Chapter 4: Honey Moon
I
woke up, my head resting on my arm, the wind whipping through my
hair. I looked around groggily and saw that Jacob was still driving,
his arms tense as his foot laid heavily on the gas pedal. I looked
over at the speedometer. 125mph!
"Jake slow down!" I
screamed, realizing how everything was a blur around us. I guess I
must have scared him. He stomped on the breaks, making us spin out.
The car came to a stop on the side of the road. His breathing was
heavy, his eyes wide with fear. He looked at me.
"What's
wrong?" He whimpered.
"Do you have a lead foot or something!"
I hollered, opening the door. I stumbled out, my legs asleep. He
opened the door and came around to help me up.
"Are you ok?"
He questioned, sounding slightly guilty but more concerned.
"I
have to pee!" I whimpered. He laughed and hauled me to my feet,
walking me off towards the woods. I went behind a bush and did my
business. I came back out, feeling gross and dirty. He smiled.
"Better my love?" He questioned. I shook my head.
"Did
you sleep at all last night?" I questioned, looking at him. He
looked at me sheepishly and shook his head.
"I was having too
much fun driving." I glared at him and slapped him in the arm. He
looked at me shocked, probably wondering why I was being so moody.
"Don't do that! Let me drive when you get tired!" I
screamed at him. I just didn't want him to mutilate himself. I
rubbed at his arm and squeaked.
"What would that accomplish?
You don't know where to go." He replied. I looked at him blankly,
then down at the ground.
"Oh yeah." I turned and headed back
to the car. "At least pull off to the side of the road so you're
not tired when we actually get there." I replied. He laughed.
"Was that a scitzo moment?" Moment questioned, following
after me. I shrugged my shoulders and reached inside of a plastic bag
in the back seat. I pulled out a bottle of water and a bar of
soap.
"How much water we have to spare?" I asked, looking at
him, starting to strip the gown off. He just stared at me, a smile on
his face.
"Enough to drench every crevice of your body." He
replied, sounding breathless. I put the gown back over my head and
stared at him through narrow eyes.
"I'm trying to get clean
and you're making me dirty by breathing so hard." I smiled. He
purposely started breathing harder. I laughed and slapped him in the
chest. "Fine, I'll wait till we get to our destination." I
replied, turning around, climbing back into the passenger side.
"I
can keep it natural and give you a tongue bath." He smiled, opening
the door for me; I lightly slapped him in the face and pointed. He
stared at me with a smile, his mouth open. "Oh! Getting kinky huh?"
I laughed and shut the door, sticking my tongue out at him.
"Let's
just go mutt face." I teased.
"Yes bitch." He joked back
and walked around the front of the car. Smiling I leaned over and
slammed my hand down on the horn. It was loud and sounded like a
chorus of dog barks that turned into a howl. He jumped away and
smiled, laughing at it. "I freaking love this car!" He hooted,
jumping over the door, landing in the driver's side seat. I laughed
and fell over, laying my head on his shoulder.
"If you love it
so much, why don't you marry it?" He looked at me shocked, his
eyes blinking only a couple times.
"You mean you're actually
going to let me divorce you to marry it? Hell yeah!" He turned the
car on and hit the gas. My jaw dropped as I slapped his arm and
pushed myself away. He laughed. "I'm just kidding baby, I'd
only sleep with my car on weekdays, week ends are strictly for you."
I slapped him again, trying to keep myself from smiling as I crossed
my arms. He shook his head and kept driving, the wind tossing our
hair around. I looked at our surroundings. Obviously we were out in
the country.
"Where are we?" I asked as he slowed down,
cutting off onto a road that was hidden by trees.
"Skyline
between Utah and Ephraim." He replied, keeping his eyes on the
road.
"Utah?" I questioned, my forehead crinkling. He
nodded.
"Yep, after we get to Utah, I'll have a friend watch
our present then we're going to take a plane west." He smiled,
his eyes slightly glazed over.
"What's west?" I looked
down at my hands, making a cross with my pointer finger, trying to
remember on which side of me was west and which side was east.
"Something." He replied simply. I glared at him.
"That
really narrows it down Jake! Tell me!" I whined, grabbing his arm.
He shrugged me off, laughing.
"Alright, I'll give you a
hint." My heart leapt as I pulled away squealing happily. He
laughed. "We're going somewhere that starts with A." He hinted.
I stopped. That was it? That was my hint? I was pretty good at
guessing, but somewhere that starts with A? Why?
"We're
going to Arkansas?" I looked at him with a disgusted expression. He
busted with laughter.
"Arkansas is east of us May! God!" he
stepped harder onto the gas.
"Give me a better hint! That one
sucked!" I pleaded. He laughed and shook his head.
"It ends
with A as well."
"Arizona!" I hollered, pointing at him.
He laughed, unable to keep both hands on the steering wheel, he
covered his mouth, snorting, his eyes watering. My face turned hot as
I watched him laugh at me.
"May! Arizona is South of us!" He
squealed, a tear trickling down his face. I sat back with my arms
crossed and pouted.
"I'm sorry I'm geographically
retarded." I muttered. He laughed. I didn't say anything else for
the rest of the ride.
NFS
We
got to the airport in Utah and met up with Jacob's friend. He was a
short, old man with long bristly beard hair and a tiny mustache. He
was bald in the middle of his head, nothing but a little tuft of
white hair around from the back of one ear to the other. Jake smiled
as he climbed out of the car, scaring the old man for a second.
"Hey old fart!" Jake hollered, climbing out of the car. I
looked at the old man questioningly. He must have been one of Jake's
old friends that he knew, and the man must have known about him being
werewolf.
"Jacob,
how are you doing?" The man wheezed, pushing himself out of a
rocking chair. It was a car impound shop, one of those places where
you drop your car off before you get in a plane and go somewhere, and
then when you come back all you have to do is get in your car and go.
"I'm doing pretty good dude, how about you?" Jake replied,
giving the old man a hug.
"Same old, the wife's been
complaining non-stop since the last time I saw you. Women, take my
advice and stay away from them, if you marry one you'll never get
away. You'd have a better chance of seeing god before you get away
from them whole." He insulted. I glared at him. Jacob laughed
nervously and quickly looked back at me.
"Oh! Speaking of
women, I'd like you to meet my wife Mayella." He stepped
back as I stepped forward, the heels of my wedding shoes clacking
against the cement loudly. He looked at me with a flushed expression
then laughed.
"You're such an idiot. How long have you known
this girl?" He asked, not even saying hi to me. I crossed my arms
and scowled.
"I've known her for about twenty years." Jake
replied. I glared at him, my jaw dropping. He looked at me confused,
then laughed. "May, he's cool; he knows what I am, what your
father is and everything." I looked at him questioningly.
"How?"
My voice sounded a little…haggard. He smiled at me, his face
turning soft.
"He's Xiang's and Eng's step father." He
replied simply as if it was everyday. My heart skipped a beat. Xiang?
The wolf that had imprinted on Seth then died to save me? Eng's
sister. I looked away from him. I could feel the hurt expression on
my face.
"I'm sorry." I whispered. They were quiet. Jake
walked over and hugged me.
"He knew that they wouldn't live
to see him die. Well, at least not Xiang." I shook my head and
pushed myself out of his arms.
"How is he their step father if
he's so much younger than them?" I asked, looking into my
beautiful husbands sparkling brown eyes.
"Well, when I in my
twenties, I had first moved out here. I was all alone when suddenly,
one night; I was attacked by a group of vampires. Eng came to help me
and got badly injured in the process. That was back before he was
such a sweet heart. Back before when he was emotionally damaged. I
nursed him back to health and he stuck around for a bit. That's
when Xiang came looking for him. She stayed here a little while,
talking with me about what they were, and after a while, when they
said they had no pack, they told me they were homeless, so I took
them in. They stayed with me until I hit fifty." He explained. I
nodded.
"How did you meet Jacob?" I questioned, wondering
wildly if it was the same way he met Xiang and Eng. He smiled.
"I
found this poor bugger on the side of the road eating at road kill. I
saw how big he was and thought 'Gee, he must be a werewolf' so I
stopped on the side of the road, told him I knew what he was, he
changed into human and he came to live with me for a bit, that was
almost what? 22 years ago?" He looked at Jacob. My husband nodded,
smiling.
"May, I met him back before you moved to Forks, that
was back when I refused to turn into a human because of the Volturi
taking Nessie away." I nodded and looked down at the road.
"Wow,
I feel awful, even though I'm not sure if I'm supposed to." I
whispered. I couldn't believe that I had been so mean to him, that
poor old man. But his manner's were crap, talking about women in
such a negative way, telling Jake not to get married. I felt my blood
start to boil again. I hated it! He wrapped his arm around me and
kissed my head.
"No need to feel awful, I have something so
much better that makes up for it." He smiled at me. I closed my
eyes and leaned up, pressing my lips against his. He took a deep
breath and grabbed my shoulders, pulling me closer, deepening the
kiss. I reached around and wove my fingers through his hair, shoving
him back against the wall of the building. His breathing was fast,
hard, violent. The air coming from his nose pushing the hair that had
fallen in my face off to the sides. He pulled away and sank his teeth
into my neck. I screamed as I felt the skin rip. I leaned forward and
sank my teeth into his shoulder. I progressed forward, dragging my
long nails down his back, tearing open his black t-shirt. He gasped
and pulled away, a little blood on his lips.
"I'm sorry
baby." I whispered, looking away. I hadn't been able to keep all
of the blood in my mouth that I had taken from him. He itched it,
smudging blood down the front of his shirt.
"It's alright,
how are you feeling?" He asked, looking at me as I held my hand
over the bleeding hole.
"I'm fine." Just as the words
escaped my lips, my stomach shifted. I turned around and threw up any
and all blood that I had digested of his. He moved forward and held
my hair out of my face as I cried heavily into my palm, the force of
the vomit wrecking havoc on my empty stomach.
"Is
she ok?" the old man questioned, walking over to my calm husband.
Jacob nodded.
"She's part vampire, but she can't drink
human blood, only animal blood." Jacob explained, one hand rubbing
at my back and my shoulders. The old man sighed and turned around,
heading for the door of the building.
"Melinda! Get some water would you?" He called in. he walked away from the door and grabbed a hose, proceeding to wash all of the blood from the large puddle under my face. "Here, pull her away so I can clean up this mess before someone comes in." He instructed, no longer sounding like a dick. Bending over, Jake wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me away from the puddle. Squeezing the nozzle the old man sent a jet stream of water through the blood soaked vomit. Seconds later a young woman came out with a tray with a pitcher of water and a glass on it.
"Here
you go deary, drink up." She replied handing the tray to Jake,
holding the cup to my lips, slowly pouring it into my mouth. Holding
my hair she bent me forward. I let the water fall out of my mouth and
all over the pavement.
"Hey Melinda." Jake greeted, sounding
slightly, tired, or maybe he was embarrassed?
"Hello Jacob sweetie, how are you?" She greeted in return, waiting for me to continue swishing out my mouth before filling my mouth full of water again.
"I'm fine, just got married." He smiled, lifting his hand. She gasped and wrapped her arms around him. A shot of jealousy struck through me as she gave him a quick peck on the lips. I whirled around and grabbed the back of her shirt, pulling her away from him.
"He's married to me!" I snarled, glaring at her. She looked at me, confused from my sudden hostility.
"May, Melinda is Mark's wife." He replied. I looked at him, my eyebrows still furrowed.
"And who the hell is Mark?" I spat, my knuckles turning white from how tightly I was holding onto Melinda's shirt. He just pointed at the old man. I let go and stared at her shocked. "No! How? She's supposed to be old like him." I replied, feeling guilty, sorry for acting like that. Jake rolled his eyes and smiled.
"Melinda is a vampire. She agreed to help take care of Eng when Mark first moved here, of course he ended up meeting her a while before that. She was stashed inside of a burning vehicle and Mark saved her thinking she was human." He looked at Melinda. She nodded.
"Yes, back when I was a human my husband was bitten by a vampire. He wanted me to stay with him so he changed me. We remained a couple until maybe forty years ago, forty or fifty until he got sick of me. He brought me out to feed off of humans -of course I'd never really been one to drink human blood so I settled for squirells- and when he was finished, he attacked me and left me to die until Mark saved me. I have been indebted to him." she closed her eyes. "We got married not too long after that. I had offered to turn him into one of my kind, but he refused. He said he loved me and all, but he wanted to go to heaven with is first wife and his daughter who had been killed in a shooting." She looked back at him. I looked at him too, still rinsing all of the blood off of the sidewalk.
"That's awful." I muttered. She nodded.
"But I'm ready to hold my own, although I'll be crushed when he dies, I'm ready to move on." She whispered and turned away, disappearing into the house. I looked down at the cement and thought it over. What it was like to lose a loved one, to watch them get old, and eventually die. Jake sighed and turned around heading down the road.
"Well Mark, we're disappearing. See you when we come back to pick up the car." Mark nodded and went back inside. I hesitated, but followed Jake down the road towards the airport, leaving Mark and his vampire wife behind.
NFS
The airplane ride was long, and boring and I didn't get a chance to hear where we were going because I had been watching a movie during the whole flight. We landed somewhere beautiful though. Where? I had no clue. We landed right on the coast. There was a little hut thing by the water. An Asian man was sitting behind the desk. It was a boat rental I was guessing.
"Hold on right here ok baby?" Jacob questioned, smiling at me, pressing his lips to mine. I nodded and watched as he ran off. I looked around. I wanted to know where the hell I was. "May!" Jake called to me next to a motorboat. I smiled and grabbed the suitcases that I had carried from the car and walked over next to him. "We're almost there." He whispered, kissing my cheek. I smiled and nodded. I knew he was probably lying, he usually did lie to me like that…not.
Taking the luggage from me he put it in the back of the boat and climbed in. Turning to me he grabbed me and helped me into the boat. I sat down on one of the couches and waited as he turned it on. The boat sputtered to life and lurched forward in the water, starting to race across the waves. I looked around and remembered the last time I had been on a boat like this. My heart pounded in my chest. I put my hand over it and looked down at the floor. Such a terrible memory it was. Anything that reminded me of my son…of my babies…was a terrible memory.
I didn't want to be awake and be reminded of this. Closing my eyes, I drown out the sound of the boat and force myself to sleep. Force myself into peace.
NFS
I wake up to the sound of the boat shutting off.
"May, you awake?" Jake asks gently, sweetly. I open my eyes to see his beautiful smile pulled lightly across his face. I rub at my eyes and stretch, looking around we were on a smaller island with a sandbar that lead to what looked to be cliffs.
"Where are we?" I question, dropping my arms by my sides. He smiled.
"We're there, our honey moon spot." He replied standing, climbing out of the boat. I stood up and walked to the edge of the boat. He held his hand down and helped me out. There was a slight hill that lead up to a large house. I looked at him confused.
"Where are we?" I repeated. He laughed.
"The place that began with A and ended with A and was west of us was Asia." He replied, hugging me. I gasped, my eyes open wide.
"Asia! You mean that Asian man wasn't just some immigrant?" I squealed. I can't believe that I was actually in an Asian country and hadn't known about it. He laughed and kissed my forehead.
"Exactly baby, now, let's have some fun shall we?" He took some of the luggage and started toward the house. A month of just me and Jacob on an Island near Asia…I couldn't ask for a better honey moon.
