Chap 2: The Second Time Around
About a week had passed and Leah and Paul ruined just about all of their clothes from phasing during arguments with one another. Sam stopped putting them on patrol together at first, but it was so unbearable for the other wolves that he put them back on patrol with each other alone and hoped that would force them to either talk things out or see what was going on in each other's heads. Sam hated to admit it but he was a little happy Leah turned down Paul's proposal…a little.
Today Leah and Paul were supposed to patrol the midnight shift but it was already two hours in and Paul was nowhere to be found. Until now.
"Where the hell have you been? Patrol started at twelve not two!"- Leah mentally fumed.
"Oh shove it Clearwater. Be lucky I'm even doing this again at all."-Paul said and before she could ask him what he meant, and cuss him out, she noticed he was looking for her location and when he found it, phased back out. He didn't need to know where she was. He had his route to patrol and she had hers.
Grumbling to herself, Leah was back to patrolling when she heard movement in a brush and crawled over, wiggled her wolf booty and pounced.
"Paul!"-she shouted but of course he couldn't hear her. Leah was on top of him in wolf form snarling at him.
"You know I never thought about it until now but we could literally do it doggy style."-he said thoughtfully. Leah growled and snapped her teeth at him. He laughed.
"What's wrong with you sneaking up on me like that? If I hadn't recognized your smell while jumping I could've killed you!"-Leah said. She'd ran behind a tree to phase and dress.
"So you do care about me?"-Paul laughed and Leah punched him.
"Of course I care about you prick."-she punched him in the stomach.
"Well, excuse me for not knowing. I never would've guessed by last week."- he said and she decked him good on the chin.
Paul slumped forward on one knee and when he didn't get up right away Leah rushed in front of him.
"Paul I know you aren't hurt."-she said but was really, somewhat concerned.
"Yes I am. I'm hurt you turned down my proposal."-he said, still not sitting up. Leah sighed and put her hands on her hips. Paul looked up at her and took her hand still on one knee.
"Oh my gosh what are you doing?"-Leah squealed.
"Let's try this again."-Paul started and proceeded to repeat everything he'd said to Leah a week ago in the restaurant. He was more confident this time around because he knew she'd say yes. "So will you marry me?"-he asked.
Leah smiled wide as Paul opened the box. She gaped at the massive ring inside. It was beautiful. He put it on her finger and she clutched it to her chest and looked down at him with a huge smile on her face.
"I know I was acting crazy and I'm sorry…I wasted my time with this second proposal."-she said, pulling her hand away as she growled at the ring.
"What?"-Paul shouted, jumping to his feet. He was really confused this time.
"What is that smell?"-she said, sniffing around erratically.
"What do you mean?"-Paul asked nervously when Leah sniffed the ring.
"Ugh it's the ring? God what is that?"-she gagged, sniffing in a circle.
"Nothing. I don't smell anything."-Paul said too quickly. Leah stopped spinning and squinted at him and looked at the ring suspiciously before slowly sniffing it again.
"It's the ring."-Leah said, sniffing it profusely.
"No it isn't."-Paul said, sweating.
"Yes, yes it is."-Leah said as a look of recognition spread across her face.
"It's a shit ring. Remember I was going to have to swallow it. That's why it took so long for me to ask you again. I was waiting for it. Here give it back and I'll have it professionally cleaned."-Paul said as he tried to get the ring back. He knew this was a bad idea. Leah's eyes widened.
"Oh…my…God. It smells like a leech!"-she held her hand with the ring away from her.
"Leah it's not what you think-"
"You went to the leeches for my engagement ring?"-she shouted.
"Ok so maybe it is what you think. How the hell else did you expect me to get a big ass ring?"-Paul shouted back, shaking her hand.
"Steal it like I said!"-she threw her hands up. When it touched her skin when she brought her hand down she held it away from her again and started gaging.
"I would've shat it out. You want a shit ring over a leech ring?"-Paul asked astounded. It took him days to stop growling at the idea of going to the leeches for the ring in the first place.
"Yes! Do you even know me?"-Leah asked insulted.
"Oh my goodness I can't believe this. You said the ring was too small so I got you a bigger one. Now the ring is too leechy? You're crazy!"-he pulled at his hair and laughed humorlessly.
"You just don't get it?"-Leah said. She pulled off the ring and threw it at him before phasing, ripping his shirt she always wore when patrolling, and took off.
"No I don't get it that's the problem!"-Paul shouted after her at the top of his lungs. He started fighting the air and kicking at rocks that weren't there.
Back at Sam's house, the pack was eating he and Emily out of a house. Two something in the morning and they were up eating.
"I hear angry footsteps and they're heavy so it's probably Paul in wolf form."-Embry said.
"Oh great. Emily move the good plates."-Sam advised as he got up to open the door.
Paul beat him to it, snatching the door open. He stood there naked and heaving.
"What'd Leah do this time?"-Jared asked without looking up from his food. If Paul was mad it was something Leah did and vice versa. It's like these two aren't happy unless they make each other angry.
"She turned down my proposal."-he exclaimed. Emily's eyes were wide while trying to look everywhere but at Paul privates. She quickly grabbed some plates and shuffled to the kitchen. On occasion the male pack members forget themselves, leaving the imprints and Leah with a sight full.
"But we know that already."-Quil said confused.
"I just asked her again."-Paul said through clenched teeth.
"Oh."
"Ouch."
"She's crazy man."
"Emily is in the kitchen she'll fix you a plate. Go on."-Sam encouraged, patting Paul on the back. "Put some pants on first!"-he called. As he closed the front door, with his back to the room, he smiled. She turned him down again.
Back at the Clearwater house Sue jumped out of bed and went down stairs with a bat. The Clearwater home wasn't used to being afraid of intruders with two giant wolves living there but neither Seth nor Leah were at home so any human folk in the house was on their own.
"Leah!"-Sue gasped when she saw her naked daughter pacing back and forth talking to herself.
"What happened? What'd he do?"-she sighed, dropping the bat. She knew it was about Paul. It's always about Paul; he's always making her angry.
"He proposed."-Leah muttered.
"I know honey he asked you last week."-Sue said confused.
"No he proposed again tonight."-Leah muttered through clenched teeth.
"Oh. So…"-With Leah and Paul, Leah could've very well said yes and she'd still end up pacing the living room floor angrily. Those two are truly two of a kind. Thank God.
"I turned him down."-Leah offered before plopping on the couch. She threw her head back with her shoulders slumped.
"Honey."-Sue sighed. She grabbed a blanket from the downstairs closet and wrapped it around Leah as she sat next to her.
"Why do you keep turning him down? I know you love him and you want to marry him. This is crazy even for you."-Sue asked and patiently waited for Leah to start talking. Sue knew something about Paul's proposals bothered her and she couldn't figure out what is was.
Leah sighed and told her mother what was really upsetting her.
L+P=L+P=L+P
A month and a half had gone by since Paul's last proposal attempt. Neither had talked to the other or even tried. to. They avoided each other as much as possible. Leah was still hot under the collar that Paul had gone to the Cullens for an engagement ring but her talk with Sue helped her see she was irrational with how she handled things and that she owed him a serious apology. She felt guilty and didn't know what to say but at the same time she didn't want him to propose to her again. She felt like her reaction to the proposals meant she wasn't ready and the way he proposed showed he wasn't ready. That's what she told herself. Avoiding Paul was her best option.
Paul on the other hand hadn't said a word to her, hadn't looked at her, ignored her when he saw her at meetings, in the store or on the street. He even asked to be switched off patrol with Leah. He hadn't even tried contacting her. At least that's what she thought. He had called the next day after his second failed proposal and Sue answered but Leah was out. After talking to Leah the previous night, Sue knew she had to intervene for the sake of Leah and Paul's relationship and everyone's sanity. She told him to come over so she could talk to him and when she saw him she couldn't help but smile at how pitiful her looked. His shoulder were slumped, his eyes were red from not sleeping and his hairs was wild from pulling it. After she sat him down and explained things to him, Paul knew what he had to do.
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