What? How?... Why?
My tears stop after a while. I pull out my phone and dial. Remembering that soft granite, because that is how vampires feel to me, the tears almost fall again, I stifle them.
"Hello?" A masculine voice answers, surprising me.
"Oh! Uncle Jasper… where's Aunt Alice?" I ask wondering why Uncle Jasper answered Aunt Alice's cell.
"She's helping some of the field hands with the banana grove. Why?"
"I HAVE to talk to her, it is important." I urgently tell him. My voice is a mixed sound of confusion, sadness, confusion, anger and some urgency.
"Okay calm down, I'll get her." I hear the sound of his running at human speed and the stress in his voice. Uncle Jasper is probably a little stressed because he cannot calm my hectic emotions over the phone, or maybe something is very wrong at the farm, more like a plantation really… but without the slaves.
"I thought you were going to Charlie's first." Aunt Alice almost yells at me, breaking through my thoughts.
"Hello Auntie Alice, I'm fine… well except for the fact that I just got one of the biggest… no, THE BIGGEST SHOCK OF MY LIFE!! Thanks for asking how are you?" It really bugs me how Alice rarely asks how we are at the beginning of a conversation, I mean just because you already know doesn't mean that you can disregard the little polite details of a conversation.
"Okay. Sorry. Hi Nessie. How are you? I'm pretty good just a little stressed." She replies sarcastic and stress do not mix well in her musical voice. Hold on… why is she stressed? Uncle Jasper is with her she should be really calm, and obviously I'm fine… just one more thing to figure out I guess.
"Now Nessie do you mind telling me why you are at Carlisle's house and not Charlie's?" She repeats.
"Well we were going to Charlie's but on the plane ride over I kept changing my mind. I wanted to go see Charlie but I knew how much Jake missed Billie so I kept going back and forth between the two. So we reached Forks and then Jake asked me where I wanted to go-" I tell her the whole story.
"Oh." She says when I'm done, but it is very monotone, as if she has nothing to say about my story.
"So would you mind telling me why I come to Forks, find a living vampire relative, and you NEVER told me!!" I ask my anger breaking through.
"Calm down." Alice orders and then sighs, "I can't tell you that, I wish I could but I can't. I promised somebody a long time ago that I would not tell you." She then mutters something like I should have warned him, he was counting on me, but I couldn't see. I blow it off, considering I probably heard wrong, so I just do the easiest thing… get mad.
"Fine." I say and hang up. Her words still running through my head, confusing me.
I promised somebody a long time ago…
Who? Who did she promise? I'll find out later, I promise myself then move onto the next task.
I compose myself while straightening the sheets on the bed so that the only way you could tell that I was here is because I cannot put dust back. Afterwards I run straight to my grandparent's house jumping the river. Jake meets me half way.
"Nessie, you don't have to go back yet. Why don't you visit Charlie first?" Jake is pale but not shaking… I get the feeling that he is hiding something from me, but I immediately dismiss the notion.
"I'm going in that house and I'm going to find out what the hell happened 7 years ago and why/how he survived and find out what happened to everybody else." I tell him strongly, not harshly but so that he can see that this is what I want… need. I march up to the house, yank open the door and once sitting on the couch call, "Come here please! I want to talk to you!"
"I'm right here." His voice comes and then he's flitting down the stairs. "What's wrong?"
"What's wrong?" I mock. "What's wrong is that this house is the same as it was 7 years ago, what's wrong is you being here, alive and not telling me.
"That's wrong?" He asks, innocent confusion flashing across his pale features.
"You know what I mean." I retort
"I guess so." He sighs then opens his arms and smiles. I run into his arms and hug him.
"Grandpa!" I mutter contently, for now I am content to stand here and hug my Grandfather but soon I need answers, I need to know.
I pull away and take a step back, as expected he looks exactly the same, golden eyes, pale skin, and blonde hair, exactly the same.
"So you stopped growing at 18? You are so beautiful; you look just like both your parents."
"Yep. How does that work? Traits can have co dominance or incomplete dominance."
"Smart too, what I meant was that if you had a female Edward with half of Bella's features that is you."
"Oh. Grandpa I have to know. How? How are you alive?" I ask and from the change in his demeanor, from happy and loose to stiff and stressed, I can tell that he has been hoping that this would not come up. I see Jake tense up too, odd I guess he already knows then. Please not to terrible I beg.
"I… I got lucky." Grandpa Carlisle Cullen hesitantly responds after a long pause.
"What are you doing here? What happened?" I beg I need the news; I need to make amends for EVERYTHING that happened after the battle.
"Well this is my home." He smiles while he answers and then his tense demeanor from before returns. "As to the events of that day… I am not at liberty to tell you."
"Oh." I say, taken aback, then continue, "Well what can you tell me?" I ask a little angrily, everyone seems to have a secret except for me. Maybe Grandpa will know… he is a doctor after all. After this conversation I must bring up my failing memory.
"That's the problem. I was planning on you seeing Charlie first. I don't know what's against the rules and not…" He trails off thinking hard; I wait patiently hoping for something.
"AHA!!!" Grandpa exclaims in triumph. "I was planning on your visit to Charlie and maybe Billie before you saw me… at least that was how it was supposed to go. So I will tell you what I am supposed to tell you after you visit Charlie. I can't tell you much but what I can tell you must be said after you speak to Charlie."
"But-" I start to complain.
"No buts," he sternly commands, "These are your parent's orders." He adds grimly.
"Really? But-"
"After you visit Charlie."
"Okay… but why?" I wonder aloud.
"To protect you." Is his enigmatic answer, the next thing I know he has disappeared up the stairs.
Jake leads me to the car and I start crying again. All the whys, hows and whats running in circles throughout my head.
What does Alice know that she's not telling me? What does Jake know? What can Charlie possibly know? What happened that day? What does Grandpa know? What are my parent's orders? How did Grandpa Carlisle survive? How can Grandpa Charlie help? How can Grandpa Charlie know anything? How is this protecting me? Why? Why do I have to visit Grandpa Charlie first? Why has the "order" been set? Why does Jake seem like he is hiding something? Why were Aunt Alice and Uncle Jasper so stressed out when I called them? Why? Why can't I know yet? Why?
What?
How?
Why?
A/N: SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY!!! I am so sorry that this took so long to come out. I know excuses suck but here are mine: school, tests, track, and planning my birthday party. I know most them suck. The bright side… next week is Spring Break so I will probably get out 1 or 2 chapters (hopefully more.) Keep your fingers crossed. Hopefully you all like this.
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Alive: Jacob, Renesmee, Alice, Jasper, and now Carlisle.
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