So... here's chapter two. I know its not very long, but I hope you all enjoy it and I'd love to hear what you think. =] Also, thank you for the reviews on chapter one! I really appreciate them, they're definitely what keeps me going :D
Carlisle Cullen
"Hey. Hey, Carlisle! What the hell are you doing?"
I blinked a few times before looking over at my other good friend, Erin. She was staring at me as if a third eye had just appeared on my forehead, waiting for me to snap out of my trance.
"Oh... sorry," I mumbled. "Err... stressful day." I grabbed the Twizzler that Clark was dangling in front of my face and bit into it, shooting him a short glare. He grinned idiotically at me before chucking another one at Ryan, who was sitting about a foot away from me on the trunk of our tree. The four of us came to this tree every day after school and on most weekends, if we weren't already hanging out somewhere else. Rarely did anyone ever pass by us when we were here; the tree was set back far enough near the forest for anyone to even notice it was there. We thought of it as our sanctuary; a place where we could just be.. ourselves, and not have to put on an act for the rest of the people at the school.
"Jerk," Ryan laughed, before picking up the Twizzler and whipping it back at Clark. The two continued to throw Twizzlers and other pieces of candy at each other for God only knows how long. I sighed before looking away from their pathetic sugar-high to look at Erin, who was still just staring at them and shaking her head.
"Idiots. I think you may be the only sane guy I know, Carlisle," she said, obviously trying to fight the smirk that pulled at the corner of her mouth. She ended up winning the battle between herself and the smirk before asking, "So, Clark told me that you were being all obsessive over the new chick. What's with that?"
I sighed, exasperated, pinching the bridge of my nose between my index finger and thumb. Leave it to Clark to exaggerate things. "I wasn't being 'obsessive'. All I did was ask her name."
"He said you were, like... staring at her."
"What, I'm not allowed to wonder why some new girl is sitting in the corner, all dressed in black with no friends?"
Erin smirked again and held back a laugh, "He said you had lust in your eyes." She let the giggle escape at the word 'lust', before breaking into a fit of laughter afterwords. I ignored her bout of laughter and glared at Clark, who was still running and stumbling around, trying to escape the wrath of Ryan's Twizzler attack. I stood up and walked up to stand behind him, grabbing him by his hood and pulling him back away from Ryan.
"Dude, what are you doing?" he protested, struggling against my tight grip on his sweatshirt.
"Tell me. What did you tell Erin about fourth period?" I asked lowly.
Clark blinked slowly and stared ahead, "Err... well... It was true! You did have lust in your eyes! There's no denying that!"
I made a low noise in my throat, almost like a growl, "I did not. I... I was a little creeped out, okay? Did you not see the look on her face when she saw me looking at her?"
"See? You admitted it! You were looking at her!"
"Yes, fine! I was looking at her! I'm sure you've looked at her in the past few weeks, too! She's new; of course people are gonna look at her." Clark suddenly stopped talking, staring at something that was entering the forest.
"Speaking of the new chick, there she is," Ryan said, gesturing towards the dark figure that had nearly disappeared into the sheet of trees covering the trails within the forest.
"Oh, so you're not gonna go after her?" Clark asked, finally tearing the hood of his sweatshirt out of my grip that had loosened when I noticed the girl. I stared at where she had disappeared for a few seconds more before answering his sarcastic question.
"No. Why would I do that?" I tried to convey by the tone of my voice that I didn't care about the girl.
Even though I did.
There was just something about her, something that I'd never seen in any other girl. I'd dated a few girls over the past couple of years, but none of them had that one quality I was looking for. To be honest, I didn't even know what that quality was... I'm not sure what that feeling deep in my gut was trying to tell me, whether this girl had that quality or not, but I could only assure myself that this wouldn't be an easy path to follow.