The unusual match,
I wanted bring some La Push drama to Ohio
(in La Push)
Seth's POV
I wanted to see Leah, but how? She didn't pick up her phone and we had no idea where she could have gone. Who would have taken her in? Was it family...?
AUNTIE ELLE! That's where she'll be, those two were always really close and the rest of us lost contact with her when dad died. I had to go to Lima.
I wanted to tell mum that I knew where she was and I would go and bring her home, but I couldn't could I? I didn't even know for certain whether it that was where she was and I wasn't going to drag her home so if she didn't want to come back...
I needed to at least tell mum I was looking for her or she would think that I had run away too, so that is what I did.
I went over to the Cullen's and found my mum talking to Charlie, I walked over to them. "Mum?" I asked she looked at me "yes, dear?" I sighed "I think I have an idea about where Leah may be." Everyone turned to look at me "you do?" she questioned eagerly, I nodded. "well, Where?" I sighed "I... with some family, I just wanted to talk to her see if she is coming home. I'm not going to force her to." I could see the excitement in her eyes "yes, but if she has gone far, like outside of Washington, I'm not letting you go on your own." I nodded
"So, who wants to come?"
In the end, it turned out quite a lot of people did. There was, Jacob, Quill, Embry, Paul, Jared and Sam all the people who had been in the wolf pack the wolf pack before me. Emily had wanted to come but had agreed it would be easier if she didn't as we wanted to travel in wolf form for speed; we promised to phone her with updates.
We all met on first beach that night after explaining the situations to the others.
"Where are we going, Seth?" asked Jared
"Yeah, you haven't told us." Agreed Paul
"We're going to Ohio. Lima, Ohio. I know it will be a long trip but you don't have to come if you don't feel like you can manage" I added looking at their displeased faces
"Well, we better get going now then" said Jake before walking towards the wood, we all followed.
By car the journey would have taken about 40 hours but we made in there in just 26. It would have been more like 24 if we hadn't got hungry along the way. It wasn't the most pleasant of journeys either, constantly listening to people moan about how they have to leave their imprints behind and bitching about Leah; they didn't have to come if they didn't want to. We arrived at 11o'clock and decided to get some sleep, we slept in a small forest nearby; it wasn't a five star hotel but it wasn't that bad to sleep in.
In the morning we set off for auntie Elle's house, it took quite some time as I haven't been here since I was about 10 and we kept getting lost. Finally, at half ten, after an hour of searching, we found it. I told the guys to let me talk to her, I walked up the steps and rung the bell. I heard distant footsteps as she padded down the stairs then open the door; I smiled, I had been ages since I had seen her and didn't. She was a lot younger than my dad would have been, late twenties I think. She stared at me wide eyed "Seth?" she asked "Hey, auntie Elle." Then she pulled me into a hug "wow, did no-one tell anabolic steroids are bad for you?" I laughed "You and your friends can come in" we all wondered into the house and sat down on the couch. "So," she said "I guess you're here about Leah?" we all nodded "Well, you can either wait here for about 5 hours or go up to her school to see her."
"She goes to school?" Paul asked
"Yes, I wasn't pleased that she dropped out at La Push" Auntie replied
"So, where is this school?" asked Sam, she hesitated, I knew she didn't like sam for waht he did to Leah but hoped that she wouldn't hold that against us. "Go down the road, turn right, then follow the road down to the traffic lights. At the traffic lights turn left and go straight down that road, at the next set of traffic light go straight ahead, you shouldn't miss it." She said before going into the kitchen. I knew that she didn't want to betray Leah's trust.
We followed the instructions without getting lost (surprisingly) and arrived at the school Auntie Elle was right, you couldn't miss it, it was huge; and we had to find Leah in this maze of buildings. I thought it was logical to ask someone but everyone else insisted we find her on our own. "it will be a challenge" Paul had said , he wasn't wrong there.
Leah's POV
Life just kept getting better. Kurt had just invited me, along with the rest of the glee club, to a sleepover at his tonight; after a quick call to Elle I was allowed to go. When I called Elle she sounded different, nervous maybe, but I thought nothing of it.
Glee is the best part of my week; me and all my friends get together and hang out. We sit, sing, laugh, talk, it is fun. I sit and sing with Noah and we enjoy each others company. And to my pleasure there was a glee club tonight after school.
When walking down the hall, Quinn, Brittany and Santana approached me. "Hey." Said Quinn as we linked arms, me and Brittany linked pinkies and Santana held her hand; it was just something which we had always done.
We walked out of the building when I heard girls whispering about some lads but I wasn't bothered, I had Noah. "Lopez, Fabrey, Pierce, Clearwater. Cheerio practice. NOW!" Sue called.
"Clearwater?" I hear a voice asked, it was a familiar voice, too familiar. It was Jared.
"Jared?" I turned around and looked for the source of the voice. It wasn't hard to miss.
There stood Seth, Jacob, Embry, Quil, Jared, Paul and... Sam. "W-w-what..." I stuttered "what are you guys doing here?" I was really confused, I though they didn't care.
"We came here to find you." Paul said as if it was clear as day.
"Why?" I asked "I thought you didn't care."
They all looked down; Sam had guilt written all over his face. "You thought wrong." Jacob stated.
"We really miss you, please..." I felt so guilty "Seth..." I said stepping forward I pulled him in to a hug "I really miss you too." I whispered.
"Ermmm... Leah this is all very touching but we have practice." Santana stated in her usual cold and sarcastic tone, I sighed. Quinn smiled "We will tell coach something came up, she will let you off; your her best cheerer. Worst case scenario you will get demoted from head cheerleader and put at the bottom of the pyramid." I smiled and thanked her and said by to her and the other girls.
"Oooh, head cheerleader (!)" Said Embry, smirking. I blushed and nodded.
"Wow, is Leah Clearwater blushing?" Quil commented. I rolled my eyes.
"So, Leah, are you going to come back? Back to La Push? Back home?" Seth questioned, his eyed filled with emotion. I choked back tears, I didn't cry often but I hated disappoint Seth, "I c-can't, I have a life here, I-I can't go home; not now."
He looked shocked and hurt "I have to go to practice, erm, I'll see you tomorrow."
"Tomorrow?" Paul demanded "why not after school?"
"Well, I have a club, then I'm going to a sleepover, so... I see you then?" Seth nodded "if you must you can come to glee and watch, you'd get bored though."
"We will be there."
I turned and walked towards the football pitch. Instead of joining the other cheerleaders on the pitch I walked up and sat on the bleachers; tears spilled out of my eyes, I was never going to let the boys see me cry. Wiping the tears away off my face I watched the people moving on the field, I spotted Noah with the rest of the football team; he looked so hot when he played football.
I remember when I used to play football with Seth, Mum and Dad; it wasn't competitive just entertaining. Those memories brought new floods of tears, I wasn't usually like this but I when I do start showing emotion I find it hard to stop. There was a break called for both teams and they mixed and started to socialise; I looked around for Noah but couldn't see him anywhere, I had no clue where he was until I heard a voice behind me, "Leah, what's happened? Baby?" I turned to look at him, my eyes red from crying "Quinn said that some kids came to see you and that's why you're not at practice, Santana said they were fit..." I sighed, and looked up at him "Yes, erm, my brother and some friends came down from La Push. Sorry" I said taking a deep breath "they want me to go back, I don't want to go." I felt my eyes start stinging. Noah moved forward and pulled me into his arms, leaned into his strong arms and placed my head on his chest, he gently stroked my hair; I felt at home in his arms.
"Re-group," both coaches shouted, Noah looked at me "Come on, I better get in the practice or I'll get my ass kicked off the squad." We laughed and headed towards the pitch.
"Coach, I'm sorry I didn't attend the start of the practice, but some personal issues came up. I'm really sorry." Coach scowled "So you should be. I'm not going to punish you this time as you are good at what you do but if it happens again I won't think twice about demoting you." I smiled "Yes, coach" then I went and joined the rest of the girls. "So let's do the routine from the top now that we have our head cheerio."
We worked through the routines faultlessly to Miss Sylvester's Approval.
After that I went to my last lessons, they passed quite quickly as I had double biology which I kind of enjoyed. After that I went to glee club, the only place that can cheer me up and it did. I walked in, hand in hand with Noah; we sat down and started chatting "So," Santana started "What happened with those dudes earlier?" at this point everyone turned to look at me "well... I kind of invited them to Glee club, just to watch, I needed more time to talk." No-one knew what to say, Kurt spoke first "Are you still coming to my sleepover?" he asked with a worried look on his face I nodded.
We all sat in glee club waiting "So, where are they?" asked Santana "They could be late..." suddenly I heard voices, arguing "or arguing in the hall." I corrected. At that moment seven lads came tumbling into the room, all wearing and cut off jeans and tight tee-shirts of different colours. I smiled up at them "Hey guys, you came." They all smiled "well we had to, I would much rather not be here." Said Paul, I rolled my eyes, "That's not very nice." Said Brittany missing the sarcasm, "He was just joking, Britt." I explained to her.
I looked at the "so... what's been happening at the rez?"
"Not much." answered Jacob, "It's been pretty quiet."
"What about you, I mean after you upped and left without telling anyone where you were going making everyone really worried when you were really here all along?" Paul question looking irritated. I looked down embarrassed, he was right. "Paul" Sam scolded, "what he meant is 'what have you been doing since you got here?" he asked kindly, but I could tell he didn't mean. I took a deep breath, "Well, I made some great friends," I motioned around the room at the glee club "Joined the Glee Club and Cheerleading squad and got a boy friend." I saw Sam's face fall at the last part, not matter what happened between is we would always still have feelings for each other, I knew that he was jealous of Noah, despite the fact that he didn't want to date me he didn't want other people to date me. It was complicated.
"So, where is the lucky guy?" Jared asked teasingly, "He is at football practice with all the other guys." I answered "Oooh, so he's a footballer player?" Embry asked smirking. I just rolled my eyes at the lot of them. "Anyway..." I said deliberately trying to steer away from that topic. "Yea, so Leah when... are..." Quil tried to say but he seemed to shy away from asking, I looked at him quizzically. Sam took a deep breath "so, are you really not coming back?" I sighed, looking at the floor "No" I said in a small voice, this cause uproar, they were all shouting at me, all except Seth how just sat there looking hurt. When they all died down Jacob took the opportunity to talk to me, as my Alpha. "Leah, what do you mean you're not coming back?" I looked up "I can't, I have a life here; friends."
"We're your friends" Quil reasoned,
"We need you Leah." Stated Embry, and I knew he meant it; they needed me for the pack, to help them do patrols and lessen the work load for them. They need me, they don't want me.
"I never fitted in with you guys, I was the only girl, I was always alone."
"You weren't the only girl, there was Emily and Kim and Rachel, Em really misses you, you know. She thinks it was her fault you left." I heard the sadness in his voice and it all clicked, it wasn't me he wanted, it was Emily. "Oh, so the only reason you wanted me back was to make you precious Emily happy?" I asked feeling the anger boil inside of me "No, that's not what I said." He tried to explain, but I had had enough, I got up and left. I knew I was being a bitch but is it too much to ask to feel wanted, that is why I wanted to stay here, Noah made me feel like I belonged, like I was wanted.
I stalked down the corridors, tears streaming down my face, when I saw the lads coming back from football, I tried to get by them as quickly as I could hoping that they wouldn't notice my emotional state. But they did. "Leah" I heard Noah concerned voice behind me, I wanted to stop, turn and run to him but I couldn't so I just kept walking. I heard him murmur something to the guys I could have heard I f I was paying attention and his footsteps get louder. I got out of the football pitch and made my way up to the bleachers, Noah hot on my heels. When I got halfway up I collapsed on a seat, I felt a strong arm wrap around me and I instinctively leaned into his touch.
He rubbed his hand up and down my back, calming me down, I took a deep breath and pulled away to look at him "I don't know what to do, I can't go back to La Push, there are too many ghosts there and I have you and glee now, but I can't hurt Seth and my Mom, I love them too much." He eyes were filled with concern, "Leah, if you really want to stay explain that to your brother and your mom, they will understand. It may take some getting used to but they don't want you to be miserable." I smiled "you're right, I just need to talk to Seth on his own, and explain, before I face the rest of them." He smiled too "Well, how's about I go glee and get him and you two can talk here. This will all work it's self out Leah." I nodded, not sure which part of the sentence I was agreeing to.
When he left I took a couple of second to regain my composure then Seth arrived. I looked at him, he still looked upset, this seemed a whole lot easier when Noah explained it. "Seth... I'm sorry." I said, fresh tears streaming down my cheeks "I don't want to hurt you or mom, but I can't go. I have a normal life here, a good life. My boyfriend, Noah, I have him, and I am not ready to give him up just yet; I don't know what is going to happen in the future but I don't want to ruin it. For once since Sam left me I have felt whole again, he just seems to make all my troubles go away. But I don't want to have to choose between you, 'cause I would always choose you." I explained the way I felt the best I could, but I was never the best with words, I was going to add something when Seth said "I'm happy for you Leah." I was taken aback by this "I am glad that you are finally happy, I understand completely and mom will too. I'm not that happiest that you will be living so far away but I suppose that it doesn't matter. I want you to be happy." I pulled him into a hug. "We better get back to the others." I stated.