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The Good Days
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will." As Mrs. Glass read this quote from the brilliant novel Jane Eyre, I nestled into Luke's right arm; we sat in the back of the classroom both enjoying the reading. Junior year has finally arrived; Luke and I are in every single class… Including gym. Summer was amazing, Luke came every day. Carlisle and my father have grown to be really good friends, ever since the Cullen's brought me back from Ireland … Anyway back to the present, Luke and I both have Mrs. Glass again, the bumbling woman has remained my favorite teacher, and this year she is starting the semester with the novel Jane Eyre. As we read this novel I could just feel sad for poor Mr. Rochester, and how devastated he must have felt when Jane left him all alone with that insane wife, and huge manor.
When we started reading this chapter it reminded me of a conversation I had with Bella, it was in mid-July, I was at the Cullen house visiting with Esme and Alice when Bella took me aside on there porch, we talked of many things that day, even of the time when Edward had left her, "It was like a never ending spiral of despair, nothing I did helped get rid of the large hole in my chest." I remembered Bella say as she watched her family from the window on her porch. As I remembered Bella's words, "He did it because he wanted to protect me! He thought my life would be better without him." It frightened me; I never wanted to feel that kind of pain. Luke is such a gentlemen, he would do that if he thought it was for the best. Luke and I... I couldn't picture of a world where Luke and I aren't together. What am I thinking! That's never going to happen. That was Edward and Bella's sad chapter in their romance, it won't happen to us.
As the bell rang to end the class Luke walked me out to the parking lot, since Charlotte graduated last year along with Emmett, Jasper, and Rosalie. I now drive to school in the green Explorer. Charlotte was given a sleek black ford jeep, a graduation present from the Cullen's so she could travel to college easily. Luke sometimes lets me drive to school but when I do he usually grumbles, since he is so used to driving (Edward and I secretly believe that he has a phobia of having other people drive).Today Luke is staying over to help me study for a science exam, one that I really need to study for, and since Luke knows everything he can help me.
Every night Luke comes through my window, we talk, we sit , and we well I sleep, he's been staying with me, since I have been having nightmares about Shamus, most of them are like the one I had in the very first day of the hospital of him coming back and having no one there to save me and him winning. Over and over and over again, I wake up in a cold sweat completely freaked out and scared, then there Luke is, always there to hold me and to calm me down and tells me, "Everything is all right, no one is going to hurt you!" He would wrap his cool arms around me and rock me back and forth. Every night he would come and help me, even the nights that he went hunting, he would always be there when I woke up to comfort me. Every morning he would leave me a little post it note on the headboard of my bed telling me he loves me, no one will ever hurt me, he will always be with me, and that I will always be safe. All of these post it's accumulated over the summer so now I've made it routine to take the post it from my headboard, read it and then place the post it on the back of my bedroom door. This way I can see it every day without my parents seeing the massive pile of colorful post its
Tonight is Bella's birthday and I'm invited to the party! I was told not to bring any presents and just to enjoy myself, Bella had decided that she wanted to go out to dinner, and I don't mean vampire dinner I mean a real dinner party at a real restaurant! I know weird right! Jacob, Nessie, and I were all invited and we all eat people food so I guess Bella was planning for us instead of herself. She chose to go to this new restaurant called Forks Cottage, a lovely little country bistro on the edge of Port Angeles. Apparently it was built over a really large café that burnt to the ground a few years back.
As we reached the restaurant the whole group is so excited, Edward has this huge grin on his face as he watches Bella's awkward, almost embraced movements as everyone is congratulating her. But as the night flows on I realize that I "forgot" something in my car, (it was my present for Bella). After I unloaded Bella's amazing, handmade, present from my car I was stopped by some tall man, he was bleach almost translucent in the in the moon light he had very dark hair and his eyes were a strange shade of brown, the longer that I looked into them the redder they were. He smiled and said, "Hi, my name's Felix, I was wondering if you knew where the nearest gas station is? You see me and my friend Demetri were driving and we ran out." All of a sudden a slightly shorter man with short blonde hair and skin as white as Felix's came out from the shadows of the alley , he looked at me with a strange awed smile, he just kept staring at me and gave the same creepy feeling that Shamus used to give me.
"Uh… I think that the nearest gas station would be two blocks down shay street to the right, then you would walk down one small hill and your there! Do you want me to draw up a map for you?" I asked with a quiet polite smile, Felix nodded so I grabbed a piece of scratch paper I had in my purse and a blue pen. I drew up the directions and handed them to Felix who was now closer to my right side looking over my shoulder. Demetri was still staring at me through the whole time he just looked at me. When they finally left I tried to transport the gift back inside when I was stopped again, but this time it was by a tall grungy man with a scruffy beard and blood shot blue eyes his cracked lips smelled of beer. He grabbed my arm and said "Lisa I found you lets go!" He then grabbed my arm and tugged forcefully practically dragging me along. I told him that I wasn't Lisa and that he must be looking for someone else, I said this over and over and over again until he had gotten so frustrated with my defiance he slapped me across the face throwing me to the ground yelling, "Lisa shut up! Shut up! Shut up! We're going now!" I was in the middle of screaming that I wasn't Lisa when Luke showed up his eyes where wide and black with sudden fury he forced the drunken man off of me yelling, "How dare you touch her!" He then released a hard punch right in to the man's face making a snapping sound, Luke came at him again this time with a punch to the gut causing cracking from his ribs and chest. Luke came at him again and again and again, blow after blow and all I could do was stare as Luke turned that drunken man into a bloody pulp. I could feel my face go white as I watched the scene of absolute monstrosity set before me, it was then that I finally found my voice, "Luke Stop! Stop! He's just drunk! Stop you're going to kill him!" Luke still didn't quit I kept yelling when Emmett and Edward finally came out and grabbed him, but by that time it was too late. The drunken man was dead. His eyes were opened perpetually in a horrific stare his neck broken and his legs dangling in contorted ways that if alive would be impossible. This was the first time I have ever seen the monster in Luke, and this monster was horrifying. I was shaking so bad I couldn't even hold my own phone I couldn't even make a grip. All I could say was, "He's dead… He's dead." I couldn't believe it Luke had just killed someone, right in front of me. Jasper had to carry me to the car I was shaking so bad I felt like I was about to break into a thousand pieces, that I was fragile and porcelain, it was so strange and unnatural I couldn't stomach it. Jasper calmed me down to the point when I had fallen asleep. But by the time I woke up Luke wasn't there.