Part II-Chapter 4: Maybe One Day

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You're So Damn Hot-Ok Go

Telephone-Lady Gaga & Beyonce

When you're gone-Avril Lavigne

Night 2

Darius helped my shaking form get out of the pool before I shivered my way over to the hot Jacuzzi. The water scalded my skin and puckered it red but I felt warm.

"You're mean," I stated matter-of-factly to Darius.

He laughed and I rolled my eyes. "Comes with being a Skye," he replied smoothly.

"Oh yea, sure," I reply before swimming around the big Jacuzzi.

"So this Embry boy. He's your best friend?" Darius asked as he swam over to me, sitting on the ledge right next to me, his knee placed near mine.

"Yea, he's always been there for me no matter what."

"He sounds like a good kid. He's not just with you for your body?" Darius asked, a crooked grin on his face.

"No, of course not!" I gaped.

"I wouldn't underestimate your body Vanessa," he replied slowly, looking over my body and reaching up to wipe away a curl hanging in front of my eye.

My eyes widened and if I wasn't in water my hands would have been sweaty. I looked away from him as I heard the sliding door to the house open slowly and watched as Ryan and my sister came out. My sister was in the skimpiest bikini I ever saw and Ryan was wearing sagging white see through shorts. Very, very see through.

Darius scooted away from me and smirked at Ryan.

"What have we here?" Darius mocked.

Laura rolled her eyes. "Getting with my niece are you?" he asked as they climbed in.

"Dare, you're only a few years older than I am. You're more like an older brother than Uncle."

"You're still my niece," he told her, smiling.

"Whatever," she mumbled, smiling.

"So, tell us," Ryan began.

"What's Miss Vanessa like?" he directed at my sister.

"She's too uptight," she said immediately. "No offense, of course."

"None taken," I said under my breath.

Darius smiled over at me and raised an eyebrow. I just shook my head.

"Van needs to seriously loosen up. High school will be good for her. It's amazing she gets to miss her freshman year, though. Mine was horrible, especially with all the seniors making our lives hell the whole year." She sighed. "Girls are devils."

"Agreed," I said unconsciously. My eyes widened when all three turned to look at me. "I, uh, mean…"

"We know what you mean." Laura smirked.

I could only nod and look up at the full moon.

We were only in the Jacuzzi for an hour when Laura announced she was going to bed and Ryan jumped up quickly to join her. After they left I tried to tell Darius I was going to bed but before I could he got out of the Jacuzzi but not before turning back to look at me.

"I should be going too. I'll see you in the morning."

With that he wrapped a towel around his waist and headed inside. Confused, I looked at his departure until I saw him enter Laura's room.

I didn't want to think twice about so instead I got out and wrapped a towel around my body. After toweling off I padded quietly inside and to my room where I anxiously pulled off my bathing suit. I heard a soft click before I had the chance to pull on other clothes and I turned around cautiously. My door was open about an inch and a light breeze was coming through it. Odd, I thought, I am positive I closed the door. Picking up my robe I wrapped it around myself before closing my door shut and locking it.

There, I thought, that should keep it closed. I finished dressing into Embry's t-shirt and boxer shorts then turned to unlock my door. I felt pressure on it from the other side but before I opened it the pressure left. Not wanting to freak myself out any more than I am, I went to my bed and took my phone off my dresser.

4 new text messages. 2 missed calls. 1 voice message.

I quickly read through the text messages from Kim, Jake, Quil, and Embry. All saying good bye from earlier. I texted them all back quickly with a hello and moved on to my missed calls. The first one was from Sam's number which I figured is Paul and the second was from Leah. I listened to Paul's voice message telling me to call him whenever.

I quickly dialed his number and listened as it rang 3 times before a ruckus on the other side sounded on the phone.

There was a bang and a couple of grumbles before a voice talked, "Do you have any clue what time it is?" Sam sounded incredibly grumpy and I tried to hide my laugh with a cough.

"Hey, Sam, it's Vanessa."

"Oh! Vanessa, hey what's up?" Sam greeted, forgetting that I had woken him from his beauty sleep.

"I was wondering if Paul is there?" I asked, rubbing my nose with the hand not holding the phone.

"He just woke up. I'll tell him you're here." I heard shuffling on the other side before Paul's voice came on.

"What?" he snapped. I flinched back and regretted calling instantly.

"Paul?" I asked timidly.

I heard his breath whoosh out before he talked amiably, "Ness! I didn't know it was you. Are you ok? Everything going good done there?" he asked in a rush.

"Mmhmm. Everything is fine down here. Laura and Uncle Darius are here."

"Darius? Isn't he supposed to be in jail?" Paul asked, concerned.

"He is?" I was shocked. I'm sure if he was then Dad wouldn't have invited him.

"Yea, I answered the phone one night about 4 years ago and he was asking for your Dad. I got John and asked who that was and what that was about. He sounded like he was in trouble. John told me he had to bail him out of jail and after he got back he told me he had to stay in there for 5 years. He told me what Darius did too and Nessa I think you should stay away from him. I'm not going to tell you what he did because I don't think you can handle that right now."

"Ok," I mumbled, biting my finger nail.

"How long is he staying?" Paul asked anxiously.

"A week at most." I heard Paul sigh heavily.

"Promise me you'll stay away from him. Stay near John the whole time if you can. Go to bed early and lock your doors. Okay?"

I bit harder on my nail and heard a crack as it broke.

"You're biting your nails, huh?" Paul guessed. I could almost hear his smile.

"You always do that when you're nervous. It's okay, Ness. It's all going to be fine. Trust me?" he asked.

"Of course," I responded, putting my hand down to stop from biting my torn cuticle.

"Alright. Leah says you'll be down for her birthday in October, right?" I tried to think of when my mother said we would be visiting and the 14th popped into my head. "Yea, the 14th," I replied.

"I'll see you then, turns out Leah and Sam are getting pretty serious," he grumbled.

"I heard. I'm supposed to call her right now," I told him, scooting further on my bed and laying with my head on the pillows.

"Good. I'll let you go then. Be safe, call me whenever you want." I heard shuffling in the distance and a wolf howl.

"The wolves miss you, Ness," Paul joked.

"Whatever, Pauli. I'll talk to you later. I love you," I told him, sighing.

"Love you too, sis. Night." The line went dead and my heart faltered a little.

"Night," I mumbled to the other end.

Biting my lip I looked at the clock that read 1 am and contemplated calling Leah. She probably thinks I'm a horrible friend. Contemplating whether I should wake her I dialed anyway and listened until the 4th ring.

"Hello?" she whispered.

"Leah?" I asked quietly. "Why are we whispering?" I asked in a hush tone.

I heard her gentle laugh before she answered in a normal voice.

"Sorry, I was trying to keep my voice down because of my parents. I thought you were Sam." That stung a little bit.

"But I'm glad it's you. I've been waiting for you to call all night!" she exclaimed. I could hear something click in the distance and I sighed.

"Are you smoking?" I asked, turning on my side to look out the window.

"How could you tell?" she asked amazed.

"The lighter is noisy," I explained, letting my eyes drift closed.

"Seriously? Shit, you think my parents could hear it?" I heard shuffling on the other line before a quiet snap sounded.

"Never mind. I'm outside on the roof now." I heard more clicking before she puffed with a sigh. I rolled my eyes and gave a huff.

"Leah, that stuff will kill you. You're getting addicted," I stated.

"I can stop. I just chose not to." I heard her quiet laugh and smiled.

You can never stay mad at your best friend. "Mmhmm. I bet," I replied.

"So you were going to tell me about you and Sam?" I asked before we could broach further on the smoking subject.

"Oh! V, he's so great. He's the sweetest guy I have ever met. I cannot believe how amazing he is. Especially since he's 19 and I'm only 16. It doesn't even matter to him, though. Omg, and guess what, V!" she rushed out, enthused.

"Hmm?"

"He's never actually had a real girlfriend before. Just dates. I'm his first! Oh, and you'll never believe this." She lowered her voice. "He's a virgin."

"Really?" I asked surprised. If Paul isn't then I would assume Sam definitely isn't.

"Yea," she confirmed.

"Are you sure?" I asked suspiciously.

"I was surprised too, but I asked Paul and he said he was and then I asked Sam. Sam gave Paul hell for telling me." She laughed. "It's weird, though, since Sam is already 19 and Paul is only 17 you would think that Sam isn't."

"I agree." I heard my phone beep and I looked to see Embry calling me.

"Leah, Embry's calling me. Let me tell him I'm talking to you," I explained.

"No, it's okay. I just wanted to tell you we're officially together. I'm going to bed right now but I'll give you more details tomorrow."

"Okay, I love you. Night."

She replied with the same and I switched calls.

"Hey, Emb," I greeted him.

"Nessa?" He sounded surprised and I raised my eyebrow.

"Who else would it be?" I laughed.

"I thought you would be in bed by now. Considering you woke up at the crack dawn." He chuckled. Now that he mentioned it I was feeling really tired and I yawned. "I hope I didn't wake you up," Embry said worriedly.

"No," I assured him. I turned on my side while keeping the phone pressed tight to my ear and snuggled up to Lil E. "What's up?" I asked.

"Nothing, just entertaining Jake and Quil. They're asleep now. Oh, and sorry for the messages they sent you. I—I'm not moping," he assured me.

"I know," I lied.

"Good," he breathed in relief.

I smiled at his voice and breathed slowly through my mouth, feeling drowsy.

"Are you tired?" he asked.

"Mmm," I responded.

"Do you want to go?" he asked nervously.

"No," I told him. If this was the only way I could talk to him I would take it. I wasn't going to waste my time with sleep if it meant leaving Embry.

"What do you wanna talk 'bout?" he asked.

"How's your summer going?" I asked slowly.

I didn't hear his voice for about 30 seconds so I called his name.

"I was thinking, sorry. Um, you want the truth or the lie?" I contemplated it in my head for a minute.

"Lie to me," I told him.

He chuckled deep in his throat. Odd, his voice is already getting deeper. "Okay," he said. "Life is great! Never been better, I'm having the absolute time of my life, Vanessa!" he lied, laying on the sarcasm thick.

"Translation meaning, life sucks, it's been horrible, and I'm having the worst time of my life, Ness," he said truthfully.

"I said lie to me," I replied sadly, feeling that horrible gut retching feeling in my stomach.

"I could never lie to you," he replied.

"You could try," I said pathetically.

He chuckled again and I heard him mumble under his breath. "Silly girl."

It was silent for a couple minutes. Not an awkward I don't know what to say silence more of a peaceful calming silence.

"What are you thinking about," I asked him.

"You," he responded immediately. I felt myself smile and let out a breath of air.

"What about me?" I asked curiously.

"How much I miss you. It sucks not having my best friend here."

I frowned and tried not to think about that. "Don't think about it, Embry."

He laughed bitterly. "What else should I think about?" he asked.

I thought about that for a minute and let my sleep induced haze turn the conversation in a different direction. "Do you remember what I tried to tell you in my room when we were packing?" I asked him. His breathing sped up and I gave a small smile.

"Barely." Liar.

"I wanted to tell you the secret I was keeping," I reminded him, curling up to Lil E tighter.

"I remember." I could practically feel his impatience for me to tell him now. "I wanted to tell you that…"

I prolonged the moment further just for the enjoyment of Embry squirming.

"Yes?" he asked impatiently.

"I…" I heard him huff as I stalled.

"Nessa," he whined. "Tell me!"

I laughed under my breath.

"I told Leah that you're my best friend and I love you. That should explain everything."

It was silent again before Embry sighed.

"I know that and I love you too, Ness." I don't think Embry understood, maybe in time he would get the kind of love I meant.

The love that makes my head spin and my toes curl thinking about him. Maybe one day he would get that he means the world to me. Maybe one day he'll see that he's the one for me.

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