Chapter two. Hope you like. I am getting off to a slow start with this story. Remember, any suggestions you have or criticisms, I listen to them all. Happy reading.
"Hey Nana, I was suspended from school again." I sang as I opened the bright red front door of our house. I could smell tonight's salmon cooking away in the oven. My nana Hannah emerged from the kitchen wiping her hands on a tea towel. She looked at me with fake annoyance.
"I know. Your mother already told me what happened. I am going to have a talk with that principal of yours."
"Don`t bother nana, what`s done is done. A couple of days at home is not so bad. We can bake cookies and you can tell me stories like you used to." I went and hugged her. She smelt like lavender as always. A smell I would love and probably associate with her for the rest of my life.
"You are too old for my stories Sonia. You have heard them so many times you could probably recite them off by heart now." She laughed, smoothing down my shirt and pinching my cheek.
"Salmon for dinner? Smells great." My nana liked to take care of me and my mother. For as long as I could remember it had always been just the three of us. My mom left my dad when I was about two. I hadn`t really seen that much of him before he was sent off to prison. Did I miss him? No. Did I want to know him? No really. Was I sad that I never had a father figure? Nope. It was nice growing up around two strong women like my mom and nana. They had given me all the possible love, attention and discipline I could possibly need. They didn`t sugarcoat anything for me either. The blunt truth for them and for me is always best. It doesn`t raise any expectations. Keeps things realistic.
"Yes, and baby potatoes. Set the table would you, your mom will be home soon and she`ll more than likely be grumpy. Come on, move that little ass of yours."
"Yes Ma`am."
"Oh, someone called for you just before you came home."
"Who?"
"Embry Call." Wait what? I think I actually did a double take. Embry Call. Why the fuck was he calling here? He was hot but didn`t he have a girlfriend? Maybe it was got to do with school work.
"Did he say why?" I tried to ask as unconcerned as possible. My grandmother was looking at me funny, her dark eyes twinkling.
"No, he just said he might call back later." Call back later? I knew Embry casually before he turned all freakishly huge and strong and joined Sam Uley`s gang of hotness, but I hadn`t talked to him in over a year more or less. This day was sure turning out to be weird.
"Oh okay." Was my pathetic reply. Great! Now nana will think I was crushing on Embry. And she would tell my mom. Then my mom would freak out and make me promise not to do things with Embry Call that I have never imagined in my life doing with him.
"He`s grown." Nana said pointedly.
"He also has a girlfriend. And they are pretty serious. I don`t like Embry that way Nan."
"Okay okay. Any other boys?" She was such a teenager when she wanted to be. I rolled my eyes good naturedly at her.
"Not at the moment." Liar! My mind screamed at me. Jacob Black is someone. I had to admit that after he looked at me like I was a piece of shit I couldn`t stop thinking about him. Why was I so pathetic? I knew I was angry at him and had a whole load of come backs waiting for him if he looked at me like that again but...when he looked at me for the first time it was like something clicked into place inside of me. I felt safe and at peace. I felt hopeful. Maybe I fell a little in love with him? That was a stupid thought. A dangerous thought. A thought that would set me up for inevitable heartbreak. I sure didn`t want that at seventeen.
Dinner passed okay. My mom was a little pissed that I got suspended again. Not really at me but at the principal and at Ciara Harris. She was threatening to take me out of the tribal school and send me to a regular high school in Forks or Port Angeles. I didn`t really care to be honest. I would still see my friends here and in another year more or less I would be off to college and away from being stereotyped by dicks who didn`t even know me.
After washing the dishes and nestling myself between my mom and nana the phone rang. Maybe it was Embry again. I was wondering to what he wanted.
"I`ll get it." I practically jumped off the couch and fled to the kitchen phone.
"Hello." I greeted politely. All I got was silence. Strange.
"Hello?" I said again. Still nothing. Whoever it was didn`t want to talk. I was starting to get creeped out now.
"I`m hanging up now." I informed whomever it was. But they hung up first. What the hell? I`m going to *69 this bozo. I dialed and waited for an answer.
"Hello." An older mans rather gruff voice greeted me. He sounded vaguely familiar.
"Hello. I got a silent call from this number." I answered kind of awkwardly.
"A silent call? Who am I speaking to?"
"Sonia Mara." My answer was met with silence for a couple of seconds.
"I`m Billy Black. Jake must have called you." Billy Black? Jacob was calling my house?
"Oh..hello Mr. Black. I uh..." What did one say in this situation?
"I would put you on to Jacob but he has just left." Billy blacks tone was softer now.
"That`s okay. Em...well...bye."
"Goodbye Sonia. Feel free to stop by and see Jake any time you want." If he hadn`t of sounded so sincere I would have laughed down the phone.
"Yeah...sure...Bye Mr. Black."
"Billy."
"Excuse me?"
"You can call me Billy."
"Oh..okay..bye Billy."
"Goodnight Sonia."
I hung up. Okay so Jacob freaking Black was calling my house. He was calling my house and not saying anything like some weirdo stalker. I felt something pull at me from the pit of my stomach. It was uncomfortable. It was so alien that it made me nervous.
"Sonia, who was that on the phone?" My mom`s voice brought me back to reality a little. I took a deep breath to steady my nerves.
"Billy Black." That was sure going to bring up a lot of questions.
"Billy Black? Why on earth would Billy Black be calling here?" My mom put the TV on mute and submitted me to her penetrating stare.
"It wasn`t him who called. It was Jacob. He must have had a wrong number or something and hung up. I called the number back and got Billy." I replied truthfully. Mom looked at me quizzically.
"Jacob Black. I didn`t know you were friends with him."
"I`m not. He must have dialed a wrong number."
"Or maybe he likes you."
"I don`t think so mom. I`m hardly his type." It was true. I wasn`t his type. And I realized now how bitter I felt about that.
"Bullshit. You are the most beautiful girl on the reservation."
"I wouldn`t go that far mom." I knew I was pretty. I wasn`t smug about it, it was just the truth.
"I would. If you just made the most of yourself you would have all the proof you need."
"Mom! Please!" I so didn`t want to have this conversation right now. My mom was itching to give me a make over.
"Okay fine. But one day soon you`ll snap. You`ll want this Jacob to see how beautiful you are and then we talk."
"Confident much mom. Who said I liked Jacob in the first place?" I challenged.
"Your eyes did. And your blush." She smiled at me sweetly before turning back to the TV with the biggest shit eating grin I ever saw on her face. My nana hadn`t said anything this whole time, but she was looking at me strange. I could practically see the clogs turning in her mind.
"Sonia could you help me with something in the kitchen?" She said.
"Yeah sure." I followed her into the small kitchen. She busied herself with some teacups and switched on the kettle.
"Jacob Black huh."
"Not this again." I groaned.
"Tell me. Was this the first time he looked at you since he changed?" I wondered where she was going with this. I thought back. It was true. Today was the first time he looked at me since his sudden disappearance and dramatic reappearance several months back.
"Yes, it was. Why is that important?" Nana didn`t say anything for a while, just watched the kettle boil.
"What did you feel?"
"Nothing."
"Liar. You will tell me soon enough. Embry Call indeed!"
"I think you`re going a bit senile Nana."
"Be careful Sonia. Promise me you will be careful around that boy." She took my hand in hers and squeezed. I could see in her eyes that she was actually scared.
"I promise nana. I`ll be careful. You don`t have anything to worry about though."
"Oh yes I do. And so do you."
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