(Hey guys! Here's a new chapter for my Danielle story. I hope you enjoy! I own nothing but my OC.)
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"Mom, I'm fine. Seriously! Stop fussing! I'm on painkillers right now anyway so my arm doesn't hurt that much and I'm getting lots of help with note taking in class. The only thing I'm bummed about is the fact that I'm going to have to miss out on the spring concert this weekend. Besides I'm not supposed to be on my phone right now. I'm technically still in school." Danielle chuckled as she tried to ease her Mom's worries while following Bella and their other classmates onto a bus.
Darting her eyes around, she checked to make sure Mr. Molina, the biology teacher wasn't nearby just as Mike Newton brushed past her calling out to Bella.
"Oh okay. Fine, I'll try!" Renee laughed in response. "I'm glad you're doing better though, Sweetie. Even though this takes you off the violin for a while. I told Bella to help out as much as possible. I mean according to her, you were going to save her when you fell so it's only fair, right?"
Dani nodded at this, pausing only briefly when her gaze fell on Alice and Edward Cullen seemingly having a private discussion by one of the buses. She quickly shifted her attention back to Bella who had gotten waylaid by Mike on the way to one of the buses designated to take their Biology class on their field trip.
"Yeah too bad we only have one class together and it's one I don't need a note taker in." Dani joked, freezing mid-step when she saw Mr. Molina heading their way.
"Mom, I better go. We're about to go on the bio field trip and I don't need to get my phone confiscated. I'll call you again later okay?" She said quickly, already in the motion of pulling her phone away as her Mom replied.
As she looked back up to see if Mr. Molina had caught her, a figure clad in a dark navy blue puffy coat walked into her path. "Hey Danielle! You got a second?" Tyler asked, smiling brightly despite the butterfly strips still stuck to the wounds on his face as he fell into step next to her.
Dani stared at him for a moment then shrugged. "I guess. What's up Tyler? How are your cuts?" She asked, shoving her hands into her pockets.
Tyler shrugged. "I'm doing good. It doesn't hurt so much anymore. What about you? How's the arm?" He asked, reaching out then retracting his hand immediately.
Danielle shrugged her good shoulder. "Same. The painkillers are helping a lot though I am anxious to not have to use this sling anymore. It's a little restraining and I can't play my violin with my arm like this." She chuckled and Tyler laughed with her.
"Yeah I can get that. So hey! I was actually going to ask, do you have a date to the Prom yet? I mean, I know it's early, but I thought I'd uh..well ask." Tyler shrugged a bit awkwardly.
Danielle pulled her bottom lip in between her teeth. "Um...actually no, but I'm not really planning on going to Prom. It's not really my thing. Besides I already made plans for that evening. Sorry." She laughed nervously, hoping not to hurt Tyler's feelings too much.
Tyler's face fell the slightest bit before he shrugged it off. "Oh..yeah I understand. I just thought I'd ask." He nodded his head before perking up. "Hey do you know if your sister has a date yet?"
Danielle started to raise an eyebrow at the question when the sound of Mr. Molina shouting for everyone get on the buses so they could get going cut into her thoughts.
"Dani!" Angela waved at her from the doorway of one of the buses. Danielle nodded at her before turning back to answer Tyler.
"I'm not sure, but I should go get on a bus now before Mr. M loses it. Sorry about Prom, Tyler." She said with only a half hearted smile before hurrying to meet her friend, looking around for Bella at the same time and spotting her still walking with Mike.
"Oh no! It's no problem Dani!" Tyler called after her. Angela gave Danielle a questioning look as she stepped onto the bus.
"What was that about?" She asked. Danielle rolled her eyes. "Tyler asked me to the Prom, although I have a strong feeling he only asked me out of pity because of the accident. Not that I care of course." She muttered, heading further towards the back of the bus until she found an empty seat on the right.
"How do you figure?" Angela asked, curious. Danielle started to respond when Bella stumbled into the bus behind them, her cheeks slightly pink.
She shrugged her shoulder. "He asked me if Bella was still available right after I turned him down." Angela's eyes widened. "No way!"
"Way! But, luckily I don't care and I do have plans that I laid out since the beginning of the year." She grinned cheekily before sitting down in a seat next to the window a few rows back from the front of the bus.
"Besides, it's not like anything will go with this." She gestured to her sling.
Angela slid in quickly next to her. "Well you should still come to Prom. It's like a rite of passage. Me and Jess were talking about going as a group anyway if we can't get dates." She said reasonably.
Danielle shot her an incredulous look. "You? Not get a date? Please." She chuckled. Angela scowled lightly at her. "Hey, it's not like I'm the most popular girl in our year." She huffed.
"Although I was hoping Eric Yorkie might ask me, but...he seems to have forgotten that I exist since your sister moved into town." She shook her head.
"He's not the only one." Jessica huffed as she sat down in the seat directly across from Angela and Danielle. "I just heard Mike and Tyler trying to ask her to Prom outside. Cullen was eyeing her too. She turned Mike and Tyler down, but..." Jess shook her head, trailing off with another soft puff of air as the sound of rushing footsteps lightly shook the bus.
Danielle frowned and looked down at her lap as she Mike and Eric rushed past them to take a seat near the very back of the bus, playfully shoving each other as they went.
"Well...the good news is, Bella is as enthusiastic about dancing and social events as I am so, there's still a chance you guys will still have your ideal dates before the big night." She said optimistically, hoping her friends were cheer up.
Angela gave her a half grateful smile and Jess started to look more thoughtful then annoyed when the bus driver clomped onto the bus and plopped down in the driver's seat.
"All right! Is every aboard?" He asked. "Oh wait!" A familiar breathless voice echoed from somewhere outside the bus and Danielle looked up just in time to see Bella, after tripping on the first step stumble clumsily onto the bus, flushing a bright red in embarrassment before looking desperately down the aisle.
Shaking her head ruefully, Danielle gave her sister a sympathetic look as she finally found a seat near the front and sat down next to a girl who immediately tried to start a conversation with her as a boy behind them leaned forward.
"Seriously, what does she have that I don't?" Jess complained, not loud enough for anyone more than a row away to hear.
Angela inclined her head to one side in thought while Danielle shrugged. "I honestly don't know."
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"Ugh! Longest four hours of my life!" Angela complained as they walked out of the greenhouse they'd been touring with the rest of their class, Mr. Molina still talking a mile minute at the head of the group about the "wonders of compost".
Danielle chuckled in agreement as she followed the crowd to where the buses waited to take them back to school. "You're telling me. Although I'm still not sure if Tyler didn't actually drink that stuff earlier." She added, thinking back to the beginning of their trip when Mr. Molina demonstrated the use of the compost machine.
Angela made a face and began to laugh with her when both girls looked up at the sound of their names being called. "Guys!" Jessica dashed up from where she had been previously near the front of line, beaming with excitement as she lightly bumped into a girl wearing a knit cap on her way to her friends.
"You'll never guess what just happened! Mike Newton just asked me to Prom! Just now!" She exclaimed, gesturing wildly with her hands just as Bella walked past with Edward at her side.
Danielle briefly stared after them before returning her attention to her friend.
"Jess, that's great!" Danielle enthused. Angela nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, I guess now I just have to get a date." She muttered, with a half smile as she reached to tug her beanie down.
"And Dani!" Jessica piped in, lightly jabbing Dani in the arm and making her roll her eyes. "I already told you, I'm not going. There's no point with this." She gestured towards her injured shoulder.
Jess gave her an unbelieving look. "Your shoulder will heal enough by then. Come on, you skipped out on Sadie Hawkins, Winter Formal and even Homecoming. I don't think it's right anymore that you miss out on Prom too." She crossed her arms.
Danielle started to respond, but another voice cut in first. "Dani and I already have plans then." Bella piped in, making Dani whirl at her. "We uh...we're planning on going back to Jacksonville that weekend to...to visit with our Mom." She said slowly, nodding her head a bit as if trying to convince herself of what she just said.
Arching an eyebrow at her, Danielle started to respond when again she found herself cut off, this time by Jess. "Oh. Well okay then I guess. You're still going to come and help me pick out a dress, right?" She asked as Mr. Molina called for everyone to start reloading the buses.
Dani nodded. "Of course. After Angela gets a date." She winked at her best friend who scoffed playfully in return.
"Very funny."
"Hey! Girls! Come on, we don't have all day!" Mr. Molina raised his voice, spurring the friends into action.
As the girls began to quickly disembark from the greenhouse steps back to the parking lot, Danielle turned to address her sister as Bella nearly missed a step and caught herself on Danielle's good shoulder.
"You know, you are the worst liar in the world. I'm surprised Jess and Angela didn't call you out on it. We're going to Jacksonville? Really?" She muttered just low enough so their friends wouldn't hear.
Bella blushed and avoided making eye contact with her. "It...doesn't have to be a lie." She said unconvincingly. Danielle made a soft noise of disbelief.
"Forget it, Bells. We can't just pick up and go to Jacksonville that weekend. It'll be in the middle of Phil's season for one thing. Besides, Dad just got you back. He's not going to be happy if you tell him you're already homesick." She pointed out.
Bella sighed and started to respond when she froze suddenly upon reaching the first couple buses by the curb.
Furrowing her brows, Danielle turned to follow her gaze meeting the steely golden orbs of Edward who was leaning on one arm against one of the buses.
"Hi Danielle. How's your shoulder?" He asked, still maintaining the scowl on his face as he shifted his gaze from Dani to Bella and back again.
Dani shrugged. "Getting better. Thanks for protecting her by the way." She gestured to Bella with a genuine smile. "Even if I hadn't slipped on the ice, I probably wouldn't have gotten there in time to do anything so, thanks." She said sincerely.
With a look that seemed almost like a wince, Edward stiffly nodded mumbling something that sounded like "Sure." as he suddenly found his feet very interesting.
Dani paused for a second, taken aback by Edward's response before shrugging it off and moving to get on the bus she saw Jess and Angela board earlier.
Suddenly Bella snapped.
"You know, if you really regret saving me that bad maybe you should have let that van crush me." She spoke up, startling Dani and making Edward stiffen as if someone had just hit him.
"Bella." She called out to her softly with a bit of bewilderment and warning in her tone, but her sister ignored her.
"You think I regret saving you?" Edward asked, almost sounding angry and making Dani shrink back a bit instinctively.
"I know you do!" Bella fired back, the glare on her face burning into Edward's though it nowhere near matched the intensity of the Edward's.
"Bella! Stop! Come on, we got to get on the bus." Danielle tried again, this time grabbing Bella by the arm to try to pull her away.
Edward pushed off from the bus he was leaning on to level the younger Swan Twin with a withering stare.
"You don't know anything!" He hissed before stalking off to get on a bus a few feet away only for his sister Alice to suddenly walk up.
"Oh hey! The bus is about to leave. Are you two riding with us too?" She asked, quickly shifting her attention from her brother to the twins and flashing a bright smile in their direction.
"No, they're not. Our bus is full." Edward retorted before Bella or Danielle could respond first, leaving them standing in a brief stunned silence as Edward stalked off and Alice followed after giving the sisters a somewhat awkward and apologetic smile in return.
"Okay, I'm not going to lie. He was being really weird and that was kind of rude, but what was up with your sudden outburst?" Danielle found her voice first, but Bella just shook her head.
"You didn't hear him while we were in greenhouse!" She snapped, attempting to stalk over to their bus before her feet slid a bit on the gravel.
Danielle stood dumbfounded for a second before the sound of a bus horn honking shocked her into action and she ran after her sister.
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"Bella, are you staring at Edward again?" Jess asked with a giggle, making Bella jump and turn her head back around to face their table with a blush.
"N-no." She stammered.
"Again, you are the worst liar ever and I think you know it. Seriously, what did Edward say to you at the greenhouse that was so bad?" Danielle chimed in, her eyes narrowed at her sister as she carelessly poked at her slice of cafetaria pizza with a fork.
Bella responded with a withering scowl. "I said, I don't want to talk about it, Danielle. Seriously, are you never going to drop it?" She said exasperated.
Danielle started to answer when Mike, Eric, Tyler and a couple other kids suddenly rushed over to their table.
"Hey guys! We're talking about making another run to La Push after school today. Want to come along? There's a big swell coming in so I heard." Mike piped up and Jess beamed brightly at him.
"Sounds fun."
"Yeah, you know I'm always down for a day at La Push." Dani chimed in, forgetting about her frustrations with her sister for a moment. "Especially since I was already planning on going again." She fiddled with her sling.
"Yeah we know you are." Angela teased, earning a playful shove in return.
"La Push...Isn't that the Indian Reservation we were at a couple weeks ago?" Bella asked, frowning a bit as she directed the question at Dani.
Dani nodded in confirmation. "Yup. But you don't have to come again if you don't want. Usually a good group shows up for these outings and if I didn't love the Rez or my friends so much I'd probably skip out too." She said sincerely, dodging when Angela flicked a piece of lettuce at her.
Bella started to offer her a grateful smile when Eric suddenly butt in, squeezing in between Bella and Angela.
"Aw come on Bella! You should come! It'll be fun. You could watch me surf something other than the internet." He bragged, earning a snicker from Jessica as Bella blushed as usual from the sudden attention.
"Eric, you stood up once on a foam board." Jess pointed out.
"Hey, I've gotten better!" Eric tried to defend himself. "Besides it's La Push baby, La Push." He playfully nudged Bella in the arm with his elbow.
Bella let out an awkward laugh.
"Anyway, there's also whale watching and sometimes you can find neat things in the sand if you walk by the shore. You should totally come. It'll be fun." Angela chimed in though Bella still looked reluctant.
"La Push Baby!" Eric sing-songed again this time inciting the laughter of those around him. Blushing again, Bella stood abruptly from her seat, grabbing her empty plate.
"Okay, you know what? I'll go if you stop saying that." She said, cheeks still pink as she rushed over to the salad bar on the left side of the cafetaria.
Danielle got up to follow her, grabbing her own plate as the laughter recommenced this time in reaction to Bella's retort.
"You seriously don't have to go if you don't want to." She whispered with a sympathetic smile as she got into line next to her sister and concentrated on putting some lettuce bits on her plate.
"They were just messing around with you."
Bella artfully added some kale to her salad before answering. "I want to go." She said as convincingly as she could manage.
"Bella," Danielle started to respond, knowing how much Bella hated being in large groups of people when a tall figure in a blue long sleeved shirt suddenly walked into their path.
"Edible art?" Edward asked, startling Bella enough for her to accidentally knock the apple she was about to set on her plate off the salad bar and step backwards into Danielle's foot.
"Ow!" Danielle hissed just as Bella sprung away from her mumbling a soft sorry.
The apple landed on Edward's foot and he bounced it up into his hands as if it were a rubber ball instead of an apple.
"Sorry. Here you go." Edward cleaned the apple off on his shirt and offered it back to Bella with a warm smile that completely contradicted the glare he'd been shooting Bella's direction since the beginning of lunch.
Bella gaped at him for a second before finding her voice. "Uhh..thanks. But you know, your mood swings are starting to give me whiplash." She picked up her plate and turned to walk back to their table and Danielle did the same after grabbing an apple for herself.
Edward suddenly looked uncomfortable. "I only said that it would better if we weren't friends. Not that I didn't want to be." He retorted as if that excused everything.
"Meaning?" Danielle asked, knowing she probably shouldn't butt in, but unable to help herself when this could be her chance to figure out the mysterious beef that between her sister and Edward Cullen.
Sparing Danielle the barest moment of a glance, Edward returned his attention to Bella. "Meaning, if your sister was smart like you, she'd let it go at thank you and avoid me as much as possible." He responded, a bit of the iciness Danielle remembered from the end of Bella's first day at Forks High coating his tone as he spoke the words.
"Okay then, let's say for argument's sake that I'm not smart. Would you tell me the truth about how you got to me so fast that day when the van got out of control?" Bella snapped back, the determination glowing in her eyes.
Edward furrowed his brows as if contemplating, but he quickly shook his head while Danielle glanced between them a bit confused.
"No probably not. I'd rather hear your theories instead." He said dismissively, still staring at Bella with an intent as if he were studying her.
With a vague sigh, Bella shook her head and reached to add some more lettuce to her plate. "I considered...radioactive spiders and...kryptonite." She scoffed, her cheeks flushing a bit as if she were suddenly embarrassed by her guesses.
Danielle did her best to stifle a snort while Edward looked mostly amused. "Oh...well that's all superhero stuff, right?" He followed Bella as she moved to get some carrots next.
"But what if I'm not the hero, Bella? What if I'm...the bad guy?" He asked in full seriousness.
Curling her lower lip into her mouth, Danielle pretended to be trying to decide between tomatoes and bell peppers as she listened for Bella's response and kept an eye on both of them through her peripherals.
"You're not." Bella responded with so much conviction, Edward looked a little taken aback. "I can see what you're trying to do and I can see you're just using it as a mask to keep people away...But you shouldn't."
A slight wry smile spread across Edward's pale cheeks then and Danielle couldn't help grinning as well.
"Well...you're not wrong about one thing." He said a bit smugly. "It would be better if you and I didn't associate too much with each other after this point."
Bella shook her head. "Look, why don't we just hang out?...We're all going to the beach today. You should come." She offered.
This made Danielle look up from the salad bar.
"Uh...what beach?" Edward frowned, suddenly seeming unsure of himself. Bella shrugged. "La Push."
Edward avoided her gaze. "Um...I'm not sure." He shook his head and started to shuffle away. Bella stepped after him.
"Why? Is there something wrong with that beach?" She persisted. Sensing an argument about to begin again, Danielle started to shuffle forward to distract Bella when Edward walked away first.
"It's just a little crowded for my taste." Bella stared dumbfounded after him.
"Why does he keep doing that?" She asked, sounding both frustrated and confused. Danielle shrugged and gave her a little nudge in the arm with her good shoulder.
"I wouldn't stew about it too much. I tried to ask his sister Alice to hang out once after we finished our French project and she declined too. I don't think the Cullens like hanging out with other people much." She shrugged one shoulder and started to head back to their table.
With a sigh and disgruntled shake of her head, Bella moved to follow.
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"Gosh! It's freezing here! How haven't they turned into like...ice yet?" Bella wondered aloud, shivering as she wrapped her arms around herself while walking along the beach with Angela and Danielle while some of the others looked for shells and interesting pieces of driftwood and a couple of the boys tried surfing in the water.
Danielle shrugged as she glanced over towards the waves just in time to see Eric fall off of his board.
"I don't know. Boys are just weird." She reached to tuck a loose strand of her hair behind her ear, missing the slightly mischevious smile Angela shot her from her right.
"Bet you don't think that Jacob guy is weird." She teased and Danielle whipped her hed around in her direction.
"Oh my God Ange, for the last time-."
"Hey! No way!" A familiar voice shouted from across the beach, cutting Danielle off and catching the three girls' attention.
Danielle turned to look back over her left shoulder, careful not to twinge it and grinned when she saw Jacob, Quil and Embry approaching.
"Hey guys! What's up?"
"Yeah, are you guys like stalking her or something?" Bella joked. Jacob laughed as Danielle shot her twin a dirty look.
"Um, you guys are on our Rez remember?" He played along making everyone in the group laugh.
"I guess he's got a point." Angela shrugged. Embry stepped a little closer to the girls.
"So how's the shoulder doing Dani? We heard you pulled a Bella and slipped on the ice." He chuckled and Dani rolled her eyes.
"It still hurts a bit, but the pain meds help. And I only fell because this one didn't have the sense to run when a van was coming straight towards her!" She pointed at Bella who blushed at the playful accusation.
"Hey! I froze! Give me a break!" She whined. Jacob stepped forward and clapped a hand on Danielle's good shoulder before pulling her into a quick hug.
"Well anyway, we're glad you're both okay. Are you guys just here with a group from your school today or...?" He glanced around and Danielle nodded hugging Jake back.
"Yup. You remember Angie and Jess right?" She asked, pulling back to gesture at Angela before glancing over at where Jessica and another girl were picking through some pieces of driftwood and seaweed near the shore.
Jake nodded. "Sure!" He shrugged. "Oh and uh just so you know, Leah's kinda mad that she had to find out about your accident from us so, I'd probably at least call text her or something." He shrugged seemingly helplessly while still grinning at his friend.
Danielle sighed. "Yeah, I'm sorry I was too busy being in pain and trying to get my erratic mother to stop freaking out to remember to call everyone." She grumbled playfully, pulling out her phone as everyone chuckled around her.
"Well speaking of the accident," Angela began, looking over at Bella.
"Bella invited Edward Cullen to come with us, but he declined."
"Yeah shocker there. Everyone knows the Cullens never come out." Jessica added as she walked by flicking some seaweed at Danielle who dodged and retaliated by playfully kicking some sand at her.
"Yeah not only that, the Cullens don't come out to La Push. Ever." Quil piped in. Embry nodded in agreement while Bella furrowed her brows in confusion.
"Why is that?" She asked, her cheeks still pink. Danielle glanced over at her before shrugging her good shoulder. "I think Jacob should explain that to you. Ange, want to see if we can find any good shells further down the shoreline?"
She turned towards her friend and pointed towards the bluffs receiving a slow nod from Angela who looked at her suspiciously.
"Uh sure." She glanced back at Bella who started to give her sister a protesting look, but Danielle was already walking away.
"What was that about?" Angela asked as she and Danielle moved away from Bella, Jacob and the others and stepped carefully over gnarled bits of driftwood.
Danielle bent carefully to pick up a shell from the ground only to toss it away when she noticed it was chipped.
"I've already heard the legends of the cold ones before. Once from Jake and twice from his Dad and Mr. Clearwater. Besides my Mom's been badgering me about sending her some seashells to make necklaces with. You know her spontaneously always changing pursuit of hobbies." She grinned wryly and picked up another shell.
Angela bent to pick up another, a little smaller than the one Danielle had found. "I guess..." She trailed off and glanced back at where Bella and Jacob were walking along the opposite direction down the shoreline, heads turned close to each other as if deep in a private conversation.
Danielle followed her gaze then quickly turned back away. "Angela, Jacob and I are not a thing and we're not going to be. So it's fine! Besides maybe talking to Jake more will make her stop obsessing over Edward." She rolled her eyes and bent to pick up what looked like a tiny snail shell.
Angela nodded in agreement. "Maybe, but-." She started to say and got cut off when a well worn soccer ball suddenly plummetted through the sky into the sand barely missing Danielle's nose by a hair's breadth.
Letting out a shriek, Angela jumped away from the ball before it could land on her toes while Danielle blinked and fell back on her butt in shock at the close call.
"Hey!" A loud voice boomed from somewhere across the beach just before three guys clad only in cut-off demin shorts jogged towards the two girls. "Are you guys okay? Did it hit you?"
Catching her breath, Danielle turned slowly to face the speaker coming face to face with the most intense pair of dark brown eyes she'd ever seen.
"I...No I...think we're okay!" She clumsily tried to push herself back onto her feet with one hand until a large callused brown hand thrust itself in her face a moment later.
"Here. Did you hurt your arm?" The boy who had shouted at them to ask if they were all right asked as he almost knelt to help her.
Danielle glanced back up at him only to shiver at the way he was looking at her. It was almost like a mixture of intense fierceness and concern. More intensity than care.
"Uhhh..." She struggled to find her voice before placing her good hand into the boy's grip. "I...broke my shoulder a few days ago." She murmured just before the boy gripped her hand and pulled her up from the sand with a surprisingly powerful yank.
In her surprise, Danielle stumbled forward slightly barely managing to catch herself before she could land embarrassingly on her savior.
She still blushed when she realized she braced herself on his bare chest and almost instantly straightened away though her fingers still tingled at the warmth that had emanated through his skin.
"Are you okay?" The boy asked, still looking at her with that strange intense yet somehow caring expression on his face as he studied Danielle's sling for a moment.
Danielle nodded her head. "Y-yeah I'm fine." She stammered, nodding back to where Angela had been silently watching the whole exchange. Her eyes were as round as dinner plates.
The boy sighed, seemingly satisfied though he opened and closed his mouth several times as if about to say something then changing his mind at the last minute.
Finally, he stuck out his hand again. "Good...I'm Paul." He introduced and Danielle found her gaze moving involuntarily towards his hand again.
"Danielle." She replied, shaking his hand briefly before pulling away again. She clenched her jaw to keep from shivering again at the strange feeling his gaze and touch evoked from her again.
"Oh yeah, you're Chief Swan's daughter, right? You hang out at the Blacks and the Clearwaters a lot?" Paul asked, running his hand through his hair which unlike Jacob and his friends was cut short.
Danielle nodded. "Yeah that's me. I have a twin sister too. She's over there with our other friends." She turned back to where Bella and Jacob could still be seen now sitting on a log while still talking.
Paul barely acknowledged them. "Cool. Well I guess, maybe I'll see you around then? The next time you come down to the Rez?" Danielle shrugged her shoulders.
"Maybe." She started to turn to walked back down to where the others were and turned her head to give Paul a quick grateful smile before rejoining Angela.
"Anyway thanks for helping me up. Enjoy your game." She nodded at the soccer ball which Paul seemed to have completely forgotten about since they started talking.
Angela bent to murmur in her ear as the girls walked out of earshot of Paul and his two friends who had been watching the earlier exchange with mostly unreadable expressions on their faces.
"Dude...he's still staring at you." She said with a soft giggle, making Danielle's cheeks flame up as she clenched her hands at her sides.
"Shut up! No, he's not!" She hissed, pulling her friend along with her before picking up her pace though her cheeks felt a bit flush and her stomach still tingled with the effects of her encounter with Paul.
Angela snorted another laugh and turned to face her friend with a large grin still on her face. "You know, maybe you were right about you and Jacob. I think this guy might be a better date to the Prom." She smirked.
Danielle turned a narrowed eye look at her. "Are you ever going to stop trying to set me up with one of the guys on the Rez?" She placed her good hand on her hip.
Angela shrugged. "No." She turned to run away back towards their group on the beach. With a shake of her head, Danielle quickly moved to follow her.
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