Mattie's POV
I was about to leave my locker when I saw Greg coming down the hall towards me with a wicked grin on his face.
"Well well well. Mattie." He grinned even more as two of his friends came down the other hallway towards me too. "You see yesterday you just got a lucky shot away on me that is never going to happen again."
I shook my head and shut my eyes. Digging in my pocket for my phone. Seth had told me he had added everyone's numbers into my phone last night. All I had to do was to text one of them and hopefully they would come running to help me.
I scrolled down. Why in tar nations did I have to have so many contacts? Too late my phone was snatched out of my hand.
"Give that back to me Greg. Or you will get a black eye to go with that nose of yours which just so you know." I lowered my voice so the other two couldn't hear me. "Wasn't just a lucky shot."
He shook his head at me. "You have been avoiding me all day and have been with your little friends. You're not so tough if they aren't around you now are you?"
I shook my head a little. "I can fight my own battles. They are just there to help me make sure that they don't go to far and I don't really hurt anyone." I snatched my phone back from him and tried to walk down the hall towards the library.
His two friends stood in front of me blocking the way. "We are just to make sure he gets a fair chance at you." One of them met my eyes with a smile.
I turned around him just in time to see Jake and Leah coming down the hallway towards me. I ran up and into Leah's arms. "Help."
Jake made his way over to them and I tried to not listen to what was going on over there but it was hard not to. Jake was yelling at them for doing this to me and I was shaking really badly in Leah's arms so much that she was having a hard time trying to hang onto me.
When they were gone Jake came back up to us. "You were heading for the library?"
I nodded. "How did you guys know where I was?"
Leah looked down at me. "Collin texted Seth because his class is in the library this period telling him that you were on your way. Then Seth texted me and Jake after ten minutes when you didn't show up there." She sighed letting me go a little. "Jake and I came looking for you after that."
I turned to Jake. "I didn't hurt any of them myself. I wanted to but I just got this bad feeling about doing that."
Leah and Jake looked at each other with a smile nodding to one another as if telling the other one something silently before saying it out loud. "Sam and Paul."
I looked up at Leah. "What do you two mean by that?"
Leah shrugged. "You didn't like what happened last night and you wanted to sleep on Paul again tonight. But Paul listens to Sam and you were afraid that Sam would do something like that again tonight."
I nodded a little. "But Paul is going to be with you guys. I get to go have girl time with Emily and Kim. And maybe you later."
Jake looked shocked at me turning me towards him. "Who told you that?"
"Collin" I shrugged and continued to follow them to the library. Jake walked over to Seth's table and spoke with him quietly before returning to Leah and me.
"Seth is going to wait here with you until Paul comes to pick you up. He also said that he has his Quileute books with him so he can help you with that. Don't leave here until Paul gets to the library. I'll text him and tell him where you are."
I shrugged and settled in a chair. "He already does know where I am. I texted him on my way to my locker."
Leah and Jake left the library as Jake nodded his head at Seth who came over to me after a second.
"Hey. Listen. I'm done my work for this class so why don't I help you with your Quileute stuff. My teacher said it was okay after I explained to her that you were new and knew nothing about this." He smiled grabbing my hand not giving me a chance to say no to him.
"Seth, I was actually going to go looking for stuff for my history paper. I was planning on getting Kim to help me tonight with that language stuff. I really hate it and right now I'm just frustrated with everything." I sighed.
He shrugged and followed me through the aisle of the library. "So what exactly are you looking for?"
I shrugged wanting to see not too interested in anything. "I was thinking since I haven't really been here at all maybe legends of the tribe." I looked at him trying to judge his reaction. "What do you think?"
He smiled at me. "Well maybe you should talk to Jake or Sam about that. They know everything. Or even Quil. Or my mom. Maybe she can meet up with you at Kim's house tonight and tell you about those."
I smiled. "That would be wonderful. Or if your mom knows them you must have heard of them before."
He shrugged a little. "Why are you so interested in this stuff?"
I shrugged a little myself and looked down at the book in my hand. "I knew my so called parents and they were nothing like any of you. Embry is even so much different than what I would have expected." I laughed a little to myself. "I have always been the odd person out, no matter where I went. I wanted to know what was in them so I guess that I am just curious."
"Well you look around and see what you can find. My phone just went off and I have to answer it. Probably Paul wondering if you're okay." He laughed a little before leaving me in the books to look around.
I continued to look around in silence when Sam showed up in the library. I could hear Paul's voice and his along with Seth's.
Seth's POV
I was in the library when Collin texted me with a message that I wasn't expecting. I knew that we all had to look after Mattie today. I had gotten a phone call from Sam in the office telling me that one of us needed to be with her all the time so I was surprised that Collin wasn't joining her on her walk to the library. I waited about two minutes before sending a message to Jake and Leah.
'Mattie left chem. to come to library. not here yet. cant leave. find her please.'
I hoped the message got to them. About ten minutes later I was happy to see Leah and Jake come into the library with Mattie in Leah's arms almost still hugging her it looked like. I had to smile at them because I knew that I must have done something right but the look on Jake's face when he walked over to me didn't look all that good. He was frowning and looked to be really upset with something that had just happened in the long run if anything could be that bad.
I looked up at him when he got to my table. I was working alone on my project and had gotten it almost completed.
"You need to do me a favour." He took a breath trying to calm himself I think a little bit but still looking scared. "I think Mattie saw the message from Sam. I'm heading to go tell him about this. You need to stay with her and talk to her. If you find out anything text Sam immediately. I'm going to tell her that you have your Quileute books so you can work with her on that. But don't leave her alone for a minute."
I nodded and watched him walk back over to Mattie and tell her that I was going to stay with her until Paul got here and that I would help her with her Quileute homework for tonight if she needed it.
The second they were gone I went over to her telling her that I was going to help her with that and pulled her out of the chair before she could say anything to me. I got her over to the table and she got up walking towards the aisle that said history.
She told me she wanted to work on her history paper. And when she told me what she wanted to do it on I was scared. None of us had mentioned anything about the history of the tribe or the legends. I told her that maybe she should talk to Sam or someone like that about them. She must have seen the message but thank goodness she wasn't going to find any answers to her questions in these books. I excused myself from her telling her that my phone went off and I had to text Paul back. I walked away leaving her glaring at the books on the shelf.
I quickly sent a message to Sam.
'Jake was right she knows. Not sure how much but she knows. But shes looking through the history books for something.'
I shut my phone waiting for him to text me back. After a second the phone rang in the library. The teacher came over to me and told me that the phone was a call from someone and it had been sent up here. I took the phone into one of the private rooms in there and shut the door wanting nothing more than to help this. When I was alone I put the phone to my ear.
"So what do you want me to do?"
"Just stay there with her and make sure she doesn't leave. I talked to Collin he doesn't think that she saw the message at all."
"So this might just be her being curious?"
"It might but I'm not ready to talk to her about the legends just yet. I texted Paul we'll be in the library in a few."
"Okay, I'll be waiting for you here and keeping an eye on her."
I walked out of the room saying thank you to the teacher then went back to my desk to work on random things and just wait for Sam and Paul and probably Jake to show up in the library too. When I looked up I was shocked to see that it was only Paul and Sam but my class had left ant the library was completely empty.
Class was over which meant that I probably wasn't going to be going to last period if this took that long. I knew that Sam had other ideas than just explaining the entire legends to her right now. But when they got to me they were arguing about something. Mattie's eyes had met mine a few times and then gone back to the books when she saw Sam standing there and I knew she could hear him she went back to looking at the books but not with so much intent. It seemed to me like she was trying to figure out what was going said between all three of us.
Paul looked at me. "So what does she know?"
I shrugged. "I'm not sure. She gave me some story about not fitting in and wanting to know if this would give her some answers. There is a possibility that she didn't see the message but I thought you might want to make that judgement yourself." I looked up at Sam.
Sam nodded to me. "Paul, the other thing we need to wait for Quil to tell you guys about later. I know you want to know right now but he is still in shock about all of it. There is a reason why I ran patrol with him this afternoon."
Paul pouted a bit as he looked up towards her. "What are you going to tell her right now, Sam? It's not like we can actually be truthful with her."
He looked at Paul. "It is your call when you want to tell her that. But I think she needs to talk to Emily about everything and maybe have Kim there when you talk to her as well. I do know how everyone else reacted and you have seen it. But Paul it needs to wait until after tonight."
"That still doesn't tell me what to say to her right now?" Paul looked at Sam and then to me.
"Maybe just tell her that you will take her to hear the legends from old Quil in a few days like maybe Friday. And then take her to Emily right now." I told Paul with a smile. "That way she can't get into any more trouble today. Have Sam tell the school that you and Mattie are both skipping detention then go to see Emily."
Paul nodded, as did Sam about my idea. I was happy that they both liked it. Paul walked over to Mattie then left leaving me with Sam.
"So what happened last night exactly?" I asked with a smile.
"She attacked Quil but he stayed outside her door making her stay in there for a good hour. She eventually went to sleep and for a little while did sleep soundly so he went in and checked on her and well he found something." Sam sighed not really wanting to go into any more details with me.
"You're scared right now aren't you?" I asked looking down at my books.
He nodded to me. "I think I need all of you over at the house now. Head outside but after you get your schoolwork. This can't wait any longer. Paul needs to know what Quil found last night."
He left the library and headed down the hallway before pulling out his cell and started to talk to someone.
