A/N: Sorry it's out a little later than planned, I had unforseen computer hiccups. Here is the second chapter of I'd Lie. I got two reviews for this story, so I will also be posting chapter three, if you want chapter four next Monday then review, the more reviews I get, the most chapters I post.
Chapter Two
~ He'll never fall in love he swears
As he runs his fingers through his hair
I'm laughing 'cause I hope he's wrong
And I don't think it's ever crossed his mind
He tells a joke I fake a smile
But I know all his favourite songs ~
I'd Lie by Taylor Swift
Five minutes before we got to school James stopped ranting about Bella and his parents and said to me with a grin "I don't think I'm ever going to fall in love with anyone, Victoria"
"Why?" I asked, trying to ignore the sensation like I'd been punched in the gut and James laughed "Because it causes too many mistakes. I mean, look at Charlie and Renee! They swore they were in love right after high school, eloped in Vegas and Renee got knocked up to prove it. Nah, I'll just be one of those bastards who has a good fuck and then goes on his way"
"James" I said reprovingly, trying to banish the very appealing fantasy of being 'fucked' by him "You shouldn't joke about that, it's not fun having your heart broken by someone who's simply looking to get in your pants. Look at Garrett Ayers and Laurent"
Garrett Ayers had moved to Forks from Canada with his widowed father two years ago and had been instantly smitten with the vivacious Kate Denali. No one had seen fit to warn the adventurous Canadian new comer that the Denali sisters - Tanya and Irina had left the previous year - were trouble and should be left alone.
Kate had strung Garrett along for all of junior year before her dirty little scandals with the majority of the boys who didn't know Garrett had come out. Garrett had been absolutely heartbroken and his father, furious that nothing had been done to stop the destructive relationship when the school knew of the Denali sisters reputations, had moved with him back to Canada.
Laurent was an old friend of mine who'd been idiotic enough to fall in love with Irina Denali - Kate's older sister and Tanya's twin - and, unsurprisingly, she'd strung him along as well. He'd broken up with her when he'd found out, however he'd recently confessed to me that he still loved her. I'd told him to get the hell over her; she and her slutty sisters were bad news.
However, I had to admit, Laurent was fairly bad news too. He'd finished school with fairly average marks, nothing flash, and had then proceeded to attend community college, drop out after six months and become a drifter. I'd met him when I was a junior and he a senior, when he was still going out with Irina Denali. He'd been doing a bit of manual labour for my father's business - my dad owned several companies that drove trucks full of supplies up and down the states - and he'd seen me a few times at school and when I popped in to see my father at work. He'd introduced himself to me and a firm but rather odd friendship had developed.
Laurent survived by odd jobs and spent the night in hostels or cheap hotels; he was also a marijuana addict. He'd been an addict, he told me, since his Freshman year of high school but where he got the pot in a place like Forks without somebody finding out was a mystery to me. James had offered to tell Charlie, who was the chief of police, that Laurent was addicted to an illicit substance but I'd told him to keep his nose out of it. Laurent would be on pot until the day it killed him and I'd long accepted that; I did, however, have rules when it came to him and pot. When he was around at my house, as he was occasionally, he was not to smoke anywhere on the premises, my parents would go through the roof if they thought I or any of my friends had so much as been near a joint of the stuff, and he wasn't allowed to smoke in front of my friends - except James. The only reason he was allowed to smoke in front of James was because James had seen Laurent standing outside my house smoking one time and had asked him what the hell he was doing and Laurent, the stupid pothead, had said that I wouldn't let him smoke his joint in my house and James had come in and said to me "There's a guy standing at your front door smoking a fucking joint!"
Laurent, who was a fairly easy going guy even without the weed, tolerated James as James had been my best friend since I was a baby, but James made no secret of his dislike of my homeless, drifting friend with dreadlocks and a marijuana addiction.
"Yeah, well, I'm not gonna pretend that I felt sorry for Laurent when Irina Denali dumped him and Garrett Ayers had it coming for him, he wanted an adventure and I bet he got one rolling around in the sheets with Kate Denali"
I sighed and said "So, you basically want to be a guy who gets in woman's pants and then leaves them broken hearted and gets talked about for the next ten years?" I teased and he nodded, running his fingers through his scraggly blonde ponytail "Yep, that's the plan Vicki"
I made a face "Don't call me Vicki"
"Even if I get in your pants one day?"
I gave him a look and he said "Better keep your eyes on the road or I'll report you to the chief of police"
I shook my head at my old friend, managing to force a smile at his joke and his declaration that he was going to become a sleaze, and turned my head back to the road. James turned up the radio in my car as a Linkin Park song came over the speakers. It was one of their older numbers, the kind with lots of screamo and James commented that the new vocalist had really changed the sound of Linkin Park's music and, he hinted, it was not necessarily for the better.
I, personally, didn't like Linkin Park all that much, but James did, so I endured them for James. Last year for his birthday I had brought him their new album Minutes to Midnight and he'd goggled at me and said 'How the hell do you know I like Linkin Park?'
Sitting in my luxury car listening to James quietly sing along to the screamo lyrics I sighed softly to myself. James, haven't you realised yet, I know everything about you.
A/N: Just because chapter three is out already doesn't mean you shouldn't review. Did you like this chapter? Did you hate this chapter? Tell all in a review!
