June fifth. Eighteen years ago, in a city hospital in Montana, a baby was born with blood coating her body, and her lungs convulsing to scream in this strange thing called air. She was then deposited quickly into Mothers arms after she was declared female. It was ten o'clock at night when the flailing arms were deposited onto Aprils breasts. John eagerly waiting beside her in scrubs.
Within two hours of labor, a baby was pushed into the blaring lights and less then dreary voice of an underpaid obstetrician declaring it was a girl and not a boy like the ultrasounds said. Must have been a foot he said as he delivered the placenta.
After nurses were constantly coming in after hours of the birth, April was watching a documentary on Theodore Roosevelt, when the fifteenth nurse came in asking for a name; April threw up her sandwich she was eating and said.
"Theo! Theo Rein! God dammit, there you go! Now leave me alone!"
And her husband soon came in with a bewildered face, asking how she named their kid, when he looked to the documentary, he grew red in the face and laughed.
June Fifth was a happy day.
When June fifth rolled around, I woke up with a headache. My hair was plastered to my skin and I was sweating profusely. I wasn't sick, no, no. I was nervous, today, I would graduate. Gowns and hats galore. I was just sickened, standing in front of a town that wouldn't clap for me or even recognize me. Jean promised me she'd be there. Emily said she'd try and make it.
Dad had come back from his job in Seattle to watch.
But the thing that scared me most, was that everyone was going to watch me, wonder who the hell I was, and just stare.
I pulled my blankets back with a wince, feeling the sweat clinging to the inside, causing it to be damp. I grabbed my hairbrush from alongside the bed, and walked into the bathroom, quickly washing myself then walking out with a towel around my body with my hair being brushed out with a hand that wasn't holding the oddly colored towel up.
I had to be at school around nine o'clock, graduation was twelve o'clock. And it was…. I leaned over to look at the digital clock by my bed. Eight thirty. Great. I poked my head out the hallway, hearing the snores and deep breaths of Mom and Dad. I threw the towel down and rushed into my underclothes. Slipping on a pair of loose faded shorts, and dark green tank top. Compared to my other clothes around my room, these were nice. I brushed imaginary wrinkles from my top and headed downstairs, my bare feet thumping quietly.
Nervousness frazzled my nerves, yet excitement hit me in waves, slow at first, then steadily growing. I was shyly grinning when I was walking with an excited pace to the high school. My hair was braided down my back and the sun glittered across the wet hair, allowing it to dry faster than it normally would inside the house.
I watched a few people within the senior class drive by with spray paint on their cars, saying they were seniors and such. I saw Bella go by with her… vampire? No… boyfriend? I don't know, all I know is that she was staring at me through the windshield, a pretty dress on her, well, at least the top looked like a dress. I shook my head and got rid of the thoughts. Edward and his family scared me. If they so as much wandered up to me today, I swear I would go as pale as them.
The high school was a happy sight to me today, as it was for my Mom Eighteen years ago. At least, that's what I hope was her mindset when I came out screaming. The parking lot was full of seniors in their best get ups. Girls eyes were shaded with various shades of make-up. Girls who had naturally straight hair now had their hair curled up with various amounts of hairspray. The guys had nice slack pants and shirts, and some looked like they even put some hairspray into their own hair.
I had to admit, the sight of a lot of them made me laugh a little.
Here I was, dressed in my average summer clothes, getting odd looks from every which way. I mean, no one's going to see these clothes. I'll be under a gown, getting my paper for graduating.
I walked quickly past them, heading inside to finalize everything. Everyone was talking fast, telling everyone how they were going to Bella Swan and Edward Cullen's graduation party. I'm just going to go home, relax and try to get the feel for finally being out of school.
I settled down quickly in a chair in the lunchroom after the entire graduating class was told to wait there. We were given our gowns and caps quickly. And I swear, I could see smirks coming from some of the Cullens, just holding those caps in their hands like they were jokes. I didn't know how old they were, it's just, I knew they were getting some private joke that no one else but they got. It was strange as hell that they would just laugh at our humanity.
"Hey Theo."
I broke out of my spacing out to see Bella Swan standing above me, looking shy and such. I made a small hum in my throat to acknowledge her.
"I'm… really sorry about telling you about everything and just starting a chain reaction of everything."
Her face was red in embarrassment.
"You shouldn't have been told anything, and I'm sorry I screwed up part of your life."
I quirked an eyebrow, silently staring at her as she began to ramble on how I wasn't supposed to be told anything at all.
"I'm an imprint you know."
She stopped right there, her flailing down for now, until a giant grin grew onto her face.
"Really?!" She grabbed onto my shoulders in an excited manor. "Who is it then? It's not Jacob, because he would have told me and Sam already is imprinted to Emily..!"
I stopped her by grabbing her wrists and taking her hands off my shoulders.
"It's Paul."
Her face screwed up real ugly then, but she still stayed.
"Well, er… that's great." She paused. "He's not mean is he?"
I raised a brow at that, a small smile growing on my face. "No, he's a complete suck up."
She laughed at that, and I was glad that her screwed face was gone, it was really a downer in the mood actually.
She then stopped suddenly and glanced over at the Cullens whose noses were wrinkling heavily. I remember Emily telling me that whoever was a werewolf and near them smelled horrible to them. I kind of grew happy at that, that I had something that made them uncomfortable.
"Do you have plans tonight?"
I froze up at that, no, no. She's not taking me to her party, nope. That's what my frightened part of my mind said.
"If you're asking about your party.." She smiled at that exclamation, saying that was what she was going to say. "I guess I can see if I can borrow the car, but I don't know if Emily is going to invite me over or not… it just depends."
"Well.. I hope you can make it at the very least."
"I'll see if I'll be able to walk into the lions den."
She laughed at that as she walked away, and once again, my stomach erupted into nervous butterflies, everyone chatting amicably. Until we were told to throw on our gowns and get into alphabetical order. I was next to Bella while we began the march down the aisle to the ceremony, everyone was watching eagerly as I went hand and hand with a red headed boy I never got the chance to talk to really at all. I think we spoke once in politics class.
He smiled at me, and I returned it as we walked down the aisle to our seats. Once we were sat down on our metal seats that would most likely hurt my butt by the end of the long speeches to come, I searched the crowd. Finding my parents seated happily next to each other. Mom's collar bone held a piece of blue paint that smudged, and I looked her in the eyes and rubbed my hand against my own collar bone. Her eyes became wide and she soaked her hand in spit and rubbed furiously till it was red and raw. I grinned at that, and soon the speeches started. I was surprised when I saw some of the La Push pack here. Well, not some actually, most. Paul was staring at me the entire time, and when I reached his eyes, I grinned. He grinned back.
When I got my diploma, I was expecting ordinary claps like the rest of the audience did for everyone else. But of course, my Mom, the follower of pintrest decided. Hey, I'm going to scream at the top of my lungs like an Amazon Warrior.
"GO THEO, WHOOO!"
And as soon as the Pack heard, oh, all hell broke loose. Hooting and hollering hit the air. And if anyone knew what an imprint was to the La Push Natives, then they would have known that I was an imprint.
I smiled shyly at this.
Oh and how perfect this all was.
"I don't want to decide that right now! You're pressuring me!"
I growled this out at Paul. He seemed taken back. And stared down at me.
"If we are going to," I waved my hands wildly in-between us. "do whatever, then let it happen, don't force it on us!"
Paul was staring wide eyed and slack jawed at me. Admiration on his face, than just made me angrier.
Emily shoved a blueberry muffin into my hands, smiling widely at me. The pack was happily chatting around me. Paul sitting next to me of course. This caused me to snap out of my memory. And smile back up at Emily, unwrapping it and eating it happily.
"So… Bella Swan invited us to her party, what we gonna do?"
I nodded at Quil's statement. "Yeah, she invited me too."
Paul growled softly beside me and I glanced at him, my gaze seemingly calming him.
"I want to go." Jacob said, standing up. My eyebrow raised up at this, I knew of his exploits with her, and frankly, I wasn't surprised at them. He was apparently nice before he went through the change, but now, all he thought about was Bella; like she was an imprint.
I know because Paul would complain at all hours whenever we talked about his shifts.
"She seemed like she really wanted me to go." I spoke softly, and Jacob grinned at me.
"I refuse to go." Paul grumbled next to me.
I giggled outside in the forest when Paul walked out the bushes with everyone else pulling on their shorts and laughing at each other's jokes. I was still a little frightened when Paul had me hanging onto him as a little girl would a pony. I think that other people would have been overjoyed riding a horse sized wolf. No… I was terrified, completely and utterly terrified.
"Lets get this party started!" Seth said loudly, pumping his fist into the air. Paul growled and I could tell he just smelled something bad, his nose wrinkled and he stepped next to me, putting an arm around my shoulders and pushing me into the side of his chest.
"Really?" I said with a muffled voice, and I swore I heard someone in the pack laughing directly at me.
The lights from the Cullen house illuminated us, and we stepped onto the lawn, a few stares being gained and Bella walking out with a smile towards Jacob. Which was simply how I perceived Bella, she paid attention to Jacob, despite being in love with Edward. It really was quite strange.
But I didn't want to pay attention to any of that, while Pauls arm was around me, I stood in awe at the lights twinkling at the party goers.
Happy birthday to me.
I screwed up a little with the storyline. When I saw the movie, I remembered the snow and Victoria, and I was like, oh! Its winter! But nope! Most of it took place in the Summer time. So just, let's say, ignore that part would ya were I said it was winter time yeah? And I was doing some Google searching, and I couldn't find out when they graduated, so, graduation is June Fifth. On Good o'l Theo's birthday, the lucky lady!
Has anyone else felt this? But I feel like Bella and Theo's conversations are forced, but then again, I feel like they just close up and wrap nicely at the end.
Anyways, short chapter, cause I'm starting school tomorrow and I want to do other crap right now. Got my red bubble shirts too, so I'm going to wear my forest spirit shirt from Princess Monoke tomorrow. Annndd, less chapters again because I've decided to work cows right after school starts. Kind of ironic… kind of like how I'm writing Theo graduating while I start school.. heh, that's kind of funny. But I might write this story while I'm in yearbook, since that's an easy going class at my school.
But thanks for reading! Have a good one!
