A/N: this is a big part of the story…. I don't own Twilight. Only the Uley Children, Katherine, Rilee, Masen, and Brooke are mine. I don't own any of the teachers in this either. However, the school is a real one in Forks, Washington… Oh, and I don't have any songs, all by the magnificent Taylor Swift. Happy reading!
Katherine Isabel Black's POV
The pilot came on the announcer and said, "Ladies and Gentlemen, we are approaching Seattle, Washington. There is a high of 79* with mostly clear skies and a 40% chance of rain. We will be arriving in Seattle in 10 minutes. To some people- welcome home- and to others: have a nice trip! Please buckle your seatbelts and prepare for landing Thank you for riding South East Airlines."
After the announcement, I buckled my seat belt and shook Embry awake. He slowly opened his eyes and smiled at me. "10 more minutes until landing," I told him. I slowly packed up my things, putting them in my purse. It was a Juicy Couture one. I love Juicy Couture! It was a day dreamer, a vintage crown one, all white.
Embry peaked out the window of the airplane and rested his arm around my shoulder; shaking my white shirt. We weren't dating or anything, but he had been my best friend since I was born. In a couple of months, we could date. I look thirteen and he, sixteen. So, yes, a good seven to nine months of waiting. I slipped my book into my bag. I stopped when I was about to put in my iPod. I switched the song onto Embry's favorite song, "The Show Goes On" by Lupe Fiasco. I slipped one ear phone into his ear and the other into mine. This is our song, I thought. I thought I heard my grandpa sigh from two rows behind us and I giggled. I pulled out the earphone when the song was over.
I had to admit, I was super excited to see the Denali's; I hadn't seen them since I looked seven. That was a year ago. They were excited to see Brooke. My little sister was adorable. She had straight, black hair and black eyes like my father. I had a mixture of hair from both of my parents, bronze hair with black highlights; especially underneath my wavy hair.
The Denali's were also excited to see Rilee and Masen. They hadn't seen them since they were toddlers, now they looked 7ish. Rilee had curly brown hair and brown eyes and Masen looked like my grandfather, Edward. Masen had bronze hair and green eyes.
- Three Hours Later-
Dear Diary,
We stopped in on the Uley Family and saw the new baby girls! They are adorable! I kind of want to move back here now! I miss everyone! I want to go to middle school and kind of be a regular girl! Not a wolf girl! I miss everyone! Great Great (that's what I call Great Grandpa Charlie) is in the hospital! He is dying of heart failure. He is 55 years old. I will miss him! So, I want to stay and be there with him for the rest of his remaining life! I know Grandma Bella is crying now. Yes, crying; when a vampire is extremely sad, they cry out venom. I can hear her sobs now and the Denali's comforting her.
"You know what; I think we should stay here. With Charlie, and make the island a vacation home; like Isle Esme." My grandpa said, reading my mind. "That is a good idea, Edward." I heard Grandpa Carlisle say. "So that's that? Were staying?" my dad said. Keep in mind I'm the guest room during all of this going on outside. I'm watching the twins and trying to help Brooke fall asleep by holding her. "Yes. We are." Yes! I'm so happy!
Love,
-One Month Later—
Embry Call's Pov
I shook awake Katherine, "Hmm?" she mumbled sleepily. "Kat, wake up. First day of middle school." I soothed. She jerked herself upwards, almost hitting me in my forehead. "Embry! What are you doing here!" she whispered. She jerked the covers back over her to cover up her pajama bottoms, shorts, and her tank top, 'Teen Wolf'. I laughed and pointed at her shirt. "What? I wear it before big events." She said shyly. I nodded, understanding and gave her a kiss on her forehead. "Your parents said to get dressed." I shouted as I left the room. I heard her lock the door and open the French Closet Doors.
Katherine Black's Pov
I slid open the doors to reveal a giant closet and stepped inside. I picked out a dotted loose tank with a heart on it. I grabbed a black, tight, undershirt and put on some white jean shorts. I also put on my pair of navy colored converse. I layered my necklaces and did simple makeup: mascara, eyeliner, powder base, and golden brown eye shadow.
I almost forgot earrings! I poked in some gold hoop earrings and not forgetting my friendship bracelet from Embry. Embry, sigh. I didn't know if he knew I liked him. Sometimes I just wanted to hug him.
When I was done thinking about Embry, I straightened my curls. They had dried from my shower last night.
I was just finishing when I heard my phone buzz on my dresser. I grabbed it from where I was standing, doing my last strand of hair and pinning a section of my hair back with a bobby pin. I read the text:
I'm outside ur door. - Embry
I laughed and checked myself in a full length mirror to make sure I was presentable. I walked to the door and opened it. I saw him leaning against the door frame. His eyes scraped over me quickly. He smiled when he said, "Hungry?" I nodded and walked the short distance between us over to him. I laughed when he tickled me gently and pulled him into the kitchen by his hand. My mom's eyes flickered to our hands and gave us a warm smile. I smiled back and sat down at the table.
"Here's breakfast Kat, Embry." My mom said, placing a steaming plate of toast and eggs on the table added by a glass of juice. "Thanks mom." I told her already eating. "Yeah, Thanks Nessie." Embry told her. It was hard to believe that Embry was older than my mom. "Where's dad, patrol?" I asked looking around the room for him. My mom nodded at me and I continued eating.
When both I and Embry were done, I stood up and put both of our plates in the sink. "Ok. We have to go." I said quickly. "Ok. Well have a good first day Kat." My mom said giving me a tight hug. We walked out the door and into Embry's car. I waved goodbye as we pulled out of the driveway.
"So, I'm supposed to be your brother." Embry said softly. I nodded. Embry turned on the radio and smiled. It was one of the first artists we had listened to together when I was little. The song was, The Show Goes On. I like to think of it as our song…. It was also Embry's favorite song and was the most played song on my iPod.
We slowly pulled into the parking lot and stopped in a parking place. "Hey Kat?" He asked as I opened the door and slung my bag over my shoulder. "Yeah?" I asked looking back at Embry. "Love you. Have fun." He told me kissing my temple. I blushed and smiled. "Have a good day too" I said back giving him a hug in return. "Bye." I squeaked and hopped out of the car quickly. I squealed once I got out of the car and the door was closed. OMG! Was that an act or was that real? I thought. I was way to excited to go to school now! Ok, act normal. I thought as I went in the doors of Forks Junior High.
I made my way through the entrance of Forks Middle School. Home of the Warriors. I walked down the hallway passing students. I was heading towards the office. Some of the kids looked nice and some didn't, the popular girls were shaking their high ponies and flirting with the boys beside them. They were obviously popular because they were cheerleaders, and weren't all cheerleaders popular?
By now I had reached the office. I twisted the silver knob and slowly walked in. There was a couch, a brown coffee table, magazines spread across the table delicately, and lamps dimly lighting the beige colored walls. I smiled and walked towards the desk where there was a gray haired lady with glasses briskly typing into the computer. She looked nice. Her frail, bony fingers kept on pressing keys as I walked over to her. Her silver hair was twisted into a knot and blue eye shadow highlighted her wrinkled eyelids. Definitely not her color, I thought.
When I was standing in front of her she noticed me and looked up from her computer. "How may I help you?" she asked in a cold, wispy voice; it oddly, sounded warm and nice. She smiled a wrinkled smile and her dimples reminded me of my Uncle's.
"I'm Katherine Black, I'm new here." I said back to her. I smiled warmly and she mirrored the look right back at me. I shook her cold hand, almost as cold as the rest of my family. "Well, I'm Ms. Burns. Here are your forms." She said handing me three forms.
"First, this is a sheet you need to take to the nurse sometime today; lunch is when it slows down in there. This sheet she puts in her book of records. When you do, she should give you another sheet in return. That sheet is just so your parents can mark off your allergies and stuff like that. You'll need to return that one the next day." She explained, motioning to a pink sheet. I nodded and she continued explaining.
"Then this," she continued, "Is a sheet for all of your teachers to sign and at the end of the day you return this to me." She instructed. She held up a white sheet as she spoke. She placed it in a pile on her desk.
"Um, this green sheet is a survey. It has several questions and you can place comments. The comments can be about anything: the girl's bathroom is dirty, this teacher I feel is treating me unfairly, and this person was bullying me today." She said about the last sheet; or was supposed to be the last one. "Oh yes, your schedule and map." She gave me a double sided white sheet.
"Thanks." I said as I closed the door behind me. I slung my bag over my shoulder and headed towards my locker. I punched in my code and looked at my schedule.
8:30-9:30- Pre Algebra- Mr. Baylei
9:35-10:30- English- Mrs. Hills
10:40-11:40- Spanish- Mrs. Halon
11:50-12:30-Gym- Mrs. Kayleb
12:35-1:00- Lunch
1:05-1:35- Science- Mrs. Bates
1:40-2:00- History- Mrs. Floyd
2:00-2:30- Study Hall- Mrs. Kayleb
2:35- 3:00- Home Ec. (Monday, Wednesday) / Theatre (Tuesday, Thursday) / Soccer (Friday)
Ok, Pre Algebra. I thought. I had set up my locker last night. I grabbed my book, spiral, and pen.
I walked in the door of the class and looked around. Good, there aren't many people here yet. I walked up to Mr. Baylei's desk and introduced myself, "Hi. I'm Katherine Black. I'm new here." I smiled. "Ah, yes. Katherine Black. Do you have a slip for me to sign?" he asked looking at my hands for a form. I nodded and pulled it from my binder. He got out a pen from his desk drawer and took it. He signed it as kids came through the door and the bell rang.
"You're over there." He said, pointing to a black topped desk in the back. I nodded, took my slip, and started walking to my desk. I looked out the window quickly. The rain was hitting the window calmly and slowly, barely. The green grass, trees, and moss, was soaked in a smooth layer of mist and rain. The water made the image slowly blur together so it looked like everything was green. I sat down at my desk on a cold chair. I set my bag down and smiled at the girl sitting next to me. She had copper hair, freckles, and braces. She looked back at me and smiled. "Hi I'm Madison. What's yours?" she shyly said. "I'm Katherine; you can call me Kat if you want to." I told her. "You can call me Maddie." She said again, shyly. I nodded. "So you're the new kid?" she asked me. I nodded and smiled again. She is nice, I thought. "I can tell were going to be good friends." She said smiling at me. I nodded again.
She continued sketching in her 'Free Notebook'. I cocked my head to get a full view of the drawing. It was really good. "What is it?" I asked. She looked at my and looked down. "It's angel wings." She told me. I looked at her and said, "It's really good." She looked down and blushed. "Thanks."
The class started then with stuff I already knew. I then had a good chance to look around the room. The room was dull besides math posters on the yellow wall. Most of the kids surrounding me looked really nice. I did say most, though. Some of the girls were texting under their desks. So when Mr. Baylei asked them a question, they were puzzled.
Some of the boys stared at me but I just politely ignored them. I took notes even though I knew everything. PEMDAS. Blah blah blah. I was so bored by the end of class. The teacher handed out a packet full of test dates and a folder. He wrote page numbers on the board and I wrote them down in my planner.
The bell rang and I stood up. Madison grabbed me before I could walk out the door. "What class do you have next?" she asked. I looked at my schedule and looked back up to answer, "English with Mrs. Hills." "Me too!" she said excitedly. "Well let's go!" she said tugging me to the next class.
-One Week Later—
Last birthday I received a guitar. An acoustic one. Since then I had been getting in touch with my feeling through the sound and lyrics of music and song. I had written quite a lot of songs and one day I was in my room playing when I heard Embry walk in the room. I stopped immediately because the song was original and was about him.
Embry Call's Pov
I could hear Katherine playing her guitar from down the hall. I walked down the long hallway and into her purple room. She was sitting on her bed, her brownish-blackish hair, straightened, and curtained her rhinestone guitar. She stopped playing when she saw me and smiled. She set her guitar by her feet and put the pick on her bedside table.
I smiled back at her and sat on the bed. "What's up?" She asked, studying my worried expression. "Nothing. So what were you playing?" I asked her. She blushed, looked down and said, "Nothing." Ok. Now she was hiding something. "Will you play it for me?" I asked, trying to make eye contact. "Um…, sure, I guess." She sat up and grabbed her guitar and its pick. Looking at me one last time, she cleared her throat and stroked a chord on the guitar resulting in an amazing melody. She started singing, her voice so high and strong. She sang this:
We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes
And the flashback starts
I'm standing there
On a balcony in summer air
See the lights
See the party, the ball gowns
I see you make your way through the crowd
And say hello, little did I know
That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you please don't go and I said
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes
So I sneak out to the garden to see you
We keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew
So close your eyes
Escape this town for a little while
'Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don't go and I said
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes
Romeo save me, they try to tell me how to feel
This love is difficult, but it's real
Don't be afraid, we'll make it out of this mess
It's a love story baby just say yes
Oh oh
I got tired of waiting
Wondering if you were ever coming around
My faith in you is fading
When I met you on the outskirts of town, and I said
Romeo save me I've been feeling so alone
I keep waiting for you but you never come
Is this in my head? I don't know what to think
He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring
And said, marry me Juliet
You'll never have to be alone
I love you and that's all I really know
I talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress
It's a love story baby just say yes
Oh, oh, oh, oh
'Cause we were both young when I first saw you
I was speechless. She was amazing. She was the girl I loved. She blushed and said, "So do you like it?" I stared at her, wondering why in the world she would think the opposite. "Like it? You're amazing. Kat, you have a gift! Did you write that? I mean where did that inspiration come to you?" I said. She blushed once again. "Um well it just sort of came to me. I mean it's my feelings." "Oh." I gasped. Was this song about me? Yes. Yes it was. She had the same feelings for me. "Who was this song about? Who's Romeo?" She blushed again; she was blushing a lot today. "You." She looked down as she said it. I nodded. "It's okay. So do you have any other songs about me?" She nodded and started playing another song.
I was riding shotgun
With my hair undone
In the front seat of his car
He's got a one-hand feel
On the steering wheel
The other on my heart
I look around, turn the radio down
He says, "Baby is something wrong?"
I say, "Nothing,
I was just thinking
How we don't have a song"
And he says...
Our song is the slamming screen doors,
Sneakin' out late, tapping on your window
When we're on the phone and you talk real slow
'cause it's late and your mama don't know
Our song is the way you laugh
The first date "Man, I didn't kiss her, and I should have"
And when I got home ... before I said amen
Asking God if he could play it again
I was walking up the front porch steps after everything that day
Had gone all wrong
and been trampled on
And lost and thrown away
Got to the hallway,
well on my way
to my lovin' bed
I almost didn't notice
all the roses
And the note that said...
'Cause our song is the slamming screen door,
Sneakin' out late, tapping on his window
When we're on the phone and he talks real slow
'cause it's late and his mama don't know
Our song is the way he laughs
The first date "Man, I didn't kiss him, and I should have."
And when I got home ... before I said amen
Asking God if he could play it again
I've heard every album, listened to the radio
Waited for something to come along
That was as good as our song...
'Cause our song is the slamming screen door,
Sneakin' out late, tapping on his window
When we're on the phone and he talks real slow
'cause it's late and his mama don't know
Our song is the way he laughs
The first date "Man, I didn't kiss him, and I should have."
And when I got home ... before I said amen
Asking God if he could play it again
I was riding shotgun with my hair undone
In the front seat of his car
I grabbed a pen and an old napkin
And I wrote down our song
"I'm going to play all of my songs about you" She told me and played three more songs.
Friday night beneath the stars
In a field behind your yard
You and I are painting pictures in the sky
And sometimes we don't say a thing
Just listen to the crickets sing
Everything I need is right here by my side
And I know everything about you
I don't wanna live without you
I'm only up when you're not down
Don't wanna fly if you're still on the ground
It's like no matter what I do
Well, you drive me crazy half the time
The other half I'm only trying
To let you know that what I feel is true
And I'm only me when I'm with you
Just a small town boy and girl
Living in the crazy world
Trying to figure out what is and isn't true
And I don't try to hide my tears
The secrets, all my deepest fears
Through it all nobody gets me like you do
And you know everything about me
You say that you can't live without me
I'm only up when you're not down
Don't wanna fly if you're still on the ground
It's like no matter what I do
Well, you drive me crazy half the time
The other half I'm only trying
To let you know that what I feel is true
And I'm only me when I'm with you
When I?m with anybody else
It?s so hard to be myself
And only you can tell
That I'm only up when you're not down
Don't wanna fly if you're still on the ground
It's like no matter what I do
Well, you drive me crazy half the time
The other half I'm only trying
To let you know that what I feel is true
And I'm only me
Who I wanna be
Well, I'm only me when I'm with you
With you, oh, yeah
She continued after the next one ended and played this:
I'd never gone with the wind
Just let it flow
Let it take me where it wants to go to
You open the door
Theres so much more
I've never seen it before
I was trying to fly but I couldn't find my wings
But you came along and you changed everything
You lift my feet off the ground
You spin me around
You make me crazier, crazier
Feels like im fallin'and I
Am lost in your eyes
You make me crazier, crazier, crazier
I've watched from a distance as you
Made life your own
Every sky was your own kind of blue
And I wanted to know how that would feel
And you made it so real
You showed me something that I couldn't see
You opened my eyes
And you made me believe
You lift my feet off the ground
You spin me around
You make me crazier, craizer
Feels like im fallin' and I
Am lost in your eyes
You make me crazier, crazier, crazier Ohh
Baby you showed me what livin' is for
I don't wanna hide anymore
You lift my feet off the ground
You spin me around
You make me crazier, craizer
Feels like im fallin' and I
Am lost in your eyes
You make me crazier, crazier, crazier
Crazier, crazier
"What are all of those called?" I asked her after she had played all of her songs, all about me. "The first one is Love Story and the second, third, and fourth ones are Our Song, I'm Only Me When I'm With You, and Crazier. So now you know how I feel about you." She said. "Yeah." I replied. "Yeah." She told me. "Come here." I said, kissing her forehead and hugging her. I held her hand and got her guitar off the floor.
I played some and asked her to teach me how. She showed me all the chords and in the end, I now knew how to play. I kissed her cheek and she smiled and hugged me. "I've always loved you. Just to let you know. But better yet, it's not a sibling love anymore." I told her, whispering. She laughed and we switched on the TV in her room. Sometime she fell asleep in my arms. I just sat there a while, looking around the room and reading songs from her song book. She would have to play all of these sometime for me.