Luna

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Victoria's Coming 

Paul and I were sitting in his car, killing time before school started. My coffee that was steaming hot a few minutes ago was now lukewarm due to the frigid temperature outside. Thankfully Paul was an acting personal heater more so than the coffee.

"But still!" Paul gushed, "It was amazing!" 

"Paul," I groaned, sinking lower into the carseat. 

"I'm telling you, you're hot when you're mad." 

It's been a day since my argument with Cole and he hasn't shut up about it since it happened. As soon as we made it back into Paul's car yesterday, he was practically fangirling and telling me how happy he was that I spoke the truth to Cole. 

I covered my face with my hands to cover my reddening face. 

"I'm telling ya- extremely hot," he prodded, loving when I blushed. 

Turning the tables onto him, I straightened, "So you're saying i'm ugly when I'm not mad?" 

Paul's shocked face had me brake out into a wide grin. 

And then he started backtracking, "what no! I-I didn't mean it like that." 

I gave him a light kiss to shut him up, "It's okay, I know what you meant." 

•••••

The final bell rang signaling that school was finally over. 

It honestly wasn't too bad, however practically every student and teacher came up to me to offer condolences and discuss my untimely bear attack. I played along, giving them my best recovery look, yet everything time I inwardly winced at having to relive my true attack. 

By the end of the day when Paul had finally found me, I was emotionally drained.

"I told you the best day to come back was a Friday," my boyfriend boasted as he pulled me into his arms. "This way you have the weekend to recover and you'll be old news by Monday." 

"Yeah, yeah," I conceded and snuggled into his embrace before we headed to the parking lot. 

As we neared the rest of the pack, my phone buzzed. Bella had finally replied to my message in which I asked her if she was coming to Billy's football playoff party tonight. He invited practically every pack member, their families and Charlie too. So naturally I knew the invitation was extended to Bella. 

No... Edward threw me under the bus and long story short I'm visiting my mom out in Florida for the weekend.

Her response triggered me to freeze. My erratic heartbeat signaled my terror while my phone slipped through my numb fingers. 

Victoria's coming. 

 How hadn't I realized everything was aligning, and why didn't Paul tell me?

"What's wrong?" Paul was pulling my attention back to reality while holding my discarded phone. I hadn't realized he caught it. 

 "Victoria's coming this weekend?" My tone was even yet my hands shook.  I clenched my fingers into fists to hide my fear, "when?"  

"How did you-?" He groaned, "never mind. Yeah, she's going to be here tonight."

My blood ran cold. "Oh my god," I panicked, fear rippling inside me. I couldn't even go to the party, where should I go? Do I hide? Of course Bella got to go to Florida, why wasn't I that lucky?