After shopping in New York for the last couple of year, Port Angeles is BORING!!!! There aren't a quarter of my favorite stores and the styles are so behind. Don't get me wrong my cousin, Heidi, and I managed to still do some major shopping and load up the back of her SUV. I got some cute outfits and weird looks from Heidi when I decided to buy a bunch of cookbooks. I moving close to Shape Shifters, if they are anything like my step-father and brothers they are going to eat, a lot, and I was hoping to be friends with them. If not, then I have some new recipes to try out on my family. After a long day of shopping, Heidi decided that we should check out some local wild life, in other words a bar, before we headed back to La Push. I was excited to go because they have beer there and Witches love beer. There is something about the taste that is magical to us and always has been since the time it was Ale and served at every meal. We don't get drunk from it, so we can drink us much as we want and still walk away. I still have at least a couple of days before the rest of the family arrives and I have to start high school (again!!!) so I figured why not.
We walked in Junction Roadhouse, and all I could do was glare at Heidi. What the hell, we're at a freaking biker bar; Heidi is out of her free spirited mind.
"Deep breathe" I mumbled under my breath, the music seems good, they have beer and the atmosphere is pretty comfy.
"Mia…..Mia…." I realized that Heidi was calling my name "Let's go get a beer".
We wondered around the bar for a bit, got a beer, did some dancing and avoided some guys that we were not anywhere close to being interested in. There was one group of three particularly annoying and creepy guys that would just not leave us alone and had been following us around the bar asking us our names and to go back to their place with them. Umm how bout no, your gross. Stupid college preppy boys trying to prove how tough they are by walking on the wild side at a biker bar.
"I told you no! So now it's time for you to go far, far, away and never come back," Heidi told the group. Argh! They are really starting to annoy me! This was the fourth time in the last hour that we'd told them no. Why didn't they get the hint already?
"We appreciate the compliment but we are really not interested," I told them; Heidi just rolled her eyes at me for being diplomatic. She's has no desire to be diplomatic or even nice some times. We decided to walk (or practically run) away from them before they could try anything else.
"Mia, is it just me or have guys not evolved at all in the last couple of centuries?
"Nope, not just you. It also seems men are the same in any century or country that we happen to be in," I replied.
We both started laughing when I felt an overwhelming urge to use my watcher gift. I only felt this when another mystical being comes close, it's like a protection plan so that I have time to prepare myself. I turned towards the entrance and watched a pack of five very large, very hot native men stroll into the bar.
"Heidi, it's the shifters" I couldn't take my eyes off the second one. My whole soul was begging him to look my way and make eye contact. He turned from the bar, causally glanced around. Finally his eyes landed on me, so I have him a small smile. I looked into his eyes. I couldn't breathe, he was everything. My soul was singing loudly, I now completely understood what the others, and my mother, had meant. I think he may have imprinted on me by the way he was staring and shaking a bit. I can only hope that he had.
"Mia, earth to Mia!"
"Yes Heidi?" I asked breaking away from the staring contest.
"Did you?"
"Yes! It's everything that they say it is."
"Do you want to over there? His friends just dragged him to a table."
"No, I need a moment to collect myself. It's a little bewildering to finally find your soul mate at a bar and kind of clichéd and the start of a bad pick up line."
"So ladies, are you ready for us to buy you a drink yet", great creeptacular one, two and three where back "I promise we don't bit, unless you want us to when we get you back to our place."
That's it! These guys have gotten on my last nerve, and like I don't have enough to think and worry about with my singer sitting 20 feet away. I'm pretty sure by this point my eyes where flashing red like they normally do when I'm really mad and I'm about to do something I might regret in the morning.
"Really you haven't gotten the hint yet?" Heidi snarled at them.
"I'm only going to say this once more little boys, we do not, nor will we ever want anything from you! We also don't want to go anywhere so take your assumptions that you've got something hot and go crawl back under the rock you so obviously crawled out from under and try not to come back out until you learn how to treat a lady. Also do not assume just because we are here by ourselves that we are not in relationships." I hope that got through they're thick skulls before I did something painful to them.
"Mia! Heidi!" I looked behind me and saw one of the large shifters. "What are you doing here? Paul and Embry are going to be really happy that you are though. Excuse us, I want to get these two lovely ladies to their boyfriends before they feel the need to come over here themselves," he finished menacingly while throwing a glance back to his table. He wrapped an arm around each of our shoulders and started to drag us away.
"Paul is sitting at the table, Embry's in the bathroom. I'm Quil, Jacob's filling Embry in then getting a beer. Jared's sitting at the table on the left. Nudge me if your Mia," I nudged him lightly, "Okay Paul's waiting for you. Heidi, Embry will be back in a minute. You guys got all that?" We both nodded in awe of the master planning that happened in such a short amount of time. As we moved towards the Shifter's table I could feel myself getting a big grin on my face. Paul was staring into my eyes and it felt like there was no one else in the room, I know clichéd but what can I say. Okay, time to get my acting face on and hope that he can keep up. If he had imprinted then he was going to love the adoration I was about to throw at him. I quickly pulled away from Quil and practically launched myself at Paul.
"Paul, what are you guys doing here? Are you stalking me again? You know I'm already yours," I asked laughing, deep down I was beaming I was finally in my singer's arms.
"I'm Mia, that's Heidi. Thanks for the rescue" I murmured in his ear. As I unwrapped myself from Paul I looked around and sure enough the creeptastics had followed us.
"So this is supposed to be your boyfriend?" #3 sneered, "Your boyfriend just happens to be one of the biggest guys in here and you expect me to believe that?"
I could feel the growl starting to rise from Paul's chest and could feel him shaking as he wrapped his arms around me. I started to giggle, "I didn't randomly pick some guy to act like my boyfriend, and he's always one of the biggest guys regardless of where we are. What gives you the right to question that? Whatever, what you choose to believe or not to is your choice. But I seriously think it's time for you to leave. Maybe call it a night", I answered back.
"Oh, really," #1 said, "then where do you live, 'cuz it's not Port Angeles. I'd remembering seeing two pieces as fresh as you."
"La Push", Paul and I answered together. I could feel Paul's body react in surprise but luckily it didn't show on his face. By this point Embry was back and had his arms wrapped around Heidi in a protective manner. All five of the Shifter's where now standing and glaring at the guys.
"Fine, if you want to play hard to get we'll leave you alone", #2 spoke, "that is until your so called boyfriend drops you then it's my turn."
These guys are going on ignore and I was just going to start making more stuff up. I turned my back to the creeptaculars and looked at Paul. "Shopping was good today. I got your mom's birthday gifts; a new outfit that she'll love, and the new cookbook set that she's been raving about and wanting. I also got a bunch of new clothes for you and a few more for me."
Paul faked groaned, "Baby, if you go shopping much more I'll have to build an addition on the house just for your clothes". Wow he's really good at this, playing it perfectly. I could see the creeps had gone away finally, so we could now drop part of the act. We all moved back to the table, with Heidi sitting next to Embry and Paul dragging me into his lap.
"Mia and I would really like to thank you guys for the rescue. Mia was starting to lose her temper, which is never a good thing and normally ends badly," Heidi told them.
"Shut up! I'm not that bad. Sure I could have taken them without a problem and probably made them cry like little girls, and they probably wouldn't be moving sans pain for awhile but I'm not that bad."
"Yeah because I think there are a couple of guys in New York that might tell a different story" Heidi said "Like you remember that one time when we were walking through Central Park….."
"Okay I think we've had enough story time," I said interrupting Heidi, "So I have a slight anger management problem, that usually ends with me throwing punches but it takes me a while to get to that point".
The Shifter's just stared at me in shock and awe.
"She's like Paul" Jake mumbled.
"Why do you say that," I asked.
"Because Paul has a bad temper and the smallest thing sets him off. He's normally makes people cry and hurt when he loses his temper. He's probably the most explosive of our entire pa…group," Embry explained.
"Shut it before I lose my temper now. Besides I'm getting a lot better."
"Yeah, as in the last 10 minutes," Jared shot back.
"It's okay," I said turning in his lap to look into his eyes; I know shifters are known for bad tempers and being explosive it's kind of what they do. "I know you would never hurt anyone".
He smiled at me as the conversation turned to new things and they stopped picking on me and Paul.