A/N: Sorry to all who think this Bella, Emmett, Bonding time but my account has something wrong with it and replacing the story with this one was the only way to post it. Sorry and again I only own Anna.
Chapter Two: Nightmares and Bella
I spoke too soon. From the night after the funeral I was plagued with these horrible night mares of the day my grandmother died.
I walk up to my room to pack a bag to take to Ashley's house for the weekend. Grandma was going up to Port Angeles for meetings with her garden and book club. I was packing when grandma screamed downstairs. I ran down the stairs grabbing the shotgun that Uncle Charlie had taught me how to fire when I was 12. I ran into the living room to find grandma clutching her chest and gasping when pointing out the porch window into the rain with wide eyes. I look out the window and at first see nothing then a black haired man with dark skin that looked like it had been covered in flour was standing in the middle of the back lawn. As I looked closer I noticed his unnatural looking perfection and his eyes. His eyes they were the most unsettling thing about him. They were bright red. The color of blood. I aimed the gun at him through the window. As I went to pull the trigger, he smiled and with a wink he blurred away into the trees that surrounded the house. As he disappeared I heard my grandmother fall to the ground with a gasping breath. I rushed to her, grabbing my cell phone out of my pocket. I sobbed into the phone.
"911 what is your emergency?" The operator answered.
"This is Anna Swan. My grandmother was clutching her chest and fell to the ground. Please send help to 5843 Melburg Street in Forks." I sobbed as I tried to get her to breath again.
The unseeing eyes of my grandmother always made me sit up out of my sleep with a gasp and fall back into bed. The man still haunted my dreams. His blood red eyes that struck fear into my heart always had it pounding in my chest. What was he? I knew he wasn't human. Besides the eye color, the unnaturalness of his appearance, the speed at which he disappeared, the smile when I aimed the gun. Like he knew the gun would do no damage if I pulled the trigger.
Jacob was always the light at the end of the tunnel. After a night filled with my nightmares he was the person that brightened my day. I think Uncle Charlie is starting to get worried. In the morning I can feel his eyes as I make breakfast and he sits at the table with his coffee and pretending to read the newspaper.
Jake was trying his best to make the loss of my grandmother a little easier. I met his friends Quil and Embry. They were real nice and I was soon enclosed in the group. Quil is cocky and full of himself, yet kind hearted and caring and protective when I received attention that I didn't want. Him and Jake soon became the siblings that I allows wanted and the best friends that were close to the relationship that I had with my grandmother.
Embry though. Embry was hard to explain with his short cropped hair and dark, deep and expressive eyes that if you weren't careful you could fall into and lose track of thought and function as you explored in the dark depths of his brown eyes that almost looked black. He was kind and caring. With a protective side and he was funny. It almost seemed that my troubles melted away when I spent time with him. I didn't want to admit it when Jake and Quil teased me about it but I think I was developing a small crush on Embry.
Things started to become routine, sleep, make breakfast, go to school, work hard on my classes and spend time with Ashley and Maggie, go to La Push and hang with the guys. And it went on, till the new year, the night mares started to calm down and I could relax a little bit more.
Uncle Charlie was sitting at the table drinking his coffee and reading the paper while I cooked breakfast. Uncle Charlie seemed to have something on his mind but I didn't question. That seemed to be something we had in common, we didn't pry.
Uncle Charlie cleared his throat and put the paper down. I turned and waited for him to say what was on his mind.
"Bella called yesterday, when you were out with Jake." Uncle Charlie said trying to seem nonchalant.
"And?" I asked, there had to be more then that if he brought up Bella's weekly call.
"You know that Renee just got remarried a couple months ago?" He asked.
"Yeah, I got an invite." I replied flipping a pancake in the pan.
"Yeah, well Bella wants to give them space so Renee can travel with her new husband and she asked if she could come live with me." He said trying to hide his smile with his mustache. Even though Charlie rarely got to see her, he still loved her more than anything.
"That's great Uncle Charlie. When she gonna be here?" I asked trying to be as happy for him as I could. Bella and I have always butted heads when we were little and we are pretty distant.
"She said she would be here on the 18th." Uncle Charlie grinned. I bet if I looked at the calendar on the wall I would see the date circled in red marker with pick Bella up at the air port written in the circle.
I finished the pancakes and gave Uncle Charlie his plate. I hurried to eat mine or I would be late for school. When I finished I quickly washed my plate and grabbed the keys for the car and yelled good bye to Uncle Charlie.
Even though the car now belonged to me since I got my license, I still couldn't call it mine. It would always be grandma's car. It still smelled like her perfume. I still had the small dream catcher and cross hanging on the rearview mirror that she had hung there so many years ago.
I pulled into school and was greeted by Ashley and Maggie and we headed to our first period class. At lunch I spread the news of Bella's arrival to Forks in two weeks.
"I thought you didn't get along with your cousin?" Maggie asked.
"I don't but for Uncle Charlie's sack we're going to." I said with a determined nod of my head.
"That's going to be kinda hard with living in the same house isn't it?" Ashley asked looking concerned.
"If we have to we can stay out of each other's way and if worse comes to worse. She's a junior this year and she'll graduate next year and move away to college. Probably somewhere warm because she's always hated the cold weather in Forks. So I'll deal with her for only a year and half maximum." I said as explanation.
Both girls nodded along in agreement.
After school I drove down to the res to hang out with Jake, Quil and Embry. I pulled up to the old red house and waved at Billy who was sitting out on the front porch with a coffee cup and the newspaper and walked to the plastic garage out back.
I walked in and was surprised to see the boys in a huddle in the middle of the garage. I decide to have a little fun with this. I sunk down to my knees so the boys wouldn't see me and crawled till I was just outside the circle. Then Embry looked down and saw me and his eyes widened and I put my finger to my lips to tell him to keep quiet. He gave a slight nod and went back into the conversation.
As Jake opened his mouth to say something I jumped up into the middle of their little circle.
"What ya talking about?" I said as Jake and Quil jumped back away from me, Quil jumped and landed on a tube of grease and hit the ground with a startled scream. Embry and I were laughing so hard that we were leaning on each other for support.
"So you gonna answer my question?" I asked them once I had regained my composure.
"Nope!" Jake said quickly as Quil opened his mouth to answer with a slight blush to his cheeks.
"OHHH! You were talking about girls!" I squealed with a laugh.
"Nooo." Jake answered while Embry and Quil smirked at him with a look that said 'sure man we'll go with that'.
"So I guess you heard the news?" I asked.
They looked kinda confused.
"About Bella coming to live with Uncle Charlie and me?" I tried again.
"Oh Yeah. Charlie called dad this morning and told him." Jake said.
"That explains the gossip session." I said with a smirk.
"How so?" Jake asked trying to play dumb with a blush. Trying being the operative word.
"You know. How you were just gossiping about how you have this major crush on my cousin Bella and wondering how soon you will get the chance to see her." I said causing Bry and Quil to start laughing at my dead serious face.
"N-n-o-o we w-w-weren't talking about t-that a-at all!" Jake said blushing hard and stuttering, causing Bry and Quil to laugh harder.
"So, when is she coming?" Quil asked still chuckling at Jake's embarrassment.
"Two weeks. On the 18th." I replied. Quil nodded, giving me a sympathetic smile.
"I just don't get it, she doesn't visit, she only calls once a week, and she didn't even want to come here for grandma's funeral, yet her mother wants to travel and stays home for her and she throws herself at the chance to come live with Uncle Charlie. She's so selfish and yet every now and again she tries to act all self- less. I don't get it. Her act changes so often it gives you a head ache." I ranted and finished by putting a hand to my head to emphasize my point.
Quil grabbed me up into a big bear hug.
"It'll be alright Anna. If not you can come stay with me. Mom wouldn't have a problem with it."
"Thanks Quilly." I said hugging him back.