Chapter 8 A Day With Erin
So Sky took the news about what had happened reasonably well, and shes off round Erin's today, they have a lot to talk about including a few wolves, AND theres a party tonight!
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Sky's POV
As Embry and me walked to Erin's we chatted about nothing in particular he seemed to want to steer clear of the subject of what he was doing today though, I would find out eventually and he was an idiot for thinking I wouldn't.
"So you and Erin are coming back to ours to get ready then you'll meet the rest of us at the party?" Embry asked.
"Yeah, I have to convince her that she like has to go, and besides if anyone says shit to her about what happened if I don't kick their arse I'm sure Seth will." I said.
"Your not wrong their, and you can count me in on that one as well and probably most of the guys, but she should know now that we will all look out for her." Embry said.
"Good, do you think she will come?" I asked.
"I think she will she's a lot stronger than she looks, and in all honesty I think she would be mad to try to tell you she weren't going." Embry laughed.
"Embry it's not funny, I don't want her to feel uncomfortable but there's like no way she's not coming ya know?" I asked.
"Yeah I know what your like, but if she really doesn't want to don't be too harsh on her, but as I said she probably will come, just to show everyone that she isn't going to be put down by Luke, or any of his mates, it will actually be interesting to see how all of Luke's mates react to her being there you know. And just in warning Seth will most likely be coming with you when you go and be with Erin like all night, he was so worried about her, so he's gonna be even worse tonight." Embry said.
I just sighed.
"Wow your not even arguing with that." Embry said in a fake shocked voice.
"Har har, there's no point, it's true they really do suit I can tell already and that's like weird coming from me, but I can't imagine them ever like not being together you know?" I asked.
"Yeah I know what you mean, and their both nice people, they deserve to be happy." Embry said.
"Well I hardly know them but I feel the same." I said.
"So you Seth and Erin will go together yeah?" Embry asked.
"Yeah, but what about you wont you be at home, and then you can come with us? And if your there I'm sure Jake and Quil will come with us as well." I said, I had only been here 3 days and already I knew Jake Quil and Embry were as close as brothers and done the majority of things together, whenever I had spoken to Embry when I lived in England, which was virtually everyday we never went longer than 2 days of not talking or texting, sounds weird I know but he's my brother and my rock in life, but he would always mention Jake and Quil in like everything, whether it had just been some prank they'd played on someone or what they'd been caught doing at school, they were like a family of their own and it made me happy to know that he had them.
"Naaaa, I'm not going home till we leave the party, or I might go back to change my clothes, some time later today but I dunno." Embry said.
"Why what are you doing?" I asked.
"I'm just out with… Quil and Jake today. Yeah they wanted to just hang out like maybe down at the beach or something." Embry said.
"Well me and Erin might come down and see you all then sometime today, she said she would introduce me to some of her mates and then we could go to the beach or something, I'll give you a ring to see where you are." I told him.
"Errr…. Yeah if you want." He said. There was something about how his eyes wouldn't meet mine that made me wonder what he was keeping to himself.
"What aren't you telling me?" I asked him.
"Nothing, look were at Erin's now." He said.
I hated to admit it but he was right we were at Erin's we came to a stop outside her house and Embry hugged me and said, "I'll see you at the party, and remember nothing to revealing clothes wise okay?" I pulled a face which he took as a yes and off he walked.
I walked up to Erin's front door and knocked less than a few moments later Erin swung the door open greeting me with a smiling face.
"Sky." She said, as she ushered me in and hugged me once she shut the door. I hugged her back.
When she let me go I looked at her properly and could see the green purple and black bruises on her neck in the shape of fingers, my face tightened as I looked at the marks, she noticed what I was looking at and pulled a small smile.
"Don't worry they look a lot worse than they actually are." She tried to reassure me.
"That's not the point though Erin, it's my fault if I had just stayed away from him and not tried to get my own back, then Embry wouldn't have gotten so pissed off and then he wouldn't have had to come to you then Luke wouldn't have hurt you." I said in a rush, Embry knew how I felt but he never said anything, he just hugged me when I said how it was my fault, he probably agreed but he knew that I was feeling bad enough as it was. Erin just watched me carefully for a few moments before she came and hugged me tightly.
"Sky, he's a twat he got what was coming to him, you were the only girl who had it in her to even think of getting her own back on him, yeah I might have suffered for it, but some good came out of it, Seth kicked Luke's arse like seriously which in a way I think he needed he was becoming way to big for his boots and it's made me and Seth…" she trailed off, not in a way that she didn't want to tell me, in a way that said she didn't even know what was going on with her and Seth.
"Well that answers my question of what's going on with you and Seth." I said, she let me go and looked into my eyes with shock and question.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"Well just in the way you trailed off, I dunno how but I just knew that it wasn't you keeping something from me you genuinely don't know what it is that's between you and Seth. Well yet anyway." I said with a sly grin, she looked quite shocked that I had gotten that just from her trailing off at the mention of Seth.
"Wow that's weird." She said.
"I guess, but I could just tell from your voice." I said.
"Well yeah, we can talk about that a bit more in a minute but do you want a drink or anything to eat?" Erin asked.
"Naaaaa I'm good, we could just watch a movie then go out for a bit later this afternoon, Embry said he was down at the beach with Jake and Quil, but I don't believe him for some reason I think he's lying to me." I said.
Erin led the way into the front room, which was a nice cosy room with chocolate brown leather sofas and a big telly on the wall. I felt really at home here for some reason it just made me feel slightly relaxed. Erin went and sat on one of the sofas and I sat down next to her took my shoes off and brought my feet up underneath me.
"Look I know this is random but can I try your shoes on then we can get back to what you were saying about Embry?" Erin asked eyeing my black platform court heels.
"Yeah sure you can, I'm a 6 and half to like a seven what are you?" I asked.
"Wow I'm the same." She said slipping them on and walking round the room in them.
"They suit you." I told her as she sat back down and took them off.
"Thanks, but they are like seriously high, I mean they have the platform built into the front of it so they are even higher." She said.
I just laughed.
"But anyway, ignore my moment of randomness there, you were saying about Embry, and you think he lied to you…" she trailed off leaving me to finish what I was saying.
"Well on the way over here he kept like steering the conversation away from what he was doing today and like when I was like 'well what are you up to today?' he's like 'errrr…. Wellll I'm errrrr… going to the beach maybe.' I was like oh you going with Quil and Jake and he was like yeah but it took him ages to reply and he wouldn't look me in the eye." I told her.
"Well why would he lie to you?" she asked.
"I honestly don't know, I mean like I care who he's meeting… wait that's it he's meeting some girl I bet, he knows I wouldn't like that so he's keeping it a secret from me." I said, I suddenly felt a bit hurt, me and Embry never really have secrets, but I suppose he knew how I would get about some girl so he probably only done it to prevent an argument.
"Why would he keep that a secret from you though?" Erin asked confused.
"Well I'm I guess I'm quite protective like you know what we spoke about yesterday when we first got to school, you said if I was the type of person who thinks no ones good enough for him or am really protective then I would have problems with like quite a few girls, well yeah I am pretty protective, its just I don't want him with some stupid bitch that doesn't deserve him." I said.
Erin smiled sympathetically at me.
"Sky, your brothers a big boy and he can look after himself, trust me I've seen him in fights, and as much as I like Embry, he isn't exactly hating having the attention of quite a few girls, in fact he loves it." Erin told me in a gently voice.
"No I know you don't mean that horribly about Embry, and I also know that he likes the attention, but I'm not going to stand by and watch some slag hang all over him you know?" I asked.
"Yeah I totally get that, but Sky then you have to see that Embry would feel the same way about you if he saw guys leeching all over you like we all know they will. So if you want him to maybe cut you some slack then you should him as well maybe." Erin suggested.
"I suppose…" I trailed off.
"Anyway, what do you think of La Push so far?" Erin asked.
"Yeah it's alright, I think I'm really going to like it here." I said.
"Good, I know that it will make Embry happy if you're happy, and before you ask you can see how much you mean to him by the way he looks at you and the way he like talks to you and how he acts round you." Erin said answer the question I was about to ask.
"Sooooo I don't know if you herd yesterday, but well you see there's this party tonight and I kinda decided that we should go." I told her a big smile on my face.
"I don't know Sky, it's at Chris' house right?" she asked.
"Yeah but I spoke to Chris last night, and he said that they all felt really bad about what happened, and none of them think you were in the wrong at all and they would be complete idiots if they thought you could be wrong in anyway, and Chris said you were more than welcome to come, and I think you should you need to show everyone that your like not ashamed or afraid or anything like that, go out with your head held high, cause that dickhead really isn't worth it." I told her.
"I know that, but people are gonna be all 'Erin how are you?' 'Erin what happened?' 'Why aren't you pressing charges?' 'How's this affected your family?' and loads of shit like that and I really don't feel like answering a load of their questions if I'm being honest with you Sky, I know they only care but I really cant be arsed to have everyone acting differently around me just because my cousin strangled me you know?" Erin asked.
"Yeah Erin I totally get that but what do you think I'm their for, if anyone talks to you about what happened with Luke I'll tell them to fuck off without a second thought and I know Embry and all the guys will and especially Seth, he would even come with us to the party if it makes you feel better, and we could go and get ready at mine and please please please can I do like your hair and make-up and all that and you can borrow any of my clothes, I think were about the same size, and any of my shoes please, I don't want to think that your home not out having fun with us all, I mean its like my first ever party in La Push, America even." I said quickly.
"I suppose, I mean I really could do with a good drink and a nice night out partying and I am liking the sound of raiding your closet." Erin said.
"So is that a yes?" I asked excitedly.
"Yeah, I'll come but I swear I don't want to even talk about Luke at all tonight." She said.
"And you won't, if I'm not there then Seth will be or one of the other guys will be there. And none of them will like talk about Luke, or they will have me to deal with." I told her.
"Thanks Sky." She said.
"Well enough of that, I know you said you don't wanna talk about it tonight, but do you want to talk about what happened yesterday now?" I asked gently.
"I don't know Sky, to be honest with you, I'm still shocked that he actually done that to me, I mean yeah he's always been strong and like had a bit of a temper but I never thought he would hurt me." She said, tears slightly forming in her eyes.
"Erin I'm not defending him here, but you did like embarrass him in front of like half the school and told him a few home truths, he seems like the sort of guy who's image is everything to him and you took that all away from him, he was bound to get angry, I'm in no way whatsoever trying to condemn what he done, but I think you might have pushed him a bit too far you know, but he's a dickhead anyway, and if he thinks he's family to you he's wrong because family would never do that to each other, well mine would apart from Embry and Aunt Helen." I said.
"Your right I suppose, but it's no excuse for him to do that to me." Erin said, her eyes flashed dangerously.
"Well at least some good came out of it." I said a sly smile on my face.
She smiled and tried to hide her face as she blushed slightly.
"Shut up Sky." she mumbled.
"No come on, I know that you don't really know what's going on with you and Seth but what happened yesterday after he like saved you?" I asked.
"Well it was weird Sky, like after Seth got Luke off me Embry ran straight to me like hugged me tightly against him and turned his back to Luke and Seth as though he was protecting me from whatever was going on with them. I never actually saw but I herd, Seth tore into him, and then when the others pulled him away it took four of them he like shouted at Luke saying something like 'don't you ever touch her again' I was like ohmigod then I asked Embry how could he do that to me and Embry tried to calm me down but like I was quite upset then my friends came over and were like Erin were so sorry but it like weren't their fault and Seth was still going like mental and I could hear them all trying to calm him down and stuff and in all honesty he looked terrifying yeah sweetest guy you'll ever meet Seth looked bloody scary but I hated seeing him like that so I went over and hugged him and the others let him go and he hugged me back tightly and like he stopped shaking, then I pulled back to look at him to see if he was alright and…" she trailed off looking at nothing in particular it was as though she was picturing what happened again like she was seeing Seth again and her face took on a dreamy look of pure happiness.
"And what Erin?" I asked.
"I don't know, I just looked into his eyes and felt right, like so right I don't know and he looked back at me as though I was the most important thing in his world and their was such love and kindness in his eyes and then he like said my name and I said his then he like hugged me again picking me up off floor so my feet were hovering but I just hugged him tighter, and I know it sounds weird but he was just so warm and being in his arms just felt right like home and he even smelled right and it was just perfect, even with my neck hurting and everything that had just happened and tears running down my face, it felt so perfect and the warmth of his soothed my skin and just relaxed me." Erin said, still with that look on her face.
She shook her head and suddenly realised that she had just spoke all those thoughts out loud her face took on a worried expression as though she thought I would laugh at her for basically admitting how into Seth she already was.
"Erin, don't look like that, in all honesty I think its really sweet, like I usually think relationships and people our age being 'in love' and all that crap is exactly that crap but with you and Seth I can totally see you two together, like I know it's weird because I've only know both of you two three days, but I can already see that you two really suit, your both so kind, fun and just genuinely good people, I mean Seth is just such a lovely guy and you I mean come on you had only just met me but you sided with me instead of Luke, who's your cousin yeah because he was in the wrong but defending someone you met less than 12 hours ago now that's just such a decent good thing to do, and I dunno I can just picture you and Seth together." I told her.
"You really think I'm a genuinely nice person? And can you really see me and Seth together?" she asked her face alight as she spoke of Seth.
"Yes to both, and defiantly yes. You like Seth right?" I asked her laughing.
"Well I don't really know I mean I hadn't really thought about him in that way before, but I always got on well with him and thought he was a really nice genuine guy but I hadn't seen him in wow about a year, until yesterday, I know it's a long time but we were never like close friends he was just someone you knew you know what I mean right? But then I saw him yesterday, like obviously I'd seen him before but like I properly looked at him like in his eyes and he looked back at me and something just changed like it clicked inside me, wow I'm sounding weird but yeah I guess I do kind of like Seth, but I don't think he feels anything for me, he was just protecting me I mean as everyone said they would have done the same thing." Erin said a sad look on her face.
"Erin don't be stupid now. From what I herd from the others last night Seth really went mental, and you even said it yourself he's Mr. Nice Mr. Calm normally but when he saw that you were being hurt he switched, in all honesty from what I've herd he must like you, and I think deep down you know that too, but your just worried to come out and say it, but you know what we should do dress you up AMAZINGLY for tonight, not that you don't always, were just gonna sex you up like majorly." I said excited now.
"Sky I'm not a complete nun ya know, I can dress up, but I think your right we should go all out tonight, after all it is your first party in America." She said grinning.
"I know your not a nun, later we shall go raid your wardrobe and we can like take all the really dressy clothes of yours back to mine and then we will have an even bigger selection of clothes to chose from, but first tell me what happened when you and Seth came back here or like when you left the others, casue all I know is up to where you and Seth left to go get changed back, and I herd about you not pressing charges, I know you don't want to like upset your family but what he done to you was serious Erin, but I'm not here to lecture you, so yeah tell me more about Seth." I said excitedly.
"Well I like the sound of me taking loads of clothes back to yours then we can have like even more to chose from for tonight, I'm actually looking forward to it now you know." She said smiling but I could tell she was avoiding the subject of what happened with Seth after they left.
"Erin that's great and everything but what happened with you and Seth? Look you don't have to tell me if you don't want to." I said.
"No it's not that it just – oh I don't know, its just messed in my head at the moment." She said.
"Well just like tell me what's going on in your head and I'll see if I can make any sense of it." I laughed.
"Well… you know about the police talking to us and how Seth could have to go to court for what he done to Luke, but I've said I will take Luke to court if he says anything against Seth, so yeah, then we went to go and get change the principal had asked if Seth would take me home and he was like yes straight away. Oh and before that when we were talking to the officers he had one of his arms over my shoulder and the other one holding my hand, and I dunno again it just felt right like I fitted right there in his side ya know? Then ohmigod, when I was in the changing rooms as I took my shirt off it really hurt my neck and I must have made a really loud noise like in pain because Seth came rushing in and was like are you okay I was like I'm fine and explained how it had just hurt my neck, then he like looked away from me and was like 'errrr…. I'll wait outside till your finished changing' I was like 'I'm done changing lets go.' And then, please don't laugh it was so embarrassing, but he goes 'Erin you don't have a shirt on.' I had like totally forgotten and-" she was cut off by my laughing.
"Erin you forgot you didn't have a top on? Awwwww, don't worry its not as though Seth minded is it?" I said.
"I guess, but in my defence I was all over the place, but Seth looked away, and like left pretty quickly." Erin said her face sad.
"Erin this is Seth were talking about, he's like a gentleman, yeah I know very rare find these days, and he probably didn't want to disrespect you by staring at your boobs." I told her.
"I suppose." Erin said still sounding unsure.
"Well we'll find out tonight then, see how Seth reacts then." I told her.
"Nothing too bad." She laughed.
"Don't worry, it will scream classy and sexy I will make sure. So what happened once your had a shirt on?" I asked.
"Well he was waiting outside and I had a shirt jacket and scarf on I was that embarrassed but like when I saw him just leaning against the wall, I dunno he just looked different you know, and I took his hand and we like walked back here, we chatted about what had happened and I thanked him for what he done, and then he like stopped so I did as well and he looked me in the eye and goes 'Erin I'll always look after you I promise you.' And I just nodded because for some reason I couldn't not believe him you know, then when we got here we just spoke about things like what we've been up to the past year or so and it really opened my eyes to what a truly amazing person he is. Like I know that sound weird but he didn't talk like most guys do trying to big themselves up or are kind of arrogant but he just spoke about his family and friends and he spoke about them with such respect it was just like wow, and you have to agree with me here because its so very true but I know your going to think it means I like him but what the hell; the guy is truly GORGOUSE I mean like seriously like even without all the muscles and the height his face is just…" words seemed to fail Erin at this point, in a way I did have to agree with her Seth was a very good looking guy like she said even without the height and the muscles his face was truly gorgeous.
"Yeah I know what you mean, he is seriously peng." I said.
"Peng?" Erin asked.
"Oh yeah you probably don't say that, but where I come from in England we had like street slang words that meant something peng means fit, hot, good looking, I know its pretty confusing ." I said as Erin looked at me with a look of confusion on her face.
"Well in that case Seth's peng." She said laughing.
"You know what I think you should tell him that as well." I said laughing with her.
"Well as long as you don't tell him what it means straight after, and I would probably tell him what it means anyway after a few drinks." Erin laughed.
"That would actually be sooooo funny I can picture you drunk, are you like just really like hyper and like WOOOOOOOOO all the time?" I asked.
"Well I like to think I am." She laughed.
"So where were we, oh yes you were telling me how peng you think Seth is and even without the height and the muscles, so like carry on." I said.
"Well that's about it, oh he was there when my parents came home, and he like held my hand as I told them what happened, and before you ask no their not angry with you, they think you done the right thing by finally trying to get your own back, they were furious with Luke and were like virtually worshipingly grateful towards Seth, my dad even goes 'thank you for looking after my little girl' I was like dad I'm right here you know! My brothers came home around then as well and they were like furious with Luke, their both older than me and Luke and they were like seriously when that dick gets out of hospital were gonna pay him a visit my parents just agreed with them and Seth was like can I come? They were like yeah sure, and thanks for looking after our sister. Yeah so that was kind of majorly embarrassing because they were talking as though this was me brining Seth home to meet them as though we were in a relationship and they were like giving their approval, and Seth never like tried to set them straight but then neither did I and it felt good knowing my family like him even when were not together.
"Then me and Seth ordered a pizza and went and ate it in here while watching a film, it was weird because he had his arm around me the whole time and was holding my hand as well and it wasn't uncomfortable like ohmigod what does this mean but like again it just felt right like it was meant to be, and when there came a point in the film where I was like AAHH I like turned my face into his chest he just laughed and stroked my hair and told me when I could look again, and wow this is gonna sound weird but like his chest is rock hard like the muscles ohmigod like I could feel them without even trying and he weren't tensing I was like ohmigod, wow I sound sad don't I?" Erin finished.
"No you don't sound sad, Seth's fit, just casue you noticed it doesn't mean you've committed a crime, or that you're sad, he wouldn't have muscles if he didn't want someone to notice them, not that I'm calling him vain but you know what I mean." I said.
"Yeah I suppose your right, then like I got your text then a about an hour or so later he left, and it was weird like I walked him to the door and my parents called bye to him then my brothers came out from the kitchen and 'shook his hand' I was like seriously what the fuck? Then they went off and Seth goes 'So how are you feeling now?' I was like yeah I'm good, thanks again for today it meant so much to me, and thanks for staying with me when I told my family, he's like seriously don't mention it, I wouldn't want it any other way and then he hugged me tightly round the waist and I like wrapped my arms round his neck and we like stood there for like what felt like a lifetime everything just seemed to stop, then as we pulled away he kissed me on the cheek lightly but it felt like electric and then he just smiled and walked out I could feel his lips on my cheek all night I can still kinda feel them now…" Erin trailed off the dreamy look taking over her face again her right hand raised and trailed lightly over her right cheek in the place I presume Seth kissed her last night.
"Alright as sweet as this is Erin come out of this daze." I said.
"Sorry Sky, anyway, my family were all like Seth's a lovely guy I was like yeah I do know that and I'm going to bed, then I went to bed before they could question me more about something I have no idea about." Erin said her face turning unsure as she said about how she didn't really know what was going on with her and Seth at the moment.
"Well we'll find out what's going on later, anyways did you wanna go out or do something?" I asked.
"Oh well you know I said that we could go out with some of my friends or something, well they are all kinda coming round here in like half an hour, I didn't really feel like going out, sorry, but they'll love you I'm sure then about 4ish we can go back to yours and get ready for tonight yeah? I think it starts about 7." Erin said.
"Yeah that's fine with me, are we like the only ones here?" I asked.
"No my brothers are home why?" Erin asked confused.
"Well I really need to go toilet and I didn't want to wonder around your house and bump into someone and them be all what are you doing in my house." I explained.
"Well I'll show you the way then we can go into my room and have a look through my clothes if you want? And then my brothers will not think a stranger is in our house and then you can meet them if you want?" Erin suggested.
"Yeah that sounds good, oh and quick question, are your brothers fit?" I asked laughing.
"Sky that's wrong their my brothers and please don't, Josh is 20 and Karl is 18 so please, although it would be kinda funny." Erin laughed.
"I'm not that bad I'm not going to try it on with your brothers." I said, but my smile said something else.
Erin just laughed as she led the way upstairs, she showed me where the bathroom was, and after I was done I found Erin standing in the doorway to another room, talking to someone inside it.
"Erin." I called out.
"Oh hey Sky, I was just talking to Karl." She said I walked over and looked in the room, all blue and silver typical boy bedroom mess everywhere and sports trophy's along a shelf, then I looked at Karl, he was pretty good looking, black hair that flopped slightly into his eyes reasonably good looking and nice smile, looked as though he would have a pretty good body too.
"Hey, I'm Sky." I said to him.
"Yeah I got that I'm Karl, but I guess you got that." He said smiling.
"Yeah I got it." I laughed.
"Well welcome to I would say La Push but even America, what do you think of it so far?" he asked.
"Well if I'm being honest I really like it here, it's much better than where I was, and I'm with my family now." I told him smiling slightly as I realised I wasn't lying about being happy here it was so much easier to be myself here I didn't have to be in the middle of a war with people or constantly arguing with people at home it was good.
"Good to hear it, but you said your now with your family weren't you when you lived in England?" Karl asked confused.
"Well biologically they are related to me but it takes something more than genetics to call someone family." I told him coldly, it wasn't directed at him but at them.
Karl's face was a mask of shock and guilt.
"Errr… Sky I'm sorry, I didn't realise; it's none of my business." Karl said.
"Don't worry about it you done nothing wrong, but anyways what do you do now you've left school?" I asked.
"Oh I go to college in Seattle, I do business studies and economics." He answered.
"Sounds alright." I said.
"Yeah its okay I guess." He said.
"Well we'll see you later, oh and some of my mates are coming round in a bit is that okay?" Erin asked.
"Yeah of course its fine, how are you feeling?" Karl asked his sister.
"I'm good; my neck aches a little but I'll put some more of that cream on and take some more painkillers." Erin said.
"Okay then, you taking today to rest and just relax?" Karl asked.
"Well yeah this morning, but tonight I'm going to Chris' house party." Erin said her eyes wouldn't land on Karl's.
"I don't think so Erin." Karl said.
"What? Why can't she go?" I demanded before Erin could respond.
"Well other than the fact that she's in a hell of a lot of pain, the guy who's having the party is best mates with that dickhead Luke." Karl explained.
"Well nice to know you share my views about Luke, but she can take painkillers' for it and I spoke to Chris last night and he feels really bad about what happened and really wants Erin to come." I told Karl.
"And I want to go Karl; I don't want everyone to think I'm hiding because I'm not, and besides no one going to say anything about what happened." Erin explained.
"How do you know they aren't gonna say anything about what happened?" Karl asked.
"If their stupid enough to say anything, well lets say I'm not just a pretty face, and my brother is going to be there as well with all his friends and they would all defend Erin and Seth's even coming with us to the party, and after what he done yesterday I don't think he's really gonna have a problem telling people to shut their mouths if they say anything." I explained.
"I suppose, wait who's your brother?" he asked.
"Embry Call." I told him smiling.
"He's always seemed like a nice guy." Karl mused.
"He is." I said.
"Well I suppose I won't kick up a fuss about you going." Karl said.
"Not that it would have really mattered what you thought anyway." Erin laughed.
At first Karl looked slightly annoyed but he joined in laughing with me and Erin.
"Well were gonna go back down now, then like later I'm going over to Sky's to get ready for tonight." Erin said and walked back down I stayed I wanted to say something to Karl before I went.
"Hey, I'm really sorry for what I've done, if I hadn't tried to get my own back on Luke Erin would be fine now and yeah I'm sorry for all this strain I've put on your family like with Luke's family." I said fidgeting nervously, I didn't like apologising but it was the right thing to do and I needed to because I was truly sorry for what had happened. I herd someone knock on the door and then voices came drifting up the stairs; I guess her friends had turned up.
"Seriously Sky, don't worry about it, the guys a dick like I said before, and it's nice to know he hasn't got every girl he's gone after, and Erin doesn't mind either, yeah its caused some tension in our family but that guys no family of ours, so please don't feel like your to blame, because it was Luke's fault he shouldn't have even been treating girls like that and he finally got what was coming to him, from you for like humiliating him and Seth beating him up." Karl explained.
"Well thanks I guess, and yeah I wish I'd been there to see Seth kick his arse." I said laughing slightly.
"So do I." Karl said.
"Well I better go before Erin wonders what I'm doing, and don't worry about her tonight she's going to have great time and we'll all look after her, but she's strong she can probably handle it herself." I said.
He just nodded.
I walked down stairs and walked into the kitchen where I could hear voices; I turned into the room and saw about ten people standing around with Erin standing amongst them.
"Sky, come here, did you want a drink?" Erin called.
"Errrrmmmm… could I have a coke?" I asked.
"Yeah sure, Lee grab her one out the fridge would you please." Erin said to a guy with blonde brownish hair who was standing by the fridge, he reached inside it and pulled out a coke and came over and handed it to me.
"Thanks, I'm Sky by the way." I said to him.
"Lee." He said smiling.
"Right I'll introduce you to everyone else then." Erin said she came to stand next to me.
"Okay so you know Lee now" she pointed to Lee. "This is Emma." She pointed to a petite girl with plum coloured hair she waved and smiled at me and said 'hey'. "Then we have Georgia." A tall girl with long straight black hair and sharp features smiled at me, the smile changed her face into a softer one. "Becky." A medium height girl with brown hair and a heart-shaped face. "Cleo." A tall girl with curly blonde hair, it wasn't frizzy just really defined massive curls. "Greg." A lanky boy with black hair. "Mark." Medium height guy with floppy black hair. "Blain." A tall stocky guy with brown floppy hair and a flirtatious smile.
"Hello Sky." he said to me, grinning a glint in his eye.
"Hey Blain." I said back shaking my head slightly.
"Don't go there Blain, trust me on this one." Erin said smiling slightly.
"I don't know what you mean." Blain said in a sarcastically innocent tone.
"Well all I'll say is look where Luke's ended up after he tried to mess Sky around, now I'm not saying you would, but rethink, her brothers only so reasonable and his mates are pretty much the same." Erin laughed.
"Yeah well he owes me for what I bet he's up to right now." I said, my eyes narrowing at the thought of him lying.
"Come on you don't know for sure, he might really be with the guys. Besides he's cut you a lot of slack form what you've said." Erin told me.
"I suppose, but I'm still asking Seth later." I said.
Erin laughed.
"Who's your brother anyway?" Blain asked.
"Embry Call." I replied.
There were looks of shock, surprise and confusion.
"And for the record you all thought wrong he isn't an only child, he's got me." I explained.
"You're really his sister?" Lee asked.
"Yeah, why would I say I was if I'm not?" I asked, giving him a look questioning his common sense.
"Well I suppose your right there." Lee said.
"So yeah that's my big bro." I said cheerily, then thought about how it seemed like he was keeping something from me earlier made me pull what I presumed an annoyed face because Erin sighed and said.
"Sky, seriously he's a big boy, just ask him about it tonight, and don't go off on one if it turns out he weren't with the guys today." Erin told me a look on her face told me that she was right and I was maybe overreacting just a bit.
"Fine, I guess your sorta right there." I said unwillingly.
The others gave Erin and me questioning looks, Erin just shook her head and they shrugged it off.
"So I was going through introductions, and yeah so that's Blain for you." Erin laughed.
"I'm sure me and you will get on just fine Blain." I said smiling.
The others laughed.
"So, where was I? Okay, so then we have Jack." An average height guy who seemed reasonably well toned body wise and he had the dark skin of the Quileute's he smiled at me and nodded. "And that's everyone here, there are like more of us but they are in town at the moment shopping." Erin explained.
"Cool, so are you all going to Chris' tonight?" I asked.
"Yeah, all of us are going, but how do you know Chris?" Cleo asked.
"Errrr….." I looked questioningly towards Erin, I didn't want to mention Luke and I didn't really know how to explain.
"Its fine Sky, she met him yesterday at school when she came in with me to meet Embry; that is when you met him right?" Erin asked.
"Yeah, I don't remember him being there Thursday, and yeah he invited me to the party last night." I told them.
"What do you mean last night?" Becky asked a suggestive smile on her lips, the others laughed.
"Nothing like that, I saw him when I was out with Embry and that lot, and he like wanted to talk to me about like Luke and all that stuff and Erin, and he was like oh do you wanna come to my party tomorrow night so yeah." I said.
"See Becky, you just take peoples words in a different way." Mark laughed.
"Well most of the time she'd probably be right with me." I laughed.
The others laughed but didn't know whether or not to take me seriously.
"So do your guys wanna go watch a movie? Because around half three four me and Sky are going back to hers to get ready for tonight." Erin explained.
As we all made our way into the front room Emma spoke.
"So you're definitely going tonight then Erin?" she asked.
"Yeah, Sky convinced me, and she talked Karl into not giving me any hassle about it." Erin laughed.
"What can I say? I'm extremely talented." I said and a few of them chuckled lightly. "See Erin, you've got all your mates going tonight."
"I know, I think its actually think its gonna be a good night." She said.
"Are you kidding me? You guys have never partied with me, and as I said this is my first party in the USA. It's gonna be done in style." I said grinning.
"Complete style." Georgia said, this was the first time she spoke and again her features didn't look anywhere near as harsh as they first had she also smiled warmly at me and I found myself smiling back.
"So what film do you all want to watch?" Erin asked.
Everyone shouted out what they wanted to watch none of them were the same though Erin sighed and shook her head at us all.
In the end it was decided that we watched American Pie Band Camp, we all talked and laughed throughout the film me getting to know them all a bit better, I realised I was right and Georgia was actually a really nice girl, they were all really cool people, Blain was funny with his clear attempts at flirting with me I cut him off though numerous times much to the amusement of the other guys and even the girls would shake their heads with smiles on their faces, Jack turned out to be one of the funniest people ever with his constant quick witty remarks about everyone, sometimes I wondered if he really did mean what he said when he joked about Cleo's blondness but she didn't take offenses to it she just laughed with the others I supposed it was just his way and after a while I got used to it and even enjoyed listening to his quick lines in bickering with Mark.
Another guy came down the stairs a little while later I presumed this was Josh, when Erin introduced me to him he said, much to my surprise, in front of all the others.
"Hey, Karl told me what you said and I just wanted to say don't worry about it, the guys always been a dick well maybe not so much when he was a kid but you know what I mean, and in a way thanks for giving him a taste of his own medicine." He laughed.
"Well your welcome, I hate guys like that and I said to Karl I'm sorry for like what's happened with your family and stuff." I said uncomfortably.
"As I said no worries at least now we have a good excuse to beat the shit outta him." Josh said a smile on his face but it looked menacing.
"Seth beat you too it." I laughed.
"I guess he did, but there's always round two." Josh said.
"Round three's mine." I said my eyes narrowing.
"Hellooooooooo. I am still here you know." Erin said to both of us.
We all laughed.
Josh then went out, and we finished watching the film, after it finished the others went home tog et ready for tonight they parted with friendly goodbyes and a few hugs and a promise of seeing me later tonight. Me and Erin then went and searched through her wardrobe pulling out all the stuff that could be wore to a house party; we packed all chosen clothes into a bag and left for mine with both Karl and Josh making Erin promise that shed say with Seth or someone who would look out for her I laughed and Erin turned to me and said "I don't see what your so happy about, at least I have Seth your gonna have Embry there the whole night making sure not one guy even looks in your direction." My eyes narrowed at the thought.
"Well lets see if your going to be taking back those words after were ready to go out tonight." I said winking.
"Embry's got his hands full right?" Erin said to her brothers they both just laughed as we left.
When we got to my house I saw a note on my bedroom door from Embry it read;
Sky, I saw Seth and he said he'd be round at 6.45 to go with you and Erin to the party, remember nothing to revealing as I will be there and will give you my shirt if too much is on show, hope you had a good day with Erin, I'll see you at the party, Embry.
I just laughed, trust him, he probably would take his shirt off and give it to me without a second thought if he thought I was dressed to revealing but he would have some trouble getting me to wear it and by that I mean his chances were zero to none. Erin looked at me her face questioning I gave her the note which she too read after she smiled at me shaking her head at Embry's note.
"Well Embry can threaten all he wants but there's no way I'd put his shirt on, and he should no better by now than to think I wouldn't dress how I wanted." I joked.
"Well let's go find something, and I call first on choosing shoes." Erin said running into my room and heading straight for the large wardrobe, it had a separate section to it that was purely for my shoes, Erin turned round to face me her, her face a mask of pure excitement. She began pulling pairs out and trying them all on. I started looking through the clothes in my wardrobe trying to find something for both myself and Erin; I pulled out my pair of Daisy Dukes and remembered a top that we had brought from Erin's, it was a vest but it was pink lace the top of it had two triangle shaped pieces of fabric that were to cover your boobs, I handed the outfit to Erin.
"I've never actually worn that top, I only got it last weekend, are you sure it's alright for me to wear your shorts?" she asked.
"Yes I'm sure, and you can either wear my pink stilettos or these?" I asked her pulling out a of pair pink sandal high heels that had a crisscrossing pattern across the top of the foot.
"Those." Erin said quickly taking them straight out of my hands.
"Now let's find yours." Erin said and she ran to my wardrobe searching through all my clothes, as I watched she pulled out a pair of black hot pants and a black top that would only reach above my bellybutton it was lose and the neckline was incredibly low, she handed me the outfit as well as my black shoes that I had been wearing today, and smiled.
"Let's get ready then." I said taking them from her and I changed into the clothes as Erin did the same. We then done our hair and make-up I straightened my hair but straightened the top layers up to give it more body, Erin ruffled up her hair that was slightly wavy at the moment and put a ton of hairspray in it and we called it perfect, we both had foundation but to our skin tone, I put loads of eyeliner and mascara on and some clear gloss on my lips and added bronzer to my cheeks, Erin only used a small amount of eyeliner but quite a bit of mascara and done her lips to the same colour as her top they were like pure pink.
We stood in front of my mirror smiling at our reflections.
"Seth isn't going to be able to resist you." I told her winking.
"And you really think one guy at the party minus Embry is going to be able to take their eyes off you?" Erin asked.
"Well Seth wont be looking at me and besides, you look hot tonight, I think Seth's going to have to keep his eye on you." I told her winking.
As if on cue there was a knock on the door.
"Looks like your night in shining armour is here." I told her walking downstairs and opening the door to Seth, he was dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, suck a guy. His eyes trailed up and down my body.
"Sky your brother is going to throw a fit." Seth stated, he didn't try to tell me to change because he knew there was no point, smart guy I thought as I turned around to go find Aunt Helen and let her know that we were going. Erin was walking down the stairs as I turned and I saw her smile slightly at Seth, I looked back at Seth and saw a look of wonder and amazement plastered on his face, I'll leave them to it I thought as I hurried into the front room to talk to Aunt Helen, I found her sitting on the sofa watching Americas Next Top Model.
"Hey Auntie Helen." I called.
She turned round and smiled at me then her eyes took in what I was wearing and her eyes narrowed slightly.
"Sky, you look very nice, but sweetie your fifteen and your also Embry's little sister, I know you wont change, but can you at least take one of Embry's hoodies oh and take one for Erin as well she's not got that much on either. And make sure you come home with Embry okay?" Aunt Helen said.
"Yes I'll take one of Embry's hoodies for both me and Erin, and I'll come home with Embry, you know he wouldn't leave me at a party by myself he would drag me home." I laughed.
"Well have fun sweetie, and please look after yourself, and I think we still need to have a talk, maybe tomorrow sometime we could go out somewhere and have a chat?" Helen asked gently.
I thought about it, and realised that I did want to talk I was in a good mood and although talking might bring me down I needed to get a lot out and maybe this would help, I simply nodded and hugged her tightly.
I then went and got two of Embry's hoodies, I went into my room and got my phone and put it in the side of my bra, weird I know but at least I will remember where it is, I also got out a 20 deck of cigarettes and put them in my pocket along with a lighter, I looked through my bags that I'd had with me at the airport and found a bottle of duty free vodka, I pulled it out opened it and took a large swig smile as I felt the slight burn as it went down my throat, I put on Embry's hoodies (which as sooooo big it went half way down my thigh completely covering my outfit but it was warm and comfy so I liked it) put the bottle of vodka in one of the pockets and went down stairs to see Seth and Erin standing by the door holding hands both with smiles that could light up all of America I handed the other hoodies to Erin who looked at me in confusion.
"Aunt Helen reckons were gonna get really cold so she said to take Embry's hoodies, and besides it's actually soooooo warm." I told her she put it on and was even more swamped by it than I was; Seth looked at her a slight look of annoyance in his eye, but it went as soon as Erin looked back at him.
"So come on then lets get going." I said.
They agreed and we walk out the door calling goodbye to Aunt Helen who replied with a simple 'enjoy yourself kids' I do love her.
As we walked down the road I pulled out the vodka bottle and unscrewed the lid taking another large gulp of it shaking my head and making and AH sound as the strength of it hit my throat.
"Sky we're not even at the party yet!" Erin laughed.
"Yeah well the party's already started here." I told her handing her the bottle she too took a big swig of it and winced as it hit her throat, she then handed the bottle to Seth who downed a quarter of the bottle and didn't even look fazed by the strength. Me and Erin both looked at him in amusement and shock.
"What?" he asked innocently as he handed it back to me.
"I never had you down as a drinker." Erin said.
"I'm not, but what's the harm in having a little fun?" he asked winking at her to which in turn made her giggle.
"Me and you Seth are going to get on better than I first thought." I said he laughed with me.
"So come on then, off to your first official party in the United States Of Americaaaaaaa." Erin sang.
We all laughed as we walked towards the party.
I wonder what this party would be like; I mean parties in England had only been so fun it would be good to see how they were over here.
It then dawned on me that this would probably be my first time of meeting everyone who I was going to be going to school with.
They do say first impressions are what sticks in the mind.
Well I wasn't going to go unnoticed.
So my longest chapter so far :L hope it wasnt tooooooooo long "/
But anyways, Sky's met some of Erin's friends and her brothers,
And their off to the party... Oh i wonder what could happen there what with Embry and Morgan going together, but that might be the least of Sky's worries at the end of the night...
So thoughts, suggestions and opinions please (:
Reviews mean alot to me (: so please do (:
and agian im sorry for the long wait "/
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