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Chapter 4:
"A next door neighbor?!" Alice said in a loud whisper.
"Shh, keep it down. I don't want everyone to know yet." We were both out in the woods, only about ten feet from Bella's house.
"How come she's seventeen but we never see her at school?" Alice hissed as we slowly sneaked up to the shack. I shifted through everyone's minds carefully, ready to alert Alice at any moment if someone noticed.
"I honestly didn't ask." I realized just how little I knew about our neighbor.
"Well, why don't we ever see her outside? Does she seriously just sit in there all day? And how do they get mail? Seeing as they don't have a mailbox or car. And what about food?" Alice started talking faster as she figured out more and more reason why things didn't add up.
"I don't know!" I said this a tad louder, my voice fueled by my annoyance.
"Well, what did you talk about then?" Alice put her hands on her hips as we walked in the door.
"Um just about our ages and why she lived in here." Glancing around I noticed that Renee was sitting in her chair, rocking, and just staring off into space. I was about to ask her where Bella was when I heard a noise from behind me.
"Don't worry, that's normal for her." I couldn't control my body as I spun around to see Bella standing, just as beautiful as ever, at the bottom of the stairs.
"So Bella, what's with the clothes?" Alice asked, motioning to Bella who was, again, wearing a sports bra and shorts. Meanwhile in her mind Alice was planning the next shopping trip.
"I get too hot if I wear anything else." She shrugged, motioning us to follow her as she walked up the stairs.
"Too hot?" Alice had a look of horror on her face. "It's freaking fifty two degrees in here! You could freeze!"
"Not me." Bella said, sitting down on the makeshift bed in her room. Alice made a beeline for the pile of clothes. The room didn't have a closet and was so small the makeshift bed took up half the room, and the pile of stuff took up a quarter, leaving only a little room to stand right by the window. I noticed for the first time that she didn't have a door, and her room was the only thing on the upper floor, in fact, the stairs came right to her door.
This was such a tiny shack, and I was amazed she didn't get claustrophobic.
"Oh my gosh, Bella! We have to go shopping! Right now!" Alice glanced out the window into the rain, knowing it would be fine for us to go outside.
Bella's eyes widened when she mentioned 'go shopping.' "No, no I can't leave the house!" Her breath started to quicken and I could tell she was frightened. What was she so frightened of? "You guys don't understand, I can't go outside, not now, not ever."
Alice's thoughts immediately began to get frustrated, she didn't get why she couldn't go outside. "What do you mean? Do you just plan on spending the rest of your life in this dumb shack?" Alice snapped.
Bella looked down at her hands that were folded neatly in her lap. I had never noticed just how straight her posture was until now. "Yes, there is nothing else I can do. I don't have a choice."
Alice was fuming now. Her thoughts were somewhere along the lines of 'Everyone can go outside! What the freaking hell is she talking about?' Alice let out a low growl of frustration. "You do to have a choice! And you ARE going to come!" I had to agree with Alice. I didn't get why Bella couldn't go outside. I mean sure, she was just as pale as us, but we can go outside we just don't want to.
Bella let out a groan of frustration. I watched in horror as a tear leaked out of her eye and ran down her face. "You don't understand. I would love to go outside, but I can't."
"Why not?" I probed. If she didn't have a good reason, and tell us in the next five minutes, I was sure Alice would just drag her out of the house, ignoring any protests.
"It's-It's complicated, you guys wouldn't understand." Tears were still slowly making her way down her face.
"I'm sure we could figure it out." I urged. Alice was still sitting by the pile of clothes, arms crossed like a little child.
"Well you see-" She started but was interrupted by a crash downstairs.
"EDDIE, ALICE!! WHERE ARE YYYYYOOOUUUUU??" Emmett's booming voice called out, followed by a girly shriek. "AHHHH THE SPIRIT!!" I couldn't help but let out a chuckle. Emmett screaming like a girl-wait, EMMETT?? What was he doing here? In my worry about Bella I had totally forgotten to watch my family's thoughts. Without another word I ran down the stairs. Finding Emmett poking Renee like a little kid.
"Is it dead?" poke. "I heard Alice and you and thought-" poke. "That maybe you had come back to check out the spirit-" poke. "But-wait, where are you guys anyways?" Emmett looked up just as Bella came to stand next to me. "AHHH ...Who are you?!" Emmett jumped nearly a foot in the air, realizing at the same time that they were both humans.
"Hello Emmett, I'm Bella, and that is my mother Renee." Bella motioned to the woman he was poking. Renee meanwhile had woken up and opened her un-seeing eyes.
"Emmett, these two live here. There is no spirit, just them." I whispered, trying to help clear up Emmett's muddled thoughts.
"You mean-" poke."-the whole time-" poke."-it was just them?" Emmett practically stuttered.
"Yes Emmett, now please stop poking Renee before you hurt her." Bella said calmly as if she weren't in a room with three powerful vampires-one with muscles so huge you'd think he was on steroids.
I looked around the small room realizing how crowded it was. "Why don't we all go back to our house and discuss this?" I suggested.
Bella started biting her lip. "I can't right now, but why don't you tell your family then come back later?" Bella had that nervous bunny look you see on most criminals who are being questioned.
I decided not to push her. "Alright, lets go back home and come visit later guys." I ran my hand through my hair, waving as we slipped out the door.
?POV: (AN: who could it be? No telling if you know!)
I watched as they walked back into the house.
Ugh they were so annoying, especially that one. I came here to get rid of that one, the one that had ruined my existence.
That one was mine.
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