Chapter 3: MISSING ONE; Esme's POV
I was in my office working on some blueprints for a new house. We would have to move again in a year or so and I wanted to be ready. I found an old warehouse online a few days ago and thought it would make the prefect setting for the next move or the one after that when the children came home.
I was a little confused because I hadn't heard Edward's car pull onto the driveway.
I was at the bottom of the stairs as Alice, Jasper, Rose and Emmett came threw the door. Emmett was chuckling about something when he said he didn't know what the big deal was and Rose pushed him threw the door calling him a big ape.
Alice walked threw the door with that strange look on her face that she get and clued me into that something was going on. She was "subdued" as she pasted me at the stairs and headed to her room.
Jasper was confused but still calm and stopped as he reached the stairs following Alice.
"Where is Edward?" I asked Jasper.
"I guess he had a rough day after meeting the new girl at school and he left to talk to Carlisle. I think...I think he might be leaving for a just a bit Esme. I'm not sure" he shook his head and placed a hand on my shoulder for a brief second before continuing up the stairs.
It took me a moment for it to sink in. It couldn't be that bad not if he went to talk to Carlisle. I calmed myself. Edward just needed a Calm person to talk to and then he would be home. My husband would bring reason to the situation, what ever it was, so I returned to the blueprints that I had been working on.
There was nothing to worry about right?
AXIS TILTED; Edward's POV
After speaking to Carlisle and explaining what had happen at school, he gave me the keys to his car and told me to do what ever I had too to keep the Swan girl safe.
After about 15 minutes I was on my way to putting Forks and Isabella Swan behind me, still exercising a mental debate on why I was leaving.
When she had walked into class and her sent hit me it fractured my world into a thousand different directions. The thirst was worse than anything I had experienced. She sat next to me completely unaware. I stopped breathing and venom pooled in my mouth. I ran a thousand scenarios threw my mind on how to reach the goal of luring my prey, Isabella Swan, in for the kill, unnoticed. I was a predator, a vampire by nature.
But what my brain was stuck on and what shocked me back to reality, saving her life right then was the last thing I had expected. She was looking directly at me just before the bell ran, (I was praying for the bell to ring so that I could escape Isabella Swan and her over-powering sent. Her brown eyes that were deep and secretive captured my mind and her mouth opened.
"God if you're going to kill me, do it already and get it over with!" and the tears that she held back toppled over and fell down her face shocking me, virtually welding me to my seat unable to move or escape.
The bell rang and before I could blink she had her books in her hand and raced out the door, my eyes following. "What the hell was that?" I thought, "An Invitation?" Was she human? Did she even have a clue? There was a full 360 degree of emotions filling those eyes. (Those eyes) Hope? Fear? Anger? Desperation? Longing? (Those eyes.) Did she have a clue about how insane she was in this moment?
Then to top it all off Isabella tripped as she rushed threw the door and spreading her books on the ground before her. Pausing after picking herself up she fled towards the front of the school, leaving her books behind and I watched the whole thing.
I was stuck, unable to move forward, as students shuffled out the door stepping over her books. I heard someone say "Nice job Cullen, you scared her off! Thanks!" I wasn't paying attention but I'm positive it was Mike Newton. Someone pushed Isabella's books to the wall.
Okay, now I had proof the world was tipping on its axis. Isabella's statement and the look in her eyes had sent me reeling. Thirst and blood lust forgotten and left behind. I gathered her books up with my own. I'd return them to her vehicle before heading to my next class.
In the parking lot I realized I didn't know what vehicle was hers but I could figure that out. It would be the vehicle new to the school parking lot.
There it was parked at the end of the row. And there she was sitting in the drivers seat with the engine started. What was she doing?
Only a couple of steps out of the building she looked in my direction and I froze captured by those eyes. She was still crying.
Shaking her head side to side she put her truck in reverse and pulled out of the parking lot never looking back and almost hitting the car behind her. Mine!
I had tried to catch her attention and show her that I had her books but she didn't notice. I grew angry again. I wanted to apologize but she wouldn't let me. I stormed to my Volvo and put her books inside and sat there trying to calm down, contemplating about her comment, those eyes and her reaction. Why did they look so familiar and how could I get out of Biology?
With the doors closed and the windows rolled up her sent assaulted me again. The sent of her filled the car and fueled my blood lust again. Angrily I grabbed her books and bag and threw them into the trunk. I entered the office and tried to convince Mrs. Cope, unsuccessfully, to move me out of biology.
Once the last bell rang I waited for my family at the Volvo. Her scent still lingered inside and once my family was in and we were on the road they all thought about the scent confused and Alice started to question me what was going on. Breaking the silence "I DON'T KNOW SO DON'T ASK!" I yelled.
We pulled away from the parking lot and headed home.
"You're not staying, are you?" Alice thought and before I could arrange my answer, "That's Okay, you won't be gone long. You better tell Carlisle first though." and I glared at her.
"Stop, we'll go from here. You need to talk to Carlisle before you leave." Alice stated for all to hear. With out responding I let them out of the car and turned around heading for the hospital.
After speaking with Carlisle and leaving the hospital in his car I realized that Isabella's books were still in the trunk of my car.
I don't know why I was so concerned about returning HER books to her. My frustration grew.
Talk about feeling like a dog chasing its tale. My mind was running in circles. Between Isabella Swan, her books, blood, scent, and my family I was confused, frustrated and in need of something to calm me down so I turned on my stereo and listened to music as I made my way out of forks using the back roads.
For a creature who could think many things at once it seemed like she was the only thing I could think about. If she had only a clue about me or my family it would prove that she was mentally unstable. But she didn't know my families secret and unfortunately I didn't know hers. What had possessed her to say something like that? I breathed deeply and blew it out trying to clear my thoughts.