THE DATE
I got up when I heard Sonny and Ethan talking in my room. Man! It was morning. Couldn't they talk their romantic talks somewhere else and it was a Sunday. Wait…Sunday? I got up instantly and looked at the alarm clock. It was 10:30 already.
"Good morning, guys!" I said and rushed into my bathroom. I brushed my teeth really fast. Today was the Sunday, the day I was waiting for since I learnt about my love for Brady. We were to go on a date. Yes! A date! If there was an excitement meter, I was sure that I could break it if it measured my excitement.
As I went downstairs, I grabbed my bowl of cereal and finished it fast. Yeah, I knew I was a bit lazy on Sundays because on Sunday I usually would get up at 11 o'clock and eat my breakfast at 12o'clock…sorry brunch. Oh man! It was 10: 50 as I looked into the clock.
"Why're you so hassled?" Rachel asked.
"She's going somewhere." Seth said and made kissy noises.
"Yeah, I'm going. Any problem?" I shouted at him and then entered Paul. Shit! I forgot to ask him. I went up to him with my puppy dog face and hugged him.
"Good morning bro!" I said in my sweetest voice. He smiled. I kissed his cheek after clinging on his back.
"Good morning, sis." He said.
"Paul, would you mind if I…I go out somewhere…"
"With Brady?" he sounded normal. I hid my face a bit to hide my blushing face. "Aw!" he said and touched the tip of my nose and said "Ploop!" I hated it more than anything. If anyone except my parents, Paul or Rachel did that, he or she was sure to lose their life.
"Paul!" I screeched.
"Sorry, but I love to do that." He taunted me.
"You don't know that one day I'll explode on you if I'm angry enough." I said.
"Now I do." He said and kissed me on my head. "When are you exactly going?" he was back to his alert brother mode.
"12 pm." I answered.
"Where?" he asked.
"I don't know. Around La Push, he said." I replied.
"Where exactly?" he asked.
"He said that there are some places he wants to show around here." I answered.
"So, when will you both come back?" he inquired.
"Paul…" I stared at him.
"Okay… okay. I know it's your first date and I shouldn't spoil it but you know I'm your elder brother. I'm a bit…"
"Worried?" I asked.
"Sort of." He said and I hugged him. Paul indeed could be called as the most caring elder brother in world. I knew sometimes he could be really annoying, sometimes really temperamental but all in all he really cared for me and wanted to protect me from everything.
"You're getting late, Cassie." Cole interrupted my brother-sister moment with Paul.
"Thanks for killing off our bro- sis moment." Paul erupted.
"Well, my pleasure." Cole replied.
"I never can understand what you people are always doing at my house in the morning." Paul said to Seth and Cole. It wasn't for Ethan and Nathan because he knew about Sonny and Ashley staying at our place and even otherwise, he didn't want to break off their so called 'romantic Sunday brunch'.
"Well, like she's your sister, she's ours too. She's almost the whole pack's sister." Cole replied.
"Almost?" Seth asked.
"Well, Brady is too a pack member …" Paul taunted me indirectly.
"Okay, okay." I shouted and went back to my room. I went to my bathroom and took a bath. Here came the problem. Well, the usual problem all normal girls have on their first date. CLOTHES! I had it too. I went through my wardrobe. Man! So this is how Rachel feels when she goes on a date with Paul. I get it now. Well let's look on the clock again. WHAT?! It was 11:20? Well, this definitely not going good till here. I pulled out a black tank top with a pink low shouldered top that had balloon sleeves and it was basically a jacket. The top mustered at the belly and there were buttons down the top. I wore on my blue skinny Capri with my pink and purple sneakers. Let's look at the time again. Man! It was 11:45. I was now combing my ringlets. I put on a clip near my bangs to control them but it rarely helped because my bangs loved to stay on my forehead. Even this hair style thing takes time, doesn't it? I thought. It was 12:00 now. I was putting on my strawberry crush lip gloss when the door opened and Seth and Cole came in.
"Couldn't you knock before coming in?" I said looking over to them in the mirror.
"Well, we knew you were going to let us in." Seth said.
"Lip gloss, seriously?" Cole fell down laughing.
"What's the deal out here?" I asked and Seth started laughing.
"Well, that's the one thing girls should never put on their first date with a wolf because it proves to be useless." Seth said.
"Why is it that useless?" I asked them both.
"It's gonna rub off before the usual time." Ashley came in and said.
"And that too why?" I asked and Seth and Cole went out of my room.
"Well, Brady is there to rub it off." She cracked and I glared at her. I knew what she actually meant. She sneaked out of my room and I almost ran after her on the stairs.
"Oh really Ashley Vandom?" I said and almost slipped on the rugs till someone caught hold of me.
"Hey!" it was Brady's smiling face. I stood upright.
"Hey! I thought you would take time to come." I said and then Paul entered. Again at this time we were holding hands. Paul glared again at Brady.
"It's already 12:10. I guess I'm a bit late."Brady said.
"Well, that's right. You're late Fuller." Paul said. Seth again started laughing hysterically. Seriously, sometimes he made me mad laughing this way.
"Stop guffawing Clearwater!" I said.
"So, where are you people going to?" Paul asked Brady.
"Just a few places across the area." Brady replied to him.
"So, when will you be back?" Paul asked.
"At around 10." Brady said.
"Make it 9." Paul said.
"Please Paul." I pleaded.
"9 o'clock." Paul replied.
"Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please." I said.
"Okay but not a minute after that." Paul said. He was so stubborn at times but I was his younger sister anyway. How would have I lost from him?
"Love you, bro." I said, hugged him and went out through the door. I closed the door and then wheezed.
"Yeah, seriously phew!" Brady said. "So do I call dad's driver?"
We had gotten out of the house – a little away from it.
"No! I mean I'll be better walking. I'll love to." I said.
"Or rather say it should just be the both of us alone, huh?" he asked while smirking.
"Yeah, maybe." I said.
"So, you sure you could walk?" he asked.
"Well, don't underestimate the normal humans." I replied.
"So, first we'll get going to the Sonic Mall." He replied.
"I don't like shopping much." I said and we started on.
"I know that. It's quite not a mall. It's actually a fun place. There are awesome challenges and quizzes and competitions out there." He said.
"They have these kinds of places out here?" I jumped. "When we were in Santa Paula I used to visit these kinds of malls every week." I said.
"It's just round the corner." He replied. It was a fifteen minute walking distance from there. The first place where we went was to a movie.
"A movie? I thought that we were going to have a big tour?" I asked.
"Trust me it won't take long. It's just 1 and a half hour long." He said.
"What's it about?" I asked.
"Well kinda the ones you like – action!" he said.
"Oh so it's 'Race to hell'." I said.
"Yep." He said.
The film started and in ten minutes, I noticed his arm around my shoulder.
"It's not a romantic movie." I taunted.
"I know that but seriously, you're a kinda distraction." He replied.
"Oh really?" I asked.
"Well…" he said.
"Yeah don't answer me, I know." I replied.
The movie ended after a lot of action scenes, blood pour and murders.
"How was it?" he asked while getting out.
"Awesome. The best scene was the heroine's kidnap scene, I'm telling you. The best part was the action in the last." I said. "What next?"
"Ain't you tired? Well let's hang out at Sonic Blast." He replied.
"What's that?" I asked.
"Party place." He said.
"What's the time?" I asked.
"Don't worry. It's just 1: 50. You'll have fun there, trust Me." he replied. We went to a large club like building near the theatre. We were given some weird hats; well they were sort of cute. I was given a blue shiny cowboy hat and Brady had the one like me but brown in color. He introduced me to many of his friends.
"Hey guys!" he greeted to a group of guys.
"Yo Fuller!" they all said.
"Who's this?" one of them asked.
"Well this is Cassie. My girlfriend." He said. He just called me his what? His girlfriend? That was really cute when he stuttered while saying that.
"Not bad, huh Fuller?" one said. "By the way, I'm Sky." He shook his hand.
"Me – Alex. That's Max, Lily, Scarlet and the last one's Rixon." Alex said. "That's how you get introduced to a girl, understood Sky?"
"Well, I'm Cassidy – full name. Well, you don't need to call me by my full name until you hate me."
"That was cute." Lily said.
"That's why she belongs to Brady." Scarlet said.
"Aw!" I muttered.
"So here's the next game." Another girl came up. Wait a sec! That was Diana.
"Oh hey Brady!" she said coyly and fluttered her eyes.
"Hey Diana." Brady tried to ignore her.
"Diana meet Brady's girlfriend." Lily told Diana. Shit! This was not going to be fine.
"But weren't you both just friends?!" Diana shouted.
"Yeah, till last night but…but we uh… confessed last night after the party." I stuttered and again blushed.
"Aw! Someone's blushing." Scarlet said.
"So what was the game?" Brady asked.
"Well, there on the cheese stall, you people have to guess the correct type of cheese. They have a prize of a messenger bag. It's really cute I must say – purple colored, a flower in the middle, so cute but it seems difficult." Lily said.
"I'll try it." I jumped.
"Are you sure?" Brady asked.
"I'm a cheese expert." I replied and we went to the platform. This was my chance to prove it. I was a cheese lover and an expert too. If Brady doubted it, he's gonna lose it.
"I'm still not sure that your girl could do it." Sky said.
"But I'm sure she'll do it." Brady replied.
"That's called trust." I said slowly to myself.
"Okay participants, you have fifteen minutes to smell the cheese and write the names on the slips. All who want to participate may come on the platform." The anchor that was in a blue shirt and black jeans, said.
"All the best!" Brady said and kissed my forehead.
"Thanks." I said and went there. I started sniffing in the fragrance of the white cheese. Yep it was mozzarella. I wrote it on a blue slip. Next was a golden cheese. It was Gouda cheese. I wrote it on the next. The third one had a delicate smell. It was cottage cheese. The next was a high fragrance. It was Parmesan. One next to it was camembert and the next was California cheese. The last one was mountain goat cheese. I was done and then I shot up. "Done!" I said. Everyone stared at me.
"Time's over." The anchor said.
"Oh man!" some of the participants said.
"I'm done." I gave my slip to him.
"Mozzarella, Gouda, Cottage, Parmesan, Camembert, Californian, Mountain goat…. It's all correct." He said. "And our winner is Cassidy Lahote. The new owner of this cool bag." I was given the cute purple bag. I went down to the people.
"Whoa! You won it." Brady said.
"Told ya!" I said. "Where is Diana?"
"Man! You were right. She hates you. She went away when you won." He said. "Doesn't matter. Let's go to our next place of hang out."
"I'm still worried." I said.
"Let it go." He replied. "Bowling, wanna try?"
"I'm not good at it I guess." I said.
"I'll tell you how to. Come, let's go." He said and we went to bowling area. He did that and all the pins were down both the times.
"You're good at it." I said.
"C'mon you try." He said. I took one heavy ball.
"Man! How do you hold this?" I asked.
"Three fingers in the holes – index, middle and thumb." He said and I did that. "Bend down a bit." He helped me with the basic posture and then I left the ball. It rolled and hit five out of nine pins.
"That was good for a start." Brady said.
"Maybe." I replied.
"No really. Five out of nine is a good score. You wanna practice?" he asked.
"Sort of." I said. He took the ball from my hand.
"Never shift your position while you're rolling It." he said.
"Okay. Next rule?" I asked.
"Just keep your attention at the pins and here it goes." He said and rolled it. It hit each and every pin and it was all- down.
"That's awesome and doesn't seem so difficult." I said and tried it. It was actually seven down this time.
"Okay, that's great." He said. "Seven is definitely a good score for starter." I didn't want to be called a starter at anything. I wanted to be perfect at this.
"Let's practice." I said.
"Or rather you should eat? I'm starving and here you want practice." He said.
"That's not a bad idea either." I said. "There's a Chinese food truck out there." I pointed outside a bakery just next to the shop in the front.
"Food truck? Are you kidding me? I thought to take you in a restaurant and you're stuck on a food truck."
"Seriously Brady, you're acting like you're an adult. A restaurant? I'd rather love to go with the food truck." I said.
"But there's a lot of crowd there." He said.
"That's what I want you to try." I said. We went there and stood in the line. Brady made the order.
"So you wanted to wait, that's it?" he asked.
"Watch this." I said. I had noticed a girl who was mad after Kelly Clarkson just standing in front of us. I then spotted a woman who went past us and her hair looked like Kelly Clarkson.
"Hey, I noticed that you are listening to Kelly Clarkson's songs. You like her?" I asked.
"I love her." She said.
"Oh my god! Doesn't that woman just look like her? What if she is her?" I acted excited.
"You're right. She's her. OMIGOSH! IT'S KELLY CLARKSON." She shouted and the whole queue washed off after that woman. I and Brady had a hearty laugh over this.
"Seriously, you're crazy." He said and we took our food from the service window. We sat by the trees and ate it.
"I never noticed this side of you." He said when we were done.
"Well, that's Cassidy Lahote. This is how you get to know me." I said.
"Now watch this." He said and we went near a bench where a guy, somewhat a nerd who was stuck in biology books, was sitting.
"Cassie, did you hear of the Brazilian spider that just escaped the zoo. It's damn dangerous. You know when it bites, it either kills or it turns it the victim to self." Brady said loudly.
"Are you serious?" I asked.
"Oh my god! Is that it under the bench where that guy is sitting?" he said.
"I think it is." I replied.
"Let's just go away." he said and we hid behind the tree. The nerd went mad, almost shouting and his throat stuck on it.
"BRAZILIAN SPIDER! BRAZILIAN SPIDER! BRAZILIAN SPIDER! BRAZILIAN SPIDER!" he shouted.
"That wasn't bad either." I laughed.
"This is how you get to know Me." he said.
"Well, that's true." I said.
"Next place is the zoo." He replied.
"To watch the Brazilian spider?" I laughed.
"Possible." He said.
There, we had a lot of pictures clicked together. We watched many animals as it was the thing people usually did in a zoo. It was evening time by now. At around 7 o'clock. Just three hours left for our date to end. Man! I didn't want this day to end forever. I wanted it to stay like this. I wanted to be with Brady just like this forever.
"Next is a sunset point. You tired?" he asked while we were walking.
"Yeah, sort of." I said.
"Come on my back." He said and I clung on. I was seriously tired after the fun. He walked a long route and then stopped.
"Okay, Cassie, would you mind if I ask you to get off, please?" he asked and I got off. Was I so heavy? No, okay I knew I wasn't as thin as a rake but not too healthy also.
"Close your eyes." He covered my eyes. Oh! So this was to be a surprise. That was cute. He led me somewhere and made me sit.
"Okay, open your eyes." He said softly and I did the same. We were sitting on a boundary wall high above the sea level. It was a height! I caught his hand tightly.
"B-Brady, it's way too high! I want to go, please." I said and he held me tighter.
"I know it's high but look there." He pointed towards the glowing orange ball that was going to hide in the sea.
"It's beautiful." I said.
"That's what I wanted you to see. Height has it's positive sides. Now tell me why do you fear it?"
"I don't know. Some bad memories I guess. I dream it in nightmares." I said. "Well let's share our secrets. Lemme start- I'm scared of heights and water. I even don't know how to swim and you?"
"I'm scared of losing some people who mean a lot in my life. One is my family and the second is my imprint." He said.
"Aw!" I said.
"Let it go. Wanna have ice cream?" he asked.
"Yeah, sure." I said and he left me.
"No, no, no, no, no, no. Don't leave me. I'm scared." I said.
"Then how do I get it?" he asked.
"Okay, let's go." I said and I followed him there. I spotted a hoopla corner.
"Brady?" I asked and he knew what I meant.
"Wanna try it?" he asked.
"Let's go." I said and we went there. I had my eye on a purple teddy bear and stuff wolf that was Blackish – silver in color- Somewhat like Brady's fur. It was really cute.
"Well, here goes the first one." I said and threw my first hoop. It missed and then even second and the third one missed.
"Okay, I lose." I said.
"My chance." Brady said.
"Here you go." I gave him the hoops. The first one missed, the second one landed on the teddy bear and the third one on the wolf. That was something like luck. The girl gave him both the toys.
"And here you go!" he said.
"Thanks." I replied and used my messenger bag this time. I put them in it and zipped it back. From the time I had won it, I had placed 3-4 things in it. My lip gloss, my cell, my rubber band and the souvenirs we got at the zoo with my money in the smallest pocket. It seemed fluffed now. We bought the ice cream and we walked up to the beach at last. I was licking my ice cream. I had a scoop of chocolate and he had his black current and tutee- fruity.
"Had fun?" he asked.
"Yeah, the best day of my life." I said.
"Me too. I had a lot of fun too." He said.
"I mean I never had so much fun. The Brazilian spider and those idiotic pix, they were the best part." I said. We both took off our shoes and walked where water was touching the beach. He had folded his jeans and I had kept my bag just next to the shoes.
"That Kelly Clarkson thing and the cheese expert was really awesome, I should say." He said. "You know Cassie; let me tell you what exactly an imprint is. I mean you may know that from Paul but we differ from each other." he said while we were walking hand in hand.
"I know your definition of difference." I joked. "Maybe – enemies?"
"Well, it's not that bad with him. You know I keep clashing with him every now and then."
"I've seen it. Don't tell me. You were on the imprinting topic?" I asked.
"Well, I know that you think that we're forced to love and it's destiny but I want to ask you this. Do you really love me or it's just that …"
"I have never had a thought of this after I realized that I love you and me, I wasn't forced to love you, remember?" I said.
"I just wanted to know what's really in your heart and this is what I had really expected." He said and I felt his arm wrapping around my waist and this brought me really close to him. I closed up a little bit more. Our faces were just some millimeters apart. He leant over me and pressed his lips softly over mine. My lips moved with his. I felt really light. It was like sync between the both of us. My hand moved in his soft hair and the other one kept moving in his other hand. In a few seconds, we pulled apart. Great, I was again blushing but this time it wasn't that visible because it was dark.
"Tired out?" he asked and we went towards a bench.
"A lot." I said and laid my head on his shoulder. I maybe yawned twice and then I knocked off to sleep.
(BRADY'S POV)
She did! She did love me! It wasn't Seth, it was me. She just loved Brady Fuller, no one else and she was serious. We kissed each other. Why did I need proofs? Cassie was the type of girl I had wanted to imprint on. I knew this. She was the one whom I belonged and the one who belonged me. I was in deep thoughts and what I forgot was to notice the time as it was really dark now. Shit! It was 9: 50. I looked at Cassie who had her head on my shoulder. She had fallen asleep. Yeah, we had been roaming about since the noon and it had been almost 10 hours to it. Of course she had to tire out because she was a simple human who looked damn cute while sleeping and sleep – smiling. Even if I wouldn't have imprinted on her, I was sure that I would have fallen for her madly. She wasn't the type of girl that Mark brought at home and got chewed out by mom, she was the type that mom liked, I guess. The time! Paul was sure to chew me out now and not even spit me. I made her wear her sneakers and then wore my shoes and picked her in my arms and sped to the Lahote's residence. It was still 20 minutes from there if I just walk and don't disturb Cassie by running. I didn't want to disturb her while she was sleeping and one thing I knew was that she was as good as drunk if she was drowsy. Like Seth had told me that once she was so drowsy while doing her homework that when Rachel came with her dinner to her room, Cassie started saying "Chapter extinct and endangered. Please don't hurt the textbook." I had a giggle over to this. Seriously, that was quite funny.
I rung the bell and it was opened by Ashley, fortunately.
"Hey!" she shouted. Cassie stirred at the noise.
"Shshshshh…." I quieted her and took Cassie upstairs. I laid her on her bed, covered her with the blanket and kissed her…. Almost when Paul opened the door and pulled me away from her. But still I left her a note on her study desk. He almost threw me on the couch.
"What is it now?" I demanded.
"You dared to kiss my little sister!" he said and punched me on my face. I pushed him back. Jacob caught hold of Paul.
"Seriously, you're really an annoying brother Paul. Sneaking on your sister and her boyfriend? Not so good." Jacob said.
"That's right." I said. Okay, my face hurt a bit. It was almost my nose.
"Then what are you here for Jake? Even you're here for the same task, I guess so." Paul said. Jake asked me to leave and got entangled in a word war with Paul and I skipped out of it. Thanks to Jake.
Quite a long chapter, isnt it? But please do review. next chapter update will be a little slow, guys. Sorry UTs are waiting for me at school and my vacations are over. I hate it! Please make the review count touch up to 20, if you please! Love you all. I'll be back with an awesome chapter soon. Wait for me! And more reviews are always welcomed! :)