I climbed out of Tom's stupid flashy sports car, and walked toward the school. Annie jogged ahead of me now, probably in search of Javier. I feel guilty that I didn't get much of a chance to talk to her yesterday since I was wrapped up in my own world. I walked to my locker, knowing I would pass Mark's on the way. I wonder if he's here yet. I turned the corner and saw Mark waiting against my locker, Elena close by, smiling at something he said. She probably expected this since she knows about the whole imprint thing.
"Good morning," his spoken words made me ache again, but definitely in a good way.
"Hey, Lily!" Elena smiled, then said, "I've got to go, I'll meet you in class." This is unusual. She always waits for me. Maybe she feels awkward about this or something.
"Okay, see you in a few!" I replied. Then, making eye contact with Mark, I returned his "good morning." A soft smile played on his voluptuous lips and he bent down to kiss me now, grabbing my hand. It only lasted a few seconds, but I am satisfied with its completeness. A few kids walked by and snickered, but then my attention was totally diverted.
"WTF!" I heard a familiar voice say, quite loudly. "You'll regret this!"
I turned to see Annie at the end of the hall with Javier. "Don't make a scene Annie," despite his words, his voice was also raised.
"You're such a jerk! I can't believe I ever fell for you!" Did Annie just inherit my temper or something? A crowd was building around the two, but I stood in place, unsure if I should go to her or not.
"What did you expect? That we would get married or something?" Javier challenged.
"Not exactly," Annie narrowed her eyes, looking like I do in this sort of situation, except she's much more modelesque in every way. "I just expected you to be more of a man. Well that's what I get for dating a chico instead of an hombre." She turned and stalked off, down another hallway. The crowd aplauded and Javier's face flushed red enough that I could easliy see it from my far away position. Then, I saw my twin brothers approach Javier, looking menacing, though they are no bigger than he is. He turned away from my brothers and walked in the opposite direction of Annie and without a word, I think the message is clear.
"I better go find Annie." I said to Mark, leaning in for a kiss and despite the fact that I'm 5'6", I had to stand on my tip-toes to get even close to his mouth. He met me more than halfway and our lips met again.
Releasing my hand, he said "I'll see you at lunch."
"Definitely," I tried to sound sexy, but I'm not sure if this was accomplished or not. I ran in the direction I had seen Annie go in. The bell rang, shoot. I'm going to be late for class. After two minutes of searching, I found her with Eve in the bathroom, slumped on the floor, crying. She must really be upset since Annie would probably rather die on a usual basis than touch the floor of a public restroom with anything other than the sole of her $200 shoes.
"Aw, Annie, I'm so sorry," I joined her on the floor, putting my arm around her.
"He's not worth you being this upset," Eve's attempt to comfort Annie backfired. Her tears grew more furious when this was said.
"Annie, it's okay, there are 500 more guys in this school who would die to walk in Javier's shoes," I continued to sooth the best I could.
"You don't get it, Lily," she sobbed. "I let him... I let him... I thought he really loved me!" The crying became more instense, which I didn't realize was possible. Eve made eye contact with me and from the expression on her face and her clenched jaw, I finally got it.
"You had sex with him?!" I exclaimed.
"Not sex, but almost," Eve clarified for my since Annie couldn't speak proper English at the moment.
"Annie, jeez. Why didn't you tell me?" We used to be close.
"It just happened on Saturday. They snuck off to the limo during the dance and no one noticed." Eve spoke for Annie again. I wonder how far they went exactly? I won't ask now, she can tell me another time if she wants to. I am so disappointed with her right now. She should've known better, but I'm not going to make her feel worse. I'm not her parent.
"Annie, it's okay." I hugged her tighter for a long moment. "Come on, let's get you cleaned up." She looked up at me and laughed.
"I look like a mess, don't I?"
"You still look like the most gorgeous girl in the school," Eve and I helped her to get off the floor.
"I should be taking care of you, Lily, not the other way around." Annie's sobs subsided. "Eve, I'm sorry about this."
"Nonsense," Eve said and we helped Annie to splash cold water on her face.
She and Eve went to chill in Tom's car, skipping first period so that she could truly calm down. I ran to Algebra and apologized profusely for being late. The rest of the morning went by rather slowly, rumors of Annie and Javier's argument buzzing around everywhere. At lunch, I met Mark in line and we got our trays of food, mine with a turkey sandwhich, an apple and milk, his with three sandwhiches, an apple, a banana, three milks and a piece of cake. "Are you really going to eat all of that?" I grimaced.
"I'm a growing boy," he chuckled and I could see that his body is a little too skinny for his height, probably due to the rapid growth spurt. As we approached the table I always sat at, Elena smiled welcomingly, Sarah and Beth gawked, their jaws having hit the floor, and Nick and Brian were sitting with their backs to us. Neither one had ever been at the table before, and it occured to me that the homecoming dance was only 48 hours ago. Uh, oh.
"Hi, everyone," I said tentatively, taking a seat next to Nick at the the end of the table. I think my intended seat for the day was probably next to Brian, but, he has to know sooner or later.
"Hi," they chorused, Brian glowering at Mark. There was a long minute of uncomfortable silence, then Sarah broke it with, "So, Mark, what brings you over from the dark side?"
I dropped my apple, creating a loud bang as it landed on the tray, but Mark just laughed. Sarah and Beth joined in the laughter and he said "Well, an old friend convinced me that my charade wasn't fooling anyone."
"You fooled me," Beth grinned. Without asking, I knew that at least Elena, Sarah and Beth have accepted him to the table. Nick, I am guessing that he doesn't care, but Brian... Even though we had made no committment to one another, it was still awkward.
"So, Brian, how do you get your hair to look so perfectly messy like that?" Beth gushed.
"Magic," he smiled and I think everything will be okay. Some of our other friends, Jennifer and Amanda sat down, and the conversation flowed like any other day and thankfully, all of them were careful not to mention the fight my sister had this morning.
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On Wednesday after school, Mark came back to my house so we could study together. We hadn't seen each other outside of school since Sunday. As I got out of Adam's car with Annie and Mark, the twins heading to band practice, I noticed Jacob and Carlisle's cars in the driveway. OMG, it hit me. I was so distracted all day with thoughts of Mark and wondering whether or not we would share a kiss again like we did that first time, that I forgot about the vampire turned human who should be waking up any second, or rather, probably already had.
"I wonder if it's awake," Annie said as we approaced the porch.
"She must be since Carlisle and Jacob are here." I said. Before we even got to the front door, Uncle Jasper, Aunt Alice, Eve and Uncle Emmett pulled up in Jasper's Truck. Waiting for them, we let them walk in ahead of us.
"We're in here," my Dad called as he heard the door open. We all walked into the living room and I saw her, looking as normal as ever with her wild dark curls out of place, but color had returned to her cheeks. Everyone sat down without a word and Jessica pointed at me with her right finger, and Eve with her left.
"There they are," she claimed. "I'm telling you, you have to believe me, they're not human."
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