Black & Green

Chapter Two

I knew it. I had a feeling Sam would get to Jake. I storm into Jake's house and find his dad.

" How could you let this happen to him? You knew it would hurt me. You knew I was coming back. I didn't want to come back to this!" I practically scream at him.

"Lanii, calm down, we had no other choice. While you were gone, Jake had found love. Not real love. He loved her, she loved another. He was heartbroken by the fact that you were gone and that he was rejected, yet again." He says calming me down. But why would Jake go out and look for love, why would he let himself get sucked into whatever Sam is doing to him. Then it hits me. Because I left.

" Did all of this happen because I left..?" I ask him.

He looks up at me and sighs, " Yes. Since you left he changed, he's not the caring sweet boy we all once knew. Now he likes to " live in the moment ". Today is actually the first time ive seen him, happy." He says the last part with a smile. Wow. Jake, happy.

"But why would he confide in Sam? I thought he hated him?" I ask a little curious. Ever since we were 6 years old, Jake hated Sam. He never told me why, but I guess it was something serious.

"He thought maybe becoming one of them, it would take away the pain. Yet every night I still hear him cry and call out your name in his sleep." He says lowering his head. That part hit me the most. I knew Jake missed me, but not thaf much.

"I have to go find him. Where is he?" I say practically running out of the house.

" You can't Lanii, Sam doesn't want people to know about them. Since Jake is one if his new members he's extra protective over him." He says stopping me. I have to get to Jake, but he's right. Shit.

"Well, when will he be home?" I say a little more anxiously. He gives me a thoughtful look.

"Whenever Sam thinks he's done." He says a little sadly. What the fuck? "Whenever Sam thinks he's done." What kind of bullshit is that? He's practically working Jake down to the bone. I cant let Sam get deeper into his head. Ill stay here all night if I have to.

I run out of the house and find my mom across the street at our old house. It still looks the same.

"Hey, mom, I'm gonna stay at Jake's tonight. We have some catching up to do." I say practically out of breathe. I ran all the way over here. Yeah "across the street" doesn't seem that far, but here, across the street could be at least a mile.

"Okay." She flatly replies. Last time we were here was when my dad was alive. He died a year before we left to Hawaii, it took a huge toll on my mom and brother. I never really had a good relationship with my father. He was never around for most of my life. Only my brothers, that's why it affected them more than it did me. I cried yeah, but I didnt go to extremes like most people do. I obviously went to Jake's that night. I couldnt bare to see my mother & brother cry over him. He was a good man and all, but not to me.

I walk back to Jake's and notice another boy walking in. He looks cute, in an awkward kind of way. He's tall, so that's good. I walk up to the door and open it. I find Jake's dad laughing with the strangely beautiful boy.

"Oh Lanii, id like you to meet Embry. Embry this is Kalanii, shes bestfriends with Jacob." He says trying to hide a smile.

" Hi, I'm uh um.." Embry stutters. He's freaking adorable oh my God.

"Embry? Maybe." I giggle in response.

"Yeah. Embry." He replies.