I do not own Twilight, SM does
Hello ! Thank you BlueBoxAngel for your reviews ! its really encouraging me Makes me smile everytime! hehe keep reviewing ! I love Embry , hes my second fave wolf, Pauls my first obv. So I had to have him play a big part and I totally agree with the Leah comment! Ill see if I can work some Leah love into it somewhere. Ive got food poisoning and I'm stuck on my sofa so I've literally spent the last 24 hours writing new chapters hope you all like this one, and remember to keep reviewing it makes me happy xxxx
Oh god, what do I wear? Dress warm he says, it's a surprise he says. Why couldn't he just tell me? I hated not knowing. Kim walked in smiling at me, Jared was cooking her dinner at his house, his parents were away for the weekend. She was wearing a dress, she had curled her hair and she had a huge smile spread across her face, she looked stunning.
"Want some help?" She asked as she walked over to my closet, I nodded frantically at her, she knew where Paul was taking me so I guess I'd let her choose.
I started my hair and makeup as she rifled through my clothes, I did my usual make up, not too much, but I put some red lipstick on instead of pink gloss. Then I did a side fishtail plait with strands hanging out in curls here and there. I turned around and saw the outfit she had got, black skinny jeans, an oversized pale pink jumper that hung off one should, knee high flat brown boots, a cute pastel purple bag, a long necklace with flowers on the end and my usual bangles. It was cute, but still gave me no idea where I was going.
I got changed in the bathroom and brushed my teeth, walking back into the bedroom I looked up and saw that Jared had arrived, they both smiled widely as they looked up at me and nodded in agreement that it was a cute outfit.
"You look good Lottie, Paul will LOVE it" Jared smirked as he said this; Kim squealed and clapped her hands together. I grabbed my bag and walked downstairs, to get the seal of approval from dad I hoped.
Mom still wasn't home from work yet so it was just Dad and Scott sat in the living room, as I walked around the corner and into the room they both shut up instantly, as if talking about something private. Dad looked up at me, he looked sad until he looked at my outfit, a grin spread across his face, Kim walked in behind me and Dads grin got wider.
"You both look so pretty, have fun tonight girls, Jared, you take care of my baby ok!" Jared laughed and nodded at Dad. Scott gave us both the thumbs up just as the doorbell rang. Dad jumped from the sofa and ran to the door, oh great.
"Hi, I'm Paul is Charlotte in" I could hear Paul; his voice was polite, quieter than usual. Me, Kim and Jared walked to the front door, Pauls face lit up in a huge smile as he saw me. I blushed as usual.
Kim patted me on the back as she walked outside, Jared winked at Paul as he followed her. My dad was looking from me to Paul, before doing the awkward cough. I looked up at him and realised he looked different, this eyes sparkled less and he seemed thinner, his hair was much wispier than usual. I shook the thought from my head and gave him a kiss.
"Look after her Paul, I want her home by 11pm" Oh god, he never gave me curfews with Carter, the boy who was a complete prick but with Paul a nice guy he gave me one. Way to go dad.
"Of course sir, ill have her home by 10.55pm" He smiled at my dad and shook his hand, before taking mine and walking me out to the car. I blushed again and the butterflies were going crazy. He opened my door for me before walking round his side of the car. He smiled at me as he got in.
"You look amazing Lottie" He seemed nervous, but he relaxed when I smiled.
"Don't look so bad yourself Paul" I winked at him as I said it, I have no idea where this confidence has come from but I feel so comfortable with him. He chuckled and pulled out of the driveway, my dad and Scott were stood in the window staring at us, real smooth guys.
I looked into the back seat and saw a picnic basket, ok so we aren't going to a restaurant. Then Paul took a right off the main road and went down some sort of dirt track. Right so not the beach either. Where the hell was he taking me? He grinned as he saw the confusion on my face.
"Don't worry, you will love it" I looked over at him, he was in jeans and a white shirt, his muscles were fighting against the material, man he looked hot. He turned the radio on and Bleeding Out by Imagine Dragons came on the station. I loved this song, he started singing along with it whilst looking at me occasionally, he was far too good looking for his own good. His husky voice sent chills down my spine; he wasn't a bad singer either.
He looked across at me and smiled as he sung the words, he made me shiver again, he reached across and pulled me into his side, his arm across my shoulders, and he continued to sing. Was he singing it to me? No he just likes this song idiot. The song ended and I stayed in his embrace, the next song came on and Paul laughed and went to change it but I stopped him, hey I'm a girl, I like this song, Beyonce Single Ladies came on.
I started singing along to it, he just kind of stared at me for a few seconds before chuckling and joining in, and I started doing car dancing. You know when you're sat in a car and start moving your arms around crazily like you're dancing. He laughed harder and started moving his head from side to side in time with the beat and doing the left hand thing that Beyonce does in the music video. Our singing got louder and we were full on jamming out in his car. I looked up at Paul as he tried hitting some high note that ended up coming out like a the screams Claire let out when Quil chased her, it was too funny and I started hysterically laughing as he pulled into a little clearing in the trees.
"You're a really good singer, you know that?" He looked at me, his laughing had died down, he was still smiling though.
"Me, what about you? That was a serious note you hit there Pauly" I started laughing all over again as I got out of the car and walked around to where he was stood.
"No I'm being serious, your voice, its perfect" He was staring at me, his eyes bore down into mine and my breath halted. "Like you". Well that was unexpected. I smiled up at him, my cheeks heated up. He was close to me now. I could feel his breath against my face, the heat of his body on me. He was holding my hand, I couldn't breathe properly. He leant down and kissed my cheek, then the tip of my nose, before placing a light kiss on my lips. He pulled back staring at me waiting for my reaction.
Well, that was it, my whole face was burning and all I could do was smile like an idiot. It was the tiniest of kisses but my whole body was tingling. He smiled back at me before whispering "Come on" to me. He grabbed the picnic basket and led me hand in hand through a gap in the trees ahead.
We reached a little opening, it was a cliff edge, there was pretty little flowers sprouting everywhere and the view went right out to sea, the sun was going down and the reflection shone off the water below us. He laid out a blanket as I stood looking into the sunset. I felt his hand take mine and pull me back a bit. This place was beautiful. I could feel the smile spread across my face as I sat down.
Paul was looking at me, again like I was the most beautiful thing in the world. I had no idea why he did that but I liked it. He reached into the basket and got out a bottle of Iced Tea, my favourite, and it was cold! Then he took out a bowl of blueberry muffins, some ham and cheese sandwiches with the crusts cut off, Strawberry jelly, strawberry's and a bar of Hershey's Cookie and Cream chocolate. Ok so this had Leah written all over it, my favourite foods. I smiled at him; he looked relieved, as if he had expected me to hate it or something.
"I had Leah help, she knows your favourite foods I wanted to make sure everything was perfect" He said it nervously, like I would get angry at him for not making it himself.
"It is perfect, I love it" he let a big breath out as if he had been holding it in. I poured myself some Iced Tea and Paul handed me a sandwich.
"So you can sing then? I mean your voice was perfect earlier" he asked whilst wolfing down his 2nd sandwich.
"Um yeah I guess I can, my dad taught me piano, Kim plays quitar, we used to sing together, me, her and dad. I write songs too but I haven't for a while." I looked at him, wondering why he cared.
"Your very talented then, I mean Kim said you danced and now you play piano and sing? Is there anything you can't do?" he grinned at me widely.
"Yeah, I'm rubbish at drawing, I can't really swim very well and I'm a complete mess in the kitchen" Remembering the time Kim and I had tried making Thanksgiving dinner for dad back in California, he had been too busy to cook it so we tried, we were like 14 and ended up setting fire to the Turkey, the neighbours had heard the alarm going off and ran across and put the fire out before it set the whole oven off. We were banned from the kitchen from that point onwards.
"That makes two of us then, with the kitchen thing, why else would I get Leah to do this, I would defiantly have given you food poisoning. I could teach you to swim, I'm a good swimmer" I nodded as I swallowed a bite of my sandwich.
"Yeah maybe you could, but maybe next summer as its getting a tad cold for me to go anywhere near the water in La Push" He laughed at me, I wasn't used to all this cold weather, it was killing me.
I shivered as I realised just how chilly it was, Paul was now on his 3rd muffin after his 6 sandwiches, whilst I was still on my 1st sandwich. Such a pig. But a cute pig. He must have noticed me shiver because he moved closer to me. We sat in silence for a few minutes before he handed me the chocolate bar, I grinned, I loved this chocolate. We shared it, Paul obviously had the most. That kid eats far too much.
I started shivering again, and Paul moved so he was sat behind me, with me in-between his legs, he wrapped his arms around me and my stomach did flips, we just sat there staring out into the ocean, the moon was glowing down on it making pretty patterns in the waves.
"I really like you Lottie" My heart stopped, where had that come from? I turned my face around so I was looking into his eyes. The guy who had so many times before scared the living daylights out of me was now telling me how much he likes me? He knew how to confuse a girl.
"I'm sorry I was such a jerk before, the minute I saw you I liked you and I didn't want to hurt you so I tried to not like you, but it just got too hard to ignore you. You're perfect and beautiful. And I'm sorry if I ever scared you" My heart fluttered. I just sat looking at him unsure of what to say.
"Just don't mess with me Paul, I can't stand to be hurt anymore. Don't hurt me" As I said it he looked pained.
"I would never hurt you, I promise" I could tell he was telling the truth, he looked at me with so much intensity I blushed deeply. He leaned forward and kissed my nose again like earlier. He was close to my mouth, I could feel his breath on my lips. BUZZZZZZ BUZZZZ BUZZZZZZZ , oh god not now please.
I jumped as my phone started ringing in my pocket. I looked down,
Dad
Oh god, the time, it was 11.30pm. oh crap.
Paul saw and jumped up he started packing everything away, I helped and as we turned to walk to the car it started raining. We ran through the trees but I couldn't keep up with him, he turned and scooped me up over his shoulder in a fireman's lift and ran, I was giggling as I got soaked. He threw the car door open and placed me in the front seat, throwing the picnic basket in the back. He climbed in next to me and pulled me into him again, like earlier. We kept the radio off, just occasionally glancing at each other.
We pulled up outside my house and I saw Mom and Scott in the kitchen and Dad waiting on the porch, he flew up as we pulled up and started marching toward the car. Paul got out to my horror.
"Mr Thail, I'm so sorry, we lost track of time, its completely my fault, I'm really sorry." My dad looked floored, he had obviously worked himself up to yell at Paul but he seemed unable to.
"Um thats ok, I was just worried, why are you wet Char?" he looked at me as I climbed out of the truck.
"Oh we got caught in rain, again my fault, sorry" Paul looked at my dad with a little grin on his lips.
My dad nodded and turned around walking back to the house. I let out a breath and giggled. I turned to Paul, his shirt was clinging to him, I could make out his muscles beneath it. I looked up at him, he was closer to me than expected. He leant down and kissed my forehead.
"Goodnight Baby, see you later" he winked at me as he got into his truck. I turned and ran into the house, leaning against the door as I shut it, I started squealing and jumping up and down on the spot. I kicked off my boots and turned to walk upstairs to be met by my Mom, Dad and Scott looking at me grinning. Mom and Scott both winked at me and said goodnight before going up to bed.
Dad on the other hand walked into the living room, he was sleeping on the sofa, I followed him.
"I like him, Paul, hes nicer than the other kid, what was his name, Travis?" Travis ? what ?
"Carter dad, his name was Carter"
"Oh yeah, him, well anyway, I like Paul more, he seems nicer, more like a gentleman, Carter was a bit of a shit" I coughed as my dad swore. He never swore in front of me. I laughed a bit and smiled at him, he liked Paul. My insides did a little dance.
Dad stood up and walked over to me, he placed a long kiss on my forehead. He still look pale and little unwell.
"Dad are you ok? You seem different, like ill?" I looked up at him, he looked sad.
"No baby girl, I'm fine, I promise." he looked like he was in pain.
"Ok. I love you daddy"
"I love you too baby, more than you'll ever know, and always will" I smiled and walked up to my room.
Kim flew in the bedroom just after me, she looked a little flushed as if she had been crying, she jumped into bed without saying anything to me. I chose to ignore it, I'd ask her in the morning.
Lying in bed I stared out of the window, the moon was beautiful tonight; I let myself think of the patterns it made on the water, the way Paul had looked at me. This was by far the best birthday I've ever had. As I drifted off to sleep I heard howls, they sounded angry. I looked at Kim who had jumped up, she looked terrified. She led back down and covered her head with a pillow and whimpered something about Jared being careful. I got up and slid into bed with her, she turned and cuddled me, and the howls didn't stop.