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I finally came back home today. Well…more like Emily made me go talk to my mother and make up. I opened the door to find that my mother was at work. I shrugged and settled down on the couch.
…
I don't know how I ended up on the floor but when I woke up, my face was smothered by the fabric of the couch. I got up, stretching, and sat back down on the couch. I then flipped on our tiny TV and watched the boring news for a while. I heard the door open and in came my mother, mumbling to herself about swearing she locked the door when she left. She jumped about two feet in the air when she saw me lounging on the couch with my feet propped up on the coffee table.
"Savannah! What did I tell you about putting your feet on the table!" I sat there with an eyebrow raised before she realized who she was talking to.
"Savannah!" She gasped and ran over to me. She set her purse down on the coffee table, knocking my feet off in the process. Wow. OCD much?
That was when she started talking a mile a minute. I only caught a few things like "when did you get here?", "are you okay?" and "you are so grounded!". I did nothing but nod like I could understand what she was saying and think to myself, I am so going to kill Emily.
She finally sighed. "Savannah?"
I blinked a few times and shook my head, coming out of the zone-like state I slipped into after about five minutes. "Yeah?"
"I'm glad you're home. I missed you. We'll talk this out, I promise." She smiled. It was a relieved smile. She was relieved to have me back.
"I love you, Mom." I blinked back tears. She kissed my forehead and hugged me tightly to the point where she was basically killing me. I didn't have the heart to say anything.
"I love you, too, sweetheart."
She let go of me and took off her jacket, draping it over a chair. She then took off her shoes and let her hair out of her usual clip she wore. I sighed and sat Mom on the couch next to me.
"We need to talk about this." I told her seriously. "I'm not going to let things go unsaid this time. We'll drift apart and you know how much I would hate for that to happen."
"I know. You know I don't blame you for him leaving, right? I was mad and hurt, and-"
"It's all right, Mom. I know. I was upset, too and I really didn't mean some of the things I said."
She nodded. "I know, sweetie. But, hey. I got some good news that might cheer you up."
What good news? "Yeah?"
"I got the house sold!" Mom's a real estate agent.
"Really? That's great, Mom." I just hope I can still see everyone on the Quileute Rez, "Where are we moving? Are you finally going to tell me the mystery location?"
"Yes…and I think you are going to like it. We're moving to the Quileute Reservation! Now you can see your little friends you made any time you want."
I almost snorted at that one. My giant friends were far from little. Although, they've probably stopped growing. I'm catching up. But, I've learned that their ages range from 14-21. Like, what is in the water there? I would've thought they were all in their twenties or something. "Wow, that's fantastic. Thanks, Mom. They're all really great. You should meet them."
"I'm sure they are." She smiled. "Now, why don't you go get changed and we'll go out for dinner or something in Port Angeles?"
I grinned and nodded, "Okay."
In the end, we went out and had some over-bearing, major mother-daughter time.
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"GUESS WHAT, GUYS!" I yelled as Emily let me in.
"You saw a bunny go through a huge rabbit hole, followed it, and ended up in a alternate universe?" Brady asked eagerly.
I looked at him seriously. "No."
I could see the disappointment on his face and I rolled my eyes.
"Ignore him," Seth told me, "What's up?"
"I'm moving to the Quileute Rez!" I announced excitedly. This is going to be so much better than having to run here all the time.
"Really?"
"Exciting, right?" I grinned. He nodded and gave me a smile that made my heart flutter. I ignored it and took a deep breath.
"Does anybody know where I could get an awesome hat?" Jacob asked randomly, twiddling his thumbs.
"Oh! Oh! I know! I know! I know!" I jumped up and down, raising my hand in the air.
He rolled his eyes and called on me like a teacher, "Savannah?"
"Okay. First, go to the convenience store in town. In the back room, there will be a monkey stuffed animal. Lift it up and there will be a button under it on the table. Press the button and say 'pickle'. A frog and a five dollar bill will appear then. Let the frog lead you to out of the store and to the cliffs where there will be a secret cave. There will be a leprechaun there - I'm warning you, don't try to steal its gold - and he will tell you a barcode number. The frog will lead you back to the store and you have to find the hat there with that barcode number. Use the five dollars to pay for it and you have an awesome hat!" I finished triumphantly.
He stared me down for a second while Seth laughed at my answer. "Thank you." He replied before turning back to his thumbs.
"That was a very creative answer." Seth laughed.
I shrugged, "I try." I couldn't keep the grin off my face, though.
"Who wants to go to the beach?" I called.
I heard a bunch of mumbles from the living room and sighed. "I guess it's just you and me, Seth. Since we live in a world of lazy people!" I yelled.
Seth laughed and followed me out the door. I can't deny the fact that I'm glad nobody else wanted to go. I like being with Seth.
"What's your favorite color?"
"Green," I replied immediately.
"Flower?"
"Tulip."
We'd had this game going on for a while and we learned almost everything about each other.
"Phone number." He asked, sending a small smile my way.
I laughed. Great way to ask a girl for their phone number. I grabbed my phone from my back pocket - I got a new one after throwing my old one at a tree - and Seth told me his number. I saved it in my phone and sent him a text, therefore giving him my number. Smart, eh?
We sat on the beach for a while, watching the waves. I heard the wind whistling and yet, didn't feel it.
"You aren't cold?" Seth asked me.
I shrugged, "I don't really get cold anymore."
He frowned at this, though I'm not sure why.
Seth and I texted non-stop all the time. We went to dinner a few times, I met his mother and sister. Leah didn't seem to like me very much. Seth shrugged it off and told me that Leah was always like that. Tomorrow, we were moving into a new house on the Quileute Rez. A few miles away from Sam's and Seth's house. Everybody seemed to like that very much. Including me.
The boys were…odd. Always warm, huge appetites, huge people, they were just weird. They also kept looking at me cautiously and it was really starting to bug me. Seth was taking me to a bonfire right now, though, and I hoped that would help me get my mind off things.
We walked by the cliffs together, hand in hand. I guess it was safe to say we were dating now, and I was very happy about that.
"Seth?"
"Yeah, Savvy?" They decided my name was too much of a bother to say and Jake came up with that nick-name. At first, Seth refused to call me it, claiming he liked my name just the way it was. But, the nickname grew on me and I decided I wanted Seth to call me that, too. He agreed to whatever I wanted.
"What are we?" I asked shyly, looking up at him through my eyelashes.
"What do you want us to be?" He smiled goofily.
I laughed at his expression and said, "Seth, I have now promoted you from friend to boyfriend!"
"Yes! What do I win?"
"Me." I said and brought him down to kiss me.
I was walking to the bonfire alone. I told Seth to go on ahead and set up, I wanted time to myself anyway. Ah, Seth. He's just so…Seth. And I loved it.
Before I knew it, I was thinking about Seth too much and I tripped on something, falling forward on the side walk. My hands shot out to break my fall and I scraped them on the concrete. I got on my knees and inspected them, watching the blood squeeze out of my miniature wound. Then, the unthinkable happened. I watched my cuts be healed right before my eyes.
Holy Sh..oot!
_Bonfire_
The bonfire was interesting. The legends were fascinating. And they were…I don't know. Billy sounded like he was trying to give me hints when he was describing the werewolves. Their skin temperatures , size, everything that was strange about these boys, was strange about these shape-shifters. Could they possibly be…? Oh my god. I am so going crazy. Either that of these boys are wolves. That isn't even physically possible, right?
I don't know why I'm even considering this as a possibility. The soonest chance I get, I'm asking Seth to commit me into the nearest crazy house.
"Did you like the legends?" Seth asked me as he drove me home, insisting that I ride with him instead of running in the dark.
"They were great. I really liked them. I wish all that stuff was real. It would make life so much more interesting." I sighed, trying to get him to say something that proved I wasn't mentally insane.
"Yeah." He breathed.
"I mean, it kind of reminds me of you guys. You know, the signs and stuff." I kept going.
"Mhm…"
"If you guys were wolves…that would be so cool." I said finally.
"You are so good at that, Savannah. I don't know how you do it." He sighed finally.
I tried to keep the satisfied smile off my face, "Whatever do you mean, Seth?"
We came to a stop down the street from my house.
"Oh my god. I wasn't going to tell you now…" He closed his eyes and leaned his head back on his seat.
Yes! SCORE! I'm not crazy! IT'S TRUE! …it's true… OMIGOSH IT'S TRUE! I took deep breaths and calmed myself down quickly.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" I asked, getting straight to the point. His eyes snapped open and he turned to look at me.
"You know?"
I nodded. "I'm not stupid - well I'm not blind. I can see the signs, 'specially after Billy told the legends. I may live in the Makah tribe but I also know about my heritage. Joshua is my biological father." As much as I wish he wasn't. Scum-bag.
"Well that just saved me a bunch of time and shock. Now I have to shock you once before you leave since you know that truth now." He sighed.
I nodded for him to go on with his explanation.
"Well…we wolves do this thing called imprinting. We find her. The one. The one they always talk about on those stupid TV shows that no one watches anymore. Our soul-mate. We'll be anything she wants us to be."
I also heard Billy explaining this. A push in the right direction.
"Well…Sam imprinted on Emily, Paul imprinted on Rachel, Jared on Kim, Jake on Nessie, Quil on Claire…Me on you." He finished, sucking in a breath and waiting for my reaction. NO WAY! That is so romantic. What a way to tell a girl you love her. So, I'm a werewolf and I did this rare thing called imprinting. So yeah I imprinted on you and that means you're my soul-mate and I love you.
"Before you say anything, you heard Billy. It's a push in the right direction. I am not in any way forced to love you. I'd probably love you anyway. You're nice, funny, pretty, amazing…" he trailed off and tucked my hair behind my ear. I blushed red at the compliments. I mean, who wouldn't love to not have to get broken-hearted by trying to find the right guy when you already have a perfect one?
"Even if I was forced," he continued, "I like this feeling. I'd choose to imprint on you if I could've."
I smiled at him. He waited for me to say something, apparently.
"That is so freakin' cool!" I exclaimed. He grinned widely at this.
"I'm glad you think so. I'm sorry to dump all this on you but…I really love you. You're amazing, Savannah."
Sure, I really liked him and I wouldn't mind spending forever with this hot guy but…I didn't want to tell him I loved him yet. It just goes against everything I've learned about love by seeing my friends' hearts get broken and such. That's why I've never had a boyfriend. But Seth is someone I would like to date…and most importantly…HE LOVES ME!
So, I smiled at him and leaned in like he did. I kissed him softly on the lips and was glad he didn't ask me if I loved him, too. He seemed happy with just this and I was grateful. I finally pulled away and laughed when he pouted.
"I'll see you tomorrow. In my new house…"
He laughed. "Yes I will. Text me later."
I nodded and got out of the car, walking down the street to my house before he could realize where he dropped me off and beg me to get back into the car so he could drive me past a couple houses. I just waved at his car that followed me before running into my house. I looked around and noticed that all the lights were off so Mom was probably asleep. I went to the bathroom to wash my face and brush my teeth before going straight to bed.
I have a soul-mate!
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( '_' ) (I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT IS! Anyone got any ideas?)
I woke up to my mother tapping on my shoulder. I groaned and rolled right off of the air-mattress I was sleeping on. We already had my bed and most of the other things in the house moved to the new house.
"Savannah, are you feeling okay?" Mom asked with a concerned look in her eyes.
I shrugged and looked at her confusedly. "Yeah, Mom, why?"
"Well ,you're burning up!"
I felt my own forehead and shrugged. "I don't feel different."
"Maybe it's just me. We'll see how you're doing later. For right now, clean the air-mattress up and put it away. We've got moving to do."
I did as I was told and helped her pack the truck for the next couple of hours. We didn't have much stuff between the two of us. We got done in record timing and all that was left was a nightstand that was too much to fit in the tiny moving van we rented. We were just going to put it in the back of the car. I surprised Mom by picking it up by myself and putting it in the back. Ha! She doesn't even know her daughter's own strength. Come to think of it…I didn't even know I could do that…
We drove to the Quileute Rez and came to a stop in front of our new little blue house. The window shutters were an ivory color and the outside of the house was spotless. The roof was slanted in a cool sort of way. I looked to my window and realized that I could get onto the roof from there. Leave it to my mother to find the perfect house. We got inside and I went straight to my room with a cool mint green color painted on the walls. I unpacked the little stuff I hadn't done before and went back downstairs to help my mother unpack the rest. We unpacked all the stuff we just brought for the next three hours. It was two o'clock by the time we were completely finished, having brought most of our stuff over this past week already. When we were done, my mom went to work in her office with paperwork and such and I walked over to Sam and Emily's.
I tripped over a rock on my way there, making me very frustrated. I kicked the rock into the street, not caring if it hit a car at this point. Next, it started down pouring. Just like that! I'll bet it's just because mother nature hates me and wants me to have a bad day. Then, a mosquito bit me. What kind of mosquito just comes out during the rain. What kind of messed up world do we live in? I found myself shaking a lot and then, I exploded.
What the hell? I thought, looking down on my black paws…PAWS?
Savannah? I heard someone. I looked around, not seeing anyone.
…um, yeah? If this thing was talking, it must be in my head. I really am mentally insane.
It's Sam. What happened to you?
That's what I would like to know. I was just sitting there, thinking about how messed up the world is, and then POOF I'm hearing voices in my head.
Sam chuckled…mentally, I guess? I cannot believe this… Savannah? You're a shape-shifter.
WHY IS THE WORLD SO MESSED UP?
Review for the long chapter! Please? I worked very hard on it and even gave you a surprise! (Even though most of you probably saw it coming from a mile away). ;P
-madittude99
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