Chapter 11
Seth drove to Evelyn's place to finally pick up Scarlett, he had bought Scarlett a bouquet of roses since she had once told him in a conversation that she loved roses. They were 16 yellow roses, and Seth hoped it will cheer up Scarlett, since she had been all gloomy and sad from past 2 days and would not say anything about it to Seth. Seth was worried about her, something had happened and she was not ready to talk, Seth understood that and decided to give her some space.
When Seth was done putting in Scarlett's bag in the back seat of the car he went back to the front poach to greet goodbye to Evelyn, Rob, Ethan and Eliot. Ethan and Eliot were frowning since their sister was leaving, Evelyn and Rob were giving Scarlett lectures on taking care of herself, "Call us when you reach home okay?" Evelyn told Scarlett as she hugged her, "Are you sure you don't want to stay?" Rob asked Scarlett with a frown, "No Uncle Rob, I need to get home" Scarlett answered politely, "But this is your home too, and always remember that" Rob told Scarlett as he softly patted her on her head. "Thank you so much, for taking care of me" Scarlett told them with a small smile, "You are like our daughter, you don't need to thank us" Evelyn cooed and Rob nodded with a smile. "Thank you for driving her to La Push" Evelyn told Seth, "I am her friend, that is the least I can do" Seth replied with a grin, "Friends like you are a treasure" Evelyn said grinning back. "I hope we continue to see you around, these two are going to be miserable without you" Rob said jerking his head in Ethan and Eliot's direction, "Of course, you can bring them to the first beach on La Push, we will have great time there" Seth replied with a small smile.
After all the hugs and goodbyes, Seth opened the passenger's seat door for Scarlett who slowly got in and he himself got in the driver's seat, in less than a minute they started driving down to La Push. "How was your trip to Seattle?" Scarlett asked after a long pause, "I was helping Leah shift, it was really fun" Seth told her with a grin, "Really? What did you do?" Scarlett asked curiously, "Firstly, the campus there is beautiful, you fall in love with the scenic view, then I thought helping Leah arrange her stuff in the doom would be really boring, but the three of us actually had fun doing it" Seth told her absent-mindedly, "Three? You, Leah and Sue?" Scarlett asked, "Umm… No, Sara, Leah's roommate, she is funny" Seth told Scarlett with a chuckle, "Oh" Scarlett replied looking out of the window. "How did your date go with the Nathan guy?" Seth asked after a long pause, "It went well, actually better than I had hoped" Scarlett told Seth with a fake smile, "Did you guys see a movie?" Seth asked with a genuine smile, "Kind of yes" Scarlett admitted, "Kind of?" Seth asked with an amused look on his face, "Yeah, kind of" Scarlett replied with a nod. "Is this kind of because you were busy making out in the movie hall?" Seth asked with a smirk, "Ew! Why would you think that?" Scarlett asked with a disgusting look on her face, "Well, because you went on a date with a guy you like" Seth replied slowly trying not to laugh, "No, we did not, actually he tried to kiss me, but it disgusted me and I was busy trying to call you or text you so that I could get away from the situation" Scarlett told Seth in one go.
"I am sorry I was not there to help you" Seth apologized with a frown, "Okay" Scarlett replied looking out of the window, Seth felt as if he had been punched in the stomach. Seth put her hand on Scarlett's hand that was on the seat, "Did I do something wrong?" Seth asked in a low voice, "Ugh, I am just frustrated" Scarlett replied in a very frustrated voice. "Why?" Seth asked giving a light squeeze to Scarlett's hand, "I don't know what I want" Scarlett said in the same tone, "What do you mean?" Seth asked a bit confused, "I thought I wanted to go out with Nathan and it went amazing but I did not feel the way I should have, I mean, I should have felt happy because honestly I have dreamt of getting back with him before –" Scarlett answered with a small chuckle in the middle of the sentence, "Before?" Seth encouraged, hoping he would hear what he really wanted to, and he did, "before I met you" Scarlett said in a low voice. Even though this was what Seth wanted to hear, he did not know what to reply.
"I never meant to make things complicated for you" Seth said after a long pause, "I know that but things are complicated" Scarlett replied pulling her hand away from under Seth's warm hand, they both already missed each other's touch. After that, Seth drove in silence and even Scarlett did not attempt to make small talks. By the time they reached outside Scarlett's house the sun had already set, "Thanks for the ride" Scarlett told as she turned towards Seth, "No problem" he replied with a small smile, just as Scarlett got out of the car Seth remembered about the bouquet, "Scarlett" he called out for her, she turned her attention to Seth. He got out of the car and opened the back seat door and pulled out the bouquet, it was easily hid behind his huge muscular body. Scarlett walked around the car to Seth, confused. "What is it?" she asked, he had hid the bouquet much quicker than her eyes could have registered. "I bought you a little something" Seth said in a low voice, "you did not have to" Scarlett breathed as she shook her head. "But I wanted to" Seth told her as he pulled the bouquet out from behind him, "Welcome home" he said with a small smile and watched Scarlett's eyes grew wide in surprise and her mouth hung open.
She took the bouquet from Seth and said "Thank you, this is beautiful" before leaning in to hug him, "Nothing as compared to you" Seth replied in a low dreamy voice. Seth felt her heart was beating faster against his body, and he pulled her in closer and inhaled her scent. When Scarlett dropped her hands, Seth still held her against himself only their faces were inches away, Seth looked into Scarlett's eyes and she looked in his, Seth cupped her cheek with his free hand and said "I am not going to make your life complicated any more, you just have to tell me what you want me to do and I will do it for you, even if it means that we will be just friends" "I want you to stay" Scarlett whispered, "I will always be around" Seth told her, leaning in, he kissed her on the corner of her lips and smiled at her.
Next morning Scarlett decided to take Emily up on her offer to talk to her, so as she sat on the dining table, she called Emily, whose number she had gotten from Embry. Emily picked up the call in 4 rings, "Hello" Scarlett heard her melodious voice from the other end of the phone, "Hey Emily, this is Scarlett" Scarlett said as her leg shook vigorously, "Hey Scarlett, how are you?" Emily asked kindly, "I am fine, how are you?" Scarlett asked politely, "I am good" Emily replied, "Uh – I actually needed some advice from you" Scarlett said in a low voice, "Yeah sure, do you want to meet and talk or do you want to discuss it over the phone?" Emily asked happily, "Can we meet today?" Scarlett asked hopefully, "Yes, of course, can you come down to our home?" Emily replied, "Sure, text me your address please" Scarlett said biting her lower lip nervously, "Okay, come down any time you want, although I would suggest if you come down here now, no one is home we can talk without getting disturbed" Emily suggested, "Okay, I will be there in an hour" Scarlett replied with a sigh of relief.
When Scarlett reached the address Emily had given her, she saw a medium sized cottage, near the woods, it was a two floor cottage, large enough for a family of 4. Scarlett parked in the driveway and got out of the car. She slowly walked up the five poach steps and rang the doorbell. Emily opened the door in less than a minute, "Scarlett, hey" she greeted her with a grin, "Hey" Scarlett replied with a small smile, "Come on in" Emily told her and made way for her to come in. Scarlett saw a large living room, it had a huge couch and 2 huge armchairs in front of a flat screen TV and had a glass coffee table, the living room had good natural lighting and cool air flowed in through the sliding glass door from the backyard. "Make yourself home" Emily told Scarlett who settled on the large couch. Emily sat next to her, "Thank you for meeting me" Scarlett said, "Please don't be so formal, I don't know if you see it that way or not but for me you are a part of my family" Emily told her with a nod.
"My first thought was of you when I thought of asking for an advice" Scarlett admitted, "I am glad you thought of me, I would be happy to help" Emily told her with a kind smile. "Emily, I took your and Renesmee's advise and decided to stay friends with Seth, rather than pushing him away altogether, and I started seeing my ex boyfriend again" Scarlett started and sighed, "The thing is, I am not so sure about what to do" she admitted with a shrug. "What exactly are you not so sure about?" Emily asked shifting towards Scarlett, "When I think of Nathan, my ex-boyfriend he seems like the perfect guy to me and I want to give us a chance, although deep down I know, the things that happened in the past will be repeated because I can see he has not changed and sometimes I am actually glad that he has not because that means we would not be together. Then there is Seth, I don't even know how I feel about him" Scarlett admitted. "What is obvious is that you don't really want Nathan, do you?" Emily asked raising her eyebrows. "No, I don't" Scarlett replied after thinking for a while.
"Why don't you just let him go?" Emily asked, "I did, I swear I did, and I knew that if I went back to my aunt's house and he finds me there, I will be pulled back to where it all started" Scarlett replied frantically, "You are not so sure about who you want, that is why you are so easily manipulated by anyone who wants to manipulate you, you are such a pure soul, much like Seth" Emily said with a small smile. "Now that I am talking to someone, I know Nathan is not really whom I want, he is a good guy, he really is, but he isn't whom I want" Scarlett said after a long pause, "What is that you seek in a relationship?" Emily asked curiously, "Freedom" was the first word that escaped Scarlett's lips. "Freedom?" Emily asked raising one of her eyebrows, "Yeah, like when I experienced while I rode on Seth's back in his wolf form" Scarlett said absent-mindedly, her thoughts were back at that experience. "What else?" Emily asked with a bigger smile, "Chivalry, like when Seth does something chivalrous" Scarlett answered, again absent-mindedly, with a small smile. "And?" Emily encouraged, "Love, selfless love, the one Seth gives not just to me but to everyone he loves" Scarlett completed with a grin.
"So, what were you saying about not knowing what you want?" Emily mocked, Scarlett chuckled and said seriously "But only Seth could give me that" "And that is a problem because?" Emily asked slowly, "Because I am not sure about my feelings for Seth" Scarlett replied, "What do you think you feel for him?" Emily asked, "I actually – kind of like him" Scarlett admitted as her cheeks turned crimson. "Like a crush?" Emily asked slowly, "Yeah" Scarlett replied in a low voice, "So why don't you want to take your relationship to the next level?" Emily asked, "I haven't known him that long" Scarlett replied with a shrug. Emily sighed and said "Scarlett, if time is what is holding you back then I must say that it isn't right to do so, dear you could have known someone for twenty years and they could mean nothing to you tomorrow and you could have known someone for a month and they could mean everything to you. You know Seth more than anyone else, really you do, and if you still feel you want to know him more, you still can know him even if you enter a relationship. I am not pushing you to get in a relationship with Seth but if only time is holding you back, and you want to be with him, please don't hold yourself back"
"Thank you so much Emily" Scarlett said happily as she hugged Emily, who in return hugged her back. "I am glad you came to see me" Emily replied back, they both dropped their hands, "I am glad you helped me" Scarlett said, "I will always be there to help you" Emily told her with a heart-warming smile. "Emily, I am going to go to Nathan's house and tell him that we cannot do this any more" Scarlett said after a pause, "Are you sure you want to do this now?" Emily asked, "Yeah, I cannot carry this on, if makes me feel like I am betraying Seth, on our date, when he was about to kiss me I got so uncomfortable, I practically rushed out of the movie hall, and then I tried to call Seth, but he was not here" Scarlett told Emily, "Where was he?" Emily was confused, "Seattle" Scarlett said from between her teeth, "Did something happen?" Emily asked with an amused look on her face. "Not really, he helped Leah and Sara settle in their doom room" Scarlett replied with a hint of jealousy, "Looks like someone is being protective" Emily teased, "I don't know, I should not be so jealous of this Sara" Scarlett said almost to herself, "Honey, you need to stop thinking so much and just let go, enjoy your life as it comes, don't stress so much" Emily assured her, "I only feel that way when I am with Seth" Scarlett admitted in a low voice, "I think you are now 100% sure of what you want" Emily replied with a grin and Scarlett could not help but grin back.
Scarlett was extremely anxious when she was about to ring the doorbell of Nathan's house, his parents were working so they would not be at home and he was the only child so if something like last time happened, when Scarlett had last broken up with him, he could easily throw a fit again. She rang the doorbell and felt as if her heart would escape her ribcage. Only it dropped to her stomach when the door opened. A tall, slender girl, with blonde hair and aqua eyes opened the door, wearing only a shirt, which Scarlett easily recognized as Nathan's shirt. The girl opened the door with a grin and said "How can I help you?" "Where is Nathan?" Scarlett asked from between her teeth, before the girl could reply, Scarlett saw a pair of strong arms wrap around the girl's tiny waist and she giggled. Nathan appeared from behind the girl and when he saw Scarlett, he suddenly froze. His arms dropped to his side, "This is what is going on?" Scarlett asked in an annoyed tone, she had actually started trusting him again! "Who is she?" the blonde asked, "His fling" Scarlett replied again in an annoyed tone, "What?!" the girl shouted in disbelief. "He took me on a date, 3 days back" Scarlett told the girl, "Is this true?" the girl asked Nathan in a brittle voice. He was at loss of words, before Scarlett could knew the blonde slapped him across his face and stormed off the room, inside. "You were cheating again, when will you learn that you lies will be caught one day?" Scarlett asked.
"I really do love you Scarlett" Nathan started again but Scarlett held up her finger, "Enough of your lies!" she shouted, "I am not lying" Nathan said, "The next thing coming out of your mouth will be your teeth if you don't stop lying" Scarlett threatened him, "Don't ever try to contact me again, otherwise I will see to it that you would not be able to speak for at least a month" Scarlett threatened again before turning around, just then she stopped dead in her tracks and turned around with a smile. She slapped Nathan across his face as hard as she could, and it worked because he winced at the pain.
Just when she got in her car, she saw the blonde girl rush out of the home, Nathan hovered after her, probably telling her that he loved her, but she replied back something bitter and walked away. Scarlett quickly drove off, but in her rear view mirror she saw Nathan standing outside his house, with nothing but his little white lies.
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