Hey peoples! I know the beginning and middle of this chapter might seem like a filler, but it's not. (Also, Amanda, Jill, Max, and Jesse go to school in Forks, and Alex and Louis dropped out of school when they were in the tenth grade, like Angie is now!)
In this chapter, Angie discovers something shocking about Collin that puts him in a whole new light… Dramatic, I know.
As my aunt said after she got a visit from the repo man: I don't own anything!
Chapter Twenty-Six – Collin, Please Tell me you Weren't a Pervert.
I couldn't help but laugh as Collin tried to figure out how to work my family's ancient dishwasher. He had volunteered to wash the dishes as one of my sixteenth birthday presents, the second being a surprise. I know that Collin spoils me, but that's a big part of an imprint, or at least a pretty great part of an imprint. That and really great kissing. And sex… And a lot of other stuff… Anyways, he was turning the knobs and a bead of sweat had started to form on his brow.
"Are you sure I shouldn't just get it to start working?" I asked him bemusedly. He shook his head.
"No, no I've got it! This is one of your birthday presents!" Collin finally managed to get it to work. He let out a sigh of relief. "Yes! Finally!"he moaned and wiped off his hands on his shorts before turning around, smiling and opening his arms for a praise hug. Stifling more laughter, I entered his warm embrace and sighed within his arms. "You're such a dork." I smiled and punched him playfully. He grinned back but it faded.
"C'mon. We gotta get you to school." He said shoving my books into my arms and tugging me gently out the door. I groaned.
"I don't understand why you can't just let me walk to school!" I exclaimed dryly.
"Like I've said before, we've been together exactly one year and you know what? I want to spend as much time with you as possible." I let out a sigh of annoyance. He had been giving me that excuse all last night and this morning. I guess it was probably true. It was just that I didn't want him to hear some of the things kids whispered about me as I walked past, he might get angry... Not that I cared, but things would probably rev up if they saw me give Collin a very hot kiss, they knew I was only in the tenth grade and Collin… Well Collin looked like he could be ten or twelve or twenty years older then me. He glanced at me before pulling into a parking space.
"Angie, you should really learn how to drive." He said seriously and my eyes widened in surprise.
"Um, no thank you. I would rather walk or run. Besides, I already have a personal chauffeur right here!" I teased and hopped out of the car. It's just that driving myself bored me, and I just wasn't really interested. I know I'm weird, but I'm not exactly Ms. Normal anyway. He shook his head and mumbled something under his breath like 'my point exactly'. I slammed the door and turned around to find Collin's face very, very close to mine. His sweet breath lingered on my face as he gave me a too-short kiss. He pulled away, leaving me breathless.
"Sorry, Ang. I gotta go now, see ya later." He winked at me before driving off, the center of my chest becoming more achy by the second. I planted a scowl on my face and spun on the spot, shooting death glares to anyone and everyone. I made my way to my locker and shoved the books in, taking out the one I needed. I normally didn't pay attention to the rumors going around about me, but something Lola and Marla were whispering about something that caught my attention.
"… And Cheryl swore she saw them kissing. And he was like, thirty-six! Yeah! I know, she's on drugs, probably drinks, smokes, and now she's the other half of a pedophile, or whatever." Lola whispered quickly. I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah… But she's like sixteen. Isn't that old enough to be like, able to date old guys?" Marla whispered back. I cannot believe I was ever friends with those dopes. "That guy is gonna go to jail if any of the teachers saw, cause like, the teachers'll be concerned even more than usual about her, you know?" I stopped in my tracks. I didn't care about them talking about me, but now, they were talking about fucking Collin? Now that's going too far. Just walk away, Angie. Ignore them.
"Okay, I also heard from Cheryl that she's not the first young girl he messed with…" Lola leaned in closer, "He's a total womanizer. My sister Mandy dated him once, and he dumped her for Eve… And Kathy! He's probably made out with every twenty or nineteen year old out there." My anger flared and my hands started to shake. What liars!
"Lola! I doubt that's true." Marla frowned. Lola shrugged but leaned in closer.
"It's true Marla; she walked in on him fucking Kathy in a closet even though he was supposedly dating Eve." She smeared some red lipstick on her lips and slammed her locker door shut. "Anyways, Angie is a slut, and he's a jackass. They're perfect for each other." They both started to laugh and I sprinted past them, running outside before I accidentally phased in the building. Huh, I haven't had to do that since June. Running into the forest, I curved my fingers and sank onto the ground. I put my head between my knees and tried to breathe deeply.
Was Collin really a… womanizer, as Lola had put it? He couldn't have been! Collin is so sweet… He wouldn't do anything like that! But who knows what kind of guy he was before he met me… I shuddered at the thought. No, no, no! Stop it, Angie! Loser uno and Loser dose were probably just talking shit as usual. Stop. Worrying.
I swallowed and stood up, brushing off my pants and staring at the school building. Crap. I had been out here trying to calm down for at least thirty minutes and Vice Principal Beldhad, or as I liked to call him, VP Baldhead, was probably prowling the halls. Of course I called him VP Beld to his face. Ever since he first caught me sneaking back into school, he seemed to have a great dislike/like for me. He never once called attention to me or reported me to the principal; he just sent obvious glares towards me and gave me detentions for just the slightest reason besides sneaking in. I sighed, might as well wait the next fifteen minutes for first period to end, I wasn't as likely to get caught. I sat down again and the whole Lola and Marla gossip shit started to ease its way back into my head.
If Collin really had been such a… pervert, then did it really matter? I knew he was noting of the sort now. But I was the only girl he had had sex with… And then the horrible truth dawned on me. He probably had had girlfriends, and there was a possibility that he had slept with them. Was that why Embry had gotten so angry at first, because he thought Collin might try to fuck me? And… he did. I was no longer a virgin, because just one year ago today, we had been having sex. Had he really planned to lay me? I mean, he had always said that he wanted what's best for me, and I knew that that was true… But did he think, at one point, that sex was best for not me, but him?
I realized another thing. I hardly knew anything about him! I knew when his twin sisters Jeanette and Carmela were born, and that his two brother's names were Zach and Tyler, but that was about it. It was always about me. I guess he made it seem that I was the only person that mattered in our relationship; with a sickening feeling I understood that I had been selfish. And because I was so selfish, I was going to be spending the whole damned day worrying about this. Great, just great, I thought as the bell rung. I glanced around me quickly before bolting to the school and wrenching open the door. I melted in with the flow of regular students, but again stopped in my tracks as I saw Marla and Lola only a few feet in front of me.
"Back to the Hottest Gossip! Sorry Olivia, I don't care what your sister says, but Collin. Is. A. Perv." Okay, that was it. I stomped up to Lola and spun her around. Her face instantly changed from shock to a cold scorn.
"Whatdid you say about my boyfriend?" I snarled, my voice becoming very werewolfy. Her face stayed the same, but I could see the fear in her beady little eyes.
"I said he was a pervert, just like you're a slut." She sneered. My eyes changed to flat back and I took a dangerous step forward. It seemed like her and her groupies were frozen in fear.
"That was the wrong thing to say Lola. Apologize." I snarled, trying to stop the growl that wanted to escape my throat. She started to splutter in fear, that's right; I'm a big, bad wolf. She seemed to regain a little composure.
"And why, should I apologize to you?" She asked snottily, but her voiced seemed to quiver. I shoved my fist into her face so it was pressed against her nose.
"This is why!" I whispered in a deadly voice. She swallowed and let the façade slip away. Her frame shook and she looked terrified. God, I'm starting to feel guilty about this… Nope, it's gone.
"I'm sorry! You are not a slut and Collin is not a pervert." She whispered and a gentle smile filled my face.
"Thanks, Lola! I appreciate it." I smiled at her even more warmly and turned around. I took one step away and heard her sigh of relief and quick, hurried whisper. "Yeah, I'm sorry that she's a slutty spaz and that she clearly has multiple personality disorder." There were several giggles and my face contorted in anger again. I took a step backwards and looked over my shoulder.
"Lola, there's one more thing." I said innocently. She blinked.
"Oh? What's that?" She asked just as innocently. I balled my hand into a fist, spun on my heel and punched her stupid nose. She let loose a piercing scream and fell backwards; I heard a sickening crunch and blood spurted everywhere. Okay, in my defense I didn't actually know that I pounded her hard enough to break her nose; I was used to the other wolves and in truth that was only hard enough to give them a slight bruise. But apparently not for Lola… Someone took my neck roughly and pulled me backward, I only gave in because I was caught off guard.
I realized with a groan that it was VP Baldhead. He dragged me to the principal's office and pushed me into a chair. I gave him a bright smile. "Hey VP Beld! What's going on with you? Oooh, did your third wife leave you? OhmiGod, she did! I remember seeing the missing ad in the paper for her! Dude, I am so sorry!" He held up a hand and rubbed his eyes.
"Angie… God, Angie. Why in the hell did you do that?" He asked quietly, still having a hand over his eyes.
"Because she pissed me off." I answered in a casual tone of voice. "Anyways, are you gonna go on that dating website again? Or ask out a girl at Bingo, because I would seriously go with the Bingo. Carey lasted way longer than Janice orAshley." This was a pretty small school and I was one of the only ones that got DT on a regular basis so we had gotten to know each other pretty well.
"Angie…" He began, but was interrupted by the secretary.
"Mr. Beldhad, Ms. Lone is ready for you and Angie now." I gave her a small wave and she let out a huff of breath. I entered my principal's office and slung myself over a chair, hanging my feet over the edge in the way that I usually do.
"Angie. I can hardly believe that you broke Ms. Corman's nose. But oh, it's true, isn't it?" Ms. Lone asked me sharply.
"Amanda, how many times do I have to tell you, Angie is absolutely unpredictable and uncontrollable." VP Baldhead sighed. She shook her head.
"Angie, how is this going to look on your college applications?" She asked sharply and I burst out in laughter. I clutched my sides and the two teachers glanced at each other. "Ms. Call, we'd like to know just what is so funny." She asked warily. I wiped tears from my eyes and grinning, answered her.
"You seriously think I'm going to college?" I asked her incredulously. Their eyes widened.
"Angie! You know that your whole family would probably be brutally disappointed in hearing that?" VP told me. I waggled my eyebrows.
"You never know! And by the way, happy birthday Amanda!" I told Ms. Lone. She raised an eyebrow.
"How'd you know it was my birthday?" She asked.
"I hacked onto the school's website, stole the date of all the teacher's birthdays, and am going to break Lola's nose on every one of them." I waggled my eyebrows again and they look horrified. "Oh calm down, I just passed a notice in the hallway." They breathed sighs of relief and turned back to the issue at hand.
"You are going to have to be suspended for at least a week, and we're going to have to call your mother." She said sternly. I raised an eyebrow.
"Aw, come one! You haven't suspended anyone since Paul Wilson, and he broke a guy's nose and arm! I should know, he's told me the story is great detail." I said seriously. "Besides, my mom's on a business trip. You're gonna have to call Emily and Sam. Embry'll be there." I said in a more boring voice.
"Wait a minute! You hang out with Paul Wilson?" Ms. Lone asked. I nodded brightly.
"Yup! The whole gang!" I said cheerfully and they shared a look.
"Can you give me Sam and Emily's number?" She asked quietly. I wrote it down quickly and grinned at VP Baldhead.
"Aw, come one VP! If you suspend me, it'll be too boring! I won't even be here to talk about your dating problems and make ya feel better about yourself." He let out a sigh of exasperation and put a hand over his eyes again. "Ya gotta love me, huh?" he let out a sigh again, but didn't uncover his eyes. I didn't listen to the phone call that Ms. Lone was making, I kind of zoned out, thinking of how fucking mad the Pack was going to be. Especially Collin… Collin. Aw shit, that little matter was now officially stuck in my head.
"Ms. Call, it seems that Embry is busy and cannot make it. Apparently they're sending someone named Sam. Sam Uley, I presume." Shit, why the hell are they sending Sam? Couldn't they at least send Collin or Quil? "Ms. Call! Can I presume the Sam they were talking about is Sam Uley?" She asked me after a moment. I snapped out of my reverie to answer her.
"Yeah, you can presume." I shrugged. "I don't get why they sent him, though." I shuddered and the teachers exchanged another look.
"Why? Does he do anything to you?" VP Baldhead asked angrily. That made me laugh.
"Sam, no! Are you kidding me? He's a pretty nice guy, but he'll probably get really mad at me and then like, give me some kind of punishment for my behavior." I chose my words carefully; hopefully they were appropriate for this situation. Ms. Lone raised her eyebrows.
"Shouldn't that be your mother's job?" She asked me. I shrugged, choosing not to give her an answer. Sam had more authority over me than anybody. I didn't like it, but it was true. Suddenly, the phone rang and everyone jumped. Ms. Lone picked it up still looking slightly surprised.
"Hello Gretel, oh he's here to pick up Ms. Call. We're suspending her for a week." She said pleasantly into the line and I couldn't help but roll my eyes. Ms. Lone gave me a wink. "Yes. Please send him in." Not a moment later, Sam came in. The two teacher's mouths fell open in shock as they saw him. Sam, being the alpha, was the biggest in the group standing at an amazing (For humans, at least) 7' 4 and probably having over a hundred and fifty pounds of muscle. I was too used to it, but they definitely weren't.
"Oh, um, you must be Mr. Uley. Please, take a seat." Ms. Lone stuttered. I rolled my eyes. It was evident that he wouldn't fit in the chair.
"I'll stand." He said gruffly and Ms. Lone swallowed.
"Alright then, I'll just begin. Angie must have lost control of her temper in the hallway and she punched a girl in the face, the effect was that the girls nose is now broken." Sam gave me a glare out of the corner of his eye. Well, you know what? I SO didn't lose my temper. If I had lost my temper she would probably be dead right about now. "We are very disappointed in her actions and have decided to suspend her for one week exactly." Sam's hands balled into fists, but he kept his face smooth.
"I'm disappointed in her too, I understand." He said; his voice emotionless. I rolled my eyes again. I hated his public side, he seemed so dead. Ms. Lone nodded her approval, than turned to face me. "And Angie, I'd also like to know why you hit her." She looked at me sharply, question in her eyes. I shrugged.
"Like I said before, she was really getting me angry." I answered in a bored voice. VP Baldhead let out an exasperated sigh.
"Yes Angie, we've gathered that. We want to know how she angered you." Aw, shit. I scrambled around reasons in my head, trying to come up with something good.
"Erm, she was uh, insulting me?" Crap, I formed it as a question. Why do I have to choose now to be a crappy liar? It looked like Sam was trying to suppress a groan.
"Please tell me you didn't hurt her because you wanted to?" VP Baldhead said and I shook my head.
"No… like I said before, she was insulting me." I said, this time my voice was dripping with confidence. They seemed unmoved by my sudden void of buoyancy. (I love thesauruses!)
"And what did Ms. Corman say to insult you so greatly?" Asked Ms. Lone wryly. I blinked and decided to come out with some of the truth.
"She called me a slutty drug addict. Which I'm not." I answered sticking my nose in the air. Sam shook his head and the two other adults looked at me in shock.
"Uh, very well. We'll speak to her, too. You and Mr. Uley can go now." Ms. Lone sighed before waving her hand and turning her attention back to her computer screen. Sam took my arm roughly and pulled me out of the room. As we walked down the hall, people shrank away from us and whispered things to the nearest person.
"Ow, Sam! God, you could loose your grip. God." I muttered. He shot me a death glare. He shoved me towards his car and pushed me in the front seat. He went into the driver's seat and revved the engine. He was silent as he started to drive.
"You're like a female Paul. You know, he's the only other one in the Pack that's ever been suspended." Sam said quietly and I did a double-take.
"Never call me a female Paul again." I hissed angrily. Sam shook his head. "Angie… Why the heck did you punch her? Your fighting record was CLEAN! And now you got suspended because of one little thing!" He yelled. I blinked in shock; he hadn't gotten this angry with me before.
"Sam… Listen, Sam. She was saying some stuff about… Collin… And it just got me so freaking mad. You're just lucky that I didn't phase right then and there. Fuck, you're lucky that I didn't lose my temper before this! And I think Ms. Lone totally overreacted. It was only one time." I looked out the window, expecting him to get angry with me again, instead he sounded curious.
"What were they saying about Collin?" I turned back to him, my face emotionless, as his had been before.
"I think I need to discuss it with Collin before I discuss it with you." I said flatly and his face changed into something unrecognizable. I heard him mutter something under his breath like 'good luck, Collin.' Sam was right, Collin needs some good luck if he's gonna get through me.
Sam parked by Emily's house and I prepared for the hell whole I was going to soon enter. I pictured Emily's disappointed face, Embry's furious face, and worst of all, Collin's angry face. The bad part, he would probably be mad at not me, but Lola. I slowly walked up the stairs and opened the door as quietly as I could. "ANGIE! We can hear you walking!" Embry's voice shouted from the kitchen. Well, shit. I made no urge to walk any faster then before. I looked around the corner to find Embry, Collin, Emily, and Cassie. I breathed a sigh of relief. Thank God it wasn't the whole bloody Pack.
"Heeey guys! What's up with you?" I asked them in a casual tone of voice. They all glared at me. Sheesh.
"Angie, I cannot believe you would do something so stupid! You know that a lot of people wouldn't expect you to have the strength to break someone's nose!" Embry growled. I flinched.
"Well excuuuse me! I am so not the only one who's broken a few human's noses now and again!" I growled and sunk into the chair. Emily put a hand up, silencing the room.
"I'm sure Angie didn't punch her for fun. We all know her better than that. Why did you punch her Angie?" She asked quietly. And just like that, all Lola and Marla's words came back to me in a terrible rush. She walked in on him fucking Kathy… He was supposedly dating Eve… She's not the first young girl he messed with… He's a total womanizer… I swallowed and blinked back tears of rage, looking anywhere but Collin. Their faces changed to shock as they saw me.
"Angie… What's going on?" Emily asked me gently. I stood up roughly.
"You guys, I need some time to think… I'll talk to you tomorrow." I glanced at Collin, giving him a full-out glare, and tore from the room.
My anger at Collin kept me running right to my own house, slamming the door, and collapsing on the couch. I buried my face in the pillow and screamed. Right now, I wanted to go to Collin and get things straightened out, but I couldn't have asked him in front of everyone. Against my will, a tear escaped my eye and I wiped it away quickly. Collin couldn't have been such a jerk… But I knew I would just think 'or could he?' and then I would be all controversial and get frustrated again. Ugh, just stop thinking about it until he gets here! I tried to focus on something else… Anything else… But that was pretty hard considering Collin was pretty much always on my mind. Why do you think I was failing Spanish? Collin y me was one of the only expressions I knew and I'm pretty sure that was wrong. Hmm… I guess it's not really a mystery of why Senora Anderson doesn't like me much. I heard the door open and my body stiffened. God, I wasn't acting like me much today.
"Angie? Oh, God Angie! You had me fucking worried!" Collin breathed a sigh of relief and crushed me to his chest before giving me a kiss. I jerked away immediately. Damnitt, I was letting Lola and Marla get in the way of Collin-kissing.
"Collin, we need to talk. Now." I said abruptly and his eyes became worried. It looked like he was racking through his brain.
"Shit! What'd I do? Crap, Angie I'm really sorry I didn't mean it!" He said hurriedly. I rolled my eyes.
"What are you doing?" I asked him incredulously, despite my anger.
"Well, uh, that's what the guys told me I should do if my imprint gets mad at me… Oh crap! Forget I said that." His eyes widened. I laughed; he always knew how to make me laugh. Damn it was hard to stay mad at your imprint/imprinter. I straightened out my face and kept my voice cool.
"Collin, I overheard some… Things today… And I want to know if they're true. Have you ever heard of Mandy Corman?" His whole body stiffened and his eyes turned flat back. He started to shake.
"Yes, I've heard of her. I was fooled by that boob-pushing bitch and asked her on a date. Because I didn't let her stick her fucking tongue down my throat, and because I started to date Eve shortly after dumping her, she started to spread rumors about me." He bristled. "I almost murdered her when she started that one about me fucking Kathy in a broom closet. God, I felt sorry for Kathy. People gave her crap because they knew if they gave it to me I would flip a table on them. Angie. If she told you something about me, then I'll-" I interrupted him.
"She didn't say anything. It was her sister Lola." I mumbled, embarrassed. "Collin, I'm sorry. But she said some other things that just got me really upset." I sighed. "She said that you were a pervert, and that you try to get sex out of girls." I picked at the hem of my shirt. "I was worried that… That when we had it a year ago you just wanted to have sex as though it was something to like, aim for." He looked at me for a minute before burst out laughing. My eyes narrowed.
"I cannot believe you are laughing at something that unsettled me so much!" I hissed at him angrily. He stopped laughing.
"I'm sorry baby, but I can't believe that you actually thought I wanted to fuck you because…" He burst out laughing again. "Because I wanted to or whatever you said. I would never, never hurt you like that." He whispered fiercely in my ear. I threw my arms around his neck.
"God I love you!" I whispered back just as fiercely. We sat there like that for a long time. "Collin? I think that we shouldn't talk about that anymore. When we had sex, I mean. It was a year ago, and we weren't thinking." I told him pulling apart, but still sitting in his lap. He nodded once.
"I think that's a pretty good idea." He said smoothly. I smiled.
"Yeah, it would be pretty bad if Embry heard us talking about it. Can't you imagine how mad he'd be?" I asked jokingly, we both knew he would murder Collin.
"Yea, he'd be pretty pissed.." My hands went clammy as Embry stepped into the room, shaking from fury. Oh fuck. You have to be shitting me.
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