A/N: Finally I'm updating! Everyone's happy for me and excited to see what happens to Suze and Paul. I wasn't even going to update because Twilight is out (Yay!!!!) and I haven't read it yet, so I saw no point into going to this site nor reading any stories until I read the book, so it will be a while until my next update. Oh, and thank you to everyone who reviews me, I really appreciate it.
Chapter 9Ok, let me fill you guys in on a little secret, shifting across the country takes a lot out of you. When we finally made it, we did not land on our feet; instead we landed on the cold dirty pavement of Brooklyn, New York. And on top of that I have this killer headache which always happens when I shift. But this one hurts like hell. This has just become the worst headache I've had in all my sixteen years on this Susannah-Simon-hating Earth.
"Oh my God, this is really painful." I heard Paul groan. I looked over to my left and saw that I was lying on top of some stairs and Paul was at the bottom rubbing his head.
"Tell me about it" I moaned. I sat up and rubbed my forehead to make sure I was still me. I looked down at Paul and saw that he was already standing up with a huge grin on his face. He walked up the six stairs and pulled out his hand, indicating to let him help me up. I hesitated for just a moment and took his strong tanned hand. He smiled and pulled me up.
"So, where are we?" He asked looking around the area on the stoop. I also looked around and my eyes widen.
It was my old neighborhood! I can't believe we made it here in just one try. I guess I'm getting really good at this shifter crap. The sky was still a little dark since there is a three-hour time difference between New York and California, but everything else looked so familiar.
My eyes wondered across the street. I saw Jose's Grocery store where Gina and me would buy all the candy in the world, and the Public Library where I spent none of my time in, and also Gina's private house apartment. I was immediately flooded with old memories of my old life. I looked behind me and saw that I was actually standing on my old stoop, 1141 Dumont Ave.
"This is my old house." I turned to Paul and saw that he was looking down at me.
"Oh really? Which apartment was yours?" He asked peering into the little window on the door.
"I lived in 2F." I skipped down the stairs and looked up to see my old bedroom window, which now had Rugrats curtains.
"Oh, that's cool, I guess whoever lives there now is sleeping." Paul said stating the obvious. "So, what do you want to do? I've never been to Brooklyn before."
"You know what? That shifting stuff made me really hungry." I rubbed my stomach and I actually heard it growled. Hopefully Paul did not just hear that.
"Well it sure does sound like that." He said with a grin. My cheeks turned a bright red. Paul stood next to me and pushed a little towards the end of the block.
"I don't know what kind of food were getting at 5:25 in the morning." I said.
"I know, nothing is open." Paul held me close while crossing the street like I was seven years old.
"Thanks for walking me across the street dad." I said in a little girl's voice.
"You're welcome, Suzie." He responded by pinching my right cheek.
"Haha. Very cute"
"Is there anywhere we could stay until the sun comes out?"
I thought about this for a moment. We can't go to Gina's house. Her mother would kill me if I arrived at this time, and then she would call my mother and say I ran away. However my mother would deny it because she just saw me an hour ago.
We can't go to my grandmother's house even though she would love to see me; I don't feel like explaining my whole life to her about my 'gift'.
"Maybe we could go to the park…its public and we could stay there until like 8:00, then we could go to McDonald's or something." I suggested.
Paul nodded, "Ok sounds good, lead the way."
We went to the park and we talked about shifting stuff. But we couldn't talk for so long because the bums were all in earshot. We started chasing each other, for some insane reason. We were pretty much acting like two 10 year olds who just woke up and ate three pounds of candy. I promised Paul I was going to take him on the subway. He said he been to New York City when he was 13 but he never went on the trains because his mom was afraid of catching a disease called, 'Subwaypox syndrome'. When he said that I couldn't stop laughing for minutes. I actually kinda like talking to Paul.
I said, I kinda like him. I still think he is the son of Satan. Even though I learnt a lot about him, and he learnt some things about me, I still think he should leave Jesse and me alone and go harass Clover.
When we finished having breakfast at McDonald's, it was about 9:00 in the morning, at lease it wasn't dark outside anymore.
We were walking along Liberty Ave. and talking about our parents and school, when I realize we were only about three blocks away from my old high school.
"My old school is around this area." I pointed across the street to the intersecting Pennsylvania and Liberty Avenues.
"You wanna stop by, and say hello to your old friends?" I wanted to correct him by saying, 'I wanna stop by to see my only friend from Brooklyn.' But I didn't want to seem like such a loser who didn't have any friends.
"Sure, why not? I can say hello to my old classmates at Jefferson High. I could make up some excuse to why I'm here." We walked the rest of the blocks and before we knew it we were on campus.
"Wow, it's big." Paul said with a grin on his face. "How many students go here?"
"I'm sure it's not more than 2000 kids." I said like it was nothing.
"Do you think they'll let us in?" He asked.
"No. I forgot we need a student I.D." I said disappointingly. Paul looked like he was thinking something through. Then out of no where he had a huge smirk on his face and he was holding my hands.
"What?" I said kinda freaked out. What if he was going to declare his love for me out in public or even worst…try to force me into kissing him in front of everyone.
"Lets shift inside" He uttered. I drew out a huge breath I didn't know I was holding. I suggested we go to a more private place where no one can see us disappear. He let me guide him and I said the absurd line and we ended up in my old homeroom class from the tenth grade. Luckily no one was in the classroom and I didn't have that huge headache. I guess I only have a huge headache when I shift to long distances.
"So…lets go." Paul said unlocking and opening the classroom door. I followed him out and I was flood with old memories again. Teens were overflowing the hallways and there was locker slamming. I remember when I was a freshman and a group of tall seniors were harassing me one day. They were calling me ugly, crazy, and a retarded little girl. I cut school that day early and all I could do that morning was to cry my brains out. I never told anyone that story before, and I don't plan on too.
"Do you want to go find that girl…Gina?" Paul asked waking me out of my trance. It took me a second to remember where I was.
"Um…yeah. To tell you the truth, I don't know where to start, this building has six floors." Paul was about to respond but I heard a familiar laugh just a few feet away. I turned around and saw a head of curly auburn hair. I could recognize that giggle anywhere. I walked up to the girl and Paul followed. She had her back towards me and I seen she was flirting with a hot Puerto Rican guy (but not hotter than Jesse!). I put my hands over her eyes so she couldn't turn around and then the surprise would be over.
"Guess who, G?" I teased; calling her that old nickname sleepy gave her.
"Um… Felicia?" She said playing along.
"No"
"Devanie?" Who the hell is Devanie?
"No. It's your best friend in the world."
"Oh my gosh! Suze?" Gina turned around and screamed. We gave each other a huge bear hug.
"I can't believe it's you!" She jumped up and down. Then she squeezed my wrist. "Why the hell didn't you call me to tell me you were coming?"
I looked at Paul and said, "It was unexpected." Gina turned to look at Paul and her eyes widen. She looked him up and down. Then she stared at me.
"Oh! I forgot, Gina this is Paul, Paul this is my friend, Gina."
"Hey" Paul said coolly and he also gave his famous Paul Slater grin.
"Did you two just meet," Gina stated. "Or is this your boyfriend Suze?" She said with a huge smile on her face.
"No" I said quickly. "He's just a friend from California."
"You brought a friend with you? With what money?" She asked. I realized she didn't introduce us to that guy she was talking too.
"Um…we have connections." I lied.
Gina leaned down to my ear and whispered, "Does this have to do with you being a medium?" she asked. I almost forgot she knows something about that.
"I know." She exclaimed excitedly. "Lets ditch school and you'll tell me all about it." We agreed and she pulled us down the hall out of the basement door.
Finally we were free!
A/N: I hope you liked this chapter. It took me a while to write it. Seven pages! Review, Review, Review!