Chapter 6

I was finally home. After three weeks of nothing but annoying vampires and playing evil pranks on said vampires I was finally home. Like that time I replaced Rosie's shampoo with bright blue hair dye. Or when I had hidden all of Alice's credit cards. That was fun. But now I was back home hopefully none of the teachers would throw a BF about me being gone so long. But I had fake pneumonia. And I will milk that for all its worth. Which means, no exerting myself at all in PE. Because I wouldn't want to have a relapse now would I? Har-de-har.

I was sitting on the couch with Giggles. It was one of the few times when neither Paul nor Embry was around us. They were off on some important wolf meeting. I was smiling to myself remembering that little kiss Paul and I had shared after he had almost made me have a panic attack. Little Sleepy was playing around with some of his toys on the carpet in front of the couch. Giggles moved on the couch and waved her hand in front of my face. I looked up at her.

"What's that for, Pinche?" I asked her.

"Just needed to make sure you weren't high or anything. You're smiling a helluva lot more for no reason. I wonder why." She said that last sentence knowing something. But honestly I didn't care.

"Is it wrong to smile without being high? Can't I just be happy for some other reason?" I told her. She stared at me. I felt alienated under her gaze. Then a look of realization came over her face and she leaned back on the couch and smirked.

"What's that look for?" I asked her. She smiled wide.

"You got it, Charlie. You got it bad. Real bad" she said smiling even wider, if possible. And she was right. I did have it real bad. Really really bad. But I didn't want to admit that. But it was true.

"Oh? Really? And what is it exactly that I have?" I asked. It was the universal word for love. Having it was the equivalent of being in love. Love was not a word we throw around though. So we just call it it. She looked at me annoyed. Then backhanded me across the arm.

"Don't play dumb, puta. I know, you know what I'm talking about"

"Yeah, so? So what if I got it?" I said. She smacked me again.

"You know, it'll be a lot easier if you just admit it, okay? I'll leave you alone about it and you'll feel better. Okay? So just say it." she said. And she was right. I had wanted to get this off my chest for a little while, back when I thought it was just a meaningless crush. But since the whole spilling the heart out of the imprinting thing I realized it was something more. At first I was upset. I didn't like the fact that the person who I would spend the rest of my life with had been chosen for me. But maybe, it wasn't chosen for me. Maybe it was just a push in the right direction. Giggles stared at me. Making the face that really made me want to tell her every bad thing I've ever done. It looked like the look a priest would give you during a confessional. If you could see their face that is.

"Okay." I said.

"Okay, what?" I glared at her. She would really make me say it, wouldn't she?

"I, Charlie Adelina Rivera am in love with Paul 'the werewolf' Johnson!" I said, trying on my best boxing announcement voice. Claudia punched me in the arm.

"Chinga, be serious. For once."

"Fine! I love him! I love him; I love him, I. Love. Him. Happy?" I said. She nodded, and smiled. I smiled to. I loved him. I loved him. I really loved him.

I was working at the diner on Thursday and I started school again on Monday. I was wiping off the counters after a very messy eater had finished up. I'll give you a hint as to who it was. He sometimes had four legs, sometimes two. He had a bit of an anger issue and I had a crush on him. Did you guess Jake? Well what the hell? You were wrong. It was Paul. He snuck out of school today just to spend his lunch with me. Which was nice. He was done eating but had decided to stick around.

My throat was kinda hurting. Maybe I actually did have pneumonia. But I have no idea what having pneumonia feels like so I don't really know. It was a slow day. I guess most people were at school or work. Where they were supposed to be. Giggles was off somewhere on a ,insert air quotes here, picnic with Embry. Which was good, because they looked so happy together. And I got to spend some time with my favorite little man, Joshua. I enjoyed the fact that every time I would cuddle the little guy Paul would growl low in jealousy. I was cruel, I know.

I after I had finished cleaning up I held the little boy in my lap and was talking to him and weird voices and tickling him. I felt a familiar warm hand on my shoulder. I looked to Paul and smiled a little at the fact he was jealous of a little kid. He grabbed the kid from me and sat him in a little highchair. I leaned against him, and he wrapped his arms around my middle. I smiled, I was happy. Purely and truly happy. For once, I felt as if my life had gained some sort of normalcy that I had heard stories about in the Parque. And I tell you what; I kinda liked this life, normal and all. Yeah there were werewolves, vampires, and the odd psychotic ex boyfriend popping up out of nowhere, but this was life. This was normal. And I loved it, just the way it is.

Its super short I know, but I felt that this was a nice stopping point. I'm sorry if there are many mistakes. My head really hurts so I didn't really reel like staring at a mostly white computer screen. Review!

On a random note: side bangs! My block bangs have finally grown to the length where they don't look retarded when I try and make them side bangs! I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for my hair to grow back after I accidently went overboaard and cut my bangs way above my eyebrows (it wasn't pretty). Arg, my foot fell asleep. Later my homey g's!

Trans:

Pinche- asshole

Puta- whore

Chinga- fuck

Parque- park