Part 15: My worst fear: Leah

I woke to the sound of yelling, loud yelling. I groaned and reached out of the covers and grabbed my phone to check the time.

Half past nine on a Saturday, I groaned again and started to listen to the yelling. It was mum and I was still too asleep to fully understand it but the general theme seemed to be about taking responsibility for your actions.

Mum paused every so often, probably to give the other person a chance to reply to her but I couldn't hear them. Most likely Seth anyway, vaguely wondering what he did I rolled over and shut my eye again.

Wait did she just say sex? I got up so fast I fell to the floor with a crash. "Great, now you woke Leah." I got up and rubbed my head. Mum had lowered her voice a bit but was still perfectly audible. "And now I'm late for work, we will pick this up later young man."

I shuffled down stairs to find Seth just standing there. "Did mum say sex or was I just half asleep?"

I walked past him to get the milk from the fridge. "Yeah she did."

"Oh right. Wait, what?" My little brother and a girl? Sex? Well it better have been Bella at least.

Seth was twisting his hands together and it didn't seem like he could stay still. "It's all a big misunderstanding. Me and Bella got back late and were so tired we crashed out on her bed. In the mourning Charlie came in and found us."

"Oh if you say so." I yawned and rested my head on the cereal box, almost going back to sleep. Before I could my phone rang. Picking it up, I flipped it open, held it to my ear and growled. "What do you want? Oh Jacob, didn't know it was you." I started to drag my fingers through my hair trying to straighten it even though he couldn't see me over the phone line.

His barking laughter echoed down the phone line. "Says you. Rachel's fine but let's not talk about that now. I'm coming home today, be there around 12-ish." He had phoned last night after I got back and I had let him know about Sam. He wanted to be home as soon as possible just in case. "Sam hasn't tried anything has he?"

I shook my head, again not that he could see. "No no, I'm fine." Why be so worried, Sam just made some silly threats is all.

"Awesome. Hey can I have a quick chat with Seth?"

"Sure you can, if you can be bothered to phone him." And with that I hung up on him. A smile pulled itself onto my face and I settled down to my breakfast.

"Leah, nothing happened really..."

Hours later I left the house; Seth still trying to convince me. Even when I was in the shower he was talking through the door at me.

I managed to shake him off by shutting the front door in his face. Half way up to the road out of Forks I ran into Bella. And after some meaningless chatter we got back around to last night.

"Honestly nothing happened. I just came out here for my dad's favourite take out and then I'm going to calm him down." She held up the cheep plastic bag filled with even cheaper cardboard boxes. "And maybe after all that the three of us can sort it out."

I pinched my nose for a second and groaned again. "Bella, me and Seth talked about this already. Well actually he talked, at length. The point is I don't really care. You say you didn't do it and I believe you."

"Thank you Leah." She embraced me in a bear hug and ran off calling over her shoulder, "Better go or this food is going to get cold."

I continued my long walk. All this going back and forth between home and Jacob's was doing wonders for my fitness.

When I got the Jacob's front door I leant against the frame and pulled the mini cassette out of my pocket and twirled it in my fingers. I had put it on while I was getting dressed but all that happened was the speakers let out a loud screeching noise. I had no idea why I still had it, I should throw it away next chance I get but every time I tried there was a nagging feeling in the back of my head that I should keep it close to me.

Suddenly the door open behind me and I stumbled back. Something struck my head and I slipped into unconsciousness.

When I came to I was in a rough sitting position with my hand handcuffed over my head. I was bruised all over and my leg felt like it was broken somewhere. I could barely see through my swollen eyes but I could hear perfectly.

There was some kind of scuffle going on outside and I could make out shouting. When it finished there was a scrabbling at the door and someone entered. He reached above me and the cuffs fell away. Picking me up a familiar voice spoke in my ear. "Sorry I wasn't here sooner Leah."

"No I'm the sorry one; I shouldn't have come here not after what Sam said. Thank you Jacob, I love you." Was what I wanted to say but all that came out was a choked "Thank you."

nothing to say really except lucky you, two chapters in three days. Don't get used to this pace tho.

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