Every Which Way

Downward Spiral

While I drive down to the beach with my new found friends I listen to one of my favorite songs, Young by Hollywood Undead . When we arrive I park directly next to Leah's truck and hop off while taking off my helmet. When Leah steps out of the car she says,

"Wow. I would like to take a ride on your bike sometime if you don't mind."

"I would be more than happy to let you ride on my bike. As long as you don't crash my baby then I would have to kill you." I say.

We run ahead to find a good spot on the empty beach to set up our stuff. Once we put our things down, start to undress. When I go to take off my shorts, my dagger falls into the sand without me noticing. I turn around to find Quil looking at it. Immediately, I snatch it out of his hands and put it in my bag.

"What was that?" He asks suspiciously.

"My knife what else would it be," I say as if it were obvious.

"Why do you carry it, expecting something to happen?" Now he is getting on my nerves.

"No I just carry around for protection." I say in an annoyed voice.

I walk off to go talk to Leah, hoping Quil will just drop the subject.

"What was that about?" Leah asked.

"Oh, nothing. Quil just found my knife that I carry around and wouldn't stop askin' questions." I replied.

"Sorry 'bout that. People around here don't know how to mind their own business.

Hey, Have ever done cliff diving?" She asks

" No. There aren't many cliffs down where I used to live." I said now curious of where this is going.

"You should come. Me and the guys always jump from the highest cliff, but maybe you should jump from further down to soften the impact." Leah told me.

"It sounds like fun, but if I'm going to jump then I'll jump from the highest one. I'm not gonna wuss out." I say, feeling nervous and confident all together.

"Cool, let's go. Who knows, maybe we'll even see Paul, Jacob, and Embry, you haven't met them yet have you?" She asks.

"Not that I know of" I say.

Then we start our long hike up the cliff side, the guys had run.

~Time Skip~

As we near the top of the cliff I see two figures throw another off the cliff, then they jump off after him, whoopin' and hollerin' on the way down. I assume that they are Paul, Jacob, and Embry. When we get to the edge of the cliff I look over the edge to see that it's a long way down. Behind I here Jared and Quil making bets on me. Then Seth comes up behind me and says,

"Ladies first."

I take a few steps back and then I take off running. When I reach the edge I tuck forward into a flip. I flip three more times then I cannonball into the water. I sink at least a few feet before I resurface, gasping for air. The ice cold water felt amazing and refreshing. As the others started jumping I started to head back to shore. Leah and I reached the beach before the boys did.

"Wow, I'm impressed. Usually we don't get girl jumpers and when we do they either chicken out or hurt themselves," she says.

"Well, you also have to take into consideration that I'm not your average day girly girl. I won't back out of fight or a rush," I reply. We both laugh for a minute.

"Come on. Let's go meet the others shall we," she says.

We head over to the three boys that jumped before us. Two of them were wrestling while the other was trying to start the fire.

" Hey fucktards. Stop being stupid for a second and come here," Leah yells.

The two boys that were wrestling stopped and came running up to me and Leah.

"Ooh. Who's the new eat Leah?" the taller one asks.

"That dipshit is Paul. Paul this is Willow," Leah says.

"How you doin'?" Paul says, then he winks at me.

"And this is Jacob, but you can call him Jake. And the one by the fire is Embry. Play nice and have fun," she finishes.

Leah walks away to go talk to her brother who is just coming to shore. Jared is reluctantly handing Quil some money for the bet he lost, and Paul and Jake start beating the crap out of eachother again. I decide to go see if Embry needs help with the fire. I walk up and crouch down next to him.

"Hey, you need any help with that," I say, stifling a laugh.

"Please, because these to rock obviously aren't going to work," he says sounding defeated.

I grab my bag by one of the logs and take out a wad of tissues and a match box. I put the wad under the pile of wood and leaves, then I light it with a match and watch it slowly catch fire.

"Wow. Thanks for the help," He sticks out his hand. "I'm Embry."

"Willow," I take it.

For a split second we made eye contact. Then it felt as if the world stood still.