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CHAPTER 03:
SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME,PT 2
( DAY OF THE WEDDING, BEGINNING OF COCO'S PART IN THE WHOLE 'VAMP THING')
Courtney sat up in bed, the sheet barely covering her as she looked over to the left of the mattress, snickered at the wolf lying there. Her father, of course, was already at the church with Carlisle, Esme and the others. She'd slept in mostly because she had a little time before the wedding, before she absolutely had to get to the church.
'No, Bambi.. Just lay here.' the male, Embry, thought to himself while he was in his wolf form currently. Okay, so he definitely should have went home last night, but knowing that red eyed leech was after his imprint, he just couldn't.. Just like he couldn't obey Sam's order and stay away from her. Everything about him, it made him crazy, made him want this whole 'seperation' thing to be over already. He was lucky he was getting to go to the wedding, though he knew Sam would sit there glaring a hole through him the entire time.
"Okay, big guy.. You have to get going now. Seriously.. Charlie's laid back, but I'm pretty sure that if he sees you in here, he'll either have a coronary or shit a gold brick." Courtney said as she leaned down, brushed her lips to the wolf's cold wet nose, giggling when it began to lick her all over the face. Okay, so maybe this wasn't exactly the norm, a college girl sneaking a WOLF into her house, not a guy..
But she felt safer with him around.. She still wasn't entirely sure about her biological father, Charlie, though she was warming to him quickly, and for the moment, the wolf was more like the pet her mother, Renee, never allowed her to have.
She'd always wanted a dog as a kid, but Bella was slightly afraid of most of them, so she hadn't been able to get one then.
The wolf licked her one more time, nuzzled it's nose against her leg and made a hasty retreat as it normally did when it came in for a night (usually when it was raining, as it had been the night before, because Courtney was secretly soft hearted, the thought of the big guy out there, getting soaked by rain..)
And she dug around in her top drawer for the special padded and strapless bra that her sister helped her find for the dress. "Okay, Coco.. you're gonna see him again today.. You cannot stare at Embry like an ass. You cannot think about all that X rated stuff you kept dreaming about all night last night where he was concerned, either. This is NOT the time for you to go rushing head on into something.. You're in Forks to get your head on straight, figure out what you want in life."
That sounded well and good, but Courtney couldn't really deny, she WANTED Embry, the tall, muscular quiet Quileute guy she'd met through Sue and Leah, Seth.. "But I want him.." she muttered softly as she slicked the crimson lip gloss across her full lips, blew a kiss and winked at the mirror. "Are you awake?" someone called from the foot of the stairs. She peeked out, looked down as she called out to Alice, who stood there, "Mhmm."
"I smell wet dog."
"Because one just left. Okay, so not a dog, a wolf, but yeah." Courtney said as she looked at Alice who was trying not to laugh and looked like she wanted to say something to ask, "What?"
"So you've been letting the wolf in here.. To sleep at night.." Alice said as she tried her best not to double over in side splitting laughter.. This was going to be interesting, when the truth as far as Embry was concerned, came out and she knew about their bond, what they were to each other.
She just hoped that Courtney took it a lot better than she'd taken finding out that the Cullens were all vampires. She still seemed wary of them all, even now.
"Yeah, I have.. It was raining and he was on the patio.. And I didn't want him to get wet or cold." Courtney explained as Rosalie stepped in and sniffed the air, trying not to laugh, Alice calmly elbowing her.
"Came to do your hair and makeup?"
"I, ermm, huh?"
"Hair and makeup."
"But I did.."
"No, Courtney, we wanted to actually put makeup on you.. Not that halfhearted thing you do where you CLAIM you're wearing makeup, but you in fact are not wearing makeup."
"Ughh, no.. Why? It's not gonna do anything but make me look like shit.. Or worse than normally.. I mean personally? I gave up on makeup, beauty a few years ago when I realized no matter what I tried, I'd never be as pretty as my mom or my sister." Courtney babbled, her hand raking through her hair slowly as her other hand curled around the post at the top of the stairs. She was getting that feeling again, the feeling of being watched, and just now, she could have sworn she'd heard the same voice as the one in the radio station, saying quietly, from a distance, "Soon".
She shook her head and focused on trying to dissuade the pair of sisters at the foot of the stairs as her cell phone began ringing in her hand, -lets get it on- drawing a raised brow from both sisters as she said "Err, crap.. I'm gonna take this.. In the bathroom."
"That was totally Embry." Alice muttered as Rosalie stopped a moment, burst into laughter, gripping the rail on the stairs as she said "So he's sleeping in her bed.. In wolf form.. And his ring tone on her phone is Let's Get It On. And he STILL fears that the imprint didn't take.. Wow.. "
"He's shy, Rosalie."
"And he's not good at picking up subtle as a sledgehammer hints either, I'm guessing. Oooh.. I have an idea.."
"What?"
"At the reception.. This song MUST play. I just wanna mess with her, just a little.. Please?"
"Hmm.. Sure. That could be fun.. I like a good chance to play Cupid." Alice admitted as they called out, "Off the phone, we're coming up."
"I was off the phone, haha." Courtney called out sarcastically, as she peeked out the bathroom door and glared at them a little, then said "And it was only him asking if I made it home okay last night."
"Wow.. He's really committed to keeping this whole thing up for now, isn't he?" Rosalie muttered as Alice shook her head and said "He wanted to hear her voice.. It's so sweet."
"I'm throwing up in my mouth a little... Really."
They stepped into the bathroom and Courtney said quietly, "Do you guys ever feel like you're being watched? But you look to see if you are, nobody's there?"
"Why?"
"Because I've felt like that all week. And that guy from the station.. Hell, forget it.. I could have sworn I saw him standing in the woods outside of Leah and Seth's last night."
"And you said nothing because?"
"As soon as I saw the guy, he was gone.. I was kind of distracted.."
"Let me guess... Embry Call?"
"Hey.. What the hell? How do you even.."
"It's really, really obvious." Rosalie muttered dryly, then said quietly, "You have to tell us stuff like that."
" It's not a big deal, seriously. It's probably just some creeper who goes to Port Angeles U.. You guys haven't seen some of the guys that go there. Real freakshows."
"Like how?"
"Well, there's actually a few of them who apparently think, and get this, that they ARE what you guys are. Or they wanna be vampires, at least."
At this, Rosalie and Alice shared a concerned look as they finished doing her makeup. When they'd all finished, and were about to leave, Courtney remembered she'd left her change of shoes upstairs, and ran back up. She stopped by the bathroom mirror, and was about to look at the 'finished' product, what Rosalie and Alice had done, but a scream died on her lips.
Behind her was a man with a black leather trench coat, burning red eyes almost, and almost blue pale skin. And he licked his lips as they moved towards her neck hungrily...
Then as quickly as the man had appeared, he was gone and Courtney screamed, then stormed down the stairs, and jerked the shotgun from the wall over her dad's fireplace.
"Whoa, what are you doing?"
"Some asshole was in my bathroom.. I'm gonna go into my bedroom, open my window, and fill his ass with lead."
"Whoa, wait.. Someone's here.. With us?"
"Mhmm.. They were.. The fuck's gone now."
"Grab your coat, you can dance barefoot. " Alice said as she practically raced out of Charlie's house with her hand in Courtney's, only stopping long enough to lock the place up.
As they drove off, Courtney gasped as she saw him materialize in the woods right next to the church. "Guys.. He's.. He's right fucking there."
When Alice and Rosalie looked over to where she pointed with the hand that wasn't on the steering wheel, there wasn't anyone there. It wasn't uncommon for the Volturi to play mind games.. But somehow, both girls had serious doubts about this vampire being Volturi. And if he weren't.. Then who's coven did he belong to? And why the interest in Courtney?
They'd just parked and Courtney rolled her eyes as she spotted Jessica Stanley, a girl she'd met on a previous visit to her sister when Bella was still in high school. "What the heck is SHE doing here?"
"Taking it you don't like her?"
"About as much as I'd like to be hit in the face with a brick." Courtney stated as she gritted her teeth, let Jessica hug her. "It's so nice to see you, Coco! I didn't know you were here!"
'Probably because I threatened to kick the piss out of Bells if she told you.' Courtney thought to herself as nearby Edward and Emmett, Jasper almost went down in laughter.
"Yeah.. I forgot she really doesn't like her."
"Something tells me that we better keep those two seperated at the reception."
Jessica turned her gaze to the taller tuxedo wearing Embry Call who appeared as if out of thin air, beside Courtney.
"I see you've met Embry."
Courtney bit her lower lip and then said quietly, with a smirk, "Actually, yeah.. Big guy is sort of my date today."
Embry looked back and forth between Jessica and Courtney, confused as to what was going on currently. He really didn't try to spend too much time solving the mystery of the female mind, but he knew enough to know that apparently, for whatever reason, his imprint looked like she were about 2 seconds away from punching Bella's old friend Jessica in the face.
Thankfully, Bella noticed the two of them staring at each other and practically hissing, and made her way over, laughing as she looked at Embry's completely baffled expression.
Edward walked past Embry and said "And that.. Was your imprint's inner jealous side."
"She was jealous? Of Jessica?"
"Jessica was flirting with you, just enough that Courtney picked up on it, yes." Edward said casually before walking away to talk to Carlisle and Esme, Charlie before the wedding started.
'Embry, just don't try and dwell on it too much, buddy.. Women get jealous easily.'
'but why? i mean i haven't ever really liked jessica stanley.'
the less you worry about it, Emb.. the better off you are. I'm Jared, your best buddy.. trust me.. not steering you wrong on this.'
' do you guys smell bad leech nearby?'
'yeah.. we're gonna keep our eyes open.'
"If she keeps looking over here, sis.. Not responsible for my actions." Courtney said as she added, "And if she even THINKS she's gonna dance with Embry, I will probably choke her."
"Whoa.. So you're admitting you like him?"
"I don't know, sis.. But I do know I feel something and I'm not about to have her sniffing around, f- err messing things up." Courtney said as Bella started to laugh a little as she said casually, "You can relax.. He hasn't taken his eyes off of you since you got here."
"Yeah, but sooner or later, he'll get bored and find someone better.. All guys do." Courtney frowned a moment, thinking about this as she sighed and then said "I'm gonna go sit with Seth and Leah, talk to them."
"Don't you mean covertly check him out?" Bella joked as Courtney said with a smirk, "Sis, if we weren't in a church right now.. I'd totally give you the finger.. But we are, so I'ma give you the pinkie."
"Love you, coco puff."
"Love you too, batty bell."
Embry was just stopping the whole mental conversation that he had going with the pack when he felt a tap to his shoulder.
"You look.. Wow."
"Ya like?"
He nodded quietly, tugged at his tie. "My mom tied this way too tight."
"Lemme see.. I had to do Charlie's tie earlier." Courtney said as she raised to tiptoe, tongue jutting between full crimson lips as she concentrated on working the tie loose, then redoing it just a little bit more loosely than his mom had done it earlier.
"Thanks."
She winked as she said casually, "No problem, big guy. We're dancing later, right?" as she walked back towards her father, who'd called her over to meet some of his old friends, Billy Black and some others.