Chapter 11 - Mutty Paws

Dina surfaced to the top of the water sputtering and spitting ocean water...She made a circle in the water and the person who grabbed her surfaced and she was shocked to see Paul staring back at her...Dina scowled and said, "What the hell is your problem?" Paul said, "My problem? What the hell were you thinking jumping off that damn cliff again...Embry is gonna have a fit." Dina rolled her eye and said, "Whatever...Just leave me alone." Dina turned and swam to the beach as she stood and walked out of the water ringing her hair. Paul scowled as he walked over and grabbed her arm and said, "God damn it Dina! What the hell is going on with you?" Dina jerked her arm out of his grasp and shoved him and said, "Don't fuckin touch me. Who the hell do you think you are?"

Paul said, "I'm someone who just saved you from seriously hurting yourself...Are you out of your mind? You jump from a place that high and you're going to be sorry you did." Dina crossed her arms over her chest and said, "Bull shit! I've jumped from there before...It's never done anything to me." Paul said, "And you were fighting cancer like now too?" Dina was gonna say something but couldn't get her vocal cords to work and she just scowled at Paul and turned to leave again. Paul gripped her arm again and swung her around to face him again and said, "What the pale face doesn't have anything smart to say back?" Dina grimaced Paul had a grip on her arm pretty tight. Dina whispered, "Let go of me." She was trying to twist her arm out of his grasp but he wasn't letting her slip away like the first time.

Paul said, "You can stand here and act as tough as you want for Jared and Embry and anyone else in the damn pack...but you don't fool me for a second...I know everything you're going through with the cancer and now with Jared's punk ass finally telling you the truth that it's all coming down around you...that little leap you just took off that cliff had better be the last because if I catch you jumping from there again I'll duck tape your ass to a tree and let the real blood suckers come and drain you...Test me I dare you." Dina had been looking at the sand the entire time that Paul was berating her. She looked up and he noticed she was crying and the tears were blood red again. Dina said, "Are you finished?" Paul nodded not being able to talk, because he could feel himself getting angry with her and he had to keep his temper in check.

Dina said, "Then let go of my arm asshole." Paul let go of her arm and he could already see the finger impressions from his hand turning blue and purple. Paul frowned and Dina said, "Listen here meat head...I don't know who you think you are but you're not going to be telling me what I can and cannot do...When you suddenly take over living my life for me then you may be as free to demand whatever comes into that little pea brain of yours...until then...Keep your mutty paws off of me and leave me the fuck alone." Dina turned and walked away.

Paul was pissed off but the mutty paws part cut to the middle of his heart. He watched as she walked off the beach and into the woods. He honestly couldn't blame her, she just had her boyfriend tell her some extremely upsetting truths and when she was just trying to be left alone, he came along and got ruff with her trying to demand she do as he said...Dina wasn't his, but he wished she was. He'd met her years ago when Embry and his family first moved on the rez, they played together when they were little...naturally when boys and girls grow up they go in different directions...

Paul loved teasing Jared about having the hots for a pale face but the truth was, she'd been messing around inside of his heart for a while. She'd delivered flowers to his moms house and he knew he recognized her from when they used to play together...they talked a few times but then he started hanging with Sam cause he started phasing and suddenly he'd found out Jared and her were dating. He knew that Jared had imprinted on Kim before anyone else...He also knew it was true that Jared tried to forget about Kim because he was deeply in love with Dina. But the imprinting proved they didn't belong together and Paul told Jared he needed to come clean with Dina about it.

So this was Paul's big chance to do or say something...but he knew there was no way in hell she was going to even look at him the same way he looked at her...He could tell by the way she said mutty paws...She was pissed at everyone in the pack except for Embry...which was completely understandable. everyone in the pack knew Jared had imprinted on another person to make them his soul mate and no one told her. He hadn't meant to grab her arm that hard, but then again she did bruise easily because of the cancer...but he still needed to apologize...He had to say he was sorry...He needed to say he was sorry for everything, but he wasn't really sure how to do it.

Around midnight Dina woke up cause she heard something tape on her bedroom window. She pulled herself out of bed and walked over and looked down on the window sill. She glared a minute and then pulled the window open and leaned out the window and picked up the long stem blood red rose and held it to her nose and inhaled the beautiful fragrance...she noticed there was a little white card and picked it up and flipped it open and it said, 'Sorry! ~P' Dina smirked as her violet eyes searched the dark places outside but she didn't see him anywhere...Maybe she had been a little mean saying mutty paws. She'd never say something like that to Embry...Why would she say it to Paul?

Those same soft brown eyes watched as Dina closed the window and went back to bed.