Chapter Two

Cara POV

I have never felt so nervous and terrified in my 16 years of existence. Why were all these people looking forward to meeting me? I'm not that special, just your average 16 year old, nothing pretty or special over here, just me. I tried to get out of it, saying that I wasn't feeling well, but I'm not very good at the whole lying thing, it makes me feel bad. So we are now on our way to the Bonfire. On the way we picked up Claire, Emily's niece. "Hi I'm Cwaire!" She shouted at me when she got in, she made me laugh, very chatty for a five year old. We finally reached the cliffs. "Man its bloody freezing!" I say as we start heading up to where the voices were. We got about two feet away when my heart sped up. "I can't do this." I said quietly. A warm hand was on my shoulder, then a couple of seconds later and Sam turned me to face him and looked me right in the eye and softly told me "No one here is EVER going to hurt you, you're safe here." and grabbed me into a huge hug. With that hug he gave me so much brotherly love and affection, more love than I had ever experienced in my entire life. Claire then grabbed my hand and was telling me all about her best friend Quil. "Will Quil be here tonight? He sounds just fabby Claire." she smiled so brightly I could see all of little baby teeth.

Everyone just stared when we arrived to the bonfire. This really was a bad idea. What was with the guys in La Push. I had asked Sam earlier if he worked out a lot and the only response I got was "If that's what you want to call it." I felt very intimidated and wanted to swap ages with Claire just so I could hide behind Emily's legs. God to be five again, life could be so different. I was brought out of my day dream by one of the gym junkies as he shook me to get my attention. "Are you ok?" He asked "Yeah I'm fine, sorry freaky moment." I joked; he seemed to laugh with me. "I'm Seth, you must be Cara." "Only in days ending in Y." I smiled at him.

Seth introduced me to all the guys and the girls. I was greeted with a hug by Quil, Embry, Kim and Jared. I got a wave from Paul who was trying to stuff an entire burger into his mouth, yuck. The two younger ones, Colin and Brady looked me up and down and winked at me. Leah, Seth's older sister just ignored me. The guys were nice, but the younger ones, I was tempted to throw head first off the cliff, immaturity I swear they are never going to get rid of it. I was somehow roped into playing football even though, in Scotland, where I'm from, its played with a round ball on the ground. All I was told was to catch the ball and throw it to either Seth or Paul. I ended up catching the ball, but before I could throw it to either of them, I was tackled to the ground by Leah. Sam was over in an instant checking I wasn't hurt. "I'm fine Sam really." I tried to reassure him as I wiped the sand of my jeans. He looked like he was going to rip Leah's throat out. Come to think of it, they all looked like that. "I think I'm just gonna go sit with Kim and get a drink." I smiled at Leah to show her there were no hard feelings, but that seemed to make her angrier, so I just turned around and as I did I thought I hit a brick wall.

"Oh my god are you ok?" An unfamiliar husky voice asked me as he picked me up effortlessly.

"Yah I'm fine. Yip no blood or broken bones" I giggled.

"It's not funny you could have been hurt." He whispered sounding extremely angry

I didn't even have the courage to look him in the eye and tried to get round him to save future hassle and embarrassment. But no he wasn't having that. He grabbed my elbowed and with his other hand lifted my chin, so he could look me in the eye. When I looked up I thought I had died and gone to heaven. The man in front of me was a god. He looked like Zeus had made him by hand. After about a minute of our staring competition, Sam came over rather peeved and dragged the boy away. I went to sit with Kim, Jared's girlfriend.

"Having a good time?" She asked as I sat down.

"Yeah, apart from getting tackled and then walking straight into some guy. I think I peeved Leah off though."

Kim giggled and Jared commented "Everyone peeves her off, we can't help it." He then left to get another hot dog.

"How can they all eat so much, god I've had one burger and I'm full, I mean I think that's Paul's twelth burger." Kim just let out another laugh and then said

"So you met Jacob?" I looked confused but then remembered "Oh was that Mr Brick wall? Yeah he just looked at me really weird and I swear he was fly fishing." Kim choked on her water when I said this.

After talking to Kim I went to head over to where Sam and Emily were sitting to go chat to them and ask Sam why he dragged that boy away. On the way over I passed Leah who thought it would be funny to trip me up, but it went wrong. She ended up near enough pushing me into the bonfire. I screamed as I saw the flames coming towards me, but they never got me. I suddenly felt two arms around my waist pulling me from them. I turned around to see Jacob pulling me away from the fire, and shout at Leah full force. "ARE YOU HONESTLY THAT BITTER AND TWISTED! TO PUSH THE POOR GIRL INTO THE FIRE!" He screamed at her. I couldn't really concentrate at that as my throat started to close up.

"EMILY! I CAN'T BREATHE!" I screamed as quickly as I could. Within a second Sam and Emily were around me panicking.

"It's ok hunni, just take deep breaths. In and out." An older woman soothed me and a minute later I had calmed down.

"She'll be ok, she just had a panic attack. Honey do you have these often?" She asked me as she took my hand and squeezed it gently.

"Only when there's confrontation." I tell her slowly. I swear someone growled at that point. I went to stand up but fell back down halfway through. When my butt hit the sand, I couldn't help but cry. I managed to get back up and run to the beach, ignoring the shouts of my name. I ended up halfway across the beach, near enough beating the ocean with the amount of tears flowing out of me.

A couple of minutes later I heard footsteps coming towards me. I tried to wipe my tears but a warm hand beat me to it. I turned to see Mr Brick - I mean Jacob looking at me with so much concern and pain in his eyes I just wanted to hug him. Wait time out, why would I want to hug a guy who near enough knocked me out with his pecks. But fair enough he did save me from the only thing that has ever terrified me in my entire life.

"I'm really sorry if I scared you back there, Leah is so stupid sometimes." He whispers as he wipes the last of my tears away.

"Its fine, I just didn't think a guy could scream that loud to be honest. And what is up with Leah? I mean fair enough if she has PMS or something but really what did I do to her for her to try and kill me twice in one night, I mean even Darren didn't try it twice in one night." I said with a sigh, but regretted it instantly.

"Who's Darren?" Jacob asked me with a look of anger in his eyes.

"No one, it doesn't matter, just drop it please." I pleaded and got up to head back to Emily and Sam.

"Wait!" Jacob shouted from behind me and walked up behind me. He put his arm around my shoulder which made me nice and warm. I edged closer into his side and felt his arm go from my shoulder to my waist. I jumped away instantly. Jacob looked hurt.

"I'm sorry, I'm just really warm." I lied hoping he would either somehow believe me or hopefully take the hint and just drop the subject. Somehow he believed me. "Hell has officially frozen over." I laughed to myself, which bought me a 'you're crazy look' from Jacob.

When we got back, everything was packed up and the only people left were Sam, Emily and Billy, Jacob's dad.

Emily wrapped me in a hug when we reached them.

"Are you ok?" She asked me as she wiped the rest of the mascara off my face.

"I'm fine, really." And with that we all headed to the cars.

When we approached them Jacob came up to me and gave me a hug

"Goodnight beautiful." He whispered in my ear. I blushed and tried to escape the hug

"Goodnight Mr Brick Wall and thank you" and I whispered and ran to the car.

As we drove off, Jacob was still outside his car with a look of confusion on his face.

I woke to the rain battering off my window and to the smell of cherry muffins. I swear I have never moved so fast in my life, I quickly got up out if bed and ran to the bathroom to have a quick shower. After my shower I dried my hair and pulled it into a ponytail.

As I was fixing my ponytail, I heard a knock at my door. "Hey Cara, breakfasts out." Seth shouted over my music. "Be down in a minute, try and save me a muffin from bucket Paul!" I yell back. "Where on gods earth did I put my slippers?" I think to myself, I had them last night when we came in, but did I bring them up with me, or did I leave them downstairs after swatting that fly with one of them?

"Emily, have you seen my baffies?" I shout to Emily as I come down the stairs. This question was met with a table full of blank faces. "You made that word up!" Embry says as he sprays half a pancake at me. "no I didn't you tool, baffies is a Scottish word for slippers." They are all still looking at me strangely. "That's it; I'm buying a Scottish to English dictionary for this house." I mutter as I steal a muffin from Paul's plate. Its amazing how I've only been here a day and the guys already feel like brothers to me. About three seconds after I sit down I see two monkeys coming flying straight for my face, but luckily Embry grabs them before they hit me and out the corner of my eye I see a smirking Leah sitting on the couch "Isn't she just a ray of flippin sunshine" I mutter while nibbling on my muffin.

"So Cara, you up for going school shopping today?" Emily asks while she makes another batch of muffins. I choke on my muffin, which ends up with Paul, Seth and Colin laughing at me while Embry slaps my back to make sure I'm ok.

"School? I've never been to a normal school. Is this a good idea?" I worry out loud to myself which again gets me a table full of blank faces.

"What kind of school did you go to?" Colin asks really interested.

"I went to a music academy. It's the only thing I have ever been into, and my parents were very strict on what I was taught." I said with a tear forming in my eye. Its still quite hard to think about my parents.

"Oh boo hoo poor little rich girl has to slum it with us poor kids who weren't born with a flipping trust fund. You better get a grip princess, cause none of us are here to be your slaves so take off the tiara and GROW UP! Cause mummy and daddy aren't here for you anymore!" she yelled. By this time Sam, Jared, Quil and Jacob had came into the house. That was it I had had enough.

I was in complete shock. I had never acted like a princess and I have earned everything I have bought.

"Excuse me, but you have no right to speak to me like that, or anyone for that matter. Fair enough I was born with a trust fund, but I have never spent a single penny of it. I worked for my money after school to buy things I wanted. My trust fund is sitting in an account untouched and it will remain that way for forever probably. And if someone around here is a spoilt princess, it's you! You are so rude and horrible to people and that is not nice! I understand something may have happened but you have no right to take it on other people. I suggest you grow up and get rid of you disgusting attitude! And if you ever speak ill of my parents again, you will regret it!"

What happened next confused me. Leah jumped over the couch to get me but Jacob was in front of me before I could blink and Sam and Paul were dragging Leah out of the house. Emily looked at me terrified.

"Sorry about that outburst. I don't know what came over me. I'll be in my room." I whisper the last part as I head for the stairs, and as I'm heading I hear Colin say "That was hot" and Emily smacking him with the wooden spoon which was still in her hand, and I think it was Jacob who growled at him.

I lay on my bed with my laptop open and a new email pops up on my screen. Great its from Darren.

Cara

Where the hell are you? Addison won't tell me where you are. I miss you babe. I need you, I can't be who I am without you. I love you and when I find out where ever you are, I'm going to show you that I do love you and that I've changed. if you don't respond, I will get it out of Addison where you are and if I have to get it from Addison, I won't be happy when I come to bring you home. We WILL be together

Love you always

Darren xxx