Beyond Love |Paul Lahote|

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The ride back to Forks was silent as i sat in the passengerseat of Pauls old White pickup truck, it was dirty but it was actual dirt and according to the tool belt that he had to move out of my way to the bed of the truck he worked construction. Something to warrent the caluses that I felt on his hands earlier.

That thought along with all of the subtle sideways glances he was shooting at me was enough to make my face about 3 shades redder. "This is it right?" He asked pulling to a stop infront of Charlies place. I nodded moving to open the door. "Hey Kat." He said getting my attention as he put the truck in park making me glance over at him.

"Yeah?" I asked confused "Are you single?" He asked the question so blaitently it made me replay it in my mind incase I wasnt hearing it right. "Uh, Yeah, I am but you do realize that I'm only 17 right?" I scoffed rolling my eyes threw the blush at the face that formed on his face, it was disapointment. "Thanks for the ride Paul." I sighed opening the door and getting out of his truck.

I couldnt stop myself from squeeling like a little girl though when i shut my bedroom door behind myself. Caching my breath as I colapsed on my bed giggling and redfaced. Paul asked me if I was single and I didnt know why I was so excited about that. Wait, yes I do hes totally fucking hot. I was the fat kid like 4 months ago and now a guy like Paul was looking at me like i was the best thing he's ever seen in his life.

I glanced at the clock seeing that It was 3 in the morning but I was too wired at this point to sleep, and I didnt until about 6 in the morning after I watched a few episodes of ghost adventures and took a shower.

/// Next day////
I drug my feet as i sauntered downstairs at around 4 in the afternoon my hair still a mess and in my PJ's. "Long night?" Charlie scoffed at my appearance. "Yeah." I grumlbled walking to the fridge. "Already turning heads are you?" He asked as i sat at the table with all the things I needed to make a sandwich. I glanced up at him confused. "Paul Lahote came by this morning on his way to work, dropped off the stuff you left in his truck last night." He said eyeing me like he caught me doing something wrong. "Its not like that!" I said with a mouthfull of food.

"You should have seen the look on his face when I told him you wernt out of bed yet." He scoffed making my face warm up again bringing back the events of the night before. Charlie sighed standing up making me notice that he was still in his work uniform. "I only came home for lunch, pizza sound good for dinner?" He asked sounding tired. "Yeah, are you ok?" I said kind of conserned with how tired he seemed. "Animal attacks happening again, its been a few years but this time were gonna find them." He said.

"Animal attacks?" I asked. "Yeah some kind of mountian lion or something, dont worry about it. Just stay out of the woods." He sighed before he walked out the door. I saw my bag and hoodie sitting on the couch. I sat down turning on the TV and getting into my bag for my phone, I honestly cant belive that I didnt notice that it was missing last night.

I just scrolled threw my news feed for a while listening to the travel channel drone on about aliens getting board quickly. I pulled out my sketchbook flipping to the next clean page and seeing scrawled on the paper in heavy handed letters a phone number and Pauls name with a note that said 'call me' Making my face instantly heat up.

Of course I didnt do it though, I couldnt just call him, what was there to talk about? If the wrong person caught us talking it could cause trouble for him which is definatly somthing that I didnt want to happen. I just sat there for like an hour looking at his number and debating on weather or not I should worry so much, Charlie was a cop. He didnt seem too phased by it when he brought Paul up himself. At the same time, what if Charlie was just being himself and was playing like he was cool with somthing that was illeagal? Which in turn could get him in trouble too if anyone else found out about it. The whole situation just seemed like it would be best if I just left it alone and didnt bother.