Twilight and all its characters were created by the wonderful Stephenie Meyer.
Chapter 16: John Summer
The dark window rolled down reviling a very handsome John Summer. He looked different than I had remembered him. He didn't look so lost. I was going to say something but he beat me to it.
"Why don't you take a seat inside, I have the heat on." He said.
"I don't thank that's a good idea." I said.
"Always careful aren't you." He said.
"I guess I am." I said. He smiled at me before getting out of his car. Than he put on a long black coat. I took two steps back to make room for him beside me. After buttoning a few buttons in his mid section he than looked down at me.
"Let's take a walk on the beach." He said holding his arm out. I was aware of how romantic this would sound taken out of context. He's just lucky that I have a tight habit of of locking arms and holding on to them. It annoys people sometimes when I do it, but it's more comfortable. I just feel like i'm not getting left behind because even when I am walking beside a person I feel that way or even in the conversation. I took his warm arm as he smiled down at me and we started to walk towards the shore line near some large rocks. It was quiet, and I was getting nervous.
"You weren't this quiet when I met you. You were more passionate." He stated glancing at me from the side of his eyes. People always tell me something similar to this.
"I know..." I started to say.
"No, you don't know or else you wouldn't turn all shy." He said clutching my am tighter, but not tight enough for discomfort. He turned me in a sixty degree angle with him so we were walking in a straight line beside the shore line and away from his car and my friends.
"What does that have to do with anything." I asked a little defensive. I mean I try not to be shy but it just happens.
"It has something to do with why we're both here and the answer to your questions." He said.
"What?" I didn't understand. How would the way that I act put me into this mess?
"Let me explain." He said as we walked behind the large rocks away from the view of the others. I let go of his arm and walked to the middle of the U shaped large rocks. Cold air blew around the rocks and went into my face blowing my hair around. John turned towards me and looked at me.
"You admitted to me that you still needed help living your life, because you didn't know how. Yet, you made me remember all the reasons that I had to live. You sat down and talked to me and made realize important things that I had forgotten. You helped me to become a different person. After I fixed my life I looked passed yours. To see what made you, you. I saw how much of a great person you were, you didn't deserve to be so lonely and isolated from life. Especially after how you manged to live day by day around your preteen year." I was confused to what he was saying until I thought back to when I was 12...I nearly lost... I couldn't even think it. I looked at him hard."I wanted for you to start living. I went back to your home the next night while your were asleep. I was trying to think of a way for you to live not just any boring life but one that would push you forward. One that you wouldn't be so lonely in. I saw the book by your night stand and an idea came to me. Why not give you a life from a book that you were fond of. A love story at that. Most mortals would love to do things like that I hear. I remember how you couldn't put it down." He's watched my life. I thought. "So I asked a friend about the mortal book, he said it was one of the most adored books by girls of our age. And here you are!"He said it as if we had just took a drive to a restaurant. I looked passed him at the ocean.
"You looked at my life?" I asked.
"Yes." He said.
"And how long did that take you?" I asked.
"You have so much life a head of you. So with someone like me who can live in between time, it took only a blink of an eye." He said. I nodded slowly.
"Is that how you were able to get your life in order again so fast?" I asked. He nodded again.
"It seemed forever for me but it was but a day on Earth. You know that's why I was in the place we met. To feel time winding down as my impeding death was coming to me." He stated.
"Hm." I responded. First he tries to throw away his life. Then he takes mine like it's no big deal at all. Bitter anger was bubbling up inside of me.
"I know that this is a lot to take in for a mortal-" He started but I stopped him right there.
"Mortals? Why do you keep talking like that?How could you do something like this?!" I asked him. My eyebrows were scrunched together in worry. And I started to feel anxiety creep up my spine. I was becoming a nervous wreck. John looked so serious right now and he walked over to me until he was standing right in front of me.
"I won't hurt you. Calm down." He started making calming jesters with his hands. I started my breathing exercises, though my facial expression was still the same. When he took a step closer to me I stared at him as he looked down at me.
"What are you?" I asked as if I was ready for the answer.
"I'm just one of those beings that have way to much time, knowledge, and power on their hands. There's not really a name for us. We just go where we want to go and do what we want to do. Nobody really every notices. " He said as if it was the most normal thing in the world. Him telling me this was just something I was going to have to except. It's the only explanation I have for all of this to be real and happening.
"But why didn't you give me at least some type of warning? Why didn't you talk to me like you are now?! Do you have any idea how freaked out I was when I came here?!" I asked him clearly flustered."I've never fainted in my whole life before until this happened." I stated with my hands on my hips and my head down. "And who in the world thinks it's good idea to put an easily stressed teenage girl in vampretic world!" I exclaimed looking at John and throwing my hands in the air.
"You'll be safe. You already know whats going to happen." He said leaning against the rocks. I folded my arms and lifted an eyebrow. He looked at me and sighed. "Look the reason why I didn't come to you right away is because I knew that you would panic and automatically demand me to take you back. Now you have the opportunity to think and decide what you really want without panic and fear totally controlling your actions." He said.
"What if I still want to go home?" I asked.
"I think you've been here to long to just leave." He said. He and I both knew that he was right. I've grown accustomed to the romantic atmosphere of Forks...And I have friends now. Not to mention Edward... I thought about seeing Edwards face everyday and why I avoided it so much. It's because I asked myself what if I just become another Bella? Getting into a whole lot of trouble that a person like me would be traumatized from.
"I don't want to be another Bella. I don't want to go through all of those painful things that she went through. That'a why I tried to stay away from Edward so long. So I wouldn't get involved in anything dangerous." I said with honesty. He looked at me with calming eyes.
"From what i've seen I know that you don't want to leave not nearly as my much as you did when you came here. And i'll tell you what. In a few days is when Bella was supposed to go pick dresses out with her friends. When they invite you come to the Native American book store where Bella went. I'll be waiting for you there to tell me whether or not you've changed your mind. And yes, i've read the book. Stop looking at me like that." He said.
"You'll take it all back?" I asked after thinking about what he just said.
"Yes." He said nodding. I breathed heavily through my nose once and nodded.
"Okay... I guess i'll see you in a few days." I said pressing my lips together. He smiled and came back over to me. Then he took my arm again.
"Good, now tell me about Edward and you." He said looking a head as we waked back towards his car. I looked at him.
"There's nothing to say. I don't really speak to him." I said strongly.
"Hmm..." He said with a smile.
"What is it?" I asked suspicious.
"Nothing. Nothing at all." He said with a smirk that led me to believe that it wasn't nothing. I looked at him strongly for a while before looking a head once again. When we made it over to his car he opened the door for himself. Than he took off his jacket and threw it in the car and over to the passenger seat and turned to me.
"I hope that you make the right decision Jessica." He said.
"I hope so to." I said.
"Always remember that I just want to help you and make you happy like you did me." He said holding out his hand. It all came to me than that I was on the other side of the interaction we had the first day we had met. I was him in his eyes. And he was me. Neither of us wanted to live before. It's just he was more in the literal sense and mine was more mentally and emotionally. It made me happy to have someone watching my my back. I took his hand with a smile and nodded. After a short time we both let go.
"I'll see you." He said getting into his car.
"See you." I nodded and took a breath. After he backed out he drove fast out of sight and I turned around and walked over to my friends. No doubt that they were watching us the whole time. Wow even the Quileutes looked at me. I went back over to the van and sat with Angela. She looked at me with a smile as I sat down.
"Hey." I said feeling the awkward atmosphere. Than Jessica sat right next to me.
"So... Who was that?" She asked. Do they still think that John was my date? I felt a couple of eyes waiting for me to answer. I guess anyone including me would have saw that as a date from where they were standing.
"No he's just a friend. He was just...visiting." I said nervously. Come on Jessica get a grip, I told myself. The other Jessica grinned at me.
"Really? Is that a friend from Miami? Did he travel all this way for you?" She asked. I could see Angela smiling and trying to cover it up with her hand from the side of my eye. Not you to Angela!
"So you do have a boyfriend." Lauren said looking away from Tyler.
"No, I don't. He was passing through and stopped by because he knew that I was in the area. There's nothing between us." I said trying to finish the subject.
"Okay, no need to get all defensive. We all know that you're reserved for Edward. Though you pretend not to be."She said with a smug face.
"I am not reserved for Edward." I said calmly with my jaw tightened.
"Sure you're not."She said turning to Tyler.
"Whose Edward?" Jacob asked. Can't they just let this go! Jessica smiled.
"Edward Cullen from our school." Jessica said catching his attention. Eric frowned and Mike looked agitated. Sam puffed out air through his nose.
"Cullens are freaks." Sam said snidely and I got this sludgy feeling in my gut. He doesn't even know him. Yet he has so much hatred towards the Cullens.
"You got that right!" Mike agreed. He is so simple minded.
"Do even know them?" I asked Sam. Sam looked at me all serious and said.
"The Cullens don't come here." He stated as if it was law. And I guess to the Quileutes and the Cullens it was.
"Then how would you know if they're freaks, no one here has even talked to them. And I bet you haven't even seen their faces before. Am I right?" I asked him. Sam glared at me and we had a little stare down until I got tired of the atmosphere. I turned around and went into Tyler's van and laid down on a book bag. I blew out a breath and kept staring into the dim lit van until later when everybody started to get ready to go.
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