By the time I finished the morning classes I could say that school wouldn't be so bad. Bree was in 2 of my classes- thankfully because I knew we were going to be best friends. When I went to my locker before exploring the cafeteria it was blocked by a clone of the guys in my Geography class. He had bright green eyes and was by far one of the most attractive guys at this school. He had his arms wrapped around a girl with sleek, long black hair. I could tell she was extremely pretty before I saw her entire face. And although I was intuitive, just by the way this gorgeous man looked at her spoke volumes.
"Excuse me, but you're blocking my locker." I said trying to sound polite, but was a little annoyed.
They both looked up at the same time. Weird.
"Sorry, hey! You're Jocelyn right?" The guy said. I moved to open the lock on my locker while trying not be mesmerized by his voice.
"Yes, and you are?" I turned and smiled after I put everything I needed to in my locker.
"Justin Calvry. And this is my beautiful girlfriend Jade." He smiled. She rolled her eyes and looked at me. She didn't seem to have the nicest expression on her face but it wasn't like I cared. I hadn't insulted her in any way.
"Nice to meet you both. I hope it's not too much trouble but could you lead me to the caf? I'm supposed to meet up with my friend, Bree." Although Jade seemed to dislike me, something about Justin seemed very familiar.
"Absolutely, you can sit with us if you want," he smiled. Jade turned to look at him and I couldn't be too sure, but I thought she growled once we started walking down the hall.
"I really don't know how I ended up with such a nice guy. " She said after taking a deep breath to calm herself and smirked.
"Obviously because luck was on your side." Smirked looking down at her and I couldn't help but smile.
These two were very interesting. They obviously had very opposite personalities but were extremely attracted to each other in a powerful way.
"So Jocelyn, where did you come from?" Justin asked me politely. I raised my eyebrow at him.
"My mother's uterus?" I said. Jade peered over at me, and after a few seconds laughed.
"I like this girl. Please tell me you're always like this?" She spoke excitedly. I looked at her a little shocked.
"Always like what?"
"A sarcastic bitch." She said as if it wasn't an insult. And to me, it wasn't. I snorted.
"Is that what they call witty people these days?" I smirked. "If so, then yes. For the most part I'm described as a nice person but I've been told by many I have a short patience and a little attitude."
We entered the cafeteria doors at this point and I looked around for Bree. I saw her in the cafeteria line paying for her food. She looked around after giving the lady money and spotted me immediately. I waved her over and she looked at who I was with and instantly glared, but made her way over.
"You're friends with Bree Song?!" Justin glared at Bree, but spoke to me. I was extremely confused by this. Justin seemed so nice, as did Bree... how could they dislike each other?
"Hey Joc, ready to go find a table?" Bree spoke turning her attention to me but positioning herself to block Jade and Justin.
"Uh, yeah. I was wondering if you wanted to sit with them? They invited us to." I said smiling to ease some of the negative air around us. Jade looked amused while Justin looked like he wanted to burn Bree to ashes.
Bree turned to look at them and smiled and unpleasant smile.
"Really? Justin said I could sit with them? That's hard to believe since he can't even break up with a girl before screwing someone else." Bree's tone was pure venom. Justin started shaking and Jade's amused face slipped into a shocked and angry expression.
"That was 3 months ago! Get over it. I tried apologizing to you but you wouldn't speak to me." He yelled.
"You think you deserve words after I found out from several other people?! You disgust me." She got right in his face and to my surprise it didn't look like Jade was going to stop her. She turned a glare on Justin that immediately made him stop shaking and look scared.
"YOU. DID. WHAT!?" She screamed, her body starting to shake as well.
"Babe, this happened before we were together. It's no big deal." Justin said reaching out to grab her hand but Jade immediately slapped it away.
At this point the whole cafeteria full of students was staring at us. Honestly if I wasn't acutely apart of the scene I would be pretty amused too, but since I was I did not find it entertaining. Instead I found it rather shocking. The dynamic of Jade and Justin seemed pretty serious and clearly having this obvious secret spill out made me question Justin's character.
Bree snorted at his statement. I face palmed. This was just going to get worse and worse. And where the hell were there friends? Jade was shaking pretty bad- which was suspicious- which had to be a sign that something bad was going to happen.
"I don't give several fucks if it was before us! I thought you told me everything. I told you everything and all this time you kept a huge secret from me? Bree's right. You're disgusting." Jade said then turned and left the cafeteria.
Once jade left several girls from a table in the corner of the room got up and went after her. They were all pretty, all fit and all seemed to have the same strange air around them. Something was up with this group.
Justin Then turned to look at Bree with a murderous glare.
"Do you see what you did? You slut!" He once again started shaking. Bree sucked in a gust of air. I turned to look at her and saw that she had tears in her eyes, but from the way she spoke you would never know. The boys from ( I'm assuming Justin and Jade's table) got up and ran over to us then. Several tried to pull him away as he kept shouting obscenities at Bree. I pulled her into my arms trying to offer as much comfort as I could. A few stayed behind. two I recognized from my English lit class as Jared and Ryan. The other one was just like the others, attractive, but seemed to have a calming vibe.
"I'm very sorry, Justin isn't normally that aggressive. I'm sure when he's no longer upset he'll apolo-" His words were cut off just as Bree looked up and they made eye contact. His friends looked from Bree to their friend and Jared and Ryan got a knowing smirk on their faces.
"I honestly didn't think Jacob would be one of the last ones." Ryan said chuckling and hit his friend in the back of the head.
Once, Ryan knocked some sense into him he immediately turned to look at me and held out his hand. I shook hands with him surprised. He was just looking at my friend like she was his star-crossed love and wanted to introduce himself to me? It was strange, the rush that came from him when our skin made contact. He had the most genuine soul I had ever met.
"My name's Embry." He said smiling a kind smile.
"I'm Jocelyn, and not to be rude, but shouldn't you be introducing yourself to Bree since you just made love to her with your eyes?" The boys all looked at each other before Jared and Ryan burst out laughing. Embry looked mortified.
"Joc, we've been going to the same school all our lives. Besides everyone knows the supposed La Push gang. " She laughed then turned back to Embry with a smirk. "And thanks Embry, but I'm not holding my breath for Justin's apology. Like every other boy, he thinks that mistakes happen and people that get hurt in the crossfire should just accept that." She wiped the single tear that ran down her face and took a deep breath.
"I will make sure he apologizes." Embry's voice had a serious tone. Bree looked shocked but smiled anyway.
"Enough of the serious drama, Can we go eat now?" Ryan said.
We all made our way to their table and sat down. I pulled out my special lasagna that I made last night and a diet Sprite. Once I took a big bite out of my food I looked over at the boys shoving all the contents on their trays down they're throats. Bree and I looked at each other with disgusted faces.
"You guys have such wonderful table manners." I said taking a sip of my drink. Bree continued to look at them like she wanted to puke when the girls and guys came back. Except for Jade. When they all sat down around the table I realized my earlier allegations were correct, they were all pretty, some more than others but that was fine. A girl with surprisingly blonde hair sat down next to Ryan and he immediately stopped eating and kisses her, just as Jared did with one of the less attractive girls.
"Who are they?" The one that kissed Ryan said.
"I'm Jocelyn TrueBird and that's-" Embry cut off my sentence
"This is Bree Song. " He looked at her with adoration and I could have sworn if it wasn't for her incredibly tan skin she'd be blushing. Truth be told I didn't think she was a girl that normally blushed but I knew that if I was looked at the way Embry was staring at her I'd probably blush too.
"Hi! I'm Kelly, and I'm sure you already know Jared and my boyfriend Ryan. The girl beside Jared is his girlfriend Kim, beside Kim is Brady, then Collin, Then Quil, Seth, Marina, and obviously Embry. I'm sure you'll meet Jacob and Paul later, they're outside talking with Justin and Jayla is still talking with Jade. " she smiled at me. I smiled back.
Lunch continued with the boys almost making me lose my appetite and the girls chatting it up like we've been friends forever. This was not good. The sense of belonging I felt with this group scared me. It wasn't supposed to be this easy to fit with so many people so well but here I was feeling like these people were apart of my family. Not even my own mother felt like that sometimes.
My phone buzzed with a text from Luke.
'You doing okay, bbe?' I immediately felt bad, I belonged somewhere. I belong with Luke and yet this day has made me forget one of the most important people in my life. But it was different. The feeling I felt when I was home made me feel like I had a duty that could not be failed, like I had to prad to prove something. Being here, with my new friends made me feel like I could just be myself and I'd be accepted no matter what.
The Quiluete's were not supposed to become my friends.
They were my enemies and although I could be civil I was not supposed to become family.
As I sat with all them, making plans to hang out and making harmless jokes with everyone I felt myself letting go of the anger I was raised to have with the opposing tribe.
This was not good.
A/N: I hope you're liking this story so far! I know some things will be different from the Epilogue but hey that's what happens! I was wondering if you'd be interested in me combining this story with having Bree's and Embry's POV's? REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!
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