I Saw Her Standing There
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Chapter Twenty Eight Love Me Tender
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Scarlett POV
We walked back downstairs in Seth's house to find Sue and Charlie sitting watching some sports game.
"Hi guys!" Seth grinned, hugging them. Sue stood up and hugged him again, while Charlie sat awkwardly then pushed him slightly so that he could still see the TV. Seth walked back over to me, Sue following him. She pulled me into a hug and kissed my temple. "Scarlett, we haven't seen you in so long!"
"I know!" I hugged her back and let her lead me to the couch.
"How've you been?" I knew what she meant. Are you okay after being attacked by Logan? I nodded and lifted up my wrist.
"I don't have to do homework anymore and Seth's carried me around all week. My ankle's better now though, so it's fine." I smiled, reassuringly. I didn't mention the horrible scratch on my stomach.
"That's great!" She smiled widely. Seth pulled me towards the kitchen and closed the door when I walked through.
"I'm starving." He muttered, walking to the fridge. I sat at the table, silently. He came back over with a plate with four sandwiches on it. He passed me one and started one himself, finishing and starting another before I had even finished my first bite.
"Sethy..." I said, quietly. He looked up from his sandwich.
"Yes?"
"Um... Do you think... that maybe... one day... I could watch you phase into a werewolf?"
"Definitely not." He said quickly, staring down at the table.
"What? I won't stand close enough to get hurt-"
"That's not it."
"Oh." I frowned. "Well... could I sit on your back while you run sometime?"
"That's very dangerous." He said, looking up again. I sighed and rolled my eyes.
"Could I sit on your back while you walk very slowly somewhere?"
"When your wrist heals..."
I wasn't expecting that. I thought he'd say that I could when I found a titanium suit that had built-in airbags.
I grinned. "Yay! I can wait until then!"
We finished shortly after and went back upstairs. I was playing with Lego I found, while he spoke on the phone in a hushed voice that I couldn't hear.
"Okay, I'll tell Scar. Bye." He hung up and walked over to me where I was sitting on the floor.
"What's up?" I asked as he sat down next to me and leaned back on his bed.
"I have to cover Embry's shift tomorrow during second period." He sighed, tilting his head back and closing his eyes. I brought a lego man up and made him walk over Seth's face.
"How come?" I asked.
"Guess."
"Hmm... a giant squid crawled out of the ocean onto La Push beach and-"
"He imprinted."
"No way!" I dropped the Lego and slapped his chest lightly. "No. Freaking. Way!"
"Seriously!" He opened his eyes and grinned.
"I'm glad! He deserves it." I smiled and crawled onto his lap. "We'll have to go and see him later to say congrats."
"He's over at Sam Emily's now."
"Who'd he imprint on?"
"Guess."
"A giant squid-"
"Carmen Bird."
"Because nobody saw that one coming."
Seth and I walked into the house to find Quil sitting on top of Embry at the front door.
"Whatcha doing?" I asked.
"Stopping Embry from stalking Carmen, you?"
"Just came to be nosy." I sat on the ground while Seth went to get food. "So, Embry, what are you up to?"
"I'm trying to see my imprint, but this jerk won't let me!" He pushed on Quil, who moved slightly, but shuffled and flattened Embry against the floor again.
"Tell me the story." I lay down on my stomach gently, careful not to hurt my stomach.
"Well, I went with Quil, Jared and Leah to get some food and when I went in, there she was... she's so beautiful, isn't she beautiful?" He grinned. "...Let me go see her!" He pushed on Quil again, who shuffled and pushed him back down.
"Dude, you're not going to see her. You'll creep her out!"
"I have to see her!"
"Aw, how sweet!" I got up. "We're friends, I'll put in a good word."
"Scarlett." Paul walked over. "My dad called, we have to go to my house."
"Both of us?" I asked. He nodded and opened the door. "Bye Seth!" I yelled into the house, before Paul pulled me out of the door.
We walked to the next street of small red houses to get to the Lahote's. Mom and Paul's dad stood up immediately as soon as we walked in.
"What's up?" I asked. Mom grinned.
"We're all gonna go out to dinner together." She said. Seriously? A family dinner?
"I'm bringing Rachel." Paul said automatically.
"If he's bringing Rachel, I'm bringing Seth!"
"No way, then it'll be a triple date-!"
"If I don't bring Seth then I'll be a fifth wheel-!"
"No boyfriends or girlfriends tonight." Paul's dad said.
"But you're boyfriend and girlfriend." Paul scoffed. I laughed, causing Mom to glare at me.
"Come on, we're going out to Port Angeles, so we better get going." Paul's dad said, grabbing a jacket and a set of keys.
"Right now?" Paul whined. "I haven't seen Rachel in forever!"
"She's not coming." Mom told him. He scowled and stormed out to the car.
"He's such a woman." His dad rolled his eyes. Mom and me laughed out to the car, where Paul was standing, his arms crossed.
The car ride had been awkward, silent and somewhat uncomfortable. Much to Paul's dismay, he was made to sit in the backseat with me and took up nearly two whole seats. We now sat in a small restaurant, at a table for four, me and Paul on one side, our parents on the other.
"Move over." He shoved me a little. I nearly fell out of my chair, but moved along to the edge of the table.
"Paul, be nice."
I loved Paul's dad. He was awesome. Just like Paul but a little nicer!
"So, how are you two finding school?" Mom asked.
"Okay, I guess..." I murmured.
"Fine." Paul grunted.
The waitress came over to the table and interrupted our awkward conversation.
"Here you go, sir, ma'am." She placed two steak dinners in front of Mom and Paul's dad, before turning to me and Paul. "Yours will be right out."
Back to the awkward small talk.
"So, Paul, how long have you and Rachel been dating?" Mom asked. That did the trick. Paul grinned and sat up straighter.
"About a week." He said, dreamily.
"Is that all?" I asked, honestly shocked. Seeing them together made it seem as if they'd been in love their whole lives.
"I know!" He grinned again. "I just wanna spend every single second with her, you know?"
I nodded. It hurt to spend too long away from Seth and I wasn't even the wolf in the relationship. I couldn't imagine what he was going through. We were interrupted again as three waiters came out. A guy placed a small plate with a burger on it in front of me while the others placed Paul's food down around him. I had to move further along to make enough room.
"You sure can eat, can't you?" Mom gave a nervous laugh. He just nodded and started eating. Me and his dad were unaffected by it- both of us used to the wolf-appetite, but Mom stared on, her jaw hanging open.
"Just ignore him." His dad told her. She tried her hardest to go back to eating, but after a few more bites she gave up. I didn't blame her. I used to do that when I first met them.
Since we were in Port Angeles, I decided to visit my extended family and get the bus home. My dad, Skylar and Money-Grabber were leaving on Sunday, so I figured that, as much as they irritated me, I should go say goodbye.
"Hey." I said as I entered the hotel room they were staying in. Skylar jumped out of the chair she'd been sitting in and ran to hug me.
"I'll miss you, sis!"
"I'll miss you, too." I hugged her back.
"Scarlett?"
"Hello, Dad." I hugged him as well. "I just came to say goodbye."
"Aw, goodbye, sweetie." He hugged me back. "I'll see you in a few months though, for summer vacation?"
I hadn't even thought of summer. I'd have to leave Seth for a month and a half. I definitely was not prepared to do that.
"Mmm..."
"We'll figure it out, Scar." Seth told me. I'd gotten the bus to the bus stop by Quil and Carmen's houses and walked to Seth's. We sat on the ground in front of his house. I'd just told him that I'd have to leave for six weeks.
"I don't wanna go."
"We'll figure it out." He put his arm around my shoulders and pulled me closer. He kissed my head. "I love you."
"Well, duh."
"You... you wanna come upstairs?"
"It's getting late-"
"You could stay."
We'd never slept in his room before. We rarely slept in my room, anyway- when I was in hospital and when I found out he was a wolf.
"Um... your mom won't mind?" I asked, shyly. He glanced back to his house and shook his head. "Um... okay then."
He grinned and took my hand, leading me inside the house and straight up the stairs. Something told me he wasn't planning on telling his mom or Charlie that we were going up to his room. He sat me on his bed and closed the door, standing by it, awkwardly.
"So..."
"So..." I repeated him. It wasn't really late enough to go to sleep yet, and he didn't have a TV or anything in his room. I pulled my phone out of my pocket and sent two text messages.
I met up with Lexi in Port Angeles, staying at her place :)
That was Mom taken care of.
Lex, I'm at Seth's, lie for me xxx
...And my alibi was complete. I put the phone down next to me and lay back.
"Your bed is huge." I mumbled, stretching my arms out. It wasn't a double bed of anything, but it was certainly bigger than mine and when my head was on the pillow I only reached a little over half way down on it.
"You're just tiny." I felt him sit beside me, weighing it down slightly.
"You sure you won't get in trouble?"
"Not with Mom..."
"Oh my god. Leah will kill me!" I sat up quickly. Leah may not have hated me, but she was hardly my biggest fan. He grabbed my arm and pulled me back to lying down.
"You'll be fine, I promise."
"Doubt it." I murmured. "So... Lego?"
"Hey, this one looks like me!" It was a Lego-man, but it had short blonde hair and was wearing the same color sweater as me. Seth picked up a Lego-man with black hair and pressed it's little face to the one I was holding.
"It's us." He grinned. I blushed and looked down.
"And this one is Nessie." I picked up a little ginger-haired Lego woman.
"So, what? We're finding Legos of everyone?"
"Of course."
By midnight, we were playing with our Lego people. We'd all already beat 'Paul' up twice and 'Logan' was sitting on the other side of the room.
"And then everyone went to sleep." I said quietly. Seth stood up and held his hand out. I grabbed it and he pulled me up into his arms. He let go and went to his dresser. He pulled out clothes and put some down on the bed.
"I'll go use the bathroom." He said, nervously, stepping out of the room. I looked to see that he'd left a t-shirt and pair of boxer shorts.
I got changed into the shorts that reached my knees and the shirt that almost reached my knees. The short sleeves were almost at my elbows. There was a light knock on the door before a shirtless Seth walked in and grinned at me.
"Hi." I murmured, sitting on the bed. He closed the door and pulled me up to stand again. He looked me up and down before laughing.
"You're so tiny." He picked me up in a bridal carry and walked me over to his bed and put me down.
"You act like my legs don't work."
"So do you."
"Well... I'm really lazy." I moved along and he climbed into bed next to me and wrapped his arms around me. I closed my eyes and snuggled into his chest. "I love you, Sethy."
"I love you too..." He sounded as if he was about to say something else, but he didn't. I opened my eyes and looked up.
"What is it?" I murmured, before putting my head back down and closing my eyes.
"Will you marry me?"
So, it's a short, somewhat fluffy chapter with a dramatic ending! I don't know what I'm doing next, but I want to include some sort of time skip, but of course I have my other story to consider too! I think I could do a time skip here and not there and maybe some explaining there... okay, I'm rambling. Don't forget to check out my new story if you like Carmen :)
Anyway, I think I know what I'm gonna do next chapter, but I can't wait to read what you guys think will happen. I adore the reviews you leave, they're hilarious! :D
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