~*~Jayson Clearwater~*~
Chapter 22: If you hit two birds with one stone, there's nothing left to shoot.
"One hour. Any later and we're coming in after you… with force." Carlisle threatened. Jordin and I looked at each other for a moment. Both of us didn't want that to happen, I especially didn't want to know what the Cullen's 'with force' was like. Being Vampire chow was something I did not want to experience….
"The countdown starts…." Alice interrupted, looking at her watch. My eyes widened. ALREADY? We we're only on the boarders! It was going to be at least 15 minutes till we got to the reserve! DAMN VAMPIRES. "NOW!"
Jordin and I turned immediately and ran like maniacs. DAMNIT! I hated those guys… Only an hour! They were INSANE. Jordin laughed.
'You're just noticing this?' She teased.
'Hey I try and give acquaintances a time to redeem themselves…. But obviously they're just INASANE.' I explained.
'Maybe we're just insane too? I mean your mom is a nut…'
'Okay, my mom has an excuse. She had to deal with those people and my father.' I defended. 'And what does our sanity have to do with theirs?'
'I don't know, crazy people tend to have a lot of influence on people around them… and sometimes insanity is genetic.' She grinned. OHHH she did not just call me crazy.
'I am not crazy!' I growled she winked at me.
'Let's race.' Well that wasn't random? I raised my eyebrow at her my heartbeat skyrocketing from our running.
'And you say I'm crazy….' I grumbled, she laughed at me, and nodded her head up to the sky where the moon hung over head. 'You're kidding right?'
'No! come on, let's wolf around.' What a horrible pun Jordin…. She just laughed.
'No!' I looked forward.
'Yes!'
'No!'
'Fine! See ya later!' She ended or arguing and leaped forward with inhuman speed and flexibility and diving head first toward the ground. I stopped in horror as she got closer to the ground.
Then in a blur of movement,
As quick as the thunder sounding in the distance, stupid rainy forks…
Jordin disappeared in a blurry cloud which hurt my intent eyes,
And the next second a wolf was in her spot.
But this wasn't some normal wolf form like the Quileute's. It stood up on its hind legs almost growing in front of me. A howl echoed from its mouth and it stretched out its arms like a bird. The creatures light fur seemed to glitter as it flowed around its body. The claws on its hands curled in a menacing way while its tail swished back and forth in excitement. I clenched my fists looking the wolf up and down as it towered over me.
This is what a werewolf looked like? It was absolutely huge! Almost two times my size! And Jordin was even shorter than me!
'Jordin?' I asked unsure whether to run or to confront this beast. The wolf stopped its stretching immediately and turned its upper body slightly.
Dark blue eyes blinked at me, its ears perked up and its mouth opened in some wolfy grin.
'Are you going to change or not?' She asked getting down on all four legs and walking toward me, her size instantly shrunk and her once curvy almost human bodied werewolf body (that was confusing…) disappeared. The form in front of me was a familiar one, a mimic of the Quileute's. A huge bear sized wolf…. How generic… I officially liked the big scary werewolf form. It was horror movie material!
'That was… Amazing…' I grinned at her wolf form. She tilted her head and let her tongue loll out like a normal dog.
'Come on! We don't have all night! We'll get to the reserve faster in this form anyway.' She growled walking forward and nipping my shirt in a tug forward. I almost fell on my ass at her strength.
"WHOA." I said aloud, she gave me a wolfy laugh. "Fine! Ill change!"I grunted, taking a couple steps back. She stepped to the side and watched me intently. I couldn't concentrate with her eyes on me… I felt like I was on stage…ugh. (STAGE FRIGHT? SERIOUSLY? THAT'S...)
'Are you going to do it or not?' She complained too giddy for patience apparently.
'Yah!' I took a deep breath
'You're acting like you've never done this before.' She teased some more.
'Just give me a second! I'm not use to changing in front of you!' She laughed at my complaining.
'Stage fright!' She muttered. I ignored her, though she was so right.
'Here goes…' I closed my eyes and ran leaping up in the air and diving just like she did. She was silent watching me; my concentration went away from my changing as the mind loop we had seemed to change. Though I had my eyes closed, the darkness cleared and a scene came into my eye sight.
I could see myself…
What? How was that possible?
I was seeing what she was seeing?
THUD
She cracked up as I face planted into the ground.
"OW!" I yelled lifting my head up, mud was covering my face and body in a disgusting manner. She fell over laughing even harder.
'What was that?' she cried out in laughter.
'Didn't you see that?' I asked.
'See you face plant! Yes! Yes I did!' She laughed even harder. I looked up at her laughing wolf self.
"NO! I saw myself! From your eyes!" I cried in defense, accidently aloud. She continued teasing me though, obviously not hearing my response over her laughing.
'What kind of werewolf can't change?' She insulted. I sat up and gritted my teeth at her.
'I can change! You just distracted me!' I growled.
'Yah right!' She laughed even more oblivious to how insulted I was.
"SHUT UP!" I yelled standing up and running straight at her, She looked up at me surprised as I jumped.
I felt my body shake,
My bones cracked and moved in a semi painful matter….
My fingers tightened into menacing claws and my eyes widened….
Before she could dodge my jumping self, I landed on top of her and we rolled down the bumpy forest floor behind her. My arms wrapped around her body longer than normal, and I felt the fur on the back of my neck bristle as my teeth gritted, my elongated canines bit into my gums making the urge to bite something more intense.
'Jayson!' Jordin's voice echoed in my head as her wolf form yelped making my mind click back into my body. I stretched my arms and legs out and dug my claws into the ground. They anchored me to the ground and stopped my body suddenly, Jordin hit my left arm and leg trapped in my bodies make shift cage. Her eyes opened and she laid on her back looking up at me in her wolfy self with total confusion.
'Don't make me bite you!' I growled showing my teeth, she laid their blinking up at me as I continued growling.
'Whoa that was crazy.' Her mental voice was taken aback but she had totally just blown off my scary growl. I snarled in response making her shrink toward the ground and finally realize I was angry.
'I'LL BITE!' I barked. She narrowed her eyes, and before I could bark at her some more, she pushed me off of her with little force.
'Stop playing tough guy, let's get going.' She yelled at me standing on all four legs again. I laid their confused, WHAT THE HELL? I was bigger than her! Right…? 'Come on Jayson.' She growled when I didn't stand up, I processed her command and stood up like a robot. She stared at me intently as I skipped over to her on all four legs and gave her a confused look.
'How did you push me off-?" I started.
'You're not alpha in this relationship dork.' She growled nipping my shoulder. I yelped in pain which made her roar with doggish laughter.
'You're so mean to me!' I whined. She stuck her long tongue out at me.
'I'm not mean, it's better I'm in charge then your overly horny teenage self.' She teased me again continuing the walk…. Well to a human it would be as fast as running…. I followed her intently, inwardly grumbling. SHE WAS A TEENAGER TOO. 'It's better that we try and keep things civilized.' She grumbled some more. I hissed (Which sounded weird coming from my doggish self, Dogs do not hiss.) at her making her stop and shiver.
And then with her shiver, an evil… Almost diabolical! Plan came to my head…
It was time to regain my superiority!
When she began walking again I spoke
'You can't tell me you're not turned on by me…' I hurried up to her side. 'We're young so we shouldn't be held accountable for the things we do.' I mental whispered to her as I twisted my neck and nuzzled under her ear. She leaned toward me instantly.
This was definitely one of those things that if it were in a book being read by some teenage girl. She'd be jealous and want to scratch Jordin's name out and put her own name...Which was wrong on so many degrees….
It was so much fun to be a werewolf… and love another werewolf… It was exhilarating! Like a really big scary roller coaster ride that could derail at any moment and bite you into piec- wait… I lost my train of thought…
'We have business to do; we can't drool over each other right now.' She mental whispered. I chuckled.
'We have plenty of time.' She shook her head trying to convince herself I was wrong and attempted at walking again. 'Haven't you ever wanted to do something against the rules…?' I placed my muzzle under hers making her stop. 'Come on…' I mentally spoke softly. She sighed.
'Maybe…I guess...' She said turning toward me and nuzzling the side of my face. I pulled away though and smirked at her.
'HA! I was right!' I barked playfully. She blinked confused. 'You're just as turned on as me!'
She instantly frowned.
'YOU TRICKED ME!' She growled.
'You should be smarter than that! I'm starting to question your superiority here!' I teased sticking my nose up in the air and walking in front of her. She bit the air in front of her, pissed.
'I HATE YOU!' She yelled making me look back at her. Obviously I had pissed off Ms. Pouty face….
'Oh come on Jordin, I'm just playing you.' I rolled my eyes. She turned on her heels walking in a different direction. 'Where are you going?' I barked.
'Home! I don't want to talk to you!' She growled not looking back at me.
'Oh come on, don't be pissy. We have to go back to the Cullens!' I yelled at her. She snarled.
'I'm going back to meet them, if it weren't for you I would be sleeping in my own bed tonight!' She yelled blaming me, I scoffed.
'Whatever! Just blame everything on me! You're such a b*tch!' I growled distastefully. I probably should not have called her a b*tch. But she was always pissing me off!
'FOR YOUR INFORMATION. I am a female Dog at the moment!' She argued back I just snarled and turned back in front of me running again.
I was sick of these…
Girls!
~*~TLA~*~
I rang my door bell…. What a one in a million thing right? My house key was in my sweatshirt… where ever that was…. My mother opened the door and looked at my ragged self.
"Where the hell have you been?" She cried pushing the door open completely and hugging me.
I was a very confused guy at that moment.
"Uhhh, Hi?" I more asked patting her back. I thought she was mad at me? She pulled back and grabbed my shoulders shaking me back and forth.
"Where have you been? I've been worrying about you all day! The whole pack is looking for you for god sakes!" She cried tears falling out of her eyes and falling onto her cheeks like a downpour.
OHH god…
I could not do this…
SHE WAS CRYING FOR GOD SAKES!
How was I going to tell her this?
"Ohh… well… you see… it's a long story…" I started not sure where to start at all, maybe forcing it would help? She let go of me and stepped inside again rubbing her eyes. But more tears kept coming.
This was torture! Pure torture! I didn't even remember why we were fighting! She had been worrying about me! ALL DAY? And she wasn't even angry! She was scared and upset!
"It's my fault isn't it?" She cried more tears coming out of her eyes.
I COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!
"Mom! Please don't cry!" I said pulling her into a hug. "I'm sorry ok! I didn't mean to fight with you! I didn't mean to make you worry!" I pressed my face into her bony shoulder. She stopped her crying.
There was a moment of awkward silence….
And then she started laughing.
WHAT? WHAT? WHAT WAS GOING ON?
"You're grounded." She whispered when she got her laughing under control. I pulled away and looked at her for a moment. She grinned.
DAMNIT! I had been tricked!
"What…? What? HUH?" I said my mind not catching up with my mouth.
"You're grounded, and so is Jordin. But first we're going to have a long talk about him and you running off." She said her face getting more serious. Well she hadn't caught on to Jordin's real gender… yet…
"Wait? How did you know Jordin was with me?" I asked confused. She pulled me inside.
"Well you left with him dork…" I blinked, wow she was right… "Plus, I called his dad up. Thinking you and Jordin were hanging out over there. Long story short, Mr. Khot is bringing Jordin over here and we're going to talk about some things." She told me.
Why did Jordin's dad want to talk to my mom and I? Oh god, I bet Jordin was under some real heat now…
"Wait who decided to have this… meeting?" I asked as my mother shut the door.
"It was Mr. Khot's idea, but I think its best that we do have a talk." She started.
Ohh god… Jordin's dad must hate me at the moment…
"I mean, you and Jordin are both teenage boys with one parent. It's probably best that we talk about the boundaries of what you two are allowed to do…Along with other things…Since Jordin is going to join the pack soon after all." She continued not realizing I was pale white with fear.
"Who told you sh-." I caught myself before I said 'she'. My mom looked over and blinked in surprise by my expression. "Who told you he was joining the pack?" I got out.
"Jayson are you ok? You look kind of sick." She said reaching out and touching my face. I brushed her hand away.
"Who?"
"His dad told me." She said.
I looked at the stairs…
The broken banister…
Just another lie that had been kept from me…
…And my mother…
"Mom, I have to leave." I told her, semi-looking at her since I was to anxious to keep my eyes set on one thing.
"Jayson, you're grounded." She crossed her arms.
"Mom, If I don't go, the Cullens will come looking for me." I said softly. She stiffened.
"The Cullens? How…?" She asked repeating my tone.
"Story I'll tell you later." I said looking at her, she opened her eyes in surprise with me.
Oh my god…
I sounded like my dad….
"It's your father isn't it?" She grumbled her control fading.
"Well… its' not his fault…" I looked up at her. "I wanted to help."
"Help with what?" She asked her teeth gritting.
I looked down.
"I can't tell you… But I'll be okay. I promise." I told her. She stared at me suddenly worried, SOOOOOH BIPOLAR! I turned and started to walk up the stairs.
"No, you're staying here." She said stomping her foot. I looked over my shoulder at her.
"Please, just trust me."
"I can't trust you with something like this! Your only 16 Jayson! You're still my priority."
"Please, you told me I had to leave." I pointed out.
"No! I didn't mean that." She reached out and grabbed my arm; I turned around completely and looked at her.
I'm sorry…
"I'm doing what you told me to do." She shook her head. "I'm leaving."
"NO you're not." I brushed her hand away as she spoke.
"Let me go." I sighed. She shook her head. "I'll be back."
"I'm not losing you too." She cried reaching out to grab me again, I evaded her again and gave her a sad look. "Not my son."
Knock
Knock
Knock
Someone was at the door….
We both turned to the door.
"Hello?" A familiar voice came from the door. My mother looked down at the voice.
I looked down at her.
"You didn't lose Seth." I whispered to her.
"Hello?" The voice repeated
Knock
Knock
"Jayson you know he doesn't care about us." My mother cried softly looking up again… If only she knew…
"Leah? Are you there? It's Seth." The voice came again.
Knock
Knock
Knock
I shook my head at her.
"Just trust me." I whispered. She reached out again but I had already disappeared into my room. I closed the door and pressed my ear to it.
"I'm coming in!" Seth yelled from the door.
"NO!" My mom cried I heard her rush over to the door and unlock it, the floor boards creaked as Seth rushed into the house.
"Leah are you ok?" Seth asked, his voice muffled by the wood between us, I heard my mother sigh. "What took you? I was worr-"
"Yah, sorry. I couldn't hear you." She muttered.
I smiled and went to my dresser pulling some clothes out of it as quietly as I could.
"Where's Jayson? I saw him walk in here while I was driving down the road." Seth asked, I paused zipping the bag I had pulled out from under my dresser.
"Oh, he went out back." My mother sighed.
I smiled and put the bag over my shoulder.
"Oh, is everything with you and him ok?" Seth asked as I walked over to my window. I paused again.
I heard my mother break out in tears.
"No, it's not."
~*~TLA~*~
I walked onto the road, the Cullens stood there waiting. The light from the car shinning through the darkness and framing them. Alice's were eyes on her watch, counting down probably the last few seconds of our time limit, everyone but Alice looked up at me.
"Where is she?" I asked looking at all of them.
"Your girlfriend is waiting in the car." Emmett told me, gesturing to the red car. "You want us to give you two sometime alone?" He grinned. No self preservation….
"No." I snarled walking over to the red car. I couldn't see anyone until I got to the door.
Inside Jordin was curled up the hood of a hoodie she was wearing covered her head. She must have grabbed the hoodie along with her stuff, I looked at the floor of the car to see her back pack. How the hell did she grab her back pack from my- you know what, I wasn't gonna ask! I opened the car door softly, trying to be silent, but the dinging the stupid car made sounded. Her head lifted and she blinked at me, I sighed… No help car…. No help…
"Oh hey…" She said rubbing her eyes, but the red puffiness around them wouldn't rub off that easily. She sat up as I got into the car. I closed the door and looked at her.
"What happened?" I slid over and wrapped my arms around her. She accepted me and curled up in my arms. I loved how she got over things so quickly…. It was like the real world wasn't even there to her!
"I made my dad cry." She grumbled barely audible. I smiled weakly.
"I made my mom cry too… What did you do?" I asked rubbing her back. She sighed.
"He wanted to take me to go talk to you and your mom." She started, I nodded.
"My mom told me about that."
"I told him that I couldn't. And he started yelling at me, I yelled back…. And well… I said some things…" She continued lifting her head and looking out the window.
"Wait… How did you get your dad to cry by saying some things?" I asked thinking about that. Her big scary looking dad… crying? That didn't seem right….
"Well… they were pretty harsh ok? Plus I'm his little girl… and only one… so that makes things I say twice as harsh." She explained. I nodded pretending I knew what that was like…..
"Okay…"
"Well and then he told me to stop saying what I was saying. And I told him I hated him and I was going to stay at a friend's…." She finished.
"Whoa, that is pretty harsh…" I said. "That sounds like Edward's idea to be honest…."
"Yah… Well… dads are harder business then moms to be honest."
"Good point…" Even my hard ass of a mom was pretty emotional….
"So what did you do to make your mom cry?" She asked. I sighed.
"Pretty much the same thing…. Well I didn't insult her… I just used something's she said against her… and ran." I said trying to explain, Jordin nodded.
"Understandable…"
"Yup…"
There was a short awkward silence….
"So are you ok?" I asked
She laughed.
"I think I'll make it."
