Chapter 2: The Cliffs.

"Mom! I'm gonna go out and draw, okay?" I had one foot out the front door when I realized I should bring something to eat. I walked back to the fridge and stood in front of it for a while. Even though we just moved here yesterday, our fridge was stocked full of yummy and delicious food. I grabbed the jelly, peanut butter and bread to make a sandwich.

"Where are you gonna go?" Lilly asked.

"Well I was gonna go in the woods, but not too far. I heard there is a beach near here too." I replied.

"Okay well just be careful sweetie. I don't want you to get lost or hurt." Lilly said.

"I was wondering if I could take the van, because my car is still in Wisconsin." I said.

"Oh sure sweetie, we're just going stay home and unpack. Did you get everything unpacked last night?" She asked.

"Mhmm. My room is perfect." I answered.

"Alright, well have fun and draw me something beautiful!" Lilly said.

"Okay, bye mom. I love you."

"Love you too Nelle."

I walked out the door and sat down in the van. I wasn't very familiar with the area, but I was sure that I'd be able to find this beach. I didn't want to go swimming or anything, it was super cloudy and a little chilly for June. I was more interested in drawing the beach. I love to draw, it's extremely calming, plus I'm pretty good at it. It wasn't too hard to find this beach. Actually, I live like 5 minutes from it. I found a large rock, sat down and started to draw. I was drawing the huge cliffs where the forest ended when I saw a bunch of kids messin around on them. It looked like they were about to jump off, but I figured they'd be smarter than that and were just bluffing. Then one of them pushed another off! I sprinted towards the cliffs and was going to dive in, but he resurfaced and was laughing. He swam towards the shore, where I was standing, and when he came out; I felt the need to yell at them.

"Are you crazy! You could have gotten hurt! Why would you do something so stupid?" I shouted at the boy. I didn't notice how muscular they all were way up on those cliffs but now that I'm closer, I REALLY noticed.

"Hey, sweetheart, chill out. I'm not crazy, just lookin for a rush, if ya know what I mean." He said with a wink.

"You did this for fun?" I asked.

"Hell yeah! So what's your name cutie?" He asked.

"Um…" I looked at him a little skeptically.

"I won't bite, hard anyways…" he said with a smile.

"It's Penelope, but everyone calls me Nelle."

"That's a cute name. My name's Paul. Why don't you come with me and meet my friends." He said grabbing my hand, not really waiting for an answer.

"Do I really have a choice?" I asked.

"Ha, nope." He said.

We started walking up the cliffs and the whole time Paul kept looking back giving me flirty looks. I really hope he's just messing around with me.

"Hey guys! Look who I found." He said with a smile to a group of four muscular, tan, ridiculously gorgeous boys.

"Who is she?"

"She's really pretty."

"Is she that new girl who moved here yesterday?"

"Go ahead. Introduce yourself." Paul said as he nudged my shoulder with his fist.

"Um…, my name's Penelope, but you can call me Nelle or Pennie, and yes, I am the girl who moved here yesterday. How did you know that though?" I asked.

"Oh we got sources." said another really muscular boy.

"Well, let me introduce everyone. This is Embry," Paul pointed at a taller, little bit thinner boy with short dark hair.

"Hi." He said as he waved.

"Paul! We can introduce ourselves!" said a loud, muscular boy. "I'm Quil!" He introduced with a smile.

"I'm Seth! It's nice to meet you." said a cute younger looking boy.

"And I'm Jared." said the last boy.

"So you wanna try cliff diving?" Paul said jokingly as he grabbed my arms and pushed me towards the edge. He was expecting me to say no, that much I could tell.

"Sure, why not. If you guys can do it, then so can I." I said with a wink.

"Oh, um, are you sure?" Paul asked with a look of shock on his face.

"Of course." I said as I took off my shirt, I had a cami on under it.

"Are you really going to do this?" Seth asked.

"Why wouldn't I? It looks easy enough…" I said. "So how should I go about doing this?" I asked.

It's not like I've never gone swimming before, because I'm a very strong swimmer. I practically lived in water when I was growing up. It's just, when there are a bunch of sharp pointy rocks at the bottom, I get a little uneasy.

"You don't know how to swim?" Seth shouted.

I laughed and said "No, I do know how to swim, I just don't know how to cliff dive."

"It's simple; just don't fall on the rocks at the bottom." Quil joked.

"Um, okay." I said.

I walked up to the edge and put my hands together over my head like the divers do. And then, I jumped. Oh, I forgot to mention, this was the top cliff. When I hit the water, I thought I was gonna die. I swam back to the surface and could hear the guys shouting. I guess Paul had jumped in after me. They didn't think I was really going to do it. I started to swim back to the shore when I noticed that Paul had already caught up to me, and I thought I was a good swimmer…

"Hey, are you alright?" Paul asked.

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" I replied.

"Because that was the top cliff, and no one ever jumps off there except for us." He said looking at me like I was a crazy person.

"Oh really? What makes you guys so special?" I asked.

"Oh baby, you have no idea." He said while grinning.

We swam back to the shore together, and when we got there I grabbed my sketchbook.

"What's that?" Paul asked as I picked it up.

"Oh, it's just my sketchbook." I said.

"You draw?" he asked.

"Yeah, why, do I look like I wouldn't draw?" I asked.

"No, it's just no one artistic lives in La Push." He chuckled.

"Oh well. Now there is." I said with a smile. We started walk back and he snatched my sketchbook out of my hands.

"Hey!" I shouted, "If you wanted to see it, you could have asked."

"Can I look at you sketches?" he asked with a sly grin on his face.

"Little late now, isn't it?" I said with an annoyed smirk. He started flipping through my sketches. They were mostly of parks and woods that were around my old house and a few of my friends were in there too.

"Wow, these are really good." He said.

"Thank you." I said. We walked in silence back to the guys. Paul kept flipping through my sketchbook. As we walked up the hill to where the guys were, I could see them getting all excited.

"Damn! That was awesome!" Quil shouted as we walked up to them.

"Yeah, you were great!" Seth said.

"Thanks guys, but it wasn't that difficult." I laughed.

"Really, you were great!" Quil complimented.

"Well I'd really like to stay and chat but I should get going home." I said.

"Oh no you shouldn't. You're coming with us." Quil said with an evil smirk.

"I'd love to but my mom said I shouldn't stay out too late. I guess you can come with me if you want… She'd be thrilled that I already made friends." I compromised.

"Aww, we're your friends?" Paul asked.

"Of course. You're the only friendly people I know around here." I said.

"How are we gonna get there?" Jared asked.

"Oh well I borrowed my mom's van so you guys can pile in there." I said.

"I CALL SHOTGUN!" Quil shouted.

And with that they raced off towards Lilly's van.