Chapter 3: Grape pie
A/N: Sorry about another cliffy but I couldn't resist. Hope you've been enjoying the story and if you have any tip suggestion or anything, review. And again Jake and his background belong to the one and only Stephanie Meyer.
"Wow, this is great!" Jake complimented as we ate. "I hate to tell you I told you so, but I think I will. I told you so!" I teased. "Yeah, what kind of person doesn't like Monica's grape pies?" Lee asked. "Well I've only had it once at home when Billy made one." He said looking at Billy from the corner of his eyes. "Hey, you guys said you liked it!" He said with a frown.
"Well all I can say is we need to train you guys on good food." said Maddy with a grin. "Yeah really, how have you guys lived?" I asked. "Stick with us and you'll never go hungry." Renae said patting her stomach. "Haha, we'll remember that.!" said Matt laughing.
"So, what were you ladies planning on doing today?" asked Jesse smiling. "Nothing to much. We were just planning to stay out of the house for as long as possible." Lee said enthusiastically. "Haha, that sounds like a plan! Maybe we should hire you guys to be our tour guides." Billy laughed. "We'd love to!" I said a little to quickly. Everybody burst out laughing. I flushed a bright shade of red.
"Yeah sure. Where do you guys wanna go?" asked Maddy. " I don't know. Where do suggest tour guides?" Jake said. "Hmmm, where to go?" Lee mused. Just then Renae had a very thoughtful look on her face so I just had to ask what she was thinking about. "Oh, its nothing." she said. "Come on!" I pouted. "Fine! What about if we go to Bristol Harbor?" she suggested. "That sounds great! Do you guys like the beach?" I asked. "Yeah we live right next to a beach actually." Jake answered. "Well how would you all like to go to the beach today?" asked Lee. "Yeah, we could call up Adriana and see if see could meet us there." I said with enthusiasm.
"Umm, Marie I don't know if that's such a good idea." Lee said. "Why?" I asked. "Umm…cause you didn't call her after that day. Plus Maddy and her don't really get along that well.." she said. "Oh come on! The guys want to go and plus I'm sure Adriana will understand about our little misunderstanding. When we were friends she was always really forgiving." I said with a pout. "What ever! I guess I can live with her for a day. Go ahead and call her, if the guys want to go." she said looking at the guys. "Umm, we don't want to cause any feuds." Jesse said fiddling with his hair. " Oh no, that's ok. They will both be on their best behavior." Renae said with a glare at Maddy.
I finished my call to Adriana really fast and as I had predicted she was fast to forgive and didn't seem to hold any grudges. As soon as she answered the phone she was very nice and asked how I was and said how much she missed hanging out. All I could do was agree because it was true, I did miss her and the fun we had before we were forced to go our separate ways.
The last thing I remember saying to her was " Its best we don't hang out anymore. I don't want to be friends anymore!," when she had told me that she didn't understand what I was talking about and we could talk about it and still be friends, but I was forced to yell at her, "It's complicated, just don't get involved. You seem to always get involved when you shouldn't!" I had yelled at her, not because I wanted to but I needed her to be mad at me enough so she would just leave it alone and try to avoid me like any other girl would do if their friend had been so rude to them.
As I hung up the phone she said "Its great to hear from you again." and she sounded like she meant it. Then we both hung up. "Alright everyone, how aboutwe meet back here in an hour and we can take our car up there." I said. And they all agreed so us girls made our way back to the car. "What did she say?" Renae asked curiously. Adriana had been her friend also before our change last year. "Nothing much. She said she missed us. And you know Adriana, she's easy to ask forgiveness from."
I answered. "Ugh, I don't know how you can like her!" Maddy said. "You said you would behave!" I growled. "Yeah I said I would behave when we were with Adriana and the guys." She answered. "No you didn't!" Lee said with a confused expression. "Well that's what I meant!" she said crossing her arms.
We made it back to the car without arguing. We all jumped into the car and everything that was troubling us before had melted away because we all knew that soon we would see them again and we had to look good. Then out of nowhere I heard the question that I have been dying to hear since I became a teenager. "Uh, Marie?" "Yeah." "Could you help me pick out an outfit?" After the question was asked I swear I could hear the hallelujah chorus.
"Sure Maddy! I've been waiting for this day! My little Maddy is growing up!" I gushed. "Haha, very funny!" she said with an edge in her voice. "I know exactly what you should wear! Oh, and Renae I have the outfit that will make you shine." I said not noticing anything but my new plans. "But…" Renae started to respond. "Don't worry You don't have to do a thing just stand there!" I said enthusiastically. "Thanks a lot Maddy!" She said between her teeth.
"Hey, what about me? Don't I get to help?" Lee said as she gave me a fake pout. "Of course! You have hair and I have make-up and I already know the perfect outfits." I said emphasizing the word perfect.
We made it home in record time thanks to Lee's philosophies on speed limits. I could barely contain myself I was so excited, first because for once my sisters were actually cooperating with me instead of me having to force my power upon them. And second because I was going to see the hottest guy I had ever met in less than an hour. Oh, the excitement!