Chapta four.
Yey so fun. Already on four.
Anyhoo... on wiff the story!
A little while later (well actually shorter this time because Edward was running with us in his arms, very fast) we were once again at the Cullen's' residence.
And once again I was looking into the faces of six vampires. Before I knew what they were I had felt a fear, I had wanted to run away from them, but now that I knew what they were and what they did, I wasn't afraid. It was like a rollercoaster; at first before you get on the ride itself, while you are waiting in line, you are terrified and you want to turn back, but once you can't turn back anymore, once you're in the cart and strapped in with no way out, you don't want to get out anymore, the thrill is there, replacing the fear, and then, before you know it, you're on the top of the first hill.
"So, Claudia, do you want to hear about the last two years of our lives, since Bella was introduced to Edward?" said Alice sweetly.
"I guess." I took a deep breath and stepped into the dinning room, where I now knew was just a facade.
It surprised me that two years' story took more time to tell than half a century. At four o'clock Edward and Alice remembered that Bella and I were human, and therefore still had to eat, and fed us. Though they could not taste it themselves, it was very good. I was jealous. Then we went back to reliving their lives.
Even though it was only ten, it was dark out and I was exhausted and went to my room to read when we got home, when Bella came in wanting to talk. For once, Edward was at home. His home.
"Hey Claudia, can I talk to you for a minute?" asked Bella quietly.
"Yeah, sure. What's up?" I asked back.
"It's just, Claudia, how do you, how-" she sighed, "how do you know that Louis will want you back, let alone remember you?"
I was shocked. In my heart I knew she was right but I didn't want to think about it like that. How could he not remember…?
"That's… impossible. He wouldn't… he can't… no." I said.
"Claudia," Bella said, pleading.
"No!" I said firmly. "He didn't forget about me. He wouldn't let himself"
"Claudia, sometimes, sometimes when a person is turned into a vampire," I cringed at the word, remembering that that's what he was "they don't, they don't always, remember everything about their human life. Claudia, I, I hope that this isn't how it was, and isn't how it will be when I am turned, but…" she trailed off.
"That's not how it was for him!" I yelled, "That may be how it will be for you and Edward, but Louis and I..."
I was cut off by very angry Bella, "Hey! Don't you dare say a word about me and Edward! You have no idea what we've been through and how much we love each other. You have no idea. Don't even think you have an idea of what…"
I was fed up. I cut her off this time, "Excuse me? No. I don't think so. Me and Louis are too strong to let ourselves simply forget each other. There's no way we will forget." She didn't miss the emphasis on the 'we', and she went ballistic.
"You know what? From the minute you got here you've been causing problems-!"
"Well if that's the way it is, then I'll leave!"
"FINE! See if I care! I didn't even want you here in the first place! Charlie forced me to on pain of not seeing Edward, so please leave if you so must! Don't hesitate!"
That stung.
But I got over it, or at least I covered it up and got along with storming to my bag and shoving all my belongings in it and stalking out the door past Bella.
By the time I was walking along the road I regretted leaving at all. Who knew who, or what, was out here at this time of night? After all the stories yesterday about Victoria and the rest of the vampires and other mystical creatures coming to get Bella and the Cullens, I was more than a little bit afraid. I almost jumped out of my skin when I saw the car zooming around the corner and it slowed to a stop in front of me. The boy in the front seat rolled down the passenger's side window and began to speak.
"Hey, d'you need a lift somewhere?" asked the boy. He must have been about sixteen or seventeen and he had short black silky hair and russet-brown skin and was very, very big.
"Um, do you know where the Cullen's place is?"
The boy cringed and stiffened at the name, "No. Nobody knows where their place is.", did I hear a slight rumble of a growl at the word their? "Why would you want to go there, anyways?"
"Um, well I met them yesterday through a… friend, and I need a place to go for the night." I explained. I hoped that the friend part sounded convincing, as I wasn't sure as to what me and Bella were at the moment.
"I don't think that is exactly the safest place to go for the night, believe me." He said gruffly.
"Trust me, it is." I mumbled, at least that was true. It was the safest place, possibly in all of Forks due to the rouge vampires and werewolves and such.
He looked at me as if I'd grown a second head for the moment, but then he composed himself after a strange shiver-like thing passed through him, but then spoke again, "I can take you as far as the turn-off to their drive way, but you'll have to walk from there."
"That's fine. It's farther than I was expecting to get by foot anyways." I said with a smile, and he smiled back.
"What's your name?" he asked.
"I'm Claudia. What's yours?"
"Hi, Claudia, I'm Embry." He said with another smile.
"Hi Embry." I smiled back.
Next he said hesitantly, "So who's this friend of yours?"
"Uh, her name is Bella Swan. Do you know her?"
He froze, "Y-yeah. You could say" he shivered again, "that,"
"Embry? What's wrong? Do you need to see a doctor or something?" I started to get worried.
He laughed darkly, "No. I'm… fine. Yeah, I know her. She and one of my friends were almost together a few months back when her boyfriend left her. Edward Cullen." He almost growled the name.
'Oh shit. This is that Jacob Black's friend. What have I done?' I thought to myself.
"But when he came back, zip! It was all over for Jake. He was a mess for a few weeks. Wouldn't get up out of bed or do anything for a while. It sucked. And the worst part is, he's still in love with her! I just want to smack him. Or better yet, Edward. Oh, sorry, I guess I shouldn't be saying all this; you are going to stay with them tonight." He laughed again with the same dark manor.
"No, its fine. They told me everything last night and this morning." Wait a minute! Hadn't they told me about the werewolves yesterday? And described them? Didn't this boy fit perfectly to their description? Oh shit!
His brows furrowed.
"Everything?" he asked. Was that poorly masked anger I detected?
"Uh… I think so. They told me about Edward, Bella and Jake yesterday."
"What did they tell you about… them?" it seemed as though he added the word them onto the end as if he changed his mind on what to ask mid sentence.
"Oh, uh, just that Edward's family had to leave on business and that while he was gone Jacob kind of took care of Bella, but she went back to Edward after they got back from… Los Angeles." I retold the story they had told me they told everyone who was not privy to certain information concerning vampires, though I guessed that since this boy was most likely a werewolf, he more likely than not knew about the vampires, it was still better to play it safe.
He grunted in response.
'Well that went well.' I thought to myself. A little while later he tried conversation again.
"So are you new around here? Because if there is anyone new, everyone knows," he grinned.
"Yeah. I just moved here from New York. I'm staying with Bella and her father."
"Oh, hmmm… that's interesting." He peered at me from the corner of his eye.
"Why is that interesting?" I asked, was he flirting with me? I couldn't be flirting with a werewolf, but there I was.
"Oh, its just that if you're new here, everyone knows, first of all, because everyone talks, and second, everyone knows everyone else, so its strange to see a face you don't know around here. That's all." He grinned again.
"Oh." I was not used to this. In New York, you never saw the same person on the streets twice. Ever. It was like a rule or something; another one of Newton's Laws.
"So what brought you all the way from the big apple to little old Forks?" he asked, smiling again, this time the smile reached his eyes.
"Well, my- my boyfriend was murdered, somewhere in these woods, so I decided to come to stay where he had died." I shuddered, but it had nothing to do with the cold night air.
"He- where!" Embry gasped.
Oh shit again!
"Ju-just in the woods. Hik-hiking." Oh shitty shitty shitty!
"Oh jesus. I knew this would happen. Dammnit!" he sped up so we were going almost ninety.
"Whoa, Embry, slow down! What's wrong?" I asked frantically, shocked by his seemingly random outburst. Then I remembered; Victoria. 'oh right.'
"Nothing's... wrong..." he grunted with another shiver rolling down his spine.
"No, seriously. This isn't funny. What's wrong?" I had to pretend that I didn't know that he was about to burst into a savage werewolf, which was hard.
He took a deep breath and soon enough only his hands were shaking.
"No, I'm fine," he smiled, but I could tell that it was forced, "I just remembered that I have to be somewhere soon."
'Be somewhere my ass.' I thought to myself. He had to go tell his buddies about me, that there was a possibility that I knew who they and the Cullen's were, and what they should do about me. Was it just my imagination, or did it take a lot longer than I seemed to have remembered it to get to the Cullens' house. 'Well, of course,' I thought, 'last time I was on the back of a super-fast-super-strong vampire. Duh.'
"Right." I said.
A while passed in silence and soon enough we were at the turn off to the drive way of the home of the vampires.
"Looks like we're here. Well, it was a pleasure to meet you Miss Claudia" he said with mock formality, "If I need to call upon you, I will know where to find you. With Bella." he smiled again and kissed my hand.
"It was a pleasure to meet you too, Mr. Embry. I hope to see you soon." I said as I got out of the car, mentally scolding myself for being so friendly as he sped off, and once again I found myself walking alone in the dark, and sooner or later I began to get nervous again. My thoughts started wandering to Victoria, then to my dear Louis, and luckily there was a road entwined through the woods, or else I would have undoubtedly been lost within five minutes.
"Claudia, what are you doing out here?" I nearly jumped out of my skin as Alice appeared out of the trees, her skin subtly sparkling in the moonlight.
"Alice! You scared me!" I scolded.
"I'm sorry." she was mocking me, I pouted slightly, "I saw that you were going to turn up at home and so I decided to come out and meet you here and ask what the hell you are doing?"
I frowned, "Bella and I got into a fight. I wanted to go somewhere else. I figured that this would be the safest place for someone in my situation."
"You think that a house full of vampires is the safest place for you?" she raised her eyebrows.
"Well, yes. There are two bloodthirsty blood-lusting non-vegetarian vampires out on the loose in the woods. I figure that the only people who can protect me from said vampires are other vampires. Ones who aren't bloodthirsty blood-lusting non-vegetarians, and the only ones within walking distance are you and your family.
"Oh fine. Get on my back. And what's that smell?"
"Um, you're not going to believe this, but werewolf." and so we ran until we got to their house, all the while me telling Alice about Embry and she frowning and mumbling things that were barely audible to my human ears. I still couldn't get over the feeling of relief when we were running. It felt so freeing, like we were flying, the wind on my face, the speed, the unnatural smoothness and grace of Alice's run.
Once we got inside all the other vampires were a bit perplexed as to why I was there and Bella wasn't. Well, all except Edward, as he had gone to see Bella and I was surprised I hadn't passed him on my way, but then again, he would have known the forests a lot more than I did, and was probably a lot safer going through them alone than I was.
"Um, we have a visitor?" said Alice with a worried grin.
"Yes, we gathered as much, but may I ask why?" asked Carlisle suspiciously.
"Bella and I got into a fight." I said somberly.
"About what?" asked Esme as Alice led me to a couch.
I sighed, "About... Louis."
"Oh dear." murmured Esme.
As I was holding Alice's arm for support, I suddenly felt a strange lightheadedness. Then everything went black and white, and then it was all white. I saw the bleary outline of me as a vampire in the woods hunting with Bella. I dug my nails into Alice's skin, and it became clearer, I could hear voices.
"Bella come on! I can smell her! She went this way!" I said.
"But Claudia, remember who we're tracking; not just Victoria, but Louis too. I can smell him, he's off this way."
"Let me- Oh. Well that would be just like them. Of course they would split up. Ugh. We've got to find Alice and Edward. We need even pairs to split up to get to them and have an advantage."
At that point Alice and Edward stepped out into the clearing we were standing in, which I hadn't even noticed, it was beautiful, and it was the same one from my dream! Well wasn't that the definition of irony.
"Good idea. Edward, you go with Bella to take care of Louis, Claudia and I will go after Victoria." said Alice.
"But-" I started to protest.
"No, Claudia, it will be better for you not to have to... deal with, Louis right now. Not when we need you the most." said Edward.
"Fine. Let's go." I grumbled, and in a flash we were gone.
We weren't hunting, we were... tracking? Whatever that meant. Tracking Victoria and Louis. Then it all went away, and everything was normal again. What was that?
"Alice did you..."
"Why don't you go out for a walk?" asked Alice, shocked.
"Yeah sure. I think I could use some more fresh air." and I did need more, I was extremely confused.
"Alice, what did you see? And what's that smell? It's disgusting!" exclaimed Emmet.
"I'll tell you while Claudia is on her walk." said Alice as she smiled at me.
As I passed by each of the vampires with extra powers, I felt strange twinges of their own special power. I was more than a little shocked.
A few minutes later I was in the woods surrounding their house equipped with Alice's cell phone, which was surprisingly small, with a GPS system in it so I wouldn't get lost, and a flashlight, both of which the Cullens had insisted on me taking with me. As I was walking through the forest, I saw a figure crouched over a deer. I was so surprised that someone was out here, and to be honest, a bit afraid too, I began to back up, but I stepped on a twig and it snapped.
The figure whipped its head around to see what had made the noise, and I nearly screamed at the face I recognized so well covered in blood.
"Louis?" I croaked.
Hahaha!
Cliffie!
K. I'm done with the maniacal laughter.
I'll se you next week for the next chapter!
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And I'm not sure if the werewolves will make another appearance soon, but if they do, it will be later on though.
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