Hey there everyone! So this is chapter 25, or 24 depending how you look at it, of Lullaby! I'm so proud of this little story that started in an old torn up composition notebook, and has now become something that people read and like! I'm sorry it took so long to update as well. I've had papers to write recently, three of them, one after the other, and I kind of hate writing papers. Sorry!!

Chapter 25: Think of You Later.

"I think we should drown him," Talia sighed as she, Kim, Vivi, and Leah sat on the beach, behind Seth and the other boys as they were playing beach volleyball.

"I don't think you could drown him Talia," Leah sighed laying down on her long beach towel, letting the sun warm up the skin that wasn't covered by her bikini, which was a lot.

"We could do it if it was a group effort," Talia sighed.

"And by group effort, you mean Quil, Embry, Ollie, and Jake right?" Vivi asked.

Kim laughed, "Not like we could do it."

"I actually think we could, he looks so depressed, he might let us drown him." Leah said, changing her mind.

"Well, at least he's participating in things now," Vivi sighed, "He used to just go to school, do his patrol round, and go home. That was the only time I saw him anyways."

"He was worse at school, trust me," Talia grumbled rolling her eyes.

Leah's face contorted into an odd facial expression, "What is it?" Vivi asked taking in her expression.

"Can I tell you guys something?" She asked slowly.

"Aw! Leah are you getting all buddy buddy with us now!?" Talia squealed.

"Hell no," Leah growled, she paused gulping slowly, "There's a reason Seth is really up-tight."

"Uh, duh. It's called Ryan went bye bye," Talia said sarcastically rolling her eyes again.

"No you idiot!" Leah yelled frustrated, she looked down when the boys stopped playing their volleyball game to look at her, trying to figure out the reason for her sudden outburst, when she didn't say anything they went back to their game.

Leah cleared her throat and pushed the little ruffle of hair that was falling over her forehead behind her ears before she started talking again, "You can't tell Seth I told you, there are only two other people who know here on the rez, and that's Sam and Jake."

"Okay, what is it!" Kim yelled excitedly, as she crawled closer to Leah.

"…Delia isn't dead."

Leah was met with blank stares. The type of stares you get when you tell someone something that they must think is the biggest lie in the world. Only this time, it wasn't a lie. Talia opened her mouth, and you could hear her intake of breath, like she was going to say something, but she closed it after a couple of seconds.

"But… you killed her…didn't you?" Kim asked after a minute or two.

"I…I…" Leah looked down at the ground, she looked embarrassed.

"You aren't saying anything Vivi, did you know already?" Kim asked, still the only one able to find her voice.

Vivi was looking down at the ground like Leah, but she nodded her head slowly, yes she knew. Talia was still looking at the two with an absentminded stare, "W-What's going to happen now?" she asked suddenly.

"Nothing," Leah said, her look was that of guilt now, "She's not even in Washington anymore. She's about 22 hours away from here."

"22 hours…" Talia said slowly.

"In Colorado," Kim said, "In Denver…"

"Near Ryan." Talia finished, her voice was beginning to get panicky.

"No, not near Ryan," Vivi said, "Alice is in Denver with Ryan. Nothing will happen to Ryan, I swear."

"Me too," Leah said quickly, "No one will hurt Ryan."

"What are you guys talking about?" Ben asked as he, Quil, Embry, Jarred, Jacob, Paul, and Seth came barreling towards the girls, sweaty and tired.

"N-Nothing!" Kim yelled as Jarred wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Come on, we're going to go back to Ben's place and play some video games and maybe watch a couple of movies, you guys in?" Quil asked grabbing a water bottle out of the cooler they had brought.

"Y-Yeah, that sounds great." Leah said, laughing nervously.

"Lele? Are you okay?" Seth asked calling his sister by the nickname she hated.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine. Let's get to Ben's house before it gets to late okay?" Leah asked getting up and brushing the sand off of her shorts.

Seth nodded slowly, "Yeah okay."

"Ha!" Talia yelled, throwing her air hockey puck down on the floor, "I won!" she turned around and shimmied her hips in a sort of victory dance.

"I let you win!" Embry yelled as he huffed off towards the couch to watch "The Ring." with the others. Talia stuck her tongue out at him while his back was turned, and rushed over to the bar-styled counter where Vivi, Kim, Ryan, and Leah were already sitting, drinking virgin martinis, except for Leah, Leah had decided she needed a real one.

"Ugh. You can't play games with little boys," Talia sighed, "They get so worked up when they loose."

"I think you cheated." Vivi said sipping her lime green drink.

"Talia Birch does not cheat!" Talia claimed indignantly.

Kim jumped just then, spilling a little of her own bubble gum pink drink onto the counter, "Oops, cell is vibrating!" she giggled digging it out of her pocket and flipping it open, "Hello?" Kim's face went from complacent to excited, "Ooh! Let me call you back on Ben's phone okay? Then I can put you on speaker so everyone can talk to you!" and without wasting another second, Kim slid her phone shut, grabbed the wireless on the counter, and punched numbers in, she punched the speaker button, and everyone could hear the phone ringing.

"Hello?" someone asked on the other side of the phone after it rung three times, "Kim?"

Everyone froze for a second, besides Kim who already knew who it was of course, "Ryan! How are you? Where are you? What are you doing? How's you dad and Laila, and your little sister? I heard Alice was down there, is she still there?" Kim asked, shooting off rapid fire questions.

Everyone could hear Ryan giggle on the other end of the phone, "I'll answer in order to your questions. I'm doing okay, I'm in my backyard, I was swimming but now I have my feet dipped in my pool instead, everyone here is doing great, and yes Alice is still here, as a matter of fact she's swimming."

"Oh!" Talia exclaimed, "I still haven't yelled at you for the whole prom thing!"

It was about this time when the boys turned their heads to see who the girls were talking too, and what had gotten Talia so riled up, they had gotten up by then, and they had started to surround the bar.

"You know I didn't want to go to prom!" Ryan yelled.

"Ryan's on the phone?" Jake asked suddenly, Kim nodded.

"Yo sweet cheeks!" Embry called, "How's it going down in the mountains?"

You could hear Ryan scoff on the other end, "They're great Embry, a lot better then those stupid beaches," she said sarcastically, "How is it going in monster land?"

"Everyone is good," Quil started.

"Mostly everyone," Jake added looking at Seth who was at the end of the counter, the furthest away from the phone.

"Which one of you did something stupid to get yourself hurt this time? You know I told you that jumping off of those cliffs wasn't a very good idea…"

"You worry too much." Jake scoffed.

"Don't worry Ry, none of them are hurt," Vivi said happily, "Yet anyways."

"Ah, ye of little faith," Ollie sighed, "How was the rest of your school year?" he asked.

"Oh…it was okay I guess. My dad just carted me off to a lot of parties and such, they were boring, just like they always are," there was a long pause, and nobody talked because it was obvious that Ryan had something more to say but she was thinking about it first, "Is… is he…"

"Is he what?" Kim asked.

"Oh never mind," there was a pause again and then a loud crash, and Ryan's shriek was audible to say the least.

"Ryan!?" Seth yelled taking the phone.

"Lucas!" you could hear her yelling, "I told you to use the front door the next time you came over!" she giggled, "You nearly gave me a heart attack! Where's Aaron and Milly, I thought they were coming too?"

"They're getting stuff out of the car," everyone had their ears up to the phone now, trying to listen to Ryan's friends, and her conversation.

"The main attraction has arrived!" they could hear a girly voice call out.

"Milly, I think you meant attractions." Another voice, that of Nina's rang out.

"Is that a bikini or a belt? Because it really isn't covering all that much." Ryan laughed, they could hear the rustling of the phone as she put it back between her shoulder and ear, "I'm so sorry, my rude friends," she yelled rude so her friends would hear it, "just scared the hell out of me, did one of you say something before I screamed like a little girl?"

Seth, who was clenching the phone with one hand, and the counter with the other, passed the phone to Kim dejectedly, as he slumped at the end of the counter.

"Nope, sorry," Kim said, "I'll call you back later since you have company okay?"

"What?" Ryan started, "No! I never seem to be able to talk to you guys!"

Vivi took the phone from Kim, "Don't worry I promise we will call you," she sent a hard glare in Seth's direction, "All of us will."

"Well… alright then. I guess I'll talk to you guys later?" Vivi was about to respond when Ryan let out another girly shriek, "Lucas! Put me down! I do not appreciate being held like a cat! Oh no! No no no no! Lucas if you throw me in that pool! I'll talk to you later Vivi!" Ryan yelled into the phone before you could hear another girly shriek and then a splash of the water and finally a mass amount of giggles.

Everyone stared at the phone as the ring tone came and blared over the speaker phone. Kim looked down at Seth angrily, "Well are you happy now?" she asked mad, "She's obviously having fun! Without us! This is what you wanted right?" she almost yelled before stomping off upstairs and out of the finished basement.

"Baby, wait up!" Jared yelled after her, following her up the stairs.

"Well," Jake said sarcastically, "That went well."

""Back to the Ring!" Embry shouted as he, Vivi, a sighing Talia, Ben, Ollie, Leah, Quil, Jake, and Seth went back to the couch to watch the rest of their movie in silence.

Leah looked over at Seth, he was sitting on the end section of the couch, by himself, most everyone obviously mad at him for making Ryan leave in the first place. Sighing, she got up and shuffled over to where her baby brother was sitting, and obviously sulking. She sat down beside him and rested her head on his warm shoulder.

"It'll get better you know." Leah said as the part where Rachel watches the video in the movie came on the screen.

"Better?" Seth asked, watching the creepy scene intently, "I don't think so, they hate me."

"They don't hate you, they're just upset, because they don't see why you told her to do what you wanted her to do, that's all."

Seth sighed, but other then that he didn't give his sister an answer, at least a real one. They sat in silence the rest of the movie. The girls, including Kim who had come back down stairs with Ben, screamed at every scary part, no matter how not scary it was.

When it was over, Seth got up from the couch so quick that Leah didn't even realize until her head hit the couch, and left the basement, going to his own house, presumably to sulk there in peace.

Okay, so it was a little boring, but I had to have a chapter introducing things and whatnot, theres always a boring chapter, I tried to make this one not boring, so tell me what you think!! And thanks for reading it!!