Hi! This is a fairly long chapter. I decided that it was best to get ALL of this out here. This is a pretty critical chapter. I really REALLY want everybody's opinion on it. And there is some foreshadowing about Breaking Dawn in here. Who can guess what it is?
"Look over there." Emmett hissed pointing off to the left.
I looked to where he pointed below us. We were camped out on the roof of a conference building. "That guy?"
Emmett nodded. "It looks like he hasn't fed for a while though."
I studied the vampire. He was about nineteen with ashy blonde hair and black eyes. The way he walked seemed almost human. "It looks like he's been a vampire for sometime."
Emmett nodded. He pushed down the top of my head so we were hidden by the lip of the roof. "He's sniffing the air. He senses us.
I held still, not breathing and I hoped he wouldn't see us. I was sure Emmett would protect me but, I was a new born and unpredictable. I didn't know how to fight and I didn't have Emmett's brute strength or Edward's speed.
I suddenly got an idea. "Emmett, I'll be right back." I slipped over the side of building into an alley before he could stop me. "Dexter! Dexter come here boy!" I called whistling as I jogged at a human pace onto the sidewalk.
Somebody slammed into me, hard. It was the vampire. "Watch it!" He snarled at me.
"Oh, I'm so sorry. I lost my dog have you seen him? He's a yellow Labrador." I said my golden eyes wide.
He glared down at me his black eyes were studying me. "What clan are you from?" He demanded.
"I'm a nomad." I told him calmly. "I'm just passing through and I'm leaving tonight because there have been tons of human murders. You wouldn't happen to know anything about them would you?"
He glared at me coldly. "No."
I reached my hand out.
He looked at me calculatingly before he shook it.
I ran up to the rooftop to join Emmett after he'd left. "He's lying."
"Well?" Rosalie asked as soon as we entered the house.
Emmett shook his head. "There was one vampire. He was alone and he hadn't fed for a while."
Carlisle considered this silently from his position by the window. A look of concern crossed his flawless features.
"He was lying." I said.
"Well, what happened?" Rosalie demanded as soon as we walked through the door and Emmett stood at her side.
"We saw one vampire but he hadn't fed for a while." Emmett told her quietly.
"He was lying." I said looking at the lone pair of them evenly.
"You said that earlier. What was he lying about?"
"When I'd asked him if he knew anything about the murders he said no. Afterwards I shook his hand. He was lying."
"What did you see?"
"Just other vampires and a…party scene. That's it."
Rosalie seemed to contemplate this idea before she turned to Emmett. "I'm going to go talk to Carlisle, to see what this means and then I'm going to hunt." She gave him a kiss.
I turned away from them. I couldn't be around stuff like that without my stomach clenching.
"Are you okay?" Emmett asked a hand on my shoulder.
"Why wouldn't I be?" I asked looking him in the eye.
He paused seeming to think for a moment. "Well, it's just because you have that look again. The look where you look like you are about to scream."
I kept eye contact while subconsciously rearranging the muscles in my face so I showed no emotion. "I'm fine." I brushed past him and stood at the window to watch the sun rise.
"There's no school today." Alice said to Edward when he entered the house. School or not Alice was always dressed at her best anyway. Her heels on top of very pricy skinnies seemed to prove that.
"I would imagine not. Edward said looking in my direction where I was still standing at the window.
I slowly slid down the wall and pulled my knees up to my chest. This was a comfortable position too. That's what sucked about being a vampire. No human stuff was left that you could trust. You were never uncomfortable, never hungry, never crying and one think could hardly hold your attention for more that a few seconds. Burning. When you were a vampire you were always burning. That was one thing you could rely on.
I picked at my nails thinking about nothing and everything in particular. When I looked around the room Alice and Jasper were cuddled close together not saying anything.
Jasper seemed to enjoy the way Alice fussed with his curls all of the time. He put his arm around her.
The pain cut me like a knife and I looked away. I could have had that if it weren't for stupid Victoria. I could be sitting on the reservation with Jacob and his pack or walking on the beach.
I felt someone's gaze on me and looked up.
Alice seemed oblivious to Jasper staring at me, his golden eyes filled with curiosity. "Honey, I need to talk to Sarah for a moment, if you don't mind."
I froze. What could he possibly want from me? I stood up as Jasper held the back door open and motioned for me to exit with him.
He led me on a race, out into the woods and he stopped when we came across a rundown foundation and walls of a small house. He turned to me serious. "Sarah, this needs to stop."
"What?" I asked innocently.
"The pain and the depression. You are driving me insane!" He said as he pulled on his silvery locks as if he were really going crazy.
I set my jaw and looked away. "I don't know what you are talking about."
"Yes you do. You can't stand to see a couple walk into a room arm-in-arm, much less kiss or show any other kind of affection."
I just glared away from him.
"You are hurt in a way that not even venom can heal. Aren't you?"
I pressed my lips together and nodded, looking at the ground.
"I'm sorry, Sarah. Nothing can change what happened. I can't make you feel better even though I'm an empath. Only you and Jacob can settle this together."
Jasper moved to walk away but I grabbed his arm and pulled him back. "What do you expect me to do? He can't stand to look at me over the border."
"He can turn his back."
My mouth hung open. "Jasper this isn't fair!"
"What's not fair?" He demanded snarling as he turned back to me. "The fact that you can hardly make it through everyday? The fact that the wolf probably is more set on killing you now than he ever was? Or the fact that you live in a house of couples and the only way for you to seclude yourself so you don't feel pain is to lock yourself away in your room? But even then you can't seem to get away from the love because everything you touch holds its essence!"
I lost my grip from surprise. I didn't know Jasper knew that much about me.
"I feel what you're going through every time you go out to your truck. It hurts me too." He started to walk away. "You better get back to the border. The mutt will already be there by the time you are."
I stared after him dumbfounded. "What just happened?"
Soo, who guess the foreshadowing? Huh? Please review. Two reviews for this entire story is pretty pathetic.
