Chapter 10

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Miley woke up with a smile and hurried to get dressed excited to finally get one on one time with the boys

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Miley woke up with a smile and hurried to get dressed excited to finally get one on one time with the boys. She practically devoured her breakfast in seconds before going to wait outside for Jake to get her. He came a few minutes later smiling happy to see Miley was feeling good today. He had overheard his father calling Charlie to check on her, apparently someone had let it slip to the council how she had left school early. Jake didn't understand who would bother telling his dad or even why they were so focused on Miley's whereabouts.



"Swan. Long time no see." Jacob chuckled as Miley smiled awkwardly feeling bad for ditching out of school. "Sorry it was all just- too much." Was all Miley could say to describe it as Jake looked to remember something. "You never said what Paul said to you." And with those words Miley's smile fell and she looked out the window remembering what she had tried to forget. "He just told me what I already knew. It's fine." Miley shrugged like it was no big deal but he could easily tell she was down playing the situation. "He said something really bad to you didn't he? Is it that he likes you or something?" He asked disgusted not wanting his close friend to fall for the hot head. Miley snorted shaking her head, "Quite the opposite. Apparently...... I'm nothing to him. Which I already knew so I don't know why he needed to even say it." She spoke softly as Jake looked to her sadly.



"The cult clearly wants you in their group. Especially Kim and the others, I don't know why Paul seems to despise you but.... he's not worth it. His option doesn't matter." Jacob tried to give me advice but it just made me more upset that he too could see the hatred Paul had for me. It seemed anyone with eyes could. As pulled up to Jakes I recognized Quil, Embry and Kai were just pulling in and walking to the garage but stopped seeing us. "MILEY!!!" Quil yelled rushing to me and hugging me like it's been years. "I'm glad your here." Embry said smiling at me happily. "Look sorry about yesterday..... clearly things got a big messy. I hope we can move past it." Kai stated with a friendly smile that Miley returned. "Now what's the plan?" Quil asked excited like a child. "We could build on my car some more and order pizza or...... go to La Push Beach?" Jake said knowing the answer.



Miley told them she couldn't swim and they assumed she meant it was ...... her time of the month. Really she knew her swimsuit would reveal her markings besides to her it was too cold due to the Arizona heat she was used to. But she agreed to tag along and search for shells or make a sand castle like a child would. Hell they even packed food and games to play while at the beach. The sun was out for a change making everyone's dampened moods lift up in excitement. They didn't think anything could ruin it..... until they saw who else was there. Miley just simply avoided eye contact with the group as the boys mumbled profanities. "We could always leave if you get uncomfortable Miley." Jake assured me making me smile but wave it off. "Today is supposed to be our fun day, I'm not gonna let anyone ruin that. Besides I need to kick your guys butts in volleyball.



She said grabbing the ball and spiking it which proceeded to hit Embry in the back of the head. He turned around looking for the culprit as Miley looked to Jake with a fake surprised expression. "You should apologize Jake that was so mean." She faked as she tried to contain a laugh while Jacob was full blown laughing at what she'd done. Embry took that as a sign of guilt and charged him, both boys fighting until they went into the ice water and ran out. "Why don't you really want to swim?" Kai asked lowly watching as Quil joined there little shenanigans. "My body just isn't beach ready." Miley shrugged but Kai stared intently at her before nodding slowly. "Right. Well I think I'll sit with you, I'm not big on cold water. I just moved here from Florida so- I find it cold." Kai explained making Miley realize he too was covered up like her due to the ice cold breeze.



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