Secrets, Werewolves and Coming Home
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Chapter 9 – Getting Caught
'You did WHAT!!' Bek screeched. I wrenched the phone away from my ear before she deafened me. I hadn't slept at all that night, after Jared dropped me home I paced around my room for an hour mulling over my two main concerns before collapsing in complete exhaustion at around one. Even then nightmares wreaked havoc with my already frail psyche; images of angry Quil yelling at me about Jared, he was shaking, violently so in a similar fashion to how Dan was when I was in hospital. I shook my head trying to rid myself of one of the many things I'd seen last night. 'Bek, BEK!!' I yelled interrupting her rant on not kissing total hot strangers. 'Oh no what else did you do?' she accused, her angry voice crackling and wavering over the connection. 'He........sought of asked if he could see me today,' I blurted. 'AND?' she asked impatiently, I could hear her tapping her foot on the floor of what I assumed was her kitchen floor. 'I.....sought of....said........yes,' I mumbled, crossing my fingers and praying like mad.
'AHHHH! You IDIOT!!' she screamed as I wrenched the phone away from my ear again. 'What on EARTH were you thinking!? No of course not because you weren't thinking WERE YOU!!' she ranted. I chewed on my bottom lip, maybe ringing Bek hadn't been such a good idea after all... 'Bek, sweetie can't you just....I don't...be happy for me?' I asked when she stopped to take a breath. 'I....Hmm! Oh well alright. I am happy for you; I'm just worried is all because this is Jared Thail we're talking about! He's not like Quil or Jake or Embry....' she trailed off. I stiffened at the mention of Quil. 'I'm not so sure you can class Quil in your perfect gentlemen's list anymore,' I sniffed, blinking back the tears I could feel coming on. 'Uh oh what did he do?' she asked, switching into her 'mom' voice. One of the unwanted tears fell onto my cheek as I remembered all the things Quil said to me last night and everything he didn't say. I leaned my against the back of the couch and shut my eyes, feeling drained, 'he basically said that I was pathetic and my little crush as he put it was ridiculous.' 'Oh honey, he didn't say that did he? Oh hon,' Bek soothed, her voice still crackling away on the other end.
I took a quick look at the clock. Shit! It was twelve and I hadn't gotten dressed yet! 'Hey Bek I gotta go I'll talk to you later ok?' I didn't even wait for her to say goodbye and hung up. I got off the couch and grabbed an apple from the kitchen on my way to the staircase. I ate it as I trudged up the stairs to find a suitable outfit for my date with Jared. I was halfway through my scrutiny of my bare closet when I realised Jared hadn't said where we were going. Damn! I was going to have to guess my way through this one. Frustrated I pulled my unruly curls into a high ponytail as I tried to figure out what I could do with my meagre supply of clothes. After 15 minutes of furrowed eyebrows and head scratching I settled on a pair of jeans, my sneakers and a tank top Sarah had given me for my birthday last year. I didn't have enough time to bother with any elaborate make up; lip gloss would just have to do, I thought to myself fighting off mental images of Deb and Eve taking turns beating me to death with a crowbar. I was stuffing my phone and house keys into my back pocket when the house phone starting ringing. I sprinted across the hall into mom and dad's room grabbing the receiver halfway through the third ring. 'Hello?' I phrased it like a question, crossing my fingers and praying it wasn't Jared.
'Alright bitch here's the thing, you may think you're very clever attracting Jared's attention with that little stunt you pulled last night but BACK OFF! Jared is MINE! And sooner or later he's going to realise exactly how pathetic you are and come crawling back to me. So how 'bout we make it sooner and have you stop encouraging him!' yelled a familiar furious voice, well as furious as a high pitched voice can sound. 'Gisele? What the fuck! How the hell did you get my home number?' I yelled back just as furiously, my left hand bawling into a fist. 'Never mind that!' she snapped, 'You just do exactly as I say or there will be consequences!' she spat before hanging up on me. I stared at the receiver for a minute before putting it back on the cradle. That girl was completely nuts; she was definitely missing a few screws. I wandered back into my room and started hunting for a decent coat. Twenty minutes later black knit coat in hand I walked back down the stairs to wait for Jared. I got to the foot of the stairs when there was a knock at the door.
'Please let that be him!' I prayed forcing myself to walk sedately to the door. 'Hi!' I said brightly, blinking several times to make sure he was still there, he seemed to perfect to be real. 'Hiya back,' he said chuckling softly at my enthusiasm. I gripped the door frame tightly to stop myself from passing out. I just couldn't believe it! Jared Thail was standing in my doorway of all places! 'You ready?' he asked shooting me a curious look. I nodded my head not trusting myself to speak. He smiled at me and I gulped really hard. God he looked so much more handsome when he smiled not that he wasn't handsome already. I shook my head as I pulled the door shut behind me and locked it. Pull yourself together Kim! I mentally chastised myself as I followed him out to his ute which looked even bigger in the daytime. 'Sooooo,' I said, dragging out the word once we were out of my driveway and halfway down the road, 'where are we going?' I asked turning to look at him. 'It's a surprise,' he said, slowly turning red. I shot him a quizzical look. He couldn't be nervous? Could he? Nah.
'Can you give me a clue?' I asked, looking at him persuasively using the full force of my big green eyes. His own brown....no mahogany eyes widened slightly and he groaned. 'Aww, come on Kim don't use those irresistible emerald eyes on me,' he moaned. I froze, he just said my eyes, my emerald eyes were irresistible! Oh My God! 'Humph I'll find out soon enough,' I huffed not completely disguising the joy I felt from his compliment. I turned to look out the window as the forests surrounding La Push gave way to the pebble flecked First Beach. I frowned slightly, as I stared out the hypnotic aqua waves. My memories of the last time I'd been here weren't pleasant ones. 'Kim?' I jerked out of my memory; Jared was watching me intently, studying the emotions on my face like he was trying to commit them to memory or something. He'd definitely noticed the pain etched on my face, I quickly covered it with a smile that even he could tell was forced. I pushed the open the door of his ute not realising how heavy it was and ran around it to stand where the dirt became sand. It wasn't all that windy today, the sky was still clear and there was a rare bit of sunshine making the waves sparkle like gems. I closed my eyes letting the sun warm my face as I breathed in the tangy, salty sea air. One thing was for certain I may have had some less than pleasant memories of this place but I had many more good ones.
I turned around and realised that Jared was still sitting in the cab. 'Are you coming?' I called, cupping my hands around my mouth. I could clearly see the look of admiration on Jared's face and found it a bit disconcerting. We wandered up and down the beach exchanging stories from when we were kids. I liked the way he laughed when I told him about the time Isaac got himself stuck down the toilet. Don't ask me how he did it; all I know is that he wanted to see if he could flush himself out to sea. You can blame Finding Nemo for that one! I felt a thrill go through me when he listened intently when I talked about Gran or all the places I'd lived. 'You really lived in Toronto! I don't believe you,' he crowed, we were sitting one of the pale logs that had washed up on the beach in haphazard places, sharing fish and chips he'd bought from the kiosk. I felt bad for him to pay for my share but he said it was fine. 'Yeah I have, we were there for around a year, and from there we moved to Boston,' I said pausing to take a bite out of my fish.
'Why did you come back?' he asked getting that intense listener look on his face again. I chewed thoughtfully, I didn't know whether I should share the full story with him but I didn't want to lie to him either. 'I never really told anyone this but we were in New York at the time and we got a letter from the La Push council informing us that Gran had died, so we came back to put her affairs in order and that took us around two months and in the end we just didn't want to leave so Dad got transferred, Mom got a job at the dinner in Forks and we all got enrolled in school, and we've been here ever since,' I finished wiping away a few stray tears, I felt a little sad talking about Gran. She was an impressive woman, very strong, very independent and she was fiercely protective of her family. If I ended up with at least one tenth of her formidable character I'd be a very happy girl. 'Your Gran was Esther Morgan right?' he asked wrapping an arm around my shoulders, I nodded. 'I met her once or twice, she came to our house after Dad walked out, she was a pillar of strength for Mom and she was always cooking for us and man she could cook!' I looked up at his face; his eyes had glazed over slightly like he was remembering what Gran's brownies tasted like. 'That's a good way to describe her actually, pillar of strength,' I laughed at my own comment. I could just imagine Gran showing up at Jared's house with a plate of brownies or a bowl of stew, her green eyes full of nothing but fierce concern. Her green eyes, the same ones I had inherited.
'Holy SHIT!' I yelled, flinching out of Jared's grip, his face looked shocked as I fell off the log backwards my legs flailing in the air. He was HOT, no I didn't mean looks wise but I swear he was burning up. I managed to scramble back onto the log and I rested the back of my hand against his forehand. 'Jesus Christ!' I swore, 'You're burning up!' All of a sudden as if he couldn't hold it in anymore he started laughing, not little amused chuckles but enormous belly laughs. The kind that grew in capacity the more you tried to hold them in. 'This is so not funny Jared Thail,' I growled feeling like an idiot for over reacting. After a few minutes of listening to him laugh he managed to control himself, 'Sorry about that it's just well you should have seen yourself,' he chuckled, I could feel that wretched ruby blush crawling its way over my cheeks. 'Ugh,' I pouted turning away from him to stare out at the hypnotic aqua waves. He stopped chuckling, and out the corner of my eye I could see him lean forward to look at me, his expression a little sheepish, but his eyes sparkling with mirth, I couldn't help but crack a smile, he grinned too, 'There I thought so,' he said and I turned and glared at him. He ducked his head, 'sorry I promise I'll be on my best behaviour now,' his eyes pleading me to forgive him.
I smiled, wrapping my arms around my knees and pulling them under my chin. I looked over at him slyly; I could see the panic taking hold in his eyes, 'What?' he asked, panic creeping into his voice. 'It's my turn now,' I said dropping my voice dramatically; he cocked his head looking confused. I leant towards him, fixing my gaze on him in a similar fashion to a lioness stalking her prey. He had the prudence to lean back and look scared, 'You've been questioning me all day and now it's my turn,' I said, slightly threateningly, he gulped and continued to lean away from my. A sly smile crept across my face, 'what are you gonna do to me,' his voice shook a little. 'Oh nothing really,' I said nonchalantly, 'just this!' I pushed him hard in the centre of his massive chest, he was leaning so far back that he fell off the log. What I wasn't counting on was having him grab my arm and pull me with him.
'Oh bugger!' I said hiding my face in his massive chest, 'Damn it I'd thought I had you there for a minute,' I could feel his chest shaking underneath me and I looked up to see him laughing again. I took a quick look at our surroundings only to realise we were in a bit of a compromising situation, I couldn't help it and started laughing myself. 'That was a good plan,' he said once we stopped laughing, he looked at me through his eyelashes, 'you actually looked quite dangerous for a minute,' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well obviously not dangerous enough, since you saw right through it,' I chuckled poking him in the chest. I could hear a wet crunching noise that sounded like two sets of feet walking towards us, 'Well well what do we have here,' said an unfamiliar voice that sounded like it was used to being obeyed. I felt Jared freeze underneath me. Oh shit!
Ooooh who do think it is?