Muddied Waters Moment
Hello All! I wanted to share some of the music that has and will play a key role in this story. So here is the sound track to Muddied Waters. I hope you all enjoy!
1. Save Me – Nicki Minaj
2. Love Stoned – Justin Timberlake
3. Sweet Dreams – Beyonce
4. Never Say Never – The Fray
5. Arizona- King of Leon
6. Rehab – Rihanna
7. Dead and Gone – T.I.
8. Shake it Like a Dog – Keri Hilson
9. Erotic – Keyshia Cole
10. Loveee Song – Rihanna
11. 21 Guns – Green Day
12. Shut up and Drive – Rihanna
13. Lucky I’m In Love With My Best Friend – Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat
Okay, so here are some of the songs I listen to when I’m trying to get motivated to write on this story. If you have any other songs that remind you of Muddied Waters shout them out!!
Big things are due ahead as Endora finally learns the truth about Will and Neah!
Thanks so much to my readers!!
Happy listening.
A banner for Muddied Waters.
I'm trying to find just the right fit for Neah and Will before I ask the brillant Miss Dntcallmeleelee to create a banner for this story. I think it really needs a banner don't you? I draw blanks when I think of people that could remotely look like the Neah in my head. So if anyone has any thoughts please let me know.
So as you know I was on the hunt for new banner for Muddied Waters so here it is! I hope you all like it as much as I do!
Later I will share with you how I envision some of the other characters to look!
Muddied Waters First Chapter Teaser
Introduction
The world is a very interesting place. You might think that everything you see is exactly as it appears, but it's not. There used to be a thick solid line between the normal and the 'abnormal' but now that line is rapidly disappearing and leaving us with nothing but muddied waters.
My story started long ago, with Nahuel and his sisters. They were born half-human and half vampire. Much later, my mother was born of the same species. She fell in love with my father, the shape shifter - something often confused with werewolves. They had me.
My name is William Edward Black. I am the son of Renesmee and Jacob Black. My blood is so diluted with different supernatural things that they do not know how to classify me, but I am not alone. There are others just like me. Before I was born, Neah (Pire) and Nathaniel were cursed with the same lack of classification. They're the children of Leah and Nahuel Cullen. Their mother is the first ever female to be a shape shifter. In addition, she is the only shape shifter to survive being injected with vampire venom. So of course, her daughter has to be something special. We have been joined by Endora and her younger brother Simon. They are the children of Seth and Shelly Clearwater. Simon is 14 now, Endora is 16, Neah and Nathaniel are 21, and I am 17. Due to all of our supernatural makeup, we've all grown up much faster than normal kids, maturing well before our teens.
All of the members of my generation have the ability to shape shift, except for Endora. One thing that makes Neah so special is that she began phasing shortly after her first birthday, much earlier than the rest of us, although Nate followed not long after her. Simon began phasing when he was eleven. The fever caught me when I was 8 and I have lived for the rush ever since. Since Pire was the first to phase she obviously was first choice for the alpha position. When I finally phased she asked me if I wanted the title and I told her no, I was happy following her lead. We all thought it was a little weird that we could not join Jacob's pack, but were to form our own.
We have all inherited special abilities from our parents or grandparents. For example, both Neah and Nate carry venom and have the ability to move objects with their minds. Endora and Simon have some magical talents; Endora likes to cast spells that she calls poetry, and Simon dabbles in potion making. Simon hates when we call him a Warlock, but it's kind of what he is. I can actually read people's minds. My ability works similar to a radio; sometimes it is clearer than others – depending on the time and the place. Anyway, here we are in this big family of abnormal beings pretending to be normal and I love it.
For me, having the ability to hear what people were thinking, has given me the ability to help people. It also made pleasing people a lot easier; knowing what they really want. The power has also given the ability to ruin a good friendship. Matter of fact, the only person that I have not been able to please by listening in on her was Pire, or rather 'Neah'.
When we were younger, Neah and I were really close. She thought that my "power" was funny, and we had a lot of fun together. She was a no-holds-barred trouble would play little tricks on people, moving things with her mind; and I would creep people out by saying what they were thinking before they said it. My power was actually the cause for the breakdown of my relationship with Neah.
I remember the day that forever changed our relationship, it was a couple weeks after I turned 14 and she was 18. She was in the garage tinkering with a classic Camaro that she had gotten from a junk yard. She was determined to fix it up and drive it. Older cars have been her obsession ever since she was six. We blame Rose, who's been very attached to Neah her whole life. Esme and Carlisle had bought her a brand new Lexus on her seventeenth birthday but she really was not interested in driving it. She was polite and appreciative, but I could read her mind. It's cute, she thought, trying to be positive, but it is definitely not me. Do they know me at all? Later that night I found a way to let them know that they had made the wrong choice. So her next birthday they took her to the junk yard and she found the Camaro and has been working on it ever since.
Normally, I would have been in the garage with Neah and Rose, lending as much of a hand as they would allow, or heckling Neah. However, this time she had banned me from the garage. She claimed she had something she needed to talk to Aunt Rose about. Even though I thought she was full of it, I honored her wishes… for a while. I decided to lure her out of her cave, so I had gone and rented a movie that we both loved. Determined to find a way to annoy her so she'd give up on tinkering and join me, I went the garage's side door and paused to eavesdrop but there was nothing to hear because Rose was MIA.
"Hey, Rose, will you help me lift the engine. I want to look at it and see if we need to replace it all together." She said, thinking that I was Rosalie coming back into the garage. I remained silent trying to think of the best way to use this opportunity to my advantage to scare her.
"Fine, I'll do it myself. Everything is already disconnected anyway. How long do you think it will take to get a new engine here?" I remained quiet, and she continued to talk. "Oh, I love this song! Will you turn it up?" she requested, as she effortlessly lifted the engine from the car. I was surprised she didn't just use her mind to lift it. I raised the volume on her stereo as she wished. She sighed as she placed the engine on the worktable; the strain caused her to press the palms of her hands the small of her back. It was the first time that I had really taken the time to notice Pire's figure. She was fit; slender, yet shapely, just like her mother, but her curly black hair and teak eyes placed her in a league all of her own. She was beautiful. She sniffed the air, noticing my scent, and then finally turned her head in my direction.
"You're not Rose," she laughed.
"That I am not" I grinned, crossing the garage to stand beside her. That statement was a little redundant. She rolled her eyes at the thought.
"You know, the least you could've done was help me lift the engine." She accused, with narrowed her eyes.
"No, I did the least I could do, which was nothing." I countered.
"Ha-ha. Is that anyway to talk to your alpha?" She asked. Doesn't that title mean I'm supposed to get respect and loyalty?
"I feel I have the right to make a few wise cracks, being that I am your beta and all. Your mom is my dad's beta and she makes them all the time. It's more like an obligation really." I observed, playing with the screwdriver on the bench. "You are actually lucky you turned around when you did, I was planning to scare you." I waved my fingers in the air for emphasis. She laughed silently and continued working on the engine. Why can't I look at him, he is making me a little uneasy. She thought and I noticed that she was focusing just a little too hard on the engine. Her thought threw me off. I had to pause to decipher its meaning; why would she be thinking that?
"Scare me? Do you really think you have it in you?" she smirked. Will is truly out of his mind if he thinks he'll be able to scare me. Who does he think I am, Endora? Honestly, he probably doesn't even scare her, she just lets him think that because she has such a huge crush on him. She grew tense as these thoughts ran through her mind. She reached to pick up a tool and dropped it on the floor. Crap now he is going to think I am clumsy. I was shocked by this thought, too. Since when did Pire care what I thought of her behavior? I scrambled to say something before she realized I was listening to her thoughts, since they seemed private, she probably wanted to believe her thoughts were her own.
"Yeah, I just wasn't sure which magic trick I was going to pull out of my bag." I hedged. He is kind of funny, I guess it makes sense that Endora likes him in that way, I wonder if he feels the same? A weird twinge of pain and dread went through her again.
"So you were going to scare me but you didn't even know what you were going to do? Oh no. I better watch out. One day you may actually scare me to death or something." She emoted melodramatically; laughing so hard tears came to her eyes. She was laughing, but I was focusing on the feelings her thoughts contained. Those I couldn't ignore. Her thoughts were tinted with mixture of confusion, lust, and denial. To compose herself, she took a deep breath and backed away from me. I stepped towards her; she now intrigued me. I was eager to know what she would think next.
"Yeah." I said, to her previous statement. I had to think for a minute to remember what we were actually talking about. I could not believe that the dynamic in our friendship had changed this way in the course of one day, in the course of one conversation. Neah had never been one of those girlie girls who was likely to be crushing on guys, it was almost like if she were ever to end up with someone it would be by accident.
"So what were you going to do? Try to attack me while I wasn't looking? My reflexes are a little too quick for that to work." She frowned; actually giving it some thought.
"I don't know. You thought I was Rosalie, so anything is possible."
"I wasn't even looking at you, and I was expecting her to come back." She rolled her eyes. One small slip and I will never live it down.
"Well I know that we certainly don't smell alike. My scent didn't throw you?" I waved my arm in the air, playing around, and she rolled her eyes once more. You do smell pretty amazing. Kind of like hazelnut. . . no it's more like a nutmeg scent, what am I saying? This is crazy! Note to self; kill Endora, soon! The things she says are the only reason that I am envisioning him in this way. It's so twisted, and he is still a baby for crying out loud!
"How can you like this 'hip hop' stuff anyway? It sounds like a bunch of noise, and is so demeaning!" I said, turning my attention back to the stereo. I was hoping to throw off her train of thought. I was not a baby, for one thing; I looked as old as she did. I would need to really spend some time thinking about my feelings towards her tonight. I always saw Neah as someone that would be in my life forever. There was never really a definition for what we were, we just… were.
"Shut up! This music is banging." She laughed and turned it up some more. "It's better than that rock stuff you listen to." Well there are some exceptions like 21 Guns that song is pretty good, oh and I do kind of like Maroon 5 and Kings of Leon, but besides that I am Jay-Z and T.I. all the way. She giggled to herself.
"Oh, really? What about 21 Guns?" I asked, picking her brain, "Matter of fact," I took my iPod out of my pocket, found the song, hooked it up to her stereo and played the song. I started singing and dancing around with my air guitar. Wow, he looks so goofy. It's sort of cute. He really can't dance. Poor Endora. It was weird that she had already handed me over to Endora without figuring out her own laughed at my silly antics, so I grabbed her hand and started jumping around to the bridge of the song.
"Yeah, this song isn't that bad." She said moving with me a little. "Did you know I liked it, or did you just pick my brain?" she asked, placing her hands on her hips, focusing my attention on them again.
"Honestly, a little of both" I said, taking one of her hands off her hips and spinning her, then letting her hand drop. Good, attention diverted. The song changed and she immediately lowered the volume.
"You should give it a chance," I said, referring to the song, "you may like it."
"I wouldn't." She said while she imagined me leaning in to kiss her. She shook her head, squinting, forcing another image to surface, that of me kissing Endora. That's more appropriate, she thought. Maybe I could help her out a little.
"Well, maybe I could find something else you'd like" I said, focusing on my iPod. I really didn't want her to talk to me about Endora. Anyone with eyes could see that the girl was attracted to me. Pire couldn't think I was so dense that I didn't see that. I was still stuck on these new feelings she was having, it made me want to be around her more, to see what else I could find out. I searched for something else to say, but she beat me to the punch.
"Hey Will, did you know that Endora likes you?" I was surprised that she was so blunt. Her mind seemed somewhat conflicted about bringing up the subject.
"Yeah." I answered, finally putting on the Kings of Leon song that I knew she liked. "'Use Somebody,' you like this too right?" She nodded; He's not going to get out of answering that easily. "What more of an answer do you need," I snapped at her. "I know that she is attracted to me, can we move on?" She frowned at me; I'd answered her thoughts, and it sounded sort of out of the blue. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay, I get it. You don't want to talk about your personal life with me. That's fine" she turned away and started picking at something, I couldn't hear what she was thinking, other than that I had hurt her.
"Look, I'm really sorry; I didn't mean to make you feel bad." I said reaching for her shoulders and rubbing them to comfort her. She flinched away from me, but I did note how her heartbeat accelerated. "Everybody knows how Endora feels about me." I shrugged, stuffing my hands in my pockets.
"Oh" she said. What do you feel for her? Should I ask? Probably not after how he had snapped. "I guess I was the last to find out. That's weird I thought the little brat told me everything." She made an uncomfortable little laugh. I stepped close beside her.
"I guess she felt weird talking to you about it" I shrugged. It's not like the two of them were the best of friends, the only thing that really seemed to bind them was the fact that they were related. I also knew from her thoughts that Endora was envious of the power that Neah possessed.
"Why wouldn't she, I am the closest female to her age in the house?" she said wiping some oil she had on her hand on her jeans. I was briefly distracted by the shape of her thighs, but then focused my attention once more on our conversation.
"For a female, you don't act very feminine." I joked, and she punched my shoulder. "See, you're so violent!"
"You had it coming!" she smirked. "And who are you to say I don't act like a female?" she turned her body and leaned very close to me.
"I could be wrong," her closeness generated an extreme urge to touch her. She looked me dead in my eyes, with the weirdest expression, and then barked a quick laugh.
"I must be crazy." She said, twisting away, pacing back to her car, and closing the hood. Until tomorrow, Thunder, she patted the hood twice.
"Thunder? You named your car?" I mocked.
"That's it. You are a dead man." She chased me out into the front yard and tackled me to the ground. "What did I tell you about respecting your alpha?" She demanded capturing my hands and forcing them to the ground above my head. She was straddling me, she had done this several times before when we fought, but this was the first time the action was laced with sexual tension.
"I respect you, I respect you." I laughed, twisting back and forth. She squeezed my hands tighter.
"Well then why are you all inside my head?" she arched her eyebrow. What do you know little man?
"I don't know anything! You have to remember that I don't hear everything... and I'm not little, by the way" I said, calming and rolling my eyes at her.
"How does that work anyway?" she said letting me go and thumping down by my side. "How do you cut it off and on like that?"
"Haven't we talked about this before... a million times?" I asked flipping to my stomach to look at her more clearly; her eyes glowed gold in the moonlight. "You know that I really have no idea how it works. I think that I subconsciously hear what people want me to hear." Really? I hope you're right about that. "Yeah I am about 95% sure about it." She laughed quietly to herself and closed her eyes. Why do I feel like I want you to hold me Will, and maybe even... She quickly sat upright and inhaled deeply.
"I gotta go! There's… this thing I gotta do" she stuttered, scrambling to get up, but I grabbed her hand unexpectedly and held her there. I actually surprised myself.
"I didn't catch the end of that," confronting her about her thoughts. I knew it wasn't the brightest idea, but I had to try.
"What are you talking about?" she seemed genuinely confused; maybe she was a better liar than I gave her credit for. Don't do this Will, don't change things.
"You know what I am talking about." I leaned toward her. I realized I was treading on thin ice, but I'd rather things be tackled head on. It was one of the reasons she wanted me as her beta, because I don't like games.
"Will, do you want us to remain civil?" She asked me bluntly.
"Yes, of course."
"Then we need to act as if we are business partners, and I am your boss. There are some things that are not acceptable for us to do, or talk about." She huffed, shutting her eyes and hanging her head. Like fall in love. Her thought rang through my head and made me want to grab her and kiss her. I liked the idea of her wanting me and loving me.
"But you don't really want that." I replied, quite upset at how easily she could set aside her feelings for me. This was the first conversation that I had had with Pire where her thoughts were so different from the words she spoke.
"Maybe we shouldn't be as close as we are. This will be the last personal conversation we have." She said coldly.
"Neah… Pire?"
"Will , please don't make me use an Alpha command. This is not serious enough for that." She sighed sorrowfully. "I am going to bed, goodbye Will."
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