I do not own the rights to Twilight or the Characters. *sigh*
Chapter 2
The Trip and Arrival
"You're going to be just fine and I'll miss you the whole time you girls are gone. Don't worry about us boys, we'll keep ourselves entertained." My wonderful husband said placing his hands on my shoulders. He smiled his wonderful smile that I still get butterflies in my stomach every time I see it. He calms me down just with that twinkle in his eyes.
"But we're going to be gone for a whole week! Are you sure that you can get the kids to the babysitter for school and get them picked up from the babysitters after work and get supper…" I couldn't get everything out because my husband chuckled and interrupted me moving his hands from my shoulders to the sides of my face. "We'll be just fine honey! Don't worry about a thing! You girls just go out and have your Twilight Hard experience." Flashing me that smile again. I could swear he was laughing inside.
"Honey, it's Twi-Hard, not Twilight Hard." Chuckling to myself. Throwing him my smile. I knew he was joking. He knew I've been wanting to do this for some time now. Just to say I've been there. He dropped his hands from my face, but still kept that smile on his face.
Chris was waiting outside in her truck, waiting for me to say my goodbyes and bring out my luggage. About that time I heard her honking. I ran to the window to throw on the 1 minute finger and turned around. My boys were getting so big. I couldn't wait till they were old enough for me to have the patience to take them on a plane ride. I don't know why I waited till I was 28 to fly on a plane for the first time. If it was my choice, I would have done it A LOT sooner. But right now, they were two hyper kids that, in no way in hell, be able to sit still for a flight. They would be jumping in their seats. At least on a road trip I had a portable DVD player to pass the time with movies.
Caleb looked at me and smiled. "Have fun mom. I'll miss you." walking over and gave me a huge hug and releasing it quickly. I swear this kid has been working out. And only at 9! He's already got defined abs and arm muscles on him. Him and his brother are both into sports. I'm not sure WHERE they get it from. Their dad and I have never been avid sports players. I'm not skinny, but I'm no size 2. I'm a healthy size 7 and I love it. Just the right curves where they need to be. My husband has started getting a little belly on him, but otherwise could still pick me up and carry me. I'm not short either. 5'9" for both of us. I've never dated anyone much taller than me my whole life. Don't ask me why. So it comes to no surprise to me when I say that my 9 year old is already 5' tall. He gets the height after my size of the family where the men are all taller than 6'3".
Bryson looked kind of sad. "What's wrong buddy?" I asked him walking towards him. Wrapping my arms around my little one to let him know would miss him too. "You know I'm going to try to find a Team Jacob shirt or something for you while I'm out there. I'm not going to come back empty handed for either of you boys." He's just about as built as his brother, and another secret? (I know that it's not cool to say this about your kids, but it's the truth) I think my 6 year old could beat up my 9 year old if he ever wanted to. He's more strong willed to do what he wants.
"You will?" He asked with wide eyes looking up at me. Honking again outside. Damn Chris, let me say goodbye! I thought to myself. "Absolutely buddy. I know you'd hurt me if I didn't." grinning. "HAHA, ya right mom, I couldn't take you down. You've been working out lately!" laughing. Well, he's right, I have been going to the Y. Turning 30 made me realize that it's still important to keep yourself healthy. After having kids and a job, the weight can start coming on.
I was glad I got my little boy to smile. I hate seeing them have sad faces. "See, we'll be just fine dear." My husband said. "I'm sure these to kids have something up their sleeves for me while you're gone" chuckling again. They never seem to amaze me.
"Come on you two, lets help mommy take out her bags to Chris' truck so they can get going." Shannon said. They each grabbed a bag and left me carrying just my purse out the door. How did I get so lucky to have a wonderful family like this?
"It's about time girl!" Chris said hollering as she jumped out of the truck. "Want to video record a goodbye saying so that they can watch it over and over again while we're gone?" smiling. "Dork" I said smiling at her. All of us laughing at how close Chris and I have become over the years. I've known her since elementary school. We've been best friends since middle school and partners in crime for our girls night outs. Us girls just always have fun.
Chris opened her hatch of her Blazer to start loading my stuff in. The boys passed their bags of mine to Shannon as he was handing them to her so she could put them in where she wanted them. As she closed the hatch, I realized that I was staring at my family. I had a funny feeling about this trip. Not that we were going to crash and be hurt or anything. Just that nagging feeling I had in the pit of my stomach. It's hard to explain.
We weren't flying out tonight, we were driving tonight to a hotel to sleep at because our flight took off at 7am and we didn't feel like getting up at 4am to drive the hour and a half to the airport and then waiting till our plane was ready. Chris liked to be at the airport early so that way we weren't rushed to board the plane. I'm glad I packed my Twilight book in my purse along with my Ipod.
"Alright girl, you're loaded up. Anything else you need to grab? You didn't forget anything did you? Because if you did, you're going to be shit outta luck if I don't have it either." smiling at me crossing her arms in front of her chest. "No, I think I grabbed everything. I have my camera in my purse along with my book and Ipod. Everything else is in the luggage." I replied. "What about a coat? It's going to be cold and rainy when we get to Forks." she said. "Aw crap!" I said. Everyone got a kick out of that and started laughing.
I ran back into the house and grabbed my black coat with the silver buttons and zipper. I had to take one more look around, just in case I forgot something else. Plus, in a way, I was trying to take a mental picture of what my house looked like right now. All clean and things put away. Not that my house wouldn't be a mess when we got back. That was a given. But it just goes back to the funny feeling I have. Just like I wanted to be able to remember what it looked like.
"Come on slow poke! We don't have all day you know!" Chris yelled. I laughed and walked out closing the door behind me. "I know, we only have 4 more hours left in the day anyways" I chuckled. "Don't want to be able to miss anything you know…" I said. She just laughed and shook her head. "You'd be late for your own funeral if that was even possible!" She said, her hands on her hips. Yup, she was right. I was never on time for anything.
My husband walked over to me just as I was opening the truck door. He put his hand on my upper arm and turned me just as I was throwing in my purse and jacket. "Have fun." he said. "And most of all be safe. Seattle and Port Angeles are not like this place. Please come home to us in one piece." Whoa, why did he just say that? I thought. He said with a look of sadness over his face. "You became a psychic? When did that happen? What should I avoid?" I replied with a gleam in my eye. "HAHA, very funny missy." He smiled. "I just mean be careful. Those cities are not always safe. Stick together, no matter where you go." and with that he laid a soft and gentle kiss upon my lips. I never did have that shocking feeling when you kiss someone. I think it was just how we were meant to be when we met, we just skipped over everything. We just fit in together great.
CLAP, CLAP "Come on you two! We have GOT to be going NOW!" Chris interrupted already seated in the drivers side with the truck running. When did she start the truck? We broke up and smiled at each other. We gave each other a tight hug that I felt like I didn't want to let go of him. That stupid funny feeling again. Like I wasn't going to see him again. "Come over here you two and give me a hug. I'm not going to see you for a week! You might be all grown up when I see you next!" I hollered. The boys were still standing by the back of the truck waiting to say their goodbyes. As I said that they both broke out into grins and both said, "MOM!" "We're not going to grow that quickly!" My youngest said laughing. Boy, I couldn't get anything past them. Smiling to myself.
Both boys wrapping their arms around my waist as I bent down to give them both kisses on their cheeks. "I love you boys. PLEASE be good for your dad and grandma's while I'm gone. I don't want to hear about any fighting please!" Smiling at all three of them. "That goes for you too honey. No fighting with the kids!" giggling. "I'll try not to leave any bruises on them from them wrestling with me. You know their pretty strong though!" he said grinning from ear to ear. He gave me one last hug and kiss and held my hand as I jumped into the truck. "FINALLY! We MIGHT hit the road before 9!" Chris said laughing again. "Shut up brat!" I replied smiling at her. With a wink, my husband blew me a kiss and shut the door. My kids were waving to me as Chris pulled out of the drive. Waving back, all I could do was take another mental picture of my family waving goodbye to me. Darn that funny feeling! I've never felt this strong before about anything, why now? I mean sure, I've had feelings before like something was going to happen, just not this bad!
The whole time during our drive to the hotel, Chris and I were laughing, singing and just having a great time. Just like any other time her and I go out together. She was the partier and I was usually the quiet one. We got to the hotel about an hour and a half later as predicted and checked into the hotel room. We had arranged for the shuttle to pick us up in the morning and take us to the airport so we wouldn't have to leave the truck at the airport the entire time we were gone. We felt safer leaving it at the hotel.
As we brought our overnight bags in just for the night, we started winding down. We watched a little bit of TV to relax while laying down on the beds. It was an exhausting day for me. I don't know about Chris, but I felt like I had ran a marathon. We were flying out on Saturday morning and returning home Sunday, the following week, around noon. I still had to work today since it being Friday and all. Chris took a vacation day so she could get everything packed. I had all my stuff just about packed a week ago. I was too excited to wait till Friday!
As we laid there drinking our sodas we got from the vending machine on our way to the room, I asked Chris a question. "Chris, do you ever get that feeling that something's going to happen? Not that harmful, something bad is going to happen feeling, just that feeling you get when you're not sure if you're going to see someone again?" "Sure." she said. " Doesn't mean that something WILL happen though."
I thought about that for the longest time until finally my eyes were starting to droop. I looked at the bedside clock. 10:53pm it said. "Well, I think I'm going to roll over and go to sleep if we're going to get up and get going in the morning" I said. "I was just thinking the same thing." Chris said. "OK, good night girl. Sleep well" I told her. "G'night." She replied and turned off the TV and light.
As we rolled over for our sleep. I still had that dang funny feeling.
"Wake up Dawn, it's time to get ready" Chris shook me to wake me up. "mmbmmmhhmmbm" I said with my face in the pillow. "What?" Chris laughed, trying to figure out what I said. "I said, 5 more minutes mom, please!" Chris didn't contain her laughing then. She busted out laughing and smacked my leg. "I'm not your mom brat! Get up, you still have to get your shower and get ready. We have to be at the airport in 45 minutes and I just went and got my shower." Chris said. "Crap!" I replied. "Why did you let me sleep in?" frustrated that now I had to take a really quick shower. Normally I take my time to wake up and get myself going for the day. "Well, I would hardly call it sleeping in when I take a 5 minute shower, and just got up 10 minutes ago." She said. I don't know how she does it. It takes me forever to wake up. I love my sleep. Her and I are like night and day in that category.
"Ugh, why do you have to be such a morning person?" I joked. She chucked and said, "Get a move on! Times a wasting and we got a flight to catch!" I rolled myself up to a sitting position rubbing my eyes trying to get the sleepy out of my eyes. Chris is the lucky one. She doesn't have to wear contacts or glasses. Me? I have to wear one or the other, and I prefer my light brown contacts. I would get those contacts that are just like the color of the eyes that the Cullens have in the movie. But I couldn't find them in my prescription. Oh well, I like them just the same. They look great with my light brown straight layered hair that goes a little past my shoulders. I go through so many different styles, I can never make up my mind. Right now I have blonde highlights in it. And I mean BLONDE. My hair and my colored contacts look great with my slight tan I have. I wouldn't say it's like Jacob's in the movie, but with having some Cherokee Indian in me, it looks good. (this is true by the way, hair, contacts & tan on me, plus the Indian.)
I finally made myself get off the bed and jumped in the shower. Chris was already done getting her makeup on when I got out of the bathroom. She has long red-ish blonde hair that goes to her waist that's straight. Blue eyes and pale. About my size and a little shorter. She always has the energy too. She doesn't need much makeup to make herself look nice. It must be nice.
We packed up our things after I got done getting ready and strolled down to the front lobby desk to check out. We only had to wait about 5 minutes before the shuttle bus came to pick us up for the airport. Our trip was silent as she knew I was preparing myself for the flight. She knows I'm a little anxious and cautious about these things.
In no time at all we were sitting waiting on the plane. I had my Ipod earplugs in and my book out reading. She was doing the same. Seriously? I think she has to work herself up for the flight too. They called for our flight to line up and off we were, getting on the plane. As usually, we got a wing seat. I don't mind sitting there. You get to see the fin fold out when they're ready for take-off. And to hear the jet engines? Absolutely phenomenal!
We had a connecting flight in Missouri and then we were off again for Seattle. After Seattle, was a little plane to take us to Port Angeles. Thank goodness we rented a truck when we got there. I don't think I could have put up with a drive in a taxi all the way to Forks. This way we could come and go as we please.
We ran to get our luggage and found our rental. Radio was a blaring and we were singing again that filled the truck as we drove to Forks. Chris had to get a black 2009 Lincoln Navigator for us to drive. I've never driven anything that tall before, but this was a vehicle that she loved. I didn't mind. She'd be the one driving most of the time anyways. She spent the money on the rental. Just because she said she wanted to drive something dependable and nothing that we'd have to worry about getting us from point A to point B.
By the time we got to Forks, it was in the afternoon almost. We found our bed and breakfast place we were staying at right in Forks. Wolf Lodge Bed and Breakfast, was what it was called. Chris picked out everything nice. Believe me, I paid for my share too on all of these things. Minus the rental. We both had separate rooms, with a full size bed and a joining door to the rooms. We opened up the doors and smiled at one another. We we're going to have so much fun in these rooms!
We unpacked and got everything situated. Finally, we HAD to get something to eat! We left wondering what all places there were to go to, when Chris squealed in delight. "EEEAAAAKKK! I Think that's the place where Charlie and Bella eats at in the book and movie!" She exclaimed pointing a little restaurant that looks like a mom and pops place. Very friendly looking. She was grinning from ear to ear. "How do you know?" I asked. "Do YOU see any other little restaurants besides this one on this strip? All the others are little restaurants in condo looking buildings." Chris replied.
"OK, don't get your panties in a knot, we'll eat there" I said chuckling at her. "Brat" she replied grinning at me. She pulled into a parking place and turned off the truck. We both hopped down (since the darn truck was 4 feet off the ground it seemed like. Good thing there's the OH SHIT handles to help us get back in!) and Chris locked the truck with the keyless remote.
Walking up to the restaurant I realized how cool and gloomy it really was here. Clouds hung over and a fine mist was coming down. Great, there goes my hair! I thought. It was a little cool. I didn't bring my jacket this time because I had my black form fitting turtle neck sweater on with my form fitting stone washed jeans and black two inch heeled boots on. Chris decided to wear her red sweater and form fitting stone washed jeans also, with black flat boots. It looked great on her with her red-ish hair, pale skin and blue eyes. We were both into fashion, but not in the sense of buying expensive clothes. We didn't go out shopping every weekend for the new style. We just bought what we liked, and made it look good with that we had.
We walked into the restaurant and waiting to be seated. As we're looking at the menus after being seated, I asked the waitress, who took our drinks requests, if they had a lot of Twi-Hard fans come in here. "Twi-what's? I'm not too sure as too what you mean." She replied with a curious look on her face and shrugged. Chris and I just looked at each other. She left us to look for our lunch/supper decisions. After the trip, everything sounded good. I had just put my menu down and was about to ask Chris what she was thinking about ordering, when something caught my eye out the window. "OH. MY. GOD." I said with my jaw dropped and eyes bugging out. "What?" Chris replied dropping her menu and seeing my face.
"A silver Volvo with dark tinted windows just drove by." I whispered.
"WHAT?" Chris exclaimed.
Yep, that got our hearts stopped for a moment….
"Ok now Chris, we REALLY have to think about this. Twilight is a fictional book. NOTHINGS REAL! How could I just see Edward Cullen's silver Volvo just drive by? It's got to be a Twi-Hard fan that bought the car just because it's in the movie!" I said. I was trying to make myself believe that. Chris still had that shocked look on her face. Finally she came to. "Um, don't you think it's kinda weird how the waitress didn't know about Twi-Hards? EVERYONE can tell you what a Twi-Hard is!" she exclaimed.
"Ya, and something else is just nagging at me. You didn't see the Volvo right?" I asked Chris. "Um, NO! I had my friggin head buried in the menu! How COULD I see the Volvo?" She said rolling her eyes at me.
"Well, I did see something else but it could be just my imagination." I said. "Do I have to smack it outta you girl? Tell me! What else did you see? Don't leave me in the flippin loop!" She whispered loudly. "Well, what's the speed limit right here going into town?" I asked Chris, glancing at her before I looked out the window again. "Um, I think it was 25 just about a block before you got here. Why?" She asked. "Because I think he was going faster than that. I think he might have been going about 40mph or so. I'm not too sure.B But I'm absolutely positive he was speeding."
"Oh shit girl, what's going on here? Is it me or does it feel like we've just stepped into the book?" Chris asked wide eyed at me.
As she said that, I was still staring outside the window. As if I could conjure up the car to re-appear. And guess what? Yup, it did. It was really weird. I seen it coming a little down the road and I laid my hand on Chris' arm. Her head popped up at me and stared. She looked where I was staring at and at that time the silver Volvo with the dark tinted windows started to drive by the restaurant. The passenger window was about half way down this time and you could barely make out the driver. I could only see the short darkish spikey messy kind of hair of the driver. But one other thing that I could make out….. was the paleness of the skin of the driver. I could see the eyes, the almost seemed to glow. AND THEY WERE STARING RIGHT AT US! Oh my God, is he trying to see us in here? was my thought.
He was creeping by real slowly, then almost as if he got the answer he was looking for he took off. Spinning his tires and spinning the car around to speed off again into town.
"OH. MY. GOD." I said. "Tell me that just didn't happen Chris!" I asked looking at her. Her eyes were bugging out of her head - I swear! "Holy crap!" She said. Her jaw just now closed. Looking at me, we both were probably a sight to see. I know I went pale, just as she did. Even on her light skin tone.
"Chris, we can't jump to conclusions." I said. "But how can we not? You can't tell me that was some fan Dawn!" she said. She looked like she could jump out of her seat anytime.
"Are you girls ready to order yet?" said the waitress. Chris and I both just about jumped out of our skins. "I'm sorry." the waitress replied, giggling. "I didn't mean to scare you both!" she said.
"No, that's ok. I think we scared ourselves!" I said laughing. I looked at Chris as in RIGHT CHRIS? "Um, ya! We were just so engrossed in our conversation that we didn't see you walk up." she said with a smile on her face looking up at the waitress.
We finally ordered something and ate in silence. I think we were both going over what happened in our heads trying to figure out what happened. I know I was.
After I lunch/supper, we walked out of the restaurant looking up and down the street. After we hesitantly walked to the Navigator, we got in and looked at each other. "Well? What should we do?" Chris asked me. "Well, I'm brave enough to do something, but are you with me on it?" I asked her grinning my mischievous smile. Chris looked at me questioning me. "OH! I know what you're thinking! You're on one of your adrenaline highs! You want to drive by the supposedly Cullen house don't you?" She asked wide eyed at me. Grinning from eye to eye, I thought, dang this girl knows me too well! "Yup! Are you game?" I asked her still smiling my adrenaline smile. Realization hit her and now she was bouncing up and down in her seat with a huge grin on her face. "Heck ya baby! Lets drive by and see if we can find the Cullen place! Oh well crap, how are we going to do that?" shed turned and looked at me worried now. "What do you mean 'How are we going to do that'? We drive by there silly!" I said laughing.
"No, I mean don't you remember the books and the movie? They live in the woods. You have to drive 3 miles back into it to get to their house. It's not like we can just drive by on the road and take a look. It's secluded. REMEMBER?" she said gripping the steering wheel. "Who said anything about driving by? Let's drive up into the driveway and if someone stops us, we can just say that we were looking for a place to turn around because we got lost and didn't want to back into a back road where people could be known for speeding down and didn't want to wreck." I replied.
Shock filled Chris' face. "I knew I was best friends with you for some reason Dawn! That is brilliant!" she exclaimed clapping her hands and jumping in her seat. "But you'll have to cool it Chris, we don't even know where it is yet. All we know is that the silver Volvo was headed that way (pointing into town). He must live on the other side of town." I said.
"Hm, I think that's the same way to La Push to if I remember correctly. So ya, that would be where the treaty line would be if the Cullen's live down that way too!" she thought for a moment. "Oh we are geniuses!" she screamed.
"Crap!" I said. "What?" Chris replied. "I should have asked the waitress what the Sheriff's name was. Do you think it could be Swan? If we're really in the book, I wonder if we are before Bella arrives or after?" I asked frustrated with myself now. "Oh well, we'll come back for breakfast here tomorrow and ask. That is, IF we don't meet the Cullen's tonight to find out for sure." She said with a grin on her face like she was up to something.
"OK, that's the plan for tomorrow. What time is it?" I asked Chris. Looking at the dash it read 3:07pm. "Hm, that gives us plenty of time right now to snoop around. If we don't find anything, we can look around the town tomorrow and do some shopping. I HAVE to get the boys something!" I told Chris.
"That sounds like a plan to me!" she said. Chris started the Navigator and backed out onto the main street and started following the direction that the silver Volvo went. The radio was playing, but both of us were quiet now. As we were both busy looking left and right trying to see if we would find the silver Volvo sooner. No such luck.
It looked like we were about to get out of town limits when Chris said "I think we went too far. I don't see anything." "No, it's way out of town. Remember the book? Bella had a hard time finding the drive. Keep your eyes open for maybe a hidden drive." I replied looking out my window. "You look out your side and I'll look out mine." Chris said.
After about two minutes of driving in nothing that looked like woods on both of our sides of the vehicle, I screamed. "THERE! On my side! I can see some gravel, but there are weeds and bushes blocking the drive, just right up there!" I pointed ahead.
"Oh my God! We found it! Hell ya!" She exclaimed. As she slowed down to turn onto the drive, I rolled my window down. Whispering to Chris, "Stop for a second." "Why are you whispering and why do you want me to stop?" She whispered back.
"Because if they have supper hearing, they'll be able to hear that the vehicle stopped. They won't be able to hear us whispering." I whispered my reply. "Oh! I see." she whispered back. "SO YOU THINK WE OUGHT TO PULL AHEAD AND SEE IF THERE IS A TURN AROUND OR SOMETHING? I DON'T WANT TO WRECK THE RENTAL IF SOME MORON DECIDES TO SPEED DOWN THIS HILLY ROAD AND NOT SEE US!" Chris said a little louder to me looking at me and giving me a wink.
Rolling my eyes at her and smiling I replied, "YA, I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE OUR BEST BET. INSURANCE ON THIS THING WOULD COVER THE WRECK, BUT WRECKING A LINCOLN NAVIGATOR WOULD BE HEART WRENCHING!" I replied snickering in my hand. Chris just grinned and gave me the thumbs up sign and gave me a wink.
We drove up the 3 mile drive way slowly. "WELL CRAP, IF I WOULD HAVE KNOW THIS WAS GOING TO LEAD US INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODS, I WOULD HAVE JUST WENT AHEAD AND TURNED AROUND AT THE ROAD, RISKING GETTING IN A WRECK. THINK OF THE GAS WE'RE WASTING!" Chris said to me looking over at me winking again. By this time I had turned the radio down a little more in case we heard something. I motioned for Chris to roll down her window to.
Finally, we pulled up into a nice looking 3 story white home with lots of windows. Our jaws dropped for about the fifteenth time that day. There is stood, the Cullen house. "No way!" Chris whispered. "Oh. My. God." was my whispered reply. It was here! It was real! No way, could this really be happening. Just then, Chris and I looked down at the driveway in front of us, and there it sat, parked. The silver Volvo along with a red BMW and a Jeep.
I think Chris and I would have both peed our pants. I grabbed Chris' arm and whispered "Turn around and let's leave. We can't sit here parked and gap at what's here. We've seen it, let's go before someone catches us!" Chris nodded her head and started turning the wheel to turn around.
Just then, I noticed someone standing in the big picture window glaring at us. I couldn't see clearly again, just the dark spikey kind of hair and paleness of the skin along with the piercing glowing eyes. I could tell his arms were in his pants pockets and he was kind of hunched over slightly. Like he was thinking about pouncing. "Crap!" I whispered to Chris, "Get us outta here now!"
Chris almost floored the Navigator and just about spun the tires in the gravel. Crap! That's all we need to do! Piss off the vampires because we spun gravel at their cars! Nice job Chris! But you didn't hear me complaining out loud as she took off down the driveway.
I know my heart was a racing, so I didn't even ask Chris if hers was too. I already knew. We were both scared at the moment. Looking in my rear view mirror as Chris took off, I seen something that made my breath hitch in my throat. There he was. Standing where we turned around. In that same position as when I seen him in the window. I still couldn't see him clear enough as the gravel was kicking up the dust it made with the tires taking off in it. No we just made their cars dirty with the dust! Just GREAT! I thought. They wouldn't kill us for putting dust on their cars would they? Well, maybe Rosalie, hm, and maybe Edward. I thought to myself.
Here I am scared for my life and I'm worried about their cars getting dirty… haha, ya, good thing to think about at a time like this Dawn. Oh boy, did I have something to tell my husband tonight when I called him.
Chris and I decided to calm ourselves down by driving back into town to see if we could find a place to have some ice cream. We found a little ice cream place right smack dab in the middle of town. Chris parked the truck and we got out. Shutting the doors, I realized, my legs were shaking like a leaf. "Are you shaking Chris? I feel like I can't walk!" I asked her. "Can't walk? I felt like I couldn't drive back there! I was temped to pull over on the driveway to let you take over, but I was afraid they'd come after us if we stopped again on their land!" she laughed. "You did see him in the window, right?" I asked her. "Ya, kind of freaked me out! That's why I was in such a rush to get outta there!" She said looking at me wide eyed.
We ordered our ice cream and waiting in silence till after we got them and sat down outside. We didn't want to take a risk eating it in the rental. It stopped misting, but it was still cool outside. I wanted to sit outside just in case Edward decided to drive by to find us. Sitting in the Navigator would have put as in a position where we wouldn't have been able to see around us clearly. Finally Chris said, "Do you think it's really him? What about Bella? Where was she at? You know where Edward is, there's always Bella."
"I don't know. Maybe there is no Bella. Those books were written a few years ago, but that doesn't mean there really is a Bella." I said. "He looked so depressed. If this was the time that Edward left Bella, he would have been in Voltura about now. So maybe he's just lonely like he was before he met her." I said, trying to figure it out for myself. Chris nodded with a look on her face like she was trying to take it all in.
"I wonder if there really is a Jacob then!" Chris said turning to me with a surprise look on her face. "Oh. My. God." she said. "Do you want to go and see if he's turned into a werewolf yet?" she asked me turning her whole body my direction now. "Um, we better not Chris, remember, werewolves are not good company to keep." I replied looking thoughtfully in her direction.
"Hm, maybe so, but it would be neat to find out wouldn't it? I mean, if Bella could go around them, why can't we?" she asked me. We both sat quietly for a few minutes. eating our ice cream. Shivers ran up my spine then. It was just that funny feeling again. I could swear I felt someone watching me. But I never seen the silver Volvo drive by again.
"Chris?" I looked at her from the corner of my eye whispering. "Ya?" She replied still eating her ice cream. "I feel like someone is watching us and possibly able to hear us." Still whispering. "You and your feelings. I'm never going to doubt you again!" She whispered back. "You had a feeling before you left and see what's happened so far? Holy crap! What do we do now?" she asked me whispering with a feared look on her face. "ARE YOU DONE WITH YOUR ICE CREAM CHRIS?" I asked raising my voice to a little than normal range. "YUP! IT'S MAKING ME COLD. I SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT MY JACKET!" She replied doing the same as me.
We threw away our ice cream and went and got into the Navigator. "Look around and see if you can see anyone. They may be well hidden since they have super vision too." I whispered looking at Chris as we got our seat belts on after shutting the doors. Chris took her time fiddling around the rental as we were both trying to look around us. Nothing that we could see other than other store shop windows and a few alleyways. I could still feel those eyes piercing into me.
By now the dashboard said 4:23pm. Holy crap! An hour and a half already passed by! I thought to myself. It was still cloudy. I don't even know if we're going to see the sun while we're here! "OK, So now where to ole seeing eye friend?" Chris said looking at me with a half smile. "SSSHH! They're still watching. If they heard you saying something like that, they'll think something is up!" I whispered to her looking at her with a shocked look on my face. "Let's go do some window shopping and walk around the main strip. See if we can catch one of them that way." I whispered to her.
Chris started the truck and we decided just to park the truck at the Bed and Breakfast and walk towards town. Safety is in numbers right? Nothing would happen to us while we were together at least. RIGHT?
We finally got the truck parked and started walking down the sidewalk that stretched the entire main street. "Chris, I hate to freak you out, but it feels like someone's watching us. It feels like 3 sets of eyes boring into the back of my head. Do you feel it?" I asked Chris looking over at her with a questionable look in my eyes. "No, but you were always the one that had those feelings whenever we went out. Not me." she replied looking back at me. It felt kind of weird walking down the street in silence. Her and I were never silent hardly. We were always cracking up about something around us. No matter where we went.
"Do you think it's HIM?" She looked back at me asking. "Yes, along with two others. If I were to guess, I would suggest Alice and Carlisle." I replied looking back at her. This time I had more confidence in my eyes. "How do you know?" She asked. "Well, I would suggest Edward because we've been following him and I would suggest Alice because she's always been the voice of reason. Plus since Alice is the psychic, it would make better sense so that she could see what Edward's decision would be on approaching us if he did. And then Carlisle because he's a voice of reason too. Edward wouldn't want to do something that would disappoint Carlisle, so Carlisle would help to calm Edward down to reassure him." I replied. Dang, how do I feel these things? I thought.
"Makes sense I guess." Chris said. We both continued on our way in silence, still having that stupid funny feeling about something and feeling those eyes bore into the back of my skull. "Do you think they can hear us?" Chris asked looking back at me again. We were walking a normal pace, but it felt like the eyes were moving with us. It never let up. They had to be following us. I looked behind me and could have sworn I seen something move, hiding behind a corner of a building we passed about 2 blocks away. I swirled back around quickly facing the front again. "Oh ya, I definitely think they can hear us. I think they're about 2 blocks behind us. What are we going to say if they stop us?" I asked Chris looking at her worriedly.
"Well, I guess we'll have to explain ourselves. We'll have to do that eventually sometime during the trip if we keep running into them and I know they'll hear us." she replied still looking straight ahead with a worried look in her eyes again.
"I think it's a bit late. I think they know we're onto them." I said. I stuffed my hands into my pants pockets. My purse was still hanging on my shoulder as we walked. I had to remind myself that I needed to call home sometime to let everyone know I was ok and that we made it safely to Forks. I'm surprised that Shannon hadn't already tried to call wondering if I was ok. Strange. My family always kept up with each other. My mom always made me call her whenever we left town, wanting to know the exact moment we got settled in. Strange… I pulled my cell phone out of my purse to check to see if I missed any calls or texts. I hadn't missed any because there were none showing on the display screen.
"Well, for right now, let's enjoy ourselves by window shopping but keeping our eyes peeled for them. Just in case they do try to stop us. I have a funny feeling we'll run into them tonight." I told Chris. She looked over at me and nodded.