Chapter Five
Cleo's POV
Paul took a long time to get home. I mean a really long time. On the other hand, maybe I just got out of school early. Hmmmm. Anyway, when Paul finally got home, he had a glum look on his face. "Stupid Charlie. Didn't bloody know where Cleo was…." He swore under his breath, but then saw me lying on the lawn. He grinned like a maniac and ran over to me. He kissed the top of my head. I never wanted this to end, so I pushed my head against his chest. He just sat near me and for those few moments, I was in heaven. Until of course, Paul's grandad decided to throw me a dress and told me to phase back and get changed into the dress he threw me. Ruined the moment, he did.
I carried the dress between my teeth and phased back where no one could see me. I shimmied the dress on, which was obviously too small. Damn the dress. "Uh… Paul?" Silence for a few seconds as I waited. "Yea, Clee?" His husky voice floated over in my direction. I closed my eyes as his voice washed over me. "I'm gonna go home and get something that fits me." I took off the dress and threw it in Paul's direction. I phased once more and jumped easily out of the scrub. Paul stood shocked with the dress hanging from his shoulder. I barked out laughter while he shook his head at me, after getting over his shock. "See yak later, Clee."
I started running in the direction of what I thought was my house –for the moment at least. It was easy enough to figure which way was home. Follow the bloody bad smell. Took me at least two minutes or so, at top speed might I add, to get back home. I phased back in the backyard and dashed inside for my room. I hope that Bella isn't home…. I slammed the door after me. Phew. Everything clear. I put on some skinny dark blue jeans, a plain red crop top, and my favourite black converse. I get downstairs and get something to eat. Perfect. Hotdogs. I made some more for Charlie and Bella, wrapping them and leaving them on the kitchen table.
When I get outside, I'm confronted with Jake. It's nice that he's here and all… but I sorta wanna get back to Paul. "Hey Jake! What are you doing here?" He shuffled his feet into the ground, embarrassed. It was slightly cute. He grabbed my hand and led me down the road a little bit. There, in all its glory, was the Rabbit. My Rabbit. It was amazing. Touched up, but amazing. New, glossy paint, the exhaust –shockingly –in the shape of a heart. I ran over to Jacob and enveloped him in a hug. "I think that you're the best friend I could ever have. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much!" He grinned bashfully as I jumped up and down in front of him. Moments later, the keys were dangled before my eyes, begging me to put them into the ignition. I couldn't say no, could I? I jumped into the driver's seat, with Jacob, getting in next to me. "Let's go!"
Five minutes later, I think he was regretting those words. I got out of the driver's seat, and started walking to his house. A couple paces into my journey, I realised that Jake hadn't got out of the car yet. I walked back and found him, still gripping tightly to his chair. "Jake," I ask carefully. He jerks out of his trance. "I'm not that bad if a driver am I?" His brows knitted together as he tried to think of an answer. He responded very cautiously. "Well, let's just say, I'm never riding in a car that you're driving ever again." I laughed loudly, loudly enough to bring Paul out of his house. Jacob's face darkened considerably. "What do you want, Long?" He spat. Paul lifted his hands peacefully. "Nothing that involves you. Cleo, I need to talk with you, though."
I turned to Jake with a face that had 'sorry' written all over it. He shrugged hopelessly. God, this was annoying. Mental note to self; slowly remove wolf-self shield, and distance self from Jake. I put on a show of slowly but angrily following Paul. When he finally shut the front door behind us, he slung his arm over me and whispered in my ear, the most unromantic thing I have ever heard. "We have to patrol now." Fate seems to hate me. Seems like Fate's human form is my older brother…
A/N: Another super short chapter. I'm really sorry. I'll try REALLY hard next time for a longer chapter. Thanks to jblc77, Musik Drache, Aoi Nami-chan, Draenei and CourageToStandAlone for reviewing on the last chapter. You guys encourage me!!
I'll try to update soon, Skye!