Okay, I'm so happy about reviews! I've been happy all day! (Not to mention there's a snow day tomorrow!) YAY! So...this one is my action based chapter. Hope you like!
Review Replies, as followed:
Michelle 7~ It's like there's a pattern with all the reviewers! You always seem to be first! Ha-ha. That's fantastic! Yes, You'll hear about the myth in the next chapter or so, depending on how things go. And the reason behind the 'catching on fire' is going to be in the next chapter also. Thank-you for reviewing! YAY!
MAC~ haha. This is fun. Okay, I'm giving things away! DARN! You'll just have to wait and see if she's a water or fire goddess! (I'm evil like that!MUAHAHA)
Stargazer1364~YES! NEW READER!I tried to stay nuetral with the Cullens and Werewolves. So the Cullens are probably going to be *my* kind of similar to the books discription of the Cullens! He-he. Mackenzie is awesome! I agree! I was going to do some pairings with you know, Mackenzie and Jacob POV with each other, but decided against it. This is just about Paul And Selena I concluded. Poo. :(
EclipseLover97~School is on fire! :( RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! (Sorry, I felt the need to say that...)
LadyMiraculousNight~ Wow. I don't know if I can top that review.Just kidding! Mwahaha. Fire-Kissing? eh-eh? Okay, I know I'm crappy at this. For some reason, something tells me I don't want to be near you on Halloween...And yeah, Selena and Paul are both hot heads! Hahaha. But I think Paul is more like rawwwwr. Hmmm... Maybe he needs to be more rawwwr...Gets me thinking.
candyland 426~ Fire Goddess, well it depends. There are certain legends and myths about them. Some being they protect Earth's most valuable element-fire. And keep Mr.'s away from 'mellow yellowing' out the fire. And others where they completely rip you to shreds w/ fire. Which both are a little out there. So I came up with my own. And Water Goddesses. Similar. Hey, I got the idea when my little cousin was watching Avatar:The Last Airbender. So, if you've ever watched it- The Fire and Water people are basically based on those four elements of people or whatever. :)
happinie93(Ch..2,5,6,&7)~Chapters are always in Selena's POV. Not unless I mark it otherwise or tell you in the small note I usually do in the beginning of each Chapter. So far, only one Paul's POV. And I don't *think* I'll be posting some anytime soon. Not unless someone really, really, really wants it! Thanks for reviewing!
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BEFORE YOU READ!: I just want to tell you the song I picked specifically for this chapter. If you go to YouTube and type in this song:
Yiruma-Moonlight, I found this song and thought it would go good with this Chapter. So if you want to pull it up, go ahead-cool! If not, okay. :) And this is 10 TIMES more better than Bella's lullaby. (Or at least I think it's prettier.) ALL-PIANO if some don't know who Yiruma is.
Chapter 10 ~ The Road Not Taken
We all paused for a minute. La Push High had caught on fire . How could this happen? What was his/her motive? I don't know why, but I was damn well going to know why and how.
I ran my fingers through my tangled curly hair. I was in shock. This couldn't happen. It just couldn't. Suddenly a image appeared in my mind. Kim and Jared, inside the High school. Around the fire, it blazed with torture inside it's hot flames. Smoke swirled around them like a tornado in a near-perfect weather. I suddenly got sucked back inside my reality. Paul stared at me, passion and kindness was all I could see inside his eyes.
I swiftly made my way up, running into the darkness and pain of the forest trees. Paul was soon running besides me, looking at me odd. As if I'd lost my mind. I probably have. Just by seeing that vision. So clearly, so...there.
"Selena. Stop." Paul ordered. Paul had me tied around him like he was my only source of oxygen. And he knew it.
"What?"
"You can't do this. You can't go to this scene. Go back home. And I'll come back to you when it's safe. Do you hear me?" Paul said, holding me closer to him than ever before.
"No, I refuse." I growl in return.
"What's that supposed to mean?" He said back, his edge coming back.
"It means that I'm staying."
"All this after the first kiss, I don't want to know what'll happen when things get serious." Paul chuckled, dragging me along. I stared into his near-black orbs. 'when things get serious'?
"If it get's serious." I say, coughing to hide it.
"Don't say that." Pauls eyes contained a huge amount of pain. As if I slapped him in the face. "Come on," He retreated, taking his mind off of what I had just said.
I ran like there was no tomorrow. And maybe there wasn't. And if there wasn't, I could say I kissed Paul Espinoza. And that was almost like kissing the sun. If the sun didn't burn hotter than imaginable, that is. Which Paul did.
I saw La Push High School. All the older folks were outside in their pajama's. The fire department was preparing to hose down the place. And a miniture ambulance pulled up. And an old lady with white slippers and a walker got out, and cried. So I slid next to her, patting her back.
"Excuse me Mrs., but how did the High School catch on fire?"
"I-I D-Don't K-Know!" She screetched. Something felt awful familiar about this lady.
"Um...Are you Mrs. Tanner?" Mrs. Tanner was Lucy Tanner's only life-line left I recall. Mrs. Tanner was Lucy's grandmother. And at the age of 89, and Lucy was only seventeen...
"My Lucy is in there! SHE'S IN THERE!" She screamed.
"Thank-you." I called back, just before running into the blaze of fire. Paul faded away. Just like the whole scene. Into a deathly gray. I knew Kim, Jared and Lucy were in here. Just the process of finding them was the challenge. The gray fog covered every square centemeter of this place. Though I knew this place like the back of my hand, I still was rough on the edges.
I placed my palm on the end of the stairwell. If I was correct, the surroundings of Kim and Jared were in the science lab. I ran down the hall, my heart beating as if it had an over-dose of sugar. I couldn't calm down. Which resulted in me missing corners. I took a minute, ash flew everywhere. I didn't have much time to save three people and myself. I closed my eyes. Things went better if I closed my eyes. I felt as if I was walking on the flames. the flames hissing and criss-crossing below me. I took five more steps. This ought to be where Kim and Jared are. I opened the door. I couldn't find sight of anyone.
The chairs and tables were abandoned, not like I hadn't expected it. It felt so...different.
"KIM! JARED! SOMEONE?" I faintly yelled. My voice was becoming weaker. The smoke was somehow coming inside my lungs, filling me with smoke. I guess druggies have it bad. I knocked down chairs, books and test tubes, someone had to be here-right? I started cussing as I hit my knee on a spilled box of glass measuring cups. All my right knee had a scrape. It gushed of blood, and I couldn't walk properly. But I was still semi-strong.
I was thank-fully answered by a long, painful cough. It was feminine. I hurried towards the sound, crashing through bins and hitting my hurt knee on a table in the process.
"Kim? Jared?" I question. It was so hard to see, all the smoke surrounding them. Kim weakly nodded. Her eyes became distant. And I knew I was going to lose her anytime now. And Jared seemed like he was already dead. But I felt his chest-still strong. I took her hand. She had to be the first to escape. She was the weakest.
Kim was my best friend. She helped me, supported me and made my life a difficult-all at once. Sure I had my moments with her, but I also loved her too. She was my sister. She'd be able to tell the story of how she survived this incident, and how she was brave. She'll have her happy ending with Jared, have a dozen kids and be happy with that. And I'd die saving my enemy-Lucy. As for Paul and I, who knows. I'll meet you on the other side. This was how things began right? When one life ends?
I looked at her again, her eyes were now distant. Her face covered with the dirt that flew with every flame. The smell of the smoke drowned my nostrels. This was hell, and I was sure of it.
I needed to break this window. Something sharp, pointy even. I let my eyes roam around the room. I found a shard of broken glass from the measuring cup. I was sure I was on the first floor. I was postive. This was it-Kims great escape. I flung the shard at the window. It broke, tiny glass peices flinging onto Kim and I. When the window shrieked of air, I saw Jacob right there. The hole was too small for him to come in and help, but big enough for Kim to get through. I gave him Kim. He looked in moral shock. His features creased with confusion.
My next stop was Jared. I had to use all of my upper body strength to get back over there. He was in a corner;isolated. Go figure. I dragged Jared's humungous body across the floor. Building up a sweat, God-You never knew P.E. was so important! I finally got to the window. Jacob along with the rest of the pack was there, some ran and took Kim into the ambulance. A long tear escaped my face as I handed Jared to Jacob.
This was Kim's happy ending. She better damn well name one of the kids after me!
Paul's tall and buff figure stood infront of the window. His arm out-stretched towards me. A free offer to get out of hell for free. A free pass to live. A free pass to Paul.
And, I, I denied.
"What are you doing? Take my hand, Selena!" Paul screamed towards me, trying to be louder than the crackling fire that surrounded me.
I whipped my head into a 'no'. He understood.
"Why? Selena!" All his other words drowned out. "I LOVE YOU!"
I immediatly turned my head to him, sinking to the floor. It's what I imagined him saying all along. Just never quite imagined him saying it like this. Hey, Girls have thoughts like that when you kiss them that passionatly!
I didn't speak, I mouthed them. "I. Love. You. Too."
Maybe he just said them to change my mind. To make me take his hand. To live forever.
The depths of the smoke and ash covered the science lab. Saving Lucy or Loving Paul.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;~Robert Frost
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
And I, Selena Hart, Have took the road less traveled by. And it has made all the difference.
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