BLOOD BORN • CHAPTER SEVEN
⋆𖤐₊˚.༄ 007. movie date.
—— in which valera and a few friends go on a movie date.
𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐄𝐈𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐒𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐎𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐋. Jace sat with Valera at lunch, in her normal spot; the library. Jacob had sat with her too. Embry wouldn't even look her direction. And then to top it off, the weather was perfect and sunny - unlike last night. Valera had almost made it out at the end of the school day without anything else piling on the list of weirdness. The bell rang for the end, people either running out to the school buses or dawdling to their lockers making the hallways even more crowded. Valera shut her locker door, jumping at the figure waiting behind the door. It was Jace Cameron. His smile glistened as she could tell he had something prepared in his mind. It was only the first day of the school week and she could just tell he had some golden idea cooking in his head. Now she was jumping to conclusions...
"Would you like to see a movie, this Friday night? With me?" He stuttered.
Well...her guess was pretty accurate. She took a breath, thinking about his proposal. Maybe a night out wouldn't be such a bad idea. In fact, she had a plan.
"That would be great." Valera replied, a smile on her face as she watched Jace brighten up even more purely expecting a completely different, usual answer.
He stuttered a couple times till finally he formed a sentence. "Well, maybe we could see 'Love spelled backwards is love?' It's a dumb title, but I heard it's good."
"Yeah, anything. I don't mind." She quickly brushed through, still thinking about how the night would go.
Her idea was to invite Jacob and Bella, like a double date. It would fit perfectly in part of her deal with Jake, and it will also take Bella's mind off her numerous dreams. She quickly passed Jace who was practically high-fiving himself, and made her way through the crowd to hunt down Jacob Black. Now this boy wasn't hard to find; he'd surly be sitting on his bike next to Devin's car staring down Sam's cult, so she knew she would catch him. As Valera made her way down the steps leading to the parking lot, sure enough there he was sitting on his bike. He caught Valera's stare and gave a wave, to which she gave back whilst heading his direction.
"Hey Jake, you wouldn't happen to be unavailable this Friday night would you?" Valera asked, standing beside her brother's car.
He tucked a strand of hair behind his ear, furrowing his eyebrows as he gave her a mumbled answer. "No, I'm free."
"Sweet!" Valera chimed, excitedly. "You're coming to a movie night with Jace, Bella and I."
Jacob smiled a little, "Does Bella know she's invited?"
"No, but you're going to ask her tonight!" The blonde raised her eyebrows, smiling, which made Jacob laugh.
It always made Valera feel good when Jacob laughed, even though he was a happy-go-lucky type of person, he could still be very serious at times. The week sped through, faster than she expected. Jace always hanging out with her at lunch; since she swore off Embry. Before she knew it, it was Friday afternoon. With Jace downstairs talking to Devin, Valera stood in the mirror straightening the hem of her mother's white dress (that was finally able to fit the girl) before grabbing her casual small purse she slung over her shoulder and headed downstairs. As her white Converse's tapped against the stairs, it drew her brother and Jace's attention, their eyes landing on the girl. Valera smiled and stopped in front of the boys, her brother giving her a hug and wishing her a good night while Jace on the other hand, stared at her. That was until Devin cleared his throat, Jace blinking a few times before following Valera out the back door as the car was around the back. Jace, as usual through nerves, stuttered at a hundred miles per hour about random things that so happened to be on his mind. Valera shut the screen door followed by the proper back door and when she turned around, Jace gave her a smile. She smiled in return before hopping in the driver's seat.
She sat in her uncle's Jeep for a couple of seconds to collect her thoughts, which was difficult with Jace's motor mouth, and when her eyes focused on the distant path ahead she saw figures underneath the shadows of the trees lining the river in her back yard. There were four of them to be exact with tanned skin but as she tried to spot more features, they disappeared. She shook her head, thinking she was going crazy. So with that thought, Valera took off to the theater.
As she stood beside Jace and Jacob, waiting for Bella to buy tickets, the radiant tension between both boys slowly began to build up with every passing moment. She couldn't tell what is was but she could feel the body heat radiating off of Jace as her arm brushed against his. And Jacob was the same way, she could see sweat glistening in his hairline.
"Face Punch, huh? I heard it sucks." Jacob began taunting Jace, who looked like he was also beginning to break into a sweat.
Valera turned to the much taller boy confused as to what he was talking about, even Jace. "Face Punch? We're not seeing that."
Jacob chuckled a little, as they all turned to see Bella heading back with the tickets in hand. She sighed, knowing Bella doesn't normally like Romance movies. Valera wasn't mad at her, really, it was more of the fact that she felt bad for Jace. He really wanted this whole date thing to work, Valera was the same but for Jacob. Now, this turned into one big Action Movie itself. Face Punch, quite literally. Bella clicked her tongue suggesting they head in, clearly feeling the insane tension between both boys.
The lines were long for everything, so while they waited in line to get snacks, Bella decided to break the silence. "Hey Jace, how's your brother?"
Valera furrowed her eyebrows, in confusion. Since when did Jace have a brother? "You have a brother?"
"Yeah, Jared Cameron?" Jace states in a questioning tone.
Valera's eyes widened the slightest bit. Of course, why didn't I think of that. She thought to herself. She was a little upset at herself due to the fact that she didn't connect the dots earlier, given she was practically a genius. "Oh." She simply said. "Makes sense."
Jace nodded before answering Bella's question. "He's fine I guess. He's been sneaking out a lot lately to go hangout with his friends. He's also been a lot more to himself, not really talking to me like he used too and kind of a dick."
Sounds like someone I used to know. "I'm sorry," Valera spoke up. "He'll come around eventually."
They spent almost ten minutes in the food line just for Jace to get a large cherry soda. Getting into the actual cinema was worse. The crowds led the four of them to the very front row. Great. She hated sitting at the very front. Valera was a middle to back row kind of person. She glanced to the arm rest, Jace's hand facing up in hopes she'd slip her fingers in his. She also tried to subtly look over to Jacob, he too with his hand out and just like her, Bella closed herself in awkwardly. Jacob was right about this movie, it seriously did suck. It sucked so much that they didn't even get through it. There was so much blood and gore throughly detailed every second to the point that Jace felt like he was going to throw up. Jace anxiously stood up fast and in doing so accidentally bumped his cherry soda which spilled all over Valera and her mother's white dress.
"I'm so sorry," He mumbled whilst running out of the cinema, as the girl grumbled angrily at the fact that his red soda had gotten all over her mother's dress; one of the last things she had of her mom.
As she barged through the cinema doors after Jace, Bella and Jacob followed behind slowly. Jace ran into the men's bathroom while Valera headed into the women's restroom. She spent so many minutes trying to angle the ends of her dress underneath the hand dryer, but it soon became sticky. She than had to rinse it under water, praying that no one would open the door. As she re-dried the dress, then her hands and recomposed herself, she headed out the door to find Jacob standing up, right in front of Jace. Her white dress had a very light red stain but she hoped she would be able to miraculously get it out. The boys however, were in some sort of heated argument as predicted. Jacob did have a sort of anger with him occasionally, but it seemed more vivid than usual.
Bella pulled Jake's arm back, Valera doing the same to Jace, "Woah, Jacob you're hot. Like fever hot. Are you okay?"
"Do you have a fever?" Valera asked Jace, placing the back of her hand against his forehead.
Valera turned to Jacob, looking into his eyes to calm him down. He shrugged away, saying he didn't feel well and needed to go home. They watched him leave the building, Jace breathing heavily as he too told Valera he needed to go home. She didn't know what would happen. Had she failed her mission to get Jacob and Bella together? So many questions were running through her mind. Bella grabbed Valera's hand, trying to pull her out of the building with Jace alongside them, but she had ripped her hand from Bella's grasp, walking out of the building by herself. Today had just tipped the iceberg of all weirdness here in Forks.
KYLEE SPEAKS !
— yes i know mike was actually the one to go with bella and jacob to the movies but i changed it bc valera doesn't know who mike is and i wanted to deepen her relationship with jace :)
— there yall go, one secret is finally out. jace and jared are brothers (if you didn't know) 😁