Storming Sky

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I didn't call Andrew until Saturday morning. He asked me how I was, and I offered to buy him a new shirt.

"Babe, don't worry about it," he said. "It's just a shirt. I'm glad you're feeling better."

"If you vomited on my shirt, no offence, but I would never wear it again," I told him, laughing at the memory. Now that a few days had passed, it was slightly amusing.

"You should have seen Tyler in chorus. He was a mess. Mariana wanted to go to your house after school, but I told them to back off. You did not look good, so I figured you needed your space. Plus, you know, with everything that has been happening with Bella and Edward, I figured a lot of it was just stress."

"What do you mean 'everything that's happening with Bella and Edward?'?" I asked him.

"You know, them being a thing?" He said.

"They're not a thing," I scoffed, rolling my eyes.

"They talk a lot more than they used to, and he was sitting with her before you passed out. Looks like it's becoming a thing," he said. "It wasn't that long ago that you moved from the Cullen table to come sit with me." I could practically hear him winking over the phone.

"Yeah, they're not a thing," I said, stubbornly. "He's just being nice to her," I told him.

"Yeah, okay," he said, clearly not believing me.

"So, when is our routine due?" I asked him. Andrew and I took a dance class at Forks High School and we were choreographing a routine together. The dance class is how we met when I was just a freshman. They partnered us together and we have been together ever since.

"A week from Friday. We have time. Not a lot, but we have time. Assuming, that is, you actually recover and show up to school this week." Andrew said.

"About that..." I knew the weather was going to be nice on Monday. I didn't know where I'd be, but I knew it wouldn't be at school. It was too hard to use our "camping" cover story if I was there when my siblings weren't. We found out quickly that it was easier if I just took a personal day and sunbathed outside.

"Camping?" He asked, knowingly. I smiled.

"Camping," I confirmed. He didn't know a lot, but he definitely paid attention. Sometimes, okay, a lot of the time, it was difficult keeping things straight with him.

"How are you even allowed to do that? My mom flips out when I miss school," he complained. "Your dad is a doctor, shouldn't education be important?"

"My siblings are smarter than everyone in the school combined," I bragged. "Just because I'm not up to par with them doesn't mean that they shouldn't be rewarded. It's family bonding time since there are so many of us." It wasn't a lie, really.

"Whatever. I still wish I could come with you some day," Andrew said sadly. Me too, I thought. Maybe someday we would pull a camping trip together and he would be able to come. It couldn't be nice out, though...

"I know, it's just hard. We don't always plan things well enough in advanced. It's spur of the moment," I said. Also true.

"Anyways, I should get going. I have an English paper due on Wednesday that I haven't started yet." Andrew said.

"I don't think anyone has started that paper yet," I laughed. I had heard about this dreaded English paper from many sources. "Edward included."

"He'll still get an A," Andrew said.

"I'm sure he will," I groaned. My wonderful perfect brother. "Enjoy working on your paper, I love you," I told him.

"I love you to, babe, I'm glad you're feeling better." He said, and hung up the phone. Almost exactly as that happened, Alice knocked on my door.

"Come in," I told her. I was sitting at my desk playing on my laptop. "What's up?" I asked her.

"Peter and Charlotte will be here Sunday night," she told me. Excellent.

"And that means...what, exactly?" I said. Usually when Peter and Charlotte came, it meant I had to take a trip. I wasn't allowed at the house when other vampires were here – house rules.

"It means you need to sleep over someone's house Sunday and Monday night. You won't be going camping, I'm sorry," she said.

"I can ask Fiona, her parents are never around," I said. Alice smiled.

"That will work," she told me, and left the room. She was weird like that.

I called Fiona and asked to sleep over, and, like Alice said, everything was fine. We decided that I would go over tomorrow morning and we would make a shopping day out of it. We were going to stay local, but we needed to find dresses for the dance and it was the perfect day.

"Mom, I'm going to sleep over Fiona's house tomorrow night and Monday while Peter and Charlotte are here, is that okay?" I asked, walking downstairs.

"That's fine, love," she said. She was looking over some blueprints for an addition in our home in Alaska. I wasn't super interested, but I watched her work while I ate a bowl of Ice Cream.

That night, Alice and I hung out and packed a bag for me over the weekend. She told me where all of the sales were going to be and what type of dresses I should wear.

"I swear, if you mess this up, I will pull you out of school and take you shopping myself," Alice warned me. I laughed.

"I think I can figure out what to wear, Alice," I told her, "I'm a big girl now." She smiled softly.

"I know," she said, making a phony frowny face. "I can't believe you are going to be seventeen soon."

I totally forgot about my birthday, which was two months away. I never had any big parties, but the family always did something special. Alice always planned it, of course.

We finished packing and Alice brought my bag downstairs for me before turning my light off and saying goodnight.

Sunday morning, I got up and my dad gave me a ride to Fiona's house.

"Alice said her parents weren't going to be around?" Dad asked me.

"Her mom is in Prague on a business trip and her Dad is doing some stock thing in New York until the middle of April," I explained. "She practically lives on her own, you know this."

"Please be careful, and if you see anything suspicious, you can always call," Dad warned. They never liked leaving me with humans when there were vampires around, but with the nice weather, it was necessary right now.

"I will," I said rolling my eyes. "I love you, have a good few days!" I called to him.

"I love you, be safe," he said to me before I ran up to Fiona's house. Let the fun begin, I thought to myself before ringing her doorbell.