Who: Leah and Paul What: Jeannie and I are going to fill the friends page with Leah and Paul posts. Or, you know, BBQ at Jakes! Where: The Blacks yard. When: After our other posts
Leah didn't want to be there and her body language was pretty evident of that. It wasn't a huge get together, mostly just the pack and immediately family and she wouldn't have come if Jacob hadn't practically begged her to. She hadn't been around everyone since the day at the beach and boy, nothing but fuel had been added to that fire since that day.
It was their fault really, running around the reservation with Paul in her underwear really didn't help her keep the rumours at bay. Of course what they were saying wasn't exactly untrue. Leah couldn't define her relationship with Paul, she didn't want too because that really only complicated things more than they already were.
Her mother was sitting across the yard from Leah with Paul's mom and a couple of others and it bothered her to no end that they kept glancing in her direction. She didn't have to guess what they were talking about. She'd already gotten the 'Leah I'm worried about you' talk from her mother and of course Leah hadn't given her much more than assuring her that she knew what she was doing.
Sam was there, with Emily by his side of course and Leah realized she might be avoiding him more than she was avoiding Paul. She didn't know how he felt about any of this - if he even cared. Part of her wanted to tell him exactly what she and Paul were doing, attempt to hurt him, even just a little bit, but mostly she just wanted to avoid the subject completely, just like she would be more than happy to avoid everyone that was here, even if she knew that was far too much to hope for.