Chapter 12 – sandwiches and ice cream

Aunt Jaylen brought me a bon fire sandwich, which I have to say, was delicious. I'm not sure what a bon fire is, but all I know is that the sandwiches were super good. After Seth ate 3 and finished my first one for me, we said goodbye to my aunt and went outside. I enjoyed walking with Seth because he made everything more fun. We had swapped phones and I was being nosy as usual. We didn't talk instead we just looked into each other's main life source, our phones. We both had the My Touch from T-Mobile what a coincidence? First I saved my number, and set my caller id as the picture Seth took of me with the towel. Then I moved on to his pictures one with him and his eight-pack, then another with whom I assumed was his mother. They had the same skin tone, and he had her eyes. The next picture was with Leah. He had a lot of pictures with Jake and the other boys I met today. Then he had a picture of a wolf.

I gasped, it was the exact wolf that I saw on my first day driving here. The wolf that followed me in the car, the same way Seth followed me in the car. I started to breathe harder, but I'm not sure if it was from excitement or from fear. The wolf was howling up at the moon, and it looked as if it had been taken right here in La Push. He looked over at me " Oh I guess I forgot to tell you that I love wolves. What's wrong, is Ali scared of the big bad wolf?" He laughed and took my free hand. My voice was trembling. "Yes, I mean no, it's just… ugh. This is the exact wolf that followed the car when we got to La Push. You see, it had the same caramel coat, with those hazel eyes that seemed to be able to look through walls, the same eyes you have. Isn't that interesting." I hoped he would realize I knew that he was a werewolf but he just laughed and continued talking as if nothing happened. I needed to get to the bottom of this before I drive myself insane.

He asked me about my story and I told him the same exact thing that I told Jake, I told him all about my past, how I was born with a hole in my heart, how I HATE my name since it was kind of the reason everyone teased me. My mother just had to name me Aliennette. Who names their daughter after an alien, I mean come on? I told him how I hate anything and everything pink, my favorite color is yellow, I like fashion but to keep up my look, I dress in the bad girl type. I have to have some type of coffee in the morning, how I hate school, and the most important thing in my life and what I cherish the most is the super natural world. For some reason, I feel like things such as fairies and vampires, and ghosts are really out somewhere. I told him how I'm pretty sure I'm a witch but how I really wish I had powers. He already knew I don't believe love exists, but what I said next surprised the both if us.

" I'm starting to open my eyes, maybe love does exist it just takes longer for people to realize." I looked down at our hands involuntarily and he smirked. Throughout my story I noticed that Seth would either 1.) Stop and start shaking like Jake did in the car, and some of the things I said caused him to bust out laughing. Finally we got to the ice cream shop. I got cookies and cream ice cream cone and he got a rocky road. We talked about a bunch of stuff but we landed back on the subject of wolves. " So you believe in ghosts and even vampires but you don't think wolves are out there." Seth said. He had finished his ice cream in the first 5 minutes. It was taking me a while. I shook my head " I never said I didn't believe wolves are out there because I know they are, they are animals, of course they exist. As for werewolves, half human half werewolf, yes I believe in those too, and I think there are some here too." He took this in, slowly nodding his head but I could tell he knew I was on to him.

We were sitting in a booth at the ice cream parlor just letting time fly. Seth suddenly took a big lick from my ice cream cone. "Hey" I shouted causing the whole parlor to stop and stare. After we finished laughing I said in my indoor voice "I'm a big girl, I'm pretty sure I can finish and ice cream cone." I tried my hardest to look hurt." He laughed and said, " If we let the big girl finish her cone on her own, we'll be here forever." I gave him the cone and he continued to eat it " No" I said, " just hold it for me, I'm going to go get a cup, that way we can split it and we'll get out of here faster." He smirked and I went to get a cup. It was a really long line and I didn't want to start any trouble. I waited patiently in line, and when I got back I was confused. Seth was gone and nowhere in sight. I walked around the parlor, no one was in the family bathroom they had so I went outside, and I saw him talking with some girl only he was doing all the talking. " Bridgette, I'm done, you're done, and we are done, what part of it don't you understand. Its just not working out okay, I met someone else and I can't be with you anymore. You said you knew what you were getting into with me, but it's for the best okay." He didn't even sound sincere, he was just going through the motion, making it seem as if he's done this a million times before. She tried to kiss him, and of course the player couldn't resist, after a few minutes he said " Bye Bridgette, see you at school" Then he walked back toward the ice cream parlor.

When he saw me his face lit up then grimaced "How long were you standing there?" I smirked "Enough to know what kind of player I'm getting involved with. So do I know this new person you snatched Seth?" please be me, oh please let it be me, wait come on Ali, why would it be you, ugh well you can still hope, I mean I feel like I'm in love. But you don't fall in love you don't even believe in love. Are you going to let one boy mess with your standards? I looked up at Seth and he looked like he was focusing on a very hard math problem then he smirked. "Come on Ma! I know, that you know, that the easiest way for a player to drop his girl is to tell her they found someone else. Don't worry though, if she ever asks, I can always tell her I met you, and it wouldn't even be a lie. After all, you are new here. " We laughed and I tried to hide my disappointment. I took two more licks off my ice cream cone and threw it away. Now we had to head for the beach.