Chapter 8: This is Crazy.
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." -Dr Seuss.
I felt kind of alone. I was sat by the lake and braiding my hair: there was nothing else to do. It had been the third time Nathan and I had made love. I don't know how to describe the happiness! It was amazing, though.
I heard a voice behind me.
"Hello?" It wasn't Nathan. I frowned and turned to see a figure with colourful and detailed animal tattoos down his long arms. He was quite tall and had raven black hair which covered his left eye.
"Hello." I said, placing my hands in my lap and turning fully to see this figure.
"I'm Ethan." He said.
"I'm Evelina. But call me Eve: only my boyfriend calls me Evelina." I said. I wasn't showing any emotion or anything: he was a stranger. He seemed to limp when I said about Nathan. I shrugged it off though because it didn't feel like it was anything.
"OK. It's lovely to meet you Eve." He said and sat next to me by the lake. "Want to go for a swim?" He continued to say.
"Okay…" I said. He nodded and smiled which only made me quite uncomfortable! I've never really been paid much attention to before Nathan. I stood away in the back-ground: I knew that if I tried anything, I would end up more mentally scarred than I already am.
"So… How long have you been in Forks?" He said.
"A couple of months, I think." I said.
"I think it's around the same, here." He said. I smiled and giggled. Damn it!
"Cool." I said, jumping into the water and swimming around right down the bottom of the lake. The next minute I saw Ethan as a dolphin!
"Oh my God that's awesome!" I said, giggling. He swam closer and made that awful clicking noise that dolphins make which I obviously couldn't understand.
He turned human again and told me all about it. He told me changing into and out of the different animal forms is called shifting or phasing. I took most of the information in with a slight smile.
I then told him I had to leave: I needed to go and see Nathan anyways.
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I walked into the flat with a slight skip in my step. "Helloo?" I said, smiling.
"Hey." He said as he popped his head round the bedroom door. "I won't be long. Just gotta shower, okay?" He said as he shut the door.
I sighed and sat down on the couch, thinking. I couldn't get my mind off what happened today at the lake. I swam with a dolphin.
I giggled and Nathan came out. "What are you so giggly about, today?" He chuckled and sat down next to me.
"Oh, nothing." I said. I didn't want him to freak out. He nodded.
"How about we go and meet someone new, hey?" He pulled me into his lap. I simply giggled.
"Um, okay. Who is this someone new?" I said.
"Jeremy. He's been dying to meet you…" He mumbled the last part, wrapping his arms around me. "And don't your parents come home later today, anyway?"
I frowned. I didn't know who he was but he sounded rather desperate. I shrugged. My parents! I groaned.
"Sure. Let's go." I nodded. "And yes, you're right."
We arrived at a quiet motel around 20 minutes away in Port Angeles. It looked rather drowned out and horrible but anyway, we walked in. I looked around at my surroundings and it just reminded me so much of Brooklyn.
But I shrugged it off quick.
He knocked on the door and waited. He answered with a cringy face. I hid behind Nathan as he squeezed the hand he was holding. I leant against him and he groaned, making me giggle.
"Dude… I need some help; again." Jeremy said. I frowned.
"Prat." Nathan spat. I frowned again, not knowing that the situation was horrible. There was a dead human girl lying there. I gasped.
Jeremy heard. I groaned as Nathan turned to look at me. He kissed my forehead and sighed.
"Hel-lo!" Jeremy said, fixing his hair. I turned my nose up as he kissed my hand. "You must be Nathan's girl. I'm Jeremy." He said.
"Ah. You must be the annoying prat." I said with a frown. He returned the frown.
"Yeah, I guess." He shot a glare at Nathan before sighing.
"Can you help me?" He said in almost a whine. This obviously happened a lot. I looked around again.
The smells, sights, sounds, tastes… Everything I touched felt the same. It was coming back to life: it was my little nightmare.
"Fine, I'll help you. Let's go," he kissed my forehead. "Promise we won't be long, okay?" I nodded and sighed.
"Okay." I leant against the wall, looking around. I began to feel kind of dizzy and sad. It was all coming back.
He leant me up against the wall… I flinched away from him as he ran his hands down my sides and his lips attached to my neck. It made me shiver but there was nothing I could do. It was horrible.
"Don't be shy…" I looked into his eyes and they weren't brown anymore. They were a deep crimson colour. I then saw him smirk and then a rush of pain went through all of my veins, my organs, and my brain. I felt paralyzed. I felt dead but I knew I wasn't. He then took me over to the bed and there was where the only nightmare I have ever had begun and ended.
He left me to die even though I didn't.
Nathan seemed to come back quickly, even though I seemed to have all the way around the room, thinking. I was now placed in the corner, by the oven, sitting. I had my arms wrapped around my knees.
He picked me up gently, wrapping his arms around me.
"You're back…" I said, gasping in his scent.
"I am. I left Jeremy to sort out the damage." He said. "What's the matter?" He continued: he could hear my hyperventilation.
"He's just like them… Just like them!" I cried, burying my head in his shirt. He shook his head. We exited the motel and stood in the woods after he let me out of his hold.
"No, no. Baby, he means well. It just never actually ends well." He said before kissing me softly. I jumped back up into his arms and placed my hands on either side of his face.
The only thing I needed right now was him. And I would tell him. I kissed him back eagerly and wrapped my arms around his neck and my legs around his waist.
He responded to that happily and wrapped his arms back around my waist. He began to kiss down my neck which made me moan. He then slammed me up against the nearest tree and played with my shirt.
The next thing I smelt was Jeremy. Nathan growled.
"Piss off." He said.
"Aw, come on!" Jeremy smirked. "It was just getting exciting!" He said. I buried my face in his shoulder: I was obviously really embarrassed. Nathan growled.
"Go. Away." He said.
"No!"
After some consideration, and a lot of scary growling, he backed off. "Thank you…" He gasped.
"You growl?" I giggled and placed my hands on his chest. He chuckled.
"Yes. I do when someone stupid is interrupting us time…" He nuzzled his face into my neck and growled against my cold skin which made me giggle and kind of moan at the same time and that came out very strange.
Nathan smiled and leant his forehead against mine, looking into my eyes.
I giggled and re-wrapped my arms around his neck. "Where should we go?"
"What about the lake?" He said, smirking.
"Always." I whispered in his ear and giggled as he let me down and began to run. I believed for a second that nothing could ruin this. And hell, was I wrong.