The Lost Shoe

Kia`s POV

Shoving my books into my book bag, I breathed a sigh of relief. The week was finished. The bell echoed my thoughts, announcing freedom through the school corridors as everyone milled out of classrooms, smiling in anticipation of the weekend. I looked at my over-packed bag and began a familiar struggle with the zip as the classroom emptied. I really needed a new backpack but that cost money my family didn't have. My family was a happy if a poor one, my parents were interesting to say the least, my dad travelled across the country, writing us a letters and coming home for a month at the most in summer while my mother stayed at home with myself and my brother saying she knew when she married him he would never settle. I missed my dad a lot but I was used to missing things. We had moved a lot. I had been at La Push high school for two months and still had no friends, I missed having friends. Finally managing to close my bag, I wandered through the school corridors and out of the school, sticking earphones in blocking all noise. The second I stood outside I was soaked, rain was something I would not mind missing. I ran to the car, side-stepping puddles and looking for the ancient jeep which was my brother's car. Through the wet, I saw the jeep and ran to it and dived in. My brother was already there, looking irritated.

"Took your time"` He said nodding at the car clock and switching on the stereo to his favourite band, Simple Plan. I took out my headphones, pretending I hadn't heard him even though we both knew I had.

"Good day?" I asked, knowing it would be, he is one of those optimists. He nodded while bopping to the music. His phone bleeped and he glanced down, Matt was one of those people like my Dad who could make friends anywhere. After the first week here, he had lots of friends and a girl while I had nothing. It wasn`t that I didn't try it's just I like my safe shell and relied on msn to keep me in touch with Alex, my boyfriend in North Carolina that was all I needed and books. We talked as much as we could which in Alex's terms meant about twice a week if I was lucky. This week had been a slow week with Alex, I had messaged him twice and still no reply maybe I should socialise more and get a new boyfriend who actually wanted to talk to me.

"How about yours?" Matt asked, shoving me playfully. Matt worried about me which was embarrassing.

"It was interesting, I started a new book and then I actually had a conversation with a girl in my class, maybe I `m not invisible." I said smiling. Matt smiled back, it was a sad smile, he wished I was like him but I wasn`t I was me. I continued on. "Any plans for the weekend?"

"Sarah is coming over later so we can head to a party and then tomorrow I`m working so nothing exciting." He said and I just nodded and watched as we pulled into our house. Sarah was one of those annoyingly happy people who never ever stopped smiling. I often wondered if she had a secret which made her smile all the time although lately Matt was more optimistic than usual and smiling more maybe they were in love or maybe smiling was infectious. I climbed out of the car and dashed inside even though I was already soaked from the rain. Mom was out which wasn`t surprising. Mom said she stayed behind for us but really it was for the multiple clubs she was a member of, Matt basically raised me.

"Cereal" I asked thinking of the box of lucky charms in the cupboard, my one weakness.

"Sure." He said. I poured the cereal and thought of Alex. Alex was interesting, he had entered my life twice and the second time he had stayed as my boyfriend. The first time I met him was in Texas and later in North Carolina, his parents were also travellers. The first time I met him, I knew I was in love with him. He had the sweetest smile and just seemed to understand me and conversation was effortless, our first kiss was perfect. A week after I had known him, he left for Georgia and I stayed in Texas, we thought it would be the last time we would see each other. I like to think it was fate that brought us back together in Sylva. This time, we had a month together and decided to have a relationship, I left for La Push and sicne then we have relied on Skype. I really believe he is my soul-mate although it does bother me that he does not call or text that much but we are both busy. Scratch that, he is busy, I am not.

"Kia, Kia." Matt said, dragging me from my thoughts. I resurfaced to the real world.

"Yah" I said and proceeded to munch on lucky charms, full of sugar and deliciousness.

"Tyler is holding a party tonight, your coming." As Matt said this, I recoiled inside. Parties were not my thing. I started shaking my head, smiling at Matt's efforts. "Yeah you are coming, Kia. You need to make friends. Alex is not a friend and is thousands of miles away. So go do what normal girls do and go start getting dressed. It starts at seven." I scowled at him.

"I am a normal girl in case you haven`t noticed and I am not going. Tyler is your friend, not mine. No social obligation." I said starting to move over to the sofa. I was not going tonight, I had a date with Gossip Girl.

"Yes you do because I already told Tyler and Mom you were going and Mom will be furious if you don't go." Matt said, loving the challenge of getting me to a party. He loved annoying me. Anger welled through me how dare he tell mom and Tyler I was coming when I hadn`t even been informed I was going?

"No." I said swallowing the lucky charms. "You can tell them that you presumed I was free and didn`t ask me."

"Well if you don`t go that's fine but I `m gonna bet mom will stop you from using the computer for a week which means no Alex." He said smiling. Matt did not like Alex. I glared at him, it was not fair. Mom would take my laptop if she thought I had not attended this stupid party. Maybe it will be fun, I thought sarcastically admitting defeat. I put up a pathetic fight. Matt smiled in triumph knowing he had won. Stupid social brother. I threw the TV remote at him, it hit his arm. He just winked but it made me feel better though. It was going to be a long night.

Brady`s POV.

Sleep. Sleep. Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. I thought as I crashed onto my now too small bed. It had been a long night, vampire stench had been all over Forks but no vampire to be found. Sam and Jake were on high alert. I need a shower and food but later, sleep first. I closed my eyes and within seconds passed out.

Cause I`m just a teenage dirtbag baby, yeah I'm just a teenage dirtbag baby, listen to iron maiden baba with meeeeeeeeeeee. I heard my phone blasting out the song. It was a classic song, one of my all time favourites. I reached a hand clumsily out and answered.

"Brady, where have you been man?" I began to wake up, it was Tyler. He was one of myfew old friends who I had kept contact with since the wolf thing.

"I`m good man. What`s up?" I said wanting to finish the conversation quickly so I could fall asleep again but my eyes were already adjusting to the light, it was evening at a guess, the sun was starting to set.

"I text you earlier, Dude, you coming tonight? Party at mine." Tyler said his voice waking me up. I quickly ran through options in my head. Tonight was a rare night off, I really wanted to stay in bed but I was beginning to wake anyway and it had been awhile since I had seen Ty and my other friends and even longer I had been to a party.

"Yeah, yeah be over in twenty." I said making the decision hoping I wouldn`t regret it.

I groaned and pulled the covers off my bed. Glancing in the mirror, I saw the reflection. It was not a good sight. I padded out to the bathroom and turned on the shower. I instantly changed the heat settings. My parents loved hot water but being a Werewolf, I loved nothing better than a cold shower. Hope theres some chicks out tonight, I thought and splashed some Lynx shower gel couldn `t hurt. There were many disadvantages of being a werewolf but one of the advantages was height. I outmatched every guy in my year when it came to height and was known as a bad guy for missing school, chicks dig it. I thought nodding to myself. I was gonna get some action tonight. I turned the shower off and grabbed a towel looking at the clock, ten minutes. Just enough time to get dressed, shave. I pulled out the razor and focused on making reflection perfection. I thought about what to wear maybe just a tshirt or should I make it extra special and go for the shirt. The shirt, the ladies loved a man in shirts. I grabbed the nearest white shirt and some pants and pulling them up, ran for the car. Almost got to the front door before I crashed into my mom.

"Brady, where are you going? You were working all last night." My mom said sounding disappointed. My excuse for being a werewolf was solid, my parents thought I had a part-time job which was kind of what being a werewolf was but I didn`t get paid.

"I`m going to Tys, mom. Brunch tomorrow. I will pancakes." My mom smiled when she knew it was Tyler. She approved of Tyler as a friend and Brunch was a family tradition which I had missed recently.

"Alright. Have fun." She said and pecked me on the cheek. I smiled and waved a sI closed the front door. I was lucky, I had really supportive parents. I threw open the door to my Dad's jeep and as always the key was in thecar. Dad rarely took the key out of the car, in fairness the crime rate in La Push was almost non-existent there was very little chance of burgulary. I sniffed the air as I drove to Tylers could smell wolves had been near the road, I wanted to bet Quil. I pulled in a couple of houses before Tylers as there was multiple cars parked in front of Tys. I looked in the mirror again before I left. It was gonna be a good night.

"Brady." Tyler said as he caught sight of me entering the house. I saw a couple of girls whispering and smiled.

"Hey man, what`s up?" I said.

"Nothing much. Come out to the gardena dn we will grab a beer." Tyler led me through his house to the backdoor. I had been to Tyler`s since we were small,he had been like a brother to me and his parents like mine had a nice house big enough for a party. It was packed. The garden was a bit more spaced out. You could actually breathe out here. Tyler opened a cooler and tossed me a beer.

"Drink up." He said. "Can`t believe you made it"

"Couldn `t miss your party otherwise no-one would come." I said shoving him hard then took a swig of beer. Tyler laughed.

"Wish you would get rid of some of the people here. Aimee came." Tyler said and his face darkened. Aimee was the school bicycle, everyone got a ride unfortunately that had included Tyler and he still hadn`t forgiven her for throwing herself at him. He felt awkward around her.

"Forget it. She will probably leave in five minutes with a poor innocent freshman." I said and Tyler cracked a smile. I took another swig of beer, it was cheap beer but it tasted good enough to drink.

"You won `t believe who else came." He said and paused for dramatic effect. "Kia Greene, Matt`s sister. The loner. She `s suck a freak, she is sitting on the stairs reading. Poor Matt." Tyler said laughing. Kia Greene, she was not normal, I had been to school only a few times this month but even I had heard of her and she was as Matt said a loner, no friends, nothing. They don`t come stranger than her.

"That`s a surprise. Wonder why she came. Matt probably dragged her. Maybe she will actually have a conversation with some-one and manage to be normal." I said and laughed while checking a blonde out in a tank top. She would do. Then we heard it, a sob. Tyler and I turned around and there SHE was.

It was like time stopped and my world exploded only it wasn`t my world, it was hers. She was breathtakingly beautiful even with red eyes and an expression of pain. There was no doubt she was beautiful beyond belief. She had these big bluey greeny eyes framed by small delicate lashes. Her cheeks were slightly pink probably from anger. Her lips were like those of an angels. She was wearing a greenT-shirt and jeans and had a perfect figure. Everything about her was perfect how had I not seen this? How had no-one seen it? She was unbelievable and everything belonged to her and. I took a deep breath and she ran. I took another breath exhaling all my oxygen and at the same time, came to the conclusion that I had imprinted on Kia Greene.