Heys! This is chapter 3. Please read, enjoy, and reveiw. I welcome critisism and sugestions.
Chapter 3: The Beach
Crystal
I felt vibrating in my pocket. I took out my phone and look to see who had sent me a text. It was Embry. It said:
Hey Crystal it's Embry, do you want to get together sometime?
I laughed a little. I was glad Embry wasn't a guy that made some big speech about wanting to hang out. I liked the kind of people that said something without fluffy words. They went straight to the point. I answered his text.
I'd love to get together. I just need a where and when.
I hit the send button, it was 12:00 am so I decided to get some sleep.
When I woke, I checked to see if I had any messages from people. I had two and they were from Embry. The first one said:
Great! Let's meet at my place at noon, then we can go hang out at the beach. I'll send my address.
I took a look at the second one and sure enough it was his address, I looked at the time. It was 11:00 am. I decided to go get ready.
I got in my bug at about 11:45 and drove to Embry's. When I got to his house and was at the door I was surprised. I heard yelling.
"Embry were where you last night! You had me worried sick!"
Silence
"Every night I go and check on you but you're never there! Embry look at me, not the floor. Please tell me where you go."
Silence
"Why don't you ever talk to me any more Em, when you were little you would always talk to me, I'm your mother Embry, you can trust me."
More silence
I decided now would be a good time to ring the doorbell but before I did I heard one more thing.
"Embry, your grounded. I'll decide how long latter."
I rang the doorbell, and I decided to act like I didn't hear anything. The door opened and I saw women standing there. She had the same basic looks as Embry except she was shorter and had longish hair. I saw Embry standing at the other side of the entrance hall looking at the ground, then I saw something I didn't expect. A single tear rolled down his cheek. He was shirtless but he had dark blue sweats on. I acted like I didn't see him.
"Is Embry here? We were going to hang out today and he told me to meet him at this address."
"Embry's here, yes. And who might you be?"
"My name's Crystal, we met yesterday, I got stuck under a root and he helped me out. Then we talked a little and then he helped to my car. I twisted my ankle."
"Well nice to meet you, I'm Embry's mother, Tiffany Call. I'll go get him."
"OK, thanks. It's nice to meet you, Mrs. Call."
She walked away to what looked like the kitchen and then I heard her say
"Embry you have a guest."
I heard Embry mumble something back and then Mrs. Call came back.
"He'll meet you at the beach were you got stuck. He'll be there once he gets ready."
"OK, thanks Mrs. Call."
I left and drove to the First Beach parking lot. Got out of my car and walked towards the spot where Embry and I met. Because of my twisted ankle I had quite a lot of trouble getting to the spot. When I reached my destination I saw a big rock close to the spot. I went and sat on it while I waited for Embry. After about ten minutes I saw him walking towards me with his head down. He was wearing jeans which he had his hands in the front pockets. He was also wearing a long sleeve navy blue shirt with the sleeves pushed up to his elbows. When he got closer he put his head up and then he reached me.
"Um…hi. Sorry about earlier."
"What? If you mean getting up late, it's OK, I do it all the time."
"I meant you having to hear my mom yell at me."
"What do you mean?"
"You don't have to lie. I know you were listening. You heard right as you reached the doorstep."
"Oh…wait, how did you know that?"
He looked up and met my eyes for the first time and smiled.
"I have my ways." Then he furrowed his eye brows like he was trying to figure something out. Then he looked away towards the ocean. "So what do you want to do today?"
"I don't know, I've never been here before. What do Quileute's normally do? Hunt wolves?"
I saw him flinch a little at the last part. "Do you want to go cliff diving?"
"Um…what's that?"
"You dive off a cliff."
"I figured as much." I said rolling my eyes in mock sarcasm
"So, do you want to?"
"Sure, just help make sure I don't twist my other ankle on the way there."
When we reached the cliff I was a little nervous at the height. I looked over the edge at the jagged edge with the waves crashing against them.
"You aren't going to back out are you?" Embry said teasing a little
"Of course not, it's just been a while since I've been up this high."
"Don't worry, we'll jump together. I won't let you drown if I can help it. I promise"
"So how do I know when to jump?"
"Count of three?"
"Sure." I was nervous. We were really high up and I wasn't sure what would happen if the waves picked up while we were falling.
"OK, one…two…three…jump!"
We leapt off the edge together. A scream worked its way out of my throat. I quickly took a deep breath and then we hit the water. I resurfaced before Embry but before I could catch my breath a wave came down on top of me knocking underneath the water.
Embry
I had seen the storm growing a little on the cliff but I didn't think the waves would grow so quickly. I swam up to the surface and looked around for Crystal. I had seen her go up to the surface before me, but when I reached the surface, she wasn't there. I dove back under the water and looked around. If a storm was coming, she wouldn't be able to handle the temperature of the water for very long by herself. I began to look around even more furiously when the realization hit me. Freezing cold water and waves that wouldn't let normal human being back up to the surface. There were four possibilities that I could see right now. One, Crystal dies because of the lack of oxygen. Two, she dies from hypothermia. Three, she dies from the cold and lack of oxygen at the same time. Four, I find her and drag her back up to the surface where there's oxygen and heat from me. I looked towards the cliffs and saw her floating upside down with her eyes closed and bubbles coming out of her mouth slowly. I swam over to her and held her to my chest with one arm while I used the other one to help my feet get us to the surface. When I reached the surface I dragged the two of us to the beach. I put my ear close to her mouth. She wasn't breathing.
Crystal
I couldn't breathe. My throat felt raw from the salt water. My lungs burned from the salt water in them. Plus I was way colder than the cold I had been feeling lately. Wait. I had been feeling cold? That's right, I hadn't noticed before but ever since I felt that tugging sensation I'd felt colder than normal. I began to feel pushes on my chest from something warm. I felt the water coming up from my lungs. I began to cough. And even more water came out, but this time the water felt warm, not cold. I gasped for air. It hurt my raw throat and my burning lungs, but it also felt so good. The cold air filled my lungs, which was like ice to the burning sensation. After a minute I began to hear voices calling but I couldn't tell what it was saying exactly. I was also now aware to a new warmness around me. Then I was able to hear the voice clearly. It was like it was in my head and I was hearing it through my ears. It was saying "Crystal! Come on, wake up! Don't die on me! Please wake up!" I recognized the voice, it was Embry's. But there was someone else's. It was saying "Embry, it's too late. She's gone. I've heard your thoughts and I know what she meant to you. We should probably go talk to Sam." It was Paul
"She's not dead! She was breathing and still is!"
"Embry from the looks of it she's in a coma. Plus she's coughing blood… there is something we could try though. Remember when Sam slipped that one day?"
"Yes, I do. I'm not going to do that to her though! Everyone hated it! Some of us still do!"
"Your mom still doesn't know dose she, why don't you tell her?"
"If I did she would end up having a heart attack. She worries so much. If I told her it would be even more so."
There was silence between them
"Are you going to tell Crystal?"
"I don't know, even if I did, how would I tell her? How would I explain that I'm a monster out of a horror movie? She would probably run away screaming. I don't even know if she would trust me after today, I promised I wouldn't let her get hurt from cliff diving, now look at her."
I started to cough again I felt more warm water leak out of my mouth. My eyes flew open. I was on the beach with Embry leaning over me and holding me up with his arms. I blinked a couple times till my eyes adjusted to the light.
"Crystal, are you alright?" Embry said
"Yeah, I'm fine. My throats just sore." My voice sounded raspy
"Embry, you take her to her car, and I'll go get Sam to see if she can stay at Emily's for a while."
"She has to go back to school."
"You know since, well you know, she should probably transfer here."
"What's the 'well you know'?" I asked. This was getting too confusing.
"Embry, I think it's time you tell her."
"Yeah, I guess. I'll tell her when we get to the car after I talk to Sam."
"Take her to the car first, we can't let her get killed again."
"Come on Crystal, we need to get you to your hotel. Well, car first." Embry said
He helped me go across the rocks so that I didn't fall. We finally reached the car.
"OK, I need you to get in the back of the car, hide under the blankets in the back, no matter what don't come out and don't make a sound. I need to go talk to someone. I'll be back as soon as I can. When I get back, I'll explain everything, I promise."
I nodded. This was starting to freak me out. What was this big secret that no one would say out loud? What was going on?
"Hey, it's going to be all right." Embry said quietly. He pulled me into a warm hug. He set his chin over my head. My head fit perfectly under his jaw. He kissed my head lightly. "I'll be back as soon as I can," He whispered softly in my ear "I won't let anything hurt you."