Chapter 2
Our Senior Year in school started to pick up after the third week in September. It seemed as though time was never on my side. I found myself waking up in the morning more later than I expected. My alarm clock didn't seem to faze me.
Madeline and Mom chalked it up as me PMSing as usual. The thought of me coming on my period seemed to play out in their minds. I took it as that. Unlike Madeline already confirming herself being eighteen years old even though our birthday is in April, I'll take myself being a seventeen year old.
My behavior is becoming odd but I'm not allowing it to affect my personal relationship with Tiffany. That's my girlfriend. We been hanging out around Forks lately. Taking the bus to our different dating spots is not stopping us. We're out in the open even though Mom has a very dislike for me dating a female. I like Tiffany and I see a future for us.
I'm sitting on the living room couch listening to rock music while drawing a picture of a wolf. I've been living on the Quiluete Tribe all of my life. It's my heritage. It's my heart. I speak the language. Both me and Madeline. The classes has been giving since elementary. I like being a member of a tribe. It makes me so cool.
I smile. The front door opens up. "Only my sister is here, Bibby." Madeline say walking in. I turn around to watch the magnificent being walk into the house wearing that tight yellow shirt that shows off his muscled arms. I seen him early today but watching him walk into my house is another feeling. I think I'm blushing.
"Thanks for the invite." He say closing the door behind him. "No problem." We both say. "The house is fabulous. Where your mom? You told me that your mother would be here." "I'm right here. I'm the mother when Mom is not here." I say closing the sketchbook.
She smile. "What is this a set-up?" He ask looking suspicious. "Have you ever had a threesome?" I ask playing. "Not with two sisters. Not with nobody. I ain't trying too." He say smiling showing us his pearly whites. "Mom don't get home till 6." We both say. Hey, we're twins.
"I'll have to pass. Can we do this tutoring or what?" He ask Madeline. "We can. My room is upstairs." She say pointing to the staircase. Ring! Ring! My cellphone rings on the coffee table. "Mine is in the basement." I say grabbing my phone. Tiffany.
I answer watching the couple make their way up the stairs. "Hello." "What are you doing?" She asks turning the music down in the background. "Just relaxing. You wanna chill?" "At my house." "Okay. I'll be there." I say getting off the couch. "Bye." "Bye." I hang up and place my phone in my back pants pocket. I grab my soda off the table and walk into the kitchen.
I place the can in the fridge, collect my sketchbook off the couch, and head up the stairs into my bedroom. I put the MP3 player up and take off my jacket. Might as well hangout. I stop by Madeline's room. Knock! Knock! "Come in." She speak. I open the door to see her sitting at her desk and Bibby on the edge of the bed. Both got their math books out.
That was quick. "I am going to Tiffany's house. The chicken is in the sink. Mail on the kitchen counter. Tell her Susanne stopped by if she comes home early. Have fun." I close the door and take my butt right down the stairs. I ain't got time to be sniffing in hormones.
Later That Night...
I deeply sigh feeling my nerves start to eat at me as Sam Uley instruct the search groups in front of an entrance of the forest for the night search. Choosing to participate in the nightly search is nerve-wrecking. A teenage girl has went missing in the forest. The third one in the last three weeks. It's horrible.
"This is too much." Madeline whisper putting her hands in her big coat pockets. It's real cold. Fall and Winter are horrible in Washington. I look around. Just surprised at the amount of support that's going on.
"Any questions?" Sam asks. Madeline elbow me pointing to Bibby who's walking up front to join a group of men. "Must be his gang members." She whispers. "Ain't that Jacob Black?" I ask staring right in his face as he talks to a tall man with curly hair. "That's him. He joined three years ago. All of them look cute."
I nod agreeing with her words. All of them are cute. Some looked muscles. I've seen Bibby's friends. All of them have that tribal tattoo on their right shoulder. All of them look cool. Chief Swan answers a question about safety.
"Stay together. Others and I will lead the groups." Sam says pointing to his gang. "And, what about the witch trials?" I shout. The teens laugh. I chuckle myself. "Silence." An older man say. The open area goes silent.
"This is serious, Marcy." Chief Swan says. "I understand. Half of us are...half-bloods. It has been talks about...witches, cults, and teenage serial killer. The urban legend. The witch. Hang out at night. Stand in her circle. The regular routine of an entrapment. Slice your neck. Dump your body. I keep my ears open. I'll put a gun on you."
Other teens agree. "That's what I'm saying." I slap clapping hands with this white boy. He mutters to his friend shaking his head. "Guns are not welcomed on the tribe." Billy say up front. "If it is a problem amongst you teenagers being addicted to the witch trials then speak up. No such thing."
"It shouldn't be cults on the land." Jacob adds. His voice sounds soothing and deep. A group of teens mutter amongst themselves before a fight break out on the left side. I'm not the only ones who is shocked. Barbara blows the whistle quieting everybody down as the fight is broken up.
"Three teenage girls have gone missing. Their friends and family is worried sick. Show respect." Chief Swan says. "We can move out." Sam instructs. His gang members start giving out instructions. We mold into the forest. Madeline stays close. I can't believe this.
After about fifteen minutes of us walking, she ends up fleeing towards her group of friends while I'm searching in a different direction being surrounded by nothing but trees. "This is cool." I tell myself looking up at the sky. It's an amazing view. The trees actually reach the sky.
I'll admit that I start to wander off the trail being fascinated till a man's deep voice catches my attention. "Sorry." I say stepping over a log to walk back when something misty pink attracts my attention. What is that? I scoop my foot over it trying to get a clear view of it. "Don't touch it." Sam say making his way over to me.
"Sorry." I say moving out of the way and crossing my arms. He lifts the log up with ease and toss it to the side. "What you find?" A man ask walking over. "Look like a pink bookbag." He say taking his walkie talkie out. "Like what are you?" I ask. Is he a cop or something? He ignores my question to talk on the walkie talkie. I look around the forest and go back to walking. As much as I joke around, I'm praying for the missing.
Those three missing teenage girls were found three days later all huddled in a lion's cave. It was exciting to learn that they were found alive. It was the talk of the school during a certain period before Midterms started to show its ugly face. Dating Tiffany and piling schoolwork started to take its toll on me till the day I simply collapsed from exhaustion.
It was fourth period. I was feeling fine all day till I sat behind Bibby and collapsed. I felt as though I was dying. My eyes literally rolled in the back of my head. It turns out that it was high blood pressure mixed with the flu. I had a dangerous high fever. I'm an active girl and I don't play laying in the bed but this time, I had no choice.
I'm lounging on the living room couch fake smoking a pen. I'm wrapped in my red and black checkered blanket from chest to toes. Mom is at work. Madeline is at school. It's so horrible and boring being sick.
"Life sucks." I spit out grabbing the remote off the table. I turn on the TV and flip through the stations. No wonder they make kids go to school, nothing be on TV. I groan tossing the remote on my lap.
Knock! Knock! Visitor! I quickly take the blanket off and rush to the front door. Someone came to visit me! I unlock and open the door to Bibby. "Hey! What you doing here?" I ask surprised. Does Madeline know he's here? "Just came to see how you were. You look a little bit better. How you feeling?"
"Just a little bit bored. This is my first time this school year being out sick. I never ha-" He steps forward and kisses my lips. I kiss him back. O. Oh. OH! "No!" I say in disbelief coming off him. I can't kiss him. He's Madeline's girlfriend and I'm seeing Tiffany. I'm cheating on them both.
"Tiffany and Robert got together yesterday." I chuckle at his lie. "My girlfriend?" "Your girlfriend. In his car near the beach. Everybody seen it." "Wow." I say crushed. I didn't expect to find Tiffany cheating on me as I hoped to cheat on her.
"Yeah. Real sorry." He say looking around my house. "I still have to respect my sister and my mother, Bibby. She's the only one who I got. Clear it up with her then let me know what's going on." "Me and her are not dating but I understand. One more time." He says leaning down to my height and kissing my lips. I'm not kissing him back. I have to think of my sister.
He leans back staring into my eyes. I swear it feels like he's pulling my eyeballs out of my head. That is weird. "I gotta go." He says turning around and walking off. I check out his butt in those black jeans. He looks real good. "You look good in those jeans." I softly say. "Thanks, Marcy. You look good in that...jacket." He say walking down the walkway. I thank him closing the door. He really does.
I never told Madeline that me and Bibby had kissed each other that day instead I told her about Tiffany and Robert. She told me that everybody in school knew, and she thought I knew. I didn't know one bit but when I called Tiffany's cellphone, Robert had answered. He told me that both of them got back together, and I was no longer needed.
I was so angry over the words that he spoke that I almost broke my cellphone and put a hole in the wall. I was that angry, but I let my emotion calm down in my body. Tiffany is not all of that. The next day, I happened to see both of them walking arm-in-arm with each other into Mr. Hawkins classroom.
It was the only class that me and Robert share with each other. I snap my pencil in half watching both of them make-out near his desk. "Both of you, out." Mr. Hawkins say walking into his classroom toting books. Tiffany suck on his tongue letting him go and going out of the classroom. We groan in disgust.
"Robert, keep the perso-" "She does it with the soccer team, Mr. Hawkins." I snidely say. Bibby laugh looking at Robert. "Jealousy looks bad on her, Mr. Hawkins." He says smirking. "So do muscles." Frank says from his desk. "Frank, you still looking for your daddy." "OHHH!" He quickly looks at Robert. He laughs.
"Let me hand out suspensions." Mr. Hawkins say grabbing his piece of chalk. "No!" We all shout out. He places the chalk back on the holder and turn to face us. "What's going on?" He asks Robert. "Marcy stole Robert's girl." Bibby says. "Never knew they were dating or I would've turned her down. Friendship means more to me than a piece of meat."
"One that you don't have." Frank say. "We not friends." Robert adds. "Well, I don't care. I don't have to show off nor entertain this little ego match that you have going on. I focus on the positive and I move forward. The rest is up to you." I say shrugging. The classmates mutter looking at him. "I'm done, Mr. Hawkins. She can have Tiffany." He angrily says sitting back down.
"I'm pretty sure she don't want her after how you showed yourself, Robert." Bibby say. I shake my head. "I'm glad the issue is solved amongst you all. Bring it in my class again and you'll all be suspended. Close the door, Robert." Our teacher say writing on the chalkboard. He gets up and closes the door.
I shrug patting Bibby on his back and thanking him. "No problem, Marcy. Move forward." He says handing me a worksheet. I take it. I will move forward like I always do.