Chapter 4(Boys, Bikes, and…Pancakes?)
Sitting in the rain, in wolf form felt good. I was glad I had gone back for my iPod, it was a little frustrating because my ear buds didn't fit in my giant wolf ears too well. I didn't let my ear buds stop me though, A million Raindrops by Bebo Norman had been on repeat for the past hour, the song was depressing but comforted me in a strange depressing way. I pointed my nose up at the sky and let out a long mournful howl. I couldn't stand being away from her, it physically hurt me, I had a headache and my nose burnt. I wanted to be next to her right now, I wanted to smell her sweet scent rather than wet dog, I wanted to hold her close and mumble meaningless words of love to her, I wanted to make her laugh so hard that she snorted. I whimpered quietly because I knew I couldn't do any of those things. She was with Collin…that douchbag.
So everyone knew how fucked up I am, imprinting on my best friend's girlfriend. I sighed laying my big wolf head on my paws. Jacob's voice cut through my thoughts, warmly.
"Hey, it's not messed up at all, man."
I snorted "Yeah right. You're just saying that to try and get me phase back."
"Dude, you're too hard on yourself. Anyways I need you to phase back, I got something for you. I was going to give it to you earlier but I haven't had the chance cuz you've been in wolf form for like nine days!"
I rolled my eyes knowing he could tell that I rolled them without even seeing my face.
"What is it?"
"Not gonna tell you 'till you phase back."
Okay now I was curious. Usually Jake caved after a few tries. "Fine, where am I meeting you?"
I could tell he was smirking victoriously.
"Come meet me in my garage!" Before what I could scan his thoughts to see what he had for me I could no longer feel his presence in my mind. Damn it.
I slowly jogged over to the Black's and to the backyard. I hesitated before phasing to human. I stayed on all fours, in human form. It felt weird to be in human form again, I could no longer hear the sound of the birds flapping their wings or the sound of the branches groaning under the breeze. I looked around, the world seemed so cheerful in color I had to admit I did miss the colors.
"Dude! Get up and put some fucking pants on!" Jake laughed as he hit me in the back of the head with a pair of shorts.
I stood slowly, pulling the shorts on having a little trouble with the button and zipper. Jake simply chuckled.
"C'mon pup!" Jake exclaimed running into his garage.
I followed behind him and pushed past some stray motor parts. I looked up at him quizzically as he shook with excitement.
"You going to show me before you explode?"
He smirked a little.
"Okay, you're going to love this, dude!" He quickly pulled a tarp off of a Honda dirt bike.
I stared at the beauty of plastic, rubber and metal.
"DUUUDE!" I exclaimed excitedly
"Duuude" he smirked at me.
"You bought me a dirt bike!" I looked at him wide eyed.
"Nah man, one of the boys here on the rez totally wiped out on this baby and broke his arm, his mom said he wasn't allowed to keep it so he gave it to me." He shrugged. "I like this sucker way more" he patted one of the bikes he fixed up with his old friend Bella Swan, well she was Bella Cullen now and a blood sucker but that was besides the point.
"Well tell the dude no give backs!" we both laughed and I ran my hand over the seat of the dirt bike. "So what are we waiting for? Let's go for a ride!"
"Now we're talking, you know how to use one?" Jake tilted his head at me.
I snorted "What kind of pansy do you think I am?" I rolled my eyes and punched him in the arm.
"A pansy that listens to the same depressing song on repeat for hours on end!" he laughed loudly and punched me back just as hard.
"Whatever!" I was a little embraced now and hopped on my new dirt bike starting it up.
I took off out of the garage into the rain, laughing loudly. Hearing the sound of another motor behind me I shifted into a higher gear, pushing faster down the rain slicked road.
I saw two other people riding bikes pull out in front of me. I squinted my eyes and noticed it was Embry and Seth. Jake pulled up beside me and yelled over the engines.
"We're having a guy's day!"
I smiled a little and shifted again pulling a head of Embry and Seth popping a quickly wheelie before falling back next to Jake again. Seth looked back at me, impressed, I mouthed to him "not just a science geek". Seth looked back at the road in front of him.
After a few wheelies from everyone we pulled into iHop. I grinned wide.
"HELL YES I LOVE IHOP!" I exclaimed loudly as I jumped off my bike, kicking the kick stand up.
Everyone started laughing as we walked into the building. Jake sat next to Embry in one side of the booth so Seth and I sat beside each other on the other side. It was a little less awkward than I thought it was going to be.
"Yo, you guys want to mess with the waiter?" Embry said quietly as he leaned over the table a little.
We all nodded with giant grins but quickly hid them as the waiter walked up. Embry leaned on both his elbows, resting his head in his hands.
"Heeey handsome" Embry cooed to the waiter and batted his eyelashes at him.
We all bit our cheeks to hold in our laughter, luckily the waiter didn't notice everyone's faces turning bright red from laughter.
"uhh…hi…may I take your orders?" the waiter asked nervously.
"I'd like a stack of pancakes, a glass of root beer and your number sweet cheeks" Embry winked at the waiter who blushed and turned to the rest of the table taking our orders.
Once the waiter went off to the kitchen we all burst out laughing, everyone but Embry who was watching the waiter walk around, taking other people's orders. I watched his expression carefully and cleared my throat.
"Hey, Em can I talk to you outside?" I asked him quietly.
He snapped out of his little trance and nodded following me outside while Seth and Jake sat in the booth still pissing themselves laughing.
I turned to Embry when we were out of earshot of the two idiots inside. I noticed him looking at the iHop building with a longing expression.
"Did you just imprint on our waiter?" I asked him seriously.
He laughed a little and punched my arm playfully.
"I'm not gay, pup." He tried to laugh but it was a weak humourless laugh, he was bad at lying.
"Em, you can trust me. I'm your new brother." I touched his arm lightly trying to make eye contact.
He sighed "You seem to be good at hiding your thoughts from the rest of the pack, like me…" he looked me in the eye "I imprinted on him, yes but I'm not gay…err…I don't know what happened" he shook his head, he looked scared.
"Hey man, I'm here for you." I smiled warmly at him. "Now let's go get our food and your man's number" I chuckled quietly as Embry blushed.
We both walked back into the dinner to Seth and Jake's curious expressions.
"Where'd you guys go?" Jake pressed
"Just went out to get some fresh air, you guys stink!" Embry stated.
Embry discreetly put a piece of paper in his pocket and I made a note to myself to ask what it was. For now though I was going to destroy this giant waffle and try not to get food all over myself in the process.
The waiter came to check how we were all doing a few more times than usual. I smiled to myself. This dude was totally into Embry, well I don't blame him Embry was muscular with a mischievous look that he wore all the time. Soon we all finished our food and went out to the parking lot, hopping on our bikes.
"Hey! I've got a great idea. Let's play chicken!" Seth yelled over the engines of the dirt bikes.
"Yesss!" Embry grinned devilishly and revved his bike. "You and me Scrappy Doo!"
Seth and Embry started at opposite ends of the parking lot and went at full speed towards each other, concentrating hard.
We played chicken until we noticed that the sun had disappeared from the rainy sky. Seth and Jake were about to face each other when we heard a voice from behind us.
"Excuse me…could one of you give me a ride home? My friend left earlier than usual…" we all turned to see the waiter that Embry had imprinted on, standing close by nervously. Embry's face lit up and he smiled at the waiter.
"I've got nothing to do, I can drive you home."
The waiter smiled grateful and hopped on the back of Embry's bike, wrapping his arms around Embry's waist.
I smiled to myself seeing how straight forward Embry was with his imprint. I watched them ride off and that's when I made my decision. I looked down at my phone, 9:38pm. I nodded once and waved goodbye to Jake and Seth. Before I knew it I was standing on Amy's front porch, dripping wet, finger raised to the button of the doorbell.