Defying Gravity

The rest of the day went by quite fast and I loved being back in school. I was able to catch up with all of the gossip and I when I saw a notice for this years school drama production, Wicked it made my day. I was already looking forward to applying for one of the lead roles.

As Jared and I walked through the front door of my house we found my brother and his two best friends, Quill and Embry spread out in front of our small TV.

“Come on, Jared lets go upstairs so we don’t bother them.”

“Ok” he replied with a shrug and walked up the stairs.

Before we went up I walked over to Jake and his friends and sat on the arm of the settee.

“Where’s dad?” I asked, It was unusual for dad not to be home at this time of day.

“He’s gone to some meeting with the elders, he said it was important and asked if you could cook us dinner, because he won’t be back home until around six.” He said not taking his eyes off of the TV.

“Yes, that’s fine, but your friends have got to go by five, ok? Sorry boys” I said giving the boys a sad smile.

“Aw, come on sis, they can stay longer than that if they want.” He begged giving me the puppy dog eyes and a sad face pout.
“Nope, since dads not home, I’m in charge, got it, so your friends go home at five.” I pointed my finger at him so it would give my words some effect.

“Fine, but Jared’s got to go home at the same time. Fair?”

“Fair.” I spat on my hand and held it out for him to shake to make it official. It was something we had always done to, even when we were kids we had done it to show that we had a deal, and we couldn’t break that deal to each other.

When I walked up the stairs Jared was looking through my application form that had been laid out on my desk.

“You got a lot of options here, you know, are you sure you just don’t want to stay here and go to collage?” he said looking at me with a mixture of happiness and sadness in his eyes.

“Yeah I’m sure. To be honest I can’t stay here my whole life, I think if I did I would probably go mad.” I gave a small laugh.

“Let’s change the topic shall we?” he rolled his eyes at my last comment.

“Yeah” I walked over and sat on the light blue sheets that were laid out on my bed.

When he changed the topic it was to one that I didn’t want to talk about, Paul.

“Don’t you think that it was so weird how Paul was staring at you today? If you ask me, I think that he’s looking to see if you could be the next one to join him in Sam’s little gang” he said rolling his eyes.

“Well, even if he is looking for me to join Sam’s gang, it’s never going to happen! Believe me I never do anything that I don’t want to. Unless course its dad or a teacher telling me to do something.” I added in quickly with a slight laugh and waving my finger at him.

“Don’t worry, I believe you on that subject.” He said looking at the clock on my wall. “I should be going my mums cooking dinner and she’s going to go to work her shift at the hospital soon. So I’ll see you tomorrow, ok?”
He got up and looked at me.

“Yeah, that’s fine, I’ll call for you in the morning, bye.” I gave him a warm smile and told him to go.

I looked at the clock on the wall and it said five o’clock. Time to send Jake’s friends home.

I had finally got rid of Jack’s friends and started on dinner. Tonight we were going to have chicken breast with jacket potato and salad, dad’s favourite. He deserved it after being at an important Elders meeting all day.

I was just setting the plates on the table, when dad came through the door in his wheelchair.

He didn’t look right, he was all pale and he had beads of sweat on his forehead.

“Dad, what’s wrong?” I rushed over to him to make sure that he was ok.

“Get your coats kids, we have to help Charlie look for Bella, she’s gone missing, Charlie thinks that she’s got lost in the woods, so I want you two to help with the search, you know I can’t get into the woods with this chair. I will wait with Charlie at his home just in case she comes back.”

Jake almost ran to get our coats, I knew who Bella was. I had seen her around and whenever my dad went over to Charlie’s house to watch the game Jack or I would have to drive him over there. I knew that she was a friend of Jack and that if she was lost in the woods then we had to help.

I grabbed my coat from Jake, got the car key of the hook and helped dad outside and into the car.

I drove over there as fast as I could without breaking any speed limit and eventually we were at Charlie’s house.

Jake and I helped dad out of the car and wheeled him over to where Charlie was stood bent over a map telling people were to look.

Across from Charlie were Sam and Paul. I tried not to look at Paul, but I just couldn’t help but peek a look at him every once and a while.

When Charlie had finished show the boys where he thought might be a good idea to look he turned around and smiled when he spotted us.

“Thanks for coming guys” He said while giving me a hug.

“It’s ok Charlie, we’ll find her. Where do you want us to look?”

Charlie pointed to an area on the map.

“Do you mind looking here?” As he pointed to a heavily wood area to the left of the house.

“Yes, that fine.” He handed me a torch and I was off into the dark woods.

I had been walking for about five minutes, when I heard something that sounded like paws padding on the wet leaves in the bushes. I started to feel nervous as it didn’t sound like a small animal and its pant was too loud for it to be a dog.

I scanned my torch around the bushes, but there was nothing there.

I kept walking when all of a sudden I saw Sam Uley coming towards me holding a something large in his arms. It looked like a body. He was carrying Bella Swan, he had found her.

I ran over to him to make sure, that she was ok.

“Is she hurt?” I asked when I finally reached him.

“Not by the look of it and she keeps repeating ‘he’s gone’. Any idea what that means” He looked down at Bella and then looked back at me.

“No idea.” Now I was curious what she meant.