I hope all of you enjoyed the last chapter in Seth's p.o.v., I haven't done one like that in a while. This chapter is going to have a time lapse of a week. Also, please go check out that poll I put up on my profile, I put it up to help me decide whether or not to do a Seth and Josephine Christmas special :) And thank you to Mollydolly1996, tokiluv, Omgitsblondie, and VballBabe44 for reviewing last chapter.
Chapter 19
Josy P.O.V.
I hadn't been allowed to leave the house at all the week before; no school, no friends, and definitely no shifting. My dad and cousin had made themselves very clear with what they wanted me to do, which was to just stay in the house and not do anything dangerous. Seeing as how I'm accident prone, this was a little hard, but I managed to not trip over anything.
Seth had tried to pry the information of the future I saw out of me to no avail all weekend as he watched over me. I finally had enough and locked myself in my room. He just sat next to my door for a solid twenty-four hours to make sure I didn't accidentally kill myself and that a vampire didn't try to sneak into my house through my bay window - a very unlikely thing. I hadn't done much more the rest of the week. I just sat around and read, did some homework I couldn't really comprehend, and baked. The boys just loved it. They even liked the crappy cake I made.
It was an interesting weekend all in all, but thankfully no vampires showed up. None of the bad kind, anyway, Dr. Carlisle actually stopped by the house to make sure we were all okay. He just gave me a small check-up to make sure that everything was working correctly after the shift, I couldn't help but notice that as he got closer that weird, sharp smell got stronger. Huh I thought, All vampires must smell that way.
~*Break*~
I was finally at school after Mike had decided that he would take the longest way possible. I mean, La Push isn't very small, but it isn't huge either. We could have gotten to school in about five minutes from our house if we hadn't taken the route that would take in a circle around town.
"Mike, why didn't you take the short way to school?" My brother shrugged and leaned forward a little bit more in his seat.
"I just felt like taking the long way today," I shook my head and rolled my eyes at his response while taking in the scenery around us. La Push is a beautiful place, all the rain lent it something special. All the plant life was lush and green, the animals were mostly quiet, and the rain gave it a sparkly, fairytale feel. Which, I guess, I was sort of living in now.
There was a park directly across from the school and some older trees were between the houses and La Push High. I breathed in the cool air and started towards the doors of the school. I spotted Kim and Ariel as they were walking up the stairs and called out to them. Kim turned and waved like a mad-woman, Ariel wiggled her fingers at me as they both came towards me.
"Hi," Kim wrapped me up in a warm hug smelling of cinnamon. "Seth told us you were super sick all of last week." She paused as Ariel came around to hang her arm over my shoulders. "I'm sorry for yelling at you over the phone." She smiled sheepishly.
I shook my head and smiled. "It's fine, Kim, how was class last week?" I looked at both of them expectantly.
Kim's face took on a deer in the headlights look, so Ariel started off. "Well, it sure was interesting," we started to walk up the stairs to the front doors of the school while every other student milled around on the grass. "All of Jacob's group was gone, for starters, and a really pale guy stopped by the school claiming to be your distant cousin." She shook her head so quickly it almost looked like a twitch. "That was honestly the weirdest, he wanted to know everything about you. It was a good thing Kim's boyfriend showed up and scared him off, he was really creeping everyone out." My body went cold and I could feel my face losing color.
"You okay?" Kim asked me and looked concerned. I immediately tried to rearrange my face to make it look like I was more normal.
I nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine, you just took me by surprise." I tried to laugh it off and make it sound like I was fine, but something in my laugh rang false. I was going to give myself away. Ariel just laughed along and Kim rolled her eyes. I was safe.
"On a better note," Kim started. "Our teachers said you don't have to finish any of the homework, they'll give you the credit because you haven't been here very long." My eyes almost bugged out of my head. It had to be too good to be true. "Jeez, Josy, it wasn't that much homework. Are your eyes okay?" Ariel giggled as Kim shook her head at me.
"I'm fine," I mumbled and rolled my eyes at them. Kim slipped her arm through mine, still giggling, and led me through the doors to the hallway.
~*Break*~
I sat in class for two hours - language arts - and tried to remember what I needed to do for the essay we were writing. The class was going by slowly and it was even slower when I felt Seth's eyes on my back. It was a weird burning sensation - not bad, just warm - and I could also feel his need to be next to me.
I felt it too, I just wanted to curl up and have him next to me. Every day. And every night, but we wouldn't just be curled up if you know what I mean. My face began to get warm as I thought about it. I stopped. Okay, I tried to stop but it's really difficult to stop thinking about it once you do. My face got even more red and my teacher asked me if I was okay. I really don't know how I'm going to survive the next few classes.
Hey! Sorry that this is super short, guys, but I have a lot of stuff to do this week. I might write some fluff in the upcoming chapters, but you never know. Please go vote in the poll that I put up on my profile, I would really like to know if you all would like to see a christmas special (or other type of special)!