PART 2: Sarah
SARAH'S P.O.V
'What greater punishment is there than life when you've lost everything that made it worth living?'
I sigh deeply and slam shut my Romeo and Juliet book, my eyes refusing to shut and my brain refusing to retire for sleep.
I check the clock hanging on the wall, one in the morning.
I kick my blanket off me and sit upright against the headboard. Quietly, I creep out of my bed, rub my eyes and tiptoe to my bedroom door.
I try my best to be delicate with the door handle incase it squeaks and I eventually succeed in slipping out of my room without making any noise.
I slowly make my way down the upstairs hall to the door next to mine, Embry's room.
Ever since I was born Embry and I have been thick as thieves, constantly together like we're attached to the hip. Now, seven years later him and I are still best friends, he's like a second brother to me.
I don't bother to knock on his door as I know he is asleep so I just creep into his bedroom and stand at the side if his bed. Embry is in a deep sleep, his sheets hanging low on his body which is covered by a shirt and shorts. One arm is resting on his chest and one draped across the bed. To my fortune his body is mostly on the left side of his double bed, so I slide onto the right side and cuddle up next to his body.
I pull the covered more over us and relax into his toasty touch, I know I'm half shifter, but I'm also half vampire so my skin isn't as warm as my dad's or Embry's.
I let my eyes slide shut, trying to force myself to fall asleep when I am interrupted by a pair of lips on my hair.
"Can't sleep?" Embry whispers groggily with his eyes still shut but a small smile on his face.
I can't particularly pinpoint my feelings for Embry, I'm only fourteen mentally and physically, and he is sixteen (physically) . It would be wrong to have a crush on him at this age, but I get butterfly's in my stomach every time I see him, he always makes me happy and I feel like a part of me is missing when he has to leave for patrol or to be with the pack.
And who knows, one day he will imprint on a beautiful girl and forget all about me, Sarah Black, the freak.
"Not even Shakespeare can bore me to sleep." I mutter into the dark, only a dim lamp on in Embry's room. His chest moves as he chuckles and wraps his left arm around my waist. I sigh in content and welcome his warmth while I shut my eyes and let sleep overtake me.
*****
I wake up in the comfort of my own bed, in the morning, with the sun shining through the window. I groan and turn over, hearing a rustling beneath me. A note has been placed on my bed with the words,
Gone for a run, I didn't want to wake you.
Embry xx
I get these notes every time I sneak into his room in the middle of the night. He gets up earlier than usual and places me back in my own bed before my dad can catch us, he and mom will both flip.
I get up and make my way downstairs for breakfast. Mom and dad are already at the table with warm smiles.
Mom is the most beautiful person I ever laid eyes on, I constantly wish I looked more like her with her long bronze hair and fair skin. She still looks eighteen as she can't age, being half vampire and all.
Dad is just as beautiful as mom, in a masculine way. Both EJ and I look more like dad with our coal hair and copper skin. Dad has also kept his youth, being a shapeshifter.
The only thing about my twin and I that don't look anything like our families is our eyes, a light violet colour that look weird. Mom says that they're beautiful and unique, but I look more like a mutant than should be expected of a fourteen year old girl.
"Morning sweetie." My parents greet me and I give them both a kiss on the cheek.
"EJ not up?" I ask while pouring a glass of water. I don't drink blood like I am expected to do, my wolf side despises it and in a way I'm glad, I don't want to drink blood because its gross. Human or animal.
