Luna

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Luna and Bella Are Priority 

For the next few weeks, things began to grow peaceful amongst La Push again. Despite the ever growing panic of Victoria looming in the shadows, I could tell Paul and I had lulled ourselves back into a comfortable routine. 

Paul practically lived at my house now with my parents consent and admiration. I find it hilariously ironic that both my parents love Paul yet when they first met him they were ready to have Charlie lock him up. 

They even gave Paul the guest room to use as his own but that offer didn't hold out- he was always in my room. Even half of my clothes from my dresser drawers were moved to my closet floor to make space for his clothes. 

Some couples might find this much time spent together insufferable, but I loved waking up to him every morning and how normalized this was now. 

Currently, I was sprawled on my bed, reading through textbook after textbook, trying to study for all these exams. Missing a few weeks of school didn't put me too far behind but with having such a hectic life as mine, I liked to be ahead of my material- especially with midterms coming in two weeks.

Plus I was also doubling as Paul's tutor. This was his last year of high school and while I know Sam didn't mean to mess up his school schedule, it continued happening just because of dealing with life as a wolf. Paul has become less considerate with his school work, and while I can find no fault in that because he is worked to the peak of exhaustion- I still pushed him to study and do his homework. 

Part the reason Paul is struggling so much is because of having to constantly watch over me and when he's not with me, he's on patrol. Therefore, I was going to make sure he passed all his classes and had amazing grades for his school transcript for college. 

My unending stream of thoughts suddenly halted to an unnerving stop. Does Paul want to go to college? Of course I would be supportive of anything he chose to do. However, if he wanted to work, where would he work? The mechanics?  Would going away for college even be an option for him? ... Would it be an option for me? What if  did go away for school? Would he follow me,- but that would separate him from his pack and I don't think I could ever do that to him. 

I looked up to the bathroom- which Paul was currently utilizing as he took a shower. College was not something we discussed so heavily before, and with everything going on with the pack I know he wouldn't want to think about it now- it's a lot of stress. 

I tried to clear my mind as I went back to school work. Yet I kept getting sidetracked by my thoughts about life for us after high school. 

The high pitched ringtone on my phone broke me from my trance. Bella was calling. 

That's weird; considering we hadn't talked much since the Jake incident and the only time we had was when I sent an apology text for his behavior. 

"Bella, what's up?" I greeted, pushing away my notes as I could already feel the seriousness settling over. Something's happened. 

"Hey, Luna," she spoke and hesitated as a second of silence passed us, "okay, uh, this is going to be a weird proposition, but Edward wants to talk to Paul. Is he with you?" 

My eyes went back up to the bathroom door. I contemplated getting him, but Edward has never called to speak to Paul.

"Yeah he is, give me one second..." Standing from the bed I crossed to the bathroom and opened it, not bothering to knock. Right away I was captured in a wave of hot steam; the water pattering on the bathtub floor powered over all other noises.