Hi everyone. So I'm writing and posting this chapter now because I really miss writing and because I just finished my school and packing because I'm going to Florida for the next two and a half weeks oh and my internet is down. I still miss Tommy but I need to keep writing, even though he's not here with me for me to type this I'm gonna write this chapter and I'll see how I feel when I'm done.

Chapter 6

Last time

My nose started to run and tears started to sting my eyes. If only I was that age again, then I wouldn't be here and I would know what to do differently.

"are you okay?" I heard someone ask.

I gasped and turned to face them. It was a girl with short dirty blonde hair. She was wearing a Beatles t-shirt and black baggy jeans with chains all over them and green and black ankle converses. Her makeup wasn't heavy like a Goth but it wasn't too thin that it looked like she had nothing on but just right for her. She stood about 5'10 5'11 with a slightly tanned body.

"Yeah." I said whipping my eye's "Yeah I'm fine… thanks though."

"It doesn't look like your okay." She said and slid into the seat next to me. "Are you new here?" she asked.

"Yeah, I just got here." I started to feel some heat of the sun so I grabbed the sleeves of Nicks shirt rolled them up and pulled the extra fabric behind my back and used my rubber band to hold it in place.

She gasped. "What happened to your arm's?"

I looked down and saw deep and light scratches all over them. 'why didn't I see those earlier?' I probably did but was to out of it to see them. "Oh… I um, I was in a accident."

"oh… I'm Aimee by the way. I live here on the Reservation." She held out her hand.

"Jayden" I shook her hand and then dropped it. "and Reservation?"

"Yeah, La Push is an Indian reservation… didn't you know that?"

I shook my head no. "No… like I just said; I just got here."

"Hey baby… who is this?" a guy… a BIG guy asked standing right behind her.

"Oh Paul! This is Jayden. She just moved here from…" she trailed off and looked at me.

"Nashville… Tennessee."

"cool! Well this is Paul my boyfriend." I looked him up and down and even though Aimee was "tall" he was taller then her maybe 6'5 6'6. He was wearing black and red board shorts and a black wife better, on his feet were flip flops.

"I thought some where around there with that accent and all." He said.

"What accent?"

"you know the. 'what accent?' thing." He tried but failed miserably to do a country accent.

"Oh… sometime I forget that I have an accent… I've been in the south most of my life and when I visit my dad..." I trailed off. The last things that me and my dad did together I was a bitch the whole time. My eye's started to sting.

"Hey what happened to your arms?" Paul interrupted my thoughts only to replace thoughts from my dad to my siblings.

"PAUL!" I heard Aimee scream.

"No, it's fine. I was in an accident on my way home from Maryland."

"What are you doing here then?" he asked and quirked an eyebrow at me.

"Um… I-I-I uh." 'Crap! Didn't think about that question' I thought to myself. "I can't talk about it." I said and wiped my eyes. "I have to go." I said then grabbed my book and Nicks IPod and walked away.

"Now look what you did Paul!" Aimee screamed at him as I walked away.

I didn't know where I was going but I kept walking anyway I'll find my way back later.

I was walking along the beach for a while then I saw and opening in the forest so I started walking towards them. I found my way into the forest and just kept walking. When I was about to turn around I started hearing waves crashing so I kept walking just to see what was there and about thirty paces I found a opening that's about twenty feet by twenty feet, and at one edge of the opening was a cliff. I walked over towards the edge and looked down.

It was about a thirty to forty foot drop. I backed away for a minute because all my breath left me when I saw the rocks down at the bottom. I looked around the opening and it wasn't overly plain it had a few wild flowers blooming at the edge of the forest and a few here and there all over but it's not completely covered in flowers. It was just perfect.

'I think I just found my new home for the next few…weeks? Months? How long am I going to stay here?' I sat down at the cliffs edge. "What am I going to do?" I asked out loud. "Where am I going to go?" I thought out loud for a while. I checked Nicks IPod for the time it said 2:26 witch is really 4:26 here. "I guess I should really go and get my stuff before the sun goes down.

I got up looked around again at the… meadow and then started walking back towards civilization. It took less time to get back then it did to get to the meadow. I guess it's because I was walking up hill and didn't know where I was going.

When I got to the edge of the forest I started walking on the beach towards where my stuff was. I walked pass the on goers sitting on the sand and some guy's playing football, and people playing volley ball. Man do I miss playing volley ball I was the best sever on my team.

"Hey watch out!" some one yelled. I turned around just in time to see a ball heading my way. Right before it was about to hit me I caught it. Thankfully Nick and his buddy's taught me how to play. Every time they were playing around in the yard they made me play with them.

I looked over towards the guy's and then through it back to them and continued walking down the beach.

"HO-HO-HO HOLD UP!" someone yelled, but I kept walking. That's when I heard someone come running behind me. "How'd you learn to throw like that?" the guy asked now beside me.

"My brother." I said plainly and kept walking.

"Will you stop for a moment?" He asked.

I stopped and turned towards him. He was TALL I think even taller then that Paul dude. He was only wearing board shorts that were black with green flames on them and was covered in sand. "What?" I asked.

"Are you new here?"

"Yeah… I am… why do you want to know?"

"No reason… I'm Jake bytheway."

"Oh? Are you related to John?"

"What?" he asked

"You know the comic motivational speaker the best selling author… John Bytheway. I love him."

"Oh… um…"

"Did you need something?" I asked raising an eyebrow at him."

"Umm…"

"Hey… Jake man what are you doing? You know I bet Amanda wouldn't like to talking to…" someone else came over but stopped talking when they looked at me.

"Jayden." I said filling in the blank for him but he didn't say anything else just stared at me. "What?" I asked.

"oh shit." I heard Jake mutter under his breath. I looked at him funny then looked back at the guy that was staring at me.

"is your friend okay Jake?" I asked him.

Jake elbowed the guy. "yeah he's fine… aren't you Jared?"

The guy… Jared shook his head. "Uh… yeah… I'm fine." He said still looking at me. "you're really pretty." He said.

I looked over my shoulder but didn't see anyone. "Thanks." I said. "Is there anything else you need to know?"

"yeah is your brother a pro football player like Derrick Morgan ?"

"What?" weird question

"It's just I've never seen anyone but pro's and us guy's throw a football that far."

"oh… No he's not a pro football or Derrick Morgan... but Derrick Morgan is… was my brother's favorite player for the Tennessee Titans."

"Was?" Jake asked

"Hey I have to go… bye." I said and walked away.

"Wait you have to go?" I heard Jared ask

'yeah away from you' I thought in my head.

I turned around "yeah… anything else?"

"No. I just wanted to know the name of the girl that looks like you do know how throw a football… and now I know." Jake said

"Okay… bye." I said again and turned back around and started walking towards my stuff again.

When I got to the wooded area that held my bags, I put my book into my messenger bag then pulled it over my head and grabbed my backpack and grabbed my duffel last; then went looking for a place to eat. I didn't want to go back to the beach just yet because I don't want to run into the guy's again. I walked for about five minutes until I came up to a diner with a sign above the door that said SUE'S.

I opened the door a bell went off, I walked over to the farthest booth from the door I put my bag's on one side of the booth but kept my messenger bag with me, then I slid into the other side. I pulled out my book and started reading waiting for someone to take my order.

"Hello my name is Sue can I get you something to drink?"

"Umm… what do you have?" I asked shyly

"Coke product's" she said sweetly and motherly

"Do you have Dr. Pepper?"

"We have Mr. Pibb."

"Even better. Um can I get a glass of that please?"

"Sure thing."

"Um can I also get a chocolate shake please?"

she turned towards me and nodded softly "sure sweetie." She said softly. "I'll be right back with that." She said and slid a menu softly towards me.

"thank you." I said and she walked away.

I opened the menu and looked and the first thing I saw was perfect an All American Burger.

"There you go sweetheart." She said and set down my drink and shake. " Have you decided what you wanted to order?" she again asked softly, just like any mother. I wonder if she is a mother.

"um can I get an All American Burger with fry's please?" I said still looking at her.

"sure thing hun, I'll get that order right in for ya. Is there anything else I can get you?"

I looked down at the table figuring that I was staring at her to much and shook my head no. she walked away after that.

I pulled out Nicks IPod and quickly changed it to music so I wouldn't get sucked into the pictures again. The first song that came on was Hello by Evanescence but I had to change that quickly but the next song was worse, 'You'll be in my heart.' By Phil Collins so I quickly changed it again this time 'Firefly's' by Owl City. Cam on and I left it there.

I took a sip of my drink then grabbed my 'House of Night' book and started reading again from where I left off. I don't know how long I was sitting there but it was long enough for my food to cook and get to my table.

"Here you go sweetheart. Is there anything else I can get you?"

"No, I'm good, thank you Sue." I said and she walked away. The first thing I did was grab a fry and dip it into my chocolate shake. I moaned when it hit my tongue. 'How long has it been since I last eaten?' I thought as I dipped another fry into the shake. 'Yellowcard: Ocean Avenue' just started in my ears as I took a bit of my burger.

I was just finishing my food when I heard the bell to the diner door and out of the corner of my eye I saw someone slid into the other side of the table where my book bag and duffel bag were. I looked up and saw a boy from the beach earlier.

"yo… Jayden right?" I nodded. "Jared… remember?"

'oh yeah… they guy that called my pretty.' I thought.

"Yeah I remember… why are you here?"

"we all got hungry so we came here to get a few burgers."

"No. Here! Right across from me."

"Oh." He started to scratch his head. "you looked lonely sitting here all… alone." He finished lamely

I snorted. "wow… How can I put thin in a way that you'll under stand…Me…Not…Interested…I can't deal with anything or anyone but myself right now. Sorry." He didn't leave. "you can go now." But he just sat there. "fine." I said and grabbed my messenger bag, food, book, and IPod and moved to a different booth. 'I'll go back for my other bag's when he leaves.' I thought to myself.

He didn't move for a while but finally he got up and walked over to his friends booths.

I finished my shake and soda put two twenty's down on the table put my book into the bag then walked back to my original booth grabbed my book bag and duffel and walked out of the diner. Since the guy's were in the diner I took it upon myself to get back to the clearing in the woods.

I found the clearing easier this time then last time. I dropped off my bags and opened my back pack, got out my blanket that I was sure to pack because my grandma made it for me, and also the one my great, great grandma made for my family years ago. I was ready for night to come. I grabbed my phone out of my messenger bag.

It was now 7:45 and I fell asleep with my head against my duffel bag and my great, great grandmas blanket pulled up to my chest. I dozed off. I woke up freezing cold and shivering. How could it be this cold when it felt amazingly warm earlier. I looked at my phone and saw that it was 2:19am.

'How am I going to get through the night like this. I'm cold all I have is my blankets, and I have nowhere else to sleep. I don't want to get a hotel room because that will just get rid of my money faster.' I shivered even more. I have to get up and walk but I'm so tired. I have to get my body temperature back to normal.

So I started to get up and tried to walk around but my body was shaking so bad that I couldn't even move that much, I tried to move my arms just to keep my blood pumping so I could warm up even just a little.

I was just so cold I couldn't spot shaking I sank down to the ground against a tree. I passed out after I don't know how long. When I wake up again I'm pressed up against something hot and hard but I don't care because I was finally warm…er. So I went back to sleep.

"do you think she'll be alright?" I heard someone ask.

"I don't know Jared. She could have gotten hypothermia if you hadn't gotten to her when you did. The poor girl. I wonder why she was sleeping out there." a woman said.

"She just moved here yesterday from Tennessee." This time it was a girls voice.

'Where am I? Why aren't I in the woods?' I started to move around a little.

"I think she might be waking up now." The woman said.

I opened my eye's to see that I was on a couch. "Where am I?" I asked groggily.

"Your at my house my dear. Do you remember me from yesterday?"

I looked over towards the voice and saw that it was Sue. I nodded my head. "How did I get here?"

"Jared and my son found you in the woods." My eyebrows furrowed. 'what were they doing in the woods?' "They found you almost half frozen this morning." She told me.

"What were they doing in the woods?" I asked

"They are the protectors of our land so when they went to check everything out they found you freezing and they brought you back here. Now. What were you doing in the woods?"

'uh oh.' I thought.

Please review? I'm leaving for Florida in about two hours yay. Have a great one.