Author's Note: Hey I just wanted to mention that Jacob and Addie are 13 in this chapter as well as in the end of the first chapter. They will probably be staying 13 for a few more chapters but I will mention before the chapter starts how old they are.

Chapter Two – Pennyroyal Tea

With the start of Summer break, I started to mentally prepare myself for the fact that I will only be able to hang out with Kim until July. That's when her family goes on annual camping trip to Salt Creek where they spend about a week there, then spend the rest of the summer visiting her family in the Makah reservation.

So, that's what I was doing now, soaking up all my precious Kim time. We usually spent most of our time either on the beach or hiking in the woods. This is the best we could do considering neither one of us could drive unless we wanted to bike it all the way to Forks to go bowling or something.

On our usual days out, we would pack a lunch and some snacks to bring with us. That way there was no need for us to be home early and we could be out as much as we want: to an extent. Around here you are never alone, almost everyone here on the reservation knows you. So, you can't do much without your parents knowing where you've been or what you've been doing.

The day before, Jacob had called asking if Kim and I wanted to go cliff diving with him. Jacob was determined to get us to jump even though he and his little posy just got the balls to jump off two weeks ago. I knew Kim would just come with me to watch those idiots hype themselves up until they finally jumped. In all honestly that's what I wanted to do as well but Leah had already gave me shit that morning when I went over for breakfast. Saying that I needed get over myself and just do it, though aunt Sue had mentioned a few years ago how scared Leah was to jump. She said that Emily had to basically drag her there which took about three times until she finally gave in and jumped.

I was just about done braiding my hair, which I rarely did since my hair almost reached my ass. Long straight black hair, that's what I had with wispy straight cut bangs. To me it wasn't anything spectacular. I mean sure, some people would compliment how long it was but everyone on the rez had long hair. The only thing that set me apart was that I got my grandpa's Hazel eyes, that's all Granny would say about him. Other than him leaving her when she told him she was pregnant with my mom. He had told her he couldn't stay with her because his family wouldn't approve of him being with a Native woman. I couldn't imagine what Granny went through having the man she loved leave her for just that reason alone.

I pushed that thought out of my mind when I heard some commotion outside. I didn't think much of it since it was probably just my dad complaining to my mom on how the kids from Forks are at First beach all the time.

"They have some nerve coming back here!" I hear my dad say clearly upset as he walked into the house.

"I know Michael, they have requested to speak with the members of the council about the treaty." Uncle Harry seemed a bit calmer than dad.

"Everly told me that Carlisle has been working in the hospital for about a month already and now they want to speak with us!"

"Clearly they've already started to establish a life here before discussing further with the council. I'll give it to them, they're clever, getting into the good graces with the folks from Forks first then coming to us." Uncle Harry started to get riled up as he spoke about these people.

Luckily, they decided that they needed to go over to Billy's place to further discuss this dilemma they had with this Carlisle guy.

When I hear Leah open the door coming into her room with her hair wet from the shower. "So, what were our dads fighting about this time?" She says clearly not bothered by them arguing.

"I'm not sure it just sounds to me that this guy they hate moved into Forks recently." I say still trying to wrap my head around what I just heard.

"What a miracle those two weren't fighting with each other."

"Well maybe they've realized how old they are to be arguing about any little thing that bothers them about the other…"

Leah snorts, "Yea right Addie them and the rest of the old men around here except for Old Quil act like they're still teenagers."

"I guess you're right."

"And don't you forget it, anyways I'm gonna spend the day with Sam do you need a ride?"

"No thanks we're just going to meet up by Embry's and walk up to the cliffs together."

"Alright then see ya." she says as she's walking out of the room.

"Come on ladies we're wasting daylight!"

"Shut up Quil! It's not our fault you guys decided to race each other the rest of the way!" I yell back.

Kim and I speed up our pace, tired of hearing Quil yell at us for being so slow. On the way up I am hearing him still bitch at us. I decided that if he was going to keep pissing me off like this, I might just push him off the cliff. He had been testing me for a while but each time I told myself it wasn't worth it.

"I swear I've aged about twenty years waiting for you girls!" Quil complains.

I just glare at him meanwhile Kim is apologizing to him for keeping them waiting.

"It's cool Kim, Quil just needs to know when to keep his hole shut." Jake says to us.

"Yea at least you girls didn't have to listen to him the rest of the way up here." Embry added making us start to laugh.

Quil noticed how Jake and Embry were both ready to rip into him if he kept talking, so he decided on saving himself the hassle of taking them both on.

There were already some people at the cliffs which was normal since this was the most thrilling thing to do on the rez. It was sort of right of passage for the teens here, everyone would jump at least once in their life just to say they did it. But if you really wanted to show off you would jump off from the cliffs higher up.

"Okay so which one of you stooges are gonna jump first," Jacob challenges the guys.

"Maybe the girls should just go first, since ya know ladies go first and all." Embry suggests.

"They don't have to jump today if they don't want to, we have the rest of the summer for that."

"I think they're just scared especially Addie." Quil says. "Just look at her she's not even standing by the edge."

"You guys can go first, we don't mind, right Addie?" Kim says, ignoring Quil's comment while looking at me making sure I wasn't bothered by his remarks.

They took off their shoes and were about to start taking off their shirts when Quil decided he wasn't finished with me, "It seems like the Wicked Witch of the West doesn't want to expose herself to the water."

Before anyone else could say anything, I pushed Quil off the cliff.

"Addie!" Kim gasped.

"Shit! I knew she was too quiet for all that shit talking he did!" Jacob says looking down where Quil fell, Embry doing the same.

I just took off my shoes and jumped in after him. Even though he's a total dumbass who doesn't know when to shut up I couldn't let him be in complete danger. As we were getting out of the water we see Jake, Kim, and Embry waiting for us at the shore.

"Thank god you guys are okay!" Kim says stressed out of her mind.

"Yea just what the hell were you thinking!" Jacob added.

I look at Quil who finally seems to be taking in what just happened, "…I wish I could say I didn't think it through…but…", Quils eyes go wide as I say this.

"Since everyone seems to be okay…" Embry gives me a quick look then looking directly at Quil saying, "You kind of asked for it."

"WHAT?!" He yells quickly standing up facing Embry.

"It's true." he snaps his neck to look at Jacob. "You've been trash talking her since before school ended, I'm surprised it took this long."

"I can't believe it! I'm almost killed by this psycho and you guys are defending her!" Quil says baffled on what his best friends' had just said to him.

"Well, would you have preferred this or a punch to the face like Jake?" I question him.

"Obviously a punch to the face!" He says yelling at me, "I could have drowned!"

"Alright, I gotta admit pushing you wasn't the best idea. Which is why I'm gonna let you decide what my punishment should be, and I'll do it no questions asked."

Everyone looked at me like I grew another head.

"A-Are you serious?" Quil wasn't sure if my offer was legit or not.

"Of course, I'm serious unless you don't want it-"

"Yes! Yes! I want it!" he said quickly. "Ugh…Ugh..."

"This is gonna take forever he sucks at this." Embry says.

Jake just shakes his head while Kim is still looking at us worried, knowing how we can get with each other.

"No! I got it!" Quil turns to me, "Addie I'll let this go if you eat a worm."

I just hear 'Ew' and 'Oh God' from the others I accept without hesitation. Embry and Quil go out to look for a worm, Kim goes after them trying to convince them not to go through with it.

"You don't have to do this you know." I look at Jake who is now standing right next to me.

"No, I feel like a bitch for pushing him off like that. I shouldn't have done it no matter how annoying he was being." I say while pushing the sand back and forth with my right foot.

"Trust me if you didn't push him, it would have been me or Embry doing it," Jake smiles at me as he started to play with my braid. "You look nice with your hair braided, it shows off your face more."

"Umm… thanks I didn't want my hair to get tangled from the water," I tried to hide my face from him since I felt my face start to get red.

"So, you were planning on jumping anyway."

"Well only if Kim was gonna jump with me I didn't want her to be alone on the cliff."

"Hmmm…" Jake takes one last look at me before he starts to look out at the waves the oceans making. This was one of the things I liked about Jacob, we could just be around each other not talking and it wouldn't get awkward.

"PREPARE YOURSELF CLEARWATER! I GOT YOUR PUNISHMENT RIGHT HERE!" Quil comes running towards us dangling the worm.

"I got you the juiciest one I could find." He says all smug.

"Alright just give me the damn worm." I take the worm from his hand as Embry and Kim make it back to us.

I look at the worm for a second and before anyone can say anything, I shove the worm in my mouth. I quickly swallow the thing but not a second later I feel like my stomach not agree with the worm.

All I saw was Quil laughing at my disgusted face before throwing up on him. After that Kim took me back home saying I looked like I was going to be sick again. I throw up again before reaching my house, she stayed waiting for my parents to get home. I finally convinced Kim to go home once I noticed it was going to be dark soon.

It was weird neither one of my parents had come home since they usually start looking for me at dusk. Just then I hear my door open, seeing my mom's head poke in.

"Hey, sweetheart Jacob told us you weren't feeling good." she says as she sits on my bed feeling my head.

"It's fine my stomach is just a little upset. Where did you see Jake?"

"Oh, we were at Billy's when Jacob got home and told us what happened you dad is at the Ateara's right now. He was so upset that Quil had you eat that worm he went straight over there."

"What were you guys doing at Billy's?"

"Don't worry about it now, just rest and I'll make you some tea. Hopefully that'll make you feel better." she says as she kisses my head before getting up.

I started to wonder what dad and uncle Harry were talking about earlier. I had never heard them be so worked up over someone moving into town. Usually they all turn into gossips making up wild stories about what led to move here. But this was completely different. Whoever this Carlisle was, he wasn't welcomed by the old men in La Push.