Jacob's POV:
On our way back home it was completely quite. Seth was still all beat up but no one said a word. Even Brady didn't say a thing and we could never get him to shut up. Sam was just worried and angry about what Carlie will say or has said. There were so many ways we could go about Carlie's drawing that had nothing to do with us but the amount of detail that she but into this single sketch was mind blowing. I mean she only saw my face for like 5 minutes and that's exaggerating because it was clearly less than that.
When we got to Sam's house it was about 6:50 a.m. Emily was in the kitchen as always. We all walked in and just sat at the table except Sam who went to go greet Emily and Seth who was still making his way in.
"Back so soon?" Emily asked and her eyes moved near the doorway when Seth was coming in.
"Oh my god, Seth. Are you okay?" Emily said freaking out just a bit.
"Yeah, I'm fine" Seth said and he just walked straight passed us and went out the back door. Sam just shook his head and then got in his car shortly after.
We were there for about 35 minutes now. Emily had cooked for us and then had taken her kid to school. Everyone was talking and having fun forgetting the fact that Seth had just got beat up pretty badly. Even I forgot for a moment so I went to go check on him. I was by the back door frame and Seth was on the other side of the porch with his right hand to his ear and I just heard a ringing sound.
"Hello?" I heard a voice say so calming and smoothing to me and I immediately knew who it was. Carlie.
"Hey" Seth replied trying to hide the pain he was going through.
"Hey, I woke up and you were gone" she said in a sleepy voice.
"I left you a note. Wait, did I wake you?" Seth asked.
"Yeah, which was what I meant by I woke up and you were gone" Carlie said with a light chuckle.
"I'm sorry that I woke you up"
"It's fine. My grandfather was gonna do it anytime soon"
"How- How do you feel?"
"Like I've been stabbed"
"Well..." Seth took a long pause as he silently grabbed his shoulder.
"Seth, are you okay?" Carlie asked.
"Am I okay? Why wouldn't I be okay?"
"I don't know, you sound odd. Are you upset about something?
"No, its just- I'm fine" Seth said finding very difficult to lie to her.
"But don't worry about me, okay. I'm fine, I'm more than fine, I'm awesome. I've-I've never been better" Seth said making it obvious that he was in fact lying or hiding something.
"You just worry about feeling better okay. And I'll go see you any free time that I get. Okay?"
"Seth. I hope you know that whatever it is bugging you. That you can tell me. It doesn't matter what. Cause literally who am I to judge you. Everything you've done for me. I owe you, anything you need I can get it done. With no questions, no hesitation. If you wanna talk I'm here to listen" Carlie said and Seth pulled away from the phone and just brought it back to his ear.
'I know- I do know that" Seth said painfully holding the phone.
"Carlie-" Carlie cut Seth off.
"Seth, the tone of your voice is kinda freaking me out"
"I'm fine"
"Yeah, I wish that sounded more believable. Where do you want me to meet you?"
"Because if you don't pick a place and you have me hunt you down while I'm not in my best of shape. It's gonna go a lot more worst for you" Carlie said. What the hell did she mean she wasn't in her "best of shape" Was she sick and Seth didn't tell me? Was that why she called him?
"Alright and I'll bring the posse with me"
"I only want to see you but whatever bring your friends as always" Carlie said annoyed that Seth was bringing us along.
"But its fine just put me in a more difficult position then I already am" Carlie said that made Seth smile a bit.
"Hey. Toughen up little soldier"
"I'm been trying but you don't let me"
"I'll get you some tomorrow"
"You're the best"
"So I've been told"
"I'll see you in about 4 to 5 hours. I'm just gonna check with my grandfather first"
"Sure thing. See you later"
Seth hung up the phone. He sighed heavily.
"You know spying on a young man are signs of very poor manners" he told me, imitating Carlie. Seth even flipped his head like he had long hair.
"Mr. Black" he said turning to look back at me.
"I wasn't spying. I was just eavesdropping" I said. You could really see that the conversation he just had with Carlie really put him down. He didn't like lying to her or keeping part of his life from her.
"I would think you would be a bit more cocky after today" I said trying to change the subject.
"Maybe I would be if you didn't have to save my ass... Again" he pointed out.
"What's wrong with you?" I finally just asked.
"I just found out something. Just thinking about it really bums me out" he said.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Carlie" was all he said and then sighed heavily.
"She's been moving from state to state and sometimes even countries" he continued.
"Didn't you know that already? That she travels a lot" I said. Seth just looked at the ground then into the woods and back the ground.
"I don't think she's ever had a real friend or even a real childhood" Seth said all bummed out.
"What do you mean?" I asked a bit confused.
"She never went to school. Her parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles taught her everything she knows"
"They must of been smart people"
"I don't think she ever had anyone besides them. Now she doesn't have them. And today if it hadn't been for you. She wouldn't have me either" Seth said and the kook on his face I've only seen once was when his dad passed away. Seth had this look of sadness and you could see it in his eyes just how sorry he felt over Carlie.
"Just her being paranoid about losing another person that she cares about and her just guarding herself from not wanting to care about others because of that. I mean, I get it now. It's not paranoia, it's fact. I mean there are billions and billions of people in the world. And out of all those people she meets us. A couple of shapeshifters that hunt vampires for a living... I can't keep the ONE promise that I made to her, Jacob. Before her, my mom and sister were who I would worry about if anything were to happened to me. They're both strong women and they have each other to get through that... But who does she have? No one. She's alone. And she doesn't like to be alone. And alone is how she's been feeling lately cause I'm not with her. And with Sam on my ass now- I don't know when I'm gonna be able to see her" Seth said. Seth stood up and just looked at me.
"We need to get you in there and I mean like NOW" he said very serious while i just continued to look at him confused.
"I'm afraid she might do something crazy or stupid" Seth said sounding a bit scared. I don't know why Seth would be scared I mean Carlie is a very strong and smart girl. She doesn't seem like the reckless or stupid type.
"And by that you mean?" I asked.
"The worst" Seth said low. The worst? What did he mean? Was Carlie one of those suicidal type of girls?.
Five Hours Later
Me and Seth went back to my house. Seth was healing pretty quickly that by the fourth hour, he was able to take a shower. Even though he forgot that doesn't have any other clothes to wear expect the dirty clothes he came with so he borrowed some of my clothes without even asking me. I didn't have a problem with it but he could at least ask me. Not only did Seth wear my clothes that fit him a litte big but he also used my special occasion cologne. My limited edition a hundred and ten dollar bottle Acqua Di Gio. This cologne makes the ladies gush over me even more. With its natural, manly overtones, you can wear this cologne for anything and I've attracted every lady of any age with this cologne it never fails me. And Seth knows that which is why he put it on so when I told him about all he said was that I had Carlie now. Which quickly shut me up because it was true I didn't need to attract other women and I didn't even want to anymore. Carlie was the only woman for me.
Seth, Brady, Jared, Kim, Quil, Claire, Embry and I went at La Push. It was actually very warm today even though there still wasn't any Sun but it was actually considered a "hot" day. I could hear more people on the beach than usual but our spot was always quiet no nobody came near out place.
I waited impatiently for Carlie to arrive I went days without seeing her but they felt like weeks. I tried to keep myself calm, keep myself busy until she came. Seth, Brady, Jared and I went playing football. We played for like a hour then it was almost like I felt like she was near and I turned to looked and her and I found her. Everything went like into slow motion as she walked towards the group. She was so beautiful just GOD.
I was so into Carlie that I didn't hear Brady calling me to catch the ball so it ended up hitting me in the face which made Jared and Seth still lead the game.
"Dude! What the hell was that? That was a perfect spiral and you were open. Dammit Jacob get your head in the game" Brady said mad. While Seth and Jared laughed. Seth finally saw Carlie coming and shook his head at me smiling
"His head is in the game" Seth told Brady and signed with his head to turn around. When Brady saw Carlie, he started making kissing noises to get her attention.
"Hey, Baby Momma!" Brady yelled at her and I socked him right in the arm. Brady started rubbing his arm and moved a couple of feet away from me.
The first to approach Carlie was Kim then Claire then rest of us.
"Carlie. Oh my god. Hi" Claire said. Claire was in a very good mood today and no one knows why but she was. Claire got close to Carlie to give her a hug but Carlie quickly stopped her and give her a fake smile.
"Claire... What are you doing?" Carlie asked.
"I was gonna hug you" Claire answered and she tried again but Carlie stopped her again.
"Why?" Carlie questioned sounding at bit irritated.
"Because I was saying hi" Claire shyly said.
"Yeah, you said hi already. And that was good enough for me" Carlie said and she was definitely not in a very good mood today. Carlie then looked to all of us.
"So I just wanna be clear here. Carlie doesn't like to be touched. So hugs and anything else that falls under physical contact are off limits. At. All. Times" Carlie said loud and clear to everyone then looked directly at Claire.
"Okay, I wouldn't do it again" Claire said like her feelings were hurt.
"Thank you for understanding. Good afternoon Claire" Carlie said very formally.
"And good afternoon to everyone else" She told us.
Once Carlie saw Seth and she smiled and so did he.
"Hey there Ms. Grumpy" Seth joked and Carlie rolled her eyes a bit and hugged him.
"But she just said-" Claire paused as Quil just looked at her as in saying to let it go.
I thought Carlie being here could give us a chance to talk but I think and it seems like she's avoiding me. The only thing I've said to her was "hi" and that's about it. The way that she acts round me it's almost like she can't even stand seeing me. That what pisses me off I mean I haven't even done anything to her and she acts like I did. This is why we fight because she always has this stuck up and I dislike every cell in your body attitude with me. I tried being nice but she knows exactly what to say and how to say it that just makes us butt heads.
After a while the guys and I started to play football again without Seth of course, he was with Carlie. Kim and Claire were probably picking seashells well I don't know what they were doing but they weren't close to us anymore.
Carlie and Seth walked off a bit like they wanted to talk in private. I being noisy followed them with out them knowing and thanks to my supernatural hearing I didn't have to be that close to them to listen in on what they were talking about.
"Hey. I think you hurt Claire's feelings" Seth said.
"When?" Carlie asked confused.
"Well... when she was gonna hug you. You were kind of being mean and kind of rude" Seth said.
"Well, I thought I made it clear that-" Seth cut Carlie off.
"But you could of just" Seth paused.
"Just what?" Carlie said.
"Let her hug you. You cant say, you don't like to be hugged and then come hug me. That's just not right"
"But it's different with you. I've known you longer and-"
"Carlie. Go hug Claire" Seth simply said and Carlie looked a bit shocked.
"Are you being serious right now?" She asked.
"Yeah"
"No"
"Carliiie" Seth whined.
"Well. Why does she always feel the need to-" Seth cut Carlie off again.
"She's Claire. She's sweet and bubbly-" Carlie cut Seth cut.
"Yeah but all the time?" Carlie asked confused.
"Not all the time. Kinda like you, her moods switch up. Before we know it she's all like" Seth said then mimicked a angry cat which made her smile.
"But I have a perfectly logical explanation on my mood swings. Plus right now isn't really a good time for me to going around hugging people"
"Oh yeah. I completely forgot how are you feeling?" Seth asked concerned. Carlie lifted up a side her hoodie a bit and showed Seth something. I couldn't see it because she had her back to me.
"Wow, that's not pretty? Does it hurt?" Seth asked while Carlie put her hoodie down.
"Kind of. Like it's doesn't hurt enough to stop me from doing anything but it hurts enough to know that it's there" Carlie said and Seth sighed a bit.
"But relax. I've build up a immunity to that particular type injury now. It's nothing compared to the damage that the people that surrounded me once could do to me" she said and then got very upset that it rubbed on to Seth. Carlie moved the hair that was getting in her face and placed it behind her ear and looked down at the sand. There was a small moment of silence and I heard Carlie sigh.
Carlie got closer to Seth then it kinda looked like she was smelling him.
"Wow, you smell really good today" Carlie said surprisly.
"Really? So I only smell good today not any other day?" Seth asked playfully
"You know what I mean but seriously what did you do?" Carlie asked.
"Nothing new. I just took a shower, borrowed some of Jacob's clothes and some of his cologne" Seth said
"So you like this Hunky Jakey smell?" Seth joked. Carlie chuckled and got closer to Seth and smiled.
"Yeah, I like it. It smells delicious. Good enough to bite into" Carlie almost like flirted then she stroked Seth's hair.
"Ha funny. That's funny" Seth said.
"Won't be that funny when your laying on the sand. Dead" she said and grab Seth by the jaw and gently shook it then let him go.
"Okay, yeah remind me NOT to borrow his stuff anymore" Seth quickly said.
"You got it" Carlie said walking away from Seth. As Carlie walked away from Seth and walked towards the girls. She glanced at me. And I swear to God every time she looks at me I just this feeling that I can't explain. She made this stank-face like why was I looking at her so I quickly turned to look at something else.
A Couple Of Hours Later
We spent a couple of hours at La Push although Carlie and Seth were distant from us. They were more near the water while we stayed farther back from them.
"Hey, do you remember earlier when you thought something was bugging me?" Seth started. Carlie give Seth her full attention.
"I'm listening" she said.
"When it's been happening for a while. Like last night when I was... jogging. I suddenly got this energy and it's been happening to me a lot lately" Seth said and it was true Seth has gotten this amount of energy lately that it's kind of odd. Like last night with the bloodsuckers if we ever kept a record of who killed the most bloodsuckers in one day the fastest, Seth would have quickly broke it.
"And I'm talking about full on like I just drank a enegry power juice or something. It's just full on energy" Seth said while Carlie just looked at him almost like examining his body. Carlie reached for her bag and took out her scrap book and pencil. And she just started writing.
"Well, have you had any changes or additions to your diet?" Carlie asked.
"No" Seth answered in a weird voice because he didn't know what she was doing. Carlie stopped writing to look at Seth.
"Okay I'm going to ask you a couple of question so I can make a firm diagnosis if necessary. Now tell me, what are your symptoms?" Carlie asked.
When Seth started to explain his symptoms it was nothing none of the pack havent experience before although Seth recent dominance in hunting vampires has gotten a hundred times better. I wouldn't really know if something was wrong and for Seth to being Carlie into this, Seth is probably freaked out. Carlie kept asking Seth questions and to be honest Carlie sounded like she knew what she was doing. She was asking questions that a doctor would ask. That's probably why Seth told her about this because she's the closet thing Seth would get to see a doctor.
But a certain question came up that makes everyone feel uncomfortable answering with a doctor and a friend of the opposite sex makes it even more uncomfortable to talk about.
"Okay. And are you sexually active?" Carlie asked while she was still writing. Seth didn't say anything he just looked at her.
"Have you had sexual intercourse?" She asked rephrasing her previous question. When there was still no answer from Seth, she looked up to look at him.
"What does my sex life have to do with this?" Seth asked to avoid the answering the quesion.
"Depending on your answer. A lot" Carlie said but Seth still wasn't answering.
"Seth, I'm not asking for details just if you've had sex and if you had it recently"
"And if I had?"
"Then its completely normal. your hormones are just running a muck. For a male of your age. Your body starts to release-" Seth cut her off before she could continue to explain.
"Yeah, I think we've reached that mark where we're getting too comfortable with each other"
"Oh, come on. This is practically coming from a doctor's point a view. You will never meet another girl that knows more about the human body than i do... But I can test you if you like?"
"What?"
"Do you want me to test you?" Carlie asked. Seth and I both were a bit confused on her question. Seth got nervous and weird.
"Test me? Like test my sex with you?" He questioned. Carlie just gave him a look then just out of no where just started busting out laughing and not one of those laughs that I've heard before she was just laughing out loud and hard.
"Oh! Oh god no!" She said still laughing.
"Wow. Okay, you just hurt my feelings a little bit" Seth said with his feeling actually a bit hurt while he avoid looking at her. Carlie calmed herself down after what Seth said.
"Not that I wouldn't want too. I mean come on. Look at you" she said that quickly got Seth's attention back.
"Its just- Oh my god its just I would totally kill you if we were to. Oh my god" Carlie said still laughing a bit.
"Oh, You would kill me?" Seth asked
"Seth. have you forgotten who your talking too?" She questioned. Seth stared out into space a bit
"Yeah I can see why-" Carlie cut him off
"Are you picturing us-" she paused.
"No" Seth guilty denied it.
"Yeah maybe we are getting too comfortable with each other but like I said. We can go back to my house and I can do some test on you"
"See when you phrase it like that. You can understand why it would be miss leading to a hormonal teenage male"
"Men, us women will never understand the complete obsession with sex you men have with it"
"It's mostly sad really"
"Yup it is sad"
"You still haven't answered my question?"
"What question?"
"Do you want me to run some test on you?"
"What kind of test?"
"Well I'll start off by taking your blood and we can actually do that now because I have a blood collection kit in my car. And-"
"You carry around a blood collection kit with you"
"You have your hobbies. And duh of course I do"
"Nah I'm good with the blood test and everything" Seth said then Carlie's phone started to beep so she took it out and looked at it.
"Oh that's my grandfather. I'm gonna have to leave"
"Okay. I'll call you"
"Okay" she said and hugged him goodbye and walked away but then stopped.
"Hey Seth. If anything was wrong with you just know. I would have picked up on it the day that I met you" She said in a calm tone.
"You have nothing to be worry about. You're fine" She said then smiled. Seth give her a fake smile and she left. And as she was leaving Seth said
"Sometimes I wish you could have picked up on it. Things would be so much easier" and sighed heavily.
I knew Seth was talking about being a shapeshifter. I didn't understand what was going on and I think it's mainly because I'm a guy and we're just not used to talking to each other like that. But if I'm going to be in Carlie's life and know more about her. Seth and I are going to have to talk way more
