbed her head.

"Come on, we need to go, I'm having a hunch about what's going on." Bella whispered t her as they buckled up. Avery gave her a questioning look wondering what had happened in just thirty minutes that made Bella seem more determined than ever.

"Okay, what's going on?" Avery turned to Bella as soon as Tyler and Angela were out of sight in their van.

"Research, come on." Bella pulled her by the hand into the house.

"Wait, Bella chill. Just tell me what Jake said."

"Well we were talking about the Cullen's and Jacob started telling me about the tribes legends. They're suppose to be decedents of wolves, created to protect their reservation from the cold ones."

"Cold ones?" Bella bit her lip.

"Do they feel….cold to you?"

"The Cullen's? Yeah, actually, like they live outside in the cold half the night."

The two shared a look before both hurrying up Avery's stares to her attic library. That's were all the historic and mythical books would be.

Avery went about slightly pulling out books and handing them to Bella as she went. Eventually Bella had to keep putting the stacks down because she couldn't carry them all.

"Okay. You start on online and I'll start reading." Avery handed Bella her laptop before starting on the books. She spent ten minutes skimming chapters and indexes before settling on seven books that would give her the best results.

It was almost four hours later when Avery looked out the window only to see it was dark out.

"I've got only a little bit more than complete Jack Shit." She slammed the book close. "What did you find?"

"Well there are a few websites about the cold ones in a bunch of different native American legends."

"I found more like that in other small civilizations, the French, Italians, Viking Myths…."

"Yeah, but it only gave some Information, so I decided to buy a book, we'll have to pick it up from Port Angelus in a couple days."

"Thank god! Ech, if I had to start digging books out of storage I'd cry."

"You have MORE!" Bella's mouth was hanging open as she stared at the blonde.

"Well, yeah. You got your textbooks, published papers, and your early works that were never massed produced of course."

"Of course." Bella mocked. She didn't contain her laughter long and Avery gave a grunt before throwing her half eaten apple at her.

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