Hey, everybody! Really sorry for not posting a few days ago. School has been drowning me right now, exams are coming up really fast. Just a heads up for the future that my posting may be delayed once in awhile. Also, I just wanted to say thank you for 60 followers! May not be much to you, but to me it's a big achievement. Happy reading!
P.S - I might've changed the phasing times for the shapeshifters. Hopefully it won't bother anyone!
"Bella!" I groaned as a muffled voice called.
"Bella, seriously, get up." A hot hand shook my right shoulder and I slowly opened my eyes. I flinched from the harsh light I saw and moved my head to the side.
"Finally. Never think you would wake up." A familiar voice said.
I moved my head from my left shoulder and moved it onto my right shoulder and opened my eyes. Sitting beside my bed was Sam who was staring down at me with "I'm super worried" written all over his face. Why was he here? What happened? As I re-lived my day, I realized what happened and tried to play it cool.
I coughed and asked, "So, uh, what are you doing here?"
Sam looked at me weirdly with a raised eyebrow and replied, "Your dad called me to come here to check on you. Said he got a call from school saying you missed all afternoon. He thought maybe you were too sad to handle it there." He looked at my face with concern and continued. "Speaking of which, why weren't you at school or at home?"
My eyes widened and I quickly recovered to reply. "I, uh, had to go pick up some… Things.. At the store." I stuttered awkwardly.
"Oh, really? Didn't seem like it since two of your friends had to carry you from a car with you knocked out and blood on the back of your head." He said, slowly raising his voice with every couple of words. He quieted down and spoke softly. "What the hell happened, Bella? Did they do something to you? Did you do something to yourself?"
What's the point of hiding something from Sam? He knows when I lie. It's pretty obvious to anyone when I lie.
"I..I kind of skipped school," I said quietly.
He grinned. "Yeah, I guessed. But where did you go? What were you doing?"
I gave him a small smile and continued. "Lauren took me and Jessica to her place. I don't know where it is exactly, but it's gigantic. We, um, started to drink-" I was interrupted when Sam butted in.
"Drank what?" He quickly asked.
I stared at him for a few moments before dragging myself up with my back on the bed post and my legs crossed.
"Okay, well, obviously I wouldn't have drunk it if I knew what was in the drink. It was stupid of me to not ask what was in it before I started to drink it, but I was trying to let my wall down and be happy, so-"
"Just tell me what you drank, Bella," Sam said through my rambling.
I cleared my throat, looked down at my hands that intertwined with each other, and told him in a tiny voice.
"It was cocaine."
It was silent for a minute before I looked up to see his expression. It was confusing. His face held anger, but his eyes held fear and concern. His face looked a little red, but not Charlie Swan red. He opened and closed his mouth a few times before he finally spoke and I prepared myself for his anger.
"When I said you should hang out with your friends, I didn't mean hang out and drink cocaine." He said quietly. "Come on, B. I want you to be happy. Not addicted to cocaine happy. How did you hurt your head?" He asked.
I tried to recover from the shock from him not going full blast on me about doing drugs and drinking. I thought he was going to be yelling. Why is he so okay with what I did?
"Well, uh, I was running around and fell on my butt. Jessica tried to, um, pull me up, but my hands slipped from hers and I fell and banged my head. Guess I blacked out?" I stuttered.
He raised his eyebrow before chuckling for a moment.
"It's okay, B. I'm not going to be telling on you, if that's why you're nervous about. We all make mistakes." He smiled knowingly. "Okay. Get up. I'm going to get you cleaned up and then we are going to the diner so you can get a somewhat good meal."
The diner barely held anyone. There were only a few people scattered in the room. Sam led me to a booth by a window and gestured for me to sit down and sat down across from me. The waitress that came over, of course, flirted with Sam while giving us our menus. I looked away and tuned her out as I remembered the many waitresses that flirted with Edward when he took me out. That bastard.
"Bella?" Sam asked.
"Uh, yeah, what?" I responded.
"I was wondering what you are ordering?" He chuckled. "How come you're zoning out on me? Something wrong?"
"No, nothing's wrong." I quickly changed the subject. "I'm just gonna get…" I looked down at the menu in my hands and pick the first thing I see. "A lasagna."
He crossed his arms put his elbows on the table in front of him. It was silent for a minute before he spoke. "You know, maybe you should come stay with Emily and me for a few days soon. Like a weekend or something. The boys really wanna meet you."
"The boys?" I asked confused and tilted my head slightly to the side.
"Oh, you know, Jacob, Embry, Jared, Quil, and Paul." He glanced at my face when he said Paul's name.
"Oh, of course. I remember you telling me about them. Is Jacob okay now? Last time you talked about him you said he got pretty sick."
We spent the rest of that night ignoring the flirty waitress and spoke about pretty much everything. I told him about my horrible sleep schedule and that's why I have bags under my eyes all the time. I also told him about the weird dreams about Silver. Of course, I didn't tell him about why I had dreams about him. Sam doesn't need to know about a vampire trying to kill me, who just so happens to be my "ex."
"You know," Sam started as we got into his car. "I was serious about you coming to stay with me. It could be a good change for you, even if it is just for a couple of days. Get away from the memories at your place."
I turned and looked at him gratefully. "I would love to, Sam. And I would love to meet Emily. She and the boys sound like great people."
Since the diner was fairly close to my house, we got to my street in only a few minutes.
"I hope you get some sleep, B. Call me anytime if you want to come over," he winked at me with a small smile as I got out of the car. I smiled back and said goodbye before walking into my house. Charlie was there and he was drinking his favorite beer and eating pizza. I greeted him and went to bed.
In bed, I tried to relax, although a thousand thoughts, that felt like bees, swarmed through my head. When did I be so careless, getting high, drinking? Why do I deserve Sam taking care of me and being nice to me? I'm ruining myself.
Suddenly, I heard an agonizing howl that made me jump and banged my back against my back board. It sounded so close, just right outside in my backyard. I looked over to the window with my heartbeat pounding in my ears, breathing heavy. Was it Silver? Was it any of the wolves? I decided to check through my window. I walked slowly and quietly, still breathing loudly, all the way to my window. I bent down and opened it. I stuck my head out and looked with caution. There was nothing. There was always nothing. Never had I seen anything out there before. Why do I even bother? Feeling stupid, I pulled myself inside and left the window open. I went to bed and lied down, facing the night sky. I looked out to the tips of the trees I saw that were in front of the dark and clear night sky. Tonight was a full moon. The sting in my chest slowly went away as I kept looking at the moon, and soon I fell asleep. But not for long.