I had a little fun with the road trip in this chapter :D

Chapter 41

"I kissed a girl and I liked it!" Jacob sang along with the radio with skills that could rival Katy Perry and dancing in his seat, rocking my tiny truck back and forth. "Taste of her cherry chap stick!"

"Out of all the stations you could stop on why this one?!" I yelled over the radio. I reached for the dial but he smacked my hand away.

"I like this song!" he defended.

Seth muttered from the back. "I believe the lyrics are, I kissed a leech and I liked it." Jacob turned around and snarled.

"Hey! No fighting in my truck!" I screeched, quickly turning down the volume and changing the station. "You have to admit, Seth's play on words is pretty hilarious." I cracked a smile and Jacob turned to snarl at me.

"She's only half vampire." He put in weakly.

"I was only joking, Jake." Seth laughed from the back.

We were silent for a while, the only sound was the purr of my motor and the soft pang of a steel guitar – the station I had switched to was country. I knew the silence wouldn't last very long and sure enough probably ten seconds later Seth whined. "Gosh, Leah, can't you make this thing go any faster? I could run faster than this hunk of junk!"

I looked at him in the rearview mirror and couldn't help laughing at his predicament. He was sprawled out across the back, his head up against one window with one of his feet sticking out the other window. "Well maybe you can't run faster but I can." I bragged, dancing around the question.

Seth let out a huff of annoyance.

"Leah's trying to get used to being human." Jacob said, he obviously was saying it as a joke. His silent laughter rocked the truck.

"I am." I defended. "And you should too Seth. You may not be going human but you [i]are[/i] going to school next semester. I doubt it would be a good idea to show up as a wolf to school."

"I can still run to school." He defended. "I'll just phase before I get there."

"And what will you tell them?" Jacob chimed in, surprisingly agreeing with me. "That you walked all the way there?"

Seth was silent. I glanced over at Jacob. He was slouched back in his seat, staring absentmindedly out the window. By the look on his face I had no doubt that was thinking of Renesmee.

Pulling into Port Angeles I was quickly able to find my apartment building. Luckily there was a small parking lot next door so I was able to pull in and park the trailer. Getting out of the truck I felt a pull towards the other side of the lot. There stood a huge Chevy 4X4 pickup. The mirrors stood far out on the sides and it was jacked a couple feet off its wheels. It was repainted a shiny metallic blue. Jake let out a low whistle.

"Nice truck." He muttered. "Looks like you have white trash neighbors." He smiled at his joke.

"Hopefully they aren't partiers." I muttered.

Seth pulled himself out from his snug enclosure and fell on the pavement with a thump and a grunt. He stood up and dusted himself off. "Alright." He cheered like a football coach. "Let's do this."

I laughed at his enthusiasm as I pulled the trailer door up and grabbed the nearest box. "Try to act human ok?" I whispered.

Jacob looked at me then put one of his three large boxes back. "This'll take forever." He sighed.

I ignored him and headed into the building. "Of all the apartments in Port Angeles you HAD to pick the one without an elevator!" Seth muttered.

"Aren't you a bucket full of sunshine?" I smiled, poking him in the side. "Besides, you'd probably complain the elevator wasn't going fast enough and that 'I could run faster than this hunk of junk.'"

As I walked down the hall of my floor I felt strangely drawn to a door that wasn't mine. I paused there, staring perplexed. "Is this it?" I heard Jacob grunt from behind me.

I shook my head, clearing it. "Um... no it's down here." They didn't question me anymore. I opened the door to my furnished apartment and looked around. The walls were an off white and furniture that looked like it belonged in a retirement home dotted the rooms.

"It smells like cat pee." Seth commented. "I hate cats."

"No dissing my apartment." I shot back, setting my box down on the floor. "And there better not be any frickin cats in here."

"I doubt they'd stay long with you here." Jacob laughed and pushed my head playfully. "Seth and I will go down and get more boxes and leave you alone in the cat mansion." The cat mansion seemed to be my apartment's new nickname, but even if it was badly out dated and smelled I love it. It was the symbol of my new future. Wow, how depressing does that sound?

I grabbed a box marked bathroom and wandered around till I found the bathroom, which didn't take long. It was small, and the tiling on the shower was neon green. "Ugg." I sighed.

I heard Jacob and Seth clomp through the door so I went out to help them with the boxes. "Well at least the neighbors are nice." Jake said, setting down his two boxes.

"Did you meet one?" I asked curiously.

"Yeah this guy asked us if we wanted any help carrying boxes. I think he's the guy that owns the white trash truck." Seth leaned up against a dingy wall.

I stared at the two and wondered what the man's first impressions on them had been. Of course they were both clad in typical werewolf attire: just pants and no shirts, even though it was December. I should have had them blend in more. Jacob was close to 7 foot and Seth was around 6'9" and they both were probably twice as wide as my neighbor with their muscles. "I hope you didn't scare him off." I scolded.

"Naw, he was a nice guy. Not too much smaller than Seth actually." Jacob commented.

"Really?" I wondered out loud. "If you bring the last load up, I'll order pizzas."

"Yes! Make mine pepperoni!" Seth cheered.

"What do you want, Jake?"

"Whatever," he muttered back. They marched out the door and I searched for a phonebook. I found one, conveniently, placed under the phone. I dialed the number and put our order in.

Around 20 minutes later our three large pizzas arrived. "You having a party?" the greasy haired pizza boy asked, staring dreamily up at me. I scowled a bit.

"No we like leftovers." I shut the door in his face.

"Like there will be any left." Jacob snorted, eagerly digging into his pizza.

"Ha, the pizza boy has a crush on Leah!" Seth sang. "You should have tried for a discount."

I punched him in the shoulder with enough force to put a hole in the wall. He barely flinched and stuffed another piece in his mouth with a laugh. The rest of the night went on like this, us sitting around the living room on the 70's furniture, laughing and sharing good times. I could feel my future brightening by the second. Tomorrow would be the first step into my new life.