19. Relaxed.
"Are we there yet?" I asked Kelsey. She was driving her Ford up a long winding dirt road, Kaylen was in the passenger seat and I was in the back. Dianne had canceled on the last-minute, she had to babysit her cousins. The guys were following behind us with the Jeep Emmett had borrowed me, it was filled with the tents, food and water.
"About two minutes." She said driving slowly up a small hill then going faster as we descended again.
"Okay we're here." She said stopping the car, she had driven into a small clearing in the trees, the tall trees covered the top of the clearing letting thin rays of sunlight through. The floor was coated with pine needles and dead, brown leaves and damp. Our feet sunk a bit wherever we stepped. The sun was slightly west, we had driven for a while.
"How about before we pack we take a hike up to the peak?" I asked looking at the small tip of the hill through the trees.
"But I don't like hiking." Kaylen complained.
"Oh come on it's not that far. Just make sure the food's safe, there might be bears here." I said, I couldn't pick up any scent of bears here but just as a precaution.
Before she could answer I started walking up the hill, it wasn't very steep.
About halfway up Kaylen started complaining again, we all chuckled when Nahuel picked her up on his back, at first she was skeptical but with a bit of encouragement she agreed. Now she was asking him every five minutes if her weight bothered him.
I was still in the lead, Jacob right behind me whistling, Kelsey had climbed up on Colin's back too and giggled every time she touched the wet leaves of the trees.
"Oh come on ladies you're making us look bad!" I chuckled when we got to the top. "I'm the only one that didn't need a lift, I mean I expected it from Kaylen but not Kelsey." I chuckled again when she stuck her tongue out at me.
"Well we can't all be vampires and werewolves." Kaylen said.
"Like that's an excuse." I said.
"It is." She said.
The view from the peak was beautiful, it was elevated just enough to be able to see over the forest and see the blue shadows of the far taller mountains in the distance, it looked like a see of Jade green as the sun shone down on the leaves making little rainbows from the drops of water on the trees. There were only a handful of clouds today tossed randomly across the sky, but it was barely noticable as my skin glowed slightly as the sun shone on it. I held my hand up, I always studied my skin in the sun, trying to find an origin, where the glow started, since my parents seemed as if they were made from diamonds.
I felt Jacobs large arm slink around my waist and he rested his chin on my shoulders. He was a bit heavy, even to me but I could manage.
I turned around to face him, I could see myself in his dark brown eyes, could see every detail, my light cream skin stood out anywhere, except maybe in the snow, but my hair made it impossible to hide as well, bright bronze with a slight orange ting to it. My mother threw a fit when I asked to cut it but gave in eventually, I had cut it just below shoulder length. It was straight on top then as you went lower it hung in curly ringlets all over my shoulders.
We stayed there for about half an hour then Jake and Colin started complaining they were hungry.
We hiked back down, Jacob insisted on carrying me on his back, we were down quickly, the sun had just started setting.
"How about you guys set up the tents and we make a fire?"I suggested when Jacob set me back down.
"But I'm starving." He complained.
"You ate two hours ago when we stopped at that gas station!" I said smacking his head lightly.
He rolled his eyes and started taking out the tent pieces, he started moving faster than human speed.
"Do it normally Jake, we're humans for this entire three days." I said.
Kaylen, Kelsey and I had found a few dry pieces of wood scattered here and there, by the time we had prepared the food and got the fire started the guys were just finishing up with the tents.
"Finally!" Jake said and started eating the hot dogs we had made already.
"Jake! That needs to last us the whole three days!" I whined.
"That is why I am glad I don't have a wolf boyfriend, my fridge is safe." Kaylen said.
I had moved a few logs around the fire, I was cheating but nobody wanted to sit on the cold damp floor.
Nahuel and I had two hotdogs since we had hunted the day before, Kelsey had three, Kaylen had four but Jake and Colin seemed like they weren't gonna stop.
"You guys are such pigs!" Kelsey said after their tenth.
"Yeah I think that's enough guys, we still need for the morning." I said taking the bowl, I wrapped it in the plastic we had brought and put it back in Kelsey's trunk.
"Hey we need to maintain how awesome physique. We need to eat a lot." Jacob said lightly hitting my arm.
"Still it not a reason for starving the normal people." I said, I leaned back into Jake's arms when I had closed the trunk.
There were three tents, Jake and I were sharing, Kaylen and Nahuel and Kelsey and Colin. My dad would probably freak when he hears but whatever.
It was already late, past midnight by the time I crawled into the sleeping bag we had brought. There was barely room for me to squeeze into the tent because Jake took most of it up.
"Night Ness." Jake whispered to me, he pecked me once and then closed his eyes. He was snoring a few minutes later.
I guess I fell asleep too because the next moment I heard my cell phone ringing. I reached blindly into my bag and extracted my phone easily.
It was 3 am. I checked the number, my dad.
He was probably calling because of worrying about my 'wellbeing'.
"What dad? I'm sleeping?" I said, annoyance clear in my voice.
"Megan's in labour, she just started about three minutes ago, Carlisle is going to deliver the baby." He said.
Oh come on! I was only gone for a few hours not even a full day yet and I'm already missing the birth of my niece or nephew, because Megan was like a sister to me.
"What?!" I shrieked sitting up straight.
Jacob jumped up next to me.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"Nothing sit down." I said to him.
"Is that Jacob? Are you sleeping with him!" My dad suddenly shouted into the phone.
"Dad! Calm down! Stop worrying about me, go see to Megan, tell everyone we'll be home at ten tomorrow." I said and hung up before he could shout some more.
"Megan's gone into labour. We're leaving at 6, so go back to sleep." I said rolling over again, but I couldn't sleep. I lay awake for about an hour before I finally fell asleep again. I woke up again at six.
I got out of the tent, went to get my clothes from the car, took a bucket of the water we had brought for washing.
When I was done I woke up the others and explained.
We were on the road at about half-past six because Kelsey and Kaylen were still a bit sluggish.
I told them to go straight to my house when we got back.
When we reached my house it was quarter to ten, it was unusually sunny, just a few fluffs of cloud here and there in the sky. A beautiful day.