Hello people! Sorry for the delay, but I'm very busy with starting school and having to do a few book journals and I didn't know what to do next, so I mixed what I originally had and with some stuff that I just came up with in the moment. So I know this probably sucks, but bear with me please. And just so that you know, Jesse comes in at the hotel they stay at, so he's still 4 days(in the story) away. So if you want to stop reading and continue when he shows up fine. :D.
I wake up at 6:30 and get ready for the day. 5 more days till we fly to Florida! The plan is we fly to Florida so that we can still spend a day at the hotel. The hotel had some special theme park of some sort, I already forgot what it is, but then we go on the cruise. For 11 days! I can't wait. So I head to school, actually on time, for once. I'm still contemplating on what Paul had said, about shifters, not me. I only had 2 classes with him, History and Social Studies, and his lunch was before mine. I think, today at least, I'm starting to like him. Is that bad? Because something's telling me that I should stay away from him. Anyways, I'm in social studies, listening to the teacher when Paul hands me a note. I look at him and he smiles. I then open the note.
'Whad r u doin aftr scool?' What the heck? Is he asking me out? AGAIN?! So I write down,
'Detention." Couldn't do anything with me if I was in detention, right?
I pass it back to him. He chuckles quietly, and then hands it back.
'What about after Detention?' Now he is asking me out.
'Why?'
'Do you want to learn some of the shifting?' Oh yea, duh. He knows I hate him, he wouldn't ask me out. The bell rings just then, so I just tell him,
"You know when detention's done?" He nods in reply. Then we go to our different classes. The rest of the day went as usual, only I managed to stay out of trouble. When detention was done, I found Paul waiting for me outside in his slick car. I get in with an open mind about him. Maybe I was just seeing him in a bad light yesterday I mean he only wanted to tell me about shifters. Why am I making excuses? Could it be that I like him? Probably.
"How was your day?" he asks driving off.
"Good, yours?" he looks over at me and replies, smiling
"Beautiful." Whoa. What the heck?
We keep a little small talk going, a bit of shifter stuff and school. He then parks in front of 'The Beach'. It's a restaurant that wasn't even near the beach, which I find kind'av a weird name for it.
"Umm, Paul? I thought you where going to show how to do the shifter stuff?" I say confused.
"We're just going to talk about 'the shifter stuff'. And we'll talk about it while we drink coffee." He gets out of the car and gives me a 'come on' look. And then, for good measures, he says "C'mon, it's just a drink." He says adding a smile. So I think about it, I've been thinking a lot about whether to go with Paul or not haven't I, but I get out of the car silently and go in with him anyways. He puts his arm around me, but I shove it off and give him a look.
"Fine, fine, we'll just talk then, promise." He says raising his hands defensively. We order some coffee, he pays, and then we sit down at a table and talk. We started talking about shifting, but then he asks,
"So, I heard you're from New York. What brought you here?"
"Well," I start, wiping my mouth, "My mom married a guy from here, and we just moved here." I took another sip from my coffee and asked, "What are you doing here? Didn't you have school in Seattle?"
"Yea well, my grandpa isn't doing so well so I'm here to take of him. Since I'm the more responsible one and could move easier than my parents could, I got chosen to come and live with him." He says hinting that he wants to change the subject.
"So how do you shift to a different place?" I ask.
"Do you have any siblings?" He asks apparently bored with that subject too.
"Umm, no. Actually yes, I now have 3 step brothers." And then we exchange stories about our families. Once we finished our coffee, he asked,
"So, you still wanna go somewhere, I know this really great place that's not too far from here?" I look at my watch. 5:15. I still had a little while before I was due home, but maybe he'd finally talk about shifting. He takes my hand, without me having responded to his answer, and starts leading me to the car.
"Actually, I should be getting home soon." I say pulling back, having second thoughts.
"It'll just be quick; it's very pretty around now." He says now going next to me and putting his arm around me. I try to shrug his arm off, but he holds my shoulder.
"But-"
"No buts, it'll just be very quick." He says now leading me out the door. "C'mon, it'll be fun, I promise." He says closing my door.
"I have to be home-"
"By 6, I know." He interrupts smiling. He gets in and starts driving.
"Where are we going?" I ask getting a little annoyed.
"You'll see." He replies, just like yesterday. I hate it when he doesn't tell me stuff. I cross my arms and look out the window. We drive for a few minuets then come to a clearing. Paul stops the engine and looks at me. I look around, since I wasn't really looking out the window, just thinking. We were at an open area with a few trees. It looked really nice and the way the sun was hitting it all, made it look really beautiful.
"What are we doing here?" I ask confused. He also confuses me a lot. How is that?
"C'mon," he says getting out of the car. "I'll show you." I get out of the car and walk to him, he puts his arm around me and we sit down on the floor.
I'm sure if someone walked by they'd think we were a couple. "Paul?"
"Yea?" he asks back.
"Are you going on the cruise?" I should have thought of this earlier, but I didn't. Isn't it weird how these things sound important but you don't think of them till the last moment? Well I find it weird.
"Yea, I am." He says giving me a small hug. I could picture this happening everyday, just Paul and me together.
"Do you want to try some of the shifting?"
"Yea." I say excited.
"O.K. lay down." He says removing his arm from my shoulders letting a cool breeze make my shoulders cold, but I lay down.
"Now imagine Limbo." He says. Well geez, anything more specific? But I didn't want to feel stupid again with him laughing so I just imagined and place full of mist and floating around somewhere in space. I know, real original isn't it? After a while I didn't feel any different.
"I don't think its working." I say slightly agitated. He laughs.
"Yea, well it's your first time so don't worry." He says. "It probably won't work for a while. It's not as easy as it sounds." He say laughing, then adds, "But you do look adorable trying."
"Hey!" I say sitting up and hitting him.
"Well, you can work on that." He says laughing.
"Work on what, shifting or not looking adorable?" I reply.
"Well lets see," he says putting his thinking face on. "Both."
"HEY!" I say then tackle him.
"Whoa, I was just kidding." He says laughing and flips me on my back, since I was on top of him.
"You had be–" he kisses me. Did I want this? I guess. I mean I did agree with practically everything. So I kiss back and wrap my arms around his neck. He slowly puts his hand under my shirt and starts making shapes on my stomach. It sent tingles all through my body. After a while, he pulls back and looks at me. He was propped up on one elbow, so he pulls out the hand from under my shirt and puts a loose strand of my hair behind my ear. We smile at each other.
"We should get you home now." He says getting up and then helping me up. I didn't need any, but it's rude to refuse the hand of the person you just kissed, right? So we head to the car and he opens the door for me. Once I'm in he closes my door and gets in the driver seat. Before driving off leans over and kisses me again, but not as long as on earlier, just a short one. Then he drives off. I get home with only a few minuets to spare. Paul walks me to the door and then gives me yet another kiss. A longer one.
"I'll see you later." He says backing away towards his car. I smile to myself and go inside. I head to my room, but don't make it because mom calls,
"Suzie! Time to eat!" she yells as I'm on the way up the stairs. So I turn around and dump my books at the bottom of the stairs and go sit down at the table.
"How was school Suze?" asked Andy.
"It was good." I say getting over my daze and concentrating on eating.
"Suzie are you ok? You look different," says Mom, scrutinizing me.
"I'm fine Mom." I say making it clear that I was fine and wanted to change the subject.
"So, are you excited to be going on the cruise soon?" says Andy, taking the hint.
"Yea, I can't wait." I reply.
"Did you pack yet?" asks Jake. Drat! I forgot about that.
"No, I still have to pack!" How could I forget about packing!? I'm such a klutz! "I'll pack after dinner." I say quickly because Andy was about to say it anyways. Dinner went on with everybody talking about their day. This is how it went about every night, talking about their day. Only I didn't talk about Paul with them. They didn't need to know about that did they now? Didn't think so. I then go up to my room and 'Pre – Pack' some stuff. CeeCee said that I should make a pile of stuff I want to take with and then cut the pile in half. So for now I'm making a pile of clothes I want to take, which turned out to be a pretty big pile. I then do some last minute homework, then I get ready for bed and think about Paul. Why do I like Paul all of a sudden? I mean yesterday I didn't like him. This morning I didn't like, but not as much as yesterday. I wonder what Kelly's going to say about that? Why do I care what Kelly thinks? I think……… (She fell asleep)
I know I know, it's a little scattered, but I wrote it VERY quickly. So I promise that the next chapter will be better thought through even if it may take longer. So hit the 'review' button and if enough people bug me, I might bring the chapter up sooner :D. TTFN!