Cliff Diver || Paul Lahote•Jacob Black/Twilight Fanfiction

Chapter 27

Guess whose back in the house?
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Renata took her time to get back to Emily's. She had ditched the high heels and sweater at the Cullen's and the only reminder she had from the confrontation with Jasper was a bloody bandage, which at least didn't stink. Once in the rez, Sam appeared in his wolf form and smelled Renata.

"I'm okay, seriously" Renata pet his head, trying to reassure him, but still holding her breath in case Sam caught the lie.

So you fell down? Sam huffed as they walked to the house.

"Yeah, on my way there. I tripped and fell on a sharp rock" Renata showed him the bandage.

And they didn't... Renata knew exactly what he meant. He asked if they didn't try to bite her or something.

"No, apparently they found my blood disgusting. Can you believe it? Me! Disgusting!" Sam turned back into himself and untied the pair of shorts he had in his ankle.

"Well, to be fair, you manage to smell bad, especially when you don't shower in two days" Sam told her, pinching his nose between two fingers.

"It was one time!" Renata huffed and crossed her arms, "and now everyone thinks I don't shower!" She rolled her eyes, "me baño mas que todos ustedes juntos"

"Okay, that we're learning words here and there doesn't mean we're fluid in Spanish, can you translate?"

"I shower more than the rest of you put together" Renata translated. They had gotten used to her mixing up Spanish and had learnt some words and phrases but they still had trouble understanding her, especially if she talked fast.

"That's probably true" Sam laughed.

Back at the house, Renata tried to avoid questions about the party, and had to explain on three different occasions how she tripped and cut her arm. They weren't too surprised to hear that, since Renata tripped and bumped into and with everything. It was an every day thing that the words "ow!", "ouch!" and other words in both English and Spanish that Jared describes as "not family friendly", were used and heard.

"So, what's with the dress?" Paul asked with his eyes closed, he had fallen asleep and was woken when Renata and Sam arrived, he was wearing a pair of pyjama shorts.

"How do you know I'm wearing a dress? You haven't even looked at me? And Rosalie made me wear it, with heels"

"I did see you, when you came in and woke me up" Paul complained.

"When do we get to see you in heels" Jared plopped in the couch next to her, Renata just leaned into him naturally, like she would do with her brothers.

"Not happening anytime soon"

"We're off to bed, guys. Don't stay up too late, Jared and Paul have school tomorrow" Sam reminded them as he and Emily walked to the top floor.

"Do you guys want pancakes? Because I didn't eat dinner today" Renata stood up and walked to the kitchen.

"Sure" Paul said as he tried not to fall asleep in the loveseat.

"With blueberries?" Jared asked hopefully making puppy eyes at Renata.

"Jared, I taught you how to do that face, conmigo no funciona. But I'm gonna put blueberries on them, porque yo quiero, no porque me lo pediste" Renata got out all the ingredients and started mixing as the boys watched.

Any other person would be angry, how could they not help? But not Renata. If there was one thing Renata didn't like besides Bella, that was people getting in the way of her cooking. She got really possessive of the kitchen when she cooked and if she didn't ask for help, she'd get angry if someone intervened, and Jared and Paul knew that, so they decided it was safer for them to just stay away until she was finished. Once finished, each wolfed down at least six pancakes, and left some half eaten, but sleep got the best of them. The first one out was Jared, who leaned into the couch and started snoring in no time. Paul and Renata joked on how quickly he fell asleep but in mid sentence, Renata became quiet, and when Paul turned to look at her, she was sound asleep, snuggled up against Jared in the sofa. Paul smiled and shook his head, the two of them were too much alike, they could pass out as twins, out of everyone, Jared had the strongest bond with Renata, no one knew why, they just understood each other. Jared and Renata would sometimes communicate with one another across the room just with the faces they made at each other, they would have complete conversations and no one else knew what that was about. Paul even asked Kim one if she was worried about how close Renata and Jared were and she just laughed and shook her head,
'Worried about them? No' she said calmly, with a smile, 'you just have to look at them, they love each other but not romantically'
The way she had said it, so calm and so sure of it, made Paul wonder how different Renata was with Sam or with himself. With Sam she seemed to be really comfortable, and she usually went to him for comfort, with Jared she was a complete goofball, she wouldn't stop laughing when she was with Jared, but with him, with Paul, she was almost in constant alert, and tense, she didn't seem to relax around him unless Jared was there, he knew it was partly his fault, Paul had phased out of anger several times and she always seemed to be alert in case it would happen, and she always seemed to watch him very closely, inspecting his body language, every reaction he had to whatever she said, just so she didn't make him phase.

Paul smiled as he saw Renata and Jared move in their sleep so they were both comfortable. And he took his opportunity. He stood up and went straight to Renata's room and under the covers, he would not sleep in the loveseat while there was a completely comfortable bed in the empty bedroom. Of course, if Renata found him there, she would probably kick his ass. And on the other hand, he could have gone home but he didn't want to. No, he couldn't. His drunk father would be there and today he was not in the mood to put up with him. Paul was afraid of not being able to control himself and end up killing him or hurting him by accident, so he decided that getting his ass handed to him by Renata was not so scary after all.

The next day, Emily was the first one to rise. In the living room she found plates with half eaten pancakes and two of her children sound asleep. Yes, she sometimes thought of them as her children even thought they were roughly a few years younger than her. She went upstairs and woke up Sam, told him to be quiet. She took her instant camera and went downstairs. Sam chucked and smiled when he saw the scene. Paul got out of Renata's room, and Emily motioned for him to be quiet. Paul just shook his head at what he saw, with a small smile.

Renata and Jared were woken up by a loud 'click!' and a flash. Jared fell off the sofa and Renata jumped off, ready to fight anyone... of course she was still half asleep and ended up tripping over Jared and falling down.

"Esas no son formas" Renata yawned.

The two fallen teenagers stood up from the ground. They all waited a couple minutes until the photo was revealed. Emily smiled and mentioned that it would go straight to the photo album. Paul looked at the picture and laughed. Renata and Jared looked at the picture, they both turned red as a tomato.

"Aw, Jared, I didn't know you liked to be little spoon" Sam laughed as he clapped his enormous hand on his back.