A/N - Do you REALLY think im Stephenie Meyer...??? Im not as good and i DONT own twilight....i wish i did....

Chapter 5

That night was one of the most peaceful nights I'd ever had. There was no nightmare, no screaming, no shouts, practically no noise at all. This, I said to myself in the morning, I could get used to.

"Morning Ellie, how did you sleep?" Lily greeted me with a plate of waffles. I smiled gratefully and sat down.

"I slept really well thanks, Lily" I was about to say better in a long time but there was no need to worry my aunt. She'd be questioning me about it before I could object.

"Good, I'm glad. When does Jason normally wake up?"

I looked at the square clock by the door.

"Oh I would say in about 3 hours. Maybe 4"

"Twelve o'clock?? Well I can't say I'm that surprised..." She mumbled something else which I didn't catch but before I could ask the phone went. Lily rushed to get it and I put my plate in the sink. Maybe I would offer to wash up later. It was nice to have the choice.

I got dressed and reached into my case to get my books from the bottom. My copies of Jane Austen and other classics where falling apart from the many times I'd read them, but I couldn't bring myself to throw them away. I loved to lose myself in the uncomplicated world of the 19th century. Another favourite was Wuthering Heights which I picked out from the pile. I hadn't been reading long when there was a knock on my door.

"Ellie? There's someone here to see you." Lily's muffled voice made her sound as if she was smiling.

"OK coming"

I jumped off the bed and made my way to the front room. Seth was standing by the sofa, looking completely at ease. He smiled as I walked in.

"Hey Ellie, hope you don't mind my coming round so early, I was wondering if you wanted to go out today?" He asked with a sheepish grin.

"Sure I'd love to. Let me just grab my coat."

We walked to the beach along the road in the same direction as yesterday but this time instead of going towards the beach, we went uphill, towards the forests by the cliffs. I warned Seth that I might slow him down once we reached the forest, due to my uncanny ability to walk anywhere and trip over every few minutes. As I hoped, it didn't bother him one bit and he just carried on as though I wasn't falling down. We made small talk while walking (very slowly and carefully on my part), things like school, TV and books. Seth laughed when I said how useless I was at gym and how I didn't watch TV much. He told me about his school, La Push High, and his friends. I asked about Embry.

"He's 18, same as Jacob. I actually met him through Jacob. We hang out a lot these days." I surveyed his face and even though he didn't show it I could tell there was some secretive reason behind why him and Embry hung out a lot.

As we climbed higher, the wind picked up and I pulled my thin coat tighter around me. Seth was only wearing t-shirt and sweats but he seemed fine.

"Aren't you cold?" I asked.

"Nah. I don't get cold these days." His eyes tightened when he said that.

The forest wasn't unpleasant (nothing seemed that way with Seth around) but the sound of the sea unnerved me for some reason. Then, just ahead there was a break in the trees. We came out onto a ledge by the side of the cliff. The view was amazing. The wide and wild blue-blackness of the sea stretched out in front of me and La Push, off to my right, seemed like a toy town. I stared in wonder up at the cliff which reached still higher.

"I like to come up here when I need time to think" said Seth with an air of wistfulness in his voice.

"It's a shame you've showed it to me then because I'm going to have to copy you in that" I joked mildly. He was right though, you could really gather your thought here.

"Do you want to go higher?" Seth asked with a daring grin.

"Sure. As long as your not afraid of heights" I grinned back.

"Five Buck says you'll be speechless when we get up there" He pointed to the top of the cliff, which now seemed even higher. I gulped.

"You're on."

"Great. Get your wallet ready." I stuck my tongue out at him and he laughed as he turned and walked away, the way that would lead us up even higher...

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He was right of course. When we finally reached the top, no thanks to my slow pace, I was speechless. I never thought I would never see something more amazing than down below but I was wrong. This was on an even bigger scale. I felt like I was at the end of the world.

"Ha ha, You owe me!"

"Ah dang it I don't have my wallet on me"

"Shame. Don't worry I won't forget"

We didn't talk for a bit, Seth letting me absorb the wondrous view that lay before me.

"So how come you moved to La Push?" Seth asked conversationally.

"Well..its kind of long..."

"I got loads of time. Hit me."

"Well it started when my mom died about 3 years ago." I blinked back the tears that threatened to overflow. "I was devastated but my dad and brother took it worse than me. Jason, my brother, started going...well strange. And my dad started drinking. He would get into these terrible tempers and say mom's death was all my fault because I didn't look after her when she was ill. That really hurt. But what was worse was seeing my brother slowly deteriorate. He got involved with drugs at school and would come home wasted. He had panic attacks and woke up screaming at night" I shuddered and carried on because Seth looked like he wanted to know more, in a sympathetic way. "I looked after him as best I could, but not enough." I whispered the last bit remembering Jason's face, chalky white, sick looking.

"I can't of been your fault" Seth said reassuringly. His face was sad.

"Well I see that now. Now, I blame dad. He was never there for us. I took on the house myself and lost track of school, friends, everything. Then a year ago my dad was involved with a hit and run and a mother and her child died. The police charged him with murder and he was finally sent to prison last month. Then social services packed me and my brother off to our closest relative, my dads sister."

"Isn't your brother like 20?"

"21 but he's classed as a very mild case of mentally ill so he has to live with my aunt until they say he's better"

"I'm so sorry. It sounds awful. I know what its like to lose a parent. My dad died 2 years ago. Heart attack"

I looked up, feeling guilty about wallowing in my own self grief. He had suffered to. I made to say how sorry I was but he shook his head.

"You had it tens times worse than I did. I still had my mom"

"I'm still sorry. Here's me rambling on about my life and there you are with your own awfulness. If you'll let me, I'm at least sorry for that." I tried to smile at him. To change the subject I asked about the meeting with his mom and Billy Black yesterday.

"Billy looked like he thought I look liked someone he knew yesterday. Any ideas who? Paris Hilton? Lindsey Lohan?"

Seth laughed. It was nice to see the sadness gone.

"Well, maybe. Actually I think he was thinking of someone else."

"Who? Do you think so to?"

"Well..Its Nessie's mum."

"Really?!"

"Yeah. Her names Bella Cullen. Her and Jacob are close." Something stirred in his eyes. Something that made me think was very close but now...not so much. Maybe still friends?

"In what way?"

"Well she's...clumsy" He smirked. " And loves the classics. Doesn't like gym and... your hair is like hers too." Wow. But something nagged me. I couldn't shake of the feeling he was meant to be talking in past tense...

Something buzzed. Seth took out his cell phone and looked at the text.

"It's Jacob. He says that Nessie wants you to come to her house." He smiled but I think he was testing my reaction. I started. The beautiful girl wanted me to come to her house even though she had only met me yesterday? My head spun at the thought of seeing the lovely girl again and her mum that I was, apparently, so like...

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