Chapter Nine: Interrogations
~Home - Front Yard~ Monday
EJ's PoV
I didn't know what surprised me more, the car or the driver. Well actually it was the car.
Maddi was driving a glossy red convertible with the top up. I could see through the window she had sunglasses on and the expression on her face said that she was waiting.
I walked over to the passenger side and got in. "Who's is this?" I asked, looking around in the car.
"My aunt's," she said, easily as she pulled out of the driveway.
"Rosalie?" I asked.
"Yes," she said, "how do you know what they all are to me?"
"The hair helps," I said, "and the way you act around them."
"How do I 'act' around them?" she asked, taking her eyes off of the road.
"Your Aunt Alice and Uncle Emmett, you act happy and playful. Your Aunt Rosalie and Uncle Jasper you act serious and smart and mature. Then you act angry and mad and scared, anything but what I said for the others around your father," I said. I looked over at her and a saw tear in her eyes.
"At least you have a real family. Its just me and my mother, and I'm more alone than I am anything else," I said, sadly.
"Sometimes I wish that I was alone," she whispered.
We were at school now, and I got out of the car and so did Maddi.
"Why?" I asked her, confused, "why do you want to be alone?"
"Cause sometimes having a big family sucks, a lot. It gets annoying when you turn thirteen, their just not cool anymore. It-you just never get any peace and quiet and well you just wouldn't understand," she said.
"Look," I said, grabbing her wrist, "I'm just curious, I'm alone too much. My mom's busy and I-I'm not really that social so…its just hard for me. All of these people that want to hang out with me, I…I just don't like it at all," I said, struggling to find the words.
"Why did you come up here then?" she asked.
"I told you, already me and my mom got into an argument," I said, tiredly.
"How long have you been coming up here?" she asked.
"Every summer since I was two, but I was born here. You?"
"I was born here and have been living here ever since I was a Freshman. What do you do in your spare time?"
"I draw and let me guess you play music," I said.
She had her guitar with her today and was wearing a Linkin Park concert shirt underneath her jacket.
"Ha ha very funny EJ. Hey what does EJ even mean?" she asked.
"There two of my four initials," I answered, not meeting her eyes.
"Come on tell me," she whined.
"No, unless you play me a song," I said, smirking.
"Fine then, you win," she pouted.
"What?" I asked, confused as we walked towards the cafeteria.
"We both know nothing," she said, smirking, as we stood under the cafeteria roof.
~Lunch~
"Maddi Cullen, is staring at you," Janie whispered to me, as we stood in line. "I wonder why she's not sitting with her family?"
"Maybe she wants to sit with someone else," I said, as Maddi held up her hand and motioned for me to come and sit with her.
"Does she want you?" Andy asked me, from behind me.
"Yes," I said, as I grabbed a tray and started to pile food on it. I didn't answer anymore of their questions, I just paid for my food and walked over to Maddi's table.
"Everyone's asking questions," I told her as I sat across from her.
"I know, and the stupid people you were talking to aren't the only ones," she said, as she looked at her nails.
"What?" I asked as I took a bite of pizza.
"They just use you to look cool, the first people to befriend the new kid," she said, meeting my eyes.
I sighed at this, then a question came to my mind, "are you dating anyone?"
Maddi blushed bright red and then said, "no!"
"Why not?" I asked curious.
"Have you seen my family? No guy wants to date a girl that has overprotective 'brothers', and I'm not noticed by anyone," she said sadly as she finished.
"They don't look scary and I know you could fight them off if you wanted to, Maddi. But what do you mean by being unnoticed?" I asked confused.
"Next to my aunts…I'm nothing, no one sees me…at all," she whispered, ducking her head.
"That's not true," I told her, as I put a finger on her chin and pushed it up. "They don't talk about Alice or Rosalie as much as they talk about. Your unique Maddi you just don't see it."
She looked away and I pulled my hand away. "Do you have a girlfriend?"
"Yes, she's a really close friend of mine actually," I said, not meeting her eyes this time.
"What's her name?" she asked, now she was curious.
"Hannah Uley."
"Hannah, cute," she said, a smile playing on her lips.
"Don't make fun of her, she's been my friend since she was born," I said, smiling myself.
"Oh, how long have the two of you been together?" she asked.
"Since last weekend when I went to La Push," I said, breaking eye contact.
"You mean I could of met her, but my family kept me from that?" she asked, angrily.
"Yes," I said, hesitantly.
~Home - Living Room~
We spent all of Biology talking when we could, interrogating each other, which was fun, but some questions were harder. Maddi's easy blushes came with most questions, though she could also tell when I was embarrassed.