I was planning on having this out sooner but I wasn't able to because I was running around doing errands and packing to start school.
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Unluckily for me I hadn't been lazy yesterday and I had unpacked so I had to repack and put everything back in my jeep. I didn't have time to wash my dirty clothing I had been dragging along since Santa Cruz so I simply put it in a black trash bag.
It had been a wise suggestion from my father to drive up to La Push at 7 pm so I'd be driving without traffic and there'd only be coffee and bathroom breaks.
Caroline turned up the song as we started singing loudly to "Cheers." Caroline had miraculously gotten her mother to give her permission to go on the road trip with me. Apparently, it also took a lot of hard work on her part due to the fact that her mother didn't trust the two of us together either.
It was as if we were five again and our parents didn't trust us to go to the petting zoo on our own. Actually, Caroline couldn't go there because she was too scared of goats after that one time when we went to the petting zoo and she had just bought an ice cream and the goat ate it straight from her hand. That did not fly with her and she tried to get it back but then the goat attacked her in defense.
"I need to get a GPS." Caroline said as Socorro told us what freeway to take. I glanced at her momentarily.
"You never get out of Orinda or LA." I said rolling my eyes at her.
"Exactly. Now, if I had a GPS I'd be able to go out more, maybe to Santa Cruz more. Anywhere, I just don't want to be home if my mom is in a whole other country." She said decreasing the speed of her words.
I sighed. "I kinda figured, that's why I wanted to invite you. It's weird thinking that your mom isn't at your house or with you."
"Yeah…" She said trailing off. "It's like when we went to college just that for that I had time to mentally prepare myself but not for this."
"Why didn't she take you?" I asked, brows furrowed.
She hesitated and as she did some car cut me off. "Yeah, thank you!" I yelled with a forced smile. "Greatly appreciate the fact you're trying to kill us." I said as the car zoomed past us. I started grumbling about kids these days.
"Thanks Viv." Caroline said softly. I smiled as "You make me feel" started playing and Caroline and I started singing again.
I opened my eyes and realized I had fallen asleep while my jeep was moving. I freaked out, luckily, I wasn't driving, Caroline was.
"Carlos, I'm hungry." I grumbled rubbing my eyes.
"Let's go eat then Vinny." Caroline said. "First you gotta tell me where." She said. I looked around at the already too familiar shades of green grass and trees. It was pouring and the sky looked gray, suitable weather for the mood I was feeling.
"Just keep on driving straight for a bit and I'll tell you where to turn." I said yawning. Caroline simply nodded. We parked in front of the small diner I remember always driving past. I put on my hoodie and pulled my hood over my head. I shivered once I got out the rain falling on down on me.
I went quickly to my trunk and made sure to stuff my toothbrush inside my purse and I put my hair in a bun. I saw Caroline, with a large jacket on; do the same with her toothbrush, unfairly her hair looked amazingly unfrizzed and perfectly straight.
"I hate your perfectly silky Asian hair." I said glaring at her as we went inside. She rolled her eyes at me. We walked towards the door when I tripped over the step. Caroline simply laughed at me as I glared at the step.
Once we went inside we were immediately hit by the heat. "Oh heater, how I missed thee." Caroline said quietly.
"That's what you get for leaving NorCal to go to SoCal with its freakishly warm weather." I said sticking my tongue at her
"Sorry if I'm not a big fan of-"
"Caroline." I hissed, pulling on the hem of her shirt.
"Hot guy?" She asked looking at me. I shook my head as I stared at Kim pouring coffee in some guy's mug. I didn't remember her being a waitress.
"No." I said quietly averting my eyes from Kim. "I know that girl."
Caroline looked around then after a while she looked back at me. "Who?"
"Hello." said Kim. I turned and looked at her, a foot away from me, holding a notepad. "How many?" She asked looking between Caroline and me.
"Two." Caroline said smoothly. Kim nodded curtly avoiding eye contact as if I was deadly contagious.
She sat us down at a booth and handed us a menu. "What can I get you to drink?" She asked, a slight edge on her voice.
I sighed while Caroline ordered a coffee. "Make it black, I need a boost to not crash, both literally and figuratively speaking." She said looking up at Kim.
"I want a coffee too." I said quietly. I told her what I wanted on it and saw her scribble away. "Kim…are you mad at me?" I asked her looking straight at her. She lifted her eyes to mine, eyes wide.
"It's just…I don't think…" She sighed and looked down scrunching up her nose. "You know, you hurt Jacob right? A lot. And that's all he ever thinks about and…talks about so the rest of the…group is being under pain because of his." She said shaking her head. She looked at me and when she did I could see how it affected her.
"I'm sorry Kim." I said, brows knitted.
"What are you doing here?" she asked me, lips slightly pursed.
"I'm here to help my aunt Olivia." I said quickly. And for Caroline and so I don't get stuck at home with two brats.
"Oh, I heard about what happened, I'm sorry." She said giving me a small sympathetic smile.
"It's fine." I said looking down.
"So…I'm starving." Caroline piped in looking back and forth at us, holding up her menu. Kim's eyes widened and she held up her pen.
"I'm sorry. What can I get you to eat?" she asked quickly. Once we ordered Kim left and Caroline stood up quickly. I lifted up a brow at her.
She leaned down at me. "Do you have any womanly items I can use in the bathroom?" I felt my cheeks turn slightly pink.
"Um," I said biting down my bottom lip. I nodded my head suddenly remembering I did stuff one in my purse just in case. Caroline left to the bathroom while I freaked out in my booth. She and I were always synchronized and this month was probably no difference so I had to mentally and physically prepare myself.
Kim came and brought us our coffees. She gave me a small smile when she did. "So did you really come back for Jacob?" She asked as I took a sip of my coffee. I started coughing as I felt myself start drowning, yes drowning in coffee.
My coughing started subsiding and my breathing evened out. I wiped my mouth and then looked at Kim who was looking worriedly at me.
"Are you okay?" She asked concern all over each word. I nodded and smiled at her.
"Yeah, I'm good now." I said. She then narrowed her eyes at me.
"So, are you here for him?" She asked as I poked my coffee mug with a knife. How could coffee try to kill me of all people, it must have been possessed by this mug, I thought poking it.
"I'm here to help my aunt." I said firmly letting go of the knife and sighing. I'd just have to drink it and hope it didn't try to kill me again.
"But are you also here to solve your problems with him and fix everything?" She asked in a bit of a high pitched voice. I bit down on my bottom lip, hard.
"There's nothing to fix, even if I wanted to be with him there's no way I can. I still live in Santa Cruz and he still lives here. He has his life here and I have my life over there." I said sighing. Luckily, Caroline slipped in to the booth with a brow cocked at me.
Kim sighed and then left on to another table. "What juicy gossip did I just miss?" She asked taking a sip of her coffee. I rolled my eyes at her forcing a large smile on my face.
"Oh not much, just me choking on my coffee."
"The usual. You're always in some kind of life and death situation." She said shrugging her shoulders at me. I narrowed my eyes at her while she flashed me a grin. "It's true and you know it. That's what you get for being too ditzy." She said sticking her tongue at me.
I scoffed. "Not even, I'm super non-ditzy. I can talk about smart people stuff and not trip every five seconds." I said crossing my eyes. She lifted her brows at me a smile playing on her lips and her eyes lighting up.
"If that were the case then it'd be no fun to be around you and we wouldn't be best friends." She said. I smiled back at her.
"Oh Carlos, what would I do without you?" I said looking at her.
"Probably lose the smallest ounce of sanity you have left." She said taking a sip of her coffee. I rolled my eyes a smile still playing on my lips. We eventually ate our breakfast and left with me driving back to my aunt's house. As I drove I felt knots in my stomach, it must have been the cramps I told myself as I passed by his house. Or I'm hungry, oh wait, I just ate, I probably ate too much, that's it.
"Are you okay?" Caroline asked.
"Uh huh." I said quickly as I continued to drive straight ahead. We reached my aunt's house right when I started hearing a weird noise coming from my jeep. I just kept on going so I could look at it later. I then knocked on the door. It took a while before someone opened the door. I saw Elijah wearing only basketball shorts and he had the biggest glare on his face.
"You don't play basketball." I said smiling at him. His glare intensified, as if that could happen.
"Why are you here?" He asked, his voice groggy.
"I came to see your mom." He lifted up his brow and then he looked over at Caroline.
"Hey." He said squinting his eyes slightly.
"Hi, I'm Caroline just in case you forgot." She said brightly.
"Oh yeah, I remember you." He said smiling at her slightly. He looked back at me.
"So can we come in?" I asked smiling at him lifting and lowering my brows at him.
"It's too early to be that perky." He grumbled. I simply smiled broader.
"I'm just happy to see you. Now can we go in before we get even more wet?" I asked though we were on the porch. He rolled his eyes at me and then opened the door widely going inside. Caroline and I went, feeling the warmth and I smiled softly to myself.
"Yazmin's asleep, my mom is reading in her room and Ana's out." He said simply. "And I'm going back to sleep." He said walking upstairs.
"Isn't he a lovely host?" Caroline said shaking her head, a smile on her lips nonetheless.
"That's Elijah for you." I said smiling. "He's an oversized teddy bear on the inside though. Wayyy inside." I said narrowing my eyes.
"So should we go see your aunt?" Caroline suggested. I nodded my head. We went upstairs and I knocked.
"Come in!" I heard my aunt say. I opened the door only to find her lying on top of her bed reading a book wearing some yoga pants and a tank top. She looked up and smiled at me.
"For a second I didn't believe your mom when she said you were coming in her place but then she told me you'd be stuck with the boys." She said giving me a sympathetic smile. "Oh hello Caroline, I'm sorry about your grandmother. I think this month has been nothing but bad luck."
"Hi, thank you for letting me stay over by the way." Caroline said smiling. My aunt smiled back at her. She then got to business and started telling us the how to's on how to run a tribal bookstore. Then she sent us off to go look at the place ourselves so that we could get mental images of where everything was placed, after we made breakfast of course.
"What kind of books are these?" Caroline asked. I was in front of the cash register and I looked up at her as she was reading the back of one of the books.
I paused and bit down on my bottom lip. "Oh they're just on some legends, like creation myths and stuff like that." I said referring to one of the lessons we had in English on Myths. Myths were meant to explain creation, natural events and why the world was the way it was. These were however, proven to be true myths.
"That's cool I was big fan of them, it's always interesting to see how people perceive the world differently."
I rolled my eyes. "Especially Greek Mythology."
"I just loved reading-"
"The Odyssey and the Iliad, I know." I said cutting her off as she gave me a sheepish smile. "There is something very wrong with you."
"Not even, I just liked the action and all the gods going at it." She said.
"More like their soliloquies, it was more of pages of them prepping their soldiers for the war than anything." I said lifting up a book off the bookcase.
"Hater."
"Haters be hating, get over it." I said flipping through the book. I saw a picture of a wolf and all I could do was stare.
"You know there's a lot of myths on wolfs." Caroline said.
"Uh huh." I said.
"Do you think there was a point when everyone in the tribe had a pet wolf instead of dog?" She asked nudging me with her elbow. I closed the book and looked up at her, well more of down seeing as Caroline was a good five inches shorter than me.
"That's probably it, once animal control heard about it they probably had to give them away so then they settled with second best." I said nodding my head. "You know what, we should get a pet penguin."
"I like monkey's better." I squinted my eyes thinking.
"How about we get a pet saber-tooth and name it monkey then?" I suggested. She nodded her head, her face completely composed.
"Oh yeah, for sure, because saber-tooth tigers aren't extinct." She said.
I smiled at her. "They were simply preserved in the ice during the ice age."
"I swear Vivian sometimes-" Caroline started getting cut off by a knock on the door. I looked and just stared at the door as I tried to make out who was on the other side. It was a tall, tan and shirtless guy on the other side. I turned to look at Caroline who had probably already seen what I had seen seeing as she had a big ol' smile on her face.
I rolled my eyes and walked towards the door, my cheeks tinted pink and my heart pounding loudly. Shut up, I thought to my heart. Caroline could probably hear it and she didn't even have supernatural hearing.
I opened the door slowly and then came face to face with Embry. I felt myself exhale and start breathing again.
"Oh, it's just you." I said smiling at him. Embry narrowed his eyes at me.
"What do you mean, it's just you? Who were you expecting it to be?" He asked cocking a brow at me with an annoying smile.
"Quil." I said simply smiling at him as he frowned at me.
"Hey, I'm way better than Quil." He said glaring at me.
"Maybe to Rosemary." I said scoffing glancing up at him as his glare intensified.
"No, you can ask anyone, except Leah." He said quickly correcting himself at the end. I just laughed at him and gestured him in, to which he did tracking in mud with his bare feet. Or should I say dog feet?
"You better clean that." I said pointing to the mud. He used his hand to wave me off, as if that would magically wipe away the mud.
"Eh, eventually." He said. I rolled my eyes at him. I then turned to look at Caroline who was obviously checking him out. I suppressed an urge to barf.
"Embry this is Caroline, she's my best friend." I said.
"Woah woah woah, what am I, chopped liver?" He asked putting his hand of his bare chest that was all wet from the rain, I scrunched up my nose. I swear these wolf boys and their half-nakedness.
"Yes." I said. "Anyways what are you doing here?" I asked brows furrowed he walked around the books.
"Oh, um, I was just told to check up on you." He said slowly. I felt my heart stop.
"By who?" Caroline asked, saying what I wanted to say.
"By Barbie." He said quickly. I narrowed my eyes at him.
"Why would Ana want you to check up on me?" I asked him, he still had his back on me as he lifted up a book.
"Because she thought you were going to burn down the place." He said.
"That's what she said this morning when she saw us cooking. I don't blame her." Caroline said.
I rolled my eyes at them. "Not even, we extinguished the fire in time before it spread and it's not like we're cooking here." I said crossing my arms.
"Still, you're a danger to society. Barbie told me you're both especially bad together. It's like Quil, Jake and I together." He said turning around to look at me. My eyes widened as he looked at me.
"Great, even people I don't know know how bad of an idea it is to have you and I are together." Caroline said. I forced a laugh.
"Just go Embry before we burn down the bookstore with you in it." I said with a firm smile on my lips. He rolled his eyes at me and then left.
"Oh hey, is he single?" Caroline asked me once he was gone. I just laughed at her.
"No, he's in a serious relationship with someone." I said thinking of Rosemary. I wonder how she was doing, I hope she's keeping Embry in check.
"Lame." She muttered going back to skimming over the covers of books. "So are all the guys here that hot?" She asked raising her brows up and down at me with a smile. I rolled my eyes with a smile.
"They all have six packs, are literally hot and like to walk around shirtless." I said pursing my lips.
"Oh heyyy, hook it up."
"Not even, they're all taken. Well, except for Paul but he's a total jerk." I said looking at the register trying to figure out how to work it.
"Great." She said sarcastically. "So, Embry's one of your ex boy toys friends, isn't he?" I had started pressing buttons and then I saw it. The large red button, I bit down on my bottom lip to simply stop the urge to press it.
"Uh huh." I said as I lifted up my finger and held it above the button, what would happen?
"Do you think that then maybe…he sent him to see if it was true that you were here or something?" She asked slowly. I bit down on my lip harder and pressed the button, all it did was turn on.
"I don't know." I said shrugging my shoulders. I pressed it again and it simply turned on, lame. I was expecting an explosion or for a clown to come out of the back door of the bookstore and make me balloons shaped animals, like a saber tooth.
"Vivian." Caroline said firmly, I looked up slowly to see her glaring at me. "I hate it when you get like that."
"Get like what?" I asked in a quiet voice. She narrowed her eyes even more. We had a staring contest until she faltered and looked away, with a loud sigh, knowing it was a lost cause to try to get on the same old subject again.
I went back on to exploring around the store, trying to figure out how everything was placed and how everything worked.
Author's note: So if you haven't seen I have a new story up, it's a Harry Potter fanfic called "The Snake in Sheep's Clothing". My new character is nothing like Vivian, and the writing style is different too but I still recommend reading it. Especially, because she's the farthest thing from a Mary Sue and the story plot is…unique.
Well this was a bit of a filler but some of it was needed for later. So I should have the next chapter out in maybe a week from now. Review, please and thank you.
