It had only been a few days since our long return trip from Italy. The trip where the love of my life and my favorite sister came to rescue me from self destruction. A trip that could have turned out worst than I could ever imagine. Of course now we have more problems than we started out with but atleast some of my own issues have been resolved.
Three things were for sure in my life: First I knew that Bella was safe as long as I was there to be her protector. Second thing was that my heart--non existant as it was--was whole again. And last but not least I am and always will be in love with my angel and I was never letting go as long as she lived--even then I don't plan on living on this earth without her.
Alice and I fell back in the routine of school more easily than we would have imagined. Very few questions were asked of us, of course, many humans were too scared to probe our lives more than required so our lives were back to normal in Forks--or as normal as we could achieve. Classes went by slowly for me as minutes ticked by as if they were hours. The only reason for this phenonmenon is that Bella was in most of my classes and from here on out I will cherish every sacred second I have with her.
On the surface I see the strong Bella we have all came to love dearly but under that delicate skin I can still see the healing scars that I single handedly caused to my beloved angel. Her eyes still glowed with love for me never diminishing from the time we spent apart. My moment of treasuring time was interrupted when the ring of the bell sounded loud and clear--time for Bella to eat.
To my amazement the lunch room scene hasn't changed all that much. Our table was never claimed in our absense. With our sudden return Bella, Alice and I reclaimed the isolated table with no arguments from the other humans. Today Bella pushed the food I brought her from one side of the tray to other never once placing anything into her mouth.
"Bella you must eat." I urged her knowing well enough that if she wasn't hungry she wasn't going to eat. Once again time didn't decrease her stubbonness to me.
"I'm not hungry" she replied softly looking deep into my eyes. "What are you thinking?" she asked softly noticing my blank expression.
"The two new sisters that just moved into town is on everyone's mind." I replied trying hard to block out the nuissance.
"What is everyone saying?" She quickly asked very curious now.
"Not much actually. People haven't really approached them. Which is weird." I replied hesistantly opening up my mind again to hear what was being said.
The voices in my head were screaming with new excitement. I haven't heard this much excitement since Bella first moved into our small town. The news of two new students spreaded life wild fire yet peering into the minds of these students there was little to gather. The reception that Bella got when she first arrived was the opposite with these two. Everyone knew what they looked like yet their identity and information into their lives were a mystery to most--almost as if everyone feared them in a way or maybe it was just meer intimidation. Their beauty were almost--if that was possible--next to ours.
"Edward, what is it?" Bella asked in response to my silence.
My only reponse to her question was a sigh of frustration. I focused on my surroundings to see if I could hear the new voices of their minds yet I couldn't find one.
"Edward?" This time it was Alice who caught my attention. "What's going on?" She continued as her eyes drifted into space.
"I don't know" Was the only response I could come up with.
"Edward? Alice?" Bella said, "Please tell me what is going on? Why are you so weird about these sisters?"
"I can't hear them."
"I can't see their futures."
Alice and I said at the same moment. I looked up to Alice to see worry in her golden eyes that could only mirror the worry that were in mine.
"What does that mean?" Bella asked softly this time--worry dripping in every word. "Are they vampires?" she finally choked out.
"No, I've seen what they look like and they have no physical appearances of a vampire." I replied as I studied their features in the minds of the students.
"And yet they evade your mind." Bella replied glancing at me, "And your visions." she continued glancing towards Alice.
"Edward this doesn't make sense." Alice thought to me, "Bella can keep you out but she can't escape my visions. But these two seems to escape both of our abilities. I'm not liking this one bit."
I could only nod in acknoledgement.
"There they go!"
"Oh my God, they are so gorgeous!"
"Look at that blonde hair! That's almost as great as Rosalie Cullen's!"
"Look at the body on that one!"
"Wow they remind of me of the Cullens."
"I wonder if I have a chance with the short one."
All the immediate thoughts of the humans bombarded my mind as our table gazed up from one another to the door of the lunch room. There we caught sight of two girls--one was tall and toned like she works out every chance she got. Her dirty blonde hair fell gracefully in waves down her back. Her dark brown eyes seemed to study the room flickering from one side of the room to the other almost like she was studying every walk space, every window, every door, down to the inches of the room. The one next to her was shorter standing to the shoulder's of her sister. Her dark brown hair was short and the color of it seemed to compliment her fair skin and light blue eyes. She seemed more relaxed then her sister her eyes seemed determined and wise.
They quickly and gracefully found their seat at an empty table not to far from us. Sitting in chairs that forced them to face us with only a few tables in between.
"Here's your chance Edward. See if you can read them." Alice told me mentally.
I didn't have to be told twice as I gazed over to that table and tried to read the mind of the apparant older blonde haired girl. Her thoughts confused me. I was able to sense that her mind was there yet there was alot of commotion and nothing coherent or clear was coming through.
"Edward?" Aliced forced in.
"Nothing! I can't seem to hear anything from the blonde one!" I exclaimed still examining that table and to my shock they both looked up at me at that very moment as if they could hear me. I quickly looked away to find Bella staring at me.
"What is it Edward?" She asked fear in her voice.
"I don't know. It might be overreaction but I could swear they heard me." I replied as I glanced back over and I swear the blonde smirked at me almost as if she was confirming my suspicion.
"Why don't you try the other one?" Alice urged me.
I did as I was told and focused on the petite brown haired girl. This experience was different from the first. I felt a mind was there but somehow I felt a wall that was purposely placed there to block my mental intrusion. It wasn't the same as Bella's mind--for her there was no mind to sense--here there was a remnance of a mind. As I concentrated I looked up to their table and the dark haired girl looked dead into my eyes and smiled as if she knew what she was doing.
"Dammit!" I exclaimed quietly. Alice and Bella studied by frustration and in the background Alice and I could here the giggles of two new voices none that we've heard before. We both looked up to see the two girls with their hands covering their mouths in an attempt to hold back their laughter.
"Alice, can you see anything?" I asked in frustration.
"I see everything but those two. I can see the whole lunchroom yet the space that they occupy there is just empty space. Almost like a void in place where they should be." Alice replied in agitation.
"What's going on?" Bella asked again and at this moment the two girls got up from their seats and walked in our direction never taking their eyes off of us. Their eyes for an instant found the exit--as if the blonde didn't know where that was already from her first initial study of the room--and they headed in that direction giving us one last glance before heading out the door.
"We have to follow them." Alice thought quickly before they disappeared.
"I agree. Bella stay here." I said quickly as I got up from my seat with Alice following my gesture. I didn't want to leave her alone with these new revelations hanging above us.
"I'm coming with." Bella quickly argued.
"No I can't concentrate on this if I'm worrying about your safety. Please..." I begged. She reluctantly complied to my request. But I can see in her brown eyes the hurt and scars that she tried to hide from all of us. "I'll be back as soon as I can. I promise my love." I reassured her and kissed her forehead before leaving with Alice close to my side. Alice and I walked a human's pace to the exit following their scent. Both were sweet and one of the scent had a strange characteristic from it that I couldn't place my memory on--one that I was familiar with but couldn't recall.
Once outside, Alice and I were able to follow their scent with the pace of a vampire this time. We caught up to them with little effort. They were about to turn a corner of a building and will once again be out of our sight. To our surprise they glanced back to acknowledge our presense and both smiled at us. Alice and I glanced at eachother at that moment and then turned our sights back to where they were. The two girls turned the corner and were out of sight.
"Can you see anything?" I asked
"Of course not!" She screamed in her head.
Alice and I flitted to the turn in a blink of an eye only to find that the two had disappeared along with their scent--it was like they disappeared into thin air...
TBC
