Chapter 4: Forks High
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Edward Cullen was a monster. No! He considered himself a monster. It was correct in a humanistic view. He wasn't human. He hadn't been for a long time. A secret he feared may be exposed to the world. He wasn't the only one, some lurked in the dark and others closed beside him. He looked upwards towards his sister.
"It wasn't my fault." She grinned towards him. Edward loved her fostered sister, his fostered family, but he felt alone. He needed a companion, one that could feel the same way he did. A feeling he couldn't share with anybody. A feeling he kept a secret from Jasper who could 'feel' him like a book.
He laughed at her comment. His troubling thought put at bay by Alice's innocent grin. Out of nowhere, he felt Bella's gaze. He turned around and saw her face scrunched in confusion. Edward felt the undulated annoyance built inside him. He broke the gaze and turn to look at Alice, whose eyes look sad. He remembered the words that left his mouths a week ago. He almost winced at the emotion displayed in her eyes. He almost felt the words of apology leave his mouth when gasps surround the cafeteria.
Standing in the doorway was a human that surprised him. He couldn't form words to describe what he was feeling. But it was a mixture of confusion, alarm and denial. She was gorgeous, stunning, and tall with pale skin but not sickly looking. Eyes black as the night's sky. She was gorgeous, with a heart-shaped face and pink kissable lips. Her long black hair reaching towards her bottom. She was gorgeous, almost giving Rosalie a run of her money.
Everyone inside the cafeteria was stun like him. But it wasn't the appearance that beheld him, but the air of secrecy that surrounded her.
Her eyes trailed all over the cafeteria, from one corner to the other. It stopped on his table for a mere two seconds. Her eyes didn't linger his way more than it was necessary, and somewhat he felt anger by it. He was surprised by his own reaction and he squashed the feeling in a second.
"I can't smell her," It was Jasper's four words that shook him out of the spell he was trapped.
"Nor feel her," Jasper added.
He realized at that moment he couldn't read her, nor smell her. She didn't ooze the same sweetness every human oozed. But he knew she was a human, how he did was beyond his train of understanding. He was shocked beyond words. It was Alice's words that made Edward more alarmed that he indented to be.
"I can't see her future. It's dark."
Alice's face held distress. At that moment Edward knew he had to be careful around her. Whosoever she was could be a menace to his family and Edward wasn't fond of the thought one little bit. He didn't like it one bit.
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Cherri had felt lost moments ago. She hadn't known what to do to quench the guilt that surrounded her. She stepped into the high school's cafeteria. Trying to find Bella who she didn't find at first glance. She glimpses at every table until she set her eyes on Edward's table. A family who was sickly pale, whose food was left untouched and their faces transfixed on her. She almost smiled at their shocked faces. Shocked at herself by her reaction from the last, long and horrifying month. The last month had made her feel negative emotions she was mostly unfamiliar. Ranging from anger to hatred, and even pity. But somehow, she knew that moving had been a good decision. She felt undisputable happy for a second.
Until her eyes fell on Bella's table who wasn't looking her way like others on her table. Her eyes glanced at Edward's family, again. Her eyes narrowed at her sister fixated gaze until Bella's eyes clashed with her. But now seeing Bella's surprised face and the happiness in her eyes she found her answer. She had to protect Bella. Try to forget her past and will herself to be happy along with her serious, matured sister.
Happy? She didn't know if she could be able to do it. But trying won't kill her. 'Kill' was a touchy subject that she couldn't dwell too deep. The thought almost made her wince but she turned it into a fixated gaze. Her sister blushed at her gaze, at the intensity in her eyes. Cherri willed herself to smirk like she used to do. Seeing Bella's flustered face told her she did a great job faking it. She walked towards her sister oblivious to the gazes of hundreds of students at her.
Along the way she noticed the eyes of the hundred other people glancing her way. She shrugged mentally their curious glances and walk towards her sister table. Her long boots clicking on the floor with soft but sturdy steps. With every step, her sister's face became redder. Mischief began swarming inside Cherri's mind.
What if I?
She let the thought lingered.
"Hello..."
Cherri stood in front of her sister with a smirked. Bella looked ready to bolt outside. Deciding it was a cowardly move slump her shoulder dejectedly. Cherri smiled at her sister who tried to return the smile but came out mirroring a grimace. Cherri knew her sister didn't like being the centre of attention. Cherri had times and times tried to make Bella the centre of attention. Her plans will always go haywire. In return, she found herself the centre of attention. She stopped after Bella pleaded her to.
"Cherri…" Bella mumbles red-faced. Cherri without thinking did something she would laugh for the rest of her life. Something she did on the spur of the moment. She kissed Bella on the lips—a small pecked, as a way of greeting. She was oblivious to the shocked faces that surrounded them at her display of affection. But as she looked at her sister again, she saw how Bella's eyes rolled inside her sockets as she fainted on the spot. Cherri's fast reflects saved Bella a blackened nose and an embarrassing aftermath.
"Bella you got to stop fainting every time I kiss you." She puffed in annoyance with a smile. It was the first time she felt at bliss, complete bliss. Her sister could calm her with only her presence.
Maybe she had a sister complex. She laughed mentally at the thought. Cherri didn't know what she would do if Bella ever got mad at her, but she didn't think too much of it. Bella mad at her, even thinking about it was completely crazy.
"What did you say?" Mike shouted, surprised. Cherri looked at him startled. His eyes were the size of a saucer and his mouth was hung agape. Realizing at that moment the hundreds of eyes her way with open mouth and bulging eyes. She got the message in an instant. She couldn't stop the laugh that sprouts out of her mouth. Childish but sweet, complete of innocent and mirth. It has been a long while she felt this feeling.
Innocence.
"Nothing. But where is the nurse room?" Cherri lies with a chuckled.
Mike still shocked pointed south. Cherri glance where he was pointing. It was the other building, Cherri mentally slaps herself. This will be difficult, she only could think of her poor high heel boots. Cherri nodded in thanks and while mentally slapping herself. She wrapped her left hands around Bella's shoulder and her right hand around Bella's legs. She gave a small grunt by the weight of her sister. Carrying Bella bridal style and thinking of her poor boots, walked out of the cafeteria. Years of training making the task at hands easy to do. Learning martial art was the best decision she made and the worst.
What does this girl eat?
Destiny is shaped by decision, whether good or bad.
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