Moonlight Mist
Chapter2
I was awakened by my alarm clock blaring in my ears, I my heart was beating fast and I was breathing heavy. I touched my forehead and it was covered on sweat, I looked down at my hand then rolled my eyes to my arms, I was soaked. I took the bottom of my undershirt in my hands and started to wipe the sweat starting with my head, then my neck, then my arms. I stopped wiping and felt my skin, it was red hot. I ran to my bathroom, taking off my clothes, tossing them on the floor and getting in the shower. I stood under the water for a minute calming myself down, then I got out drying myself then putting on lotion and throwing on a white t-shirt, jeans, my boots and my brown leather jacket.
I got the stuff I wanted to take with me, my school bag then walking down the hall and into the living room. My aunt was sitting there watching the news waiting for me.
"Umm auntie can I ask you something?" I started
"Sure sweetie, what's up?" she answered with a sweet smile
"Can I go to La Push with my friends from school?" I asked
"Sure you can, you have what you want to take with you?" I sat down next to her
"Yes I do its right here!" I bubbled and she smiled at my enthusiasm
"Just tell me when you'll be back?" she said as she turned off the TV and got her things ready to leave the house. I got up getting my bags and walking to unlock the door and there was a key on a keychain with little pictures on it and it said in red letter 'La Push Washington' and I smiled.
"Thanks auntie!" I said hugging her and she jumped and felt my arm then felt my head
"Kitty, do you feel alright, you're burning up!" she said fussing over me like a mother hen.
"I feel fine!" she felt my skin one more time and made a strange face then unlocked the door, grabbed her keys then walked to the car. I shrugged my shoulders, closed the door, locked it, and then walked to the car and got in. I spent most of the ride telling her who my friends were and there names. We got there fast and pulled into the school parking lot, I saw Kevin and the others laughing and joking, it's what they usually do. I got out of the car.
"I'll be home at like 7:00, ok" I said closing the door
"Okay sweetie have fun!" she shouted out the car window. I walked across the parking lot to his chocolate van; they all greeted me when I reached them.
"Hey Kat!" they all said as they shuffled around to make room for me. We sat there sat they doing what we usually do then the bell rang, everyone put there bags in the van and Kevin took my bag, smiled and put it in the van for me and walked into the school. The day went by a little slower than yesterday but it was ok. School ended and we all ran to the van and piled in. He pulled out of the parking lot and launched the van down the road, or at least it seemed like it to me. Maurice reached over to turn the radio up and now as the van was going down the road, it was vibrating.
We arrived at the beach and pulled into the parking lot. We all got out of the car and proceeded to gather around the car. As soon as my feet hit the ground, I looked around sure I would see my beautiful russet figure, but sadly I didn't. I dropped my head in disappointment and shuffled my feet from side to side. I felt a hand touch my shoulder.
I whipped around and it was Kevin, his face full of concern,
"Kat, are you ok?" he removed his hand from my shoulder.
"Umm, yeah I'm ok" I answered the smiled.
"Let's go and sit with everybody else" he said then smiled and put his arm around me and he walked me over to everyone else. He released me from his arm. Devon got up so I could sit down. I sat down on the floor of the van and the door was open and my feet hung out onto the ground. Kevin sat down next to me, I looked at him and smiled, he smiled back.
Everyone was talking, joking, and telling stories. I was withdrawn like always. I was just sitting there thinking with my chin in my hands. I was thinking about the boy whose face and body was burned into my mind for some reason, but I didn't care I liked recalling his beautiful prominent features and his hard defined body glistening with water from the ocean, his hair wet also with little water droplets falling from it, my goodness! Let me stop, I'm getting myself excited. I sighed and Mariah said something to me breaking me out of my dream world.
"Kathryn, what's wrong sweetie?" Mariah asked me, I jumped blinking my eye rapidly.
"Huh?" I said looking at here strangely and lifting my chin off my hands
"Are you ok, you're over there all quit?" she said cracking a smile, I smiled to
"Oh no I was just thinking" we both chuckled
"Hey, Kat you want to go for a walk with me?" Kevin asked me getting up and holding his hand out to help me up. I took his hand and stood up.
"Sure" I smiled and followed him through the beach parking lot and down the path to the beach. I heard a faint ooh or two as we walked away but I ignored it and we continued down the beach.
"Kat, are you having a good time?" he asked smiling
"Yeah I am" I tried to sound enthusiastic, but it didn't work. I was having fun I guess.
"What's wrong, while are you so quit?" he scrunching his face up in confusion and concern.
"And I know it's not just because your thinking, so don't say that" he gave out a small chuckle. I chuckled too.
"Well it's just cause I miss my cousin, and my aunt says he's doesn't stay home that much and I want to see, we used to be so close but when I moved we haven't kept in touch" I said looking at the ground and shifting my weight from foot to foot as I walked.
"Hey do you know my cousin, his name is Embry Call" I said anxious to know if he did.
"Yeah I know him we use to be really good friends him, me, this boy named Quil, and this boy named Jacob―" I cut him off
"Jacob, Jacob Black!" I said recognizing the name immediately
"Yeah, you know Jake?" he asked me surprised
"No, I just heard that name before, he fixed up my aunt's camaro and it looks great!" I answered him
"Yeah, Jake was really good with the mechanical stuff, but yeah we all were really cool with each other" he paused
"First it was Embry, then Jacob, then Quil" he said in low voice but I still heard him
"What, what happened to them?!" my voice went up three octaves, by this time we had stopped walking, he jumped and patted my shoulder them chuckled out loud
"Nothing happened, they just stopped hanging out and talking to me and started hanging with this guy named Sam Uley" his face tightened into a scowl
"Do you know why?" his face was still in the form of a scowl and he really seemed to be getting pissed off.
"NO!" he said sitting on a boulder, we walked near the cliff
"Okay, this one time me, Maurice, Devon, and Kira at the store, and they walked in and went to one of the ails, when they came out of the ail with a shit-lode of stuff we said hi, especially Kira because she likes your cousin, don't tell her I told you" we both chuckled
"But yeah we said hi and they just looked at us and walked away, we usually say hi to them and they either ignore us or give us looks" his voice sounded more and more pissed with each word.
"When the didn't answer this time I walked up to Jake and said what the hell is wrong with you guys, we say hi to you all the time and you just brush us off what the fuck is up with that dude?!" he explained to me, I was standing there astonished at their behaviors.
"Wow, that's crazy so what Jake say?" I asked, very much into the story
"Hell yeah it is, but he looked at me and then said all rude, hi, that sent me off the edge an he knew it, so he got up in my face and glared at me as if to say do something but I didn't want to kick his ass because he's my friend, we grew up together and I'm not going to say hi to you and you don't return the greeting" he continued
"But I wasn't going to back down either, why should I, I'm not a punk, so we stood there in each others faces and glared at back and forth, his body started to tremble with rage and Sam came up to him and put his hand on his shoulder, he told him to calm down, and now is not the time for this or something like that and Maurice grabbed me and pulled me back and he was like yeah man he's not worth it so I backed down and they left the store" his voice was calmer now and my face was stunned at what he just told me.
"That doesn't make any sense, what was Embry doing?" I asked still shocked
"He was just standing there his eyes as a mater of fact all their eyes were full of resentment and hostility, it made me very uneasy and you know what I thought I heard them growling you know like a dog growl" his tone was totally calm now but I was wondering why my favorite cousin who was so nice and protecting, of me at least. When he bent over to tie his shoes, I heard some rustling in the forest behind us, my head whirled around to look and I couldn't believe what I saw, it was the wolf from my dreams, I gasped.
"Kathryn, what's wrong?!" he said jumping to his feet, face painted with worry and concern. I turned back around still dazed at what I just saw.
"Yeah I'm ok, I just thought I saw something" gave him a reassuring smile and he calmed down and smiled back.
"We should get back to the van because it's getting dark" he said giving me the sweetest smile. We gazed into each others eyes, he leaned in a little and then a little more and then a little more, as I looked into his eye I could see the desire flashed in them, by now he was so close to my face I could feel his desire to kiss me radiate off his skin it made me a little uneasy because I don't think I'm ready to start dating again. But then I don't know he is cute. Just then I heard more rustling, my head whipped around and I saw a flash of gray and black in the woods behind us, I turned back around and Kevin had a frustrated look on his face.
"What's wrong, why do you keep seeing things?" he said
"My bad, I just thought I saw something again" I gave an embarrassed smile and he smiled back shaking his head.
"Well, we better get back it's already dark and I think it's about to rain" he gave me that smile again and I flushed. We started walking back, blushing and smiling at each other, I have know idea why he made me blush but he does.
"So, you ok now when you told me that story, you seemed a little pissed"I teased.
"No, I'm cool you know he just kind of pissed me off that day" he chuckled
"Well they can't be that bad, maybe it's a reason why they acted that way, especially my cousin" I said, he shrugged his shoulders
"Well, my dad says that they and Sam are the greatest that they help and protect everyone in the res. You want to know what he had a nerve to tell me!" he stopped again and I stopped to.
"What did he say?" I giggled
"He said that soon I was going to hang out with them and stuff, I said oh hell no, well I didn't say it out loud but I have him a look, he said you'll see and you will like it, I said whatever and walked away" he chuckled a little and we started walking again. We could see the guys waving flashlights in the air and I smelled the rain coming. I heard the thunder and felt the rain drops on my face as I looked up into the dark sky with little stripes of orange and pink across the horizon. It was drizzling so he took off his jacket and put it over my head before the drops came down harder and we ran to the car. We scampered around trying clean up and get in the van, we were all laughing at how wet we got.
After we all stopped laughing, it was quit in the van. Mariah leaned over to me and said
"Hey, Kathryn how was your walk with Kev?" she giggled
"It was ok I guess, why?" I blushed
"Nothing ya'll just acted like you were having a blast" she started to laugh and so did Kira, Devon was behind us chuckling and Maurice was poking and teasing Kevin in the front. We all started laughing again especially me and Kevin.
"No, it was fun I guess, she's really cool" he said trying to catch his breath, I he glanced at me and I flushed, everyone busted out laughing. I put my hands over my face as Mariah was teasing me. First we dropped off Kira, then Devon, then Mariah and then Maurice. I got out and hugged Maurice then got in the front seat. I looked out the window like I always do, looking at the raindrops trickle down the window. I noticed Kevin was slipping me little looks while he was driving
"So Kat, did you have fun with us today?" he asked me keeping his eyes on the road.
"Yeah I did Kevin, you guys are so funny!" I said flashing a wide smile and turned my head back to the window
"Good, good, I'm glad you had a good time!" he said as we pulled up to my little house.
"Stay there" he said getting out of the van and walking over to my side then opening the door and I got out.
"Thank you kind sir!" I said mockingly, he chuckled
"Your welcome ma lady!" I chuckled too and he held his arm out for me and I laced mine through and he walked me to my door. He stood and waited while I opened the door, I turned around to see him smiling at me revealing his dimples and his eyes sparkling in the dim porch light. My face flushed. He took hold of my hand and looked deep into my eyes them spoke softly.
"I'm really glad you had a good time with us today you know" he said
"Yeah, you guys were so funny, why I wasn't suppose to have a good time?" I teased
"No, really, we just wanted you to feel welcome and safe with us you know, since it's your first time coming here an all, we wanted to make a good impression" he blushed a little and I nodded and smiled
"Especially me" he said even softer, his face fully red, I giggled
"Thank you" I said softly and started blushing too. He looked at me with what looked to me like desire and I got that uneasy feeling but it wasn't like before, it was calmer. Then he did something that I don't know if I was ready for, he kissed me on the cheek. It shocked the hell out of me, as he moved away from my cheek, and he smiled at my reaction. I was speechless then my face softened. I can't believe he kissed me, Kevin likes me.
I wasn't ready for that but it was still nice I hope he can understand that I can't be with him in that ways, because of a previous long term relationship and a terrible heart break. As he walked away he suddenly turned around and said.
"Goodnight Kathryn" he said in the sexiest tone and I gave a sweet smile and turned around and walked into my house. I closed the door and peeked out the blinds to watch him drive away, I knew he wanted to kiss me but it still shocked me. Only the kitchen light was on in the house I guess she left it on for me but I thought she would be home, anyway I went into my room put my bag down and took my clothes off and put them in the hamper. Then I took a shower and put on my undershirt and plum shorts, then I walked through the hall way and went to the kitchen and got some food I was starving. I got it and went into the living room and turned the TV on, this old movie was on called the 'Wolf man' it looked cool so I watched it.
A smell hit my nose and I opened my eyes jumping up, I guess I fell asleep on the couch. The smell happened to me eggs, sausage, bacon, and pancakes and I smelled cheese so it had to be cheese on the eggs just how I like it. I ran through the doorway that separated the living room and the kitchen, my aunt was standing there smiling with a big plate with six pancakes, four strips of turkey bacon, five turkey sausage links, and it had to be about four eggs with melted cheese on them. I ran over to the table joyfully and sat down, she sat the plate on the table and as soon as it hit the wood I began wolfing it down. She sat down with her plate and started eating to.
"So, auntie are you okay because I was kind of worried about you last night?" I said trying to clear my mouth.
"Oh I was in another counsel meeting and it ran a little late so I stayed over someone's house" she said nonchalantly
"Oh okay just asking" I smiled and she smiled back. After inhaling all the food on my plate I put my dish in the sink and walked into my room. I sat on the bed and pick up my guitar at the foot of it and started playing the old Quiluete song that I took from my aunt's mantle. I practiced for like three or four hours and by that time it was dinner. So I got up not knowing if she cooked anything, I walked into the kitchen and got to burritos and heated them up then put them on a plate and walked into the living room where my aunt was watching some movie so in decided to join her. We watched it till it was dark outside, so we both went into our rooms and close the door. I sat on my bed and played my guitar some more until I was tried and then I went to sleep.
*I own nnothing from twilight, it all belongs to Stephanie Meyer*