March 7= My birthday. And although you normally get gifts on your birthday, I am giving you guys the gift instead. One of the longest chapters I have EVER written. Enjoy!
HANNAH'S POV
I didn't even bother looking back, I went straight into the store, with the large parking lot.
Spent a few minutes looking for the section where I could find the alarm clocks, decided on an old fashion black alarm clock.
It was the one with the little hammer, in between two plate cover looking bells. And when it set off, the little hammer hits each of them, side to side.
I paid for it, and added the bag with the alarm clock, on to the other bags I already had.
When I left the store, I noticed the sky was already turning dark.
So I decided to look for Emmett, but there were lots of restaurants around.
So I closed my eyes, and focused. Focused on to Emmett's scent, his words.
And followed, until I sure enough, I found him sitting next to a big window, outside a Chinese joint.
He had quite a large menu in hand, reviewing over it.
I went to the door and had a few seconds of struggle, with the amount of bags I had.
Until I finally opened it. Emmett turned around when he heard the doors bell chime.
And immediately got up and helped me with my bags.
"Thanks." I said.
"Gee did you buy a whole store." He asked.
"Not a whole store, but a whole line they had." I said to him.
He set my bags next to his bags, which by any means were almost the same amount as mine.
I raised my eyebrow as I sat next to him, so the bags could take up all the space across from our seats.
"You were saying?" I asked him as I stared at his bags.
"Hey I needed things." He said, as he shared his menu with me.
"Did you buy yourself things from the lingerie store?" I asked him teasing, as I reviewed the menu.
"Did you?" He asked me.
I ignored him, and bite down on my lip, as I remembered what had happened earlier.
"Do you know what you're getting?" I asked him.
"Eh, I'm not really that hungry. I think an egg drop soup, orange chicken, beef fried rice, crab ragoon, shrimp egg foo young, pot stickers, and four egg rolls." He said.
"Touché, I think I'll get the same." I said.
He pushed me a little with his shoulder.
"Move, I have to drain the beast." He said.
"Oh god." I said. Getting up, I let him pass so he could use the washroom.
As he left, the waitress came to our table, and asked if I knew what we were getting.
I told her the orders, and she looked at me unconvinced.
"Don't worry, we're not bluffing, we are heavy eaters. We have money to pay for it all."
She stared at my stomach oddly, unsure.
After she left. I found myself looking out the large window next to me.
I watched as a few people walked by, a few people entering open stores. The movie theatres sign was the brightest light in the night.
I read a few of the movie titles.
Then something caught my attention. Coming by the restaurant was a dark motorcycle, mounted on it was Paul. Holding tightly on to him by the torso, was his wife.
He stared at me, as he drove by, and for a few seconds we just made eye contact, until Emmett startled me.
"Did you order already?" he asked.
I jumped up, and turned to look at Emmett.
"Yeah." I said, looking for Paul again, but he wasn't anywhere by anymore.
After our dinner, which was joined by the crowd of stares from the employees, we paid for our meal, and rounded up our bags again.
As the store with the rude woman earlier came near, I told Emmett what had happened.
Emmett said he had an idea, and handed me all my bags back, including his. How I managed to grab a hold of them all, I don't know.
But as we passed the store, the woman from inside was looking out the window, and when she saw the amount of bags I had, she seemed like she wished she had ate her words. I blew a kiss and her, and continued on to the car.
Once inside, I headed towards the highway, at a humans pace, which was beginning to frustrate me.
Once on the highway, my speed began to pick up, until we reached the dark roads of the woods. Once we were there, I stepped on the gas, pushing the car to 95 mph.
With the city lights far away now, all that I could really see, was what the cars headlights allowed.
Emmett put the window down, and stuck his head out.
"What the…." I heard him say.
I saw him stick his head out more the car. He was looking into the dark woods.
"What?" I asked him.
"What the fuck?" he said again.
I noticed him rub his eyes, then he quickly got back into the car. He locked the door and looked over at me.
"What?" I said a little scared now.
He just stared at me.
"Emmett stop that, tell me what's wrong?" I said scared now.
"I saw… I think I saw…" He shook his head hard. "Never mind, I'm just tired." He said.
I tightened my grip on the steering wheel, until I heard it wanting to crack, I loosened my grip, and hoped I hadn't left a deep dent into it.
"Emmett you're scaring me." I said to him. As the familiar right turn into the woods came to view, I put the turning signal, just to hear something.
He smiled at me. "I think I'm seeing things." He said.
"What did you see?" I asked him. The thought of him describing something similar to what I had seen yesterday, scared me.
"Nothing." He said, laughing.
I sighed angrily. "Jerk."
When the lights of the house began to light the rest of the way home, we found both my parents waiting outside the door for us.
Dad was hugging mom from behind, they both smiled at us when the car came to park in front of the house.
Before I could even put my hand on the doors handle, the door was already open for me, dad was already holding his hand out for me.
I smiled and took his hand, as he helped me out.
"Where's my helping hand?" Emmett complained, I heard mom laugh, as she gave him her hand.
Dad looked to the back seats where our bags where.
"And we thought Alice was bad." Edward said to mom.
My mom giggled, as my aunt stormed out the door.
"YOU WENT SHOPPING WITHOUT ME?" she screamed at Emmett and I.
Emmett shrugged and pointed at me.
"It was a last minute thing." I said, as I tried to avoid her glare.
I heard a howl, turning to its direction, Seth came running out the house and to me.
He stood up on his hind legs, and tried reaching out to me.
I heard my aunt make a disturbed noise. "As if my night wasn't bad enough, the dog had to come around." She said as she turned to the house.
"Pick him up, he's missed you all day." My mom said. As she faded into the house with my bags, followed suit in an equal blur was my father, with Emmett's bags.
I picked Seth up and kissed the top of his head.
"What have you been up to huh?" I asked him as I pet him behind the ear.
"Yo mom! Did you make anything to eat?" Emmett asked.
"Dude… we just ate." I said to him.
"I'm still hungry!" he said pushing me to the side, and going towards the kitchen.
I shook my head, as I headed up the stairs to my room with Seth.
As I got to my room, I found my mom already hanging up the last shirt on to a hanger, and into my closet.
"You got very pretty things Hannah." My mom said.
"I have your change." I said to her, I put Seth down on my bed.
"Go ahead and keep it." She said to me. "Do you have any homework?" she asked me.
I shook my head. Moving Seth to the side, I sat down next to him.
He immediately jumped on to my lap.
"Already finished it, during my lunch period." I said.
She smiled at kissed the top head. "That's my girl. Are you going to sleep now?" she asked.
I nodded. "I think so… mom." I said as she was already at the door way.
"Mmm?" she asked.
"Remember Mayleen?" I asked her.
"Yes." She said.
"She has a twin as well, Mulan. She's the complete opposite of Mayleen, a really nice girl… well she invited us… Emmett and I, to a party on Saturday… can we go?" I asked hopeful.
"What party?" my father said, as he appeared at my doorway, next to my mom.
"Just a party with the kids from school." My mom said to him.
"Will there be boys?" my dad asked smirking.
I rolled my eyes. "Dad… it's a party."
"So will there be boys, or will there be a boy." He asked smirking again.
"Nooooo, it's just a party, and anyone can go to it, its not like I can control guys from going to it." I said.
"Anyone can go huh?" my dad asked.
"Mooooom." I whined. The last thing I needed, was my dad at a party I was going to.
She laughed. "Edward, stop it. And the answer is yes, both you and your brother can go." She said.
"Where is it going to be?" she asked.
"I don't know yet, but I promise we will be very careful… I mean.. come on its not like we need to be afraid of the other kids… its more the other way around." I said.
Both my parents smirked.
That night I dreamt, I dreamt something I never had before. Something so vivid, I swore it was real…
"Hello?" I asked the darkness.
I continued to walk into the woods, the sound of my breathing heavily increasing.
I wasn't afraid of the darkness, or what could be around me. I was more afraid as to why I was here. Looking up at the sky, I noticed the moon was the color of its harvest, when it hit its autumnal equinox.
"The hunters moon." I said to myself.
Looking down at myself, I finally noticed I was in a short white cotton dress.
I shuddered as I realized there was a chill in the night.
I continued to walk deeper into the woods, only to feel like I was going in circles.
Looking down at my feet, I noticed I was barefoot. And suddenly they felt ice cold,
The sudden wet dirt was coating my feet, forming mud stains all over them.
"Hello?" I asked again. I shuddered, as I wrapped my arms around myself.
"Are you lost?" came a husky voice.
I gasped and turned around.
Leaning against a tree was Paul. He had on the same outfit he wore the day at the diner.
I sighed in relief. "Paul…you scared me." I said to him.
He was picking at his fingernails, almost as if he was picking dirt off under them.
His gaze slowly rose from them to my eyes. He smirked.
"Why am I here?" I asked him.
"I didn't bring you here. If that's what you're implying." He said, taking a step towards me.
I took a step backwards.
I smiled. "No of course not. I didn't say that." I said.
"You know…" he said walking slowly towards me. "… you never did, tell me your name." he said.
Every step he took towards me, I took the equal amount back, until I felt the trunk of a tree against my back.
"Its…" I tried saying, but I just stuttered.
He continued to smile at me, as he finally stood right in front of me.
He was staring down into my eyes.
"It's… It's." I continued to stutter.
I shuddered, I didn't know if it was because I was cold, or if I was afraid of Paul, at this point.
"Cold?" he asked me.
"Yes." I said not even sure.
The very little space we already had apart, was broken, when he pressed his body close to mine.
His body, the least to say was incredibly hot.
I brought my hand up to my hair awkwardly, I put my hair behind my ear.
He took my hand into his, lacing his fingers into them, he raised my hand so it was extended perfectly straight above me, and against the tree behind me.
He leaned his hands weight heavily into mine.
"So whats your name?' he asked me again, his other hand trailed against my other arm.
His body heat, mixed with the cold air made me shudder.
"Hannah." I whispered.
I looked up at him again, I had looked away when I had shuddered.
"Hannah." He copied in a whisper. He came closer to me, his lips parting slowly as he leaned in.
I closed my eyes, as I waited for his lips to touch mine…
But the kiss never came. As my new alarm clock went off, I sat up on my bed, a cold sweat coated my pajamas.
I started breathing heavily as I sighed.
"It was just a dream." I said to myself. I brought my hands to my sides of my head.
I swept my hair back with my sweat.
Seth started to lick my chin. I pushed him away lightly as I turned my alarm off.
Seth tried to lick me again. "Stop." I said to him.
"It felt so real." I said.
I rested my right hand on my throat, grabbing it. I could feel the pulse on my neck beating.
SATURDAY
I fluffed my hair with my fingers, trying to create some volume to it. I stood in front of the mirror, looking at my outfit.
I had nothing special on, just a plain black tank top I had bought, and a pair of black low rise, skinny jeans. Completing my look were black flats.
I reached around my makeup, and found the half of my necklace.
Everyone in my family had some type of jewelry that bore the family crest on in.
Emmett and I, just so happened to have broken necklaces, with the crest.
I had the left half with the CUL, and Emmett had the right side, with the LEN at the bottom.
Once put together, it read our family name, with the crest design on it.
I grabbed my stomach, as I realized I had tried from going to the washroom long enough now.
"Emmett! EMMETT!!" I said banging at the bathrooms door.
"WHAT?" he said swinging the door open. A hot steam came out
He had a towel wrapped around his waist. My blow dryer in one hand, and a comb in the other.
"YOUR STILL NOT READY!?": I asked him in disbelief.
"I'll be ready!" He said slamming the door in my face.
"EMMETT!" I said banging on the door again. "I need to pee!" I yelled at the door.
"Pee in a cup!" he said over the blow dryer.
"You've been in there for an hour!" I said
He didn't respond, so I rolled my eyes and went to his room.
"Pee in a cup huh?" I said though gritted teeth.
I went into his room, and grabbed his sports bottle, untwisting the top.
Sure I could just go into the other bathroom, but I wanted to go into mine.
"I'll show you, to tell me to pee in a cup." I said angrily.
"Hannah." My mom said behind me.
I turned around slowly.
"What are you doing in your brothers room?" she asked me.
I looked at her with my mouth open. "Oh nothing.. just…. Looking for this." I said showing her the sports bottle.
"And now that I know that's is here, I can go to the party in peace." I said shrugging,
I smiled and walked past her awkwardly, and into my room.
"Now I want you two to behave." She said.
"Why wouldn't we?" I asked her.
"I'm just saying." She said. "Your grandfather once gave this to me, and now I'm giving it to you." She said handing me a tube.
I looked at it and then at her. "Really mom… pepper spray? You do know this is a human party right? I could very well defend myself blindfolded with my strength." I said to her.
"Yes, but you can't just go breaking arms and bones so easily, without causing problems. I know you can defend yourself well without it, but as my dad said to me. It does me peace." She said.
"Alright." I said putting it my back pocket.
When I heard the bathrooms door open, I practically bolted into it, and slammed the door shut, before Emmett decided to come back in.
"Emmett, start the car! We have to meet Mulan at school in ten minutes!" I said through the door.
PAULS POV
"UGH!" I moaned, I opened my eyes, as I felt a sharp pain to my gut.
"Wake up sleepy." Said Emily.
She had just jumped on top of me, and although she was not heavy, the pain was intense, because I had not expected it, and I had been asleep.
"Five more minutes." I said.
I felt her weight off me, and heard another moan in pain. This one came from Jacob.
"COME ON, COME ON, wake up guys!" Emily urged us.
"Five more minutes." I heard Jacob say as well.
"That's what you both said three hours ago!" she complained.
I yawned and sat up.
"Come on Em, Jacob and I both worked double shifts the past two nights, we've only slept five hours in the past forty eight hours. The boys can handle it on their own tonight." I said, as I rolled over to my side.
"Sam wouldn't have said that, Sam would have been by the boys side." She said.
Both Jacob and I slowly turned our heads towards one another.
I could tell he was taking the same guilt trip as I was right about now.
We both knew that, that's all she had to say.
"Your right." Jacob said standing up.
In my head I groaned, but I only followed behind Jacob.
"That's better." Emily said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." I mumbled, walking down the stairs.
Emily didn't hear me, only Jacob was able to.
"Paul." Jacob scowled me.
I stretched my right arm across my chest, pushing it with my left arm, so I could feel the stretch more.
Jacob yawned loudly, causing me to yawn too, it seemed so contagious.
"Race you?" Jacob asked, yawning again.
I nodded grinning. "For?" I took my denim shorts off, and bite on them, so I could hold them in my mouth.
"Baby sitter. First one to reach John wins." Jacob said. He took his pants off, and put them to his mouth as well.
We both stared at each other, waiting for the other to take the first move.
And just about at the same time, we both pushed each other at the chest, and ran into the woods at top speed, we both jumped high up into the air, and phased.
As the fur grew out of my skin, the familiar itch ached for me to scratch at it, but I knew Jacob wasn't going to pay attention to his itch, and I wouldn't either.
I continued to run, clawing my claws deep into the ground, allowing me to push my self forward. This action was leaving long gash's on the dirt.
I could hear the boys thoughts, apparently they were playing fetch with a log.
I sniffed the air, and targeted their direction.
I looked over at Jacob, even in the dark woods, I could make out his russet brown fur. I knew he had found the boys too.
And together we started meeting closer, we made a "V" as we meet and ran next to one another.
I shoved hard into him, causing him to slam hard into a tree.
As the tree shook, I heard a few birds fly away startled.
"Fucker." I heard Jacob say.
I started laughing in my head, I could see the boys, they were staring at us. As we both made our way towards them.
I was in the lead for sure, or so I thought, until Jacob swatted my hind leg, causing me to trip and roll forward.
Letting go off my shorts, I cried in pain as I felt my forehead scrape against the ground, I continued to roll forward, until I hit my back hard into a tree trunk.
I looked over at Jacob, who was phasing back as he jumped in the air, "WHOA!" I heard John say in my head.
I heard him yelp in fright, as he realized Jacob was about to land on him.
"Got em!" Jacob screamed, as his naked body landed on top of John.
John fell to the ground, under Jacobs weight.
I started breathing heavily, as my fur began to recede into my skin.
Laying on the ground, with my legs still in the air on the tree trunk. I let my arms extend to my sides.
The othes phased back, as they- including Jacob walked to me, they formed a circle round me.
Brady held my shorts above me, I snatched them away from him.
"Are you okay?" Embry asked me.
I glared at him, as I rolled to my side and got up.
"See you tomorrow then." Jacob said smiling, as he began walking backwards.
"And where are you going?" Brady asked him.
"Home, to sleep. Paul will stay with you guys." He said winking at me.
I glared at him. He smiled again, before turning, and running towards his house's direction.
The guys turned to me. "Are you okay?" Embry repeated.
I punched the tree I had smacked into hard, causing me to dent the trunk.
"NO! I'm tired!" I said to them. I snapped my head to the side hard, so my neck could crack.
John scratched the back of his head. "Then I don't think I should even ask." He said uncomfortably.
"WHAT?" I asked him angrily.
"Well… Alexa said there's a party in the woods, not to far from her school…" Brady said.
Alexa was this girl he was seeing, he hadn't imprinted on her, nor was she his girlfriend. She was just around when he needed it.
"AND?" I asked them, as I put my shorts on.
"Well.. we want to go." Brady said.
I glared at them.
"Come on Paul, there hasn't been any trouble right now. The leeches haven't came around in years. I know you and Jacob have been searching for the next guy in pack. But Jacobs gone to sleep, the woods are clean…" Embry said.
"I HATE PARTIES." I said. I was tired, and the last thing I wanted to do, was be somewhere with loud music, and kids.
"Then can we go?" John asked.
"Yeah, like Jacob will be happy about me letting you guys go on your own." I said. "I literally am going to be a god damn baby sitter." I said rolling my eyes.
"So is that a yes?" Brady asked happily.
HANNAH'S POV
When we arrived to the school, we found quiet a number of cars parked in the parking lot.
Mulan told us it would be okay to park, and said we would have to walk the rest of the way to the party.
All we had to do was follow the trees with the white string attached to them.
Not that Emmett or I needed them to know where to go.
It had been some time since either of had fed on animal blood, so right now the others smelled mouth watering.
It had taken us about half an hour walking to get there, when we arrived there was loud music playing, I was actually surprised we hadn't heard it from the schools parking lot.
But I was even more surprised, they had found a way to get connection for the equipment.
It was all thanks to long extension cords attached from one to another, to another, to another… you get the idea.
There were quite a few faces I had seen around at school, and some I hadn't.
And then there was Mayleen… Mayleen, Mayleen, Mayleen. Who knew it could be possible, but she wearing even smaller and tighter clothes then usual. She looked like she was wearing a belly dancers outfit.
She had her hair in a very tight and high ponytail. With her bangs brushed to the side.
She had on a white chocker. Her shirt… if you want to call it a shirt, looked more like a white lacy push up bra…. because dear lord where they pushing her up.
She had on a very thin and very open skirt, that I had seen on belly dancers, it was one of those skirts that left the legs completely exposed, and was placed very low below the belly button.
"Why does your sister, even bother putting on clothes?" I asked Mulan.
"My god, does Mulan create blue balls to the next level." Emmett said. He bite down on his knuckles.
I noticed Mulan look down sadly. Unlike Mayleen's risqué outfit, she just had on jeans and a red baby doll shirt.
Elbowing him on the side of his ribs, he looked at me questionably. I nodded my head towards Mulans direction.
"Mulan?" Emmett asked.
Mulan looked at him.
"Want to dance?" he asked her.
"I don't know how to dance." She said.
"I don't know either." He said to her. He grabbed her hand, and pulled her along with him, towards the crowd of other people dancing.
Mulan looked back at me uncertain.
I smiled at her, encouraging her. "I'll be okay." I mouthed, letting her know I was okay to be alone.
I turned my gaze to Mayleen, she was holding a clear plastic cup with beer.
She screamed. "SANDSTORM!" before taking a long drink at her cup, as she started dancing.
Even the way she moved her hips were something to look at.
I still can't believe how this girl could possibly be human. How could someone be so perfect?
I had to yank my gaze away from her, I decided to find a place to sit down.
I made me way through the crowd of dancing bodies, through the couples dancing, around the drunk people, and around the couples making out.
And finally I found a fold out chair to sit on.
I watched the people dancing, the beat of the song, sort of made me want to dance, but I didn't have anyone to dance with.
"Want one?" came a voice over the music.
I looked up at a guys hand, not even bothering to look at his face, he was holding out a beer at me.
I took it and smiled. "Thanks." I said.
He continued on, asking others if they wanted a beer.
I brought the cup to my mouth, and sniffed it.
I took a sip of it, and spit it out, and started coughing.
"Ugh." I made a face. "This is disgusting." I said to myself.
I got off my chair, and walked over to a bag, already over flowing with empty plastic cups.
I looked down at my black tank top, and realized it was wet, I tried wiping at it with my hand. I must have spilled some beer on me.
I decided to go back to my seat, but when I got to it, I found a couple sitting on it… well the guy was sitting on the seat, the girl was rubbing herself on him…. was she… dancing?
I opened my eyes, wide open at what I was seeing. I turned around and smacked straight into someone.
"Sorry!" I said looking up at Paul… Paul? What was he doing here?
"Are you okay?" he asked me. He was grabbing my arm. Just like in my dream, it was hot.
"I'm fine. Thanks." I said pulling my arm away from him. I walked around him.
"Smooth." I said to myself.
I needed to get away from this embarrassment. So I decided to walk away from the party.
I didn't walk to far from the party, I could still hear the music loud enough, and the light still showed enough light, to see what was ahead of me.
"Stupid." I said to myself.
"Hey."
I turned around, knowing all to well who that had came from.
Paul walked to me.
"Funny how I keep bumping into you." He said.
What I found more funny, was how I had dreamt an encounter with him in the woods. And here we were.
I looked at his ring finger, and noticed he wasn't wearing a ring.
"Yeah… funny." I said
I looked over at where the party was. I could still see people dancing.
"So what brought you here?" he asked.
"My car." I said.
He smiled. "You know what I mean."
"My friend." I said simply. "You?"
"My brothers… well their really my friends But their like my brothers." He said.
"I see." I said. "Well I really should get back, my brother is probably looking for me." I said starting to walk away.
"Wait." He said. He grabbed my arm again.
I looked down at his hand. Then back up at him.
"Sorry." He said letting go. "What's your name." he asked.
"Hannah." I said. I couldn't help but stare at the scar he had on his neck.
"Hannah…" he repeated.
I didn't know if he was waiting for me to say my last name. But since I just stared at him, he continued.
"My name's Paul." He said.
"I know, I remember." I said.
"How old are you?" he asked me.
"That's a rather rude question to ask a girl." I said to him smiling.
"Sorry." He said smirking.
"I'm seventeen." I said.
I can't really describe the look on his face. But he longer had a smile on it.
"Hannah… what's your full name?" he asked.
"Hannah Cullen." I said.
The look on his face, was that of utter shock.
"Cullen?" he said slowly, almost to himself.
We both stared at each other in silence, until we heard people screaming. I turned towards the parties direction, and noticed the music had stopped, people where running in all directions in the woods.
"THE PIGS ARE HERE!" I heard a few people scream.
"THIS PARTY IS OVER!" I heard a voice over a megaphone.
"Cops." I said turning to look at Paul. But he was gone.
I looked around for him, but only saw other kids running.
"HANNAH!" I heard Emmett scream for me, I stopped looking for Paul, and ran to Emmett, and Mulan.
Together we ran along with the other kids, towards the school, to get to the car.