Chapter 10 – Encounter & Freak Out

It had officially been three months since Gen, Angelica and their mom moved to La Push.

And officially Seth had yet to confront Angelica about whatever the hell is was he wanted to say to her. He was such a chicken shit! After learning the girl he imprinted on was Genevieve's little sister he had to come clean to Gen about it. Gen gave him the same sympathy Jake had and told him she'd think of a reason for him to try and win her little sister over.

Seth couldn't believe his luck. He absolutely couldn't believe it. Jake had been teaching him everything he knew about fixing cars. As his luck would have it, he was walking down the road towards the school when he looked ahead and saw a small tan Toyota pulled over to the side of the road; the hood was up and smoke was pouring from the hood. He jogged up to the car and noticed the hood was open. He nearly had a heart attack when his imprint walked out from in front of the car with a glare on her face.

"Oh lord not you again! Look if you want to knock me down again you're going to have to wait until I can get my car running and get to school…Give me a few hours and I'll meet you in L Hallway and you can run me over then." Angelica bit off snidely.

And there was the girl he was slowly falling in love with. His life would definitely not be complete without a few snarky comments here and there. Every time he'd seen her since he'd accidentally ran into her she had some kind of snide, snarky or spiteful comment to mumble while passing him in the hallway at school. But he couldn't help fall in love with her snotty attitude. Even though after a couple of months the comments were getting on his nerves. She couldn't be nice to him if it was a matter of life or death.

Seth sighed heavily. "If you'll give me a chance; I'd like to help."

Angelica made a face. "Okay…Go for it Mr. Mechanic."

Seth rolled his eyes as he looked under the hood. He reached into his back pack and pulled a bottle of water out and used the sleeve of his sweatshirt to unscrew the radiator cap. Seth noticed that Angelica was watching his every move. He poured the bottle of water in the coolant pout and replaced the cap; making sure it was screwed on tightly.

He moved the hood stand and let the hood drop down slowly letting it lock into its closed position. "The water will work until after school then you're going to need to get some antifreeze; otherwise you'll keep overheating your engine and eventually it will blow up then you'll need to replace the engine." Seth sighed heavily. "You're welcome." He turned away from her and took off jogging towards the school. He loved the speechless look on her face. It sort of pained him to be snide towards her, even if she'd done to him on more than a few occasions. Hopefully he'd changed her opinion of him and just maybe got her attention in a good way. Either way hopefully he'd find out soon.

Jake was glad Gen had been taking his secrets about being a wolf and imprinting really great. Some of the imprints had over reacted and freaked out on their significant wolf. Gen had actually been the first imprint to not freak out.

Thanks to the imprint bond the wolves had interesting links to their imprints. When Jake woke up this morning he started having a few mixed emotions coming from Gen; the strongest emotion being sadness. He went over and picked her up for school and she was pretty quiet. She hadn't said more than fifteen words to him. He asked her a couple of times if she was okay or needed to talk about anything, but she would just shake her head no and tell him she was 'fine'. He could tell by her posture and lack of vocal chatter she was anything but fine.

He was sitting in Science and he couldn't get Gen's emotions out of his body. He was starting to feel slightly nausea. The bell finally rang and he headed down the hallway where a few random girls were squealing at loud pops in the air. Jake rounded the corner and smirked. Jared and Paul had pop guns that they had bragged about stealing from Jared's little cousins. Those two would probably never grow up; they were going to stay best friends and adolescents forever.

Genevieve had been walking down the hallway and she suddenly heard a series of loud pops in the air. She could feel herself shaking from head to toe as she froze in place in the hallway. A few more pops echoed through the hallway. Gen swallowed hard as she slowly started to continue down the hall.

'This isn't Bellevue…This is NOT Bellevue.' She had to keep repeating that in her head. It was just students pulling jokes on other students. Gen rounded the corner and Jake's worried eyes immediately found her. She fake smiled as she walked over to her locker and push her books in the locker. She started to close her locker and join Jake and the others for lunch; when a couple more tight popping sounds sounded like they were near her.

Gen spun around and saw Jared and Paul both holding guns in the air. When they both pulled the triggers at the same time; multiple times Gen's back pushed against the lockers as she squeaked out and ducted down with her hands over her ears. "STOP IT!" Gen screamed out.

Jake, Jared and Paul's heads jerked around to a squatting figure on the floor near the lockers. Jake suddenly noticed it was Gen, he ran over and squatted down next to her, her eyes were clamped shut and her hands over her ears, her whole demeanor was completely different than what Jake was used to. She was terrified. She was literally shaking from head to toe.

Gen's eyes fluttered open and she noticed Jake was squatting next to her and Jared and Paul's eyes were widened as they watched her. Gen saw something move out of the corner of her vision and her eyes darted over and saw it was Jake's hand coming towards her as she pushed up and jerked her whole body away from him. "Don't touch me."

Jake watched as she blinked and a couple of stray tears slid down her cheeks. She wiped them away as she kept her back sealed to the lockers. "Gen…Is everything okay?" His eyes were filled with worry.

Jared took a step forward as he held out the noisy weapon in question. "Sorry Gen, we didn't mean to scare you, their just kids pop guns."

Gen grabbed her sweatshirt out of her locker and her house keys; she pulled the sweat shirt on roughly. "Sorry I-I-I need to get out of here. I don't want to be here. I have to go." She brushed past Jake and the guys as she pushed through the side door of the school.

By the time Jake hit the parking lot, Gen had completely disappeared. Jake sighed heavily as he jogged back into the school and searched for Angelica. He finally found her standing with her friends as he jogged up to her. "Angie…What's going on with Gen?"

Angelica looked around as she walked away from her friends and had Jake follow her. "What happened? What do you mean what's going on with Gen? As far as I know she's been perfect since you came into her life."

Jake shook his head negatively. "No, a couple of my friends were shooting pop guns off in the other hallway and she freaked out, wouldn't let me touch her or help her and she just took off."

Angelica frowned. "She hasn't told you about our dad; has she?"

Jake mirrored her frown as he shook his head no. "No I'm not trying to push her."

Angelica nodded slowly. "Well I'll bet you anything she already got to the house and took the car mom got her for her birthday and she's probably on her way to Bellevue. She'll be at Bellevue Chapel Lawns; the cemetery where our father is buried. It's been exactly one year to the day today. She was holding up pretty good this morning when she first got up, but I'm pretty sure those pop gun noises didn't help at all. The sooner she tells you why the faster you can understand why she freaked out the way she did." Angie pulled a piece of paper and a pen out and scribbled on it before handing it to Jake. "That's the address where you can find her. You can't miss it; the place is surrounded by trees and the woods."

Jake nodded. "Thanks Angie. I'll find her and get her back home."

"Take your take Jake. Our mom is in Port Angeles for the next two weeks. And neither of us knows exactly how to help Gen. She's never told us what went on the day our dad was killed. Only Gen knows. She was the only one there. I'll be at my friends all week and weekend so the house with be yours and Gen's. Maybe she can finally start healing from all of it." Angelica pleaded more than asked for Jake's help with Gen. Angie was a snarky smart mouth, but Gen had suffered enough and needed to start healing from the whole ordeal.

Jake nodded. "I'll do what I can."

Jake took off as he drove to his house as fast as possible. As he explained what happened to his dad, he dad got a map book out and started lining a course that Jake could take in his wolf form. He'd be able to get to Gen faster as a wolf on four legs, then a human on two legs and a car that had to be filled up and stop at lights and stop signs. Jake made sure he took enough cash to fill Gen's car and get food for the trip back. It wouldn't take long but he wanted to be prepared for anything.

Jake drove his VW Rabbit to Gen's house and locked it up; using the spare key he let himself into the house as he jogged upstairs and grabbed extra clothes for Gen into a backpack he had with spare clothes for himself. He made sure the door was locked up again as he jogged into the tree line and phased; grabbing the backpack in his mouth he took off as fast as his four legs could carry him. By car it would've taken four hours, but with is natural wolf speed he'd make it there in half the time. And he wanted to get to her ASAP.