Dam Bastards! I just typed the longest chapter of my life and my fingers ache! Aghh! Anyway.. This is a VERYYYY hectic chapter. And really, the story just started. The conflict is revealed.. Oki Doki. Enjoi. (:
DISCLAIMER: The Cullen's and The pack are Mrs. Meyer's.
Kai Raze, Delilah Fig, Terra Valentine, Marcus Tenah, Cameron Haida, Frankie and Leslie Chiff are MINEE!!!!
"Obviously you smelled us. We're in the back. In front of the gym and cafeteria.," Us? Us.. She's them? Not saying she would have said us either way, but the way she said it seemed reassuring that she's one of them. I sighed.
"Why are you here?" I sighed. Kai was listening hard to the conversation, trying to make out everything Bella said and making assumptions to what she couldn't here. I caressed her face, but she pulled away.
"We'll explain. It's urgent though. Hurry," She sang in an urgent voice. The phone clicked and Kai's head dropped again. I read her mind this time.
"I'm in love with you. No one else. I promise to never leave you, betray you, or hurt you. It would be pretty hard to live after I put you in any pain like that," She smirked and grabbed the hand caressing her face. She began searching for the handle. I rolled my eyes.
"Kai, this is your car. It's on the right," I shook my head. She stopped and pretended to write with her right hand and found the handle.
She turned to me, "Found it," She grinned stepping out of the car into the now humid Forks. Rain coming soon. The clouds covered the sun in a blanket of thick cotton. I waited for her at the hood of her car and she grabbed my hand when she got to me.
"Bella called," I announced. Kai winced, "She's around back," I heard the restrained gasp in the group. I gripped Kai's hand and she squirmed a little. I released and whispered "Sorry".
"It's just the Cullens? Why are they here?" Paul asked through his clenched teeth walking towards the back of the school. We all followed. Kim and Emily stayed behind and waited in Embry's van.
"She hung up before I could ask," I answered. I was surprised Kai, Terra, and Delilah were keeping up with our fast pace. Their speed met our long strides.
It was almost three thirty and school had let out already. We approached the doors and Cameron attempted to open them.
"Locked. Are you sure she said cafeteria?" Cameron peered through the windows of the dark room. He stopped and cupped his nose. Marcus did the same.
"Jacob?" Her voice sang. I didn't turn around. I wouldn't have if Kai didn't practically break my arm off by turning. "Jacob," She muttered again, I didn't lift my head to look at her.
"I'm Bella. For the newcomers who do not know me," She seemed much more confident. Just from her voice. She held her hand out to Leslie.
"Leslie, Frankie," She introduced less happiness than anxiousness. Her nose flinched again.
"I'm Marcus, Cameron, Terra, and Delilah," Marcus pointed out. Terra and Delilah just waved. Terra's face straight and Delilah's the most enthusiastic of us all.
"And you are?" Bella motioned towards Kai.
"I'm--" Bella cupped her ears and dropped to her knees screeching and clawing at her ears.
"My God!! Ahh!" Kai flinched and backed behind my body and covered her mouth.
"Wha.. What did I do?" Kai muttered. The doctor and Edward came like lightning out of the woods. Edward crouched to Bella's cringed body in aid and began muttering to her.
"What happened?" Edward accused looking me dead in the eye. I straightened up and pierced my eyes at him.
"I talked," Kai muttered. Bella screeched again and Edward and Carlisle cupped their ears and winced.
"You're a shapeshifter?" Carlisle asked Kai in more of an observation. Carlisle's face softened and relaxed in a nervous way.
Kai nodded in response.
"So are we," Delilah whispered motioning towards Terra. Whispering seemed to work.
Carlisle examined them and looked them over with an misconceived look.
"Four at once? Not possible.." Carlisle muttered shaking his head misunderstanding anything he thought.
"Four?" Kai whispered. Carlisle shook his head and became attentive again.
"Right. Come inside. We have much to share with you all," Carlisle turned to open the door. The left side. Cameron tried to open the right.
We didn't follow as he stepped inside.
"Do you really think we're associate with you.. Things? Come back to earth-- or whatever planet you live on-- and realize that after you did this we cannot help you in anyway," Jared demanded referring this to Bella. I winced.
"It's urgent Jacob. If you want Kai to keep her powers than you must come," The rest of the Cullens darted out of the woods then. Carlisle proceeded into the empty cafeteria. Edward searched for a light switch.
"I can't keep my powers?" Kai muttered. She was the first to take a step into the cafe. She followed them to a round table. I sighed and followed.
"I know this is hard for you to believe coming from someone you have never met, but I assume... Since you are a shifter as well that you," He paused and took an unnecessary breath, "have a twin brother," He predicted sincerely.
"Shut up!!" Delilah shouted jokingly. Terra chuckled at Delilah's behavior, but the Cullens winced at the pitch of their voices.
"Wha.." Kai questioned staring down at her lap, "You cannot tell me about my family! You... You... You leech!!" Kai stuttered and stormed out of the cafeteria pushing chairs out of her path.
"She takes after you Jacob," Bella sighed. I sneered and followed Kai's trail of toppled chairs out the cafeteria. Kai was sitting against the school, balled fists and clenched teeth.
"I hate your ex-girlfriend. And her family," She muttered through her teetch. I slid down the building to sit next to her.
"She's not my ex-girlfriend. I loved her. She didn't give me a chance. That's all," I justified. The door opened and Carlisle stood in front of us.
"You both should come back," He persuaded. Kai didn't move and just stared at him emotionless, "Or I can explain out here,"
"Have a seat," Kai whispered, still having compassion for at least his ears, but not his feelings.
"I'm sorry Kai. I really am. We've had encounters with your brother and we figured Jacob and his pack could help us defeat--"
"You can't defeat a shifter.. Not to mention a male shifter," She huffed in irony.
"Well, we thought that we could get him stationary. Trapped," He explained couching in front of us.
"Then what?" She questioned crossing her arms and piercing her eyes at the doctor.
"Uh..," He stammered. I have never seen the doctor so unstable, but Kai obviously made him nervous.
"You haven't thought this through very well have you? And you just thought that Jacob and his pack would agree is what?" She questioned his plan again.
"Bella said she'd take care of that part," Carlisle muttered. My eyes widened and then narrowed.
"What? You expected to tease me into helping you out?" I stood and bust through the doors of the cafeteria. Carlisle huffed from behind me. Kai stood with me.
"We're leaving!" I ordered, than suddenly felt calm.
"Get out of my head..." I muttered calmly. Jasper grinned. I sat next to Marcus as to my head feeling very light headed. Kai sat next to Terra and Delilah slowly. Her head had been played with as well.
"Will you all listen? It's not a good time to be stubborn!" Bella enforced, and happened to specifically be talking to me. I looked up from Kai's tethering hands and up at Bella. It was the first time I've gotten a good look since we had come in contact.
Damn she was beautiful. Pale though. Not what I'm used to since I've had Kai around. Her used to be light auburn hair was now a deep amber. It was curled and met just above her waist. Her body was toned and I knew Bella has never picked up even a dumbbell in her life. Her skin was absolutely flawless and her eyes. They were crimson. Vampire crimson. She was beautiful, yes. Not attractive though. Now that I think about it, no one is really attractive to me anymore besides my Kai. I didn't reply to her snaky remark.
"Are you ready to listen?" Carlisle asked in a calm, but anxious voice.
"I guess," Kai replied shrugging.
"We knew that there was more than one shapeshifter this generation. Alice saw it. Though Carlisle didn't want to believe it," Edward began.
"Saw it?" Kai muttered trying to say quiet, but Bella still winced. Why is she the most sensitive?
"I can.. how you say it, see the future," Alice added. Kai just nodded.
"What did you see?" I asked. Asking the question Kai wanted to ask, but didn't want to hurt anyone.
"I saw you guys. And three," She paused, "shapeshifters fighting. I didn't know what they were fighting. It wasn't too clear since your pack was in the vision, but it wasn't us. We were helping. Or vice-versa. It has changed so many times. From us fighting against your group, Kai, to the thing that we were trying so hard to defeat on your side," Alice motioned towards Kai, "As if friends even. Then to shapeshifters and vampires as allies," Alice chuckled to herself.
"That's right. It is a joke to think a couple of confident vampires could defeat a shapeshifter. It's not possible," Kai snorted to herself, but we all heard her rude remark. The Cullens' heads dropped to the fact that they didn't like the fact of being put down because they knew that they couldn't defeat something. The fact that they were not the strongest beings.
"Why are there more than one of you? Or more than two?" Edward asked keeping his gaze on Bella, still in pain of Kai's voice. I watched her body twinge every time Kai took a breath. Her eyes were shut closed and she looked as stressed as a vampire could.
"We did this blood sisters ritual. We shared blood and said some crap and BAM! We're shapeshifters too." Delilah answered enthusiastically.
"Would you elaborate?" Jasper murmured, interested in the simplicity of how Kai turned her two best friends into the same mythical creature as her.
"Two years ago, we were having the traditional Saturday sleepover. Delilah suggested to the ritual. Kai and I tried to object to the idea, but Delilah was too happy to do it and insisted. We agreed. Kai grabbed something from downstairs to puncture our wrists with. She ended up finding a box cutter of all the sharp things in the house. We decided to push the risk of getting tetanus our of our minds and just did it. Delilah began reciting the declaration and cut her wrist.
May all Gods of this Earth bind us together by blood, mind, body, and soul.
May we stay together through every disaster and difficulty.
Through every fortune and victory.
To find our lives together as sisters by blood.
"Something like that.. I went next. I cut my wrist and let the blood drop in to Kai and Delilah's wrist. Kai was last. She seemed the most nervous. We know why now. She had trouble cutter her skin. As if it was impenetrable, but she slit it and blood gushed from the tiny slit. She hurried to share the blood with us before she made a mess. The mix with our blood stung. Stung for a few hours, than days. But it was different. It was a mix between pain, tickle, throbbing, to numbness in our wrists. Our wrists became sensitive again after a week or so. And that's the story of Delilah and Terra becoming shapeshifters," Terra smiled sharply. I glanced over at Marcus. He embraced her shoulder and grinned down at her, not seeming disappointed in her new girlfriend whatsoever. He seemed proud.
"Why does it hurt when I.. We talk?" Kai whispered, talking from practically behind Terra's shoulder.
"Ah. The blood comes from your mouth when you talk. Not literally, but you know how in movies vampires bite the neck? Well that's where.. Uh the best blood is. I'm sure you know the story of Tshwane and how all shapeshifter's blood is the absolute delicacy to any vampire. When you open your mouth it's as if the blood is spewing from your mouth and into our ears. The smell is almost verbal I suppose. Since we are "vegetarians" it's more pain to us than to a regular vampire. And more pain to Bella since she is a newborn. A regular vampire will stalk to the voice of a shapeshifter and would end up... Dead," Carlisle sighed and his head dropped slightly again.
"We're sorry," Delilah whispered and lowered her head as well. The first time I saw Delilah have any sort of sympathy for someone. She jerked up and shot an angry look at me. Oops. Sorry Delilah. I thought, realizing she could read my mind.
"It's not your fault Delilah. It's not your fault that you're fault that you're strong. It's not your fault that you're smart...," Emmett took a deep sigh than looked Kai straight in the eye, "It's not your fault that you're better than us," Kai shuddered and pulled her knees to her chest and buried her head into them. That was the first time Kai had knocked down her confident wall and was back to her nervous seldom self. I sighed.
"Are you trying to get pity from us? Really? You're hunted Kai's family for thousands of generations and you want pity? That's the last thing you'll get," Terra snarled taking Kai's spot as the angry shapeshifter. Bella screeched quietly and shuddered.
"We're different! We don't want you're blood. We want your help," Edward objected.
"Why can't you do this on your own? Find like a trillion vampires. Before Novem..." Kai stopped and blinked once, "I can't keep my powers if both of us are alive on November 21st," Kai noted and calmed down with her mouth hung open. I reached for her hand over the table. It throbbed from a pain she only could feel. I clenched her hand in mine as I watched her eyes widen at her own revelation.
"Finally we got it through her thick skull," Rosalie snickered to herself.
"How would you know that though? How would you know that we can't keep our powers if he's alive?" Kai's veins thickened as a glaze washed over her eyes. I clenched her hand again, obviously worthless because her breathing increased.
"Kai?" Cameron hollered noticing what was happening. I rushed over to kiss her but her heart rate didn't decrease. Her breaths became more and more strain.
"I... Can't.. I can't... Keep my..," She breathed.
"What's wrong?" Bella mumbled. I took her face and examined every wrong thing on it. The veins in her forehead and neck, her red eyes, and her erratic gasps. I scooped Kai into my arms and ran out the door. Maybe fresh air works in this situation too. I laid her down on the concrete and watched her breathe leaving me with no way to help. I began to panic as I watched her eyes roll back.
"Kai! Stop this! I love you! You can't.. You can't leave me!! I need you," I shouted, pounding on the concrete next to her arms leaving dents. "Kai please! It's not this serious! We can get through this. You and me. Together. We can do this together," Her back arched and her body relaxed. The rest of the large group surrounded our victim of love. Kai's eyes blinked open and she rubbed her head.
"Can I get some food? For the first time this year I'm starving," I let my breath go. I grabbed her petite body and wrapped my entire body around it.
"I really hate it when you do that!!" I felt my stomach swell of emotion and the force of her tiny hands on my chest. I let her go.
"I really hate it when you squeeze me like that! I'm afraid you'll crush my ribs one day," She screeched, standing up quickly. I was behind her to catch her if she fell, but she was perfectly fine. I sighed in relied and couldn't help but hug her again. She giggled and pulled away.
"So...I have to kill my long lost brother?" Kai sighed and continued, "Great," She snickered sarcastically.
"I'm sorry. It's the only way," Carlisle's head didn't drop that time instead he looked like he was surveying other ways, but then his surveying stopped and his head dropped one last time.
We began to walk to the parking lot.
"Can we meet at our house? This Monday?" Alice suggested.
"You're moving back?" Sam objected stopping our crowd, "You can't. Bella's a victim of our treaty," Sam noted.
"Hush mutt. We still own that house," Rosalie justified. Sam's just lip twitched.
"Why?" Kai stopped before we reached the lot and we all mocked again.
"A plan? We have to find him first..." Edward replied sarcastically. I wanted to give him a lick to the face for that. I wanted to punch him for many reasons and making fun of Kai was just 2 on the list. I growled quietly and stopped my hands from shaking too much.
"Well sorry... Why do you "have" to defeat him?" Kai asked holding figer quotes up for her word.
"Did Bella piss off another mythical creature?" Embry chuckled quietly. Emmett chuckled with him.
"No," Bella bantered sternly.
"Well...' Terra waited.
"He's destructive. Trying to expose the Vampire world. Maybe even yours if he finds out about you guys," Jasper explained.
"Did you not know about your brother?" Alice asked in her high-pitched voice questionable.
"Yeah I totally knew about him. And I made a scene in that cafeteria for no apparent reason because I'm a crazy shifter eh? Yup. I knew I had a twin brother," She rolled her eyes and began searching her pockets for her keys. I realized I still had them, but I loved it when she looked confused and hopeless. I chuckled quietly after she had turned into a complete circle.
"Where are my keys," She mumbled to herself.
"Jacob has them. He knew you had them he just took amusement in your worry," I seized my laughing and stared at the leech who seemed to take amusement in my hatred towards him. I growled again, louder this time.
"Jacob...?" She held out her hand. I reached in my pocket for her keys and handed them to her. "You're so mean, "She grinned. Alice handed her phone to Kai.
"Add your number so we can get in contact if we have any leads," She sang.
"Oh.. Right," Kai handed her phone to Alice and they both exchanged each other's numbers.
"We'll stay in contact," Edward announced before darting into the woods with Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Blondie.
"Thank you for cooperating," Bella thanked. Carlisle nodded in agreement and took his mates hand and shot into the woods.
"I'm sorry Jacob," She apologized again. Adding to a very long list of apologies. She stepped forward, an approach for a hug. I crossed my arms giving her the hint that I wanted no contact with her cold body-- Though I did, Kai wouldn't take it. She backed away.
"Bye you guys..." She walked and turned away from us. Her walk soon turned into a lightning bolt of a run in a matter of seconds.
"Woah.. I have werewolf friends. And I have vampire friends. Pretty tight," Delilah chuckled walking to Embry's van.
"They aren't your friends," Kai assured in a slight growl.
"Kai, I can make friends with anyone I'd like," Delilah stopped and leaned against his van.
"All they want it our blood Delilah. You cannot possibly trust them," Kai demanded in a snarl.
"Kai, they really are different. I do think they want our help. They've never seemed that helpless before," I indicated. I just defended the Cullens? Unbelievable.
"Whatever," She muttered.
She climbed into her car and started the engine. I got into the passenger's side without asking to drive.
"Am I taking you home? Or do you want to come to Olympia to meet my God forsaken mother?" She snapped. Fire spewing from her eyes she put the car in reverse and back out of the parking lot.
"Uh. Olympia?" I questioned my answer ready for her to snap back by refusing to let me go in some change of mind.
"Alright," She stated sternly as if swearing at me for something I didn't know of. I had never seen Kai so pissed off and it frightened me. She pulled her phone from her pocket and touched a contact on her touch screen phone.
"Hello mother," She spat.
"How ya been?" She scolded through her teeth. I could tell that her mother had no idea what was going on.
"Great, great... I'm coming over. We have to discuss a few things," She paused for her mom's reply.
"Address? 4678 Laurel Hill Crossing right?" She stopped again.
"Okay, okay. I'll be there around 6:30," She predicted.
"Oki doki... Bye," She slid her phone close and we were on our way to Olympia, Washington.
"I'm still hungry. You hungry?" She asked in her regular not erratic voice. She looked over to me with a Kai smile and then narrowed her eyebrows at my suspicious face. She looked at me as if nothing just happened. As if we hadn't just had an encounter with a family of vampires. She just grinned her pearly whites at me.
"Uh yeah. A burger sounds good," I answered. She turned into the Burger King parking lot.
"Jacob," She called pulling the keys from the ignition.
"Yeah?"
"I'm bipolar," She answered. She chuckled and I just stared at her in strange amusement to why she laughed at her serious news.
"I figured you had wondered why I was so happy all of a sudden. I don't know why either," She giggled to herself and stepped out of her car, grabbing the wallet in her cup holder. I didn't reply, I pulled her shoulder into my chest and put her into my special "Kai lock". She squirmed and whined and then gave up.
"I really wouldn't care if your were mentally retarded," I grinned down at her as we walked through the parking lot.
"Really? But isn't that illegal? And either way that'd be kind of.. Weird," She commented. I opened the door for my Kai and me and chuckled.
"Yes. I actually think it is, but I wouldn't be able to help it either way," I grabbed her hand as we walked up to the register.
"Welcome to Burger King. How may I help you?" The cheerful countress greeted.
"Jacob," Kai looked up at me. I sighed. I was absolutely starving. I hadn't eaten all day.
"Are you planning on play? I think I should pay for the buffet I'm about to order," I noted. She rolled her eyes and sighed.
"A double whopped with cheese, fire chicked strip sandwich, a large fry, a cheesecake and a water... Kai?" I looked down at her. She was laughing at my large order watching the price go up.
"Fatty," She muttered than looked over to the cashier, "I'll have a single whopper with cheese and fries. And a sprite," She ordered. The countress punched in our order and handed me the receipt.
"Thank you sir. Your order will be right with you," We sat down at a banquet in the corner of the restaurant. She settled in my chest. I put my arm around her waist and we sat in silence for a while. No one entered the fast-food eatery. We were the only ones there besides the employees of course. It was always nice to be completely alone with my Kai. Even if we were sitting in silence, we were still bonding in some mental way. She grunted, waking me up from that mental trance.
"I can't believe my mother didn't tell me.." She murmured.
"I'm sure she had an explanation," I justified. She grunted again. Probably thinking of bizarre reasons her mother didn't tell her about her twin brother. Reasons including: That he was abducted by aliens when they were small children and all memory of him was erased by the Men In Black. Or. When Kai and her family lived in Africa her brother was mauled by a lion and her mom had to choose one to save and she chose Kai. Somehow her brother survived. Then all memory of his was erased by the Men In Black. Or. Kai's brother is in an insane asylum for attacking his classmates in elementary school. After being attacked herself he was sentence to life in the hospital. Than lastly her memory of him was erased by the Men In Black. That was my sad attempt to think about things erratically like Kai.
"She's going to like you, Jacob," She grinned up at me and began playing with my large fingers.
"Why is she going to like me. I'm not special," I noted slightly sarcastically than realized it was true and sighed.
"You're extremely special, love." She ran her hands through my hair assuringly.
"Fine. Elaborate," I ordered.
"Well first off you're really pretty and seco--"
"I'm pretty? What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well, I hate saying cute or hot so I say pretty, beautiful, or handsome. Either way there's no way to describe your looks," She grinned. I smiled back and nodded for her to go.
"Order 147, order 147 is ready," The cashier put the three bags of food onto the counter.
"Thanks," I took the food and headed for the door. Food in one hand and Kai in the other.
"Why else is she going to like me?" I asked opening the passenger's door for her. She slid in with a confused smile on her face.
"You're a gentleman. You are certainly down-to-earth and you are like my personal body guard," She giggled after I got into the car. She pulled her burger from the bag and unwrapped it slowly.
"Ah.. I see." I added taking my own burger from the paper bag and unwrapping it quickly and taking a bite before she did.
"Is she nice?" I asked after swallowing.
"I don't know," She shrugged.
"How do you not know if your mom is nice or not?" I questioned looking her in the eye. She threw her hands up, with her burger in her right.
"I don't know! She's nice to me... I don't know how she is towards other people," She complained. I chuckled before sipping my water.
"I wish you could meet my mom. She would have loved your personality. You're like the perfect girl in her eyes," I laid back in my eat after finishing my burger.
"What was that definition?"
"You're sweet. You're caring. You can cook. You have a brain. You're angelic. You have the personality that every man, mother, father, woman would kill for and.. I really think you man be perfect," I sighed. Kai shied into her seat and gave me a small smirk of a smile.
"She wouldn't have cared that I'm not Native American?"
"Psh! You're beautiful beyond compare... There' no way anyone could care what race you are," I grabbed my second sandwich from the brown bag in my lap and bit into it.
"So you can't compare me to Bella?" I became attentive and put down my sandwich.
"That's easy. Her beauty is forced. Yours is au natural," I replied biting into my sandwich.
"Elaborate dear peasant," She ordered settling into her seat after finishing her burger.
"I did master," I chuckled. She crossed her arms and stared at me sternly.
"Am I more beautiful or is she?"
"Well that depends--"
"Depends!? That's not a good way to start an explanation," She argued. I narrowed my eyebrows and grinned.
"Are you jealous?" I assumed grinning.
"Why would I be jealous. She's a vampire..." She stated bluntly. That's all she had to say to explain her "non-jealousy"
"Yeah ok," I finished my sandwich and figured my cheesecake could wait.
"Elaborate!!" She ordered. I became alert, but figured that we had ended this conversation.
"Before she was a vampire she was like a... Six. You're an eleve. Good enough?" I snorted starting the car.
"Before she was a vampire I'd look better. Ok. What about now?" She glared up at me and I felt my entire body slum.
"Kai, this isn't fair," I wailed pulling out of the parking lot.
"Hey! All I'm asking is for your comparison of your ex-girlfriend to your current. Not so much I'm asking," She exclaimed.
"Stop saying that! She was never my girlfriend," I argued.
"Just answer the damn question!!" She shouted glaring at me the way she had after we left the school. I stared back in surprise. Even such a minor swear word sounded like vomit erupting from my delicate Kai's mouth.
"Shut up and drive..." She ordered giving up.
"Ha-ha!! I win!" I declared stopping at a red light. She angrily clapped her hands and replied
"Yeah! Great! You won a drive to my mother's house in silence!" She muttered in a mockery of a game show host voice.
"I'm sorry," I apologized touching her arm. She jerked away and didn't answer.
We crossed the bridge to Oak Harbor, a tiny suburb outside of Olympia. Fifty minutes in silence was painful.
"Turn right at the next street" She ordered, directions like that were the only things that escaped from her lips.
"It's the last red brick house on the left," I parked in the driveway and put the car in park. She was still staring out the dashboard with her arms crossed and brows narrowed.
"Please talk to me!" I pleaded. She kept her glance at the house in front of us. I got out and rushed to the passenger's side. I opened the door and she stepped out. She had changed her clothes. In seconds. Her blue hoodie and jeans were gone. Instead, she was wearing a pain of dark wash gray skinny jeans and a striped black, violet, and magenta sweater.
"That's pretty cool," I muttered. She stepped out of the car, surprisingly taking my hand, but moved it to my wrist. I sighed.
"Kai. Talk to me! Please?" I pleaded. She pulled me to the porch. I looked at my watch, reading the time to myself. It was exactly 6:30. She rang the doorbell.
"Kai! Sweetie! I've missed you so much. Come, come" Mrs. Raze was a splitting image of Kai. Or the other way around. Though her hair was cut short. A pixie cut like Leslie's or Alice's. She was slim. Probably smaller than Kai even. They were also about the same height. She didn't seem to notice the giant behind her daughter.
"Come in. I made your favorite," She lead us into the living room. I was well decorated in main colors of brunt orange, a golden yellow, and deep red. It was modern and classy at the same time.
"Spaghetti? Ah, but Ma I just ate," I can eat! I thought to myself, knowing that they still hadn't acknowledged me.
"Well what about your friend?" She looked me up and down after setting the table.
"Oh, he doesn't matter," She swatted her hand around her ear towards me. I let my head drop, but not too low that Mrs. Raze would notice.
"Sorry. I'm Jacob Black," I introduced holding my massive hand towards my future mother-in-law. She took it and her eyes widened. Pretty normal reaction to my heat.
"Hello Jacob Black. I'm Marley Raze," She introduced.
"Cool name. Like Bob Marley, eh? He's in my top 5," I commented. I've always loved retro reggae. The modern stuff is worn out. She chuckled to herself and nodded.
"I'm already in love with this one. Any Bob Marley fan has my blessing," She grinned a Kai grin and proceeded into the kitchen.
"Great..." Kai muttered. She plopped down onto the sectional that took up the spacious living room. I sat in a chair diagonal from Kai's view.
"Jacob, what did you do to my daughter?" I urgently stood up from the chair that I was sitting in from the sound of my name. She giggled and smiled over at me. The Raze family seemed to have a way of playing with your agitation pretty well. I sighed and sat back down.
"He said that his ex-girlfriend was prettier than me," She whined. I grunted in disagreement.
"I said nothing like that. And she was never my girlfriend," I argued.
"Have you seen her Kai," Marley called from the kitchen as she added an aroma and an abundance of spices to the sauce of her spaghetti. The redolence of the spices mixing in the pot lifted into the air and attacked my nose. The simplicity of the smell gave me chills.
"Yes. Yes I have," She answered blandly.
"Is she?" Marley asked leaning against the counter.
"Did you seriously just ask if someone was prettier than me? You're a horrible mother," She grunted. She crossed her arms and pouted. I looked over to her mother who was making circles around her ears indicating that her daughter was crazy. I chuckled and nodded in agreement.
"I'm not crazy!," Kai defended, not even turning around to see her mother.
"So Jacob, what are you to Kai? Friend? Boyfriend? Body guard?" She chuckled. I looked over to Kai with a misconceived look on my face. I shook my head in disapproval and sighed.
"You haven't told your mom about your boyfriend? Yes Mrs. Raze, I'm Kai's boyfriend," I announced finding my way to the bar stools on the opposite side of where Mrs. Raze was cooking.
"Kai! Why didn't--" She began.
"He's not my boyfriend," Kai objected crossing her legs. Mrs. Raze shot a sorry-my-daughter's-crazy look at me, and I nodded with a it's-okay-I-can-deal look to reply.
"I thought you were over denying the fact," I noted.
"Ha-ha, Kai's always been that way. Dejecting her friends, but somehow attracting for with her dejection. To this day she has so many friends," Marley added pouring her sauce into a introductory bowl. It was ancient almost, having symbols written and carved all around. I brushed off the question as to where she had obtained it and settled back into my seat.
"Ma. Please.. Don't share my entire childhood," She dictated walking towards the second bar stool next to mine.
"I won't... That is only if you go get the photo albums," I chuckled and nodded in agreement. Kai climbed into the stool and I came to the conclusion that mood tantrum was over.
"No. Don't be the typical mother," She objected shaking her head. Marley chuckled and shrugged, "Oh! Where's dad!? I can't believe that you didn't bring him to the dinner! I'm so happy he's home. I've missed him so much. Phone calls don't cut it anymore," She pleaded, in a soft begging voice. Mrs. Raze sighed and shook her head.
"He's not going to be home until like midnight. You know that," She told, cutting tomatoes and lettuce for a salad.
"Well, I had hope," Kai sighed and let her head fall into the hand whose elbow was resting on the counter.
"How long have you two been together?" Mrs. Raze asked letting the tomato chunks and leaves of lettuce from her cutting board fall into the large salad bowl. She glared at me, who was too busy sniffing out the air for new odors. I shook my head from the scanning of smells and became attentive.
"Five days," I expressed counting Monday and Tuesday, the first two days we had met.
"Five!? Three! Crazy.." She exclaimed objecting to my estimation. I chuckled.
"Three?? I figured you two had been together for years. The chemistry is there," She boasted laughing at her daughter's behavior.
"So would I.. He's already said he loves me," She bantered. I jerked my head from the game on the television.
"Kai!" I shrieked narrowing my brows at her.
"What? It's not like I get to see my mother all the time," She defended, throwing her hands up and turning back to her mom.
"Did you mean it Jacob?" Mrs. Raze asked pouring noodles into a strainer. I didn't know how to answer that question without looking like an ass. I sighed.
"With all my heart,"
"Do you love him Kai," She asked putting down the hot pot and leaning on the counter again.
"Ma! No therapist crap. Only in the office," She objected shaking her head at her mom. I grinned and shrugged.
"Sorry, but you need it," Mrs. Raze disagreed, only referring to Kai. I narrowed my eyebrows, but didn't interrupt.
"Yes mother. I love Jacob," She blundered, I grinned and they both seemed to be looking at me like I was crazy. I switched the grin to a smile and shook my head.
"Has she said it back," Marley was glaring at me waiting for my response.
"Yes, but it sounded forced," I answered, sighing at my answer.
"Kai?"
"What!?"
"If you love him than it shouldn't sound forced," Marley acclaimed. Kai grunted and swatted her ear again.
"He knows I love him, and if he doesn't than he's stupid," She mumbled and folded her arms on the counter and resting her head on them. I cleared my throat and raised my hand.
"I'm right here," I noted. Kai grunted.
"Well new subject," Her mother began. Preparing our plates of spaghetti at the same time. She set them in front of us and I began chowing down immediately. "Have you two had sex yet," I choked on a mouthful of noodles and jerked my head up from my plate and glared and both Kai and her mother. Kai just giggled.
"Ma. You're crazy," She giggled, playing with her fork and noodles. Twirling them in circles around the fork.
"Well?" Marley waited resting her chin in the palm of her hands watching us eat. Me eat, Kai play.
"No. We're waiting till marriage," Kai announced picking up noodles from the plate than letting them fall off the fork. I rolled my eyes and continued my plate.
"Aw. That's great honey," She approved, kissing her daughter's forehead. I grunted. That's my kissing spot. "Yeah, don't end up like me with a huge belly in the beginning of high school You turned out great, but the turmoil," I noticed them both shudder and shake the thought out their mind. Kai then grinned mischievously.
"I wouldn't mind having a baby. Jacob?" I choked on another mouthful. She giggled, but I couldn't tell if she was kidding or not.
"No! Jacob, I'm sorry. My daughter's quite deranged." She acclaimed shaking her head and stuffing the salad she'd made into the refrigerator.
"C'mon Jacob," She persuaded. She touched my thigh and once again I choked on another mouthful of noodles when she began stroking. What the hell is going on!?
"No! I don't know??" I answered nervous and confused to what was happening in the kitchen I was in.
"Ugh, you're no fun," She grinned, jokingly or seriously, I couldn't tell. I sighed in relief though. Kai's so weird, but goodness I can't get enough of her weirdness.
A few seconds passed when another conversation started.
"Have you told him?" Marley asked, referring to the shifting.
"Yup," She nodded, still playing with her food. I rolled my eyes and took the plate from her and began eating her share and pushed my empty plate to her side.
"Great, so what do you think about it?" Mrs. Raze's eyes brightened and her sight switched over to me. I began to speak, but Kai interrupted.
"Jacob's a werewolf Ma. He's used to the craziness," She announced, making me choke on another mouthful. I grunted in annoyance and hit her arm.
"Ouch!!" She cried. Oops.
"Oh really?" Her mother smirked, grabbing the empty plate in front of Kai.
"Kai, you can't just blurt that sort of stuff out!" I muttered to her. She shrugged.
"Well, I would have told her sometime. I'm sorry," She apologized, with that discouraged face I hated. I sighed and nodded in acceptance of her apology.
"Yeah, okay," I finished my second plate, and Mrs. Raze took it before I could get up and wash it myself. Kai began twitting with her fingers and then urgently jerked up from her lost thoughts.
"Ma!! I almost completely forgot why I'm even here!!" Kai jumped up from her chair in surprise and walked over to the sink where her mother was washing dishes.
"What is it?" Mrs. Raze questioned, turning off the sink and facing her urgent faced daughter.
"November twentieth, ninety-ninety three, what happened?" Kai interrogated, piercing her eyes at her confused mother.
"You were born sweetie," Mrs. Raze kissed her daughter's forehead, giggled, and turned the sink back on. Kai shook her head vigorously and turned it back off again.
"Don't lie to me!!" Kai attempted to look intimidating, but her chubby, childish face just made me chuckle. She turned to glare at me and I shut up.
"Kai, do you not know your own birth date? Goodness..." She turned the faucet back on, but Kai slammed her hand on the lever again. Marley sent a baffled glance at her daughter and slammed it up again.
"Do I have a twin, Ma!?" Kai blurted. The kitchen went silent, except for the loud heartbeat of Kai's heart every six seconds. Many emotions washed across Marley Raze's face.
"Ka--"
"Why didn't you tell me!? Ma! Vampires know and I don't!!" She accused.
"Vampires? You're associating with.." Mrs. Raze threw the plate she was washing to the floor. The plate sent shatters through the entire kitchen. "I forbid! You're coming back to live with me! You can't! Whatever you're doing you can't!!" She exclaimed stomping her foot on a shatter. I winced at the pain that she probably felt.
"Why didn't you tell me though, Ma? I can't keep my powers if he's alive," Kai reassured. Mrs. Raze's knees gave out, causing her to fall to the floor. She just sat there, in pieces of shattered glass.
"I'm sorry," Marley's veins began to pop and I began to panic.
"Ma, I love you. You know that. Don't get all depressed on me," Kai encouraged bending down to comfort her mother. Kai sat behind her and began to massage her back. Mrs. Raze's breathing went back to normal as Kai rubbed her back.
"The doctors told me he didn't survive. I left with you. I figured I didn't need to tell you. There was no need to," Mrs. Raze shrugged in discouragement. Kai moved from her back to her neck and Mrs. Raze sighed.
"I named him though. But I don't remember. Grandma said she should have a funeral for him, but I refused and said that was too much for my loss. Your father said the same. Kai, I'm sorry," Mrs. Raze turned to plead to her daughter and Kai shook her head.
"Ma, you say that too often. You have nothing to ever be sorry for, it's usually my fault," Kai hugged her mother's neck in assurance and kissed her forehead.
"We should be going. It's getting late. Jacob has patrol. Call me okay?" Kai stood and I cam to realize that my future family was pretty hectic. Not like it was their fault, but still.
"For sure. I'll call when your dad gets home," Mrs. Raze promised, picking up pieces of the plate she destroyed. Kai didn't reply and grabbed her shoes and began to slip them on.
"No killing your twin brother, k?" Marley teased as she grabbed a broom from behind the refrigerator. Kai giggled.
"No crazy outbreaks, K?" Kai teased back.
"Fine! Than no vampires!" Mrs. Raze shook her finger at her daughter in a motherly way.
"But Ma. They're just so dead and not lively. Oodles and oodles of fun with those guys," She added quirkily. I chuckled and shook my head.
"Seriously though. Take care of yourself," She ran her fingers through her daughters hair and Kai swatted her hand and pulled away, fixing her bangs.
"Yeah, yeah.." She scorned brushing her bangs back to their normal position.
"And you!" Marley glared at me, and shook her finger at me. "Take care of my love," Se shot a pleasant look of approval at me. I nodded and chuckled.
"Don't worry Mrs. Raze, I will. There's no way that I'll be able to live if anything ever happened to her," Literally. I walked over to Kai and stretched my arm around her shoulders. She returned the gesture and embraced my waist.
"Bye Ma," She called from the porch, letting her mother kiss her forehead. We left hand in head. We reached the car, and I opened the passenger's side for her. Mrs. Raze stayed on the porch and waved from the door.
"Bye Kai!" She waved. I started the car and backed out of the driveway. I sighed of relief one last time and settled into my seat.
"Kai, your family is... Crazy. Frantic even," I chuckled. Kai sighed.
"I'm sorry, Jacob. I really am. I didn't want the first time that you meet my mother to be like that," She chuckled lightly as well and let her head lean against the window in obvious exhaustion.
"Well, she'd funny. I like her. Your mom makes me wonder what our wedding will be like," I noted looking over at her. She was staring out the windshield with a disgusted smirk occupying her face. She turned to me and smiled.
"Who said I wanted to marry you?" She sneered. I narrowed my brows and tilted my head in confusion. I couldn't tell if she was serious or not.
"You don't want to marry me?" I questioned, devastated. She sneered and shook her head and rolled her eyes.
"Jacob, I'm fifteen. I don't know what I want," She responded looking more sincere.
"Well I know what I want, and I want to marry you Kai," I admitted, sounding too serious for Kai probably.
"Jacob, are you proposing? We've been together for three days and you're proposing? Jacob, you're a seventeen year old boy. You don't know what you want just as much as I don't. You don't know what you're doing," Kai argued. I felt the need to slam on the break and object to her statement, but instead I pressed harder on the gas.
"Kai, you don't have any idea what I want. The bad thing is, is that you should. I love you and the only reason I'm on this earth is to love you. I want ot be with you forever, but what I need is to be with you fro an eternity. You're crazy to think that I don't know that I want you. Kai... I love you and I mean it. I can't believe that you'd doubt my love," I expressed. I clenched the steering wheel. I felt her hand on my thigh.
"Jacob... I have two more years of school left. I love you too. Don't get me wrong, but I'm not going to marry you right now," She expressed. I shot her a misconceived look. We were both thinking of two different things here. I chuckled and shook my head.
"Kai, I'm not talking about now. I was planning on waiting. That'd be hectic!" I chuckled. She pulled back and blinked a few times.
"Oh.. Well then. That's different," She rubbed my thigh and attempted to pull back, but I caught it before it left my thigh.
"Reall Kai, I love you. I've devoted my life to living for you. Willingly or unwillingly,"
"Promise?" She questioned, eyes glassy and sincere.
"I swear," I swore stroking her tiny hand in mine. She nodded and turned her sight back to the empty street in front of us.
Yeah, that was 18 pages worth of Kai and Jacob. I know I know. I did a horrible job on writing the Cullen's, but I don't like them so whatever. The only ones I like are Alice and Jasper. And Emmett of course.
Agh! *SPOILERALERT* Kane is coming to make a massacre of horrible events between Kai and Jacob! It's great :D
Don't remember Kane? The boy they met at orientation. Well yeah. It's a comin..
Oh. And special thanks to Alexia-Faith for love my story so much (: