Chapter 31: Back to normal.

Amber's POV.

Having Silver back was amazing. I couldn't imagine ever taking her for granted again. She and Seth were fighting so mom and I had her all to ourselves. I could never understand how Seth could pick a fight with Silver so soon after her return.

Silver was beaming a ray of light on my otherwise crappy life. Now, I felt like the happiest person in the world.

We brought Silver to her doctor's appointment and she came out looking very upset. Then she saw Seth, and he upset her even more. I was on the verge of murdering this kid for upsetting my sister. I never understood them. They were so in love but when they fought, it was terrible. Silver would cry for hours, Seth would call every ten seconds. It was aging me.

Mom and I were seated in the car and Silver sat in the back seat slamming the door before Seth could finish him "I Love you."

My mom started driving, "What's going on between you two?" My mom looked at Silver through the rear-view mirror, "This is a happy time. You were missing and now your back. Why are you two fighting? You never fight."

Silver and I scoffed at my mom obliviousness.

"We fight plenty." Silver laughed ironically.

"Is it serious?"My mom pressed. I glowered at her for hovering over Silver and Seth's relationship. This didn't concern her any more than it concerned me.

"It'll pass." Silver assured my mom with a wry smile.

I changed the subject by mentioning school, something we were missing more and more of every day. Silver insisted on going even when my mom said she didn't have to. We rented movies and just had a girls'-day-in. Seth interrupted us in the middle of the movie but Silver didn't speak to him for very long. It looked like he was giving her something but I didn't see.

Silver didn't wake up on time for school the next day. She woke up several hours after school was supposed to start so neither of us bothered. There was no way I was leaving Silver alone. Mom was off at work and Silver wanted to go out. She wanted to make a trip to La Push to see some friends and tell them she was okay.

The night before she had made several batches of muffins from which I was only aloud to eat two because the rest were for her friends.

We paraded up and down La Push for a few hours with Seth's sister by our side. I had never met her before but I wasn't surprised that she looked like an Amazonian queen. Seth was huge so I figured it was genetic or something. She was tall and beautiful and next to her, I felt tiny and insignificant.

All the guys in La Push were huge though. It was kind of creepy. Silver knocked at the door of a cute farm like, bright red house. A freakishly tall and scary guy answered the door. He grinned when he saw her, "Silver! Nice to see your alive." He ruffled her hair causing Silver to curse and smooth her blond hair that was darker from the drizzly rain.

"I was kind of expecting Jacob but you'll do. Paul, this is my sister." I waved shyly at the intimidating man, "I just wanted to say thanks for…everything." She smiled and offered him a muffin that he gobbled up in one bite. He hugged her and we were on our way.

"What'd you thank him for?" I whispered so Leah wouldn't hear.

"He…" Silver looked at me for a long time, "He helped find me." She mumbled and quickened her pace leaving me frozen in the rain for a few seconds. I looked back that the red house then at Silver who scurried to her car.

I didn't know what to say to that.

We dropped Leah off at her house and headed to the Cullen's mansion. I remembered my last visit here and shied away from it. I was kind of pissed when Silver ditched me in the living room to talk to Jacob. I was left alone with Emmett. He was tall and muscular and extremely pale.

I tried making myself as small as possible because he kind of scared me and for some reason, his amused grin didn't help.

Silver left their house upset because Seth had presented himself. I drove us home, Silver wasn't stable enough to drive.

Things were probably not going perfectly in Silver's life but mine felt perfect for the simple reason that she was a part of it again. I wanted her to be happy but she wasn't, so I settled with wanting her to be alive and with us. Which she was!

I was about to get myself something to nibble on when someone knocked on our door. I opened it cautiously in fear that it might be a kidnapper but it was just Seth.

Silver was downstairs.

I sighed and opened the door, "What do you want?" I glared at this stupid, immature little boy. Well, he wasn't little but he was childish and clearly out of his mind if he thought he could mess with us.

"Oh! Hi Amber! It's so nice to see you. Can I speak to Silver please?" He was grinning from, ear to ear and I was sure that he could make any girl swoon but I remained remote. I wanted to smack him for even trying that one.

"You think that sweet boy attitude works on me, Seth? God, your naïve!"

He rolled his eyes, "Okay, Amber, I get it, your big, bad and protective. Can I see Silver, please?"

"And why the hell should I do that?" I leaned on the doorway. I had all day to interrogate this petty hormone raved teenager boy. I could protect Silver till I started growing gray hairs. "What? So you guys can fight again? So you could make her cry, again?"

"I don't mean to make her cry." He muttered.

"Yeah? Well, you do."

He sighed, "Amber, please, let me see her. I know we fight allot, but I love her and the last two weeks have been just as hard for me as they were for you."

I glared at him for several seconds. I couldn't believe he dared to speak to me that way. How dare he bring up the last two weeks? It was not as hard on anybody as hard as it was on me. And for him to compare his stupid, teenage love—no matter how real it looked—to the bonds of sisterhood Silver and I shared was downright insulting.

I wanted to slam the door but I knew it would be wrong to deny Silver of the option of seeing her 'boyfriend'. I chewed the inside of my cheek and sighed, "Wait here."

I headed downstairs and knocked at the bathroom door.

"Yes?" Silver called.

I cracked the door open and stuck my head in. "Seth is upstairs. Do you want me to get rid of him?"

I noticed the immediate relief in Silver's face when she knew Seth was near and she didn't have to answer for me to know. "No, get him down here."

I nodded and turn around.

Seth was already behind me and I almost bumped into him. My heart accelerated from the startle, "I said to wait upstairs!" I hissed in a whisper so Silver wouldn't hear. I hit his arms and ran up the stairs. I sat on the couch and bounced my knee while chewing my lips. I didn't want Seth upsetting Silver.

I never understood how Silver and Seth could fight so much and still be together. I would have dumped him after the third fight. Silver was obviously more patient than I was because about fifteen minutes later, Silver and Seth came up in a fairly good mood. They held hands to the door and Silver started putting on layers and layers of clothes.

I turned off the TV and got up, "Where are we going?" I asked squeezing past them and kicking on some sneakers.

"Uh, Hunter's house…" Silver answered. Her face was twisted in confusion as she watched me put on a jacket.

"I'm not letting you out of my sight for a while, Silver. You're going to have to endure me." I grinned at her and she grinned back. We were both excited by the idea of spending more time together. She had Seth and I used to have Embry so we didn't go out together as much. But now, we would be joined to the hip again.

Hunter was Seth's childhood friend. I was aware of Silver's irritation towards the boy. To her, he was a perverted pig who made useless sexual comments more often than what was funny or necessary. I'd heard of the infamous Hunter but none of Silver's stories worked up to Hunter himself.

Silver had forgotten to mention how hot he was. He was tall and had bulging muscles, he wasn't gigantic like Seth was but in a way, they had the exact body time, just one was more normal size. He had thick black hair that danced around his face when he turned his head to fast. His skin was dark like the average Quileute boy but his eyes were light brown. He had these perfect, model-like features, the kind of body I could have just sexually molested.

Seth and Hunter seemed to have some unfinished business—I noted while watching them attempt to punch each other—and he hugged the crap out of Silver. He'd actually referred to Silver as sis after having call Seth a son of a bitch. He then worried about her skin colour and almost started to cry. Hunter wasn't anything like Silver had said. He looked really nice and kind of sensitive.

Silver walked into his house and I followed after Seth.

"Well, hello, gorgeous." He said to me while nodding.

I stifled a giggle. "Hey," I smiled then looked at the floor as I walked in. I didn't like how I was thinking. I was so used to not noticing men these days that Hunter made me nervous. I ignored those feelings though and tried to enjoy being normal.

Hunter led us to the living room and asked us to sit on the large, orange sofa. He offered me and Silver something to drink but he was clearly mad at Seth for his sudden disappearance. I hoped Seth would answer his friend so I would also know where he'd been for the past two weeks but he only replied by saying "I'm here now, aren't I?"

But Hunter was still angry at him and changed the subject, "Is this your twin, sis?" he asked, doing it again. He didn't ask if I was Silver's twin sister—which was a question neither of us had heard since elementary school—he was referring to Silver as his sister, again.

Silver shook her head, "Older," she corrected.

"Amber, right?"

Silver made a fit of happiness when she realized that Hunter actually took an interest in the things she said but then she was too weirded out by his politeness. Under her orders, Hunter asked a rude question.

"You were both missing for two weeks. Were you screwing each other the whole time?" A grin grew on his face as he eyed between the both of them

I couldn't help laughing even though his joke wasn't that funny. I was just so euphoric. The high of Silver being back hadn't really worn off yet and I was actually attracted to another man. I actually thought that part of me was broken, that I would never look at another man ever again. I was quite relieved.