Fast Forward And Show Me Stars [Paul Imprint]

Fast Forward And Show Me Stars [Paul Imprint] 4

Pushing thoughts about my unsettling dream away, I noticed that the boys seemed oblivious to the tension between Jacob and me.

I didn't care much until I thought about how awkward the situation could become.

I groaned, running a hand through my straightened hair in annoyance. Stupid Jacob and his stupid anger problems.

I occupied myself physically by staring out the window. It was raining slightly, and the sky was smothered with dark clouds as we drove by the beach. It was really nice, and despite the rain I could see people on boats whale-watching out on the sea.

I squirmed in my seat slightly; I really wanted to go to the beach by myself later and have a nice swim. I didn't want anyone to come with me because I just wanted to be alone; I usually went off somewhere nice away from my crappy old apartment every once in a while. I, of course, always went alone because it wasn't like I was really friends with anyone.

I decided that I would hopefully be able to go to the beach tomorrow and just hang around the house on Sunday. Thinking of Sunday made me inwardly groan; I really didn't want to go to school.

But hopefully my new high school would be a lot better than the one I used to go to, considering the fact that I now actually had friends that didn't live two states away from me. What the boys told me earlier today didn't help to calm my nerves at all. They had simply made things worse when they said people would stare at me just because I wasn't new.

The area was particularly small, and everyone knew absolutely everyone. I was just some stranger that had intruded on their big happy family.

Hopefully, the boys would be wrong and everyone would just leave me alone, like at my old school. Everyone avoided me and I didn't like attention at all, but of course getting into numerous fights doesn't exactly push attention away from you.

People talked about me behind my back all the time, but if I so much as looked at them, even if I was casually walking down the hallway, they would scurry away like I was going to kill them or something. Obviously, the rumors had gotten out of hand when I heard someone say that I had murdered my aunt.

That, obviously, pissed me off beyond believe. I loved my aunt and I would never do anything to hurt her. I heard someone say that as I was walking down the hallway to my next class and I immediately turned around and socked them in the stomach.

Another time, I heard some druggie talking bad about me like I wasn't even there. But, the guy was huge and could easily kick me to the ground, so I walked away and to say the least people were shocked that I hadn't punched him.

I sighed, crossing my arms over my chest. People could be so annoying.

The boys, minus my 'brother', were reminiscing about something that had happened at school that day; I wasn't paying attention at all. But I managed to catch words and phrases such as 'Don't touch me there', and 'Pizza'.

I just blinked, turning me head to look out the window again rather slowly. Jacob had weird friends...

It didn't take long to arrive at the simple restaurant, which was basically the equivalent of a small Chile's. Again, I found myself zoning out and feeling unaware of what I was doing. I happened to do that when I was upset; usually more mad than actually sad.

As we excited the car, I nearly freaked out when an enormous grasshopper came out of scene it nowhere and jumped in front of us. I'm not exaggerating, that thing was the size of a bus. Okay, maybe it wasn't that big.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure that Embry screamed like a girl, and I jumped up and down demanding, "Kill it!"

Seth shook his head, rolling his eyes slightly at Embry, who was attempting to discreetly hide behind me. He failed at being the slightest bit subtle.