AN: I got this out faster than I would have thought, but the next chapter's going to be a lot longer so it will take a longer amount of time. So yeah.
Disclaimer: No matter how much I wish I did, I don't own Twilight. Or New Moon.
Chapter Two
The shrill ring of the phone made me jump out of my skin, and I automatically reached for the handset.
"Hello?" The person on the other line was blabbering in Spanish, with quite an attitude, but I wasn't at school so I didn't even try to figure out what they were saying.
"¿Hola, está Pablo allí? Él me debe un poco de dinero, y tan no dígame que él está en la ducha o algo a menos que él realmente sea. Este es el Mercedes, pero no decir mi nombre porque él sabrá lo que quiero, y esto"
"Yo no hablo español," I interrupted, "Sorry, you must have the wrong number."
I hung up the phone before she could continue. Did she say something about money? Maybe it was like a Spanish telemarketer or something. Weird. I snapped out of that train of thought quickly when I saw a pixie-like woman appear out of the corner of my eye.
"Hi Alice," I said timidly. Then I realized that she couldn't see werewolves, so she didn't know what Jake and I had been up to. She was bound to realize something, however, when my cheeks started flaming.
"Bella..." Her voice sounded almost as timid as my own, and I couldn't even begin to imagine why. She stepped slowly into my line of vision. Well, slowly in my eyes, but for a vampire it must have been excrutiatingly slow. For some reason her face looked grim. "Maybe we should go sit down."
As we walked, still rather slowly, I asked, "Alice, what happend? What's wrong? Did you have a vision?" The words burst from me, as if I was expecting the worst. Of course, I wasn't. She said that she'd stay.
"Uh...no, nothing's wrong. I had a vision, yes, but it wasn't that bad..." Alice looked uncomfortable and nervous, which surprised me. This was not her usual behavior.
"It wasn't that bad?"
Alice sat on the couch and I joined her, hugging a pillow to my stomach.
"Don't worry about it, Bella, I doubt it will even come true anyway," Alice was trying to comfort me, and it wasn't working.
"Well you look like you're worried about it!" I said, my tone urgent.
"Um, well, its, uh, not the vision I'm worried about."
When she didn't elaborate, I prompted her, "Then what is it?"
"Well...uh, Bella, I'm not sure I can sugar-coat this, so I'm just going to come right out and say it," she took a deep breath before continuing, my nails digging into her arm, "I'm leaving."
"W-what?" I spluttered, the room starting to spin. She said she'd stay! How could she do this to me? She'd promised. I needed her to stay! "Why? Whay are you leaving, Alice? How could you? I need you here! Please don't go!!"
"I have to. I can't explain now. But don't worry, I'm not going to disappear like before. I'll call you everyday, I don't care what Edward says." She flinched at the last statement.
"Please tell me why you're leaving," I whimpered.
"Not now, Bella. I have to go."
"Wait, you're leaving now?!" How could she do this to me? Alice, who I thought was my best friend. "Will you really call?"
"I sware."
"I'll miss you," I sniffled.
But she was gone.
I was sitting on the couch, alone, but I wasn't really there. My mind was blank, as if it had gotten bored and decided to leave. Alice's abrupt departure hadn't really sunk in yet. However, when I sensed movement behind me, I snapped back into reality.
"Alice?" I looked around, "Alice, that you?" My heart began to beat faster. I was really alone. As in, no vampires or werewolves to protect me from...but no, it couldn't be her. Alice would have seen it, and besides, I'd only been alone for a few minutes.
That was when Victoria stepped out of the shadows.
My first instinct was to run away from her, despite my inability to, well, run. But when I made to do just that, I found that I couldn't. I was immobile. I was paralyzed. This was bad.
"Paralysis. A very useful power, don't you think?" Victoria sneered at me, her voice beautiful and horrifying at the same time, "You're not getting away from me."
"You won't get away with this," I spit. If I could have, I would have flinched at that disgustingly cliche statement. But I knew it was true. It had to be true. Jacob and his pack would come to save me. They would. They had to.
"Yeah, whatever. I'm not going to waste my time talking to you, when it took me this much effort to even get to you. An entire pack of werewolves intent on protecting a weak little human who befriends their mortal enemy. I'll never understand that, but oh well. I'll survive. You, however, will not," Her eyes were getting darker and darker as each second ticked by.
"B-but...why me?" I had to keep her talking.
"Stupid, stupid human. Do you not remember James?!" Her eyes were now black as pitch, her nostrils flaring, and her vampiric visage was, to say the least, furious. Sheesh. I had only been trying to delay my impending demise. Apparently all I'd done was remind her of her purpose.
"I - but...but I wasn't even the one who k-killed him! Why me? I'm just a human!"
"Mate for mate. Seems like a fair trade to me, bitch," Victoria growled, and I was sure she couldn't control her thirst much longer. She inhaled deeply.
She took a step forward.
"Please," I begged.
"Not a chance."
She crouched, preparing to spring at me. I closed my eyes, hoping it would be quick. In the blink of an eye, her powerful legs propelled her at me, and I felt a sharp pang as her razor-like teeth sunk into my neck, and the fiery burn of the venom as it was released into my bloodstream.
AN: Yay! I finished the second chapter!! Let me know what you think. By the way, the random Spanish speaking was just there for my personal enjoyment, and it might not all be correct since I used an online translator, but anyway, the person on the phone says, "Hi, is Pablo there? He owes me some money, and so don't tell me that he's in the shower or anything unless he really is. This is Mercedes, but don't say my name because he'll know what I want, and that" and Bella says, "I don't speak Spanish."
Just in case you care. xD Review!