Chapter 6: Choices
MPOV
As I started the car, I looked out the window at Jordan, wondering if he was coming or not. I had told my mom I was going to be home over an hour ago, and truthfully, I didn't want to stay at this party any longer. I know it's graduation night, and that everyone's celebrating, but do they really have to drink and smoke that much? Everyone, including my best friend Liz was starting to get on my nerves. I just wanted to get home already.

I poked my head out of the window again and yelled for Jordan to come on. He held his finger out, signaling for me to wait for one more minute. I threw my head against the steering wheel, thinking I'd never get out of here sooner. As a graduation present, my grandparents gave Jordan and I two tickets to the Bahamas with my brother and his wife. I felt as if the flight in two days wasn't going to get here fast enough.

When the car light turned on from Jordan opening the door, I felt relieved to finally get out of that place. Jason McIntosh was throwing the party of the year, and I didn't even want to stay the entire time. It wasn't that I didn't like parties, but I wanted to get home and start packing for my two weeks in the Bahamas with Jordan. It had been nearly three months since we had any time to ourselves, and I missed him a lot, even though we still did get to see each other every day.

I was actually surprised when I realized it had been nearly four weeks since Jordan had asked me again to change him. I think he finally got the clue that it was never going to happen. It's not that I didn't love him. Of course it would be the best thing in the entire world to spend forever with him, but I wasn't going to do that to him. Being immortal isn't all that it's cracked out to be. In movies, Hollywood portrays it as something magical, and wonderful, and that all the world hates you, but you just don't care because you're life will never end, you'll always have time to do everything in the world you've ever wanted to do. Even with all the time in the world, most immortals don't like it. Many wish they could be human again every second of their life. And I just don't feel like Jordan understands that.

"Sorry, babe. Jason wouldn't let me leave. He said to tell you congrats, though." Jordan said as he buckled his seat belt before I pulled the car out of park and drove away from the loud music, drunken people, smell of weed, and annoying underclassmen that snuck into the party.

"It's fine. I just can't wait to get home and start packing." I said with a smile, almost able to hear the ocean now.

"I understand, Mel. I understand. I can't wait either. It'll be a lot of fun."

As I raced down the interstate heading towards the house, Jordan and I sat in silence. When we made it to the house, I had asked my parents if they minded if Jordan stayed the night. He had to sleep in Lyric's old room. Before we went to bed, we stayed in my room and he helped me pack a few bags for our trip. After three bags where packed, I said I was going to get in the shower, but as I walking to the bathroom, I heard my little sister in her room crying.

I gently knocked on her door before letting myself in. She was sitting on her bed, crying uncontrollably. I went to sit down beside her, and started to rub her back as I asked her what was wrong.

"Tyler…broke…up…with…me..." She said between sobs. My heart broke a little as I pulled her into a hug, trying my hardest to comfort her.

"Oh, sweetie. I'm so sorry." I answered.

"I don't understand. I thought he loved me." She said with a cry.

"I'm sure he did, sweetie. You two were together for over a year, but sometimes it's just not the right person. You'll be okay though, I know it doesn't seem like it right now but you will be. Remember my first boyfriend Eric- the one that I dated for a year and three months? Do you remember how devastated I was when we broke up? I thought I was going to die without him. But I was wrong. It just hurt so much because I truly loved him. You're always going to love Tyler and he'll always love you. It's hard at first, but after a while, you'll see some cute boy at the mall when you're with you're friends and you'll completely forget about all the hours you spent crying over Tyler." I promised.

"Are you sure, Mel?" She asked, her tears starting to slow down.

"Of course! You saw how long it took me to get over Eric- nearly a year- but look at me now. I've never been happier. For the longest time, I always told myself no one would compare to Eric and I was right cause Jordan is better. I've never been happier with anyone else and though I never thought I'd say I love someone more than Eric, I love Jordan tenfold. Give it time, you'll be okay, I promise. Now get some sleep, cause tomorrow you and I are going shopping for some new clothes to get the boys noticing you." I said with a smile as I kissed her on the forehead and tucked her in bed.

"I love you, Mel. Thanks for always being there for me." She said just before laying her head on her pillow, quickly falling asleep.

"I love you too." I said as I turned out her light and went to shut her door. As I looked back at her it was hard to believe she was almost 15 now. When I looked at her lying in her bed it reminded me of the first time we did this. She was 7, and her first boyfriend had broken up with her. I don't even remember the boys name anymore and neither does she.

I closed her door and headed for the shower. I stood outside the bathroom door, waiting for Jordan to come out. He opened the door and saw me standing there holding my clothes and robe.

"I'm going to head off to bed, Mel," he said as he leaned down to kiss me.

"Okay, I love you." I said as I kissed him once more.

"I love you, too. I'll see you in the morning." he said before heading down the hall to Lyric's old room.
I took a quick shower then went down stairs to get something to eat. Surprisingly, I was hungry for human food. Not needing a light, I found all the things to make a bowl of cereal. I sat down at the table and started eating, and for the first time, I scared my mother as she turned on the light.

"Oh god! Mel, you scared me. What are you still doing up?" She asked as she joined me by making herself a bowl of cereal as well.

"I just got out of the shower, I can't sleep." I said. "I'm to excited for the trip. Thanks so much for letting me go."

"You're welcome, sweetie. I heard what you said to Harmony. She looks up to you a lot, you know."

"I know. I hope to have girls as close as she and I are." I said, only wishful thinking.

"Now, I'm nowhere ready to be a grandma. Take it slow. You just graduated. Don't make me have to go to another one of my children's weddings any time soon, please." My mother pleaded.

"Momma, we haven't even talked about that yet. No worries." I said with a smile, mouth full of cereal.

"You two are quite the couple. Have you phased for him yet?" She asked.

"Yes. The night I told him about it all. When I found out about how I could show some things through touch and everything, it became too much, so I finally told him everything, and showed him everything. It took me awhile to explain, and then to wait for him to come around. When he did, Mom. I've never been this happy with anyone. Sure, he and I have our fights, but I truly do love him." I said, forgetting about my cereal as I spoke.

"And that love, love that deep, isn't from the imprint. That, my daughter, is real love. You have a big day tomorrow. Shopping with Harmony isn't going to be easy. Here's some money. Don't go to wild. Get yourself a few things for the trip. Now, off to bed." My father said as he came down the stairs, kissed me on the forehead, and practically pushed me up the steps.

My dad was right; I needed to get to sleep. I figured that out pretty easy cause the second my head hit the pillow, when it rose back up, the sun was up, and I was the only one awake yet. I walked down the steps after changing to find my dad wasn't around. I knew where I could find him.

I walked out the back door and headed towards the edge of the tree's, where I took off my clothes and phased. I started running towards the river, and found Seth stopping to get a drink.

"Hey, Mel. What are you doing out here? It's your day off. Well, it's your three weeks off." He corrected himself.

"Just coming for a run. Hey, thanks again for covering for me while I'm gone. It means a lot."

He howled with laughter, not minding at all that he had agreed to take on extra hours of patrol. He's been doing it for years and years now, and was beyond used to it by now.

"Don't worry about it. You've earned it." He said quickly.

Since it was only he and I out at the moment, we focused on hunting, and let each other have some space. When I was ready to go back to the house, we said our goodbyes, and then I phased back to human form, and went to my room. I dressed for a day of shopping, and then went to wake up Harmony.

Once she was ready, we headed for the Seattle mall, and started shopping, not planning to end any time soon. We found so many clothes for her, and I even found a few cute things for myself to take on my trip. On our way home, we stopped somewhere to grab something to eat at a McDonald's and talked for a bit.

"Next year, I think I'm going to take some harder classes. All the classes I took this year were too easy. It was like I already knew all the stuff. I just hope I can handle them." She confessed.

"Of course you can. You're smarter than you give yourself credit for, you know. You may have difficulties some times, but you'll get through it. You just have to believe in yourself." I laid my half-eaten hamburger down, not wanting to finish the rest of it, and picked up the box of fries.

"I know, I just hope I'll have someone around to keep me encouraged the way you do." She looked down at her food, with a worried expression on her face.

"You know you always will." I said between fries.

"Not really. You just graduated and with Jordan, I mean come on. You're going to get married soon, start a family of your own. Live in a different house; only come to visit every now and then. You'll forget about all of us. The way Lyric did. It's not fair how someone comes into your life, and then it's like you have to forget about your family for that person. It doesn't make since."

"Harmony, you know that would never happen. Lyric, he's just…he doesn't like what we are. He feels like it goes against nature. That's why he stopped phasing. He'll come around eventually. You don't have to worry about me leaving you. Yeah, Jordan and I might get married, but no time soon. And if we did, I'd make sure we moved into a house near by. I'd come visit as much as possible. And when Mom and Dad start to drive you crazy, you'd always be able to stay at my house. But I'm not ever going to leave permanently." I said as I realized just how much this bothered her.

We left soon after all the fries were gone and she finished the other half of my hamburger. The rest of the way home, we blared the music and sung as loud as our lungs would let us. It had always been that way with us. We rarely ever fought, even when we were younger. We weren't normal siblings, that's for sure.

When we finally made it home, I was surprised to find Jordan was still there. He came out to help us carry in the bags, and then reminded me that he was suppose to stay the night that night too, so that we could catch our flight early the next morning. When I fell asleep that night, it took me forever to actually fall asleep, but once I did, I almost didn't even want to wake up that morning cause I was so tired.

I was so excited that I thought I'd never get done with saying goodbye to my family and make it to the airport. When the plane finally prepared for take off, I was beginning to think it wouldn't land fast enough. The island was beyond beautiful. Jordan and I followed Lyric and his wife to the hotel in the rental car's Alice made us get. She of course had to plan the entire trip.

The room was amazing, and it was across the hall from Lyric's. The one condition of my parents for us sharing a room is that we both came back home virgins. We didn't spend a long time in the room. We quickly unpacked, and changed into our bathing suits, heading towards the beach. We spent the entire day at the beach, laying in the sand, swimming, and he taught me how to surf for about an hour, and finally gave up when he realized I wasn't going to learn, no matter how hard he tried to teach me.
When we finally got tired of the beach, we met Lyric and his wife at the room, and went to eat dinner with the two of them at an expensive seafood restaurant. After that we made our way to the room to watch a movie.

"Mel?" He whispered.

"Yeah?"

"Why won't you change me? We could be together forever that way. We'd never have to worry about losing each other. Our lives would be perfect." He said with confidence.

"No, Jordan. It would be far from perfect. Look, it would be great to spend forever with you. But I can't do that to you. You don't know what your giving up. It would be much simpler, and we'd be happier, if I just stopped phasing and we grew old together." I wasn't changing my mind, there was no other option.

"Why not? Come on, Mel. You wouldn't have to give up anything for me if you just changed me. That way you could keep me and your family forever."

"It's never going to happen- I'm never going to ask you to give up your life for me, Jordan. I will never, ever change you."

"Why not, Mel? I-"

"Because I love you! There's a lot more to it then you realize. We'd have to move, change our names and go through the process of getting different social security numbers and birth certificates every few years. Not to mention the lack of sunlight. It's not all fun and games, Jordan. It's worse and harder to do than you think. I'm not going to explain it all to you."

"Why not?" he persisted."Because there's no need for you to know it all because it's never going to happen." I said sternly, not about to budge.

"Mel, I-"

"Jordan, I love you; I'm always going to love you. And it's easier for me to just grow old with you and die with you, the way life is suppose to be, without going against God's original plan. That's how it's going to happen and you need to accept that."

I knew it was harsh and it probably made him unbelievably mad at me, but it had to be said. After the fight, I told him I'd be back soon, that I was going for a walk. He didn't try and stop me.

As I made my way down the beach, feet in the water, I looked at my phone, not sure if I wanted to make the call or not, but hitting send anyway. I wasn't for sure how mad this was going to make Jordan, but I had to do it, I needed the answer now more than ever, and I wasn't for sure if I'd get any sleep for the rest of my life without the answer. The question was weighing down hard on me all of the sudden, and I knew I should have taken care of this a lot sooner. I wasn't going to let it go any longer.
As the third ring came, I knew there would be an answer soon, so I paused from my walk to stand there for a second. I heard the ringing stop, and someone rustle around in their bed.

"Mel? What's wrong? It's like 3 in the morning." He said, his voice rough and scratchy.

"I need to know. I have to. Why? Why did you leave? I need you, a lot. You promised you'd always be here for me, and then you left. I have to know why. Please tell me?" I begged for answers.

"Mel, I can't do this right now."

"Please? Please?"

I heard him sigh before he replied. "Fine, I'll tell you." And then he paused.
A/N: Who paused? Why will Jordan be mad about this phone call? Three reviews to find out (: