Wonder ~ Paul Lahote

four

.... Continued

Sam walked in first greeting Emily with the most affectionate kiss ever. Cute. Shortly after, following being one another came Paul and Jacob. Paul sat down, turned to Bella with a smirk whilst saying 'sorry' before turning back to the rest of the guys. Jacob stood at the door waiting for Bella to follow him. That left me in a house with a bunch of people I didn't know. Superb.
I tried to stay as silent as possible, I didn't even know why I was still here, but even I knew it was rude to just get up and walk out, I knew it's courteous to say goodbye but I bit my tongue and sucked it up. Thankfully Emily had left me use the bathroom to sort myself out. I was no longer crying but my brain was currently working over time.

"Tierney come over and meet everyone"Embry walked over to me and pulled me up so I could meet everyone. Great now everyone was looking at me. I just want the ground to swallow me up please.

"Guys this is Tierney, Tierney this is Sam, Jared and over there is Paul" he sue pointing at everyone. Everyone smiled and waved as did it.
I smiled at everyone individually and when I looked into Paul's eyes it was like the world had slowed down just for this moment. Neither of us said anything just continued staring at one another. It was like there was a room full of people but we were the only two that mattered at that point.
I knocked myself out of the trance and broke eye contact. Not really sure what that was but I tried my hardest to push it to the back of my mind, but it was like fate was working it magic and I just couldn't, Paul's smile was there still lingering in my mind.

I tried to avoid Paul for the rest of the duration I was in that house but everywhere I was he seemed to be, coincidently or not. it was pretty difficult to avoid someone, while we were all gathered in one relatively small, kitchen/ living area, but I gave it a good go.
I can tell you this though, it wasn't making it any easier to push the thought of him away. I stared to feel tired, and I think Paul noticed to, as I was leaning on the stair rail, resting my eyes.

"Come on I'll take you home" Paul said softly in my ear. I was eternally grateful for this gesture as my social battery has completely died about half an hour ago and I knew when that happens I'm not fun to be around. I nodded and followed him outside. So much for avoiding him.
The car ride was silent but not like an awkward silence, a comfortable one. Which is weird because I'm the epitome of awkward.

He didn't try to force conversation onto me which was grateful for but for some reason I felt guilty. Maybe I had come across rude to everyone because I didn't say much and left early. Those thoughts kept playing on my mind because the last thing I wanted to do was come across as rude, because I'm definitely not.

Paul knew where the Clearwaters lived soo I didn't have to give him directions thankfully.
The car came to a stop and I thanked him for the ride home. I sent him a small smile and a wave before I went inside.
I didn't even know the boy and he had already occupied the majority of my thoughts.

The remainder of my evening was spent with me running over my thoughts, my brain couldn't comprehend what happened today, someone I thought I had known could turn into a very large wolf. I suppose you truly don't know someone.