Just letting you know that the italics are for the mind-speaking or whatever it's called. Yes, Troy and Gabriella can mind-speak. Because it's my story and I say they can. This story takes place in the middle of Breaking Dawn when the 30-plus vampires show up to the Cullen house. But in my story they don't show up for the Volturi, they show up just for Troy and Gabriella because they heard that Gabriella was special in some way. By the way Troy's family are vampires and Gabriella long ago accepted that.
Chapter 1
The trees passed by our car as we drove along a side road in the middle of Washington. Better yet you could call it Middle-of-Nowhere, Washington. It was so far in the middle of nowhere that the GPS couldn't tell us where we were. Of course, the people who lived here probably could. And that's a big maybe. But on a side note, even if they did know where we were, they certainly wouldn't tell me. Nobody would. Especially the people in this godforsaken car. No matter how many questions that slipped out of my big mouth, no matter how many aggravating conversation starters, they still wouldn't tell me anything. They did tell me, however, that we were headed to a place by the name of Forks. Forks? Who named this place? Sounds like a place where they sit around a big round table shaped like a damn tree stump and chatted about the weather. Yay. And in the meantime why don't we pass around cups of coffee and talk about our day. Awesome.
Oh, sorry, I forgot to tell you who they is. They're my boyfriend's parents. And you're just gonna love them. They forced me and Troy, my boyfriend, into this tight car so that we could make a cross country trip to this Forks place. While Troy and I have no clue why this is happening in the first place. See? I told you that you would just love them to death. They love their son so much that when Troy does the smallest thing, oops, sorry, you're grounded for a year. They're wonderful!
I could see them in the front seat looking all happy and holding hands like everything was just peachy. Peachy! Why couldn't it be legal to slit someone's throat? They should be glad that my mom didn't allow me to carry around anything sharp. As I scowled in their direction I searched the seat next to me for that cold hand that I loved. I squeezed and felt him squeeze back. Of course he hated them too. He could feel my rage pulsating off me and tried to keep me calm by rubbing circles into the back of my hand. Lets just say it worked. A little.
I could still feel the rage running through my veins at a blinding rate when I heard a familiar voice in my head, Calm down. We're almost there. Just hearing those words calmed me down a little bit more. I took a deep breath and relaxed my tense shoulders. I vowed to keep myself in check for as long as I could.
Why do you think this Forks place is so important?, I asked him. I was so thankful that we had this one secret connection between us that nobody else had. It made us special. And it made me feel comfortable to talk to Troy in front of his parents. I think I've said maybe 2 or 3 words to them since I met them a year and a half ago. A "hi" somewhere and a "no I'm okay" somewhere else. Let's just say I call that an accomplishment that I hold myself highly for. That is until today. I've been, like I said, aggravatingly conversational. I didn't get anything from them so I decided to be aggravatingly silent instead. Just to piss them off.
I tried to remain inconspicuous while studying the trees passing by. We didn't want his lovely parents catching on. How should I know? They never tell me anything these days., I silently agreed by giving his hand another squeeze. Our eyes locked and we shared our silent conversation knowing that we were on our own with this.
Do you think this has anything to do with Cory?, I asked. Cory was a big burly dude that has had one of the biggest crushes on me since grade school. And I mean a BIG crush on me. So big that he thought it appropriate to chase off any guy I had my eye on. When Troy came around Cory wasn't so fond of him. And Troy wasn't so fond of Cory either. Their hatred for each other got so intense that after one of Troy's basketball games Cory felt the need to show him who was boss, and jumped Troy in the middle of the hallway outside the locker rooms. They were caught by the principle and Troy's dad, who's the basketball coach. They were both expelled for a week and both also came back with black eyes and limps. I was furious. Beyond furious! And can you blame me? The guy I was in love with gets in a huge fight with my very own stalker and he gets expelled? Just for defending me? That didn't sit well with me. I made sure that Cory learned his lesson. And how I did it is not to be repeated. Let's just say Cory has lost the ability to think properly. Oh, and he can no longer reproduce. We can't forget that little detail. Troy's mom freaked out after the "incident" as she calls it. As you may know by now Troy's parents are notorious for their outrageous punishments. With that being said Troy was punished with 3 months of everyday double running with his dad after practice, and let me tell you it killed him. Killed him! And who had to get him through all that? Me. His mom punished him with kitchen duty and laundry duty for 4 months. Did Troy know how to do the laundry? No. Did his mom bother to teach him? No. The first time he put whites and coloreds together, his mom had a fit. While Troy was faced with another month of laundry duty, I had to teach him how to use the washer, dryer, and the dishwasher. Without his parents knowing. Do you love them even more? I bet you do! I mean I love Troy to death but sometimes he's clueless. I know that comes with the territory but, come on. Cut me some slack. After a few more fights, and by a few I mean 4 or 5, Troy's parents were fed up. They had a "family meeting" where they all sat around the kitchen while Troy listened to them complain and complain and complain.
His parents suddenly weren't stupid at that point. They knew why Troy had become the latest Albuquerque bad boy. Me. They weren't fond of me before that. Maybe a little. After that I was no longer in reach of their sympathy. They banned Troy from me forever. I'm not kidding, those were his mother's exact words. "Banned from Gabriella forever." Troy wasn't to happy with this decision. I wasn't either. That night Troy climbed out his window and ran straight to my house to tell me the big news. After I was done bawling my eyes out we planned to confess to his parents how serious our relationship was at that point. We were a year in and we were not gonna stand for his parents stupid rules. Our rebelliousness didn't sit well with them so I was guessing all of that was why we were in this situation right now.
It wouldn't surprise me., Troy answered. At that second the rage I was trying to hide left my system and was replaced with sorrow and guilt. This was all my fault. I caused all this trouble for Troy and his family and it was only gonna get worse. All because Troy and I felt the need to start something that we knew was not gonna be easy. I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't regret our relationship. At all. It's just I wish that we could have worked everything out with his parents a lot earlier on than 6 months ago. We wouldn't be driving to God knows where dreading everything that was to come. Well, Troy and I were dreading it. As I said his parents couldn't be happier.
Out of nowhere I felt a deep love for Troy. Deeper than I'd ever felt before. He was enduring all this pain and struggle just for me. Yeah, we'd already had this talk when our relationship started but I couldn't help to not adore him for everything that he'd ever done for me at that moment. Again I squeezed his hand and smiled at him like an idiot.
I love you., I said. He gave me the biggest grin in the whole world and I felt our love fill the tiny car and it filled our hearts to a point where I thought I may burst with love. At that point I knew that we would make it through this together and there was no going back.
I love you too., he said. At that moment I wanted to kiss him speechless. The pain of not being able to nearly killed me. The only thing I could do was send him a mental kiss. And that's exactly what I did. I sent him one so strong that I could see his eyes deepen in color and he breathed a little faster. I smirked at him knowing the effect I had on him. He squeezed my hand again when he got his head on straight. I saw him copy my smirk and I nearly died.
Once this car stops, you are so gonna get it., he said. I plastered the biggest smile on my face and turned to the window. We didn't let our hands separate until we saw the trees thin and a river replaced them. I'm not a genius, but usually a river means civilization. Maybe we really were almost there. My nerves kicked in and my breathing quickened. Oh this should be fun.
"We are almost there kids.", said his mother. Now she picks the time to speak? You'd think her being the female in the family that she'd want to fill the silence with nonsense. But no. Remember she's not the regular mother. She tortures her only son with heinous punishments. Okay maybe not "torture", but you get what I mean.
I felt Troy tense next to me. Great we were both nervous. Just peachy. I tried to calm myself by breathing and thinking calming thoughts. Bunny's? Puppy's? Kittens? Nope not working. Troy's started with the circles on the back of my hand again and it immediately calmed my erratic heart beat.
Thank you., I said to no one in particular. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Troy give a little smile. And that made me smile.
We can do this., he said soothingly. His shoulders began to relax.
I know., I said. I rubbed his hand and he completely relaxed. See? We can do this. I'm sure.
We smiled at each other and squeezed our hands at the same time.
Out of the corner of both our eyes the river disappeared and was replaced with the biggest house I'd ever seen. Windows covered just as much room as the wood that held the house together. It was beautiful.
The car stopped in what looked to be a garage, and probably was, but 6 cars were crammed into the space. His parents got out at the same time while we were struck dumbfounded in the back seat. We locked eyes and silently said our prayers while we opened both our doors and walked hand in hand to what felt like an unknown universe dropped into the middle of an infinite amount of forest. Nowhere to run. God help us.
I know that somethings in this chapter seem odd but I will explain those things later on. Meaning, those things are there for a reason.
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- Shelby